On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a significant outage due to a configuration change intended to mitigate a vulnerability in React Server Components. The outage lasted approximately 25 minutes, affecting 28% of HTTP traffic

New pinball machine based on Valve’s Portal video game

In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence

Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the exponent of the other, or something - and you get the quality of discourse on AI consciousness. It’s not great

Blender 5.0 has been released with major upgrades including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan, significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements

The Aptera is an electric autocycle with a drag coefficient of 0.13, modern supercars are between 0.30 to 0.39. The carbon fiber body is made in Modena, Italy, at the facility of C.P.C. Group that makes parts for several brands, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati. Assembly takes place in Carlsbad, CA. The Aptera has a 400 mile range. Solar panels add 40 miles of range per day to the vehicle, allowing free charging on days you drive less than 40 miles. The three wheeler is a two seater hatchback with plenty of cargo space for your needs. The launch edition target price is $40,000 and goes in to production early 2026

Meta is retiring Facebook's external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook's role within Meta continues to shrink

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.

To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements: It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page; Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB

A "Keep Android Open" campaign is pushing back on new rules from Google that will reportedly block users from sideloading apps on Android phones

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
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Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours

This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)

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A 150,000-person study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting found millennials appear to be aging biologically faster than previous generations based on blood biomarkers

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes

French lawmaker calls for criminal inquiry into TikTok’s effect on children

Nepal’s government has lifted its ban on 26 prominent social media apps and messaging services after at least 19 people were killed and more than 200 injured in clashes on Monday

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Nvidia’s new ‘robot brain’ goes on sale for $3,499

‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys