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Netflix and Apple TV dominate this year’s list with thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, and murder.
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Being Santa Claus is a year-round calling
“You’re Santa Claus 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.” Acting out may shatter “the magic.”
Jennifer Ouellette – | 1
SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects
The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.
Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak, Inside Climate News – | 20
How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here’s what makes them tick.
Benj Edwards – | 38
China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks
The launch laid “an important foundation for subsequent launches and reliable recovery.”
Stephen Clark – | 70
Being Santa Claus is a year-round calling
“You’re Santa Claus 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.” Acting out may shatter “the magic.”
Jennifer Ouellette – | 1
SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects
The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.
Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak, Inside Climate News – | 20
How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here’s what makes them tick.
Benj Edwards – | 38
China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks
The launch laid “an important foundation for subsequent launches and reliable recovery.”
Stephen Clark – | 70
Leaked Avengers: Doomsday teaser is now public
It’s purportedly the first of four planned teasers, one per week, showing before Avatar: Fire and Ash.
Jennifer Ouellette – | 116
FCC’s import ban on the best new drones starts today
US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much.
Scharon Harding – | 117
OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year
Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.
WIRED – | 21
“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment
Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a “champion against the darkness.”
Ashley Belanger – | 208
F1’s new engines are causing consternation over compression ratios
A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage.
Jonathan M. Gitlin – | 100
The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector
Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.
Scharon Harding – | 27
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Trump’s biggest fan runs the FCC
No one loves President Trump more than FCC Chairman Brendan Carr
Carr used to insist on FCC independence. Now he uses FCC to fight Trump’s battles.
Jon Brodkin – | 89
In a surprise announcement, Tory Bruno is out as CEO of United Launch Alliance
“It has been a great privilege to lead ULA through its transformation and to bring Vulcan into service.”
Stephen Clark – | 126
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Call of Duty co-creator and Battlefield lead Vince Zampella dies in car crash
He had worked on Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, and Battlefield.
Samuel Axon – | 117
Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously
“This particular anomaly deserves to be right up front and center for quite some time.”
Stephen Clark – | 111
World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs
Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna’s Archive scraped.
Ashley Belanger – | 121
US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
Projects with hardware in the water stopped due to Department of Defense fears.
John Timmer – | 291
Odyssey trailer brings the myth to vivid life
“After years of war, no one could stand between my men and home. Not even me.”
Jennifer Ouellette – | 144
Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
Apple can’t force app makers to get consent twice to track user data, Italian regulator says.
Ashley Belanger – | 86
NASA rewraps Boeing Starliner Astrovan II for Artemis II ride to launch pad
Moon-bound astronauts rehearse their launch-day activities with a repurposed ride.
Robert Pearlman – | 37
Power outage paralyzes Waymo robotaxis when traffic lights go out
A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.
Jonathan M. Gitlin – | 273
When clouds flock together
Scientists discover that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways.
Knowable Magazine – | 12
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Happy Life Day!
Discworld, Daleks, and Deep 13: A geeky holiday TV and movie watchlist
There’s obviously more to Christmas flicks than Netflix romcoms.
Anna Washenko – | 119
How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
The new regulation arrives on New Year’s Day.
The Conversation – | 262
Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi
Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.
Ryan Whitwam – | 58
The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored.
Jacek Krywko – | 51
Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options
Inin suggests new low-cost options allowed it to “recalculate production” for full cartridge.
Kyle Orland – | 62
LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
LG says it’ll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren’t going away.
Scharon Harding – | 208
Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs
BIOS checks will only affect a limited subset of Valorant players for now.
Andrew Cunningham – | 95
Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV
You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox’s sub-$35,000 starting price.
Jonathan M. Gitlin – | 186
Trump’s energy secretary orders a Washington state coal plant to remain open
Chris Wright declared an energy “emergency” in the Pacific Northwest.
Blaine Harden, Inside Climate News – | 167
Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement
The grocery app will also stop hiding refund options and obscuring delivery costs.
Ashley Belanger – | 34
Strava puts popular “Year in Sport” recap behind an $80 paywall
Strava’s most viral feature is suddenly locked away.
Cyrus Farivar – | 114
We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive
How do four modern LLMs do at re-creating a simple Windows gaming classic?
Kyle Orland and Benj Edwards – | 190
Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station
“Russia, meanwhile, will be left to carry on the legacy of the ISS, with all its problems.”
Eric Berger – | 230
Rocket Report: Russia pledges quick fix for Soyuz launch pad; Ariane 6 aims high
South Korean rocket startup Innospace is poised to debut a new nano-launcher.
Stephen Clark – | 118
