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An anonymous reader shares a report: Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months away from losing its measles elimination status, according to a report by The New York Times. The Times obtained a recording of a call during which officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to state health departments that the ongoing measles outbreak at the border of Arizona and Utah is a continuation of the explosive outbr
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Rodin Roohipour is a 15-year-old interested in tech and venture capital. To learn about the industry, he cold emails business leaders for advice. Read more ›
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Trump also said he would be launching a "gross incompetence lawsuit" against the Fed chair. Read more ›
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The NYC government has begun accepting applications from homeowners who want to build an ADU, including a backyard tiny home, on their property. Read more ›
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FaZe Clan's influencer exodus exposes a key risk for creator-economy companies that rely directly on talent to make money. Read more ›
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Disney's streaming viewership share has barely budged in years. The company has plans to get engagement growth going again, though. Read more ›
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MANGMI’s upcoming Pocket Max continues its slow reveal, this time hinting at a more customizable control setup. Read more ›
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Jim Franck, 81, works as a homebuilder in Oregon and until recently, worked out of financial necessity. He said he has no plans to stop his risky job. Read more ›
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LG is gearing up to showcase a new art-inspired Gallery TV at CES 2026 to take on Samsung's The Frame lineup. Read more ›
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Samsung could unveil a Brain Health service next month to detect early signs of dementia and more. Read more ›
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Poco has announced it will unveil the Poco M8 in India on January 8 at 12 PM local time. The company said that the Poco M8 is "built for a new generation of users who seek performance with standout aesthetic," and it will bring a fresh design-led approach to the mid-range smartphone segment in India. Poco hasn't detailed the M8's specs sheet, but the brand said it will be 7.35mm... Read more ›
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Finally, there's an easy device that will let you digitize your Super Nintendo library. Read more ›
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LG will unveil a canvas-style art TV, dubbed the LG Gallery TV, at CES 2026. The new model will be offered in 55-inch and 65-inch variants, and sports a flush-mount design along with customizable magnetic frames. The Gallery TV uses a Mini LED display and the company's Alpha 7 AI processor and offers 4K resolution. The new model will also leverage the LG Gallery+ service, a paid subscription with a... Read more ›
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Warren Buffett became a meme, built a cash mountain, and rocked the business world by announcing his retirement in 2025. Read more ›
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vivo X300 Ultra is expected to launch globally soon, as it recently received certification in Europe. Ahead of any official announcement, multiple leaks have surfaced online, revealing the phone’s key specs. The latest leak has revealed the display details of the vivo X300 Ultra. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, the upcoming camera flagship will sport a flat 6.82-inch BOE LTPO display with 2K resolution. It will offer a flat... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be transmitted to hundreds of additional neurons, where they are integrated with similar spike trains coming from still other neurons. Now, researchers have used spiking circuitry to build an artificial... Read more ›
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EV maker Ola Electric said it has received government certification for its Roadster X+ (9.1 kWh) electric motorcycle powered by… Read more ›
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said a fictional café — Central Perk from "Friends" — guided his vision of what his stores should look like. 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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European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data. Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of... 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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Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...] The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we... 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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: 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 Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... 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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