2025-12-22

Annas Archive backed up Spotifys massive catalogue to preserve online music

Anna's Archive claims its scraped nearly 300 terabytes of music metadata from Spotify, in an effort to create and preserve an open music archive. [...]

2025-12-22

Yann LeCun calls general intelligence "complete BS" and Deepmind CEO Hassabis fires back publicly

Meta's outgoing AI researcher thinks the concept of "general intelligence" is meaningless. Google Deepmind's head publicly disagrees, accusing him of a fundamental category error.<br /> The article Yann LeCun calls general intelligence "complete BS& [...]

2025-12-22

Everyone's favorite Linux newbie-friendly distribution received a big update

elementaryOS 8.1 beta brings even more refinement and simplicity to an already elegant and friendly OS. [...]

2025-12-22

I battery-tested the best Google, Samsung, and OnePlus phones - and didn't expect these results

Among the year's best Android phones, here's the model that lasted the longest in my endurance tests. [...]

2025-12-22

I tried ChatGPT's new StubHub app, and I'll never shop for tickets the old way again

The app lets you shop conversationally and shows tickets you might otherwise miss. [...]

2025-12-22

Google locks in new energy reserves for its AI expansion

Google is ramping up its AI infrastructure with a major energy acquisition. Parent company Alphabet is buying clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt.<br /> The article Google locks in new energy reserves for its AI expansion appeared f [...]

2025-12-22

How U.S. tech built China’s surveillance state in Nepal

Intense surveillance has stifled the once-vibrant Free Tibet movement that had resonated around the world. [...]

2025-12-22

Motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock at risk from new UEFI flaw attack - here's what we know

Many popular devices are now vulnerable to direct memory access attacks, but there is a patch. [...]

2025-12-22

Large External SSDs are now cheaper than internal ones as 4TB SATA SSD face extinction due to negligible price difference

External 4TB SSDs costing less than internal SATA models shows shifting NAND priorities and increasing market pressures. [...]