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BBC

  1. Andrew will not face police action over bodyguard claim
  2. 2025 was a crazy year in politics. But 2026 could be wild
  3. Three Americans killed by IS gunman in Syria, US military says
  4. King 'deeply touched' by reaction to cancer TV message, says Palace
  5. All police forces to get specialist sexual offence teams, Mahmood pledges
  6. Belarus frees 123 prisoners as US lifts sanctions
  7. Why Jane Austen's characters are still so relatable
  8. The making of a WWE legend: John Cena faces his final fight
  9. Chocolate is getting smaller, more expensive and less chocolatey - and that might leave a bad taste
  10. Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?
  11. I thought I'd struck lucky on a dating app but invited a monster into my life
  12. Goodbye - but only for now? Salah signs off as questions remain
  13. Israel targets senior Hamas official in deadly Gaza strike
  14. Equality boss expects people to 'follow the rules' over single-sex spaces
  15. Zoe Ball steps down from BBC Radio 2 Saturday show
  16. Forecasters warn of floods as amber rain alert issued
  17. Migrant Channel crossings resume after four-week gap
  18. Angry fans throw chairs and bottles at Messi event in India
  19. Darts world champion says she 'blubbered like a child' after win
  20. How monogamous are humans? Scientists compile 'league table' of pairing up
  21. IVF podcasters 'thrilled' to win audio award
  22. BBC News app
  23. ​​Starmer Says a Doctor Strike Would be 'Reckless'
  24. Democrats release photos of Trump from Epstein estate
  25. The story of Britain’s biggest mass poisoning
  26. Unseen film footage from the making of 'Do They Know It’s Christmas?'
  27. Goodbye - but only for now? Salah signs off as questions remain
  28. Glasgow mount incredible comeback to stun Toulouse
  29. 'Worst 48 hours' since I joined Chelsea - Maresca
  30. Man arrested and match postponed as non-league manager injured
  31. Lim, 71, becomes oldest winner at World Championship

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. A new AAA Alien game is reportedly in the works
  2. Half-Life 3 is rumored to be a Steam Machine launch title and could arrive in spring 2026
  3. iOS 26.2 is here with another Liquid Glass tweak, new Podcasts features and more
  4. CRKD's Nitro Deck 2 works for both the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2
  5. WWE Saturday Night's Main Event: How to watch John Cena's final match for free
  6. Amazon pulls its bad AI video recaps after Fallout fallout
  7. OpenAI signs deal to bring Disney characters to Sora and ChatGPT
  8. IKEA's new wireless charger is as cute as it is practical
  9. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs dropped a big update after sweeping The Game Awards
  10. The best stocking stuffers you can get for $50 or less
  11. Google Translate is now better at translating slang terms and idioms using AI
  12. Doom studio id Software forms 'wall-to-wall' union, with a majority of employees voting in favor
  13. The best iPad deals this week include the iPad Air M3 for $150 off
  14. The best tech gifts and cool gadgets for 2025
  15. Reddit sues Australia over underage social media ban
  16. The Apple Watch Series 11 is $100 off and cheaper than ever
  17. F1: The Movie now streaming on Apple TV following a long theatrical run
  18. In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power
  19. Engadget Podcast: Why Netflix is the best worst option for Warner Bros.
  20. Get 40 percent off MasterClass subscriptions for the holiday season
  21. The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers of 2025
  22. The best E Ink tablets for 2025
  23. Everything announced and all the winners at The Game Awards 2025
  24. Housemarque's Saros is delayed to April 30
  25. 4:LOOP is a co-op shooter from the creator of Left 4 Dead and JJ Abrams' Bad Robot
  26. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a podracing game set for 2026
  27. Exodus is delayed to early 2027
  28. Lara Croft will return in Tomb Raider: Catalyst and a new remake
  29. Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight swoops onto PC and consoles on May 29
  30. South of Midnight is coming to PS5 and Switch 2 next spring
  31. Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws
  32. The devs of SOMA are back with a spiritual successor called Ontos
  33. Control Resonant steps into a larger world that's inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion
  34. Larian Studios is returning to the Divinity series with... Divinity
  35. Ten years after The Witness, Jonathan Blow's next massive puzzle game is almost ready for primetime
  36. Coven of the Chicken Foot is the debut game from Naughty Dog alum Bruce Straley's indie studio
  37. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new action RPG from the director of Mass Effect and KOTOR
  38. Capcom's Pragmata is coming your way on April 24
  39. Bradley the Badger looks like Wreck-It Ralph as a real video game
  40. Apple (mostly) loses its appeal in Epic Games case
  41. Amazon's AI-generated recap tool didn't watch Fallout very closely
  42. Disney's deal with OpenAI is about controlling the future of copyright
  43. '47 Ronin' director found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million
  44. New York passes law requiring ads to disclose the use of AI performers
  45. Fortnite is back on the Google Play Store
  46. OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 to take on Google and Anthropic
  47. Lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of reinforcing delusions that led to a woman's death
  48. Google Disco is an experimental web browser that builds AI widgets based on your tabs
  49. Rivian goes all in on 'universal hands-free' driving at its first Autonomy and AI day
  50. Disney has accused Google of copyright infringement on a 'massive scale'

