No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse
Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade
Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome
A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.
GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
The YouTuber doesn't seem fazed by Apple's threats.
AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writi…
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
In an interview, CEO George Arison claimed artificial intelligence can help solve âdifficultâ gay dating problems.
Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation
Although Windows has had awareness of the NVMe storage media protocol since Windows 8.1, it turns out that the stock Microsoft driver for NVMe devices, disk.sys, offers suboptimal performance. This driver dates back to …
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors
I wrote last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a CGM) on my arm 24/7 to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague, Karen …
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Opinion: Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card
‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires
Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it
Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake
Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month
The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
Spotify vs. Anna's Archive
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Packaging Stremio’s GTK4 Shell: CEF Integration Adventures
Nine days debugging one function call, and other lessons from browser-engine integration Introduction When Stremio released their new GTK4-based shell using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead of Qt5/QtWebEngine, …
Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you.…
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse
X rolled out a new feature that lets users alter any image via AI prompts, igniting backlash among users, particularly artists, who fear their work can be misused, misrepresented, and altered without their consent.
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, aiming to cut costs as DDR5 prices continue to rise. More details here.
Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune
Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.
Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic? | NYT
Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.
How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...
Drova is surprisenly reactive
"Drova - Forsaken Kin" is a pixel art Action-RPG inspired by the grim dark classics of
US shutters phisherfolk’s $14.6M password-hoarding platform
: Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
: Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)
There are plenty of lovely e-readers out on the market that come with an nice big e-paper display. There aren’t nearly as many that come with two. [Martin den Hoed] developed the Diptyx e-rea…
AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts …
The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D
AMD Supposedly Resuscitates "Discontinued" B650 Chipset, Motivated by DIY Cost Fluctuations
Around late summer, rumors emerged about AMD leadership notifying its motherboard manufacturing partners about an upcoming discontinuation of the venerable B650 chipset. At the time, alleged "clearance plans" targeted a…
NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, …
After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'
A recent interview session between Twitch streamers and content creators saw Sandfall Interactive's Guillaume Broche clarifying the studio's AI usage
The 20 best video games of 2025
A family classic reborn in a wide open world, a satirical adventure through teenage life and a mystery puzzler for the ages – our critics on the year’s best fun
‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained
RAM prices are surging worldwide, and AI demand, tariffs, and supply concentration have reshaped the memory market of today.
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TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalat…
A utopian Russian novel predicted Putin’s war plan.
How AI broke the smart home in 2025
Why AI hasn’t made the smart home smarter
Plebbit will be the first pure peer-to-peer social media protocol.
Contribute to plebbit/whitepaper development by creating an account on GitHub.
Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves
With a visual overhaul, new features and providers, and a custom-built streaming protocol, it's our biggest update yet!
The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced op…
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
TIL: Life imitates Art. Full stop.
After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against govern…
Days after killing the brand, Crucial shows up at Delhi Comic-Con — As Micron pivots to AI, Crucial's presence likely booked out months in …
Local partners display RAM and SSD inventories as the consumer brand enters its final year.
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code
What the biggest viral videos of 2025 teach us about AI - BBC Bitesize
Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House
The Algorithm Finally Works For You
Whether That’s Good Remains To Be Seen
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata
Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order
Google has removed dozens of Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the U.S., marking the country's first pirate domain removals.
Samsung confirms it isn't ending SATA SSD production
A Samsung Electronics spokesperson has confirmed that reports about the brand ending SATA SSD production are false.