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BBC

  1. Interest rates cut to 3.75% but further reductions to be 'closer call'
  2. Zelensky gives stark warning as EU leaders hold crunch talks on Russia's frozen assets
  3. Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools
  4. The surprising truth about the generations that suffer loneliness the most
  5. Duke of Marlborough accused of strangling estranged wife
  6. King Charles pours 'perfect pint' at new brewery
  7. How many flu cases are there in your local hospital? Use our tool to check
  8. Waterloo Road actor William Rush dies aged 31
  9. Police turned me from victim to offender after I reported assault at school
  10. Farmers 'bewildered and frightened' over inheritance tax, report finds
  11. The 'fed up' Scottish town that voted for Reform UK
  12. How will the interest rate cut affect my mortgage and savings?
  13. England's Ashes hopes vanishing after batters fold again
  14. 79,600 criminal cases are still outstanding in England and Wales. How did we get here?
  15. Why Sir David Attenborough wouldn't live anywhere else but London
  16. Don't feel awkward - How to handle festive fallouts with neighbours
  17. In this secret missile factory, Ukraine is ramping up its domestic arms industry
  18. Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion firm in $6bn deal
  19. Parents of sextortion victim sue Instagram owner Meta
  20. William and Catherine release annual Christmas card portrait
  21. Ajax trial paused after soldier falls ill in another vehicle
  22. Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old mysterious mass burial site
  23. Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
  24. Bomb disposal robot destroys Labour MPs' Christmas cards
  25. BBC News app
  26. Is The Erasmus Student Scheme Worth The Money?
  27. Has Trump’s chief of staff revealed White House secrets?
  28. Guz Khan's modern-day Christmas story for the whole family
  29. Cunk explores the traditions and trappings of Christmas
  30. 'Pope has one innings to save his England place'
  31. Worst start in Old Firm history - how does Celtic manager Nancy compare?
  32. Spurs open to selling forward Johnson
  33. I've realised I can make a difference - Hoy
  34. England should resist wholesale change - Vaughan
  35. Chelsea waiting for Arsenal in Champions League
  36. A 'novice' who can 'punch a bit' - how good is Paul?

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Meetup's new mobile app is designed to make it easier to meet people IRL
  2. The best Christmas gift ideas everyone on your 2025 holiday shopping list will love
  3. Apple's Mac mini M4 is on sale for $479 right now
  4. OpenAI just launched an app store inside ChatGPT
  5. The 10 best white elephant gifts worth fighting over for 2025
  6. The AirPods Pro 3 are back on sale for a record low of $199
  7. Ultrahuman brings snoring detection and respiratory health tracking to the Ring Air
  8. The FTC is reportedly investigating Instacart over its AI pricing tool
  9. Sony settles with Tencent over 'slavish' Horizon clone
  10. The best AirPods for 2026
  11. The best streaming deals: Get 50 percent off MasterClass subscriptions, plus save on Starz, Audible, Crunchyroll and others
  12. The best multi-device wireless charging pads for 2026
  13. Dolby and LG introduce a modular home audio system for CES 2026
  14. China reportedly has a prototype EUV machine built by ex-ASML employees
  15. A Facebook test makes link-sharing a paid feature for creators
  16. Astronomers find mysterious lemon-shaped exoplanet with NASA's Webb telescope
  17. Jared Isaacman is NASA's new leader
  18. Billboard's charts are increasingly weighted towards on-demand streaming, but not enough for YouTube
  19. The best VPN deals: Up to 88 percent off ProtonVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, NordVPN and more
  20. The best Secret Santa gift ideas for 2025: Affordable gifts you can still get from Lego, Apple, Yeti and more
  21. The first post-EA FIFA soccer sim will be a Netflix Games exclusive
  22. Study links Amazon's algorithmic pricing with erratic, inflated costs for school districts
  23. Meta is 'pausing' third-party VR headsets from ASUS and Lenovo
  24. This cute little Behringer synthesizer sounds massive and costs just $49
  25. The best stocking stuffer ideas you can shop for $50 or less
  26. The Oscars will exclusively air on YouTube starting in 2029
  27. The 22 best gift ideas for the remote worker in your life
  28. The 12 best last-minute Christmas gifts for 2025 that will arrive by December 24
  29. IO Interactive's 007 First Light reimagines James Bond as a young and reckless spy
  30. One of our favorite budgeting apps has 50 percent off annual subscriptions right now
  31. Uber and DoorDash challenge NYC law that encourages tipping
  32. Google's Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks
  33. OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
  34. How a VPN works (and why you should care)
  35. Samsung will show off its expanded Micro RGB TV series at CES
  36. The Samsung P9 microSD Express card for Switch 2 drops to a record-low price
  37. Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025
  38. Get half off MasterClass subscriptions for the holiday season
  39. Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount's hostile bid
  40. The best subscription gifts to send to your loved ones this Christmas: Disney+ bundle, MasterClass, Field Notes and more
  41. Alexa Home Theater: Everything you need to know about Amazon's newest Echo feature
  42. Amazon in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI and supply its Trainium chips
  43. The best Chromebook you can buy in 2026
  44. Tesla used deceptive language to market Autopilot, California judge rules
  45. X was spooked enough by new Twitter to change its terms of service
  46. Steam Replay 2025 is here to recap your PC gaming habits
  47. The last Xbox update of 2025 includes a handy Wireless Headset upgrade
  48. NYT Games has a year-in-review thing now too
  49. Texas sues five TV manufacturers over predatory ad-targeting spyware
  50. YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool

