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• Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' [1hr]
• Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts [6hr]
• Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It [9hr]
• Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses [10hr]
• 404 Media Is Making a Zine [33hr]
• Podcast: Why AI Porn Sucks (with Noelle Perdue) [33hr]
• ICEBlock Creator Sues U.S. Government Over App’s Removal [33hr]
• An Asteroid Threatening Earth Is Teeming With Ingredients for Life, Scientists Discover [82hr]
• Behind the Blog: Hearing AI Voices and 'Undervolting' [103hr]
• DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store [103hr]
• Kohler's Smart Toilet Camera Not Actually End-to-End Encrypted [124hr]
• Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections [125hr]
• ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants [129hr]
• ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says [151hr]
• The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library [154hr]

Hacker News

• US International Trade Administration Shaped EU Censorship Against US Companies [1hr]
• OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution [2hr]
• Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know [2hr]
• Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly [3hr]
• Django: What's new in 6.0 – Adam Johnson [4hr]
• We Need to Die [4hr]
• Agentic AI Foundation [4hr]
• 10 Years of Let's Encrypt [6hr]
• So you want to speak at software conferences? [6hr]
• The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered [6hr]
• Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder [7hr]
• How Private Equity Is Changing Housing [7hr]
• If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? [7hr]
• PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance [7hr]
• Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation [7hr]

• Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer [7hr]
• Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention [8hr]
• Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention [8hr]
• Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites [8hr]
• Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? [8hr]
• AI needs more power than the grid can deliver – supersonic tech can fix that [9hr]
• Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending [9hr]
• Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain [9hr]
• Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now [9hr]
• Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game [10hr]
• Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor [10hr]
• My favourite small hash table [10hr]
• Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI [10hr]
• Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? [11hr]
• Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage [12hr]
• Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020) [13hr]
• Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns [13hr]
• ZX Spectrum Next on the Internet: Xberry Pi ESP01 and Pi Zero Upgrades [14hr]
• The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn [15hr]
• 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness [15hr]
• A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024) [17hr]
• The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets [18hr]
• Modern Walkmans [20hr]
• The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf] [22hr]

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ArsTechnica

• Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages [2hr]
• Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents [3hr]
• Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat [6hr]
• NASA astronauts will have their own droid when they go back to the Moon [6hr]
• Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense [7hr]
• Google is reviving wearable gesture controls, but only for the Pixel Watch 4 [7hr]
• Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30 [8hr]
• Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete [8hr]
• In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars [8hr]
• Asked why we need Golden Dome, the man in charge points to a Hollywood film [9hr]
• Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100 [9hr]
• ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal [27hr]
• Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover [30hr]
• F1 in Abu Dhabi: And that’s the championship [31hr]
• A big bike on a budget: Lectric’s XPress 750 [33hr]

Css-tricks

• CSS Wrapped 2025 [9hr]
• Fit width text in 1 line of CSS [9hr]
• That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece [34hr]
• HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 [102hr]
• Getting Creative With “The Measure” [130hr]
• Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries [176hr]
• Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open [199hr]
• On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values [370hr]
• Sketch: A guided tour of Copenhagen [438hr]
• Should We Even Have :closed? [465hr]
• The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2() [538hr]
• Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse [609hr]
• The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if() [633hr]
• Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! [706hr]
• Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements [801hr]

Dark reading

• GISEC GLOBAL 2026 – The Middle East &amp; Africa’s Largest Cybersecurity Event [<1hr]
• Japanese Firms Suffer Long Tail of Ransomware Damage [<1hr]
• Microsoft Fixes Exploited Zero Day in Light Patch Tuesday [2hr]
• Packer-as-a-Service Shanya Hides Ransomware, Kills EDR [4hr]
• Analysts Warn of Cybersecurity Risks in Humanoid Robots [8hr]
• Gemini Enterprise No-Click Flaw Exposes Sensitive Data [12hr]
• Apache Issues Max-Severity Tika CVE After Patch Miss [26hr]
• Exploitation Activity Ramps Up Against React2Shell [27hr]
• US Treasury Tracks $4.5B in Ransom Payments since 2013 [28hr]
• ‘Broadside’ Mirai Variant Targets Maritime Logistics Sector [37hr]
• Rust Code Delivers Better Security, Also Streamlines DevOps [98hr]
• India Rolls Back App Mandate Amid Surveillance Concerns [100hr]
• Threat Landscape Grows Increasingly Dangerous for Manufacturers [105hr]
• React2Shell Vulnerability Under Attack from China-Nexus Groups [105hr]
• CISOs Should Be Asking These Quantum Questions Today [105hr]

