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Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/chatgpt…

ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps increased 28% year-over-year, says report | TechCrunch
ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps were up on Black Friday year-over-year, with Walmart and Amazon benefitting the most.

I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things
https://www.pcgamer.com/softwar…

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.

2026 wird das Jahr von #Linux auf dem #Desktop (wieder mal).

I have a free email subscription to "reasons to be cheerful".
MAN, it helps.
Here's a year-end posting:
The Year in Cheer
97 ways the world got better in 2025
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/year-in-cheer-2025/

The Year in Cheer
97 ways the world got better in 2025.

I'm not into audiophile stuff btw, just decent quality things really.
For example, I have a pair Bose 901 speakers that are ~50 years old and they sound fantastic.
But it's not even that, if properly engineered even stuff which hasn't the primary purpose of sound reproduction can sound good.
My 15-year old Apple Thunderbolt Display, the 8-year old iPad Pro and the 5-year old Mac Book Pro all sound great.
But—
The speakers in my 2025 LG TV? They shouldn't have bothered installing them but instead put them right into a landfill.
Speakers in my Asus gaming monitor? Like someone dragging a nail on a chalkboard.
And, weirdly, the Apple HomePod mini is pretty bad at reproducing music. A 10-year old Bose SoundLink mini beats the pants of it. 🤷

Jay Yarow, who previously led digital strategy at CNBC and Business Insider, is named president of CoinDesk Insights, the media and events division of Bullish (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/01/cn…

CNBC Veteran Jay Yarow Joins CoinDesk to Expand Media and Events
Yarow will oversee CoinDesk Insights as its parent company looks to expand digital asset coverage across the globe.

2025 Protector of the Year: Who should win inaugural award at NFL Honors? https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-protector-of-the-year-who-should-win-inaugural-award-at-nfl-honors

Expect Trump to post something like this next year:
"We seek to bring joy and warmth to those in need of care and attention — and, of course, to support our heroes, the participants of the special military operation, with both words and deeds. You have taken on the responsibility of fighting for your homeland, for truth and justice. I assure you, millions of people across Russia are with you on this New Year's night," - V. Putin

Putin's New Year speech lauds Russia's war, makes no mention of peace in Ukraine
Putin's speech avoided any mention of Ukraine, peace talks, or plans to bring the war to an end in 2026.

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-nova-forge-le…

Amazon to let cloud clients customize AI models midway through training for $100,000 a year
It can cost hundreds of millions or even billions to build a large language model from scratch, and this process is more affordable, Amazon said.

#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival

Tesla loses title of world's top EV maker to China rival amid customer revolt and stiff competition
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row. Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year ago. Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker. For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of th…