Pinboard

  1. Typefaces for Dyslexia | Adrian Roselli — Favorite tweet: I see that Comic Sans as the dyslexia cure-all nonsense is back. It is not. Good typography is more important:https://t.co/7C2wUvjexa No data broadly supports it:https://t.co/FRsizUbciH Better to understand the criteria first:https://t.co/hRWV0GEAgC Don’t force …
  2. Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys | Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
  3. Unscii - a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics
  4. John Lian | Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
  5. I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
  6. Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
  7. No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
  8. The Scourge of Arial
  9. 30 Years of Tags — Three decades of making things on the internet
  10. The Lost Generation | Compact
  11. alpr.watch | alpr watch - Track Surveillance Tech in Local Government Meetings
  12. Modern Illustration — Modern Illustration is an archive of print from c.1950-1975, shining a spotlight on pioneering illustrators and their work. The Archive This archive started life in 2018 as an Instagram account called Ephemerama!, where I posted my finds from over a decade of collecting. In building this searc…
  13. Quill OS - Homepage — Quill OS is an open-source, fully-functional standalone OS for Rakuten Kobo's eReaders.
  14. Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
  15. Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
  16. Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?
  17. How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents - Friendly Bit
  18. Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography
  19. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours — I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours by via Simon Willison's Weblog -- Well this is blowing my mind. Love the waypoint of the minimal test case. -- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/portin…
  20. Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers — Here's the headline result: it's not obviously stupid, and it's not a sure thing. It's actually more reasonable than my intuition thought! If you run the numbers honestly, the physics doesn't immediately kill it, but the economics are savage. It only gets within striking dis…
  21. i'm just having fun
  22. Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System — Announcing my latest open-source project.
  23. Microsoft ridimensiona le ambizioni AI: Copilot non decolla — Microsoft ha ridotto gli obiettivi di vendita per Copilot e altri agenti AI dopo scarsa adozione: molti clienti non li trovano utili e test mostrano fallimenti fino al 70% dei compiti. Microsoft smentisce tagli aggregati, ma la quota di mercato vede ChatGPT domina…
  24. "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
  25. GraphQL: the enterprise honeymoon is over
  26. Modern Illustration
  27. 8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions | Koi Blog — "The extension warns you about sharing your email with ChatGPT while simultaneously exfiltrating your entire conversation to a data broker." "The privacy policy goes further, buried deep in the document ... 'We also disclose the AI prom…
  28. AI agents are starting to eat SaaS - Martin Alderson
  29. We mapped the world’s hottest data centres • Rest of World — Hazel Gandhi and Rina Chandran: Across the world, countries with hot climates are investing millions of dollars in building data centres to meet the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence while also storing data within their own borders. That’s why d…
  30. 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple | hey.paris
  31. Generative interfaces for agents
  32. In Defense of MATLAB: Why Engineers Still Need Whiteboard-Style Code | RunMat
  33. "You should never build a CMS" | Sanity
  34. Size of Life
  35. Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  36. Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512 | Ash's Blog
  37. "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number :: Eric Daigle
  38. Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed
  39. 52 things I learned in 2025. This year I stopped being a consultant… | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium — Sharp, actionable insights from a former consultant's year of learning. Return for distilled wisdom on work, life, and technology to apply immediately.
  40. cmontella/purrtran: 😻 It's the cat's meow! 😽 — via: https://news.ycombinator.com/
  41. Font recommendations | Butterick’s Practical Typography
  42. I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me | Hacker News
  43. ‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone | Books | The Guardian
  44. How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it — I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
  45. ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server — ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
  46. A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces¶ — A2UI enables AI agents to generate rich, interactive user interfaces that render natively across web, mobile, and desktop—without executing arbitrary code. ️Status: Early Stage Public Preview A2UI is currently in v0.8 (Public Preview). The specification and implementations ar…
  47. "Are you the one?" is free money
  48. Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
  49. NewsMap.JS — News
  50. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy — To the end consumer, it creates an optical illusion. Walmart appears to be a low-cost retailer, but that’s because it induces its suppliers to push prices up at rivals." Exactly right.
  51. Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man — Digging in to the nuances of religion, faith, and grace tucked inside the latest Benoit Blanc mystery
  52. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Family of Models - NVIDIA Nemotron
  53. Screen Sizes — All new iPhone screen sizes
  54. A first interview with Mozilla’s new CEO on AI, Firefox, and the web | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/7ZaOvAK
  55. andrewmd5/dawn: A distraction-free writing environment; draft anything, write now.
  56. The Brother I Lost  - Megan McArdle - The Dispatch
  57. JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
  58. Freakpages - Learn about topics you have never heard of — via matt muir
  59. DIY whale microphone
  60. Patterns.dev - Modern Web App Design Patterns — Introducing "Learning Patterns": - a free 435+ page book on JavaScript + React design & performance patterns from @lydiahallie and I. On the web, ePub & PDF.
  61. Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
  62. The great AI hype correction of 2025 | MIT Technology Review — Four ways to think about this year's reckoning
  63. The Secrets of Sega Channel: VGHF recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and more) | Video Game History Foundation
  64. 600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13.
  65. GitHub - pomponchik/metacode: A standard language for machine-readable code comments — ff6347 starred pomponchik/metacode
  66. America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People — “Americans preen and posture as if they want to do something about random gun violence and mass shootings. But we do not. A majority of Americans have decided that active shooter drills and school massacres are an acceptable price for preserving our gun regime…
  67. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours
  68. Daring Fireball: Apple TV’s New Fanfare — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/kqA4ZUr
  69. TLA+ modeling tips
  70. The companies making the most money from AI | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/4Axhf2K
  72. L5: A Processing Library in Lua
  73. rust-blog/common-rust-lifetime-misconceptions.md at master · pretzelhammer/rust-blog
  74. A brief history of Times New Roman | Typography for Lawyers
  75. [no title]
  76. Optimization Countermeasures · mcyoung
  77. x.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/kqA4ZUr
  78. Vaxry's Blog - D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop — > As a service, D-Bus is incredibly handy and useful, and overall, I believe the idea should absolutely be used by more apps. However, the implementation... oh boy.
  79. I Reverse Engineered Claude's Memory System, and Here's What I Found!
  80. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
  81. Saloni's guide to data visualization — Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
  82. CrystallineCore/Biscuit: Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index access method (IAM) designed for blazing-fast pattern matching on LIKE queries, with native support for multi-column searches. It eliminates the recheck overhead of trigram indexes while d
  83. Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue | Reuters — over $18 billion in annual sales in China in 2024 (10% of global sales).
  84. How To Spot Arial
  85. Stellantis Media - 'Wild Thoughts' Marketing Campaign for the New 2026 Jeep® Grand Cherokee Lets Animals Do the Talking
  86. Apple Music is coming to ChatGPT, OpenAI announces - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  87. GitHub - tw93/Mole: 🦡 Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac. 🦡 像鼹鼠一样深入挖掘来清理您的 Mac
  88. “New Ways to Corrupt LLMs” — The wacky things statistical-correlation machine like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
  89. ‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country - POLITICO
  90. IP.THC.ORG - Reverse-DNS, Subdomain and CNAME Lookups — https://lobste.rs/s/d25czz/ip_thc_org_reverse_dns_subdomain_cname
  91. Disco
  92. Dafny
  93. GitHub - code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode: Async subagents · Curated agents with proper models · Crafted tools like LSP/AST included · Curated MCPs · Claude Code Compatible Layer — Steroids for your OpenCode. The Best LLM Agent Experience is Here.
  94. Merriam-Webster names 'slop' the word of the year | TechCrunch
  95. GitHub - donlon/cloudflare-error-page: Cloudflare error page generator
  96. Hack this Shopping Cart
  97. The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better - by Kent Beck — Learn Kent Beck's updated strategy for mentoring junior developers, focusing on rapid skill acquisition and high-leverage feedback. Return for actionable steps to accelerate team growth and maximize junior contributions.
  98. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796607
  99. arborium - Syntax Highlighting Demo
  100. Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