Go Make Things

• Prefiguration [34hr]
• 'Tis the season [130hr]
• Flobots [154hr]
• My no-fuss code linting and formatting setup [178hr]
• Building empathy [202hr]
• A garden in bloom [346hr]
• You're doing JavaScript testing wrong [370hr]
• Essentials [442hr]
• Safari strikes again [466hr]
• AI and cigarettes [490hr]
• Typescript without Typescript [514hr]
• Open source is still broken [634hr]
• HTML is for lovers [658hr]
• Review your own git pull requests [682hr]
• Pull Request Templates [850hr]

Lobsters

• Postmortem: Intermittent Failure in SimKube CI Runners [1hr]
• Multiplying our way out of division [2hr]
• You Don't Need an ORM [7hr]
• why i think jj-vcs is worth your time [8hr]
• International Workshop on Plan 9: 2026 Edition [8hr]
• CSS Wrapped 2025 [9hr]
• Fighting the Client Spaghetti Monster with Rust Traits [9hr]
• Zig asserts are not C asserts [10hr]
• Linux kernel version numbers [10hr]
• UringMachine Benchmarks [10hr]
• TextKit 2 - the promised land [10hr]
• The world needs social sovereignty [11hr]
• Semi-Interactive Assembly Verification in Knuckledragger [11hr]
• Go proposal: Secret mode [12hr]
• No ARIA is better than Bad ARIA [12hr]

• Unofficial language server for gren, in rust [12hr]
• An apologia for lazy evaluation [13hr]
• Offline cybersecurity AI using RAG + local LLM (Python, FAISS, Llama 3.1) [13hr]
• Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life [13hr]
• Compiler Engineering in Practice - Part 1: What is a Compiler? [15hr]
• Factor 0.101 now available [15hr]
• 39C3 Fahrplan 2025 [15hr]
• xkcd 1313: Regex Golf (2014) [16hr]
• Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS [19hr]
• Optique 0.8.0: Conditional parsing, pass-through options, and LogTape integration [20hr]
• Metacode: The new standard for machine-readable comments for Python [21hr]

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Programmable Mutter

• America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe [86hr]
• Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung [203hr]
• Liberalism transforms plurality from weakness to strength [875hr]
• What is civil society, and why should we care? [1044hr]
• China has copied America's grab for semiconductor power [1306hr]
• What the left can learn from evangelical churches [1380hr]
• Trump's University Compact demonstrates weakness, not strength [1499hr]
• The Village and the Sewer [1834hr]
• The Aaron Swartz production function [1885hr]
• Repost: Absolute power can be a terrible weakness [1980hr]
• Understanding AI as a social technology [2123hr]
• Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions [2147hr]
• Process knowledge is crucial to economic development [2362hr]
• Short posts on useful concepts I : Flattery Inflation [2509hr]
• The twilight of tech unilateralism [2700hr]

Tech Crunch

• Hinge CEO steps down to launch Overtone, an AI dating app [<1hr]
• Fal nabs $140M in fresh funding led by Sequoia, tripling valuation to $4.5B [2hr]
• Cashew Research is going after the $90B market research industry with AI [2hr]
• SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target [3hr]
• B Capital founding partner Kabir Narang leaves to launch new investment platform [3hr]
• Why Cursor’s CEO believes OpenAI, Anthropic competition won’t crush his startup [3hr]
• Rivian is building its own AI assistant [4hr]
• Three in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing [4hr]
• Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer [5hr]
• Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers [5hr]
• Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells [5hr]
• Truecaller now lets users protect households from scam calls [6hr]
• Ford and Renault team up on cheaper EVs in a ‘fight for our lives’ [6hr]
• Google Photos launches new video editing tools [6hr]
• NASA and USPS stop using Canoo EVs despite CEO’s pledged support [7hr]

• OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era [7hr]
• Fairphone refreshes its good-looking, repairable headphones [7hr]
• Facebook redesign focuses on friends, photos, Marketplace and more [7hr]
• Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+ [8hr]
• Google’s first AI glasses expected next year [8hr]
• EU launches antitrust probe into Google’s AI search tools [8hr]
• Microsoft to invest $17.5B in India by 2029 as AI race accelerates [8hr]
• VSCO lays off 24 staff as its consumer business suffers [8hr]
• India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for training AI on copyrighted content [8hr]
• Anthropic and Accenture sign multi-year AI strategic partnership [9hr]
• Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button [9hr]
• Spotify launches music videos in the U.S. and Canada for Premium subscribers [9hr]
• Mistral AI surfs vibe coding tailwinds with new coding models [10hr]
• Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps [11hr]

