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The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular | https://www.theverge.com/podcast/849551/ram-explainer-holiday-spectacular-vergecast | Happy Holidays! As we like to do on The Vergecast, we take this time of year to see our families, relax and recharge, and go extremely deep into a specific technology that matters right now. This year, we picked the tiny chip in all your devices that is suddenly a precious and expensive commodity: RAM. […] | Happy Holidays! As we like to do on The Vergecast, we take this time of year to see our families, relax and recharge, and go extremely deep into a specific technology that matters right now. This year, we picked the tiny chip in all your devices that is suddenly a precious and expensive commodity: RAM.
On this episode... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T09:35:49-05:00 | 2025-12-23T14:42:38.419329 |
How AI broke the smart home in 2025 | https://www.theverge.com/tech/845958/ai-smart-home-broken | This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost e... | is a senior reviewer with over twenty years of experience. She covers smart home, IoT, and connected tech, and has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News.
This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn’t do... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T08:30:00-05:00 | 2025-12-23T14:42:38.628100 |
The year the government broke | https://www.theverge.com/policy/845838/2025-year-end-government-doge | The first crack showed right before Inauguration Day. The year before, Congress had overwhelmingly passed a bill banning TikTok unless it broke ties with its Chinese parent company. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld it, and it was clear what needed to happen next: either the president could give TikTok another 90 da... | is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform.
The first crack showed right before Inauguration Day. The year before, Congress had overwhelmingly pas... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T08:00:00-05:00 | 2025-12-23T14:42:38.794131 |
Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts | https://www.theverge.com/news/849528/apple-italy-antitrust-fine-att-app-privacy | Apple has been fined more than €98 million (about $116 million) by Italy's antitrust regulator over the "excessively burdensome" privacy rules it imposes on third-party apps. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) says that Apple abused its dominant app store market position by burdening developers with "dispro... | Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.
Apple has been fined more than €98 million (about $116 million) by Italy’s antitrust regulator over the “excessively burdensome” privacy rules it imposes on third-party apps. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) says that Apple... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T07:46:56-05:00 | 2025-12-23T14:42:38.952414 |
Dometic makes a better portable water faucet | https://www.theverge.com/tech/848916/dometic-recon-360-water-pump-review | As a reluctant doomsday prepper and eager vanlifer, Dometic's battery-powered Go Faucet has, for the last few years, played a central role in my bougie bug-out kit and my camping rig's water system. So it took me all of two minutes with Dometic's new Recon 360 Faucet to realize it's an upgrade in every single […] | is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years.
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As a reluctant doomsday prepper and eager vanlifer, Dometic’s battery... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T05:44:07-05:00 | 2025-12-23T14:42:39.123442 |
Laptop Buying Guide (2025): How to Choose the Right PC (Step-by-Step Guide) | https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-buy-the-right-laptop-for-you/ | Shopping for a laptop can be infuriating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the best one for you. | Buying a laptop is an exercise in confusion. Even if you know what everything means and exactly what you want, finding it can be difficult. Heck, just navigating the manufacturer's website to locate the model you want is frustrating. We hope this guide will help you traverse the morass of modern laptops. Below is a sec... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:39.497323 |
iBuyPower RDY Slate 9MP R01 Gaming PC Review: Great Value | https://www.wired.com/review/ibuypower-rdy-slate-9mp-r01/ | iBuyPower’s prebuilt gaming desktop tries some new tricks but comes with a few flaws. | The iBuyPower Slate system I spent the last month gaming on isn’t particularly flashy, nor is it a shining example of the heights that gaming PC brands can reach. It is, however, a totally usable system with minimal bloatware, and any qualms I have with some odd choices don’t harm the gaming performance.
