Month: December 2025
You can double your Switch 2’s storage with Samsung’s $40 microSD Express card
The Nintendo Switch 2 and all things that orbit the console are among the hottest holiday gifts this year. Consider us surprised to not just see the $499 Mario Kart World bundle selling for $50 off at Walmart and many great Switch 2 accessories discounted during Cyber Monday, but also to see a Samsung 256GB … Read more
Kalshi Launches Tokenized Event Bets on Solana Blockchain: CNBC
The prediction market is rolling out tokenized contracts on Solana to meet crypto traders where they already are, Kalshi told CNBC.
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MKBHD’s wallpaper app Panels is shutting down
“We knew it was niche… and ultimately, we weren’t able to turn it into the vision I had,” Marques Brownlee said.
Coinbase C-Suite, Marc Andreessen Sued for Billions Over Alleged Insider Trading Scheme
A lawsuit filed by Coinbase shareholders accuses the company’s leadership of withholding key information for years while making billions selling inflated stock.
This $5 Kindle page-turning remote is all I’m buying for Cyber Monday
The page flipper can work on most portable devices that have a capacitive touchscreen. | Image: TeoTeeo I’ve been looking for any huge Cyber Monday deals that I might have missed. Then I saw it — what may very well be the perfect stocking stuffer in 2025: a remote-controlled Kindle screen-tapping gadget for $4.75 (before … Read more
One-Click to Clean Workflow History Versions of Apache DolphinScheduler via API
Reduce relation & task log table size using API & Python. Safe, efficient, and keeps only the latest 20 versions.
Ripple to Expand XRP, RLUSD Payments in Singapore After Securing License
XRP is falling hard alongside Bitcoin on Monday, but Ripple just got good news regarding its payments service in Singapore.
Kevin Lancaster Joins the usecure Board to Accelerate North American Channel Growth
Claymont, Delaware, December 1st, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–Lancaster’s arrival brings significant North American channel experience and expertise, supporting usecure’s ambition to cement its position as the market-leading human risk management solution for MSPs. usecure today announced the appointment of Kevin Lancaster as a Non-Executive Director. Kevin joins usecure with a wealth of experience in the North American channel … Read more
MKBHD is taking down his wallpaper app
Marques Brownlee’s Panels wallpaper app is shutting down on December 31st, barely a year after its controversial launch. “We made mistakes making our first app, and ultimately, we weren’t able to turn it into the vision I had,” Brownlee said in a video on the MKBHD YouTube channel. The Panels launch in September 2024 was … Read more
CME rekindles ETH ‘super-cycle’ debate as Ether futures volume tops Bitcoin
Ether futures overtake Bitcoin on CME as ETH volatility spikes, fueling debate over a potential Ether super-cycle amid a broader crypto market pullback.
Construction workers are cashing in on the AI boom
“I pinch myself going to work every day,” one 51-year-old says of his new supervisor role overseeing 200 workers at a data center site.
Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Phase 6 Crosses 96% With High Demand
A fast-moving new cryptocurrency is nearing one of the most important points in its early trajectory. Mutuum Finance (MUTM), priced at $0.035, has now crossed 96% allocation in Phase 6, and buyers are watching closely as the final portion continues to shrink. With growing participation and major development milestones approaching, many investors are asking whether … Read more
Price predictions 12/1: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH
Bitcoin’s negative open to December shows bears’ plan to pull BTC to the $80,000 support. Analysts are now calling for a bull market to end with a drop to $70,000 and below.
Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035
New planned data centers promise to consume even more energy than expected. Meanwhile, a grid monitor is blaming such growth for high electricity prices.
How to Customize Appwrite Email Templates in Production
When running Appwrite in production (especially from Digital Ocean Marketplace or other pre-built installations), you might want to customize email templates to match your brand. This guide shows you how to do it properly using volume mounts to ensure your changes persist across updates. Understanding Appwrite Email System Appwrite’s email system consists of two main … Read more
Microsoft’s ugly sweaters return with Clippy, Xbox, and Zune brown options
Microsoft is bringing back its ugly sweaters for the holiday season. After taking a break for 2024, the company has an “Artifact” holiday sweater with lots of retro iconography, an even uglier Zune brown option, and even a green Xbox version. Clippy was the star of Microsoft’s ugly sweater in 2022, and the Artifact option … Read more
Testing the Depths of AI Empathy: Q4 2025 Benchmarks
This is my fourth and final set of quantitative benchmarks on LLM empathy. The benchmarks were delayed from Q3 while I waited for new models to be released. Several models, including one relatively small and fast one, have reached such high quantitative empathy scores that future benchmarking is unlikely to have substantive value. Although I … Read more
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Goldman Sachs buys Innovator for $2B, adding a Bitcoin-linked ETF to lineup
The acquisition expands Goldman’s defined-outcome ETF business and brings the bank deeper into crypto-linked investment products.
European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3 billion euros
Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer’s service.
Festivitas lets you decorate your Apple devices with holiday lights and snow
This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.
When the System Works but the Data Lies: Notes on Survivorship Bias in Large-Scale ML Pipelines
Most ML pipelines fail quietly, not through outages, but through data that looks valid while slowly drifting away from reality. Survivorship bias builds when upstream filters distort what the model believes is “truth.” The real work is learning to distrust green dashboards and design pipelines that stay sceptical of their own assumptions.