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Sunday December 7, 2025. 11:07 PM
UPDATE (12/7): The New York Times clarifies today that the damage at Chernobyl hasn't led to a rise in radiation levels: 'If there was to be some event inside the shelter that would release radioactive materials into the space inside the New Safe Confinement, because this...
A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with 'Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target.' But 'There are no live tests for ads' on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said 'any screenshots you've seen are either not real or...
It runs locally, a free/open source home automation platform connecting all your devices together, regardless of brand. And GitHub's senior developer calls it 'one of the most active, culturally important, and technically demanding open source ecosystems on the planet,' with ...
'People in their teens and early 20s are increasingly turning to old school tech,' reports the BBC, 'in a bid to unplug from the online world.' Amazon UK told BBC Scotland News that retro-themed products surged in popularity during its Black Friday event, with portable vinyl ...
Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros, asks the chief film critic at the long-running motion-picture magazine Variety. 'It is hard, at this moment, to resist the suspicion that the ultimate reason... is to eliminate the competition.' [Warner Bros. is] one of the only...
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, notes this report from The Register, which calls it the latest release 'of the Unix world's leading alternative to Linux.' As well as numerous bug fixes and upgrades to many of its components, the major changes in this version are...
'Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update,' reports How-To Geek. Brewfile install scripts 'are now more like a one-stop shop for installing software, as Flatpaks are now supported alongside Brew packages, Mac ...
Today America's college professors 'struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation,' reports the Atlantic, 'which may entitle them to extra time, a distraction-free environment, or the use of otherwise-prohibited technology.' Their staff...
This new-ish hybrid between trail runners and road runners is designed for less technical terrain and the occasional road run.
With “hardware guy” John Ternus as frontrunner for the next CEO, can Apple overtake its ex-employees at OpenAI and Meta?
Wired published an article by California-based writer/programmer Sheon Han arguing that Ruby 'is not a serious programming language.' Han believes that the world of programming has 'moved on', and 'everything Ruby does, another language now does better, leaving it without a...
From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now Amazon last week revealed its Trainium3 UltraServer rack systems, and if your first thought was 'boy that looks a lot like Nvidia's GB200 NVL72,' your eyes aren't deceiving you. …
Jolla is 'trying again with a new crowd-funded smartphone,' reports Phoronix: Finnish company Jolla started out 14 years ago where Nokia left off with MeeGo and developed Sailfish OS as a new Linux smartphone platform. Jolla released their first smartphone in 2013 after...
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calls himself 'a highly creative hypochondriac' — who just paid for an expensive MRI scan to locate abnormal spots as tiny as 2 millimeters. He discusses the pros and cons of its 'diffusion-weighted imaging' technology combined with the...
'First the penny. Next, paper checks?' asks CNN: When the U.S. Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper checks as well. The government stopped sending out most...
The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.
Bloomberg reports that Google 'must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones and other devices every year, a federal judge ruled.' Judge Amit Mehta in Washington sided with the US Justice Department on the...
Saturday December 6, 2025. 10:59 PM
'Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway,' reads the headline at Futurism: As Daily Dot reports, a New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. 'She just broke my Meta glasses,' said the TikTok user, who goes by...
'Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date,' reports Science Daily. 'This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy...
'A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational,' reports Politico, 'after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found.' [T]he large steel structure 'lost...
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