At its listed... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:39.733597 |
Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis | https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-openais-chatbots-can-strip-women-in-photos-down-to-bikinis/ | Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes. | Some users of popular chatbots are generating bikini deepfakes using photos of fully clothed women as their source material. Most of these fake images appear to be generated without the consent of the women in the photos. Some of these same users are also offering advice to others on how to use the generative AI tools ... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:30:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:39.974506 |
Chinese Crypto Scammers on Telegram Are Fueling the Biggest Darknet Markets Ever | https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-chinese-scammer-crypto-markets/ | Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes. | When black markets for drugs, guns, and all manner of contraband first sprang up on the dark web more than a decade ago, it seemed that cryptocurrency and the technical sophistication of the anonymity software Tor were the keys to carrying out billions of dollars worth of untouchable, illicit transactions online.
Now,... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:40.212432 |
Big Balls Was Just the Beginning | https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-doge/ | DOGE dominated the news this year as Elon Musk’s operatives shook up several US government agencies. It’s far from over. | Since the beginning of the Trump administration, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk, has gone through several iterations, leading periodically to claims—most recently from the director of the Office of Personnel Management—that the group doesn’t exist, or h... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:40.480201 |
The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/the-tooth-fairy-just-got-reimagined-for-the-tech-savvy-generation/ | Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed for the Tooth Fairy. Recognizing that Generation Alpha is growing up wit... | Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy.
After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed for the Tooth Fairy. Recognizing that Generation Alpha is growing up wi... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:40.631760 |
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/openai-says-ai-browsers-may-always-be-vulnerable-to-prompt-injection-attacks/ | OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker." | Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections, a type of attack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions often hidden in web pages or emails, is a risk that’s not going away anytime soon — raising questions about how safely AI agen... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:11:19 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:40.757908 |
Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/alphabet-to-buy-intersect-power-to-bypass-energy-grid-bottlenecks/ | Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer. | In Brief
Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for $4.75 billion in cash, plus the assumption of the company’s debt.
The acquisition, which was announced Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power-generation capacity alongside new data centers without hav... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:10:54 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:40.865345 |
Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/trump-admin-halts-6-gw-of-offshore-wind-leases-again/ | The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development. | Two weeks after a judge struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order that blocked offshore wind development, the White House is again pausing leases for five large projects, this time citing concerns over radar interference.
“Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolut... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:52:31 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:40.991369 |
Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40B Larry Ellison backing | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/paramount-renews-bid-for-warner-bros-ensuring-40-billion-larry-ellison-backing/ | It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another. | The war for the future of Warner Brothers continues, as Paramount Skydance announced Monday an amended all-cash offer for the legacy movie studio. The offer includes an “irrevocable personal guarantee” from a major backer, Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, to provide tens of billions in equity financing for the deal. I... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:53:33 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:41.104369 |
The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-splay-is-a-subpar-monitor-but-an-exciting-portable-projector/ | Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too. | Since I’m fascinated by new display technologies and by improving image quality, I’ve never been a fan of home projectors. Projectors lack the image quality compared to good TVs and monitors, and they’re pretty needy. Without getting into the specific requirements of different models, you generally want a darker room w... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:30:06 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:41.578541 |
In a surprise announcement, Tory Bruno is out as CEO of United Launch Alliance | https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-surprise-announcement-tory-bruno-is-out-as-ceo-of-united-launch-alliance/ | "It has been a great privilege to lead ULA through its transformation and to bring Vulcan into service." | Tory Bruno, a veteran engineer and aerospace industry executive, has resigned from the top job at United Launch Alliance after more than a decade competing against the growing dominance of SpaceX, the company announced Monday.
The news of Bruno’s sudden resignation was unexpected. His tenure was marked by a decline in... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:51:44 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:42.061462 |
Call of Duty co-creator and Battlefield lead Vince Zampella dies in car crash | https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/vince-zampella-developer-of-call-of-duty-and-battlefield-games-dies-at-55/ | He had worked on Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, and Battlefield. | Vince Zampella, a video game developer who has co-created or helmed some of the most popular franchises in the world, died in a car crash on a Los Angeles highway at 12:45 pm Pacific time on Sunday, December 21. He was 55 years old.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Zampella was in a car on Angeles Crest Hig... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:35:51 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:42.238391 |
Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously | https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/safety-panel-says-nasa-should-have-taken-starliner-incident-more-seriously/ | "This particular anomaly deserves to be right up front and center for quite some time." | For the better part of two months last year, most of us had no idea how serious the problems were with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. A safety advisory panel found this uncertainty also filtered through NASA’s workforce.
