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.
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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
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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.
How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant
Confused about VPNs? Learn how VPNs really work, different VPN Protocols, what they hide, what they don’t, and how to judge VPN providers.
Report: China is said to have a functioning EUV lithography system
An investigation reveals how far China's own chip manufacturing has progressed. The technology of world market leader ASML plays a crucial role.
Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
What is a Passkey? - Computerphile
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Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash
Vince Zampella is the former CEO of video game developers Infinity Ward, the studio behind the wildly successful "Call of Duty" franchise.
Wild New Inflatable Wind Turbine (1.2 MW Output)
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Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
Apple can't force app makers to get consent twice to track user data, Italian regulator says.
After originally being revealed in 2020, Ark 2 has been delayed again until 2028
Developer Studio Wildcard is focusing on a major 2027 expansion for Ark: Survival Ascended first…
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Review - Not the game I was looking for
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There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
: SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters
As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahead of the midterms.
The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to inclu…
TIL that William James Sidis, a child prodigy, was a socialist. I see an analogy to Einstein.
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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want clien…
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: “Any relevant de…
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns - Schneier on Security
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, rep…
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
Google is betting big on CO2 batteries to power its data centers with clean energy.
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan
APAC in Brief: PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!
Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See
Under the TikTok deal, its Chinese owners will sell U.S. operations to a group of pro-Israel billionaires eager to censor critical content.
I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections
Videos on social media show Waymo's autonomous cars stuck in the road following a major power outage.
The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless
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The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic
From Bubsy to MindsEye, these are the worst-reviewed games of the year
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]
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Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return a…
A buyer in Spain says a “new” ADATA XPG memory kit arrived with counterfeit contents.
US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic
The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t nee…
Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims
Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a mo…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards
The debate over generative AI in games continues.
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with …
TIL adults who frequently post on social media are at more risk of developing mental health problems than those who passively view social m…
Adults who frequently post on social media are at more risk of developing mental health problems than those who passively view social media content, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.