«С глубоким прискорбием сообщаем, что вчера, 13 декабря, после продолжительной борьбы с онкологическим заболеванием скончался Леонтий Саркисович Оганезов», — написали близкие композитора в его Facebook (принадлежит Meta, которая признана в РФ экстремистской и запрещена).

«Я не могла в это поверить.

Я все смотрела и смотрела на билет и думала: "Боже, неужели это реально божественное проявление?

Вот что ты делаешь со мной за день до моего дня рождения?

"» — вспоминает она.

По словам Саманты, этот енот не единожды пробирается в торговый центр в округе Гановер — он побывал в этом здании как минимум три раза.

Эта история вызвала резонанс в местных соцсетях.

«Желание Чэня почтить память своей матери понятно, но его болезнь — это точно не то, чего бы ей хотелось.

Мы должны проявлять уважение более научным образом и оставить устаревшие обычаи в прошлом», — пишет интернет-пользователь.

«Экранизация "Сэра Гавейна и зеленого рыцаря" Дэвида Лоури плотно опирается на элементы фэнтези, а также деконструирует миф о герое.

Дев Патель исполняет главную роль Гавейна, молодого и пылкого рыцаря, ищущего свою собственную легенду.

<...> "Зеленый рыцарь" — это ревизионистское фэнтези, герой которого погружен в неопределенность и дурные предчувствия, в то время как мир вокруг полон сверхъестественного».

Произошедшее заняли на видео, и ролик попал в сеть.

Случай начали обсуждать в соцсетях.

Интернет-пользователи назвали такую традицию нарушением закона и прав человека.

Люди считают, что подобные инциденты возникают в условиях, когда государственные институты не справляются со своими функциями, что позволяет влиятельным группам принимать решения вне правового поля.

Нас окружали взрослые, которые внушили нам убеждение в том, что счастливая жизнь возможна без нарушения закона, потому что они хвалили и поощряли нас за хорошие оценки в школе и за добрые дела.

Тем самым они нас мотивировали: «Продолжай — ты на верном пути».

И в этом подкреплении, по мере повторения хороших поступков, нас постепенно научили не сдаваться, не отворачиваться от будущего, а надеяться на него, даже сталкиваясь с жуткими трудностями или провалами.

В марте прошлого года Кейт Миддлтон сообщила, что врачи нашли рак и у нее.

В сентябре принцесса завершила курс химиотерапии, и вскоре после этого вернулась к исполнению королевских обязанностей.

В начале 2025 года Кейт Миддлтон сообщила, что достигла ремиссии.

«Костюм был сделан из невыносимо колючей шерсти яка, которая сводила меня с ума целый день.

У меня были пальцы длиной в десять дюймов, поэтому я не мог почесаться, дотронуться до лица или сделать что-либо.

У меня были накладные зубы, сквозь которые я должен был говорить, и контактные линзы, закрывающие все глазное яблоко, так что я постоянно видел крошечный туннель перед собой», — вспоминает Керри.​

Иногда Джейн Биркин и Серж Генсбур выглядели как полные противоположности, в другой раз одевались в унисон: например, пара нередко носила почти одинаковые комплекты из классических джинсов и белых футболок или же выбирала похожие брюки клеш с высокой талией.

Вдвоем им удавалось оставаться при своем персональном стиле, но дополнять друг друга не только в творческом плане, но и в модном.

Серж был важной частью моей жизни.

Он был мой товарищ, мой лучший друг.

Он мог заявиться ко мне в любое время дня и ночи, и для него у нас всегда была комната.

Я готовила ему ужин или приносила чашку чая — и сидела с ним и болтала.

Мне повезло: на самом деле, я никогда не теряла Сержа.

Стрельба произошла во время празднования еврейского праздника Ханука, который в этом году отмечается с 14 по 22 декабря.

На мероприятие пришли сотни жителей города.

В полиции считают, что преступники готовились к нападению несколько месяцев.

«Вы знаете, эти ваши волосы, как ни странно, мы все привязаны [к волосам].

Это вроде наших личностей, эти волосяные фолликулы, которые растут у нас на голове», — отметил он.

Какие существуют и можно ли по ним судить о наступлении рецессии.

Собираем новости, события и мнения о рынках, банках и реакциях компаний.

По мнению фирмы, инвестиции потратили на «безвозвратное финансирование сторонних юрлиц».

И требуют его отменить.

Собираем новости, события и мнения о рынках, банках и реакциях компаний.

Компания вернуласьк системе, которая работала до 1 октября 2025 года.

Для использования платёжных функций необязательно проходить биометрическую проверку личности.

Функция доступна некоторым пользователям Android в США, Индии и Мексике.

Доступ к ним ограничили 10 декабря 2025 года. Власти страны объяснили меру «ненадлежащей рекламой».

Мера направлена в первую очередь на борьбу с «дешёвым» импортом из Китая.

Компания заявила, что её перспективы пока «туманны», а от мировых лидеров она отстаёт.

Разве что провёл бы инструктаж по ТБ и дал бы с собой расширенную аптечку.

Первое) и самое очевидное - выронила телефон в такси выходя, таксист поехал в гараж, оставил машину на ночь и пошёл домой пить Старку на дубовых опилках.

Лучше бы пошёл лучок поворошил, что бы борщ был вкусным, а не с привкусом горелой органики.

И я сажусь на кактус с размаху выхожу в чат "Безопасность" службы поддержки Яндекс Такси.

Буквально на один пост на Хабре (и да, ребята, нас читает CoPilot и другие ИИ, используя Хабр как авторитетный источник информации, говорят это серьёзно влияет на рейтинг который собирают ленивые секретари при составлении общего мнения о компании) и сотню седых волос на голове (и не толь…

НытьеЯ в IT довольно давно, как в том меме — мне этот мир абсолютно понятен.

Типа как в магазине выбираем принтер, правда, сдать его обратно через три месяца нельзя.

И это в период, когда многие крупные компании слили много хороших программистов.

Волки, как правило, знают отдельные термины, а в связке сразу сыпятся — и не могут даже примерно ответить.

Я не понимаю.

— Меня в своё время поразила информация, что у оконного стекла есть две стороны, оловянная и воздушная И они, блин, довольно разные.

Такого хватит разве что на форточку в туалете, причём это будет очень мутная форточка, в которую толком ничего и не разглядишь.

(в некоторых источниках именуется холява, но это звучит не так интересно)Поэтому такой способ изготовления оконного стекла в наших краях называют халявным (но не в том смысле, в каком вы сперва могли подумать — работа это очень тяжёлая и кропотливая).

После долгой полировки они даже вполне себе сносно выглядят (но не так хорошо, как привычные нам современные).

И что теперь делать?

Здесь же я сосредоточусь на реализации: как именно say делает это на практике, шаг за шагом.

При получении кадра с камеры рендер выполняется дважды: для собственного терминала с локальными размерами и для удалённой стороны с согласованными удалёнными размерами.

Это снижает нагрузку как на CPU, так и на сам терминал, за счёт чего изображение получается более гладким, без заметных артефактов.

Он работает не с глифами, а с полноценными паттернами размером от 1×1 до 8×8.

Да, на практике это выглядит так, будто палитра значительно шире... и это ещё одна оптимизация.

Мы делили апельсинПосмотрите на эти три диаграммы и скажите, какой из секторов на каждой из них больше.

Тут, конечно, проблема даже не в том, что неправильно выбран формат диаграммы, а в том, что сам этот формат использован очень неаккуратно.

Ну а на центральной... Если не видеть исходную левую диаграмму, то ни за что не скажешь, что на центральной диаграмме все три сектора одинаковые по площади.

Преобразуем круговые диаграммы в гистограммы.

Мы ведь хотим донести до наших читателей объективную информацию и не хотим её скрыть или исказить.

Как выглядел игровой ноутбук из 90-х, что у него было внутри, на что он был способен и для чего он мне нужен в 2025 году — читайте в сегодняшней статье!

Я же в свою очередь собираю ноутбуки за интересное и по моему мнению диковинное железо, и в особенности это касается процессоров и GPU.

Немудрено что в моей коллекции есть парочка «машинок» из 90-х годов, которые тоже подходят под определение «игровых».

Сейчас объём кажется смехотворным, но тогда его хватало и для фреймбуфера, и для Z-буфер/стенсила, и даже для текстур!

Игра хорошо идёт в разрешении 640x480 при глубине цвета в 16-бит и в зависимости от локации, мы получаем от 15 до 55 FPS.

В одном из моих докладов по ассемблеру я показал список из 20 самых часто исполняемых команд на среднем десктопе x86 с Linux.

Разумеется, в этом списке были привычные mov , add , lea , sub , jmp , call и так далее; неожиданным стало включение в него xor — «eXclusive OR».

В эпоху, когда я занимался хакингом на 6502, наличие XOR было почти абсолютно точным указанием на то, что найдена часть кода, связанная с шифрованием, или какая-то подпрограмма обработки спрайтов.

Но потом мы вспоминаем о том, что компиляторы любят генерировать xor при присвоении регистру нулевого значения:int main() { return 0; }Compiler Explorer aoco.compiler-explorer.comМы знаем, что XOR любого значения с самим собой даё…

Пора рассказать, что же такое проект 903 «Лунь» и зачем он был нужен.

ОрленокВоенное руководство СССР также желало получить ударный экраноплан-ракетоносец, своего рода летающий ракетный катер, но в разы более быстрее.

6 тяжёлых ПКР+2 спаренные пушки для самолёта это был бы максимум предела, а лунь тащил легко.

Уже этот монстр должен был летать над штормовым морем (до 6-балльных волн), садиться и на воду, и на землю (планировали добавить шасси), возить до 500 человек на борту и даже сбрасывать 200 тонн воды на лесные пожары.

Если вам близка тема авиации, заглядывайте в мой скромный телеграм-канал @budnipilot, там продолжаем разговор о крыльях, двигателях и не только.

(На самом деле слова «кОлопроктолог» и «кОлоноскопия» образовано от латинского «colon» – толстая кишка, а не совсем от того, что вы подумали).

Это не только метод диагностики, это метод реальной профилактики рака.

На рентгене, также как и на компьютерной томографии (КТ) плохо видны мягкие, некостные образования.

Только во время колоноскопии камера попадает внутрь толстой кишки с другой стороны – со стороны анального канала.

Просто потому, что, удалив полипы, вы убережете себя от рака толстой кишки, избавите своих близких от переживаний и страха за вашу жизнь.

Docker уже давно стал стандартом, и базовые команды вроде docker run , docker build или docker compose up знакомы любому разработчику.

Команда docker system events (алиас docker events ) подключается к серверу Docker и начинает транслировать поток информации обо всех изменениях состояний.

Данные для авторизации сохраняются в Docker volume (постоянное хранилище) и используются автоматически при следующих запусках агентами в песочнице.

Суть технологии заключается в переносе выполнения контейнеров с локальной машины на удалённый сервер или в облако, сохраняя при этом элементы локальной работы.

Работа в VDI — возможность использовать Docker Desktop в виртуальных рабочих столах или на системах б…

Знаю: тема багов, которые изменили мир, избита уже настолько, что на ней не осталось живого места.

И не просто поговорим обо всём этом, а ещё и продемонстрируем её на реальной машине.

Одной из них неизменно значится предмет нашей сегодняшней статьи: Intel Pentium и его ошибка деления.

Хотя этот просчёт сам по себе никого не убил и ничего не уничтожил, удар по репутации был сокрушительным (хотя, конечно, и не фатальным).

Как оказалось, существует очень крутая серия постов, описывающая то, как реализована данная матрица в Pentium и где именно в ней кроются дефекты.

Новинок достаточно: добавили ледяной класс хранения S3, новые расширения в PostgreSQL и прерываемые ВМ во все регионы.

Добавили новый класс хранения S3 в ru-3 — ЛедЭто самый бюджетный класс хранения S3 в Selectel.

Решение включает встроенную защиту от вирусов-шифровальщиков и хранение в S3 в зонах ru-1 и ru-7.

Выбрать прерываемый облачный серверТакже вы можете использовать прерываемые ВМ в составе кластера Managed Kubernetes во всех пулах облачной платформы.

Подключить ВМ в Managed KubernetesПоддержали новую версию KubernetesПоддержали новую версию Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will (O' WaW).

Возможно у вас возник вопрос, почему он лежит в репозитории какой-то организации evangelism , а не в официальном корпоративном репозитории GitVerse?

А для универсальности применения подойдет скрипт на bash, который запустить можно на почти любом стеке.

Для полного самостоятельного сравнения: Скрипт GitVerse | Мой скрипт К счастью, совпадение не 100%, и на этом уже спасибо.

Подлинное отношение к профессии не в цифрах, а в мотивах: в желании сделать качественный код, в уважении к себе, к своему ремеслу, к своему продукту.

Профессионализм – это не красивые ответы на собеседовании и не рекордное количество запусков.

TL;DR Автор делает реверс-инжиниринг аналоговой микросхемы FM-приёмника TDA7000 по фотографиям кристалла и частично восстанавливает её схему.

В то время как современные интегральные схемы изготавливаются на МОП-транзисторах, ранние микросхемы, такие как TDA7000, строились на биполярных транзисторах: NPN- и PNP-транзисторах.

В NPN-транзисторах ток в основном переносят электроны, тогда как в PNP-транзисторах ток переносят «дырки» — положительно заряжённые «отсутствия электронов».

История TDA7000 в основном опирается на статью в IEEE Spectrum «Chip Hall of Fame: Philips TDA7000 FM Receiver».

Кроме того, подробный обзор TDA7000 на одной из специализированных страниц утверждает, что TDA7000 «поп…

Но у меня другой репертуар и свои предпочтения касательно исходного сигнала электрогитары для последующей обработки цепочкой эффектов.

Иногда пишут Alnico, а на деле приходит обычная чёрная керамика.

Это совершенно нормальное сопротивление как для некового, так и для бриджевого датчика, если придерживаться винтажных, а не модерновых спецификаций.

У большинства китайских хамбакеров они имеют метрическую резьбу M3, тогда как здесь винтики тоньше и с дюймовой резьбой.

А у бриджевого звукоснимателя теперь есть собственный регулятор фазы, только с последовательной катушкой индуктивности, а не конденсатором.