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The Verge

• Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium [1hr]
• Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald&#8217;s ad about hating Christmas was a flop [2hr]
• Google is powering a new US military AI platform [2hr]
• Some of our favorite gifts will cost you less than $25 [3hr]
• Wake Up Dead Man digs deep for a darker, more powerful Knives Out [4hr]
• The AirPods Pro 3 are back to their lowest price ahead of the holidays [4hr]
• Google brings back Black Friday prices for earbuds, phones, and more [5hr]
• I’m obsessed with Redfin’s AI search [5hr]
• The best gifts for dads that have everything (but deserve more) [5hr]
• The best deals on MacBooks right now [5hr]
• Nothing&#8217;s community-designed Phone 3A adds some color and matching dice [6hr]
• Facebook&#8217;s redesign is making it more like Instagram [6hr]
• Australia boots kids under 16 off social media: how platforms are responding [6hr]
• Google Photos&#8217; new video editor makes it more like Capcut [6hr]
• Data center construction moratorium is gaining steam [7hr]

• The Verge’s 2025 holiday gift guide for tinkerers [8hr]
• YouTube creators can now test multiple video titles [8hr]
• Some of Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart devices are now available in the US [8hr]
• Spotify’s music videos feature arrives in the US and Canada [9hr]
• The next Pebble gadget is the Index 01, a ring with a microphone [9hr]
• Alexa Plus can automatically buy stuff when the price drops [9hr]
• Ford taps Renault for help building cheap EVs in Europe [9hr]
• Google will repair Pixel 9 Pro phones with display issues [10hr]
• The Vergecast 2025 year in review [10hr]
• The best thing I bought this year: the Remarkable Paper Pro [10hr]
• You can now text photos directly to Aura&#8217;s digital picture frames [10hr]
• iFixit’s FixBot helps with repairs ‘the way a master technician would’ [11hr]
• The war on disinformation is a losing battle [12hr]
• Trump says Nvidia can sell more powerful AI chips to China [13hr]
• RAM is ruining everything [13hr]
• Google Zero is under investigation by the EU [14hr]
• You can put the best part of Fairphone&#8217;s new headphones into the older model [16hr]

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Wired

• This Is the Best Razor I've Ever Used—Save Big With This Sale [<1hr]
• Intel Takes Major Step in Plan to Acquire Chip Startup SambaNova [1hr]
• The Best Down Comforter Deals for Winter Nights (2025) [2hr]
• The 51 Best Shows on Hulu, WIRED’s Picks (December 2025) [4hr]
• OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer [6hr]
• The Best Karaoke Speakers from Small and Portable to Massive [6hr]
• OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy [7hr]
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice [7hr]
• Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring [9hr]
• What Peloton Instructor Jess King Needs to Survive the Day [10hr]
• Soundpeats H3 Review: Triple-Driver Wireless Earbuds [10hr]
• How to Shop for a Mechanical Keyboard (2025): Switches, Materials, and Layouts Explained [11hr]
• iFixit Put a Chatbot Repair Expert in an App [11hr]
• 21 Best Gifts for Cooks (2025): Vitamix, Frying Pans, Air Fryers [12hr]
• The 26 Best Advent Calendars (2025): It's OK if You Start Late [12hr]

• San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: ‘We Are a City on the Rise’ [13hr]
• Can Bike Riders and Self-Driving Cars Be Friends? [13hr]
• America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI [14hr]
• 50% Off Chewy Promo Code | December 2025 [18hr]
• Dell Coupon Codes: 10% Off | December 2025 [18hr]
• Visible Promo Code: Save $400 in December 2025 [18hr]
• Logitech Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 50% Off This Holiday Season [18hr]
• KitchenAid Promo Code: 30% Off in December 2025 [18hr]
• 50% Off Verizon Promo Codes | December 2025 [18hr]

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Wired security

• Oh Crap, Kohler’s Toilet Cameras Aren’t Really End-to-End Encrypted [85hr]
• Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database [109hr]
• ‘Signalgate’ Inspector General Report Wants Just One Change to Avoid a Repeat Debacle [120hr]
• Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1 [122hr]
• FBI Says DC Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Kept Buying Bomb Parts After January 6 [125hr]
• A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code [127hr]
• The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE [133hr]
• Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing [168hr]
• Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs [173hr]
• Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI [202hr]
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens [252hr]
• Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon [278hr]
• 3 Best VPN for iPhone (2025), Tested and Reviewed [301hr]
• The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’ [320hr]
• ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms [341hr]