Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
Office 365 for IT Pros
Microsoft 365 Pricing Increase in July 2026
Customers will see their bills increase from July 1, 2026 when Microsoft 365 pricing increases go into effect, adding up to $3/month for licenses.
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IBM to acquire Confluent https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
Confluent
IBM to Acquire Confluent
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
Pebble Index 01 β External memory for your brain https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
Repebble
Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain
30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness https://www.jorsys.org/archive/december_2025.html#newsitem_2025-12-09T07:42:19Z
Kaiju β General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor https://github.com/KaijuEngine/kaiju
GitHub
GitHub - KaijuEngine/kaiju: General purpose 3D and 2D game engine using Go (golang) and Vulkan with built in editor
General purpose 3D and 2D game engine using Go (golang) and Vulkan with built in editor - KaijuEngine/kaiju
Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli
mistral.ai
Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI. | Mistral AI
State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news
Bruno Simon β 3D Portfolio https://bruno-simon.com/
Three.js Journey
Bruno Simon
Bruno Simon's creative portfolio
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
www.digitalpublicgoods.net
PeerTube
PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.
Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
Reuters
Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
Australia on Wednesday became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access in a move welcomed by many parents and child advocates but criticised by major technology companies and free-speech advocates.
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
karpathy
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.
EFF launches Age Verification Hub https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-laws
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Related Issues
With ill-advised and dangerous age verification laws proliferating across the United States and around the world, creating surveillance and censorship regimes that will be used to harm both youth and
The highest quality codebase https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
gricha.dev
The highest quality codebase
Blog post
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/
RivianTrackr - All things Rivian, EVs, charging, and roadtrips
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 LiDAR Roadmap, Universal Hands Free, and Its Next Gen Autonomy Platform
RJ opened the first ever Autonomy and AI Day explaining why Rivian believes it is positioned to lead in this next phase of the industry. The company is leaning hard into compute, custom hardware, large scale AI systems, and a shared data foundation that touchesβ¦
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
Simon Willisonβs Weblog
Useful patterns for building HTML tools
Iβve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that Iβve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to β¦
I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html