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Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts
Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts
France imposed a similar fine in March.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Dometic makes a better portable water faucet
Dometic makes a better portable water faucet
Not cheap, but better.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here
The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here
You can still fly the DJI drones you already own.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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the samizdat 60 minutes report www.theverge.com/policy/84943...
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding
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December 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding
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December 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot
ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot
How many messages did you send to ChatGPT this year?
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December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55
Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55
RIP.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"Unfortunately, all this also means that a lot of the openness of podcasting is slowly going away and becoming more centralized on platforms like YouTube and Netflix."

Hill I'm willing to die on: podcasts becoming a video-forward medium is / was a huge mistake, and the space is worse off for it
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar
Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar
Pubkey wants to “soften” Bitcoin’s rough public image in DC.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify
Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify
Anna’s Archive calls it the first preservation archive for music.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds
Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds
Keep an eye on your local fowl friends.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Indie Game Awards retracts Expedition 33 prizes due to generative AI
Indie Game Awards retracts Expedition 33 prizes due to generative AI
The game lost its Game of the Year and Debut Game awards.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well
From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
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December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Netflix doesn’t stream its ‘Originals’ forever, here are some that may leave in 2026
Netflix doesn’t stream its ‘Originals’ forever, here are some that may leave in 2026
If you’ve been meaning to watch any of these Originals, you’re running out of time.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Beats Studio Pro headphones are $200 off today
The Beats Studio Pro headphones are $200 off today
Follow the Beats for $200 less.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive
Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive
Prices may still vary on a store-by-store basis, Instacart says.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Why I pay for a @theverge.com subscription — tech journalism with an editorial standard and social purpose.
Sometimes the no comment is the entire story ;) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Chipwrecked
Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash?
What happens if the GPU-backed loans go south?
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December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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what happens when you let @reckless.bsky.social write heds www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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CHIPWRECKED yes I headlined a @lopatto.bsky.social banger after my kid forced me to watch an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie no regrets www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash?
What happens if the GPU-backed loans go south?
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December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Podcasts on Netflix? My thoughts here...
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It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’
“Podcast” is becoming an outdated relic
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December 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Get why people are concerned about what selling to Netflix might do to theaters, but need everyone to understand why Paramount gobbling up the entirety of WBD would also be very, very terrible.

No matter which company wins this fight, everyone except the execs loses
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM