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

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Tom Hawking @ Gizmodo 1 place · today 13:30 EDT

The writer has made a habit of acquiring official-sounding domains for satirical purposes. 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 1 place · today 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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Elon Musk Says He’s Removing ‘Sustainable’ From Tesla’s Mission

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AJ Dellinger @ Gizmodo 2 place · today 14:10 EDT

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

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'Misery Map' shows holiday travel chaos on both coasts with canceled and delayed flights

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Katherine Li @ Business Insider 2 place · today 18:52 EDT

According to the "Misery Map," which tracks real-time flight disruptions, there have been hundreds of delays and cancellations. 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 3 place · today 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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FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After Two-Year Wait for License Fix

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msmash @ Slashdot 1 place · today 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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LG to unveil a new home robot helper at CES 2026

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Mashable 1 place · today 17:13 EDT

LG's CLOiD robot will help out around the house thanks to AI and various sensors and limbs. Read more ›

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Why is the US bombing Nigeria?

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Joshua Keating @ Vox 1 place · today 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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Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String

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Gayoung Lee @ Gizmodo · today 17:30 EDT

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like. Read more ›

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Trump’s war on offshore wind faces another lawsuit

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Justine Calma @ The Verge 1 place · today 17:14 EDT

Dominion Energy, an offshore wind developer and utility serving Virginia's "data center alley," filed suit against the Trump administration this week over its decision to pause federal leases for large offshore wind projects. The move puts a sudden stop to five wind farms already under construction, including Dominion's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. The complaint […] Read more ›

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My 65-year-old mom is healthy, but she started purging her stuff. Being part of the process is helping me learn about my family.

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Alli Hill @ Business Insider 3 place · today 14:38 EDT

My mom began Swedish death cleaning to prepare for the future — but what she really gave me was peace, connection, and understanding. 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 · today 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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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 1 place · today 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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No, Asus isn't going into memory manufacturing — Taiwanese tech giant issues statement smashing rumor

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 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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21 times Kate Middleton and Princess Charlotte wore coordinating outfits

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Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn @ Business Insider · today 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 · 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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What we listened to in 2025

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Engadget @ Engadget 1 place · today 15:13 EDT

If streaming services’ year-in-review campaigns have shown us anything, it’s that we’ve spent a staggering amount of time drowning out the hum of everyday life with music, podcasts and audio series. And with some incredible new releases this year, we were really eatin’ good. Here are some of the Engadget team’s favorite things we listened to in 2025.Spiritbox - Tsunami SeaI became aware of Spiritbox in late 2024 shortly before... 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 · today 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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A tiny smartphone for a bigger, less distracted life — just $85

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Mashable 2 place · today 18:00 EDT

Get the NanoPhone Mini 4G Smartphone for just $84.97 and stay connected without being glued to a full-size device. 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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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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