- Questlove’s Fantastic Video Mix of 50 Years of SNL Music (kottke.org)
- Asteroids vs Space Invaders! Scans of Early 80s Gaming Magazines. (kottke.org)
- ‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream (kottke.org)
- The Public Domain Image Archive (kottke.org)
- What If Letterboxd Ratings Decided the Best Picture Oscar? (kottke.org)
- Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year (kottke.org)
- “Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?” (kottke.org)
- Who Were the Nazis? (kottke.org)
- Ames & Amherst. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Movies Watched, December 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
- DeepSeek (Maggie Appleton)
- Weeknotes 25:04 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Doubts about Pixelfed (Robb Knight)
- Migrating from Plex to Jellyfin for music (Cory Dransfeldt)
- Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
- Control (Chris Coyier)
- A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome (Chris Coyier)
- LocalSend: Open Source Cross-Platform Alternative to AirDrop (Daring Fireball)
- My website has been gaslighting you (Dave Rupert)
- Studio Notes #17 (SimpleBits)
News
- Sources: Fenway Sports Group looks to sell stake of Penguins
- China’s DeepSeek AI is hitting Nvidia where it hurts
- The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google
- Now Apple tells us how to update AirPods
- Google Maps to show Gulf of America and Mount McKinley — 🤦♂️
- Donald Trump wants to claw back clean energy funding
- Climate change made the Los Angeles wildfires more likely
- FCC chair says landlords can force bulk internet service on residents — “Trump’s FCC head says reducing competition will lower prices.” I don’t think that’s how it works. 🤷♂️
- OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek — OMG, the irony! 😆😂🤣
- NordVPN’s new feature gets around networks that block VPNs
- Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet
- Facebook flags Linux topics as ‘cybersecurity threats’ — posts and users being blocked — 😐
- Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
- The FAA will be forced to oversee the investigation of a fatal plane crash without a chief administrator.
- Microsoft makes OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users
- Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
- The Video Game History Foundation has opened a digital library
- Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ uses AI to call local businesses for you — I hope this is good, I hate making phone calls 😆
- Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional
- FCC head Brendan Carr orders investigations into NPR and PBS
- Disney’s Star Wars hotel jumps from deep space to office space — Sad, but almost no one could afford to stay at that hotel.
- Wild’s Fleury shuts out Canadiens in likely Montreal send-off
- Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
