2025 was the beginning of the end of the TV brightness war

Much like the audio industry’s compression-driven loudness war, which reached its distortion-fueled apex (and not the good kind) with Metallica’s Death Magnetic in 2008, the television industry has been having its own battle the past couple of years: the brightness war. Sparked by the introduction of HDR and its higher brightness mastering levels, brands began … Read more

Trump Media is merging with a nuclear fusion company

Trump Media, the company that runs social network Truth Social, is pivoting to nuclear fusion. It has announced a merger with California-based fusion power company TAE Technologies, and plans to start construction on a fusion power plant in 2026. Trump Media & Technology Group will become the holding company of the new organization, though shareholders … Read more

Researchers and Developers Aren’t Fully Aligned on Modern Code Review Goals

Table Of Links 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND AND RELATED WORK 3 RESEARCH DESIGN 4 MAPPING STUDY RESULTS 5 SURVEY RESULTS 6 COMPARING THE STATE-OF-THE-ART AND THE PRACTITIONERS’ PERCEPTIONS 7 DISCUSSION 8 CONCLUSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 6 COMPARING THE STATE-OF-THE-ART AND THE PRACTITIONERS’ PERCEPTIONS In this section, we answer RQ3 — To what degree are researchers … Read more

It’s the great AGI rebrand

The cringe comes for us all, and for all our hot new turns of phrase. “Rizz” lost its luster when grandparents started asking about its meaning. Teachers who dressed up as “6-7” on Halloween drove a nail into the coffin of Gen Alpha’s rallying cry. And tech CEOs who once trumpeted the quest for “artificial … Read more

Doma Protocol Launches Names Marketplace on Base to Bring Over 40 Million Domains Onchain

San Francisco, CA, December 18, 2025 – Doma Protocol, the world’s leading DNS-compliant blockchain to tokenize the internet, today announced the launch of the Doma Names Marketplace on the Base app. Earlier this week in San Francisco, Coinbase announced the general availability of the Base app, an everything app that brings together social, trading, payments, … Read more

Apple opens iOS to third-party app stores in Japan

Apple has announced the changes it’s making to the iOS App Store in Japan in order to comply with recent legislation in the country. It will allow third-party app stores and payment processing options, though is introducing new commission fees for those transactions. Developers in Japan will now be able to distribute apps on alternative … Read more