The Next Web

  1. Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
  2. Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Problem, or Creating One?
  3. Tekpon acquires TNW (The Next Web) brand from The Financial Times
  4. Ending graciously
  5. How robotics could turn e-waste into a tech goldmine
  6. Startup wisdom: 5 prompt engineering tips for vibe coding success
  7. How European battery startups can thrive alongside Asian giants
  8. The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source
  9. Opinion: Europe’s VCs must embrace risk — or resign the AI era to US control
  10. VCs are growing wary of ‘AI-washing’ – but real innovation is still winning investors

Smashing Magazine

  1. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  2. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  3. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  4. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  5. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  6. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  7. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  8. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  9. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
  10. Designing For Stress And Emergency
  11. Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  12. From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation
  13. CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
  14. Older Tech In The Browser Stack
  15. Effectively Monitoring Web Performance
  16. Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `` And CSS Custom Properties
  17. Six Key Components of UX Strategy
  18. How To Leverage Component Variants In Penpot
  19. Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  20. JavaScript For Everyone: Iterators
  21. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)
  22. AI In UX: Achieve More With Less
  23. How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore
  24. The Grayscale Problem
  25. Smashing Animations Part 5: Building Adaptive SVGs With ``, ``, And CSS Media Queries
  26. Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity (Part 2)
  27. Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  28. From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant
  29. Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)
  30. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)
  31. The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence
  32. How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website
  33. SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data
  34. Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow
  35. Creating Elastic And Bounce Effects With Expressive Animator
  36. From Data To Decisions: UX Strategies For Real-Time Dashboards
  37. Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project
  38. Designing For TV: Principles, Patterns And Practical Guidance (Part 2)
  39. A Breeze Of Inspiration In September (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  40. Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Nursing Pillows
  2. Our Favorite Duvet Covers
  3. There Are Still Some Very Good (and Exclusive) Deals Ahead of the Holidays
  4. The Best Ways to Make (and Flavor) Popcorn
  5. 33 Deals on Can’t-Go-Wrong Christmas Gifts
  6. The Best Lockbox
  7. You Don’t Need to Spend a Ton on a Pricey Gaming Laptop
  8. The Best Portable Hammock
  9. The Best Kids Cooking Tools (That You’ll Love Too)
  10. The Best Lightning Cable for iPhone and iPad

Sweethome

  1. Our Favorite Duvet Covers
  2. The Best Digital Photo Frame
  3. The Best Lockbox
  4. The Best Compact Washer and Dryer
  5. The Best Quilts
  6. Great Ideas for Organizing a Small Bathroom
  7. The Best Ways to Maximize a Tiny Bedroom
  8. The Best Storage Containers
  9. The Best Smart Garage Door Opener Controller
  10. I’m an HVAC Expert Who’s Spent His Life in Drafty Old Houses. This Is My Favorite Space Heater.

Hacker News

  1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
  2. Classical statues were not painted horribly
  3. Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates
  4. Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source
  5. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
  6. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
  7. Please Just Try Htmx
  8. Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals
  9. Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you
  10. Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction
  11. Slowness is a virtue
  12. RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
  13. Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' claims UK watchdog
  14. Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
  15. Show HN: A local-first memory store for LLM agents (SQLite)
  16. Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
  17. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
  18. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
  19. After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
  20. It's all about momentum
  21. What is an elliptic curve? (2019)
  22. Show HN: X Writer – VS Code extension to post tweets from your editor
  23. From profiling to kernel patch: the journey to an eBPF performance fix
  24. Most parked domains now serving malicious content
  25. systemd v259 Released
  26. AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
  27. Heart and Kidney Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes May Be One Ailment
  28. Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
  29. The Big City; Save the Flophouses (1996)
  30. Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles

Ars Technica

  1. Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes.
  2. Formula 1 is deploying new jargon for 2026
  3. The inside story of SpaceX’s historic rocket landing that changed launch forever
  4. NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader
  5. Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree of ice
  6. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy
  7. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil
  8. FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency”
  9. Donut Lab’s hub motor meets WATT’s battery to create new EV skateboard
  10. Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says
  11. Trump admin threatens to break up major climate research center
  12. Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency
  13. Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
  14. Electric vehicles cause tension in the automotive aftermarket
  15. Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp
  16. US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves
  17. “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot
  18. Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent
  19. The $4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel is now complete
  20. Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Digg

