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Lemon Slice, which launched a 20B-parameter model that creates digital avatars for AI agents, streaming video at 20 FPS on a single GPU, raised a $10.5M seed (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/lemon-slic…

Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech | TechCrunch
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.

This is a tragic but also very touching story about life and how people deal with conventions and tradition in a way you would probably not expect:
after my dad died, we found the #love letters
https://www.je…

Tank after tank into the abyss: Ukrainian army grinds down Russian assaults: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/tank-after-tank-into-the.html

The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error in granting planning permission.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

£1bn datacentre plans on hold after government admits legal blunder
The construction of a £1 billion datacentre in Iver, Buckinghamshire, have been put on hold after the government admitted it had made a critical error ...

ICE says the computer ate its records the day after it was sued for abuse.
404 Media reports that after ICE’s Broadview Detention Center outside Chicago was sued October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees,
the agency said that 💥two weeks of video footage that could have shown how immigration detainees are treated in the facility was lost in a “system crash” 💥 on October 31.*
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the …

ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued
ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”

Baker Mayfield exits game vs. Rams after suffering left shoulder injury https://www.nfl.com/news/baker-mayfield-exits-game-vs-rams-after-suffering-left-shoulder-injury

Yay! #Scotland
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/scotland-sends-baby-box-to-new-york-after-…

I'm just so glad that I didn't decide to rely on vimeo for hosting my videos. I got aware of peertube just at the right time.
Besides that I really wonder how bending spoons manages to continue service when firing the staff. On the other hand, maybe the systems are just well developed and thus quite robust.

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.

Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an "AI co-scientist", and more (Sandro Iannaccone/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alphafold-changed-science-after-…

AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever.

Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/waymo-updating-fleet-af…

Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
Three days after blackouts in San Francisco brought down Waymo's service, the company said it's implementing changes for when "infrastructure fails."