On its first Crew Test Flight, Boeing’s Starliner delive... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:11:11 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:42.419125 |
World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/worlds-largest-shadow-library-brags-it-scraped-300tb-of-spotify-music-metadata/ | Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna’s Archive scraped. | The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of metadata and music files in bulk torrents.
According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of ... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:34:22 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:42:42.595956 |
Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/pirate-group-annas-archive-says-it-has-scraped-86-million-songs-from-spotify/ | Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping. | In Brief
Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped the entirety of Spotify’s music library, and plans to release it through torrents.
Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them. The group archived approximately 86 million mu... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:51:40 +0000 | 2025-12-23T14:56:33.707163 |
How Last Samurai Standing adds kinetic action to the Battle Royale formula | https://www.theverge.com/streaming/847992/last-samurai-standing-netflix-interview-junichi-okada | Last Samurai Standing begins with a familiar premise. Desperate samurai dispossessed by the restoration of the emperor enter into a deadly game for a life-changing cash prize - all for the entertainment of anonymous elites. Unlike its inspirations Battle Royale and Squid Game, however, Last Samurai Standing's violence ... | Last Samurai Standing begins with a familiar premise. Desperate samurai dispossessed by the restoration of the emperor enter into a deadly game for a life-changing cash prize — all for the entertainment of anonymous elites. Unlike its inspirations Battle Royale and Squid Game, however, Last Samurai Standing’s violence ... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T10:00:00-05:00 | 2025-12-23T15:30:50.027059 |
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/inside-uzbekistans-nationwide-license-plate-surveillance-system/ | The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password. | Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles’ license plates and their occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. Cars running red lights; drivers not wearing their seatbelts; and unlicensed vehicles driving at ... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:05:49 +0000 | 2025-12-23T15:30:50.347120 |
F1’s new engines are causing consternation over compression ratios | https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/12/f1s-new-engines-are-causing-consternation-over-compression-ratios/ | A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage. | Compression ratios
At issue is the engines’ compression ratio, which compares the volume of the cylinder when the piston is at top dead center with the volume when the piston is at its closest to the crank. Under the 2014–2025 rules, this was set at 18:1, but for 2026 onward, it has been reduced to 16:1.
This is meas... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:25:38 +0000 | 2025-12-23T15:30:50.936505 |
One last holiday hurrah for the $50 off deal on the Switch 2 | https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/849552/switch-2-bundle-gaming-ps5-holiday-deal-sale | In case you’ve waited until the very last minute to buy Christmas gifts, and there’s a Switch 2 on your shopping list, you’ve really lucked out here. Not only is Nintendo’s powerful handheld readily available online and in stores, it’s still $50 off for the best console bundle you can buy. The set that includes […... | is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025.
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In case you’ve waited until the very last minute to buy Christmas gifts, and there’s a S... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T10:51:11-05:00 | 2025-12-23T15:55:35.685880 |
France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/frances-postal-and-banking-services-disrupted-by-suspected-ddos-attack/ | France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline. | In Brief
France’s national postal and baking services company La Poste was knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, according to an announcement by the company. The postal service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of our information syste... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:42:23 +0000 | 2025-12-23T15:55:36.048360 |
DOJ appears to bungle Epstein Files redactions | https://www.theverge.com/news/849639/epstein-files-doj-redactions-links | The Justice Department has blamed its delayed release of some so-called Epstein files on needing more time to redact sensitive information like details identifying the victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But at least some of the redactions so far released appear to mistakenly disclose information meant t... | is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform.
The Justice Department has blamed its delayed release of some so-called Epstein files on needing more ... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T11:33:23-05:00 | 2025-12-23T16:35:12.988469 |
Watch lists are broken. Federation could fix them. | https://www.theverge.com/column/849255/watch-lists-broken-federation-share-data | This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Lowpass is taking a winter break and will be back on January 8, 2026. All I want for Christmas is to find that darn movie I've been meaning to watch. [R... | This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Lowpass is taking a winter break and will be back on January 8, 2026.