New Scientist

  1. Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
  2. Chronic fatigue syndrome seems to have a very strong genetic element
  3. People saw a new colour for the first time in 2025
  4. Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?
  5. Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright
  6. Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going
  7. China's carbon emissions may have started to fall in 2025
  8. Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three days from disaster
  9. The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year
  10. Saturn's rings form a giant dusty doughnut encircling the planet
  11. Your period may make sport injuries more severe
  12. AI firms began to feel the legal wrath of copyright holders in 2025
  13. How green hydrogen could power industries from steel-making to farming
  14. Science still produced many wonders in 2025 despite being under siege
  15. The stargazing events to look forward to in 2026
  16. Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us
  17. What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals
  18. The 33 best books, films, games and TV to entertain you this Christmas
  19. We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
  20. Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2
  21. Mars may once have had a much larger moon
  22. Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer
  23. De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn't live up to the hype
  24. Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles
  25. Can you work out what these enigmatic close-up photos are of?
  26. Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next?
  27. Killer whales and dolphins are ‘being friends’ to hunt salmon together
  28. How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature
  29. Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health
  30. This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop
  31. How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year
  32. The potential of GLP-1 drugs to transform medicine exploded in 2025
  33. New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea
  34. Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes
  35. Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star
  36. Best acronym? Best use of AI? We present our end-of-year awards
  37. Donald Trump and Elon Musk put science on the chopping block in 2025
  38. We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like
  39. Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits
  40. Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant passes key test
  41. Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain
  42. What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human
  43. Australia's social media ban faces challenges and criticism on day one
  44. Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds
  45. 2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution
  46. The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal
  47. Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made concrete
  48. Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock may boost survival
  49. The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras
  50. 2025 is the second-hottest year since records began
  51. Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life
  52. How worried should you be about spending too much time on your phone?
  53. Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning
  54. Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has big health benefits
  55. Human challenge trials have never been more popular
  56. How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine
  57. Why do I feel lonely even when I'm surrounded by a festive crowd?
  58. Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe
  59. Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr
  60. A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life
  61. Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life
  62. Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immune system
  63. The two standout science-fiction films of 2025
  64. Hunter-gatherer groups are much less egalitarian than they seem
  65. How Australian teens are planning to get around their social media ban
  66. A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw
  67. What we’re learning about consciousness from master meditators’ brains
  68. Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize
  69. Images reveal the astonishing complexity of the microscopic world
  70. The four best science documentaries of 2025
  71. AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mean for democracy?
  72. Why is AI making computers and games consoles more expensive?
  73. Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe
  74. Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse
  75. Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as well as the body
  76. Stop treating your pet like a fur baby – you're damaging its health
  77. The six best science-fiction shows of 2025
  78. Where did I put it? Loss of vital crypto key voids election
  79. Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?
  80. Tigers seem to be bouncing back in remote Sumatran jungle
  81. Experimental vaccine prevents dangerous allergic attack for a year
  82. Dogs may make us more caring and sociable by changing our microbiome
  83. Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images
  84. Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
  85. Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real
  86. Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert
  87. Can viral relationship tests really tell you about your relationship?
  88. Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it
  89. What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?
  90. Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past
  91. We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer
  92. Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
  93. Cats can overcome fear of water to benefit from aquatic therapy
  94. The 12 best science fiction books of 2025
  95. The best new science fiction books of December 2025
  96. Was a little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey a major power?
  97. COP30: The UN climate summits are no longer fit for purpose
  98. The quick and easy ways to stay fit this holiday season
  99. A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases
  100. The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

Slashdot

  1. Micron Says Memory Shortage Will 'Persist' Beyond 2026
  2. Man Boards Heathrow Flight Without Passport or Ticket
  3. How China Built Its 'Manhattan Project' To Rival the West in AI Chips
  4. Doublespeed Hack Reveals What Its AI-Generated Accounts Are Promoting
  5. Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US
  6. Another Starship Clone Pops Up In China
  7. MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center
  8. Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief
  9. The Oscars Will Abandon Broadcast TV For YouTube In 2029
  10. Meta 'Pauses' Third-Party Headset Program
  11. Netflix To Add Soccer Video Game Based On FIFA World Cup Next Year
  12. GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware
  13. Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
  14. Google Releases Gemini 3 Flash, Promising Improved Intelligence and Efficiency
  15. Browser Extensions With 8 Million Users Collect Extended AI Conversations