Pinboard

  1. Size of Life
  2. 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.
  3. Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  4. Saloni's guide to data visualization — Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
  5. 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.
  6. Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography
  7. Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow — To pop the bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth co…
  8. Litestream VFS · The Fly Blog
  9. Font recommendations | Butterick’s Practical Typography
  10. Introducing GPT-5.2 | OpenAI
  11. Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight | karpathy
  12. Why AGI Will Not Happen — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218537
  13. The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide
  14. Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
  15. The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
  16. In 2025, I thought a lot about the things I want to say to my boss
  17. CSS Wrapped 2025 — Ready to see what we molded in 2025? The Chrome DevRel team will guide you through 17 CSS and UI features that landed on the Web Platform, fresh from the kiln
  18. I Reverse Engineered ChatGPT's Memory System, and Here's What I Found! - Manthan
  19. Neal.fun
  20. Two is already too many - Works in Progress Magazine
  21. SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing - DB Pro Blog
  22. Why RSS matters — still continues to matter in 2025
  23. AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/6WER4Ug
  24. How to quit Spotify - by Brian Merchant — "This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative"
  25. If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?
  26. Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration — Ankur Sethi's Internet Website
  27. My productivity app is a single .txt file
  28. The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles — story
  29. The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
  30. butterick’s practical typography — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18477231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6094946
  31. Perl's decline was cultural
  32. Nokia N900 Necromancy
  33. At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke - The New York Times — In an “Action Request” memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Rubio said that switching back to the use of Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared …
  34. Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs. — You can think of the language network as a set of pointers,” Fedorenko said. “It’s like a map, and it tells you where in…
  35. Resonant Computing Manifesto
  36. Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  37. OpenAI Is in Trouble - The Atlantic — The AI startup is in trouble.
  38. They Droned Back - Digital Digging with Henk van Ess
  39. https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
  40. The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR — "For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution" ... "Introduction by Kaiser Kuo I first encountered Zheng Xiaoqiong’s writing in Iron Moon, a collection of Chinese worker poetry skilfully…
  41. Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki] — Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS - love the URL
  42. Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
  43. Daring Fireball: The Real Problem of Humanity
  44. Gemini 3 hallucinates the Hacker News front page in 2035
  45. The White House Just Revealed Another "Update" To The White House, And Everyone’s Rolling Their Eyes — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cOE09Qd
  46. “We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For” - Essays - Yield Giving
  47. Building a High-End AI Desktop | David Noel Ng — ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.
  48. Smartphone without a battery
  49. Gin is a very bad software library
  50. Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" | Hacker News
  51. Trump’s immigration data dragnet
  52. Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
  53. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools — In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman’s talk on the EmacsConf, it was titled “What I’d like to see in Emacs”. One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out in this talk was “memorable names”, “I think every package that you […] should have a …
  54. What Setting Should I Use?
  55. ltratt/pizauth: Command-line OAuth2 authentication daemon
  56. The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation - YouTube
  57. simticket
  58. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/cOE09Qd
  59. How the Brain Parses Language | Hacker News
  60. GitHub - metaspartan/gotui: Golang terminal dashboard library, advanced modern fork of termui, GOTUI? — ff6347 starred metaspartan/gotui
  61. Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water | WIRED
  62. The end of the kernel Rust experiment [LWN.net] — The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will b…
