Software
Apple might be requiring iPhone users to install iOS 26 for security fixes
By 9to5Mac ・ Dec 19, 2025
Apple released iOS 26.2 last week with important security fixes. At the same time, it also shipped i...
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Movie
Albert Brooks remembers his "oldest friend" Rob Reiner: "I'm still in that not believing it stage"
By CBS News ・ Dec 19, 2025
Comedian and actor Albert Brooks said he's still in shock over the death of one of his oldest and be...
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Art
Common holiday scams and how to avoid them : NPR
By NPR ・ Dec 19, 2025
It's easy to lose our critical thinking skills around the holidays. In a frenzy of last-minute gift...
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Art
Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation"
By Rock Paper Shotgun ・ Dec 19, 2025
Larian hope to offer "more insight" into their usage of generative AI via an ask me anything session...
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Markets
Communities are rising up against data centers - and winning
By The Verge ・ Dec 19, 2025
If there’s one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 — at least at the local leve...
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TV
‘We’re your dream throuple!’ The Night Manager is back - and it’s even steamier
By The Guardian ・ Dec 19, 2025
For screenwriter David Farr, The Night Manager’s return is a dream come true. Literally. “Having not...
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Music
Tennessee governor pardons country star Jelly Roll, who has sought redemption from criminal past
By ABC7 Los Angeles ・ Dec 19, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee's governor pardoned country star Jelly Roll on Thursday for his crimin...
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Internet
Seattle Seahawks claim playoff spot after making 16-point, 4th-quarter comeback to stun LA Rams in OT thriller
By CNN ・ Dec 19, 2025
The Seattle Seahawks came back from a 16-point, fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Ram...
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Music
Jelly Roll receives pardon from Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee
By ABC News ・ Dec 19, 2025
Jelly Roll has been granted a pardon from Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee for previous convictions for robbe...
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Health Care
UnitedHealth Group releases results of independent audit
By CNBC ・ Dec 19, 2025
UnitedHealth Group on Friday released the first results from a sprawling independent audit of its bu...
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Environment
Quad witching, Nike slides, weed rules and more in Morning Squawk
By CNBC ・ Dec 19, 2025
This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. H...
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Mobile
NYT Connections hints and answers for December 19, Tips to solve 'Connections' #922.
By Mashable ・ Dec 19, 2025
The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you know a lot about ships. Connec...
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Art
Story of ‘first Black Briton’ rewritten by advances in ancient DNA technology
By CNN ・ Dec 19, 2025
An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first...
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Space
Flu Surges Nationwide, With Regional Hotspots Leading The Spike
By HuffPost ・ Dec 19, 2025
LOADINGERROR LOADING Most people in the country know someone who currently has, or just had, the flu...
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Economy
Sneaking unemployment rate means the U.S. economy is inching closer to triggering Sahm Rule
By Fortune ・ Dec 19, 2025
In the most recent episode of Moody’s podcast Inside Economics, its chief economist, Mark Zandi, and...
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Movie
The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore
By WIRED ・ Dec 19, 2025
The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James C...
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Health Care
Texas Republicans in Congress at odds over health care
By The Texas Tribune ・ Dec 19, 2025
Most Republicans in the U.S. House agree they don’t want to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax...
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Books
How did interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS capture our imagination in 2025?
By Space ・ Dec 19, 2025
It came from outer space. Interstellar space, to be precise. From somewhere beyond the influence of...
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Space
Scientists discover a lemon-shaped planet with something they've never seen before
By Mashable ・ Dec 19, 2025
Astronomers have found a strange world outside the solar system that is ripe for science fiction — b...
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Movie
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’: What to Remember Before Seeing the New Movie
By The New York Times ・ Dec 19, 2025
With the release of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” it’s time to return to Pandora, the spectacularly detail...
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Medicine
Inside the FDA's vaccine uproar
By CBS News ・ Dec 19, 2025
Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had...
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Economy
In North Carolina, Trump plans to visit a newly redrawn congressional district : NPR
By NPR ・ Dec 19, 2025
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. – President Trump will visit Rocky Mount, N.C., on Friday, capping off a week in w...
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Software
China rallies its own chip industry : NPR
By NPR ・ Dec 19, 2025
SHENZHEN, China — The tech company SiCarrier is hardly a household name. The government-backed Chine...
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Space
The new WaPo food critic is setting his own rules : NPR
By NPR ・ Dec 19, 2025
Elazar Sontag did not suggest a coveted reservation for our first lunch together. Instead, The Washi...
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Physics
Suspect in MIT Professor’s Death Was an Ex-Classmate from Portugal, Prosecutors Say
By The New York Times ・ Dec 19, 2025
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that the suspect in the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Te...
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Markets
EU leaders agree on 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels
By ABC News ・ Dec 19, 2025
BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukrai...
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What to know about the Bank of Japan’s interest rate hike
By AP News ・ Dec 19, 2025
The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as...
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Environment
No. 7 Texas A&M vs. No. 10 Miami (Fla.): Live updates, score, highlights for the College Football Playoff
By NCAA.com ・ Dec 19, 2025
These teams may have not met in the regular season, but they shared two common opponents, with each...
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Mobile
Exynos 2600 Officially Announced As Samsung’s First 2nm GAA Chipset, All-Performance Cores Cluster, Up To 16% Better Thermal Resistance, 50% Improved RT Performance & More
By Wccftech ・ Dec 19, 2025
The partial specifications surrounding the Exynos 2600 were revealed yesterday, and it only took 24...
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Jobs
Jimmy Kimmel Thanks Viewers for Getting Him Through a 'Hard Year'
By Rolling Stone ・ Dec 19, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel opened his final monologue of 2025 by sharing his gratitude with viewers for supporting...
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