Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html
CNBC
Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
Disney is investing in OpenAI and has licensed its iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, Ariel and Iron Man to be used in the Sora AI video generator.
Did that Colorado station sign say gas for only $1.69? Yes, it did
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/11/colorado-gas-prices-falling-national-average/
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/11/colorado-gas-prices-falling-national-average/
The Colorado Sun
Did that Colorado station sign really say gas for only $1.69? Yes, it did.
Gas prices in Colorado have fallen even farther than the national price drop, and some drivers can see prices as low as $1.69.
Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data
https://nautil.us/crick-and-watson-did-not-steal-franklins-data-1252663/
https://nautil.us/crick-and-watson-did-not-steal-franklins-data-1252663/
Nautilus
Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin’s Data
Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin’s Data: Matthew Cobb’s 3 greatest revelations while writing his book "Crick: A Mind in Motion."
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It
https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/
https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/
404 Media
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
Age Verification Is Coming for the Internet
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online.
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with Cosmic Desktop Environment Released
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/
System76 Blog
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components
react.dev
Denial of Service and Source Code Exposure in React Server Components – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year
https://secondstreet.org/2025/11/26/23746-patients-died-on-waitlists-in-past-year/
https://secondstreet.org/2025/11/26/23746-patients-died-on-waitlists-in-past-year/
SecondStreet.Org
23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year - SecondStreet.Org
SecondStreet.org released new data showing that over 23,000 Canadian patients died on medical waitlists over the past year.
Nokia N900 Necromancy – giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone
https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
yaky.dev
Nokia N900 Necromancy
The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/?
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/?
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o
Bbc
'It's amazing' – the wonder material very few can make
Just a handful of companies can make cadmium zinc telluride, a material with powerful properties.