  63. The one thing necessary: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e — I had a few free hours recently and decided to have a go at a long-simmering idea: To improve how I manage multiple email accounts. As someone who struggles mightily to cope with distractions (I have the attention span of a gnat), I was hoping to conso…
  64. Assorted tools — Simon Willison
  65. Writing our own Cheat Engine: Introduction | Lonami's Blog
  66. Trump signs AI executive order pushing to ban state laws | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/6xpLPe3
  67. Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
  68. Why You’re Better Than Artificial Intelligence at Solving Connections - The New York Times
  69. Discover the most reviewed places in your city | Top-Rated.Online
  70. Lauren Leek — Lauren Leek Developed by Lauren Leek
  71. simstudioai/sim: Open-source AI Agent workflow builder. — Open-source AI Agent workflow builder. Contribute to simstudioai/sim development by creating an account on GitHub.
  72. Lucide
  73. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content | Global development | The Guardian
  74. This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires - Ars Technica
  75. How iMessage sends and receives messages securely - Apple Support — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/b1wjfx7
  76. OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/6xpLPe3
  77. Test Desiderata 2.0 - Coding Is Like Cooking — Kent Beck is one of the original authors of JUnit, an open source tool that kick-started a huge shift in programmer behaviour that I and others have found immensely valuable. In 2019 he published his “Test Desiderata” with advice about the properties he values in tests. I have f…
  78. Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain | rePebble Blog
  79. Land War or Self-Terrorism? — Trump's Likely Next Step
  80. How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking - Ars Technica
  81. My new fave thing to go to is algoraves (Interconnected) — My new fave thing to go to is algoraves https://ift.tt/3Kc1H9G via:feedbin
  82. Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
  83. YouTube TV Plans Launching in 2026 With 10+ Genre-Specific Packages
  84. Why Is Warner Bros. for Sale at All? - The American Prospect
  85. martianlantern — Median Filter over Arbitrary Datatypes — Median filter is one of most common filters in computer vision applications. Many variants of median filter that can be applied to arbitrary datatypes have been proposed throughout the years and a lot of progress is made to make it more efficient. I find all these res…
  86. Golang optimizations for high‑volume services
  87. EU investigates China’s Nuctech, Temu for unfair foreign subsidies – POLITICO
  88. Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" - Eli Bendersky's website
  89. The 8 Best Men’s Pants for the Office (and Beyond) — We found 8 terrific pairs of pants that are well suited for a wide range of professional settings — and great for after-work and weekends, too.
  90. Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End — Specifically, I want to push back on the impulse to dismiss the skill that goes into creating effective sex scenes. It requires a particular competence to create sex scenes that are hot instead of ridiculous, and a competence on top of that to create sex sce…
  91. King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify: "We Are Truly Doomed"
  92. Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal? | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera — The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the top 50 percent of earners …
  93. Useful patterns for building HTML tools — So cool!
  94. You Should Write An Agent · The Fly Blog
  95. The war on disinformation is a losing battle | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/7iyF49c
  96. Head Start centers told to avoid list of words in funding requests : NPR
  97. Cloud design patterns - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Learn — Learn about design patterns for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud by walking through examples based on Microsoft Azure.
  98. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI | Hacker News
  99. Bag of words, have mercy on us - by Adam Mastroianni
  100. Litestream VFS | Hacker News

The Next Web

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

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. There Are Still Some Very Good (and Exclusive) Deals Ahead of the Holidays
  2. I Hunt Deals for a Living. These Are the 25 Steals I’m Stocking Up On During Sephora’s Big End-of-Year Sale.
  3. The Best SSDs
  4. 35 Small-Kitchen Organization Ideas That Make the Most of Tight Quarters
  5. How a Wirecutter Deals Writer Saves at Sephora and Ulta
  6. The Best Online Cloud Backup Services
  7. The Best Handbags Under $500
  8. The Anabei Sofa Claims to Be ‘The Only Washable Sofa — Inside and Out.’ Only, It Isn’t.
  9. The Best Portable Vaporizer
  10. The 15 Gifts You Loved the Most This Year