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Hardware is the New Salt: AI's Emerging Role in Design and the Creative Process
  2. Best Industrial Design Case Studies Spotted in 2025
  3. Our Favorite Industrial Design Student Projects from 2025
  4. Mobility Designs Go Wild in 2025
  5. Best Tool Designs Spotted in 2025
  6. The Most Unusual, Experimental and Surprising Furniture Designs Spotted in 2025
  7. Hardware is the New Salt: AI, Hardware, and the Future of Physical Innovation
  8. Beautiful New and Classic Furniture Designs Spotted in 2025
  9. Wild and Weird Automotive Designs Spotted in 2025
  10. Hardware is the New Salt: AI in Augmentation, Acceleration, and the Next Innovation Curve
  11. 2025's Best Bike-Related Stories
  12. 2025's Best Architecture-Related Stories from Around the World
  13. Core77 Weekly Roundup (12-1-25 to 12-5-25)
  14. Specialty Tools: Häfele's Long Range Cabinet Feet Leveler is Easier On the Back
  15. The Loop Living Cocoon: A Mushroom-Based Coffin Grown in Seven Days

CNET

  1. Best Music Streaming Service for 2025
  2. Headphone Conversation Awareness Mode: How It Works and Why You Need It
  3. 'Supernatural' Has Left Netflix, Here's Where You Can Stream It Now
  4. 44 of the Best Movies on Netflix You Should Stream Now
  5. You're Definitely Not Cleaning Your Dishwasher Filter Enough, According to an Expert
  6. How to Watch Snoop Dogg at Halftime and More on Netflix's NFL Christmas Gameday
  7. Robot Vacuums With Claws? The Biggest Tech Products of 2025 video
  8. Building a Website Doesn’t Have to Be Hard. Here’s How to Build a Wix Website, Without Learning a Line of Code
  9. AI Health Coaches: The Next Frontier in Wearables or Privacy Nightmare?
  10. 'Pluribus' Release Schedule: When to Watch Episode 8
  11. Best Baby Monitors for 2025 as Tested by a Mom
  12. The Best Winter Workout Gear to Keep You Warm and Active, Even in Sub-Zero Weather
  13. A Year With Alexa Plus: This AI Is Worth It for Me, but Might Not Be for You
  14. Newest Apple Watch Models Compared: Apple Watch Series 11 vs. Ultra 3 and SE 3
  15. If You Want a Bigger Tax Refund in 2026, Consider These End-of-Year Tactics Now
  16. 6 Expert-Backed Vitamins You Should Be Taking to Age Gracefully
  17. Lenovo Yoga 7i 16 Gen 10 Review: Midrange 2-in-1 Supplies Spacious Display and Solid Performance
  18. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Dec. 18, #921
  19. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Dec. 18 #655
  20. Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Dec. 18, #451
  21. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Dec. 18, #1643
  22. Why Some Christmas Songs Agitate Pets, and What to Play Instead
  23. The Best Fitness Trackers of 2026 for Your New Year's Fitness Resolution
  24. You're Probably Not Washing Your Sheets Enough. Here's the Timeline You Should Follow
  25. Yes, EVs Are Great in Winter, and I Drove in the Arctic to Prove It

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises
  2. Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026
  3. ‘All chaos and panic’: Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions
  4. The latest iPad Air is $400 for the first time and arrives by Christmas
  5. The best gifts for dads that have everything (but deserve more)
  6. 2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war
  7. Trump Media is merging with a nuclear fusion company
  8. It’s the great AGI rebrand
  9. Apple opens iOS to third-party app stores in Japan
  10. Kuxiu’s S3 MagSafe power bank is bigger and better and probably won’t explode

