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Friday December 19, 2025. 10:54 PM
Taylor Swift’s voice has always been unmistakably hers. In the age of AI, that distinction is no longer guaranteed. As synthetic performances creep into film, music, and art, stars like Swift, Jenna Ortega, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and many other A-listers warn that the...
In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026—including what’s in store for Uncanny Valley.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we've written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most...
Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law.
The AARP runs ads claiming that any request to pay by gift card is always a scam. Patrick McKenzie, writing at Bits About Money, points out this is technically false — gift cards are a legitimate payment method used by billions of dollars worth of businesses serving...
When New York State banned phones in public schools bell-to-bell this September, Governor Hochul pitched it as a way to improve classroom focus. What nobody expected was the lunchroom renaissance. According to New York Magazine, teachers across the city are watching scenes...
hands on Infinite Machine, a New York-based electric vehicle startup, began with a stolen Vespa. …
Get ready for empty theaters. Melania Trump has released a trailer for a new documentary about herself, a film that appears to consist primarily of dramatic lighting, slow-motion walking, and the firm belief that the public is at all curious about her inner life. — Read the...
Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when...
Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as 'a ruthless terrorist organization' faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions...
President Trump's closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May -- which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free -- has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages under $175.8 in the EU ...
Humanoid robots are stepping into the app era. Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled what it calls the world’s first “Robot App Store,” allowing users to download, share, and develop software for its humanoid robots, bringing the smartphone app model to...
Google.ai is a new front-end for Google's AI services. Currently, it's free, ad-free, and delivers uncluttered answers to questions. It won't work this well for long, though. It's destined for enshittification, but how soon? I asked Google.ai to give me its own...
From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.
alternative_right writes: Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. Instacart partners with over 1,800 retailers to provide online...
Journalist Gil Duran's podcast 'The Nerd Reich' does what tech journalism largely failed to do for two decades: treat Silicon Valley's libertarian ideology as a powerful and well-funded political movement rather than a quirky personality trait of genius founders. — Read the...
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.
But not Phil Collins, sadly The US Department of Energy (DOE) has a Christmas gift for the AI industry in the shape of agreements for collaboration in the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, which aims to use AI to drive scientific discoveries.…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman estimates that staying competitive in frontier AI development will require 'hundreds of billions of dollars' over the next five to ten years, a sum that doesn't even account for the high salaries companies are paying individual researchers...
Threats of prosecution loom as Democratic lawmakers rattle sabers and the Trump DOJ ignores the deadline set by Congress to release the Epstein files. With images of Trump condoms now released as part of the photo dump, Trump's well-understood close friendship with Epstein...
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