Sweethome

  1. I’m an HVAC Expert Who’s Spent His Life in Drafty Old Houses. This Is My Favorite Space Heater.
  2. The Anabei Sofa Claims to Be ‘The Only Washable Sofa — Inside and Out.’ Only, It Isn’t.
  3. Our Favorite Solid Shampoo Bars
  4. The Best Smart Scale
  5. The Best Massage Chairs
  6. What’s the Best Vacuum for Pet Hair?
  7. Shop Secondhand Like a Pro: How Our Decor Experts Find Worth-It Furniture on a Budget
  8. The Best Mousetrap
  9. The Shovel That Beat the Snowpocalypse and Saved My Back
  10. The Best Sprinkler

Hacker News

  1. Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
  2. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
  3. Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's
  4. VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
  5. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
  6. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
  7. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
  8. Closures as Win32 Window Procedures
  9. Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
  10. Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future
  11. Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  12. Cat Gap
  13. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
  14. Cryptids
  15. TigerBeetle as a File Storage
  16. Go Proposal: Secret Mode
  17. EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring
  18. From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
  19. Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]
  20. What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
  21. Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue
  22. A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg
  23. Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder
  24. Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads
  25. Using Python for Scripting
  26. GNU Unifont
  27. A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)
  28. Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring
  29. Pig Video Arcades Critique Life in the Pen (1997)
  30. Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

Ars Technica

  1. Sharks and rays gain landmark protections as nations move to curb international trade
  2. OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself
  3. Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
  4. Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android
  5. Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles
  6. Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands
  7. A study in contrasts: The cinematography of Wake Up Dead Man
  8. Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to
  9. Man shocks doctors with extreme blood pressure, stroke from energy drinks
  10. Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
  11. Senator endorses discredited doctor’s book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer
  12. Investors commit quarter-billion dollars to startup designing “Giga” satellites
  13. How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
  14. Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids
  15. Rocket Report: Neutron’s Hungry Hippo is deemed ready, whither Orbex?
  16. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced as a KOTOR spiritual successor
  17. Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you
  18. Runway claims its GWM-1 “world models” can stay coherent for minutes at a time
  19. Instead of fixing WoW’s new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official
  20. OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

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New Scientist

  1. What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals
  2. The 33 best books, films, games and TV to entertain you this Christmas
  3. We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
  4. Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2
  5. Mars may once have had a much larger moon
  6. Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer
  7. De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn't live up to the hype
  8. Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles
  9. Can you work out what these enigmatic close-up photos are of?
  10. Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next?
  11. Killer whales and dolphins are ‘being friends’ to hunt salmon together
  12. How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature
  13. Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health
  14. This year we were drowning in a sea of slick, nonsensical AI slop
  15. How I learned to keep my brain in better repair this year
  16. The potential of GLP-1 drugs to transform medicine exploded in 2025
  17. New antibiotic could stave off drug-resistant gonorrhoea
  18. Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes
  19. Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star
  20. Best acronym? Best use of AI? We present our end-of-year awards
  21. Donald Trump and Elon Musk put science on the chopping block in 2025
  22. We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like
  23. Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits
  24. Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant passes key test
  25. Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain
  26. What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human
  27. Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright
  28. Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?
  29. Australia's social media ban faces challenges and criticism on day one
  30. Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds
  31. 2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution
  32. The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal
  33. Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made concrete
  34. Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock may boost survival
  35. The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras
  36. 2025 is the second-hottest year since records began
  37. Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life
  38. How worried should you be about spending too much time on your phone?
  39. Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning
  40. Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has big health benefits
  41. Human challenge trials have never been more popular
  42. How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine
  43. Why do I feel lonely even when I'm surrounded by a festive crowd?
  44. Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe
  45. Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr
  46. A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life
  47. Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life
  48. Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immune system
  49. The two standout science-fiction films of 2025
  50. Hunter-gatherer groups are much less egalitarian than they seem
  51. How Australian teens are planning to get around their social media ban
  52. A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw
  53. What we’re learning about consciousness from master meditators’ brains
  54. Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize
  55. Images reveal the astonishing complexity of the microscopic world
  56. The four best science documentaries of 2025
  57. AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mean for democracy?
  58. Why is AI making computers and games consoles more expensive?
  59. Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe
  60. Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse
  61. Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as well as the body
  62. Stop treating your pet like a fur baby – you're damaging its health
  63. The six best science-fiction shows of 2025
  64. Where did I put it? Loss of vital crypto key voids election
  65. Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?
  66. Tigers seem to be bouncing back in remote Sumatran jungle
  67. Experimental vaccine prevents dangerous allergic attack for a year
  68. Dogs may make us more caring and sociable by changing our microbiome
  69. Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images
  70. Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
  71. Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real
  72. Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert
  73. Can viral relationship tests really tell you about your relationship?
  74. Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it
  75. What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?
  76. Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past
  77. We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer
  78. Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
  79. Cats can overcome fear of water to benefit from aquatic therapy
  80. The 12 best science fiction books of 2025
  81. The best new science fiction books of December 2025
  82. Was a little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey a major power?
  83. COP30: The UN climate summits are no longer fit for purpose
  84. The quick and easy ways to stay fit this holiday season
  85. A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases
  86. The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops
  87. Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago
  88. Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry
  89. Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss
  90. Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis
  91. Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
  92. Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
  93. Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it
  94. Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  95. Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
  96. 'Horrific and beautiful' whale rescue image wins photography prize
  97. Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe
  98. Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter
  99. Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts
  100. Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation

Slashdot

  1. Applets Are Officially Going, But Java In the Browser Is Better Than Ever
  2. Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs
  3. Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online
  4. The World's Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025
  5. How a 23-Year-Old in 1975 Built the World's First Handheld Digital Camera
  6. More of America's Coal-Fired Power Plants Cease Operations
  7. Rust in Linux's Kernel 'is No Longer Experimental'
  8. Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables
  9. Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech
  10. Ukrainians Sue US Chip Firms For Powering Russian Drones, Missiles
  11. Arizona City Rejects Data Center After Lobbying Push
  12. Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices By 50% For DIY Laptops
  13. Doom Studio id Software Forms 'Wall-To-Wall' Union
  14. US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales
  15. Russian Hackers Debut Simple Ransomware Service, But Store Keys In Plain Text

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. The Most Unusual, Experimental and Surprising Furniture Designs Spotted in 2025
  2. Hardware is the New Salt: AI, Hardware, and the Future of Physical Innovation
  3. Beautiful New and Classic Furniture Designs Spotted in 2025
  4. Wild and Weird Automotive Designs Spotted in 2025
  5. Hardware is the New Salt: AI in Augmentation, Acceleration, and the Next Innovation Curve
  6. 2025's Best Bike-Related Stories
  7. 2025's Best Architecture-Related Stories from Around the World
  8. Core77 Weekly Roundup (12-1-25 to 12-5-25)
  9. Specialty Tools: Häfele's Long Range Cabinet Feet Leveler is Easier On the Back
  10. The Loop Living Cocoon: A Mushroom-Based Coffin Grown in Seven Days
  11. Lazy Lighting App Makes Projection Mapping Easy
  12. The Aircrate: A Reusable Bubblewrap Alternative Where You Provide the Air
  13. A Magnetically Self-Coiling Charging Cable
  14. A Designey, Compact Gym-in-a-Closet
  15. Keiji Takeuchi & Aru's Beautiful Wooden Door Handles

