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First this...
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
And then this...
"Firefox will [...] evolve into a modern AI browser."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/m…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

I knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…

Photographer Captures Incredible Luminous Event Over His Italian Town–For the Second Time https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/photographer-captures-incredible-luminous-event-over-his-town-for-2nd-time/

Photographer Captures Incredible Luminous Event Over His Italian Town–For the Second Time (LOOK)
Incredible images by an amateur astrophotographer show bizarre red rings, known as ELVES, 143-miles wide, floating in the sky.

The BBC charter green paper does at least acknowledge the licence fee's elephant in the room - we're potentially, maybe, ten to fifteen years away from switching off terrestrial TV broadcast towers.

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

We just attended another travel show. This time: #mountainbiking in #ligurien from Harald Philipp.
The visuals were pretty cool. And riding such trails UPHILL was pretty impressive, too. Definitely only doable with an ebike.

Los eternos Cheap Trick hoy han publicado «All Washed Up» su ya-no-sé-que-número šlbum de estudio.
#CheapTrick

"For Levy and Newborn, the stakes were clear, and the title of the first chapter of the book says it all: “The Challenge is World Champion Kasparov”. Said chapter describes in detail the match between a first iteration of a chess supercomputer by IBM, the less well-known “Deep Thought”. It was a strong contender, having defeated quite a few grandmasters along the way (including the aforementioned Levy), but was no match for Kasparov in August 1989."

David Levy & Monty Newborn
The literature about and around chess is too long to enumerate in an article of a thousand words, and this is clearly not my intent. If you want to learn chess, there are so many good books around, it is hard to pick just one. There are, however, fewer books explaining the art of how to teach a computer to play chess; and the one chosen for this issue of the Library section does a magnificent job at precisely that.

Five Movies That Attempt to Capture the Brilliance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein https://reactormag.com/the-perfect-film-adaptation-of-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-does-not-exist/

Five Movies That Attempt to Capture the Brilliance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Reactor
The perfect adaptation of "Frankenstein" does not exist, but here are five interesting attempts...

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/robot…

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp. filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong Co.

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Volvo Supplier Luminar Files Bankruptcy After Contract Dispute
Luminar Technologies Inc, which manufactures laser-based sensors for cars, filed for bankruptcy shortly after it lost a contract with Swedish carmaker Volvo AB.