Intel told reporters last year that it "expects to return to process leadership in 2025" with the launch of 18A. today is the last day of 2025. last week Reuters reported that Nvidia looked at building on top of 18A but passed www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

Relevant to anyone who sends time-sensitive payments, taxes, legal documents, or ballots through the U.S. Postal Service: the USPS has changed its rules for postmarking mail; postmark date might be days later than actual date of mailing, unless customers take specific steps: nstp.org/article/usps...

a 300-hour Discord call with your long-distance-relationship partner www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...

wow. Nvidia to acquire Groq per investor www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/n...

still thinking about this www.ft.com/content/cd3c...

My look at a terrible year for Xbox and where MS is headed next www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/...

will the IRS pick up $1 trillion in incremental corporate income tax? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

happy 100th birthday Calvin Tomkins www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"On average, AI-generated pull requests (PRs) include about 10.83 issues each, compared with 6.45 issues in human-generated PRs. That's about 1.7x more when AI is involved, meaning longer code reviews and increased risk of defects." www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/a...

Excel -> File -> New on the bottom right is a new Copilot icon this is the same place where Clippy used to show up

still thinking about this www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

"The key part of Meta’s strategy, in my view, is that they’re going to get as much of this built out with what the industry calls OPM: Other people’s money." -Andrew Rocco, Zacks Investment Research analyst www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...

"Chateau Montelena’s website now is getting three times more traffic from AI chatbots than from Yelp." www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

"Less than half of current AI projects had generated more in returns than they had cost, respondents said." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos...

"What was meant to be a reflective, thought-provoking discussion on slavery and human resilience was flattened into copy-paste commentary." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

why did i ever get rid of my Game Gear www.bbc.com/news/article...

developers might be into Claude, but it's not a smash hit with teens www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

wonder if many countries will require US travelers to submit social media histories before visiting www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

guessing it's a no for Aptos too

A nice piece on algorithmic pricing worth your time. A question I got frequently when I led BLS was why the agency went into stores and didn’t just collect prices online. My answer, “prices online are often different than in the store, so we do both” often surprised people.

"Shawn Arita, a senior research economist at North Dakota State University, estimates crop producers will lose between $35 billion and $43 billion on what they just harvested this fall, as the trade war with China is not their only problem." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

"Born to a poor Polish-Jewish family in Toronto on Feb. 28, 1929, Frank Goldberg showed an aptitude from an early age for what would become his life’s craft. ... He adopted the new surname Gehry in an effort to avoid the antisemitism of postwar Los Angeles" www.wsj.com/style/design...

something new in Salesforce earnings. the company hasn't renamed itself, but it did rename its subscription and support revenue categories

honestly every AWS service needs a mascot

leg day before going to Vegas for a conference? what was i thinking

"He has 708 tech investments, including at least 449 stakes in companies with ties to artificial intelligence that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis of his financial disclosures." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

loved going to Tekserve

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

new: people across Wisconsin are increasingly standing up to AI data centers. at the old Foxconn site, citizens are thankful for Microsoft, but they said no to a new Microsoft data center 20 miles away. worries range from a loss of open land to meager tax payments www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/m...

"The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

"Epic Games shifted a $10 million Fortnite project to Google Cloud after AWS failed to provide enough quota for Bedrock, according to the document." www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-ca...

tens of billions in capex but they still keep showing you ads for products you've already purchased

this website has got a way to go in the US www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

transfer of risk www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh, they “danced” alright. 😏 $GOOGL $MSFT www.barrons.com/articles/goo...

Microsoft hearts Anthropic now

how long will it take for Anthropic to spend $30 billion on Azure

has anyone asked Jay Powell for comment apnews.com/article/us-m...

Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI. www.wired.com/story/google...

yeah that's one way to cut costs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Jerome Bouyer, vice president of retail operations for Save A Lot, a discount-grocery chain with hundreds of stores, said consumers in recent weeks shifted away from fresh meat and produce to more-processed items like hot dogs, deli meats, ramen and pasta" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...

Warren Buffett, at 95, says he's in the office five days a week www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/w...

wonder if we'll break past 2001 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"clanker" is clearly the much better choice, not least because it's actually a single word www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

11/10 would slather

among today's headlines: Job openings in October slumped to the lowest level since February 2021, Indeed measure shows www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/j... First-time homebuyers are older than ever www.axios.com/2025/11/04/h...

"As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation, we also honor the legacy of the newspaper that has focused on uniting America as we evolve to be the platform that powers its voice." -Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett, which will rebrand to USA Today www.businesswire.com/news/home/20....

going to take me a good long time to get hip to the new Excel and Word icons

"The stock market incorporates both real economic activity per capita and prices; job openings do not. So as living standards rise and inflation occurs, I’d expect the series to drift apart." @econberger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/macromos...

Only two World Series have ever been won on walkoff home runs. The last was by the Blue Jays in 1993.