CNET

  1. Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Dec. 14 #651
  2. Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Dec. 14, #917
  3. Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Dec. 14, #1639
  4. Best High-Speed Internet Providers for December 2025
  5. Paramount's Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Aims to Block Netflix's $83 Billion Offer
  6. Why 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' is the Greatest 'Christmas Carol' Ever video
  7. 11 Holiday Gifts Your Co-Workers and Employees Will Truly Appreciate
  8. Blur Nude Text Messages With Android Privacy Settings | How to Do It All video
  9. WTF: This Boxing Humanoid Robot Is Unitree's Wildest Demo Yet
  10. Is It Ever Safe to Microwave Plastic? I Asked a Few Experts to Weigh In
  11. New 2025 Christmas Movies on Prime Video, Netflix and More
  12. Here's What Tesla's New Affordable Electric Cars Cost, and What You Get
  13. La Liga Soccer: Stream Barcelona vs. Osasuna Live From Anywhere
  14. The 9 Best Grocery Delivery Services of 2025
  15. Before You Buy This $20K Home Robot, There's Something You Should See
  16. I Tried These Turbocharged XR Sunglasses at Disney Studios and Got a Stunning New View
  17. Can I Shoot a Movie With an iPhone 17 Pro? | Prove It video
  18. Can My iPhone 17 Pro Match a 6K Cinema Camera? I Teamed Up With a Pro to Find Out
  19. You’ll Be Glad Your VPN Has Post-Quantum Encryption, Even if You Don’t Need It Now. Here’s Why
  20. 7 Troubleshooting Steps That Work When Smart Home Tech Goes Wrong
  21. Sip or Skip? I Tried 32 Holiday K-Cups to find the 10 Best Seasonal Pods for Your Keurig
  22. Premier League Soccer: Stream Liverpool vs. Brighton Live From Anywhere
  23. Premier League Soccer: Stream Chelsea vs. Everton Live From Anywhere
  24. 9 Security Checks I Always Make When Using a Vacation Rental for the Holidays
  25. I'm Begging You to Stop Anthropomorphizing AI. Here's Why It's Harmful

Reddit

The Verge

  1. A Kinect for kids is outselling Xbox to become the hot console this holiday
  2. Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio
  3. This $1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work
  4. The Nex Playground and Pixel Buds 2A top our list of the best deals this week
  5. The best thing I bought this year: a portable mechanical keyboard
  6. Sektori is psychedelic, tough as nails, and worth the pain
  7. Here are the shipping deadlines to get your holiday gifts on time
  8. The Verge’s 2025 holiday gift guide
  9. The best instant cameras you can buy right now
  10. Parents call for New York governor to sign landmark AI safety bill

Wired

  1. 18 Gifts for People Who Are Perpetually Cold (2025)
  2. The Best Motorola Phones (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  3. The Best Kindle of 2025: Paperwhite, Scribe, or Colorsoft?
  4. Google Data Centers Are Returning Nuclear Power to Tornado Country
  5. The 24 Best Shows on Amazon Prime, WIRED’s Picks (December 2025)
  6. Velotric Discover 2 Electric Bike Review: Versatile and Powerful
  7. AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda
  8. Gear News of the Week: Android Gets Emergency Live Video, and the Pixel Watch 4 Supports Gestures
  9. How to Use Smart Lighting Around the Home: Reviewer Recommendations
  10. The Instagram-Fueled Boom in Copycat Vintage Car-Body Shells
  11. AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition
  12. Why SpaceX Is Finally Gearing Up to Go Public
  13. This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law
  14. You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
  15. The Best Age-Tech Gadgets Tried and Tested by WIRED
  16. The Best Permanent Outdoor Lights (2025): Govee, Eufy, Lepro
  17. Best Merino Wool T-Shirts (2025), Tried On and Tested
  18. Baseus Inspire XH1 Headphones Review: Affordable Excellence
  19. Does Red-Light Therapy Work? (2025)
  20. People Are Already Taking This Unapproved New Weight-Loss Drug