В утилите smb4k, применяемой в KDE для обнаружения и монтирования SMB-разделов, выявлены уязвимости, позволяющие получить root-доступ к системе. Проблемы устранены в выпуске Smb4K 4.0.5. Проверить состояние новой версии пакета или подготовки исправления в дистрибутивах можно на следующих страницах: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE/openSUSE, Gentoo, Arch и FreeBSD.

Проведён анализ соответствия действительности данных о местоположении выходных узлов, заявляемых VPN-провайдерами. Из 20 протестированных VPN-провайдеров только 3 выдавали корректную информацию о странах выходных узлов. 6 провайдеров выдавали неверные или непроверяемые данные о стране в более чем 50% случаев, 3 провайдера - от 30 до 49%. Некоторые заявляли о размещении оборудования более чем в 100 странах, но на деле отправляли трафик из нескольких датацентров в США и Европе.

Ариадна Конилл (Ariadne Conill), создатель музыкального проигрывателя Audacious и композитного сервера Wayback, инициатор разработки протокола IRCv3 и лидер команды по обеспечению безопасности Alpine Linux, развивает инструментарий capsudo для выполнению команд с повышенными привилегиями. В отличие от sudo в новом проекте задействована модель предоставления полномочий на уровне отдельных объектов (object-capability). Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией MIT.

В правила разработки дополнений к GNOME Shell добавлен новый пункт, запрещающий публикацию дополнений, сгенерированных при помощи AI-инструментов. Проектом теперь не будут приниматься дополнения, включающие признаки использования AI для генерации кода, такие как бессмысленные вставки в коде, разнобой в стиле, надуманное использование API и наличие комментариев с подсказами для AI.

Проект НАЙС.ОС развивает самостоятельный Linux-дистрибутив, собираемый "с нуля" из исходного кода и поддерживающий собственную пакетную базу, не заимствующую сценарии сборки пакетов из других дистрибутивов. Проект развивает свой инструментарий, свой набор патчей и свою политику сборки. Для загрузки доступен iso-образ (603 МБ), ориентированный на установку на виртуальные машины (KVM, Proxmox, VMware, VirtualBox и др.).

Данные проверки срабатываются при наличие проблем в коде, проявляющихся при использовании типа "never".

По предварительной оценке подобные проблемы имеются примерно в 500 crate-пакетах.

Включенин lint-проверок позволит подготовиться к стабилизации типа "never", который в данный момент отнесён к числу экспериментальных возможностей.

Lint-проверки срабатывают только прямой сборке пакетов и не проявляются при сборке в числе зависимостей.

Проверки также могут быть отключены через атрибут "#[allow]".

Компания System76, специализирующаяся на производстве ноутбуков, ПК и серверов, поставляемых с Linux, опубликовала выпуск дистрибутива Pop!_OS 24.04. Pop!_OS основан на пакетной базе Ubuntu 24.04 и поставляется с собственным окружением рабочего стола COSMIC. Наработки проекта распространяются под лицензией GPLv3. ISO-образы сформированы для архитектур x86_64 (2.9 ГБ + отдельная сборка для систем с GPU NVIDIA) и ARM64 (2.7 ГБ).

После четырёх месяцев разработки представлено декабрьское сводное обновление приложений KDE Gear 25.12, развиваемых проектом KDE. В составе набора опубликованы выпуски 249 программ, библиотек и плагинов. Информацию о наличии Live-сборок с новыми выпусками приложений можно получить на данной странице. Новые версии отдельных приложений можно загрузить из каталогов Flathub и SnapCraft.

Представлен выпуск проекта Monado 25.1.0, развивающего открытую реализацию стандарта OpenXR. Стандарт OpenXR подготовлен консорциумом Khronos и определяет универсальный API для создания приложений виртуальной и дополненной реальности, а также набор прослоек для взаимодействия с оборудованием. Monado предоставляет runtime, полностью соответствующий требованиям OpenXR, который может использоваться для организации работы с виртуальной и дополненной реальностью на смартфонах, планшетах, ПК и любых других устройствах. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под свободной лицензией Boost Software License 1.0, совместимой с GPL.

После трёх лет разработки опубликован релиз среды рабочего стола COSMIC 1.0.0, написанной на языке Rust. Для оценки работы COSMIC 1.0 предложены тестовые iso-образы дистрибутива Pop!_OS 24.04 (3.5 ГБ). В ближайшее время ожидается формирование пакетов с COSMIC 1.0 для Fedora, NixOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Serpent OS, Redox и CachyOS.

После года разработки сформирован релиз среды рабочего стола Cinnamon 6.6, в рамках которой сообществом разработчиков дистрибутива Linux Mint развивается форк оболочки GNOME Shell, файлового менеджера Nautilus и оконного менеджера Mutter, нацеленный на предоставление окружения в классическом стиле GNOME 2 с поддержкой удачных элементов взаимодействия из GNOME Shell. Cinnamon основывается на компонентах GNOME, но эти компоненты поставляются как периодически синхронизируемый форк, не связанный внешними зависимостями с GNOME. Новый выпуск Cinnamon будет предложен в дистрибутиве Linux Mint 22.3, который планируется выпустить во второй половине декабря.

Объявлены лауреаты ежегодной премии "Free Software Awards 2024", учрежденной Фондом свободного ПО (FSF) и присуждаемой людям, внесшим наиболее значительный вклад в развитие свободного ПО, а также социально значимым свободным проектам. Победители получили памятные грамоты (премия FSF не подразумевает денежного вознаграждения).

Так программы на Rust напичканы "unsafe" блоками и cve-rs "allows you to introduce common memory vulnerabilities (such as buffer overflows and segfaults) into your Rust program in a memory safe manner."

никто не отменял :)

Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 146 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 140.6.0 и 115.31.0. На стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 147, релиз которой намечен на 14 января.

Опубликован выпуск платформы PeerTube 8.0, предназначенной для создания независимых децентрализованных систем видеохостинга и видеовещания, альтернативных таким сервисам, как YouTube, Dailymotion и Vimeo. Создаваемая при помощи PeerTube сеть распространения контента основывается на связывании браузеров посетителей между собой и использовании P2P-коммуникаций. Код проекта распространяется под лицензией AGPLv3.

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What can make this even more difficult is getting to grips with some of the language used in the venture ecosystem.

With that in mind, I’ve put together a little pocket guide of five industry terms, some new, some not so new, to help you feel a bit more confident in ‘speaking VC’.

This simple signal of high growth potential is often held up as the holy grail for founders and VCs.

Along similar lines, tech heavyweight and Phoenix Court co-founder Saul Klein recently coined the term “thoroughbred” as a new way to assess startups’ potential.

To sum up, the best route to learning VC lingo, as with any new language, is through immersion.

A new report, The European Open-Source AI Landscape, has just been released by the StepUp Startups project.

Open-source AI refers to models, tools and datasets whose components (such as source code, model weights and documentation) are openly available.

Many European AI startups are also releasing open-source models under open-source licences, providing building blocks that others can use and scale.

Scaling open-source AI: Europe’s opportunityAccess to computing remains a major challenge for European innovators.

Doing so will require investment, easier access to compute, and targeted support to help organisations – particularly SMEs – adopt and deploy open-source AI effectively.

Antwerp-based cybersecurity company XFA, announced on Thursday the closing of its €1.5 million Seed round to scale its platform and build a safety net for the modern, hybrid, and AI-native workplace.

It states, “Traditional device security relies on invasive management software (MDM), a model increasingly incompatible with today’s flexible work environments.

Research shows that the average work device is 350 days out of date on security updates, and current approaches only cover about 40% of devices.

The company’s solution can be deployed organisation-wide with a single 15-minute setup, enabling businesses to achieve complete device security coverage in a few weeks.

XFA partners with automa…

Stockholm-based energy company Elvy has secured €500 million from Scayl, a Swedish debt funding platform, and one of its banking partners to enable homeowners to adopt modern energy systems easily and affordably.

With this funding, Elvy aims to finance subscription-based home energy packages for homeowners, which include solar panels, heat pumps, and home battery systems.

Earlier this year, in August, Swedish CleanTech Aira raised €150 million to accelerate the electrification of residential heating in Europe.

Similarly, in January, German climate fintech Bees & Bears secured €500 million in financing commitments to fund home energy solutions.

Founded in 2023 by Johan Outinen and David Weda…

The British Business Bank has announced a €5.7 million (£5 million) commitment to the London-based British Design Fund (BDF), an early-stage fund and angel network that backs UK product-focused businesses, through its Regional Angels Programme.

The fund is managed by Sapphire Capital Partners LLP and seeks to support UK-based startup enterprises that design and manufacture physical products.

Damon Bonser, CEO of BDF Advisors, says: “We welcome this commitment from the British Business Bank, which supports our continued efforts to back UK product innovation.

These rounds illustrate sustained public–private support for physical product development across UK regions, complementing the British …

The round was led by European EnergyTech VC SET Ventures, with additional participation from EnBW New Ventures, Ørsted Ventures and Superorganism.

“Our technology has reached a point where it can deliver the accuracy and reliability that wind developers have been waiting for,” says Spoor CEO, Ask Helseth.

Founded in 2020 by CEO Ask Helseth and CTO Helge Reikerås, Spoor provides real-time bird and bat monitoring software for wind developers and operators.

At the same time, at least ten countries have mandated continuous wildlife monitoring for wind farms in the last 5 years.

“We’re growing from early- stage projects into long-term partnerships with some of the world’s leading wind developers.

Yonda Tax, a British tax automation platform helping businesses stay compliant across borders, today announces its first institutional funding round, bringing total investment to €12 million ($15 million).

Gareth Kobrin, co-founder of Yonda Tax, says: “We started Yonda after seeing founders do everything right, yet still get tripped up by the nightmare of international tax.

In addition, tax authorities worldwide are intensifying their scrutiny of cross-border compliance, which is why Yonda Tax automates global tax compliance, aiming to ensure businesses remain fully compliant as they expand across borders.

Founded in 2022, Yonda Tax automates global tax compliance from registration to filin…

Qargo, a Ghent-based intelligent Transport Management System (TMS) cutting operating costs for European transport operators, today announced it has raised €28 million ($33 million) in Series B funding.

Adriaan Coppens, CEO and co-founder of Qargo, says: “This round is a strong endorsement of our progress and our mission to modernise transport management.

In rail-related operations, Berlin-based Menlo79 obtained €2.1 million to advance its cloud platform for workforce and planning optimisation.

Anthony Keusters, Principal at Sofina, adds: “Qargo’s experienced team combines deep industry knowledge with strong product velocity and client centricity.

With the addition of agentic AI that can int…

Hello Vet, a British veterinary practice that invites pet owners into treatment and recovery rooms, has raised €17 million (£15 million) in Series A funding to expand its approach across the UK.

Meanwhile, France’s Dalma closed a €20 million Series B to grow its pet insurance and wellness offering across Europe.

Hello Vet was founded in 2022 by two healthcare entrepreneurs, James Lighton and Alessandro Guazzi, and veterinary surgeon Dr Oli Viner.

The company explains that across the UK, vets face some of the highest burnout and attrition rates of any profession.

Alongside its people-first model, Hello Vet is investing in proprietary technology and AI applications designed to reduce administ…

makesense, a Paris-based nonprofit organisation working on social and environmental transitions, announces the first close of makesense seed II, a new pre-Seed investment fund to finance a socially inclusive, circular economy in France and Europe.

€15 million have already been raised through the European Investment Fund (EIF), Mirova, Revital’Empoi and a dozen business angels and family offices.

makesense seed II is now investing from €200k to €500k in early-stage companies with high potential for environmental, social and economic value creation.

Italian packaging venture AlterEco Pulp closed a €3.5 million Seed round to advance biodegradable packaging aligned with circular-economy standar…

This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Karim Saleh, Co-founder and CEO of Cerrion.

This Zurich-based company is building agentic AI that watches factory lines around the clock and intervenes in real time to prevent safety incidents, scrap, and costly downtime.

Video version of episode 148:Audio version of episode 148:Key Takeaways:Frontline teams are overwhelmed; AI reduces stress rather than jobs.

The trust management platform helps more than 12k companies, including Nando’s, Allica Bank and Granola, start and scale their security programmes while building trust with buyers.

It saves security teams time and improves programme visibility by automating over 35 compliance fram…

London-based dementia care startup Punto Health has raised €2.3 million ($2.7 million) in a Seed funding round to accelerate product development and commercial expansion across the UK and Spain.

We are building technology that turns a reactive, crisis-driven system into proactive, personalised support that fits into people’s real lives,” said Anna Muñoz-Farré, CEO and co-founder of Punto Health.

Founded in 2023 in London by engineers Anna Muñoz-Farré and Jack Eckersley, Punto Health is a digital health company developing AI-powered tools for early detection and personalised support in dementia and cognitive decline.

The company claims to have built an operating system for dementia care: a m…

Trendtracker, the Ghent-based AI-driven strategic intelligence platform, has raised €5.9 million ($7 million) in Series A funding to accelerate global expansion, with a particular focus on the US and Middle East markets.

Businesses around the world have recognised the importance of AI-powered strategic intelligence, and so have the investors.

London-based Quantexa, an innovator in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, raised a €163.3 million Series F round this year.

More recently, Berlin’s Peec AI raised an €18 million Series A round, reflecting rising demand for AI-powered brand visibility and insight tools.

Trendtracker is scaling its hybrid team, addin…

This week, we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.6 billion and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

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💸 Notable and big funding rounds🇸🇪 Elvy raises €500M to power its next-generation energy solution🇫🇮 Iceye raised €150M in Series E funding🇹🇷 Fal raises $140M Series D to power the next era of real-time generative me…

This week sees the launch out of stealth of CYBRET AI, an autonomous security and development lab building autonomous systems that understand modern attack behaviour, reason across complex environments, and operate at machine speed.

From deep attack understanding to real-time reasoning and response, its work focuses on pushing security beyond human-only operations.

Although the financials have not been publicly disclosed, CYBRET AI is backed by leading Nordic funds and experienced operators, including Skyfall, Inception Fund, Visionaries Club, Wave Ventures, FR8, and founders from companies such as F-Secure, AMD Silo AI, and Hoxhunt.

