Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Personal Finance

Eliminated a Regret and Fulfilled a Childhood Dream for Free

As I watched my kids tear through their Christmas presents, I felt an unexpected twinge of melancholy. I knew the thrill over that one...

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Is Your Spending a Leaky Furnace?

This post is an adaptation of YNAB's fan-favorite newsletter, Loose Change. Sign up for more where this came from.There’s a huge inefficiency at work...

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FinAi’s ‘The Buzz’: Bank and fintech CEOs talk AI Strategy, fraud defense and lending growth

FinAi leadership took to “The Buzz” podcast in 2025 to discuss approaches to AI.  Chief executives from banks and fintechs shared insights on AI strategy, how to combat fraud and opportunities for AI-driven...

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Technology

Why inventing new emotions feels so good

Don’t scoff: Researchers say more and more terms for these “neo-­emotions” are showing up online, describing new dimensions and aspects of feeling. Velvetmist...

The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years — and maybe not at...

Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025 (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)

Featured Podcasts The Social Radars: Jared Friedman, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-founder, Scribd Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy...

Samsung’s $200 Galaxy A17 Brings Google’s Circle to Search to Its Lower-Priced Phone

Samsung's $200 Galaxy A17 5G, announced Tuesday, appears to be a smaller hardware refresh for the company's lower-cost phone -- bearing many similarities to...

IEEE Spectrum’s Top Semiconductor Stories of 2025

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw material) to commercial...

Cyber Security

New ErrTraffic service enables ClickFix attacks via fake browser glitches

A new cybercrime tool called ErrTraffic allows threat actors to automate ClickFix attacks by generating 'fake glitches' on compromised websites to lure...

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