LifeHacker

  1. I Tried the New Sunscreen Ingredient the FDA Is Finally Approving After Over 20 Years
  2. How I Use the NotebookLM Slide Deck Generator to Study More Easily
  3. These Kid-Friendly Websites Put a Modern-Day Twist on 'the Quiet Game'
  4. Four Ways to Fix a Slippery Wood Floor
  5. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  6. The Sonos Ace Headphones Are $120 Off Right Now
  7. Update Your iPhone ASAP to Avoid FaceTime Scams
  8. How to Easily Find FSA Eligible Items on Amazon
  9. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are the Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  10. How to Give an Actually Thoughtful Gift (Without Consulting ChatGPT)
  11. You Can Use 'Circle to Search' to Identify Scams on Android
  12. 10 Hacks Every Traveler Should Know
  13. 10 Hacks for Moving Day That Everyone Should Know
  14. Three Changes Coming to Your Apple Watch With watchOS 26.2
  15. All the New Features in iOS 26.2
  16. 10 Hacks Every Student Should Know
  17. WhatsApp Is Now Rolling Out Missed Call Messages
  18. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The 13-Inch M4 MacBook Air
  19. Philips Hue’s New Security Camera Is Surprisingly Useful
  20. Your Android Can Now Share Live Video to 911
  21. The Case for Ditching Your Fitness Trackers
  22. You Can Get The PlayStation 5 Pro for $100 Off Right Now
  23. Reading in Cars Makes Me Nauseous, but This App Helps
  24. Use 'RPM' to Structure Your Day More Efficiently
  25. Instead of 'Eating the Frog,' Use the 10-Minute Rule to Be More Productive
  26. Google Will Now Let You Virtually Try on Clothes With Just a Selfie
  27. The Surprising Origins of Hanukkah (and Why It Moves Around Every Year)
  28. The AirPods Pro 3 Are Now Under $200 for the First Time
  29. How OpenAI's Latest Model Will Impact ChatGPT
  30. I Tracked My Health With Whoop, and This Is What I Liked (and What I Ignored)
  31. The AirPods 4 With (and Without) ANC Are Under $100 Right Now
  32. This Roborock Vacuum/Mop Combo Is Just $220 Right Now
  33. The Best Gifts for DIYers (That Aren't Tools)
  34. Disney Will Now Let You Make AI Slop of Its Characters on Sora
  35. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sony XM6 Over-Ear Headphones
  36. 16 Shows Like 'Slow Horses' You Should Watch Next
  37. I Tried Photoshop in ChatGPT, and It Went Better Than I Expected
  38. This Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch Is Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  39. Use the ‘Five Whys’ to Get to the Root of Your Productivity Problems
  40. Use the '168-Hour Method' to Track Your Weekly Productivity
  41. Why RAM Prices Are Going Way, Way Up (and Why You Should Care)
  42. The M5 MacBook Pro Just Got Its Biggest Discount Ever
  43. How (and Why) I Use My Garmin Running Watch to Track Rests During Strength Workouts
  44. Yep, Apple Music and Apple TV Are Down
  45. Instagram Is Finally Letting You Control the Reels You See
  46. The Newest Amazon Echo Show Is Almost $50 Off
  47. Google Maps Will Now Automatically Save Your Parking Spot on iPhone
  48. 10 Ways to Use Your Hand Tools and Power Tools Together to Do More
  49. 10 Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  50. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
  51. 10 Hacks Every Chromebook Power User Should Know
  52. This Rugged Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker Is Nearly 40% Off Right Now
  53. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 With GPS and Cellular Is $200 Off Right Now
  54. What's New on Netflix in January 2026
  55. This Volume App for Mac Lets You Do More With Your Earbuds and Speakers
  56. Instagram Is Adding AI-Generated Headlines to Some Posts
  57. These Nearly Indestructible JBL Earbuds Are 40% Off Right Now
  58. 10 Hacks for Online Privacy That Everyone Should Know
  59. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The Real History of Santa Claus
  60. Microsoft's Latest 'Patch Tuesday' Update Fixes These Three Zero-Days
  61. Flying Without a REAL ID Is Soon Going to Cost You
  62. Harness the 'Hawthorne Effect' to Get More Done
  63. Newton’s First Law Applies to Productivity Too
  64. Pebble Is Releasing a $75 Ring, but It’s Not an Oura Competitor
  65. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: 'Millennial Optimism'
  66. NotebookLM Has a New Feature for Visual Learners
  67. 10 Hacks Every Homeowner Should Know
  68. 12 Shows Like 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' You Should Watch Next
  69. 10 Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  70. 10 Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  71. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8
  72. Google Will Fix Your Pixel’s Broken Display for Free (If It Qualifies)
  73. Garmin's 'Year in Review' Is Perplexing, Like the Rest of Its Subscription Service
  74. Why Your TV Will Probably Never Be Better Than It Is Now
  75. Apple’s New iPhone Update Will Make Sure You’ll Never Miss a Reminder Again
  76. How the Fitness Tech Boom Is Making Health Inequality Worse
  77. How to Get Games on Your Retro Gaming Handheld
  78. My Favorite Productivity Advice From Books (so You Don’t Have to Read Them All)
  79. Use the Pareto Principle to Prioritize Your To-Do List
  80. Apple and Google Are Making It Easier to Switch Between iPhone and Android
  81. The Google Pixel 10 Is $200 Off Right Now
  82. Coros’s New Beta Update Adds Everything Its Watches Have Been Missing
  83. The 20 Most Essential Podcasts of 2025 (and Two Episodes You Can't Miss)
  84. The Entire 'Planet of the Apes' Franchise Explained in 10 Infographics
  85. What the Netflix/Warner Bros. Merger Could Mean for Streaming
  86. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The M4 iPad Pro
  87. Samsung's One UI 8.5 Beta Is Now Officially Available
  88. How to Spot a ‘Sleeper’ Browser Extension That’s Actually Malware
  89. Use the 'MIT Method' to Keep Your Big-Picture Goals in Mind During Everyday Tasks
  90. Two Productivity Techniques That Can Help You Do More (by Actually Doing Less)
  91. These Noise-Canceling JBL Headphones Are Nearly Half Off Right Now
  92. The Best Sales on Headphones and Earbuds Right Now
  93. This Surprisingly Convincing Phishing Scam Imitates Apple Support
  94. No, Meta Is Not Scraping Your DMs to Train Its AI
  95. Get a Government Permit to Cut Your Own Christmas Tree at a National Forest
  96. Why Deleting Your Browsing History Doesn’t Always Delete Your Browsing History
  97. The Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Are at Their All-Time Lowest Price Right Now
  98. This macOS App Makes It Easy to See (and Use) Your Keyboard Shortcuts
  99. This Bose Portable Speaker Is Nearly 20% Off Right Now
  100. 13 Shows Like 'The Boys' You Should Watch Next