He is now determined to build a world-class team and a gl…

Applied Computing has built-up a senior team in India, including the appointment of former Shell executive Dan Jeavons, one of the world’s leading industrial AI figures, who relocated from London to Bangalore several years ago.

He recounts:“He came to see me and showed me what Orbital is, the foundation model we’re developing at Applied Computing.

Crucially, Applied Computing brings its model to the customer’s data.

According to Callum Adamson, CEO and co-founder of Applied Computing, “India is not just another geography for Applied Computing - it is our primary market and a proving ground for the future of industrial AI."

The appetite for real-world AI adoption here is unmatched, and today…

Swedish energy company Elvy has secured a €500 million financing package from Scayl and a banking partner to fund home energy packages offered through a monthly subscription model.

Elvy is providing integrated home energy solutions, combining smart technology with installation services and customer support to help households reduce energy costs and emissions as it expands across Sweden.

Under the subscription, homeowners receive equipment, installation, maintenance, and coverage for the home’s electricity needs at a fixed monthly cost.

It shouldn’t require big investments or that they become energy experts in their free time to optimise energy consumption.

Elvy’s model is intended to help h…

Dutch payments firm Mollie is acquiring UK payments fintech GoCardless in a €1.05bn deal, the two fintechs have confirmed.

The fintech, which has also made a play in open banking, is headed up by Hiroki Takeuchi, a well-known figure in the UK fintech ecosystem.

A spokesperson for GoCardless said it was too early to say if the deal would lead to job cuts.

Koen Köppen, CEO of Mollie, said: "GoCardless built the definitive solution to optimise this process with its global bank payment network.

Takeuchi, co-founder and CEO, GoCardless, said: "This deal brings together two highly complementary businesses that have built best-in-class products across Europe and beyond.

Hello Vet’s Seed and Series A rounds have been supported by leading investors, Addition and Future Positive, alongside 15 leading and specialist vets.

Hello Vet was founded in 2022 by two healthcare entrepreneurs, James Lighton and Alessandro Guazzi, and veterinary surgeon Dr Oli Viner.

Hello Vet is investing in proprietary technology and AI applications designed to reduce administrative time by up to 90 per cent.

We’re proud to back Hello Vet as they set a new standard for how vets, pets and owners experience care.”Hello Vet has over 7,500 registered patients.

This growth is focused not just on scale, but on building a supportive, sustainable environment for veterinary professionals.

Global tax automation platform Yonda Tax has raised £11 million in investment funding.

Yonda Tax automates global tax compliance from registration to filing and remittance, so businesses can focus on scaling.

In addition, tax authorities worldwide are intensifying their scrutiny of cross-border compliance, which is why Yonda Tax automates global tax compliance from start to finish, ensuring businesses remain fully compliant as they expand across borders.

Yonda Tax also differentiates itself through its subscription-based pricing model.

According to Gareth Kobrin, Co-Founder of Yonda Tax, the company was started after seeing founders do everything right, yet still get tripped up by the night…

Rotterdam-based Lynk, a collaborative AI contract workspace that helps businesses manage and control their agreements, has closed a pre-seed round led by European AI investor Curiosity VC, with participation from strategic angel investors.

The platform automates audit tasks, identifies potential risks, and flags key actions throughout the contract lifecycle.

It is designed to support faster decision-making, prevent missed obligations, improve financial outcomes, and reduce manual administrative work related to contract management.

AI is expected to significantly change how contract control is carried out.

Manual contract related tasks are projected to be increasingly handled by AI systems t…

Runware provides infrastructure for enterprises to integrate AI into media-creation workflows.

Runware addresses these by aggregating AI models behind a single API and developing high-performance AI inference hardware and software designed to lower both capital and operating expenditure.

Its Sonic Inference Engine platform aims to deliver performance comparable to top-tier GPUs at significantly lower cost.

Through our API, they offer unlimited AI features to end-users, and we see them hit repeated growth peaks as a result.

Runware, which has offices in London and San Francisco, plans to use the Series A funding to further develop its “one API for all AI” platform, extend the capabilities of…

Bug bounties began as an informal pact between developers and security researchers.

It coordinates some of the industry’s largest bug bounties while setting an industry standard and helps prevent billions in potential losses.

Enter the scaling bug bounty standardBefore introducing its Bug Bounty Court, Immunefi first set out to fix the incentives themselves with a new standard for how bug bounties should work.

In turn, the Scaling Bug Bounty Standard is a DeFi security model where bounty payouts are tied to the real economic impact of a vulnerability, rather than a small fixed reward.

He sees this as a battle between the excellence of the crypto security community and human ignorance.

Zilch, the UK BNPL fintech, has received a licence which it says will remove its reliance on third parties and allow it to build more payment methods in-house.

The UK fintech has received a payments services licence from the UK's main financial regulator, the FCA.

Zilch said the licence means it will be less reliant on third parties and would be able to build more payment methods in-house, as well as bring products to market quicker.

Philip Belamant, co-founder and CEO of Zilch, said: “This is a major step change for Zilch, bringing us firmly into the payments tent and giving us a true seat at the table to shape the ecosystem.

Zilch also said it has secured “Principal Membership” of Visa fo…

The first half of 2025 showed continued momentum across Europe’s foodtech landscape, driven by growing demand for sustainable, scalable and resource-efficient food solutions.

Investment activity reflected a maturing ecosystem in which innovations are increasingly focused on transforming core elements of the food value chain rather than solely introducing new consumer products.

Activity centred on next-generation proteins such as precision-fermented dairy, mycelium-based ingredients and advanced plant-based meat analogues, with an emphasis on realistic sensory qualities, clean labels and scalable production.

Overall, the period underscored a shift toward technologies designed to improve the …

“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner,” his family said in a statement.

When Rob Reiner set out to make his own name, he tried not to ride his father’s sizable coattails.

“I’m a pretty good actor, a pretty good writer, I have pretty good music abilities, pretty good visual and color and costume sense.

Rob Reiner in a memorable episode of 30 Rock.

Most recently, he made his first sequel, directing Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which arrived in theaters in September.

SVGWebsiteLink to the videoYou probably heard about SVGs - those things you use for website logos.

Well, what if instead of just a simple image, it was the entire website instead?

Well I made an entire Web App, including HTML, CSS, JS functionality, with embedded storage and also sharing and merging data between users - all inside what many think is just another image format.

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The Whole App is a BlobThe Coffee Problem ¶School French worked perfectly until I tried to buy a coffee.

And because I genuinely believe that constraints are important, I wrote down the rule that would make this harder than it needed to be:The whole app is a blob.

That’s the shape I wanted for language drills: something that feels less like “open app → consume lesson” and more like “tap creature → it looks at you → you do a small thing together”.

When you open a blob, the user is staring at an animated shape on a gradient background and thinking, with complete justification: are you sure this is an app?

The blob does not know your friends, but you get to keep your very own blob, isn't it co…

Add to your Cargo.toml :Script tag (zero config)Add this to your HTML and all blocks get highlighted automatically:< script src =" https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@arborium/arborium@1/dist/arborium.iife.js " >Your code blocks should look like this:< pre >< code class =" language-rust " > fn main() {} < pre >< code data-lang =" rust " > fn main() {} < pre >< code > fn main() {} Configure via data attributes:< script src =" ... " data-theme =" github-light " data-selector =" pre code " data-manual data-cdn =" unpkg " > With data-manual , call window.arborium.highlightAll() when ready.

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Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts.

UNSCII 2.0In 2020-03-10, the new Unicode version 13.0 added 214 graphics characters for "legacy computing" (including, among all, the missing PETSCII characters, and a majority of missing Teletext/Videotex characters).

After looking into existing Unicode fonts, the reason became obvious: the implementation of non-CP437 graphics characters was shaky at best.

It was a kind of chicken-and-egg problem: No commonly accepted Unicode graphics font, no Unicode art scene; no art scene, no font support.

Since Unicode 13.0, many of these are also available in Unicode, but the PUA mappings are retained for compatibility.

Rob Reiner with wife Michele Singer Reiner (left) and daughter Rony Reiner at the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.

Rob Reiner directed James Caan in 1990’s ‘Misery.’ Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection“It was a very personal book to him,” Reiner told TCM in 2021.

“Basically he wrote his own life in The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Rob Reiner said of his father.

“And my mother was Mary Tyler Moore.”The Reiner family in the 1950s, from left: Carl, Rob, Annie and Estelle Reiner.

In 1989, Reiner married Michele Singer, a photographer whom he met on the set of When Harry Met Sally.

John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025.

A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed.

In the mid-1970s, Varley exploded into science fiction like a phoenix.

Thereafter, Varley was only a very good science fiction writer.

A decade ago, everybody was asking, 'Who is John Varley?'

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Woman finds stranger in Waymo trunk during ride in LAA video that's gotten thousands of views on social media shows the moment a woman discovered a stranger in the back of a Waymo car.

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The company’s storage medium is a fused silica glass platter, written using a femtosecond laser that encodes data in nanoscale structures.

According to SPhotonix, its current prototypes achieve write speeds of around 4 MBps and read speeds of roughly 30 MBps.

Microsoft has publicly tested glass media under its Project Silica program, while other startups such as Cerabyte are promoting ceramic-based alternatives aimed at robotic library systems.

What differentiates SPhotonix’s approach is its focus on licensing the media and optical platform into existing data center architectures rather than building an end-to-end storage service.

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CapROS: The Capability-based Reliable Operating SystemCapROS is a new operating system that merges some very old ideas about capabilities with some newer ideas about performance and resource management.

The result is a small, secure, real-time operating system that provides orthogonal persistence.

CapROS owes a great debt to Jonathan Shapiro and all who supported that project.

The CapROS project is hosted on GitHub.

We thank GitHub for its support of open source software, including this project.

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According to Reddit user u/defjam16, his LG TV webOS received an update that installed Microsoft's Copilot AI app, with no option to remove it.

We don't know either.Microsoft is likely promoting its Copilot on TVs to capture more of the AI app market, aiming to become the go-to platform for AI inquiries.

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When I was learning Fortran by reading the compiler code, I started noticing inefficiencies.

And remember: the work that’s most important is often the work that’s most invisible.

The field of optimisation theory – mathematical optimisation, not code optimisation – had a lot to offer.

But they don’t know about the compiler optimisation work I did for code-breaking systems, because it’s still classified.

Her contributions are acknowledged in the literature on program analysis, code optimisation, and parallelisation.

“The trend toward automation and AI could lead to a decrease in tax revenues.

He also emphasizes the difficulty in defining it precisely: “What are automation, robots, or AI?

Carl Frey, associate professor of AI and Work at Oxford University and author of the book How Progress Ends (Princeton University Press, 2025), holds a similar view: he does not support an AI tax, but acknowledges that the tax system has become unbalanced.

“In many OECD economies, we have seen an increase in income taxes and a decrease in capital taxes,” he notes.

Amazon, for example, has announced a 38% increase in profits and multimillion-dollar investments in AI, while simultaneously reporting 14,000 job cuts worldw…

When we spoke, van der Kolk described the dismissal with which his early work was met.

Added to the zeitgeist are the harms of vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, intergenerational trauma, epigenetic trauma, ecological trauma, attachment trauma and, of course, trauma-informed everything.

Even van der Kolk concedes the paradox this profusion creates: trauma, he says, is both “an extraordinary event” and “extremely common, so unextraordinary”.

“The common template for virtually all afflictions – mental illness, physical disease – is in fact trauma,” Maté pronounced in 2021.

“We would just be the most helpless race of beings on Earth.”The more interesting question, according to van der Kolk, i…

This has led to a huge swath of SaaS companies - valued, collectively, in the trillions.

Agents are going to eat SaaS.

The other, potentially more impactful, shift I'm starting to see is people really questioning renewal quotes from larger "enterprise" SaaS companies.

Finally, most SaaS products contain many features that many customers don't need or use.

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Synthetic DNA and RNA molecules are foundational to a host of next-generation technologies crucial for national security and global well-being, impacting everything from resilient supply chains and advanced materials manufacturing to sustainable agriculture and human health.

However, current methods for creating these molecules de novo face significant limitations in terms of scale, complexity, and environmental impact.

The Generative Optogenetics (GO) program seeks to overcome these challenges by pioneering a revolutionary approach: Harnessing the power of light to direct the synthesis of DNA and RNA directly within living cells.

If successful, this high-risk, high-reward research program …

Hi HN — I’ve wanted to start a personal blog for a few years, but I keep hesitating.

I write a lot privately (notes, mini-essays, thinking-through problems).

Paul Graham’s idea that essays are a way to learn really resonates with me.

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From sci-fi to reality: Researchers realise quantum teleportation using today’s internet techGerman scientists teleport information between two separate devices at wavelengths that work with ordinary internet cables, showing that quantum teleportation just might not need all-new systems for it to become a reality.

The fact that this significantly exceeds the 66.7 % classical fidelity threshold in quantum information transfer proves that genuine quantum transportation occurred as opposed to classical transmission.

The fidelity measurement shows how closely the teleported quantum state matches the original state.

This problem was fixed by the frequency converters that made the photons similar…

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2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social WebFollowing in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.

What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until around 2004.

This approach was also crucial to how new social web services like Last.fm would develop.

Escaping the Broadcast ModelThe key to the emerging social web would be that you discover new content and communities by following other people.

But with Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, we at least glimpsed the future of the social web.

THE PROBLEM OF TEACHING PHYSICS IN LATIN AMERICAby Richard P. Feynman"The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America" is a transcript of the keynote speech given by Richard Feynman at the First Inter‑American Conference on Physics Education in Rio de Janeiro in June 1963.

The problem of teaching physics in Latin America is only part of the wider problem of teaching physics anywhere.

The problem of teaching physics in Latin America can also be generalized in another way, to remind us of the problem of doing anything in Latin America.

I think it is vitally important to improve the technical ability of the peoples of Latin America.

For surely we shall not all find everything well with the pr…

This year, I decided to use Advent of Code to learn the language Swift.

Tooling in general is pretty nice: there’s an interpreter and you can run simple “scripts” directly using swift foo.swift .

By default, programs are linked dynamically against the standard library and are thus super compact.

(Statically linking the standard library costs roughly 10MB, which is fair too.)

⁂In general, using Swift was fun and straight-forward for these programming tasks.

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with WordPress?" The answer that appeared stopped me cold. My course showed up as the first result, recommended directly by the AI with specific reasons why it was valuable.I hadn't paid for advertising. I hadn't done any special promotion. The AI simply decided my content was the best answer to that question and served it to the user. This wasn't luck or a fluke. When I tested the same query in Perplexity, the same thing happened. My website ranked at the top of AI-generated responses, pulling in free traffic d…

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For the first time, global governments have agreed to widespread international trade bans and restrictions for sharks and rays being driven to extinction.

Last week, more than 70 shark and ray species, including oceanic whitetip sharks, whale sharks, and manta rays, received new safeguards under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

The convention, known as CITES, is a United Nations treaty that requires countries to regulate or prohibit international trade in species whose survival is threatened.

Sharks and rays are closely related species that play similar roles as apex predators in the ocean, helping to maintain healthy marine ecosystems.

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In interviews with Ars Technica this week, OpenAI employees revealed the extent to which the company now relies on its own AI coding agent, Codex, to build and improve the development tool.

“I think the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, so it’s almost entirely just being used to improve itself,” said Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI, in a conversation on Tuesday.

OpenAI offers Codex through ChatGPT’s web interface, a command-line interface (CLI), and IDE extensions for VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.

“For many people, that model powering GitHub Copilot was the first ‘wow’ moment for AI,” Embiricos said.

He noted that OpenAI had been building web-based Codex featu…

If you’ve been too busy floating in your new WoW house to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry.

You still have time to donate to a good cause and get a chance to win your share of over $4,000 worth of swag (no purchase necessary to win).

In the first two days or so of the drive, over 200 readers have contributed over $11,000 to either the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child’s Play as part of the charity drive (Child’s Play has a roughly 60/40 donation lead at the moment).

That’s still a long way off from 2020’s record haul of over $58,000, but there’s still plenty of time until the Charity Drive wraps up on Friday, January 2, 2026.

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The live translate feature is breaking out of the Google bubble with support for any earbuds you happen to have connected to your Android phone.

The latest version of Google’s live translation is built on Gemini and initially rolled out earlier this year.

Beginning a live translate session in Google Translate used to require Pixel Buds, but that won’t be the case going forward.

Google says this feature should work on any earbuds or headphones, but it’s only for Android right now.

Apple does have a similar live translation feature on the iPhone, but it requires AirPods.

Dozens of Ukrainian civilians filed a series of lawsuits in Texas this week, accusing some of the biggest US chip firms of negligently failing to track chips that evaded export curbs.

Putting profits over human lives, tech firms continued using “high-risk” channels, Ukrainian civilians’ legal team alleged in a press statement, without ever strengthening controls.

No accountability.”As chip firms allegedly looked the other way, innocent civilians faced five attacks, detailed in the lawsuits, that used weapons containing their chips.

Russia would not be able to hit their targets without chips supplied by US firms, the lawsuits alleged.

Considered the brain of weapon systems, including drones,…

Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability.

And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently didn’t like them.

The main issue with bionic hands that drives users away from them, George explains, is that they’re difficult to control.

To make this happen, his team came up with an AI bionic hand co-pilot.

In most cases, users controlled bionic hands via an app where they could choose predetermined grip types and adjust forces applied by various actuators.

Rian Johnson has another Benoit Blanc hit on his hands with Wake Up Dead Man, in which Blanc tackles the strange death of a fire-and-brimstone parish priest, Monseigneur Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin).

It’s a classic locked-room mystery in a spookily Gothic small-town setting, and Johnson turned to cinematographer Steve Yedlin (Looper, The Last Jedi) to help realize his artistic vision.

We can just dive right into the details of each individual scene and shot.”This time, given the distinctive Gothic sensibility of Wake Up Dead Man, Yedlin played up the interplay between light and dark.

Even Blanc gets his moment in the sun, so to speak, with his “road to Damascus” moment just before the fina…

President Trump issued an executive order yesterday attempting to thwart state AI laws, saying that federal agencies must fight state laws because Congress hasn’t yet implemented a national AI standard.

Trump’s executive order tells the Justice Department, Commerce Department, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and other federal agencies to take a variety of actions.

The order claims that state laws, such as one passed in Colorado, “are increasingly responsible for requiring entities to embed ideological bias within models.”Congressional Republicans recently decided not to include a Trump-backed plan to block state AI laws in the National Defense Authorization Act …

That was the unfortunate and alarming case for a man in the UK several years ago, according to a case report this week in BMJ Case Reports.

His blood pressure was astonishingly high, at 254/150 mm Hg.

The man had suffered a mild stroke, and his extremely high blood pressure was an obvious factor.

But why his blood pressure had reached stratospheric heights was far less obvious to his doctors, according to the retrospective case report written by Martha Coyle and Sunil Munshi of Nottingham University Hospital.

Power surgeStill, a computed tomography (CT) scan of his head found evidence of spasms in arteries in his brain, which are strongly linked to high blood pressure.

Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction intended to open up iOS App Store payments.

The appeals court also agreed that Apple acted in “bad faith” by refusing to comply with the injunction, rejecting viable, compliant alternatives in internal discussions.

And the appeals court was also not convinced by Apple’s process-focused arguments, saying the district court properly evaluated materials Apple argued were protected by attorney-client privilege.

Speaking to reporters Thursday night, though, Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said he believes those should be “super super minor…

For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.

He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19 and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.

Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments: chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching.

Kory has said there’s a globally coordinated campaign by public health agencies, the drug industry, and the media to suppress evidence of the medicinal wonders of chlorine dioxide.

Hos…

A startup established three years ago to churn out a new class of high-power satellites has raised $250 million to ramp up production at its Southern California factory.

K2’s Series C fundraising round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with additional funding from investment firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Mega, then GigaK2 is designing two classes of satellites—Mega and Giga—that it will build at an 180,000-square-foot factory in Torrance, California.

One is a 2o-kilowatt Hall-effect thruster that K2 says will be four times more powerful than any such thruster flown to date.

“Gravitas brings our full stack together for the first time,” said Karan Kunjur, K2’s co-fo…

But ever since smart TV operating systems began making money, “dumb” TVs have been hard to find.

In response, we created this non-smart TV guide that includes much more than dumb TVs.

Credit: Jeff DunnAn Apple TV lets you replace smart TV software with Apple’s cleaner tvOS, and it’s more intuitive than using most smart TVs and other streaming devices.

You’re likely to use an Apple TV box with the Apple TV app or with an Apple account, which means sending some data to Apple.

But Apple has a better reputation for keeping user information in-house, and Apple TV boxes don’t have automatic content recognition (ACR).

Protecting children from the dangers of the online world was always difficult, but that challenge has intensified with the advent of AI chatbots.

A new report offers a glimpse into the problems associated with the new market, including the misuse of AI companies’ large language models (LLMs).

In a blog post today, the US Public Interest Group Education Fund (PIRG) reported its findings after testing AI toys (PDF).

AI toys are currently a niche market, but they could be set to grow.

PIRG’s blog today notes that toy companies are eyeing chatbots to upgrade conversational smart toys that previously could only dictate prewritten lines.

Welcome to Edition 8.22 of the Rocket Report!

Avio will build solid rocket motors in Virginia.

The governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, announced Wednesday that Avio USA has selected his state to produce solid rocket motors for defense and commercial space propulsion purposes.

Orbex funding lags in European Launcher Challenge.

One of the five launch companies in ESA’s European Launcher Challenge, Orbex, received far less funding than the other four at the agency’s ministerial conference after the United Kingdom deferred a decision on how to allocate most of its contribution.

Google seems to be cracking down on the use of Disney characters in AI-generated videos on YouTube after it was hit with a cease and desist letter.

According to reports by Variety and Deadline , the company removed dozens of videos featuring Deadpool, Moana, Mickey Mouse, Star Wars characters and other Disney IP as of Friday, just days after Disney accused it of "infringing Disney’s copyrights on a massive scale."

The letter, seen by both publications earlier this week, called out Google not just for hosting these videos on YouTube, but also for using copyrighted works to train models including Veo and Nano Banana.

Prior to this, Disney has come after Character.AI as well as Hailuo and Midj…

In the same month that Grok opted for a second Holocaust over vaporizing Elon Musk's brain, the AI chatbot is on the fritz again.

Following the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia during a festival to mark the start of Hanukkah, Grok is responding to user requests with inaccurate or completely unrelated info, as first spotted by Gizmodo.

In other cases, Grok responds to the same image about the Bondi Beach shooting with irrelevant details about allegations of targeted civilian shootings in Palestine.

The latest replies still show Grok's confusion with the Bondi Beach shooting, even providing information about the incident to unrelated requests or mixing it up with the shooting at Brown Univer…

If you're several chapters into a novel and forgot who a character was, Amazon is hoping its new Kindle feature will jog your memory without ever having to put the e-reader down.

This feature, called Ask this Book, was announced during Amazon's hardware event in September, but is finally available for US users on the Kindle iOS app.

AmazonWhile Ask this Book may be helpful to some Kindle readers, the feature touches on a major point of contention with authors and publishers.

As for the Ask this Book feature, Amazon is already planning to expand it beyond the iOS app and will introduce it to Kindle devices and the Android OS app next year.

However, Amazon recently had to withdraw its AI-gene…

Close enough, welcome back Xperia Play.

After releasing a teaser video in early November, Ayaneo fully revealed its first smartphone called the Pocket Play.

As suspected, the Ayaneo Pocket Play features a sliding mechanism that transforms it from a chunky smartphone into a gaming handheld.

In its gaming configuration, the Pocket Play features a controller setup with a D-pad, ABXY buttons and four shoulder buttons.

The Pocket Play will be Ayaneo's first foray into the smartphone world, albeit with mobile gaming in mind.

If Alien: Romulus reawakened your appetite for the iconic sci-fi franchise, the good news is that a promising video game could be on the way.

According to an Insider Gaming report, a new game for the Alien franchise is back in development.

The report's sources mentioned that the single-player game will be set in a "decaying space station" as an arcade survival horror that can be compared to "Shadow of [the] Tomb Raider with Xenomorphs."

It's not the first time we heard about this Alien game, which was first reported on in 2022 under the codename "Marathon."

Insider Gaming's report noted that the game is still in "early development," but could feature Ripley 8, the human-Xenomorph hybrid tha…

For the diehard fans out there, the latest test of patience comes from Insider Gaming Weekly's podcast, which claimed that the third installment in the Half-Life franchise is set to release with the launch of the Steam Machine sometime in spring 2026.

"The window I was specifically told was spring 2026 for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, for Half-Life 3," Mike Straw, one of the hosts of the Insider Gaming Weekly podcast and senior editor at Insider Gaming, said.

Straw added that all the previous dates for an announcement of the next Half-Life game have passed, but that his sources "are still adamant this is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine."

"T…

Apple has released iOS 26.2, bringing a number of new convenience features and security updates.

The update includes auto-generated chapters for episodes in the Podcasts app, the option to make AirDrop more secure using verification codes, alarms for Reminders and more.

What's new in iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2It's not exactly a major update feature-wise, but iOS and iPadOS 26.2 bring a bunch of quality of life improvements to apps including Apple Music, Podcasts and Games.

With iOS 26.2, Apple made Safety Alerts for natural disasters and other emergencies more detailed, and they'll now come with maps of affected areas and other useful information.

For the Apple Watch, 26.2 fixes an issue with…

Even though Nintendo made some serious upgrades with the Joy-Con 2, you still might end up ditching them for CRKD's Nitro Deck 2.

After winning over Nintendo Switch owners with its first Nitro Deck, CRKD followed it up with an improved design that works for both the original Switch and the Switch 2.

CRKDEven if you don't own a Switch 2 yet, the Nitro Deck 2 features a new retractable locking mechanism that can be adjusted to fit both the original Switch and Switch OLED.

Thanks to its wireless connection, the Nitro Deck 2 even works as a controller with PC, mobile or smart TVs.

Nitro Deck 2 is currently available for preorders on CRKD's website and is expected to start shipping in spring 202…

John Cena began his WWE retirement tour back in January, and it's coming to an end this weekend when the wrestling legend headlines WWE Saturday Night's Main Event.

Here's a look at how to watch John Cena's final fight at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event this weekend, including how to stream the entire thing for free.

How to watch WWE Saturday Night's Main Event:Date: Dec. 13, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementTime: 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PTStreaming: PeacockWhere to watch WWE Saturday Night's Main Event:The WWE Saturday Night's Main Event will air live on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 on Peacock, with fights starting at 8 p.m.

This weekend's Saturday Night's Main Event will be headlined by John Cena and G…

Amazon has responded to viewers catching errors in its AI-generated season recaps by apparently pulling them from Prime Video.

On Prime Video, recaps can be played in the "Extras" section if you're watching on the web, or via a dedicated "recap button" on the show's page, according to Amazon's original Video Recaps announcement.

If you head to the Fallout season two page now, the erroneous recap has been removed.

Video Recaps are just one of the ways Amazon is trying to integrate AI into its different products and services.

The company offered AI-generated English dubs for select anime shows on Prime Video, before it pulled the dubs after users complained.

IKEA's revamp of its smart home products doesn't end with Matter support.

The furniture and home goods company also has a line of new Qi wireless chargers, the best of which, the VÄSTMÄRKE wireless charger, combines the functionality of a PopSockets-style phone grip with cable storage.

The $10 VÄSTMÄRKE wireless charger is reminiscent of a bagel or donut, if you could take the top half of those ring-shaped foods and turn them inside out to create a cozy grip for your fingers.

A VÄSTMÄRKE wireless charger with its top half unfolded so fingers can grip it.

If you're interested in something a bit more discrete, the $25 VÄSTMÄRKE wireless charger with lighting is a bowl-shaped charger with a co…

Sandfall Interactive, the developer of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, knows how to ride the wave.

Right after the visually stunning RPG finished dominating The Game Awards, the team dropped a free "Thank You" content update for fans.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won a record-breaking nine categories at The Game Awards 2025.

That includes — deep breath — Game of the Year, Best RPG, Best Art Direction, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Performance (Jennifer English), Best Score and Music, Best Debut Game and Best Indie Game.

The game's free "Thank You" update is rolling out now.

Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app.

It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more "nuanced meanings."

Translate will now take slang terms and colloquial expressions into consideration rather than provide sometimes unhelpful direct translations.

