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Monday December 29, 2025. 12:40 AM
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. 11:43 PM
Linus has released 6.19-rc3 for testing. 'Another week, another -rc release. Except the past week has obviously been the holiday week, and this rc release is pretty small as a result. Very much as expected.'
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...
We regret to inform you that you must no longer ship sex toys to Bahrain, the decidedly conservative island kingdom off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Thousands of U.S. service members stationed at the base there will have to go without or find a local source. — Read the rest ...
In many jurisdictions cigarettes have them, and alcohol too. Now New York has a warning label for another problem product: social media platforms. Features deemed by the state to be addictive, such as infinite scroll, autoplaying/autoadvancing content, and algorithmic feeds, ...
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...
In this footage, a humanoid robot replicating the motions of a human teleoperator kicks him in the nuts. Then, following him, it buckles over and grabs its robot crotch. The martial artist's motion capture suit sent his movements to a Unitree G1 robot, but latency resulted...
In October, Las Vegas Police Department unveiled a donation of 10 'tactical' Tesla Cybertrucks, all customized and wrapped in departmental livery. The vehicles, paid for by venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, can be used as barricades and in other dangerous situations 'because...
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 ...
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199) and add pro-grade security, productivity tools, and Copilot to a compatible PC. There are two kinds of computers: the ones that behave and the ones that turn a quick task into a full-blown meltdown. — Read the rest ...
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 ...
A Ghanaian religious figure, Ebo Enoch, said that the world would end in a biblical flood on Christmas day. This event having not occurred, he has reportedly told his followers that the apocalypse has been postponed and that God has 'granted him more time' to build arks. —...
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...
Legendary French actress, animal rights activist and racist crank Brigitte Bardot is dead at 91, according to reports in French media. 'The Brigitte Bardot foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a...
There’s been endless talk online about just how bad Apple’s graphical user interface design has become over the years, culminating in the introduction of Liquid Glass across all of the company’s operating systems this year. Despite all the gnawing of teeth and scathing think...
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