Check out this tech news: Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban... https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
Check out this tech news: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now... https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news
Check out this tech news: AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects... https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/13/ai-data-center-boom-could-be-bad-news-for-other-infrastructure-projects/
Check out this tech news: With iOS 26.2, Apple lets you roll back Liquid Glass again β this time on the Lock Screen... https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/with-ios-26-2-apple-lets-you-roll-back-liquid-glass-again-this-time-on-the-lock-screen/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:06:51 +0000 | ID: 81635fe66db0
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A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.
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Google has massive proprietary assets (Search, Gmail, Docs, YouTube). Microsoft/OpenAI has GitHub, Bing, Office, and enterprise data. xAI has direct access to Twitter/X's social data. Meta has faceboo...
Check out this tech news: [D] How does Claude perform so well without any proprietary data?... https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1plg1gs/d_how_does_claude_perform_so_well_without_any/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:31:36 +0000 | ID: 4f3ef44511f9
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| Topics: π Security, βοΈ Cloud
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Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.
Check out this tech news: Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks... https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/google-and-apple-roll-out-emergency-security-updates-after-zero-day-attacks/
Check out this tech news: Sharks and rays gain landmark protections as nations move to curb international trade... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/sharks-and-rays-gain-landmark-protections-as-nations-move-to-curb-international-trade/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-12-13T11:00:00-05:00 | ID: c78abe7b8c31
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| Topics: π€ Ai Ml
π€ AI Summary:
As I'm sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I can hear whizzing and whirring, and the occasional clunk, as a robot chef in my kitchen...
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-12-13T10:16:08-05:00 | ID: 0f092bf5483a
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| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π’ Big Tech
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The Nex Playground is apparently one of the hottest consoles this holiday season thanks to its kid-friendly games and fun, motion-controlled gameplay. And now through December 14th, the cube-shaped co...
Check out this tech news: The Nex Playground and Pixel Buds 2A top our list of the best deals this week... https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/844093/nex-playground-google-pixel-buds-2a-deal-sale
π€ AI Summary:
Sektori is an old-school twin-stick shooter. Created by a former developer at Returnal studio Housemarque, it puts you in the role of a little ship that blasts through swarms of enemies, and you have ...
Check out this tech news: Sektori is psychedelic, tough as nails, and worth the pain... https://www.theverge.com/games/840324/sektori-review-pc-ps5-xbox-series-x-s
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 | ID: 32f0ad487ce4
| Engagement: [40.5/100] π° Standard
| Topics: π€ Ai Ml
π€ AI Summary:
Letβs face it, the same thing happens year after year. Things get busy with work, school, and life in general until youβre suddenly up against the clock as you race your gifts to your local post offic...
Check out this tech news: Here are the shipping deadlines to get your holiday gifts on time... https://www.theverge.com/23502151/ups-usps-fedex-amazon-walmart-best-buy-target-shipping-deadlines
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Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and Live, respectively. Native Instr...
Check out this tech news: Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio... https://www.theverge.com/tech/839732/serato-slab-midi-controller-studio
Check out this tech news: OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/how-openai-is-using-gpt-5-codex-to-improve-the-ai-tool-itself/
π€ AI Summary:
The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it doesn't have to be that way. With ...
Check out this tech news: Inside RivianβsΒ big bet on AI-powered self-driving... https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/inside-rivians-big-et-on-ai-powered-self-driving/
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Microsoft's data center ambitions have imperiled its 2030 pledge to remove more carbon than it generates, making carbon removal credits all but necessary.
Check out this tech news: Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant... https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/microsoft-buys-3-6m-metric-tons-of-carbon-removal-from-bioenergy-plant/
Check out this tech news: Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android... https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/google-translate-learns-slang-and-idioms-expands-live-translation-beyond-pixel-buds/
Check out this tech news: Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/ukrainians-sue-us-chip-firms-for-powering-russian-drones-missiles/
Check out this tech news: Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/trump-tries-to-block-state-ai-laws-himself-after-congress-decided-not-to/
π€ AI Summary:
It's a small sample size, likely driven by Black Friday discounts and temporary virality, but the Nex Playground has gone from little-known console curiosity to best-seller. It's now on track to quadr...
Check out this tech news: A Kinect for kids is outselling Xbox to become the hot console this holiday... https://www.theverge.com/news/844380/nex-playground-outselling-the-xbox
π€ AI Summary:
Research paper by Ao Liang, Lingdong Kong, Tianyi Yan et al.. Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing bu...
Check out this tech news: Dead Internet is coming for audio: one startup is flooding Spotify with 3000 AI-generated podcast episodes every week... https://archive.ph/gzddI
Check out this tech news: Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/reminder-donate-to-win-swag-in-our-annual-charity-drive-sweepstakes-17/
Check out this tech news: Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/scientists-built-an-ai-co-pilot-for-prosthetic-bionic-hands/
π€ AI Summary:
As a writer, I take the tools of my trade relatively seriously. Iβm not crazy enough to drop $3,600 on a keyboard, but I also find typing on a MacBook for extended periods of time deeply unsatisfying ...
Check out this tech news: The best thing I bought this year: a portable mechanical keyboard... https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843455/mechanical-keyboard-nyphy-favorite
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Research paper by Yukai Shi, Weiyu Li, Zihao Wang et al.. We propose a decoupled 3D scene generation framework called SceneMaker in this work. Due to the lack of sufficient open-set de-occlusion and p...
Check out this tech news: SceneMaker: Open-set 3D Scene Generation with Decoupled De-occlusion and Pose Estimation Model... http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10957v1
π€ AI Summary:
Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn's new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there's more complexity involved, experts say.
Check out this tech news: US will require EU citizens to give all biometric data including DNA in new ESTA requirements... https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
Check out this tech news: Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?... https://www.infoworld.com/article/4098925/is-vibe-coding-the-new-gateway-to-technical-debt.html
Check out this tech news: Why Twilio Segment Moved from Microservices Back to a Monolith... https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
Check out this tech news: A study in contrasts: The cinematography of Wake Up Dead Man... https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/12/a-study-in-contrasts-the-cinematography-of-wake-up-dead-man/
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Research paper by Tjark Behrens, Anton Obukhov, Bingxin Ke et al.. We introduce StereoSpace, a diffusion-based framework for monocular-to-stereo synthesis that models geometry purely through viewpoint...
Check out this tech news: StereoSpace: Depth-Free Synthesis of Stereo Geometry via End-to-End Diffusion in a Canonical Space... http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10959v1
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Research paper by Wentao Zhou, Xuweiyi Chen, Vignesh Rajagopal et al.. The success of foundation models in language and vision motivated research in fully end-to-end robot navigation foundation models...