Vast majority of people are facing economic disaster? Have no fear though: rich people won't have to be giving up the silver spoons in their mouths.

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Datacentres consume just 1% of the world’s electricity but may soon demand much more. Their share of US electricity is projected to more than double to 8.6% by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, while the IEA projects datacentres will account for at least 20% of the rich world’s growth in electricity demand to the end of the decade.

China’s latest gold-mining drive in Kham Zachukha has exposed a ruthless campaign to dispossess Tibetans of their sacred land and silence dissent through force and fear. Aggressive mining at Serkhok (“Gold Valley”) has cut into a traditional grazing ground and spiritually revered landscape, while peaceful protests have been met with raids, torture, enforced disappearances and a sweeping communications blackout. This weaponised model of “development” shows Beijing using mining, surveillance and repression to tighten its grip over Tibet and crush resistance to the destruction of the plateau’s fragile environment.

Personnel patrolling in south Lebanon on Friday “reported 15 rounds of small arms fire that struck no more than 50 meters away from them,” a UNIFIL statement said.

Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Explosions were reported in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas on Saturday. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.

Today's game is The Darkside Detective. I had gifted a friend a copy of OneShot, and he ended up enjoying it so much he gifted me this as a little game exchange. He said he thought i might like it. Turns out, i really enjoyed it. It's a basic point and click but a lot of fun.

Thousands of tents supplied by China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to shelter displaced Palestinians in Gaza offer only limited protection against rain and wind, an assessment compiled by shelter specialists in the devastated territory has revealed.

I'm not the creator of this program, but its too fun not to share! The comments from the developer and users joining the swarms on the reddit thread are hilarious.

https://xcancel.com/Georgesantos/status/2006927540498346128#m

So, it appears that PC vendors are no longer hesitant to hike prices of their products, and Corsair is a recent example. While PC price hikes are common these days, what's not acceptable is cancelling the already placed order without any valid reason. A Redditor just reported that he became a victim of such an incident after he placed an order for a Corsair pre-built system two days ago.

https://xcancel.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/2006995809632661935

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first.

To put C++’s growth in context:

Drake is facing another legal battle in 2026.

2 January 2026 15:48 GMT Last update: 11:13 EST

Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds

Reports of covert filming have prompted privacy fears as experts are concerned that the devices would be altered to ‘nudify’ women without their consent

Soldiers will soon carry gadgets in their backpacks and on their bodies that will help them survive longer and perform more efficiently. But some nascent technologies raise deep ethical questions

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about the security of the internal network behind your Internet router probably is now dangerously out of date.

On Jan 2, Cambodia’s Information Minister Neth Pheaktra told AFP that the Thai military has started its “illegal annexation of Cambodian territory into Thailand, especially at Chouk Chey village”.

Blockchain investigation firm TRM Labs says ongoing cryptocurrency thefts have been traced to the 2022 LastPass breach, with attackers draining wallets years after encrypted vaults were stolen and laundering the crypto through Russian exchanges.

China removed a three-decade-old tax exemption on contraceptive drugs and devices from January 1 in new steps to spur a flagging birth rate.

Less than a week after the previous 0.53 release, Hyprland, a favorite among fans of eye-pleasing tiling window compositors, has just rolled out version 0.53.1 as a small maintenance update focused exclusively on stability and correctness.

https://archive.ph/Z27fR

A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory "OOM" killer inaccuracy behavior when dealing with large core count systems.

The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026.

“Pakistan and China are iron-clad friends and all-weather strategic cooperative partners. We reiterate our consistent support to China on all matters of its core interests, including Taiwan,’’ Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said in reply to media queries about Pakistan’s response to “developments in the Taiwan Strait”.

"Let's not call it what it is, but what I want you to believe it is because money"

I upgraded from my 15 year old PC to one of the new Mac Minis at Xmas last year, thinking that I would be fine for gaming with my Xbox / Game Pass, and I would "skip a generation" on PC hardware. I have a small Steam / Epic library, but everything that didn't work on MacOS, I had a Game Pass version of.

“If the 20th century ran on oil and steel, the 21st century runs on compute and the minerals that feed it.”

As stated, a fedi software that conects with bsky too. its opt in and not all instances have it

*Foreign ministry says mayor has poured ‘antisemitic gasoline on an open fire’ by scrapping IHRA definition*

Grok is now generating CSAM images. I really hope this will motivate Twitter holdouts to finally stop using the website. I'll admit the first part of the article where they "report" on what Grok said is kind of lame but the fact is Grok is generating bad pictures of minors.

Read it here!

Well, I'm sure most know by now that I've been reviewing handhelds for a good while. Anbernic sent over the 12GB/256GB 'RG 477V' handheld they released (this stands for 'Retro Gaming' - 4.7" Vertical and the other 7 denotes their higher tier set inside), which runs Android 14, for me to review. And...well, I did so.