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Goldman Sachs analysts have identified a notable shift in how investors respond to corporate layoff announcements, finding that even job cuts attributed to automation and AI-driven restructuring are now causing stock prices to fall rather than rise. The investment bank linked recent layoff announcements to public companies' earnings reports and stock market data, concluding that stocks dropped by an average of 2% following such announcements, and companies citing restructurings faced even harsher punishment
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Google is finally adding a much-awaited feature to Gmail, allowing to change your old @gmail addresses without needing to create a new account. After switching to a new Gmail, you'll receive emails on both addresses, and all your existing data will remain intact. Read more ›
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The family claimed in the lawsuit that the incident "ruined their family vacation" and caused embarrassment, inconvenience, and medical expenses. Read more ›
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Season four of "Bridgerton," streaming on January 29, will center on Benedict Bridgerton's love story. Here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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The OnePlus Turbo doesn't try to stand out with a flashy design or cutting-edge cameras. Instead, leaked images suggest OnePlus is betting big on battery life, pairing a familiar look with an unusually massive 9,000mAh cell. Read more ›
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Aaron Cannon thought up his startup, Outset, while on paternity leave. As his kid has grown up, so has the company. Read more ›
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I visited Maryland's Glen Echo Park, where some attractions are frozen in time, while others have been turned into local art centers. Read more ›
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After her husband died weeks after Christmas, a woman reflects on their last holiday together and why capturing everyday moments now matters. Read more ›
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A Texas energy startup proposes repurposing retired U.S. Navy nuclear reactors for use in AI data centers. Read more ›
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What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB. Read more ›
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Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part of the biggest purchase it's ever made. Read more ›
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More older Americans are returning to work due to financial insecurity and rising costs, as surveys show retirees fear their savings won't last, Read more ›
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Setting up a PS5 for a child means you can offer an age-appropriate and safe platform for them to play. Sony made its parental control tools more comprehensive in recent years and they allow families to manage screen time, block unsuitable content, guide online interactions and approve purchases. The process is straightforward once the right menus are in view, but it helps to understand how each feature works before handing... Read more ›
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Macy's, Kroger, and Carter's are leading 2026 US retail store closures, citing long-term strategy and shifting consumer habits. Read more ›
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AMD prepares EXPO 1.2 revision that could bring CUDIMM support to next-generation Ryzen processors. Read more ›
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With its official launch in China, the Xiaomi 17 Ultra has established itself as a significant flagship product in the high-end smartphone and mobile photography market. Along with Xiaomi HyperOS 3, it makes its debut with a number of noteworthy hardware and software enhancements, such as a large battery, a sophisticated camera system, and top-tier performance components. The product is the result of Xiaomi and Leica’s long-standing partnership. Its camera... Read more ›
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The US military has some strange rules for its troops unlikely to be found anywhere else Read more ›
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'Heated Rivalry' Season 1 is ending with one last, highly anticipated episode that fans won't be able to stop talking about. Read more ›
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British royal family members including Prince William and Kate Middleton attended their annual Christmas Day church service in Sandringham in coordinating outfits. Read more ›
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Out: "Sustainable abundance." In: "Amazing abundance." Read more ›
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The Honor Magic8 Pro was announced in China in October, and then made its debut outside of China in Malaysia in November. That said, it's yet to arrive in European markets, but the wait is almost over - the Magic8 Pro will finally become available in the UK on January 8. Ahead of that, the brand's arm in the UK has posted the teaser video you can see below, which... Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring. "My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. "Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases. Our North Star is '1 engineer, 1 month,... Read more ›
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed with Len Shustek's readtape tool." A Berlin-based retrocomputing enthusiast has created a page with the contents of the tape ready for bootstrapping, "including a tar file of the filesystem," and... 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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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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echo123 shares a report from PBS: The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country." White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway.... Read more ›
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Google's AI Mode is synthesizing "Frankenstein" recipes from multiple creators, often stripping away context and accuracy and siphoning traffic and ad revenue away from food bloggers in the process. Many recipe writers warn this shift amounts to an "extinction event" for ad-supported food sites. The Guardian reports: Over the past few years, bloggers who have not secured their sites behind a paywall have seen their carefully developed and tested recipes... Read more ›
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iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company that brought the Roomba vacuum cleaner into American homes over its 35-year history, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and will be acquired by Picea, its Chinese contract manufacturer that also produces competing household devices. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board placed blame for the company's demise on the Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina Khan, which opposed Amazon's $1.7 billion bid to acquire iRobot. That... Read more ›
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that swearing can help us unleash our inner strength, improving physical performance, it seems, by helping people break through certain psychological barriers. [...] [Psychology researcher Richard Stephens of Keele University in the UK] and his colleagues at Keele and the University of Alabama wanted to test whether swearing could not only improve physical performance,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux: After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla's new CEO that Firefox will evolve into "a modern AI browser," the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser... What was not made clear [in Tuesday's comments by new Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo] is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill... Read more ›
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