73 Benevolent Facebook trader exchanges 192GB of DDR5 worth $2,200 for one RTX 5070 Ti — says selling at such a high price would have been 'unethical' despite huge loss

South Park Writer Snagged ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ Web Domains Months Ago

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Tom Hawking @ Gizmodo 1 place · 12/26/2025 13:30 EDT

The writer has made a habit of acquiring official-sounding domains for satirical purposes. Read more ›

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Burned out in her 50s, she left corporate life. Starting over in Korea helped her heal.

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Amanda Goh @ Business Insider 1 place · today 00:00 EDT

Jane Newman says it's been easy to meet new people in Seoul, including through a fan group for a Korean actor she likes. Read more ›

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Elon Musk Says He’s Removing ‘Sustainable’ From Tesla’s Mission

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AJ Dellinger @ Gizmodo 2 place · 12/26/2025 14:10 EDT

The future is "amazing," it's not necessarily sustainable. Read more ›

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James Cameron Will Tell Us the Future of ‘Avatar,’ No Matter What

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Germain Lussier @ Gizmodo 3 place · 12/26/2025 16:30 EDT

Cameron teased he'll reveal the plots of 'Avatar 4' and '5' in a press conference if the movies don't get made. Read more ›

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We're Choosing the Official Best of CES 2026 Awards

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Lindsey Turrentine @ CNET 1 place · 12/26/2025 19:30 EDT

CNET Group is doubling the size of the official CES awards program, and we're inviting you to nominate the most innovative tech. Read more ›

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FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After Two-Year Wait for License Fix

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msmash @ Slashdot 1 place · 12/26/2025 15:00 EDT

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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I tried the famous $140 cake that Tom Cruise gifts to his celebrity friends every holiday season

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Anneta Konstantinides @ Business Insider 2 place · 12/26/2025 16:05 EDT

Every holiday season, Tom Cruise sends a white chocolate coconut bundt cake to a group of famous friends. The cake is available on Goldbelly for $140. Read more ›

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5 2026 Car Trends We're Already Dreading

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SlashGear 1 place · 12/26/2025 23:45 EDT

2026 hasn't yet begun, but already carmakers seem to be chasing trends that are going to make the driving experience worse for a lot of people. Read more ›

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Oracle’s AI Push Is Leading to Its Worst Quarter Since 2001

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Bruce Gil @ Gizmodo · 12/26/2025 15:20 EDT

Delayed AI infrastructure projects, rising debt, and weaker-than-expected earnings are reviving dot-com-era fears on Wall Street. Read more ›

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Why is the US bombing Nigeria?

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Joshua Keating @ Vox 1 place · 12/26/2025 13:13 EDT

President Donald Trump rang in Christmas Day by ordering airstrikes against two ISIS camps in Nigeria. The strikes, involving more than a dozen Tomahawk missiles fired from a Navy ship, came shortly after Trump vowed retaliation against ISIS, which allegedly carried out deadly attacks against US troops and civilians around the world last week. But […] Read more ›

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No, Asus isn't going into memory manufacturing — Taiwanese tech giant issues statement smashing rumor

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 12/26/2025 11:30 EDT

Asus has directly shut down a spurious rumor claiming it would enter the memory market within the next six months. Read more ›

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Old Ryzen AM4 CPUs top US, UK Amazon charts as DDR5 pricing pushes buyers to last-gen platform — DDR4-friendly Ryzen 5 5800X, XT claim spots in the top 5

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/26/2025 12:36 EDT

The five-year-old Ryzen 7 5800X and its 2024 refresh, the 5800XT, are among the best-selling CPUs this holiday season despite being two generations behind Zen 5. Read more ›

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‘Wicked: For Good’ Comes Home Next Week With a Bubble Full of Extras

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Cheryl Eddy @ Gizmodo · 12/26/2025 17:30 EDT

Complete your pink-and-green set with the second half of the 'Wizard of Oz'-inspired musical starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Read more ›

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NYC Is Getting Hit Hard by the ‘Super Flu’—and the Worst Is Yet to Come

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Ed Cara @ Gizmodo · 12/26/2025 11:15 EDT

Subclade K could fuel one of the worst flu seasons seen in recent history. Read more ›

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21 times Kate Middleton and Princess Charlotte wore coordinating outfits

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Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn @ Business Insider 3 place · 12/26/2025 11:13 EDT

Kate Middleton and Princess Charlotte often wear coordinating outfits at public events, from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding to Wimbledon. 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 3 place · 12/26/2025 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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Jimmy Kimmel's Christmas message to the UK: 'Tyranny is booming' in the US

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Nathan Rennolds @ Business Insider · 12/26/2025 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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Amazon’s newest smart speakers are $20-$30 off!

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Edgar Cervantes @ Android Authority 1 place · 12/26/2025 18:06 EDT

Alexa has never looked and sounded better! 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 · 12/26/2025 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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Новогодняя игрушка

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kkuznetzov @ Habr 1 place · 12/26/2025 16:40 EDT

Привет, Хабр! Пришло моё время начать писать статьи сюда. И первая моя статья будет посвящена новогодней игрушке. Прошу не судить строго.В 2019-м году Я приобрел 50 микроконтроллеров CH32V003F4P6 по 11 рублей за штуку. В этом году решил пустить их в дело. И первое, что пришло в голову, это сделать игрушку к новому году. Кроме того, появилась возможность лично попробовать WS2812B.Схема и печатная плата устройства были разработаны в свободной САПР KiCad... 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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