All I want for Christmas is to find that darn movie I’ve been meaning to watch. What... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T11:30:00-05:00 | 2025-12-23T16:35:13.192349 |
New York’s landmark AI safety bill was defanged — and universities were part of the push against it | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/849293/ai-alliance-universities-colleges-funding-ad-campaign-against-raise-act | A group of tech companies and academic institutions spent tens of thousands of dollars in the past month - likely between $17,000 and $25,000 - on an ad campaign against New York's landmark AI safety bill, which may have reached more than two million people, according to Meta's Ad Library. The landmark bill is called [... | is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.
A group of tech companies and academic institutions spent tens of thousands of dollars in the past month — likely between $17,000 and $25,000 — on an ... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T11:18:49-05:00 | 2025-12-23T16:35:13.386538 |
Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there | https://www.theverge.com/news/849624/flock-ai-camera-feeds-exposed-benn-jordan | The livestreams connected to more than 60 of Flock's AI-powered surveillance cameras were left available to view on the web, allowing someone to see live feeds of each location without needing a username or password, according to findings from tech YouTuber Benn Jordan and 404 Media. Flock is a technology company that ... | is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.
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The livestreams connected to more than 60 of Flock’s AI-powered surveillance camer... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T11:09:58-05:00 | 2025-12-23T16:35:13.586185 |
Belkin’s camera grip power bank is a few upgrades away from being a must-have | https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/847321/belkin-stage-powergrip-wireless-power-bank-hands-on | Belkin's Stage PowerGrip has shown me that I should be asking more from a wireless magnetic power bank than just boosting battery life while it hangs off the back of my phone. Its clever design adds layers of extra functionality, and the inclusion of a retractable two-way charging cable expands the number of devices yo... | is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid.
Belkin’s Stage PowerGrip has shown me that I should be asking more from a wireless magnetic power bank than just boosting battery life while it hangs off the back of my... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T11:00:00-05:00 | 2025-12-23T16:35:13.803758 |
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/amazons-ai-assistant-alexa-now-works-with-angi-expedia-square-and-yelp/ | The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others. | Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new capabilities. The company announced on Thursday that it’s adding four new integrations to the service that will allow the assistant to work with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp starting in 2026.
These additions allow customers to book hotels, get quo... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:04:57 +0000 | 2025-12-23T16:35:14.944017 |
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/lemon-slice-nabs-10-5m-from-yc-and-matrix-to-build-out-its-digital-avatar-tech/ | Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image. | Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve mostly been restricted to text. Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to those chats with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
C... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T16:35:15.088958 |
“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/ | Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness." | CBS cannot contain the online spread of a “60 Minutes” segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing.
The episode, “Inside CECOT,” featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:18:22 +0000 | 2025-12-23T16:35:15.591828 |
Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerruner’s Kirsten Green | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/marissa-mayers-new-startup-dazzle-raises-8m-led-by-forerruners-kirsten-green/ | Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. | The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution.
After spending the last six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with little success, the storied tech leader has shuttered the company to launch Dazzle, a new startup focused on buil... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:48:45 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:00:20.664746 |
US insurance giant Aflac says hackers stole personal and health data of 22.6 million | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/us-insurance-giant-aflac-says-hackers-stole-personal-data-of-22-6-million/ | Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., confirmed hackers stole reams of personal data, including Social Security numbers, identity documents, and health information. | In June, U.S. insurance giant Aflac disclosed a data breach where hackers stole customers’ personal information, including Social Security numbers and health information, without saying how many victims were affected.
On Tuesday, the company confirmed it has begun notifying around 22.65 million whose data was stolen d... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:14:04 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:32:01.618111 |
This founder just landed funding for a second go at the same problem: affordable custom home design | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/this-founder-just-landed-backing-for-a-second-go-at-the-same-problem-affordable-custom-home-design/ | Drafted is now nearly five months old, and it's everything Atmos wasn't. | Nick Donahue’s parents were in the business of building houses, which means he spent his childhood hearing about the U.S. construction industry. His dad built homes for major developers, and his mom sold to big-box builders across the East Coast.
