Viral news today

/r/all📄  A Small On-Stage Accident, Handled with Grace — The Show Went On Seamlessly
📄  When the referee's eyebrows were literally frozen during the coldest game ever played in MLS history
📄  Gelje Sherpa, the man who was guiding a private client up Mt. Everest when he saw someone in distress near the summit. He went up, rolled him up in a sleeping mattress and gave him oxygen. He then strapped the man to his back and trekked 6 hours to safety
📄  Decided to horrify my mother for christmas
📄  This couple saw a kid playing his trumpet in the cold to buy a ps5 so they got him one
📄  Meirl
📄  New audio emerges of Trump directing Republicans on how to overturn election results | Audio clips obtained by the NYT reveal Trump giving explicit instructions to Republicans in Georgia on how to flip the result of the 2020 election, in which Trump lost Georgia to Biden.
📄  Me_irl
📄  A bird watches a guy fishing, so the guy offers the bird his fish
📄  Pack it perfectly round with the label at the end
📄  The kid just casually matched the stunt
📄  I must play the winner.
📄  Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed when he received the GoFundMe cheque: “I deserve it?”
📄  This is Kath, a neighbour of mine who I like to take out when I can. She's 100 (and a bit) years old. She wanted to say hi to the "Internet people" this Christmas.
📄  A timelapse of sleeping seals
📄  It is what it is

HackerNews📄  Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
📄  Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
📄  1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
📄  We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
📄  History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
📄  Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
📄  Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels
📄  Making Google Sans Flex
📄  From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4
📄  GPT-5.2-Codex
📄  The state of the kernel Rust experiment
📄  2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results
📄  How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
📄  Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
📄  SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA – The Linux Kernel Documentation
📄  Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
📄  Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found

/r/Programming Daily📄  GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
📄  Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
📄  How Apollo 11’s onboard software handled overloads in real time lessons from Margaret Hamilton’s work
📄  How SQLite Is Tested
📄  No Graphics API
📄  The impact of technical blogging
📄  RoboCop (arcade) The Future of Copy Protection
📄  Reconstructed MS-DOS Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
📄  Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
📄  Introducing React Server Components (RSC) Explorer
📄  Beyond Abstractions - A Theory of Interfaces
📄  Zero to RandomX.js: Bringing Webmining Back From The Grave | l-m
📄  std::ranges may not deliver the performance that you expect
📄  Closure of Operations in Computer Programming
📄  Under the Hood: Building a High-Performance OpenAPI Parser in Go | Speakeasy

/r/Technology Daily📄  North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location
📄  ‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge data center backed by top tycoons
📄  The White House promises to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research
📄  WSJ let an Anthropic “agent” run a vending machine. Humans bullied it into bankruptcy
📄  Gamers Are Extremely Mad About AI: In-game slop was bad enough. Now AI is driving up prices, too.
📄  Humans are now the minority online
📄  TikTok has signed the deal to sell its US entity to American investor group
📄  Home Depot in LA installs noise machines that ‘penetrate bones’ to deter day laborers
📄  Meta knowingly took in billions from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, says Reuters
📄  Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
📄  Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
📄  YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 director defends Larian over AI "s***storm," says "it's time to face reality"
📄  CD Project Red Boss is skeptical AI can replace "industry talent" and can’t imagine "reducing headcount thanks to" the tech: "Our usage of AI is mainly in the productivity areas, and that’s where we see the largest benefits. But it’s not gonna be making The Witcher 5, or 6, or anything like that"
📄  Xbox skips doing a year end review because the "marketing budget" for it was shifted to next year
📄  Following controversial bans from Steam and Epic, Santa Ragione's Horses has sold 18k copies and repaid debts
📄  Tomb Raider's newest Lara Croft is "frightened about losing" the role after being "absolutely blindsided" by Perfect Dark cancellation
📄  ‘Marathon’ Art Director Joseph Cross Leaves Bungie Before Launch
📄  Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’
📄  Darksiders III is 90% off right now
📄  What RPG protagonists are the absolute weakest?
📄  Best band/musician you discovered through a game?
📄  Which game has the best in-game encyclopedia?
📄  "Stillness Held Fleeting" - Showing my love for Silent Hill f through my own personal take on Shimizu Hinako, played wonderfully by Konatsu Kato! - Digital Illustration/Fan Art by Me (Vamkire C. Trannel - My Artist Pseudonym) -- Tagged as potential spoiler.

Lobste.rs i'm just having fun
 ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
 "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
 The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork
 How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?
 Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
 I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
 My gift to the rustdoc team
 The <time> element should actually do something
 No Graphics API
 Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
 Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
 TOML 1.1.0 released

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  Why do you think there are 700,000 *more* unemployed Americans today than when Trump took office in January?
📄  What do you expect 2026’s major event will be?
📄  Men whose girlfriend’s dad said no when you asked him for permission to marry his daughter, what did you do?
📄  What subscription is 100% not worth it anymore?
📄  What famous phrases from TV shows have spilled into your regular lexicon and you still use to this day?
📄  What do rich people have in their house that says they’re rich?
📄  What is something that is actually more traumatizing than people realise?
📄  If you won the $1.5 billion Powerball what would a “I’m SUPER rich” purchase that you would make?
📄  If you could add one zero to any number in your life, where would it be and why?
📄  What’s the most socially acceptable addiction people don’t talk about?
📄  What’s a habit that looks harmless but slowly ruins people’s lives?
📄  What is the greatest one line quote before the kill?

GNews DHS Confirms First Pediatric Respiratory Illness-Associated Deaths - Wisconsin Department of Health Services (.gov)
 As flu season hits, new ‘K’ variant has health experts concerned and urging vaccinations - OregonLive.com
 Exclusive: HHS planning to overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots, source says - CNN
 Michigan moves away from vaccine guidance of RFK Jr.'s federal panel - The Detroit News
 Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas - KSL.com
 NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time - NASA Science (.gov)
 Latest Comet 3I/ATLAS news: Comet close approach today - Space
 Bazinga! Physicists crack a 'Big Bang Theory' problem that could help explain dark matter - Phys.org
 'The refs are the worst': Rams' Puka Nacua suggests NFL referees throw flags just 'to be on TV' - Los Angeles Times
 Will Jake Paul fight damage Anthony Joshua's legacy? It won't even be remembered - ESPN
 Greg Biffle: Ex-Nascar driver and family among seven killed in plane crash - BBC
 Rapid Reactions: Seahawks Take Over First Place In The NFC West With A Stunning Comeback Win Over the Rams - Seattle Seahawks

NewScientist The best new science fiction books of December 2025
 The 12 best science fiction books of 2025
 Cats can overcome fear of water to benefit from aquatic therapy
 Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
 We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer
 Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past
 What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?
 Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it
 Can viral relationship tests really tell you about your relationship?
 Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert
 Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real
 Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
 Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images