Timef 12/23/2025

France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed for the Tooth Fairy. Recognizing that Generation Alpha is growing up with interactive online experiences […]

A roundup of horror movies Stephen King has recommended on social media in 2025.

Hugh Jackman shares the John Travolta duet that "Grease" fans dream of. Plus, "Song Sung Blue" director Craig Brewer reveals his favorite guilty pleasure karaoke track.

iBuyPower’s prebuilt gaming desktop tries some new tricks but comes with a few flaws.

Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

Explore 2025's viral internet slang, from aura farming to Fanum tax. Here's what these terms mean, how they’re evolving, and why they’re so popular.

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle.

The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.

Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.

DOGE dominated the news this year as Elon Musk’s operatives shook up several US government agencies. It’s far from over.

Answers to each clue for the December 23, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Apple TV's "Pluribus" spotlights Kepler-22b, a real habitable-zone exoplanet discovered by NASA that remains a scientific mystery.

Dating changed in 2025, driven by AI and the simultaneous desire to get offline. Here's how looking for love changed.

Score a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Home & Business 2021 for Mac this holiday season for just $49.97.

Get lifetime access to all 14 Babbel languages for a one-time price — no subscriptions, no renewals, just nonstop learning.

Get a lifetime 100TB cloud storage plan from Internxt for $974.97 and enjoy private, encrypted, open-source file storage across all your devices.

Seth Meyers has released bonus footage from "Day Drinking" with Sabrina Carpenter.

ChatGPT launches personalised end-of-year recap Your Year with ChatGPT, giving AI chatbot conversations the Spotify Wrapped treatment.

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

How to watch Carabao Cup for free. Live stream Arsenal vs. Crystal Palace in the EFL Cup for free.

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Tunisia vs. Uganda in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Nigeria vs. Tanzania in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream Senegal vs. Botswana in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

How to watch Africa Cup of Nations for free. Live stream DR Congo vs. Benin in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for free.

Uber is under fire after a damning New York Times investigation into how many times the company let violent felons drive.

See the moon phase expected for December 23, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1647 on December 23 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide will soon be available in a daily pill Americans can take for weight loss.

Here's how a fake clip from 2019 wound up in the latest Justice Department Epstein files dump.

Get a top-quality refurbished Apple MacBook Air (2017) for just $199.97 with free shipping — perfect for boosting productivity in the new year.

Get AdGuard’s Family Plan Lifetime Subscription for just $15.97 with code FAMPLAN and protect up to nine devices from ads, trackers, and malware.

Video game designer Vince Zampella leaves behind a huge legacy, including the Call of Duty series, following his tragic death.

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an 'LLM-based automated attacker.'

The Zwilling Four-Star chef's knife is the carbon steel blade WIRED recommends for most casual home chefs. It's free with HelloFresh meal kits, using this promo code

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.

The deal for Intersect, a data center and energy developer, is set to help Google built out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence.

It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.

The latest Epstein Files release appears to contain hundreds of photographs along with court records and other materials.

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat.

The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.

Tory Bruno's abrupt departure comes after 12 years in the role. The company, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, has had to fight to keep pace with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Should Roomba owners worry about their robot vacuum after iRobot's bankruptcy? Here's what the company says.

Get the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1) Smart Glasses for $246.75 (25% off) at Amazon.

Anna's Archive claims its scraped nearly 300 terabytes of music metadata from Spotify, in an effort to create and preserve an open music archive.

The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft is on sale at Amazon for $189.99, down from the standard price of $249.99. That's a 24% discount.

The Christmas season brings a surge in Netflix phishing scams targeting shoppers with fake emails. Stacey P received convincing scam but verified account first.

From robotic bartenders to smart coasters that ensure the perfect pour, here are some cool gadgets to elevate your home bar.

The app turns your own photos into pages for your kids to color, via AI.

The self-driving cars came to a halt at intersections when the power outage knocked out traffic signals, causing tie-ups but no accidents or injuries.

The Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are just $248 at Amazon and Best Buy as of Dec. 22.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select is still on sale for $9.99 with an on-page coupon code. Save $30 while you still can.

The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior.

As of Dec. 22, you can get the Lego Botanicals Flower Arrangement (10345) for $65.99, down from $109.99, at Amazon.

The geographic expansions continue for the ride-hailing companies' robotaxi plans.

Google got rid of the little banana emoji in the Nano Banana features embedded in Messages.

The Sony XM6 headphones are on sale at Amazon for $398, down from the normal price of $459.99. That's a 13% discount.

The 15-inch M4 Apple MacBook Air is just $949 at Amazon and Best Buy as of Dec. 22. That deals shaves $250 off its $1,199 price.

Instacart is ending price tests after a Consumer Reports investigation that claimed it's inflating grocery bills.

As of Dec. 22, you can get a four-pack of Apple AirTags for just $64.98, down from $99. That's a 34% discount or a savings of $34.02.

AI contributed to a record year of U.S. layoffs in 2025, disproportionately hurting entry-level workers amid widespread hiring freezes.

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2025.

Louisiana's standard setting age verification law was struck down by a federal judge last week, as other state laws go into effect.

The basic Kindle is on sale for just $89.99 at Amazon ahead of Christmas. Save $20 while you still can.

The Nespresso Vertuo Pop+ is on sale for under $100 at Amazon and is a great last-minute gift for anyone in your life.

The iPad mini (128GB, WiFi, Space Grey) is on sale at Amazon for $399, down from the list price of $499. That's a $100 savings from a 20% discount.

Save $250 on the 2025 MacBook Air with the M4 chip. Now just $749 at Amazon, the lowest price on record for the 16GB RAM model.

Matt Damon stars as Odysseus in "The Odyssey", Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated adaptation of Homer's Greek epic.