Last year saw the highest number of U.S. layoffs since 2020, with AI directly cited as the reason for nearly 55,000 of those cuts. The trend is hitting entry-level workers especially hard, with companies implementing hiring freezes.
The year 2025 was defined by the physical reality of AI’s infrastructure demands. Massive new data center campuses are being built, but the frantic pace raises big questions about sustainability and a potential market correction.
Dr. Michael Pfeffer, a practicing hospitalist and Stanford’s Chief Information Digital Officer, argues the real work isn’t about adopting tech, but redesigning care around it. He shares how tools like ChatEHR are starting to free up clinician time for what matters most: the human connection.
Mullvad VPN has launched a new, in-house WireGuard implementation named GotaTun for its Android app. The switch from the problematic wireguard-go code has already eliminated related crashes. The tech will come to all platforms in 2026, when Mullvad will also drop support for OpenVPN.
The first Zelda game for the Switch 2 is here, but it’s a spin-off. Now, series producer Eiji Aonuma says the collaboration with Koei Tecmo could shape the future of the main series. Is Zelda about to get a major combat overhaul?
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted mysterious “little red dots” in the early universe. New analysis of over a hundred of them suggests they’re not galaxies, but massive balls of gas powered by a central black hole.
Microsoft is rolling out a major BitLocker performance upgrade that offloads encryption work from the CPU to dedicated hardware. The result is a massive reduction in CPU overhead and much faster disk operations, especially on newer NVMe SSDs.
In response to rampant scams and huge data leaks, South Korea is mandating facial scans for new mobile customers. This comes after SK Telecom was fined $100 million and ordered to pay $1.55 billion in compensation for exposing 23 million customers’ data.
The fight to lead the Republican Party after Donald Trump is already heating up. At Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, Erika Kirk endorsed VP JD Vance for 2028, but the event revealed deep internal divisions.
ZFS is a rock-solid filesystem, but using it on a generic Linux distro can be a recipe for breakage and maintenance woes. The core issue stems from Oracle’s licensing and the resulting need for external kernel modules. The solution? Use an OS built for it.
