374 'World's first scalable DNA data storage offering' announced offering a staggering ‘60PB in 60 cubic inches,’ enough to hold 660,000 4K movies — Atlas Data storage claims its solution is 1000x denser than LTO-10 tape

China is going after US defense firms and execs over weapons sales to Taiwan — and Palmer Luckey's on the list

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Nathan Rennolds @ Business Insider 1 place · today 09:15 EDT

China's foreign ministry said the sanctioned firms and individuals would have their assets within China frozen. Read more ›

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Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years — Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years. Read more ›

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Intel displays tech to build extreme multi-chiplet packages 12 times the size of the largest AI processors, beating TSMC's planned biggest — floorplan the size of a cellphone, armed with HBM5, 14A compute tiles and 18A SRAM

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 09:18 EDT

Intel Foundry has released a video of a multi-chiplet 2.5D/3D processor with a 10,296 mm^2 silicon footprint, including leading-edge technologies such as 14A and 18A. Read more ›

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I've been to all 63 major national parks. These are the 8 I recommend visiting in the winter.

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Emily Hart @ Business Insider 2 place · today 09:02 EDT

As someone who's been to all 63, I think Death Valley, Dry Tortugas, and Joshua Tree are some of the best US national parks to visit in the winter. Read more ›

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If these 10 things don’t drain your energy in your 70s, you’re aging like a champion

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Lachlan Brown @ Silicon Canals 1 place · today 08:00 EDT

While their peers complain about aching joints and exhausting grandchildren, these 70-somethings are starting businesses, learning salsa, and planning their next adventure—all because they've discovered the secret art of energy conservation that has nothing to do with afternoon naps. Read more ›

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My mom has built an incredible life for herself in her 60s. I still learn valuable life lessons during our weekly visits.

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Alexa Mellardo @ Business Insider 3 place · today 10:09 EDT

I have a great relationship with my mom, who's in her 60s. Over the years, she's given me great advice about happiness, friendship, and gratitude. Read more ›

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Jimmy Kimmel's Christmas message to the UK: 'Tyranny is booming' in the US

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Nathan Rennolds @ Business Insider · today 06:43 EDT

The talk show host appeared on British TV station Channel 4 to deliver its annual "alternative Christmas message." Read more ›

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Want to Try Film Photography? Here Are the Analog Cameras You Should Buy

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Andrew Lanxon @ CNET 1 place · today 08:01 EDT

Hundreds of old film cameras are available, and this starter's guide covers everything from how to buy one to what rolls of film to use. Read more ›

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US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

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Cory Doctorow @ Wired 1 place · today 06:30 EDT

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. Read more ›

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Browser-run copy of Grand Theft Auto gets taken down by DCMA — Take Two says DOS Zone infringed company’s intellectual property rights despite disclaimers and requirement to own original copy of title to run full game online

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · today 08:13 EDT

Take-Two takes down the online demo of GTA: Vice City found on DOS Zone — says it violates its copyright. Read more ›

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Splitting my to-do list between multiple apps actually made me more productive

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Megan Ellis @ Android Authority 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Turns out less isn't more in my case. Read more ›

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LG teases a new chore-completing home robot

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Emma Roth @ The Verge 1 place · today 09:48 EDT

LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing a "wide range" of household chores. The robot, called LG CLOiD, will make its debut at CES next month, featuring two articulated arms and five individually actuated fingers on each hand. Though we only have a description […] Read more ›

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Stylists reveal 5 sneaker trends that are in for 2026 — and 4 that are out

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Cheyenne Elwell @ Business Insider · today 07:38 EDT

Stylists said dad sneakers are going out of style in 2026, in favor of slim, sporty silhouettes, like ballet-inspired sneakers and retro runners. Read more ›

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Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?

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Rhett Allain @ Wired 2 place · today 07:00 EDT

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack and Will use an overturned dinghy to hold air underwater. Madness or brilliance? Read more ›

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In the ’90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love

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Samuel Axon @ Ars Technica 1 place · today 08:35 EDT

Most things Privateer did have been done better, but it's still a classic. Read more ›

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NATO is looking to Ukraine for ways to kill drones without wasting expensive missiles

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Jake Epstein @ Business Insider · today 07:24 EDT

Western militaries are looking at interceptor drones — proven in combat in Ukraine — as an ideal low-cost air defense. Read more ›

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12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab

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Katherine Li @ Business Insider · today 06:48 EDT

Meta poached at least seven OpenAI researchers over summer. Here are some big names who left the startup in 2025. Read more ›

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'Memory is Running Out, and So Are Excuses For Software Bloat'

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msmash @ Slashdot 1 place · today 05:01 EDT

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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Inside the quest to bring the Cybertruck to Europe

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Tom Carter @ Business Insider · today 06:31 EDT

The Cybertruck has been on sale in the US for nearly two years, but Tesla has shown no signs of brining its most divisive EV across the Atlantic. Read more ›

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I advise Citi's ultra-wealthy clients on their art. I always take these precautions when entering their homes.

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Alice Tecotzky @ Business Insider · today 06:27 EDT

Carla Caputo, an art collections manager for Citi's high-net-worth clients, reveals how she manages logistics and conducts herself in expensive homes. Read more ›

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/22/2025 10:03 EDT

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›

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Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver — up to 85% higher random workload performance in some tests

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 12:32 EDT

Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/24/2025 06:30 EDT

The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›

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Startup proposes using retired Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines for AI data centers — firm asks U.S. DOE for a loan guarantee to start the project

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Tom's Hardware · 12/25/2025 10:04 EDT

A Texas energy startup proposes repurposing retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in AI data centers. Read more ›

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China's reverse-engineered Frankenstein EUV chipmaking tool hasn't produced a single chip — sanctions-busting experiment is still years away from becoming operational

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Tom's Hardware · 12/24/2025 09:20 EDT

A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›

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U.S. FCC bans foreign-made drones from DJI, others — DJI to be heavily affected by the announcement, with many American drone pilots up in arms due to lack of viable alternatives

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Tom's Hardware · 12/23/2025 11:19 EDT

FCC's announcement signals the end of DJI in the U.S. Read more ›

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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 12:17 EDT

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus. Read more ›

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Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/23/2025 06:28 EDT

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35. Read more ›

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Samsung to delay its planned DDR4 end-of-life due to signing a long-term 'non-cancellable, non-returnable' contract with key customer — agreement will not alleviate consumer shortage, supply earmarked for server clients

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Tom's Hardware · 12/24/2025 08:57 EDT

Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›

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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:50 EDT

Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. Read more ›

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