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December 2025

Short-form video makes it hard to remember what you’re doing and worse at doing it
Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video.
 • Rob Beschizza
Judge: “plugging in a microwave” doesn’t turn room into a flat
A judge in England ruled this week that the presence of a microwave does not turn a single room into an apartment. The St. George Hotel in Great…
 • Rob Beschizza
Mashable reviews Elon Musk’s unfulfilled 2025 promises
Elon Musk spent 2025 promising Mars, robotaxis, artificial godhood, flying cars, and trillions in government savings.
 • Jason Weisberger
Utah police trust AI that identified a human as a frog
The future of policing apparently includes enchanted forests.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains’ windmill fixation once again embarrasses
Perpetually unaware and refusing to be held back by facts, Donald Trump mourned a long-dead Israeli falcon as a bald eagle, to disparage the wind.
 • Jason Weisberger
Get ready for the $5090 5090: GPU prices expected to soar next year
Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 graphics cards have a suggested retail price of $2,000.
 • Rob Beschizza
DOJ tracked journalist who exposed Epstein
Julie K.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Sobered-up thief returns stolen mandolins
Lark Street Music in Teaneck, New Jersey, specializes in vintage guitars.
 • Rob Beschizza
AI builds message-in-a-bottle app from vague prompt
A Reddit user going by enigma_x asked Claude AI to “build me an app that would delight me.” It generated a digital message-in-a-bottle service where…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
What travelers need to know about phone searches at the U.S. border
Crossing into the United States?
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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