Collaborate Disseminate
The television industry’s brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings — a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manuf… Continue reading 2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
Uber is hiring more engineers rather than fewer because AI tools have made them “superhumans,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, pushing back against the industry trend of using productivity gains to justify headcount cuts. Speaking on the “On with Kara Swis… Continue reading Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says
Happy Friday! And where did this month go? While we sort that one out, let’s kick off the weekend a bit early with one of the longer Ask Pauls in recent memory.
💩 The enshittification of the supply chain
Leo_W asks:
Micron Crucial is getting out of the… Continue reading Ask Paul: December 19 ⭐
iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company that brought the Roomba vacuum cleaner into American homes over its 35-year history, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and will be acquired by Picea, its Chinese contract manufacturer that also produces com… Continue reading ‘How Lina Khan Killed iRobot’
Here’s how to use Google Gemini to detect certain AI-generated videos. Continue reading Is that video AI? Gemini can now help you figure it out – but there’s a catch
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has reportedly agreed to divest its US operations to a consortium of companies that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX.
The post Report: TikTok Has Agreed to Divest its US Operations to America… Continue reading Report: TikTok Has Agreed to Divest its US Operations to American Consortium
Amazon Security Chief explains how a subtle keyboard delay exposed a North Korean impostor. Read about the laptop farm scheme and how 110 milliseconds of lag ended a major corporate infiltration. Continue reading Keyboard Lag Leads Amazon to North Korean Impostor in Remote Role
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest society of computing professionals, announced that all publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will become freely available to everyone starting January 2026. Authors wi… Continue reading ACM To Make Its Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 2026
Martin Matishak reports: President Donald Trump signed a $901 billion Pentagon policy bill on Thursday night that features a slew of key cybersecurity provisions. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act passed with bipartisan support in both the Ho… Continue reading Trump signs defense bill allocating millions for Cyber Command, mandating Pentagon phone security
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Trump could use private firms for cyber offensive, China threat to US power grid, RaccoonO365 suspect arrested in Nigeria.
The post In Other News: Docker AI Attack, Google Sues Chinese C… Continue reading In Other News: Docker AI Attack, Google Sues Chinese Cybercriminals, Coupang Hacked by Employee