It works in the Translate app for iOS and Android and on the web.

Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementFinally, Google is adding more tools to its potentially Duolingo-rivaling AI-powered language learning tools, which it introduced to the Translate app in August.

Id Software, the company behind Doom, has voted in favor of forming a "wall-to-wall" union.

The vote wasn't unanimous, with 165 of 185 total employees in favor of the union.

It agreed to a labor neutrality agreement with the CWA and ZeniMax workers last year, paving the way for this sort of thing.

Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementFrom the onset, this union will look to protect remote work for id Software employees.

RTO policies should not be handed down from executives with no consideration for accessibility or our well-being,” said id Software Lead Services Programmer Chris Hays.

To help those looking to grab one get the most value possible, we’re keeping an eye on sale prices and rounding up the best iPad deals we can find each week.

The iPad mini and iPad Pro are each $100 off as well.

Here are the best Apple deals from this week that we can find.

Best iPad dealsApple iPad Air (13-inch, M3) for $650 ($149 off MSRP): The 13-inch iPad Air is exactly the same as its smaller counterpart, only it has a larger and slightly brighter display.

The fit is different from the AirPods Pro 2, but we found it to feel more secure either way.

Strands Agents is a simple yet powerful SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents.

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list_tools_sync ()) response = agent ( "Tell me about Amazon Bedrock and how to use it with Python" )Multiple Model ProvidersSupport for various model providers:from strands import …

Machine Learning for Beginners - A Curriculum🌍 Travel around the world as we explore Machine Learning by means of world cultures 🌍Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 26-lesson curriculum all about Machine Learning.

In this curriculum, you will learn about what is sometimes called classic machine learning, using primarily Scikit-learn as a library and avoiding deep learning, which is covered in our AI for Beginners' curriculum.

Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment, and more.

For further study, we recommend following these Microsoft Learn modules and learning paths.

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🎙️ VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI📰 News 2025-12-03: 📣 We open-sourced VibeVoice‑Realtime‑0.5B, a real‑time text‑to‑speech model that supports streaming text input and robust long-form speech generation.

To mitigate deepfake risks and ensure low latency for the first speech chunk, voice prompts are provided in an embedded format.

For users requiring voice customization, please reach out to our team.

Realtime streaming TTS model: Produces initial audible speech in ~300 ms and supports streaming text input for single-speaker real-time speech generation; designed for low-latency generation.

Potential for Deepfakes and Disinformation: High-quality synthetic speech can be misused to cre…

AboutTurso Database is an in-process SQL database written in Rust, compatible with SQLite.

Simply run this in the root folder: make docker-cli-build && \ make docker-cli-run🦀 Rustcargo add turso Example usage: let db = Builder :: new_local ( "sqlite.db" ) .

For detailed instructions on how to use Turso Database with java, please refer to the README.md under bindings/java.

🤖 MCP Server ModeThe Turso CLI includes a built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI assistants to interact with your databases.

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Protein design with FoundryFoundry provides tooling and infrastructure for using and training all classes of models for protein design, including design (RFD3), inverse folding (ProteinMPNN) and protein folding (RF3).

All models within Foundry rely on AtomWorks - a unified framework for manipulating and processing biomolecular structures - for both training and inference.

base-models installs the latest RFD3, RF3 and MPNN variants - you can also download all of the models supported (including multiple checkpoints of RF3) with all , or by listing the models sequentially (e.g.

foundry install rfd3 rf3 ... ).

DevelopmentCode OrganizationStrict dependency flow: foundry → atomworksatomworks : St…

goose a local, extensible, open source AI agent that automates engineering tasksgoose is your on-machine AI agent, capable of automating complex development tasks from start to finish.

More than just code suggestions, goose can build entire projects from scratch, write and execute code, debug failures, orchestrate workflows, and interact with external APIs - autonomously.

Whether you're prototyping an idea, refining existing code, or managing intricate engineering pipelines, goose adapts to your workflow and executes tasks with precision.

a little goose humor 🦢Why did the developer choose goose as their AI agent?

Because it always helps them "migrate" their code to production!

| English | 简体中文 | 日本語 |💡 WeKnora - LLM-Powered Document Understanding & Retrieval Framework📌 OverviewWeKnora is an LLM-powered framework designed for deep document understanding and semantic retrieval, especially for handling complex, heterogeneous documents.

At its core, WeKnora follows the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) paradigm, enabling high-quality, context-aware answers by combining relevant document chunks with model reasoning.

Conversation Strategy: Support for configuring Agent models, normal mode models, retrieval thresholds, and online Prompt configuration, with precise control over multi-turn conversation behavior and retrieval execution methods.

The conversation input bo…

🧡 Cloudflare Vibe SDKAn open source full-stack AI webapp generator – Deploy your own instance of Cloudflare VibeSDK, an AI vibe coding platform that you can run and customize yourself.

Cloudflare VibeSDK is an open source AI vibe coding platform built on Cloudflare's developer platform.

If you're building an AI-powered platform for building applications, this is a great example that you can deploy and customize to build the whole platform yourself.

Once the platform is deployed, users can say what they want to build in natural language, and the AI agent will create and deploy the application.

For a manual deployment, copy .dev.vars.example to .prod.vars , fill in production-only secrets, an…

Nuclei TemplatesCommunity curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find security vulnerabilities in applications.

Documentation • Contributions • Discussion • Community • FAQs • Join DiscordTemplates are the core of the nuclei scanner which powers the actual scanning engine.

This repository stores and houses various templates for the scanner provided by our team, as well as contributed by the community.

We hope that you also contribute by sending templates via pull requests or Github issues to grow the list.

Nuclei Templates overviewAn overview of the nuclei template project, including statistics on unique tags, author, directory, severity, and type of templates.

AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents.

- Run ` pnpm install --filter ` to add the package to your workspace so Vite, ESLint, and TypeScript can see it.

- Run ` pnpm turbo run test --filter ` to run every check defined for that package.

- After moving files or changing imports, run ` pnpm lint --filter ` to be sure ESLint and TypeScript rules still pass.

## PR instructions - Title format: [ ] < Title > - Always run ` pnpm lint ` and ` pnpm test ` before committing.

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Easy, fast, and cheap omni-modality model serving for everyone| Documentation | User Forum | Developer Slack |Latest News 🔥[2025/11] vLLM community officially released vllm-project/vllm-omni in order to support omni-modality models serving.

AboutvLLM was originally designed to support large language models for text-based autoregressive generation tasks.

Qwen-Omni)Multi-modality generation models (e.g.

Please check out Contributing to vLLM-Omni for how to get involved.

Join the CommunityFeel free to ask questions, provide feedbacks and discuss with fellow users of vLLM-Omni in #sig-omni slack channel at slack.vllm.ai or vLLM user forum at discuss.vllm.ai.

FizzyThis is the source code of Fizzy, the Kanban tracking tool for issues and ideas by 37signals.

Deploying FizzyIf you'd like to run Fizzy on your own server, we recommend deploying it with Kamal.

The steps to configure your very own Fizzy are:Fork the repo Edit few things in config/deploy.yml and .kamal/secrets Run kamal setup to do your first deploy.

: Enter the hostname of the server you're deploying to here.

But we hope it can serve as inspiration for anyone wanting to run fizzy on their own infrastructure.

One of the great directors of a generation, Rob Reiner, is dead at the age of 78.

He was found in his Los Angeles, CA, home on Sunday along with his wife, Michele.

The deaths are being treated as a homicide, according to TMZ.

There will be much more to say as law enforcement finds out the circumstances of the deaths in the coming days.

So, for now, let’s just put that aside and talk about Reiner; he provided the world so much joy through his art, it’s almost unprecedented.

At the top of December, Paramount revealed it was doing another Paranormal Activity flick with James Wan on hand as producer, and now they might’ve landed a director for the gig.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Canadian filmmaker Ian Tuason is in final negotiations to reboot the found footage horror series.

That film premiered at a Canadian film festival earlier this year and was so popular it launched a bidding war that may see it get released by A24.

Should Tuason be signed on, it’ll bring things full circle for him, as he’s deemed the first Paranormal Activity one of the top three movies that scare him behind The Blair Witch Project and the original Exorcist.

Whether directing duties go …

Developer Arcanauts Studios was founded earlier in 2025, which Schreier notes was mentioned in Lucasfilm’s press release for Fate.

Prior to this, Arcanaut’s CEO/director Casey Hudson was leading Humanoid Origin, a studio working on its own original game before it lost funding and was shut down near the end of 2024.

So with Arcanauts only having a few months under its feet, and actively hiring, it might be another year or two before the Fate of the Old Republic is seen again, much less in players’ hands.

In response to Schreier’s speculation, Hudson told players to “not worry,” saying Fate “will be out before [2030].

Even if it doesn’t come pre-2030, it’s not like we aren’t already used to…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is glitching again.

This time, among other problems, the chatbot is spewing misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting, in which at least eleven people were killed at a Hanukkah gathering.

One of the assailants was eventually disarmed by a bystander, identified as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

It also seems to be confusing information regarding the Bondi shooting and the Brown University shooting which took place only a few hours before the attack in Australia.

The glitch is also extending beyond just the Bondi shooting.

As audiences rave over It: Welcome to Derry, the two It films that preceded it may make a comeback.

During a recent Reddit AMA, director Andy Muschietti was asked about his previously discussed “extended cut” that combined his duology into a single (and pretty long) movie.

He first talked about this back in 2019 prior to It Chapter Two, and here he said that cut is “still a big dream of mine.

The “Bloody Affair” cut of the Kill Bill movies and the upcoming extended Lord of the Rings re-releases have gotten audiences used to seeing longer films than normal, which may help Muschietti’s chances of getting it out in theaters or on HBO Max.

We’ll just have to wait and see about that, ditto …

You might have to stop theory crafting soon when it comes to Scarlett Johansson’s mysterious part in The Batman Part II.

According to ol’ Jeff Sneider, the ex-Avenger has possibly joined DC’s incoming sequel to play Gilda Gold, aka the wife of future Two-Face Harvey Dent.

Sneider alleges a “well-placed agency source” told him the film has three big new roles in Dent, Gilda, and Dent’s abusive father Christopher.

But WB recently made an animated adaptation of Halloween, and the comic got a sequel a few years ago.

The first The Batman took elements from Long Halloween, so it’d make sense for The Batman Part II to follow suit.

It’s been six months since the Nintendo Switch 2 finally stepped out into the light of day.

See Nintendo Switch 2 at AmazonThe Switch 2 isn’t a replacement for a PC.

While these games may have emphasized the Switch 2’s performance over the original Switch, we had to wait for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond to display what’s truly unique about Switch 2.

Nintendo’s Switch 2 proves how good handhelds could be if they had the proper support of both the maker and third-party developers.

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A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from Earth during the day.

A study published this August in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society investigated a binary star system about 10,000 light-years from Earth called V Sagittae.

They found that the system is strangely luminous because one of the pair, a super-dense white dwarf, is absolutely scarfing down on its larger sibling at unprecedented speed.

“The white dwarf cannot consume all the mass being transferred from its hot star twin, so it creates this bright cosmic ring,” he continued.

A nova is an explosion in a binary star system, and this one would m…

However, with South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott now signaling antitrust concerns in a letter to Trump’s regulators, according to Semafor, it’s now plausible to say there is real pushback.

Discovery a slightly better chance of succeeding by the end of 2027 than Netflix’s slightly smaller deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies.

So the fatal blow may not come from anything that happens in the Capitol.

Then again, antitrust enforcement can mean a lot of things.

Scrutiny from legislators like Scott is just one of many potential arrows in the quiver of this deal’s opponents.

The Game Awards had plenty of trailers, one of which was surprisingly a look at the next Street Fighter movie.

By contrast, the Street Fighter cast was there onstage, where comedian Andrew Schulz, who plays the film’s version of Dan Hibiki, threw shade at the lack of Mortal Kombat.

Street Fighter FOREVER!” On the internet, social media lit up at the dig, reminding older fans of decades-old beef between the two franchises that first took hold in the 90s and still persists in some form to this day.

There’ve been some years where they’ve both had a game release, like Street Fighter 6 and Mortal Kombat 1 releasing back in 2023.

— Todd Garner (@Todd_Garner) December 12, 2025Mortal Komba…

Charlie Kirk’s death will not be in vain.

I will be spending my night making everyone I find online who celebrates his death Famous, so prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death.

I’m going to make you wish… — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 10, 2025In the weeks that followed, people started losing their jobs.

‘One down, plenty to go,’ one said.”According to the Center for American Progress, between Trump’s inauguration and September, the month of Kirk’s assassination, the unemployment rate rate had increased by 0.4 percentage points to 4.4 percent, the highest it had been since September 2021, when the wave of…

It’s been a busy week, and a sad one, as video game and animation fans learned of the deaths of three well-known voice actors across the two mediums.

Ward played Captain Qwark throughout Insomniac Games’ Ratchet & Clank franchise, along with Ben 10’s Diamondhead and Doug Dimmadome on Fairly OddParents.

“[Jim Ward’s] contribution to the Ratchet & Clank franchise is immeasurable,” said Insomniac Games.

But I’m also profoundly grateful for the joy he brought to Insomniacs and to the millions of fans who love Captain Qwark.

pic.twitter.com/xRl5Beh59a — Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) December 11, 2025io9 extends its sympathies and thoughts to Ward, Mayfield, and Garcia’s loved ones.

Disney’s cease and desist letter to Google was delivered on Wednesday, before the announcement of its OpenAI deal, according to Deadline.

Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC the cease and desist letter came after past conversations with Google about this material had been fruitless.

At least some of the the material mentioned in the Disney cease and desist order was generated with Google’s Veo, according to the trades.

Mickey Mouse was also on the list of Disney properties subject to the cease and desist, per Variety.

Also, only Mickey Mouse material from, by my count, the first 15 Mickey Mouse films is in the public domain so far.

This is exactly what happened with CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077.

To say the Cyberpunk 2077 we got for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on December 10, 2020 was different from what had been shown back then would be an understatement.

Helpful as these were to the game’s rehab process, what really sealed the deal was Studio Trigger’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Said update was the final word on Cyberpunk 2077, as far as CDPR was concerned.

