Episode Notes
My personal newsletter with 2026 Experiment updates
Apple News
Rumors are circulating about a possible new 12.9 inch MacBook (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/05/these-four-apple-products-could-launch-as-soon-as-next-month/)
Linux/FOSS News
System76 COSMIC desktop 1.0 finally released with PopOS 24.04 LTS (https://en.ubunlog.com/Cosmic-Desktop-1.0-release-Rust-Pop-OS-Wayland/#:~:text=Key%20points:,OS%20Linux%20distribution…)
Only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from tape (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/29/only-known-copy-of-unix-v4-recovered-from-tape/)
FreeBSD 15.0 released (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/)
Microsoft News
December Patch Tuesday feature updates (https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/top-16-features-on-windows-11s-december-9-2025-update-file-explorer-start-menu-virtual-workspaces-and-more)
Creepy AI News
Humanoid Robots are Coming to Workplaces (https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/from-cloud-to-factory-humanoid-robots-coming-to-workplaces/)
Other Tech News
Micron discontinuing consumer Crucial RAM, diverting production to supporting AI (https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business)
Federal judge blocks Texas app store age verification law from taking effect in the new year (https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2025/12/24/539606/federal-judge-blocks-texas-app-store-age-verification-law-from-taking-effect-in-the-new-year/#:~:text=Technology-,Federal%20judge%20blocks%20Texas%20app%20store%20age%20verification%20law%20from,and%20minors’%20First%20Amendment%20rights.)
Discord Data Breach – 1.5 TB of Data and 2 Million Government ID Photos Extorted (https://cybersecuritynews.com/discord-data-breach-sensitive-data/)
Retro Gaming News
Aspyr Deus Ex remaster indefinitely delayed following backlash that the remaster was “ugly” (https://kotaku.com/that-ugly-deus-ex-remaster-just-got-indefinitely-delayed-2000652654)
Legendary classic Macintosh game ‘Dark Castle’ is coming back to the Mac (https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/01/09/legendary-classic-macintosh-game-dark-castle-is-coming-back-to-the-mac)
Command Line Tool of the Month: LazyGit
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
A TUI interface for Git
MIT License
Written in Go
ReadMe contains installation guides for Linux, MacOS (via Homebrew or MacPorts), and Windows (via Chocolaty and WinGet), FreeBSD, and more
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