The Onion

The Register

  1. British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
  2. Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit
  3. New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
  4. Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger
  5. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
  6. The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens
  7. AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns
  8. Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
  9. Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
  10. Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
  11. UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout
  12. Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation
  13. Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability
  14. Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system
  15. User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't
  16. Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban
  17. Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust
  18. Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO
  19. AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says
  20. VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA
  21. Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images
  22. Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
  23. European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger
  24. Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms
  25. Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day
  26. LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco
  27. Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
  28. Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk
  29. Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion
  30. Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
  31. Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life
  32. 10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
  33. Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030
  34. Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack
  35. India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models
  36. Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane
  37. NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
  38. Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties
  39. Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
  40. Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can
  41. 700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
  42. US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains
  43. Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers
  44. US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy
  45. Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition
  46. US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia
  47. Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say
  48. Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts
  49. Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills
  50. Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

TechMeme

  1. To build more powerful AI systems, some AI leaders are focusing on pursuing an approach called continual learning, which mimics how people learn over time (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
  2. A University of Cambridge analysis reveals how cheap SMS text message verification to create online accounts fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
  3. The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers (Brooke Sutherland/Bloomberg)
  4. How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment (Bloomberg)
  5. Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)
  6. A look at Netflix House in Philadelphia, a new 100K sq. ft. location for in-person experiences, which resembles a Disneyland attraction and a Dave & Buster's (Sarah Holder/Bloomberg)
  7. Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
  8. Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans and rapidly cut exposure to the enterprise software sector in 2025 amid concerns over AI threat (Financial Times)
  9. A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
  10. OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok (Financial Times)
  11. Broadcom's shares fell 11% on December 12, their biggest single-day drop since January, after the company's AI sales outlook fell short of investor expectations (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
  12. Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
  13. Cisco's stock touched a new record high of $80.25 on December 10, surpassing its previous split-adjusted high of $80.06 on March 27, 2000; CSCO is up 31.64% YTD (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
  14. Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200%+ in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
  15. In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)