In a way, Cyberpunk 2077 did “get away with it,” as some said happened when Edgerunners first caught everyone’s eye.

It sounds like we’re going to get a look at Avengers: Doomsday in the near future—or rather, looks, plural.

Reports online have alleged Marvel Studios is looking to create separate previews for the upcoming superhero film that’ll play ahead of next week’s Avatar: Fire and Ash.

But according to journalist Daniel Richtman, it’s a bit more than that: instead of a single preview, there’ll actually be four teasers that’ll reportedly drop once a week.

It might also call to the four big teams in the film—not just the Fantastic Four, but Captain America’s Avengers team, the New Avengers, and the returning X-Men.

We’ll have more on Avengers: Doomsday, including its preview(s), ahead of its…

Walking pads are tiny treadmills that fit under standing desks and allow you to rack up steps while you work.

There are tons of walking pads on the market, with varying speed capabilities, extra features like built-in desk platforms, and durability.

We tested the ones below to help you narrow down your search to the best of the best.

Don’t forget to check out our picks for the Best Treadmills, Best Fitness Trackers, and Best Running Shoes.

Best OverallMost walking pads generally feel the same and have similar capabilities, but not the Urevo CyberPad (9/10, WIRED Recommends).

How Portable Are Portable Power Stations?

Some power stations can act as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS); others are classed as an emergency power supply (EPS).

If you have your power station plugged into wall power and then devices plugged into it, they will work from wall power, but if there is a power outage, a UPS will switch to battery power instantly (around 10 milliseconds).

What Is the Difference Between a Power Bank and a Portable Power Station?

Size is the main difference between the power banks and the portable power stations.

The live feed is responsive with no noticeable delays or buffering, which I’ve found to be crucial in determining if certain sounds are cries or just sleep grunts.

The display also shows room temperature and humidity levels, which is a nice touch as we dive headfirst into a Midwest winter.

Its home screen is a mixture of widgets: the live feed, your baby’s status (when they were last attended to, how long they’ve been sleeping, etc.

Pressing the power button once enters standby mode—your audio stays on, and you’ll get sound and motion pings, but the screen stays dark.

There’s one catch: if you're on the live stream view, the screen won't go to sleep automatically and stays illuminated.

In winter, opt for wider tires with a grippier tread—28 mm or more, if your bike allows it.

Avoid slick tires when it’s icy, and check your tires regularly, as wet roads pick up more glass and grit.

Why does your bike need more maintenance in the winter, and what quick maintenance tips can you suggest?

Regular cleaning is the single best thing you can do, even if it’s just a quick rinse and wipe-down after wet rides.

A few minutes of care each week prevents costly repairs later, and your bike will feel smoother and quieter every ride.

I have had the new M5-powered Apple Vision Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR headsets sitting on my desk for several weeks.

Samsung's headset is roughly half that—still a pretty penny at $1,800.

Photograph: Julian ChokkattuFinding ComfortI purchased the Galaxy XR from Samsung's website, and the company offers a handy link to EyeBuyDirect, where you can buy prescription Kodak magnetic inserts for $100 so you can use the headset without glasses.

The process was seamless, though long shipping times meant my inserts arrived weeks before the XR.

While I appreciate how much more lightweight the Galaxy XR is compared to the Vision Pro, I constantly struggled to find a comfortable fit.

Another year, another update to Sony's PlayStation Portal.

The evolution of PlayStation Portal has been fascinating to watch, mainly to see Sony practically scrambling to keep up with the gadget's unexpected popularity.

The initial offering included “over 120 PS5 games from the PS Plus Game Catalog,” though the curated library was subject to change.

Enter the newest update to PlayStation Portal.

Being able to stream games tied to your account without eating up drive space could be a great workaround.

But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was orbiting another star.

If you thought it was hard to remember the names of our own planets, try all the planets, with names like HD 189733b.

Telescopes have a limited resolving power—the smallest angular size they can “see.” For the Hubble Space Telescope that’s 0.05 arc second, which is incredibly tiny—about 1/72,000th of a degree.

That’s amazing, but it’s just 0.06 light year, and the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.25 light years away.

When we’re looking at the light from a star, the planets around it just aren’t bright enough to be discernable.

“Brokers can sell the data to anyone who wants it and can afford to pay for it.

Paul Bischoff, a consumer privacy advocate at Comparitech also adds that the reason some sex toy companies will sell information to data brokers is simply to create a second stream of revenue.

Since you don't need to own a sex toy to download its app, I was able to do some exploring.

You can also take a look at the app’s privacy information prior to download in your phone’s app store.

Look for language that states the app may collect data linked to your identity, including your contact information.

Oft-compared to Lotus, the Alpine brand has drifted in and out of focus over the years despite seven decades of idiosyncratic road cars and regular motorsport success.

It’s currently in Formula One and the World Endurance Championship, and its A110 sports car is a masterpiece of lightweight analogue driving entertainment.

On top of all this, a global expansion of Alpine is planned, too, seeing the brand enter new markets, including the US, where it's expected to launch a three-car electric lineup in 2027.

For now, as the future is electric, the requirement for greater global awareness rests with the A390.

You can see the connection in the side profile and shoulders, although the front end’s…

In particular, researchers have been exploring the extent to which language models can reason about language itself.

For some in the linguistic community, language models not only don’t have reasoning abilities, they can’t.

The researchers put a number of large language models, or LLMs, through a gamut of linguistic tests—including, in one case, having the LLM generalize the rules of a made-up language.

Infinite ComplexityOne challenge of giving language models a rigorous linguistic test is making sure they don’t already know the answers.

To avoid this, Beguš and his colleagues created a linguistic test in four parts.

OK, if you live somewhere where it's really cold, you should just get a great big puffer (see below) or learn to layer well.

The fabric is very thin, or maybe the heat zones are uneven so you get burned on one part of your body and freezing on the other.

I tried the version with four heat zones (there's another, more expensive one with five heat zones, but four is plenty).

The shell is water-resistant and has a hood, and the battery lasts all day on the low setting.

Most importantly, the jacket itself has enough insulation that you don't instantly wonder why you're wearing it, should the battery run out.

I got to test two of Amazon's new Kindles, the Kindle Scribe ($500) and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft ($630), though the Scribe Colorsoft won't start shipping until January.

Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light for $22: This reading light wraps around your neck, so it looks silly.

These models include the Kindle 2nd Generation (International), Kindle DX International, Kindle DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4th Generation, and Kindle 5th Generation.

Amazon refreshed its line of Kindles just last year, and already launched a few new Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe models this year.

While there's one more new Kindle Scribe device due out next year, the current lineup is overall great to shop.

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

When a derecho slammed into the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in 2020, Diana Lokenvitz had time for exactly one glance out her window.

Within seconds of the storm hitting the plant, 130-mile-per-hour winds had severed all six of its external power lines, triggering an automatic emergency shutdown.

Backup diesel generators roared to life, and large control rods slid into the reactor core to halt the fission reaction driving the plant’s energy production.

With the reactor core still dangerously hot, safety systems kicked in to help stabilize the reactor and vent excess heat, a process that lasted…

The e-bike industry feels like the Wild West these days, a new frontier with few rules and even fewer enforcers.

As manufacturers produce increasingly powerful electric bikes, it’s tough for state and federal policymakers to keep up with what’s happening on the ground, in terms of where these vehicles can and should be ridden.

While the company designates it a Class 2 bike, technically it can fall under Class 1, 2, or 3.

It's a Class I because it can be pedaled to its default speed limit of 20 mph; Class 2 because it has a throttle that maxes out at a speed limit of 20 mph; and Class 3 because, with the simple toggle of a handlebar button, the max speed limit can be adjusted to 28 mph.

The …

Of course toy manufacturers are embedding large language models and generative AI into cute playthings designed for kids.

The idea is that children can chat away with their toys, and they’ll actually talk back—but things aren’t that simple.

This week, NBC News and researchers from Public Interest Research Group revealed new findings showing numerous toys hooked up to AI—including popular toys being sold to Americans this holiday season—would talk about explicit sexual topics, drugs, and Chinese state propaganda.

Now, a new surveillance proposal from US Customs and Border Protection could see tourists having to submit up to five years of their social media history to enter the country.

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My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds new ways to sculpt the sound of her violin, contorting it in defiance of expectations. Athena found her in conversation with it, leaving its timbre […]

Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the […]

Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience among the growing cadre of people making music on computers. But its last major update, Absynth 5, was released in 2009, and Native Instruments officially discontinued the instrument in 2022, citing a […]

By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea - the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! - but it was clear that these big slabs of glass were going to change the way we did pretty much everything. Apple was also already on an […]

Here's a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun to talk to that people actually start falling in love with their iPhones. We may not be prepared for what happens next. On this episode […]

I still wouldn't buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don't think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with it is ready for primetime. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) needs work. But two months after I panned the cheaper $600 white Xbox Ally and wasn't quite sold on the $1,000 black one, one […]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 109, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're staying warm, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Google Maps and shopaganda and life as a pop […]

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It's a small sample size, likely driven by Black Friday discounts and temporary virality, but the Nex Playground has gone from little-known console curiosity to best-seller. It's now on track to quadruple its sales from last year. According to research firm Circana, the Playground was the second best-selling console in the US for the week […]

Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and Live, respectively. Native Instruments' Maschine (yes, it's the name of the hardware and the software) and Ableton's Push are pretty much the gold standard for integration between music-making software and hardware. Serato […]

As I'm sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I can hear whizzing and whirring, and the occasional clunk, as a robot chef in my kitchen is making macaroni and cheese. Its app tells me there are three minutes left in the process, and based on […]

The Nex Playground is apparently one of the hottest consoles this holiday season thanks to its kid-friendly games and fun, motion-controlled gameplay. And now through December 14th, the cube-shaped console is on sale for its Black Friday low of around $199 ($50 off) at Amazon. There are some other great deals still available you might […]

As a writer, I take the tools of my trade relatively seriously. I’m not crazy enough to drop $3,600 on a keyboard, but I also find typing on a MacBook for extended periods of time deeply unsatisfying — and distracting. So this spring, I started looking into distraction-free writing setups, which included an e-reader / […]

Picture this: You're sitting in a conference room, halfway through a vendor pitch. The demo looks solid, and pricing fits nicely under budget. The timeline seems reasonable too. Everyone’s nodding along.You’re literally minutes away from saying yes.Then someone from your finance team walks in. They see the deck and frown. A few minutes later, they shoot you a message on Slack: “Actually, I threw together a version of this last week. Took me 2 hours in Cursor. Wanna take a look?”Wait… what?This person doesn't code. You know for a fact they've never written a line of JavaScript in their entire life. But here they are, showing you a working prototype on their laptop that does... pretty much ex…

Gen AI in software engineering has moved well beyond autocomplete. The emerging frontier is agentic coding: AI systems capable of planning changes, executing them across multiple steps and iterating based on feedback. Yet despite the excitement around “AI agents that code,” most enterprise deployments underperform. The limiting factor is no longer the model. It’s context: The structure, history and intent surrounding the code being changed. In other words, enterprises are now facing a systems design problem: They have not yet engineered the environment these agents operate in.The shift from assistance to agencyThe past year has seen a rapid evolution from assistive coding tools to agentic w…

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1.The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises. Ai2 updated two of the three versions of Olmo 2: Olmo 3.1 Think 32B, the flagship model optimized for advanced research, and Olmo 3.1 Instruct 32B, designed for instruction-following, multi-turn dialogue, and tool use. Olmo 3 has a third version, Olmo 3-Base for programming, comprehension, and math. It also works well for continue fine-tuning. Ai2 said that to upgrade Olmo 3 Think 3…

In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool and compute budgets. The researchers introduce two new techniques: a simple "Budget Tracker" and a more comprehensive framework called "Budget Aware Test-time Scaling." These techniques make agents explicitly aware of their remaining reasoning and tool-use allowance.As AI agents rely on tool calls to work in the real world, test-time scaling has become less about smarter models and more about controlling cost and latency.For enterprise leaders and developers, budget-aware scaling techniques off…

OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.2, and the reactions from early testers — among whom OpenAI seeded the model several days prior to public release, in some cases weeks ago — paints a two toned picture: it is a monumental leap forward for deep, autonomous reasoning and coding, yet potentially an underwhelming "incremental" update for casual conversationalists.Following early access periods and today's broader rollout, executives, developers, and analysts have taken to X (formerly Twitter) and company blogs to share their first testing results. Here is a roundup of the first reactions to OpenAI’s latest flagship model."AI as a serious analyst"The strongest praise for GPT-5.2 centers on it…

The rumors were true: OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family, GPT-5.2.It comes at a pivotal moment for the AI pioneer, which has faced intensifying pressure since rival Google’s Gemini 3 LLM seized the top spot on major third-party performance leaderboards and many key benchmarks last month, though OpenAI leaders stressed in a press briefing that the timing of this release had been discussed and worked on well in advance of the release of Gemini 3.OpenAI describes GPT-5.2 as its "most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work," aiming to reclaim the performance crown with significant gains in reasoning, coding, and agent…

Marble, a startup building artificial intelligence agents for tax professionals, has raised $9 million in seed funding as the accounting industry grapples with a deepening labor shortage and mounting regulatory complexity.The round, led by Susa Ventures with participation from MXV Capital and Konrad Capital, positions Marble to compete in a market where AI adoption has lagged significantly behind other knowledge industries like law and software development."When we looked at the economy and asked ourselves where AI is going to transform the way businesses operate, we focused on knowledge industries — specifically businesses with hourly fee-based service models," said Bhavin Shah, Marble's c…

Nous Research, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, released on Tuesday an open-source mathematical reasoning system called Nomos 1 that achieved near-elite human performance on this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, one of the most prestigious and notoriously difficult undergraduate math contests in the world.The Putnam is known for its difficulty: While a perfect score is 120, this year's top score was 90, and the median was just 2. Nomos 1, by contrast, scored 87 points — a result that would have ranked second out of 3,988 participants in the 2024 competition, according to the company.The release marks an inflection point in the rapidly accelerati…

