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Monday December 29, 2025. 03:34 AM
'Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades....' read the email. 'With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village. 'IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI ...
PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration on Saturday posted draft rules governing the behaviour of AI companions that...
Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases 'are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change...' But in 2025, 'there were silver linings ...
Sunday December 28, 2025. 11:40 PM
Regardless of who ends up owning Warners Bros., 'the outlook for theatrical movies is dimming,' writes a Wall Street Journal tech columnist, noting that this year's U.S. box office of $8.3 billion (as of December 25) 'is a bit below last year's and well below prepandemic...
Artist Keith Thomson is a modern (and whimsical) Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the 'festive artwork' shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, 'made on MacBook Pro.' Its intentionally-off picture of milk and cookies was meant to tease the season...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Guardian: A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter's cell phone to find and help rescue her after she was kidnapped at knifepoint while walking her dog on Christmas, authorities allege... Her father...
Even after its acquisition by Qualcomm, the EFF believes Arduino 'isn't imposing any new bans on tinkering with or reverse engineering Arduino boards,' (according to Mitch Stoltz, EFF director for competition and IP litigation). While Adafruit's managing editor Phillip...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the CBC: Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender. The Juno Award-winning musician said he learned of...
Laptop makers are facing record-setting memory prices next year. The site Notebookcheck catalogs how different companies are responding: Sources told [Korean business newspaper] Chosun Biz that some manufacturers have signed preliminary contracts with Samsung, Micron, and SK ...
The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of 'digital sovereignty': The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European ...
The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase The knock-on, and often unintentional, impacts of a cyberattack are so rarely discussed. As an industry, the focus is almost always placed on the economic damage: the ransom payment; the...
Many people rely on the sleep aid melatonin to help them get a more restful night’s sleep. But is it safe? And how much is too much?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space. An analysis by a South...
Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
The battle for AI dominance has left a large footprint—and it’s only getting bigger and more expensive.
Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.
Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD BORK!BORK!BORK! Today's bork belongs in the dim and distant past – a reminder of when Windows had proper crash screens.…
'I believe artificial intelligence will displace workers at a scale many people don't yet realize,' says Sal Kahn (founder/CEO of the nonprofit Khan Academy). But in an op-ed in the New York Times he also proposes a solution that 'could change the trajectory of the lives of...
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
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