Wired

  1. The Best Linen Sheets for Cool and Comfy Sleeping (2025)
  2. T-Mobile Says You Can Switch in Just 15 Minutes. I Tested That Claim
  3. 9 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
  4. Opposed to Data Centers? The Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office
  5. 10 Best Protein Powders, According to 2 Years of Testing (2026)
  6. A Filmmaker Made a Sam Altman Deepfake—and Got Unexpectedly Attached
  7. 15 Best Greens Powders (2025) Researched, Taste-Tested & Reviewed
  8. Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. iOS 26 Is Awful
  9. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Is Having a Renaissance
  10. Lovense Spinel Review: A Great Mini Sex Machine
  11. HBO Max Promo Code: 50% Off | This Month
  12. T-Mobile Business Promo Codes and Deals for November 2025
  13. The Best Plant and Gardening Gifts From LetPot (2025)
  14. ‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu on ‘What Makes Art Beautiful’ in the AI Era
  15. The Very Best Gifts for Dads of Christmas 2025
  16. Border Patrol Bets on Small Drones to Expand US Surveillance Reach
  17. The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics
  18. 16 Best Food Gifts, as Tested by Our Tastebuds (2025)
  19. 17 Best Stocking Stuffers (2025): Unique and Unconventional
  20. How to Watch the Final Meteor Shower of 2025

LifeHacker

  1. Gemini Just Added More AI Image Editing Tools
  2. Your Credit Info Might Have Been Leaked in This Massive Data Breach
  3. This Amazon Fire Kids Tablet Is 50% Off Right Now
  4. The Books I Recommend If You're Trying to Manage Your Time Better
  5. The Best Apps to Gamify Your Productivity
  6. Gemini 3 Flash Outperforms Gemini 3 Pro and GPT 5.2 In These Key Benchmarks
  7. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  8. 10 Hacks Every Car Owner Should Know
  9. Apple Just Changed the Way You AirDrop With Strangers
  10. That PayPal 'Automatic Payment Status' Email Is a Scam
  11. Apple's Latest iOS Update Includes a New Way to Receive Notifications
  12. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sony WH-1000XM5 Headphones
  13. How ChatGPT's New Image Generator Stacks Up Against Gemini's Nano Banana Pro
  14. These Stylish Marshall Headphones Are Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  15. My Nine Favorite Productivity Methods in One Efficient List
  16. Adapt This Japanese Productivity Model to Get More Done
  17. 10 of the Most Useful Apps for DIYers
  18. This Highly Rated Samsung Soundbar Is More Than 50% Off Right Now
  19. Instagram Reels May Be Coming to Your TV
  20. This Ridiculously Detailed Spreadsheet Has Helped Me Stick to My New Year’s Resolutions for Five Years
  21. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Era 100
  22. 25 of the Best Christmas Horror Movies
  23. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: These Common Christmas Myths
  24. Six Ways You Can Use an Old Chromecast (Beyond Streaming Movies and Shows)
  25. This LG Curved Gaming Monitor Is Over $500 Off Right Now
  26. Tackle Your Biggest Projects With a Daily 'Power Hour'
  27. Use the Eight Elements of the ‘Flow State’ to Be More Productive
  28. These Two New iPhone Features Are Coming to iOS 26.3
  29. This Samsung SmartTag Four-Pack Is 50% Off Right Now
  30. I Tested Google’s New Live Translation With AirPods, and It Actually Works Well
  31. What's Good (and What's Overhyped) About the Viral 2-2-2 Workout
  32. How I Finally Got Myself to Be an Early-Morning Exerciser
  33. The Newest Amazon Echo Spot Is at Its Lowest Price Yet
  34. The Kindle App Now Has Built-In AI, Because of Course It Does
  35. If Some Photos Are Inexplicably Turning Red on Your iPhone, There's a Fix
  36. All the Best Ways to Upgrade and Organize Your Garage
  37. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 2024 Amazon Kindle Scribe
  38. 30 of the Best Modern Christmas Movies
  39. How to Set Up Your Own Custom Focus Modes on iPhone
  40. 10 Hacks That Every Smart Home Owner Should Know
  41. iFixit's New AI Assistant Can Help You Fix Almost Anything
  42. Attackers Are Spreading Malware Through ChatGPT
  43. How to Spot a Browser-in-the-Browser Phishing Attack
  44. Sonos’ Latest Flagship Soundbar Is Over $200 Off Right Now
  45. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: The 'Devil Couldn't Reach Me' Trend
  46. You Can Now Use Your MacBook's Display As a Ring Light
  47. You Should Try This Simple (but Effective) 100-Year Old Productivity Method
  48. Use the 'Action Method' When You Need Extra Motivation to Meet Your Goals
  49. I Tried the New Sunscreen Ingredient the FDA Is Finally Approving After Over 20 Years
  50. How I Use the NotebookLM Slide Deck Generator to Study More Easily
  51. These Kid-Friendly Websites Put a Modern-Day Twist on 'the Quiet Game'
  52. Four Ways to Fix a Slippery Wood Floor
  53. The Sonos Ace Headphones Are $120 Off Right Now
  54. Update Your iPhone ASAP to Avoid FaceTime Scams
  55. How to Easily Find FSA Eligible Items on Amazon
  56. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are the Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  57. How to Give an Actually Thoughtful Gift (Without Consulting ChatGPT)
  58. You Can Use 'Circle to Search' to Identify Scams on Android
  59. 10 Hacks Every Traveler Should Know
  60. 10 Hacks for Moving Day That Everyone Should Know
  61. Three Changes Coming to Your Apple Watch With watchOS 26.2
  62. All the New Features in iOS 26.2
  63. 10 Hacks Every Student Should Know
  64. WhatsApp Is Now Rolling Out Missed Call Messages
  65. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 13-Inch M4 MacBook Air
  66. Philips Hue’s New Security Camera Is Surprisingly Useful
  67. Your Android Can Now Share Live Video to 911
  68. The Case for Ditching Your Fitness Trackers
  69. You Can Get The PlayStation 5 Pro for $100 Off Right Now
  70. Reading in Cars Makes Me Nauseous, but This App Helps
  71. Use 'RPM' to Structure Your Day More Efficiently
  72. Instead of 'Eating the Frog,' Use the 10-Minute Rule to Be More Productive