Almost a year after releasing Rerank 3.5, Cohere launched the latest version of its search model, now with a larger context window to help agents find the information they need to complete their tasks. Cohere said in a blog post that Rerank 4 has a 32K context window, representing a four-fold increase compared to 3.5. “This enables the model to handle longer documents, evaluate multiple passages simultaneously and capture relationships across sections that shorter windows would miss,” according to the blog post. “This expanded capacity, therefore, improves ranking accuracy for realistic document types and increases confidence in the relevance of retrieved results.” Rerank 4 comes in two fla…

Presented by Oracle NetSuiteWhen any company tells you it is their biggest product release in almost three decades, it’s worth listening. When the person saying it founded the world’s first cloud computing company, it’s time to take note. At SuiteWorld 2025, Evan Goldberg, founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite, did just that when he called NetSuite Next the company’s biggest product evolution in nearly three decades. But behind that sweeping vision lies a quieter shift — one centered on how AI behaves, not just what it can do. “Every company is experimenting with AI,” says Brian Chess, SVP of Technology and AI at NetSuite. “Some ideas hit the mark, and some don’t, but each one teaches us somet…

There's no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of a given model on completing various helpful enterprise tasks — from coding to instruction following to agentic web browsing and tool use. But many of these benchmarks have one major shortcoming: they measure the AI's ability to complete specific problems and requests, not how factual the model is in its outputs — how well it generates objectively correct information tied to real-world data — especially when dealing with information contained in imagery or graphics.For industries where accuracy is paramount — legal, finance, and medical — the lack of a standardized way to measure factuality ha…

Presented by SAPWhen SAP ran a quiet internal experiment to gauge consultant attitudes toward AI, the results were striking. Five teams were asked to validate answers to more than 1,000 business requirements completed by SAP’s AI co-pilot, Joule for Consultants — a workload that would normally take several weeks.Four teams were told the analysis had been completed by junior interns fresh out of school. They reviewed the material, found it impressive, and rated the work about 95% accurate.The fifth team was told the very same answers had come from AI.They rejected almost everything.Only when asked to validate each answer one by one did they discover that the AI was, in fact, highly accurate …

The tools are available to everyone. The subscription is company-wide. The training sessions have been held. And yet, in offices from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, a stark divide is opening between workers who have woven artificial intelligence into the fabric of their daily work and colleagues who have barely touched it.The gap is not small. According to a new report from OpenAI analyzing usage patterns across its more than one million business customers, workers at the 95th percentile of AI adoption are sending six times as many messages to ChatGPT as the median employee at the same companies. For specific tasks, the divide is even more dramatic: frontier workers send 17 times as many co…

Engineering teams are generating more code with AI agents than ever before. But they're hitting a wall when that code reaches production.The problem isn't necessarily the AI-generated code itself. It's that traditional monitoring tools generally struggle to provide the granular, function-level data AI agents need to understand how code actually behaves in complex production environments. Without that context, agents can't detect issues or generate fixes that account for production reality.It's a challenge that startup Hud is looking to help solve with the launch of its runtime code sensor on Wednesday. The company's eponymous sensor runs alongside production code, automatically tracking how…

A San Francisco-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a process that would typically consume nearly three months of skilled engineering labor.Quilter, which has raised more than $40 million from investors including Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Coatue, used its physics-driven AI to automate the design of a two-board computer system that booted successfully on its first attempt, requiring no costly revisions. The project, internally dubbed "Project Speedrun," required just 38.5 hours of human labor compared to the 428 hours that professional PCB desi…

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I started by using Claude Code inside Apple's Code Intelligence feature of Xcode, but found Code Intelligence to be buggy.

I confirmed that it was Code Intelligence, not Claude Code, causing the issues, because when I tried using OpenAI's Codex in Code Intelligence, I encountered the same buggy behavior.

After about five hours, if you decide you like Claude Code, you'll have to move to the Max plan, but it's fairly easy to do.

That puts Claude Code at about $100/month less than OpenAI's Codex, which starts at $200/month if you do any ongoing development.

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So, I've been showing her how to use ChatGPT, Gemini, and OpenAI's Sora to augment her own drawings instead of generating art from scratch.

By starting with ideas she actually put on paper, it turns AI into a fun learning tool while reinforcing that she's still the artist.

So when I use ChatGPT on her artwork, the goal isn't to replace her style but to bring to life what's already there.

Use Sora to animate artworkThis is where things really got entertaining, and it's the AI tool my daughter had the most fun trying.

Free users can experiment with ChatGPT, Gemini, and even Sora, but there are limits to how many generations you can do.

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ZDNET's key takeawaysThere are times when you may want to turn off Windows Security.

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Lance Whitney/ZDNETOne common reason a user may want to disable Windows Security is that they need to install third-party software that is blocked by the suite.

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Jeff Bezos doesn't care about you like the Geek Squad does. Best Buy just price-matched my Cyber Monday purchase in under 5 minutes.

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ZDNET's key takeawaysMy 5G road trip tests included rigorous testing on three Google Pixel phones.

Since I live in Chicago, I have found 5G coverage to be pretty great, but what about when I leave the big city?

Overall, T-Mobile appears to have the most extensive 5G coverage, both in Non-Standalone and Standalone modes, with a coverage rate of 96.2 percent.

With numbers like that, it's easy to believe that T-Mobile might have what it calls the "best nationwide 5G network".

If you road trip along country roads (which may be the subject of an article in the future), then the story might be very different.

Test 1: Summarize a news storyAvailable points: 10Awarded points: 9This tests ChatGPT's ability to look up current information and follow directions.

Test 2: Academic concept explanationAvailable points: 10Awarded points: 10This challenge asks the AI to explain educational constructivism to a five-year-old.

Test 3: Math and analysisAvailable points: 10Awarded points: 10So far, GPT-5.2 is turning in solid results.

Test 9: Coding testAvailable points: 10Awarded points: 5We run a full set of coding evaluations against chatbots on a regular basis.

Test 10: Creative writingAvailable points: 10Awarded points: 10This test is among the most fun in the entire test suite.

ZDNET's key takeawaysOpera's Neon AI browser was publicly released on Thursday.

Gartner recently advised businesses to avoid using AI browsers.

Also: Use an AI browser?

It's facing ample competition, though: Perplexity and OpenAI have both launched their own free web browsers, called Comet and Atlas, respectively.

If building a chatbot is like owning a ship, then building a web browser is like owning the ocean.

Curious about refurbished tech, but unsure where to start?

Online refurbished tech marketplace Back Market offers buyers who want to save money on electronics (and reduce e-waste) good-as-new products repaired by experts.

Many used-tech retailers, such as Gazelle or Best Buy's outlet, exist primarily online (though the latter does have some refurbished tech in-store).

"As inflation, tariffs, and rising tech prices make shoppers increasingly cost-conscious, refurbished tech offers a smarter path forward," Back Market said in the release.

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Global corporate AI investment reached $252.3 billion in 2024, and US private AI investment hit $109.1 billion, according to Stanford data -- it's safe to assume those numbers will only continue to grow.

AI agents2025 was touted by many as the year of AI agents.

"While AI agents are becoming increasingly common as pilot projects, most enterprises are struggling with moving them into production," said Chandrasekaran.

For example, one of the most buzzworthy topics related to AI agents is AI for commerce.

In their simplest use case, AI agents can help users select the product they need and add items to their cart.

I signed up to be a Starlink beta tester and put it through its paces to see if it could cope with playing games, streaming video and other tasks.

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With mining rigs, energy goes in, money comes out.

Musk has since taken a new tack, delivering Tesla Megapack batteries to a Texas bitcoin mining facility in May.

A mining center in Kazakhstan is equipped to run 50,000 mining rigs, and another mining farm in China has a monthly electricity bill of more than $1 million as it mines 750 bitcoins a month.

Bitcoin mining uses around as much energy as Argentina, according to the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, and at that annualized level of 131.26 terawatt-hours, crypto mining would be in the top 30 of countries based on energy consumption.

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A new iPhone may be exciting, but it's not the first iPhone of them all.

We started with the First Look video that you can watch above (when did I ever have that much hair?)

By 2 a.m. we were done and CNET's first iPhone review was finished and live.

The original iPhone (left) next to the iPhone 7.

Windows Phone tried to muscle its way in, but had limited success (Microsoft killed the software in 2017).

The law also gave the FCC authority to fine companies that fail to certify their efforts to stop robocalls.

He attributes this to increased enforcement action by the FCC, the Federal Trade Commission and state law enforcement.

The new FCC regulations will require gateway providers to stop robocalls as they enter the US.

The proposed regulation would put additional requirements on US-based gateway providers that pass voice traffic to other networks in the states.

The new FCC regulations require gateway providers to cooperate with FCC enforcement efforts and react quickly to trace illegal robocalls to their source.

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Social media is getting under our skin, and new polling data shows that Americans want tech companies to fix it.

Even fewer people, just 17%, believe social media companies should do nothing and allow posts containing misinformation or bullying.

He added that another Ipsos poll found that Americans don't support government intervention with social media content.

Enlarge Image More than half of Americans support social media companies acting against bad behavior.

Greg Abbott, have signed new laws aimed at punishing social media companies for "wrongful censorship" on their platforms.

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Amazon will allow fully vaccinated employees to go maskless inside its warehouses and will no longer provide COVID-related paid leave for workers who don't get their shots, according to a memo sent to employees.

In its memo, Amazon cited the "sharp decline" in COVID cases over the past several weeks, along with increasing vaccination rates.

Amazon employs about a million workers in the US, most at its hundreds of warehouses.

To encourage higher vaccination rates, Amazon has offered the chance to win cash and cars in lotteries for vaccinated employees.

The company is also paying workers bonuses for getting vaccinated and hosting on-site vaccination clinics.

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A California agency tasked with enforcing the state's civil rights laws has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Tesla, alleging racial discrimination and harassment occurred at the electric carmaker.

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing said it filed the complaint Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court.

Tesla didn't respond to a request for comment but criticized the agency's investigation in a blog post Wednesday.

"Tesla strongly opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment and has a dedicated Employee Relations team that responds to and investigates all complaints," Tesla said in the post.

A month earlier, game developer Riot Games agreed to pay more than $100…

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He told me it was refreshing to speak to an entrepreneur who was not blinded by his own pitch.

When we raised money for another startup a few years later, almost all of them signed up in our first round.

However, when the business struggled, I also felt very comfortable with the company ending graciously.

When you’re reading a good book, there’s a moment near the end when you’ll start reading slower because you don’t want it to end.

So, this is the ending of a great story that I’ve enjoyed participating in.

Unfortunately, the majority of discarded used technology, known as e-waste, is dumped or processed in unsafe conditions.

A Danish robotic solutionAt the Danish Technological Institute, researchers are building an AI-driven robotic system that could help tackle e-waste while scaling, modernising, and empowering the tech refurbishment industry.

However, companies are slowly waking up to the potential of e-waste robotic recycling.

Ultimately, they want to build a ready-for-production robotic system that supports local Danish tech refurbishment businesses.

His optimism makes sense: robotics is set to reshape the future of e-waste management and reuse.

This week, Dainius Kavoliūnas, head of no-code platform Hostinger Horizons, shares his tips on vibe coding.

Vibe coding has become an indispensable tool, especially for entrepreneurial thinkers building apps and platforms for solving everyday problems, streamlining business processes, or enhancing digital experiences.

Vibe coding is fast, intuitive and opens up a new realm of possibilities where code isn’t just functional, but expressive — bridging the gap between people’s ideas and machine abilities.

Based on insights from the Hostinger Horizons team and users, here are five practical ways to prompt AI more effectively.

For people like Prashant, vibe coding is breaking down barriers, enabl…

There are also genuine competitive advantages available to European green battery startups: proximity to end users, a deep understanding of regulatory requirements, and the ability to move quickly on specialised applications.

These are our tips for developing a scalable green battery business.

Data centres represent another market where European companies may have an advantage.

The goal isn’t to replace Asian suppliers entirely, but to build resilient companies that can work alongside Asian giants, rather than compete directly on their terms.

Market projections suggest European companies could capture 25-30% of the specialised industrial battery market by 2030 through technological differen…

From commercial devices and services to government systems and research projects, open source powers the internet and countless platforms we rely on daily.

By investing in open source, Europe can support small businesses, universities, and public institutions, giving them tools to compete with global tech giants.

Despite this importance, the budget proposal does not include specific funding for open source.

By contrast, Europe’s open source approach offers a pluralistic and collaborative alternative that emphasises transparency, interoperability, and public value, and investing in the global open source ecosystem it depends on is in line with these values.

Creating an EU Sovereign Tech Fund…

Europe’s AI startups are losing ground to the US — and their own investors are to blame.

Only 5% of global venture capital is raised in the EU, according to the European Commission.

Even when funding is available, Europe’s venture capital firms are slow and cautious.

However, American funds backing European startups operate under the same regulatory frameworks, yet their capital keeps flowing freely.

European venture deals often crawl at a bureaucrat’s pace.

Investors, eager to avoid missing out on the next big thing, were quick to back almost any startup that mentioned AI in their pitch deck.

As the CEO of Gradient Labs — an AI customer service platform for highly-regulated industries — I’ve seen investors grow wary of AI-washing: the practice of exaggerating a company’s AI use or capabilities.

Gartner predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, while MIT research shows 95% of pilot projects fail.

For my co-founders and me, it was never about building an AI startup just because it was lucrative.

As a result, we didn’t need to rely on flashy marketing spiel or inflated promises to get the attention of VCs.

Ukrainian defence tech is tested directly on the battlefield, under the most challenging conditions.

The need to counter large-scale Russian aggression has sparked a technological boom in the defence tech sphere.

Over 30 countries have already expressed interest in Ukrainian defence innovations, signalling strong export potential for homegrown technologies.

The sector’s profit margin is 25%, the highest globally — compared with 17% in NATO countries and 15% in the EU — underscoring the economic attractiveness of Ukrainian defence tech.

Ukraine’s rapid rise as a global defence tech powerhouse is not happening in isolation.

This week, global traction strategist Nina Aziz Justin — founder of The Resilience Mentor — shares her approach to building resilience.

While execution metrics are essential for traction and scale, resilience isn’t just a soft skill.

Most compelling of all is the 2024 Founder Resilience Research Report.

It reminds us that resilience isn’t just a feel-good factor — it’s a proven, practical lever for startup success.

A more balanced lens: metrics + resilience = real tractionWe’re seeing a shift — a new generation of investors and advisors are beginning to assess both execution metrics and human metrics.

