Jethro Tull founding member Mick Abrahams dies aged 82
Apple Tested AirPods in Bright Colors
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
New York State will require warning labels on social media platforms
Surprise! Stardew Valley – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Is Now Available
Stranger Things’ final four episode run times confirmed
Jethro Tull founding member Mick Abrahams dies aged 82
Mick Abrahams, the original guitarist and founding member of Jethro Tull, has died aged 82. The band’s lead vocalist, Ian Anderson, confirmed his passing via a post on their official website on December 21, with news first emerging on a…
Apple Tested AirPods in Bright Colors
Apple reportedly tested a version of the first-generation AirPods with bright, iPhone 5c-like colored charging cases. The images, shared by the Apple leaker and prototype collector known as ”Kosutami,” claim to show first-generation AirPods prototypes with pink and yellow exterior…
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the…
New York State will require warning labels on social media platforms
The State of New York will now require social media platforms to display warning labels similar to those found on cigarettes. The bill was passed by the New York Legislature in June and signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul…
Surprise! Stardew Valley – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Is Now Available
Update [Fri 26th Dec 2025, 9am]: Following last week’s update from ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is now officially available. Once again, it’s a free upgrade for owners of the existing version of Stardew Valley on Switch.…
Stranger Things’ final four episode run times confirmed
Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer has confirmed the run times for the final four episodes of the series. Episodes five, six and seven will drop on Netflix at 5pm PT on Christmas Day (1am on Boxing Day in the UK),…
Box Office: ‘Marty Supreme’ Beats ‘Anaconda’ on Christmas Day, ‘Avatar 3’ Crossing $600M Globally
While James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash continues to dominate the year-end holiday box office, there was plenty of other action on Christmas Day as a second batch of movies opened nationwide, including A24’s high profile period pic Marty Supreme…
Nvidia strikes $20 billion deal to acquire Groq assets
Groq, an AI chip startup, entered into an agreement with Nvidia to help ”advance and scale” Groq’s tech. ”As part of this agreement, Jonathan Ross, Groq’s Founder, Sunny Madra, Groq’s President, and other members of the Groq team will join…
OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved, casting doubt on the agentic AI vision
OpenAI acknowledges that prompt injections – text-based attacks on language models running in browsers – may never be completely eliminated. Still, the company says it’s ”optimistic” about reducing the risks over time. OpenAI has released a security update for the…
What if your face could say ”don’t record me”? Researchers think it’s possible – Help Net Security
The spread of always-on cameras has created a privacy problem where bystanders lose control over how and when they are captured on video. To address this, researchers at the University of California, Irvine designed BLINDSPOT, an on-device privacy signaling system.…
So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a declaration: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” he posted on Truth Social in January 2024. Reports to the contrary, he insisted, were…
Apple lands third in Cloudflare’s 2025 Internet Services rankings – 9to5Mac
Cloudflare has released the 2025 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review, highlighting the trends it observed throughout the year as one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers. Here’s how Apple did. Apple-specific trends in 2025, per Cloudflare’s report According to…