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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company's capabilities against many Google Pixel phones, according to a forum post about the leak and 404 Media's review of the material. The leak follows others obtained and verified by 404 Media over the last 18 months. Those leaks impacted both Cellebrite and its competitor Grayshift, now owned by Magn
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Eighteen states will restrict what SNAP users can buy with their benefits in 2026, including soda, candy, and energy drinks. See the changes by state. Read more ›
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Triller, a video app and marketing company that vied to take on TikTok, has been delisted from the Nasdaq exchange. Read more ›
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The Trump phone was originally set to be released in August, but won't be shipped until the end of January, Trump Mobile's customer service said. Read more ›
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"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary said his character Milton Rockwell in "Marty Supreme" was almost made into an actual vampire. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg famously dropped out of college to focus on Facebook. The cofounder of Manus says he took the same path — and now they have merged. Read more ›
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Russia is using helicopters to try to stop Ukraine's drones. Now its naval drones armed with missiles keep Russia's helicopters away, per a commander. Read more ›
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The invitation to Mayor-elect Mamdani's inauguration lists Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero as prohibited items but does not provide a reason. Read more ›
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Zohran Mamdani, currently a state assemblyman, is set to get a large raise when he takes office as mayor of New York City. Read more ›
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If you’ve been trying to step up from a phone or an older camera without spending “brand-new flagship” money, this is a solid price cut on a kit that’s been a go-to for years. The Sony Alpha a7 III mirrorless camera with the FE 28–70mm F3.5–5.6 OSS lens is $1,699.99 (was $2,199.99), saving you $500. ... Read more ›
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Sony has revealed the first batch of PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for 2026. There are three titles to play this month, all of which drop on January 6. As always, you’ll retain access to these games as long as your subscription remains active. First up, there's Need For Speed Unbound. This is a racing game that came out at the tail-end of 2022 and was the first entry in the... Read more ›
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Arc Raiders was Steam's biggest-selling game over the holiday period. Read more Read more ›
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Save up to $150 on space heaters at Amazon from brands like Vornado, Shark, Dreo, Lasko, and more. Read more ›
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Nier producer Yosuke Saito has teased that there's "just a little something" on the way for fans in 2026. Read more Read more ›
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Tanice and Paul Myers bought America's ugliest home: A 1940s-built Boise bungalow with ceiling holes and rodent droppings. See how they fixed it up. Read more ›
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Open-source expansion card brings AMD's B650 chipset expansion capabilities to any system that has a PCIe 4.0 x4 expansion slot. Read more ›
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From a billionaire gathering in St. Barts to Antigua, here is where the wealthiest people's superyachts, were spotted before New Year's Eve. Read more ›
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As an interior designer, I've noticed wealthy clients rarely have builder-grade hardware, visible trash cans, and small pantries in their kitchens. Read more ›
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New research reveals a brighter side of ADHD, showing that adults who recognize and use their strengths feel happier, healthier, and less stressed. People with ADHD were more likely to identify traits like creativity, humor, and hyperfocus as personal strengths. Across the board, using these strengths was linked to better quality of life and fewer mental health symptoms. The study suggests that embracing strengths could be a game-changer for ADHD... Read more ›
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GitHub has disabled Rockchip's Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December 18, claims Rockchip copied thousands of lines of code from FFmpeg's libavcodec library -- including decoders for H.265, AV1, and VP9 formats -- stripped the original copyright notices, falsely claimed authorship and redistributed... Read more ›
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The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of "digital sovereignty": The US CLOUD Act of 2018 allows American authorities to compel US-based technology companies to provide requested data, regardless of where that data is stored globally. This places European organizations in a precarious position, as it directly clashes with Europe's own stringent privacy regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)... Furthermore, these warrants often come with a gag order,... Read more ›
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While America's largest corporations are riding a wave of surging profits and AI-fueled stock market enthusiasm to record highs, small businesses across the country are cutting staff and scaling back operations as years of high inflation, cautious consumers and tariff confusion take their toll. Private firms with fewer than 50 workers have steadily shed jobs over the past six months, according to payroll processor ADP, cutting 120,000 positions in November... Read more ›
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The relentless climb in memory prices driven by the AI boom's insatiable demand for datacenter hardware has renewed an old debate about whether modern software has grown inexcusably fat, a column by the Register argues. The piece points to Windows Task Manager as a case study: the current executable occupies 6MB on disk and demands nearly 70MB of RAM just to display system information, compared to the original's 85KB footprint.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: OpenAI is looking for a new Head of Preparedness who can help it anticipate the potential harms of its models and how they can be abused, in order to guide the company's safety strategy. It comes at the end of a year that's seen OpenAI hit with numerous accusations about ChatGPT's impacts on users' mental health, including a few wrongful death lawsuits.... Read more ›
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While stock investors have pushed AI-related shares to repeated highs this year, debt markets are telling a more cautious story as newer AI infrastructure companies find themselves paying significantly elevated interest rates to borrow money. Applied Digital, a data center builder, sold $2.35 billion of debt in November at a 9.25% coupon -- roughly 3.75% above similarly rated companies, or about 70% more in interest costs. The pattern has repeated... Read more ›
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After more than two decades of promises and false starts in the mesh networking space, the smart home standards that Apple, Amazon and Google have each championed are finally set to escape their respective brand silos and work together in a single unified network. Starting January 1, 2026, Thread 1.4 becomes the Thread Group's only certified standard, bringing a crucial new capability called credential sharing. Devices from different manufacturers can... Read more ›
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Michael Truell, the 25-year-old CEO and cofounder of Cursor, is drawing a sharp distinction between careful AI-assisted development and the more hands-off approach commonly known as "vibe coding." Speaking at a conference, Truell described vibe coding as a method where users "close your eyes and you don't look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you." He compared it to... Read more ›
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Windows 10's formal end-of-support arrived in October, and while the operating system is generally remembered as one of the "good" versions of Windows -- the most widely used since XP -- many of the annoyances people complain about in Windows 11 actually started during the Windows 10 era, ArsTechnica writes. Windows 10 earned its positive reputation primarily by not being Windows 8. It restored a version of the traditional Start... Read more ›
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Google's Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company's first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, made the switch and now regrets it, he says. "In the three months since Google forced me to give up my physical SIM card, I've only... Read more ›
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