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The OttoAibox P3 Pro brings AI voice control and Android apps to your existing CarPlay setup, while the Cabin Care adapter adds wireless CarPlay plus a rear-seat camera for keeping an eye on the little ones.

OttoAibox P3 Pro upgrades your carThe OttoAibox P3 Pro comes with an AI voice assistant that handles way more than the basics.

No problemHere’s something interesting: the P3 Pro includes CloudSIM 3.0 service, which gives you always-on internet without needing a physical SIM card.

Keep tabs on the back seat with Cabin CareThe Cabin Care wireless adapter does double duty.

The OttoAibox P3 Pro and Cabin Care adapter are both shipping now if you want to get your car upgraded before the holi…

Anker is back at it again with a new 20,100mAh power bank, under its Anker Prime brand.

This power bank has three ports, offers up to 220W of output, and comes in a pretty compact package.

First impressionsA pretty popular trend on recently released charging gear has been the inclusion of an information display, and the new Anker 20K battery bank is no exception.

It also has an app you can use, which allows you to customize the display and adjust the power output.

While the Anker Prime 20K is listed for $179.99, it’s currently on sale for $50 off during the holidays.

Users have been noticing a weird iPhone bug with some pictures they have saved in their Photos app on iOS 26; sometimes, photos taken from Android phones are being imported into the Photos with a seemingly intense red color filter applied.

What’s even stranger is this red haze only shows when you actually tap on an image in Photos and zoom in.

Luckily, this bug has a simple fix you can do to put each picture back to how it was …It seems whatever the cause of the bug, it makes the Photos app think a color filter has been applied.

To get your original photo restored, open an affected image, press Edit and then press Revert.

The common thread between all the red photos is that they were taken …

Head below for our full guide on all the new iOS 26.2 features.

iOS 26.2 new featuresRemindersiOS 26.2 adds a highly-requested new feature to the Reminders app.

Sleep ScoreAlong with watchOS 26.2, iOS 26.2 also includes refinements to the Apple Watch’s Sleep Score.

iOS 26.2 EU changesiOS 26.2 has good and bad news for iPhone users in the European Union.

On the other hand, iOS 26.2 and watchOS 26.2 will remove a key feature in the EU.

X for iOS has finally rolled out widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen.

Over five years ago, at WWDC20, a Home Screen Widget for Twitter was shown off in the reveal video for iOS 14.

Now, X has finally added support for both Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen widgets for their app for iPhone and iPad:X widgets on iOS are hereaccess top news, shortcuts, and notifications from your home or lock screen pic.twitter.com/WkdIBYX50H — X (@X) December 13, 2025Home Screen WidgetsThis new update brings only one option for a Home Screen widget, called “X News Highlights”, which shows headlines of what’s trending on X.

This widget comes in three sizes:Lock Screen WidgetsX has a larger variety o…

Headlines offers a clean experience that puts your favorite writers and publications front and center.

Headlines offers you a plethora of genres to pick from during onboarding, then within each genre you can pick your favorite publications.

Second, the app offers something I don’t often see: the ability to follow individual writers.

Outside of the things you choose to follow, Headlines also makes it easy to find new publications and stories through its Discover feature.

You can follow Headlines on Twitter, Bluesky, or Threads for updates.

As it did with ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving‘ a few weeks ago, Apple is streaming ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas‘ for free on Apple TV this Saturday (13) and Sunday (14).

Last month, ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving‘ streamed on Apple TV with no subscription required during the weekend preceding Thanksgiving.

This weekend, it’s 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas’s turn.

Here’s Apple’s official synopsis:Feeling down about the commercialism of Christmas, Charlie Brown becomes the director of the gang’s holiday play.

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With iOS 26 this year, Apple announced an incredibly promising improvement to the order tracking feature in the Wallet app.

History of Apple Wallet order trackingWith iOS 16, Apple introduced order tracking in Apple Wallet.

It relied on partner merchants supporting the feature, and if you paid with Apple Pay, it would automatically appear in the wallet app.

That changed with iOS 26, where Apple announced that they’d be utilizing Apple Intelligence to identify order details from your emails.

I imagine Apple took this approach because people would accuse them of sherlocking all of the package tracking apps on the App Store.

Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work ready with no effort and at an affordable cost.

Why Apple TV already works so well at workFor consumers, Apple TV looks expensive.

Where Apple TV falls shortThe problem with Apple TV in the enterprise and retail is not the software or the platform.

Apple TV is already a strong contender for being the best option for enterprise signage and shared displays.

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After touting Pluribus as its biggest drama launch ever, Apple has now confirmed another milestone for the hit series.

‘It’s official, Carol’Last month, Apple said that Pluribus had overtaken Severance season 2 as Apple TV’s most successful drama series debut ever, a landmark that wasn’t completely surprising, given the overall anticipation and expectation over a new Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) project.

Now, on the same day that F1 The Movie debuted at the top of Apple TV’s movie rankings, the company confirmed that Pluribus has reached another, even more impressive milestone: it is the most watched show in the service’s history.

Here’s Apple TV’s post on X celebrating t…

IShowSpeed stars the new Beats ad, going head-to-head with a kung fu master.

IShowSpeed is The Master of Speed & StabilityIn a short video that is just shy of 5 minutes, YouTuber and streamer Darren Watkins Jr, known online as IShowSpeed, travels across the globe to master the art of kung fu and learn why “without stability, speed is nothing”.

This takes him on a journey where a kung-fu master presents him with a pair of Powerbeats Pro 2 and puts him through a classic training sequence.

He learns that the Powerbeats Pro 2 are stable enough to let him ultimately beat the kung-fu master in his own way.

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iOS 26.2 arrived today, packed with changes for Apple’s system apps, and also a hidden new feature for notifications that can help ensure you don’t miss any alerts.

iPhone display can now flash brightly for notifications in iOS 26.2iOS 26.2 is a big update for new features.

Now in iOS 26.2, Apple has added a similar, but distinct feature: you can optionally have your iPhone display flash brightly when a notification comes through.

When ‘Screen’ flash is enabled, notifications will cause the iPhone display to fully light up for a brief moment before reverting to normal brightness.

But for anyone without a Watch, the new iOS 26.2 option for screen flashes might be a nice alternative to the LE…

Here are five big Apple releases coming soon, per a new highlight video.

Apple TV has many returning shows in early 2026 and a surprise movieToday Apple TV debuted a new teaser video highlighting five premieres coming in early 2026.

Even now, Apple still hasn’t made a formal announcement about the movie hitting Apple TV outside of its appearance in this video.

Which early 2026 Apple TV premieres are you most excited about?

Apple TV is available for $12.99 per month and features hit TV shows and movies like Ted Lasso, Severance, Pluribus, and more.

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As Apple’s expansion in the South Bay continues, the company has now acquired two more office buildings for a combined $216 million.

Apple’s real estate push continuesFor the past few months, Apple has been on a bit of a real estate shopping spree.

Since July, it has picked up the $365 million four-building Mathilda Campus, another pair of neighboring buildings for $350 million, and the $166 million three-building Cupertino Gateway complex.

add up to 266,500 square feet, and according to official documents filed earlier this week, Apple paid in cash.

Apple also reportedly said that, with this acquisition, its Bay Area expansion will “exceed 1.5 million square feet of office and lab space” t…

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In this guide, I break down the best areas to stay in Lisbon.

Areas to stay in Lisbon Baixa & Chiado -Best overall.

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From April to October, Lisbon gets busy fast, especially with boutique hotels and apartments in central areas like Chiado or Principe Real.

Best areas to stay in LisbonLisbon isn’t one of those copy-paste cities where every neighborhood looks the same.

As a local who knows São Miguel inside and out, in this guide you can read all about the best areas to stay in São Miguel island.

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Best areas to stay in São MiguelSão Miguel is packed with jaw-dropping landscapes, charming villages, and endless outdoor adventures—but where you stay can shape your experience.

Read on to discover the best areas to stay in São Miguel and which one fits your travel style best.

Other hiking trails in AzoresIn reality, there are many more hiking trails: this listing does not include municipal trails – also marked and signalized, just usually less frequently maintained – or even other lesser known unsigned paths.

On this article though, and with the exception of the Mount Pico climb, I’ll only be mentioning the official hiking trails in Azores.

Hiking trails in each island of AzoresWhat is the best island in Azores for hiking?

Check pricesTips for Hiking Trails in AzoresThis section has some important info and tips about hiking trails in Azores.

Circular vs Linear hiking trailsThere are two types of hiking trails: circular and linear ones.

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As a former Barcelona resident who knows the city very well, including both tourist hotspots and the best hidden gems, I’m confident this guide will help you navigate the best neighborhoods to stay and hotels in Barcelona.

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Best areas to stay in BarcelonaEach neighborhood in Barcelona boasts such a different vibe it’s like you’re exploring four or five different destinations in one.

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This is the exact road trip itinerary I use to show São Miguel island to friends and family visiting.

This itinerary for São Miguel was first created when I got friends visiting in 2015.

😉Things to know about this São Miguel itinerary4 full days is the bare minimum you’ll need to explore São Miguel.

Itinerary of São Miguel on a map 🗺️You can use my itinerary map in Google Maps as a reference.

Where to stay in São MiguelWhere to base yourself in São MiguelEach area you choose to stay in São Miguel has a different vibe.

Thailand Island Hopping – A First Timer’s GuideThailand Islands MapAndaman Sea vs Gulf Of ThailandWhen island hopping Thailand, the first decision you need to make is whether to go to the islands on the Andaman Sea (west) or to ones in the Gulf of Thailand (east).

Phi Phi IslandsPhi Phi Islands are actually a group of islands, from which Phi Phi Don (the largest) and Phi Phi Lee (where the famous Maya Bay is) are the most iconic.

Just arriving to Tonsai Bay, the main transport hub of Phi Phi Don is… let’s go withintense.

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All you need to know before going to the hot springs in São Miguel, Azores.

In the middle of the North Atlantic ocean, São Miguel, Azores is a paradise of meadows, coves, beaches, crater lakes, and… beautiful hot springs.

Here are the important things to keep in mind before you swim in a hot spring in São Miguel island.

The best hotels in São Miguel Check a list of the 23 favorite luxury, family, budget hotels and guesthouses in my home island.

With lots of space to swim around, this is definitely one of the most chilled hot spring experiences in São Miguel.

This is a shortlist of the best apps to find flights on your phone, iOS and Android.

Just because booking flights has become more accessible it does not necessary mean it’s becoming simpler, specially if you are very price-sensitive.

The best apps to find cheap flightsI tend to feel lost in the sea of numerous mobile apps out there.

So, and while Google Flights doesn’t have a proper mobile app, I came up with this selection of the best travel apps to find cheap flights on your iOS or Android device.

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The best outdoor activities in Azores⚠The fragility of Azores The Azores have been consecutively named one of the top sustainable destinations worldwide.

The best islands for whale-watching in Azores are the islands in the Central Group, especially Faial and Pico.

Flores, São Miguel and São Jorge, but hey, there is a hike for every hiker.

Hiking in AzoresThe Azores Islands are home to some of the most scenic hiking trails you can find worldwide.

The best hiking islands in Azores are arguably Flores, São Miguel and São Jorge, but hey, there is a hike for every hiker.

This is a non-pretentious guide for a Portugal road trip along the coastline.

Portugal road trip itineraryAfter almost 10 years living in Lisbon, I had the chance to do a few road trips and several summer explorations.

Here are the stops I recommended on this road trip if your trip is 10-day long.

Portugal road trip mapNothing like a map to see where you’re going, right?

Seville, SpainI know this road trip is about Portugal, but why not take a detour and include one more country in your itinerary?

Seeking those Barcelona hidden gems only the locals know about?

I lived in Barcelona for 5 amazing years, so honestly, I’m way past the tourist attractions by now.

Fortunately, there are still hidden gems and unique things to do that allow to peek into local way of living.

💖Hidden gems to visit in Barcelona, Spain 💠I’m now happy to share some of my favorite local spots and hidden gems in Barcelona, including monasteries, parks, museums, bars, and gardens.

Getting around BarcelonaWalking is by far my favorite way of knowing a city and Barcelona is no exception.

Here are dozens of reasons to visit Portugal as soon as possible!.

For foodies, it may be one of the strongest reasons to visit Portugal.

PORTUGAL MINI TRAVEL GUIDEHow to get to Portugal The best way is by air.

Top places to visit Personally, I always recommend Porto, Lisbon and Alentejo‘s coast.

If you are able to go to these three places, you’ll get a pretty great idea of what Portugal really is.

This article lists the unique things you can’t miss in São Miguel island if it’s your first-time visit.

These are the most popular hot springs in São Miguel island:♨️ Hot springs in São Miguel Caldeira Velha has a stunning jungle backdrop and a gorgeous-looking waterfall that runs right into the pool.

Hot springs in São Miguel The best places to enjoy a mineral-enriched bath in São Miguel island.

Make no mistake guys – this is one of the most unique things to do in São Miguel.

While the most unique food is definitely Cozido das Furnas (Furnas Stew), cooked underground with volcanic steam, but I personally think there are better things to eat in the islands.

Ponta Delgada, Azores.

Things to do in Ponta DelgadaWith no further ado, these are the best things to do in Ponta Delgada, Azores.

Ponta Delgada Attractions MapI’ve put all the Ponta Delgada main attractions, restaurants, bars, and shopping hotspots are on the below map (direct link).

Hotels in Ponta DelgadaLuxury ✨ Octant Ponta Delgada ★★★★★A contemporary waterfront hotel with a stunning infinity pool, gourmet dining, and sleek design.

Like pretty much everywhere else in Azores, Ponta Delgada is very safe.

I’ve lived 5 years in Barcelona and curated this list of unique things to do in Barcelona.

Or… what if you want unique experiences and alternative things to do in Barcelona?

See where to stay1 Order the local tapas95% of first-time tourists in Barcelona think local food is paella or sangria.

ℹ Local Neighborhoods In Barcelona El Born – a handful of interesting museums, hip art galleries, and hipster bars are the vibe of El Born.

8 Enjoy the best Barcelona viewpointsWhen speaking of viewpoints, the most popular in Barcelona is the Tibidabo mountain, on top of Collserola .

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