  73. Google Will Now Let You Virtually Try on Clothes With Just a Selfie
  74. The Surprising Origins of Hanukkah (and Why It Moves Around Every Year)
  75. The AirPods Pro 3 Are Now Under $200 for the First Time
  76. How OpenAI's Latest Model Will Impact ChatGPT
  77. I Tracked My Health With Whoop, and This Is What I Liked (and What I Ignored)
  78. The AirPods 4 With (and Without) ANC Are Under $100 Right Now
  79. This Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is Just $220 Right Now
  80. The Best Gifts for DIYers (That Aren't Tools)
  81. Disney Will Now Let You Make AI Slop of Its Characters on Sora
  82. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sony XM6 Over-Ear Headphones
  83. 16 Shows Like 'Slow Horses' You Should Watch Next
  84. I Tried Photoshop in ChatGPT, and It Went Better Than I Expected
  85. This Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  86. Use the ‘Five Whys’ to Get to the Root of Your Productivity Problems
  87. Use the '168-Hour Method' to Track Your Weekly Productivity
  88. Why RAM Prices Are Going Way, Way Up (and Why You Should Care)
  89. The M5 MacBook Pro Just Got Its Biggest Discount Ever
  90. How (and Why) I Use My Garmin Running Watch to Track Rests During Strength Workouts
  91. Yep, Apple Music and Apple TV Are Down
  92. Instagram Is Finally Letting You Control the Reels You See
  93. The Newest Amazon Echo Show Is Almost $50 Off
  94. Google Maps Will Now Automatically Save Your Parking Spot on iPhone
  95. 10 Ways to Use Your Hand Tools and Power Tools Together to Do More
  96. 10 Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  97. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
  98. 10 Hacks Every Chromebook Power User Should Know
  99. This Rugged Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is Nearly 40% Off Right Now
  100. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 With GPS and Cellular Is $200 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

  1. Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit
  2. FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation
  3. Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt
  4. NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems
  5. React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines
  6. BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI
  7. DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in
  8. UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns
  9. Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions
  10. United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance
  11. Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future
  12. ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow
  13. Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement
  14. Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November
  15. CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns
  16. Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists
  17. Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause
  18. All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup
  19. GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
  20. NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth
  21. Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack
  22. AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans
  23. NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential
  24. California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims
  25. Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems
  26. X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill
  27. Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI
  28. UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge
  29. England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion
  30. UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband
  31. Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products
  32. India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64
  33. China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks
  34. Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs
  35. Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims
  36. Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips
  37. Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats
  38. Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators
  39. Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own
  40. SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag
  41. Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm
  42. Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on
  43. US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row
  44. From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill
  45. Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood
  46. Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot
  47. Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer
  48. From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions
  49. MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian
  50. UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months

TechMeme

  1. Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
  2. Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  3. Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M+ in bookings in 2025 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
  5. North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
  6. Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
  7. Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot (Bloomberg)
  8. Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
  9. Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
  10. UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
  11. Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M+ users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
  12. Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
  13. Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
  14. Honda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover (Bloomberg)
  15. Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)