Donahue was particularly interested in why designing a custom home cost ... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:32:01.750296 |
Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/marissa-mayers-new-startup-dazzle-raises-8m-led-by-forerunners-kirsten-green/ | Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. Green’s investment suggests Dazzle is poised for the coming wave of new AI-infused consumer businesses. | Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution.
After spending the last six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with little success, the storied tech leader has shuttered the company to launch Dazzle, a new startup focused on building t... | en | tech | https://techcrunch.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:48:45 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:32:01.873431 |
DJI’s new drones will not be available in the US as FCC ban takes effect | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/djis-new-drones-will-not-be-available-in-the-us-as-fcc-ban-takes-effect/ | US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much. | Americans will be unable to buy the latest and greatest drones because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has banned foreign-made drones as of today.
On Tuesday, the FCC added drones to its Covered List, which it says are communications equipment and services “that are deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to t... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:29:57 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:32:02.305156 |
OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openais-child-exploitation-reports-increased-sharply-this-year/ | Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025. | OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a similar time period in 2024, according to a recent update from the company. The NCMEC’s CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for... | en | tech | https://arstechnica.com/feed/ | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:02:26 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:32:02.543678 |
NYPD Sued Over Possible Records Collected Through Muslim Spying Program | https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-sued-over-possible-records-collected-through-muslim-spying-program/ | The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it. | A New Jersey man who previously sued the New York City Police Department in an unsuccessful quest to find out whether the NYPD’s Intelligence Division spied on him and fellow Muslims as part of its notorious and expansive “mosque-raking” program during the Michael Bloomberg era has filed a new open-records lawsuit agai... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:33:26 +0000 | 2025-12-23T17:53:52.651063 |
007 First Light’s release date gets shaken up | https://www.theverge.com/news/849810/james-bond-007-first-light-release-date-delay | IO Interactive has delayed the release of 007 First Light, its upcoming James Bond origin story game, by two months. 007 First Light will now be released on May 27th, 2026. According to an announcement about the delay: 007 First Light is our most ambitious project to date, and the team has been fully focused […] | 007 First Light is our most ambitious project to date, and the team has been fully focused on delivering an unforgettable James Bond experience, bringing together breathtaking action, globe-trotting, spycraft, gadgets, car chases, and more. As an independent developer and publisher, this decision allows us to ensure th... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T13:39:11-05:00 | 2025-12-23T19:00:29.211534 |
Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law | https://www.theverge.com/news/849752/texas-app-store-accountability-act-age-verification-injunction | A federal judge blocked a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1st. In an order granting a preliminary injunction on the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), Judge Robert Pitman wrote that the statute "is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to [... | is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform.
A federal judge blocked a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users’ ages from taking effe... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T13:15:49-05:00 | 2025-12-23T19:00:29.433194 |
These great digital gifts will arrive just in time for Christmas | https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/848999/best-digital-gift-ideas-online-cards-subscriptions-2025 | And just like that, Christmas is less than two days away, which is too soon for most items bought online to arrive in time. That said, you aren’t alone if you waited too long to start buying gifts this year, and you definitely aren’t alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something […] | And just like that, Christmas is less than two days away, which is too soon for most items bought online to arrive in time. That said, you aren’t alone if you waited too long to start buying gifts this year, and you definitely aren’t alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something your recipi... | en | tech | https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml | 2025-12-23T13:00:00-05:00 | 2025-12-23T19:00:29.717999 |
Data Holds the Key in Slowing Age-Related Illnesses | https://www.wired.com/story/data-holds-the-key-in-slowing-age-related-illnesses/ | More accurate and individualized health predictions will allow for preventative factors to be implemented well in advance. | In 2026, we will see the beginning of precision medical forecasting. Just as there have been remarkable advances in weather forecasting with the use of large language models, so will there be for determining an individual’s risk of the major age-related diseases (cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative). These di... | en | tech | https://www.wired.com/feed/rss | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:11:52 +0000 | 2025-12-23T19:00:30.135404 |
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