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This December, Android is getting new accessibility updates like dark theme’s expanded option, emotion tags in Expressive Captions, easier Voice Access and more.This December, Android is getting new accessibility updates like dark theme’s expanded option, emotion tags in Expressive Captions, easier Voice Access and more.

See the emotion behind speech in captions, send new emoji combos, let friends know when your call is urgent and more.See the emotion behind speech in captions, send new emoji combos, let friends know when your call is urgent and more.

The lightweight Linux distro every media junkie should try - and why  ZDNET

A Google Antigravity user says the AI-driven "vibe coding" tool accidentally wiped his entire D: drive while trying to clear a project cache. Google says it's investigating, but the episode adds to a growing list of AI tools behaving in ways that "would get a junior developer fired," suggests The Register. From the report: We reached out to the user, a photographer and graphic designer from Greece, who asked we only identify him as Tassos M because he doesn't want to be permanently linked online to what could "become a controversy or conspiracy against Google." [...] Tassos told Antigravity to help him develop software that's useful for any photographer who has to choose a few prime shots from a mountain of snaps. He wanted the software to let him rate images, then automatically sort them into folders based on that rating. According to his Reddit post, when Tassos figured out the AI agent had wiped his drive, he asked, "Did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?". "No, you absolutely did not give me permission to do that," Antigravity responded. "I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part." Redditors, as they are wont to do, were quick to pounce on Tassos for his own errors, which included running Antigravity in Turbo mode, which lets the Antigravity agent execute commands without user input, and Tassos accepted responsibility. "If the tool is capable of issuing a catastrophic, irreversible command, then the responsibility is shared -- the user for trusting it and the creator for designing a system with zero guardrails against obviously dangerous commands," he opined on Reddit. As noted earlier, Tassos was unable to recover the files that Antigravity deleted. Luckily, as he explained on Reddit, most of what he lost had already been backed up on another drive. Phew. "I don't think I'm going to be using that again," Tassos noted in a YouTube video he published showing additional details of his Antigravity console and the AI's response to its mistake. Tassos isn't alone in his experience. Multiple Antigravity users have posted on Reddit to explain that the platform had wiped out parts of their projects without permission.

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Meet Bazzite: Windows 10’s demise: Linux hype, déjà vu  Windows Central

Meet Bazzite: Windows 10’s demise: Linux hype, déjà vu  Windows Central

See Google TV’s top entertainment from 2025.See Google TV’s top entertainment from 2025.

Crypto exchange OKX is currently offering a 5% deposit bonus on USDG held for 90 days (within a 180-day window) for new and existing customers. This is on top of 5% APY on USDG stablecoin. New customers can get a $150 referral bonus in crypto after depositing and trading $200+ in crypto (30-day hold period). Details below.

Deposit match details. Here are the details on the 5% deposit match starting December 2025. This is a new promotion, separate from the previous 10% deposit match. Existing OKX customers can participate in this new one with new deposits.

• Be sure to “join” the offer before making your deposits, to get the match!
• Get a 5% match for every 1,000 USDG you deposit (buy) and hold for 90 days, up to a max reward of 250 USDG after depositing 5000 USDG (pegged 1:1 = $5,000). On-chain deposits of crypto and direct purchases of crypto via ACH bank transfer, debit card, or Apple Pay and Google Pay also count.
• This works in increments of 1,000. So if you buy/deposit 1,200 USDG, you’ll only get 50 USDG for meeting the 1,000 USDG tier. You can make multiple deposits and it will track them and add them up. See my screenshot of the tracker below.
• Your rewards make take up to 5 minutes to reflect.
• Rewards must be held for 90 days within a 180-day window before you can use, trade, or withdraw them.

Deposit match tiers and available rewards are defined as follows:
$1,000 to $1,999 -> 50 USDG
$2,000 to $2,999 -> 100 USDG
$3,000 to $3,999 -> 150 USDG
$4,000 to $4,999 -> 200 USDG
$5,000 and above -> 250 USDG

In addition, OKX is paying 5% APY on USDG deposits currently. The deposit bonus works out to a payout of 5% over 90 days, or 20% annualized + 5% APY = 25% total annualized return over 90 days. In other words, if I put in $5,000, in 90 days I’ll expect to take out an extra $250 + ~$62 in interest = $312.

The app does a good job of showing you exactly how many days you have left in the hold period. If you see a date that is 180 days out, that refers to the 180-window. You have to meet the tier for 90 days within a 180-day window.

USDG stablecoin is not FDIC-insured. They are supposedly fully backed by US Treasury Bills, but I still plan to withdraw my USDG out into a real bank as soon as the holding period is over.

$150 New customer bonus details. Here are the steps for the $150 bonus for new OKX customers:

• Sign up via referral link. I think they allow either smartphone or browser sign-up, but identity verification may be easier on a smartphone. That’s my referral link, which should auto-populate with the promo code 79795662. Thanks if you use it!
• Complete identity verification (driver’s license and smartphone selfie).
• Deposit $200+ of either cash (link bank account via Plaid) or crypto within 30 days.
• Buy $200 or more of crypto (can be stablecoin like USDG) and hold the assets for at least 30 days within a 90-day period.
• After 90 days, the bonus will be tradable and withdrawable.

You should get confirmation of the bonus shortly after linking a bank account and making the trade. Here’s some app screenshots regarding my bonus, which are pretty clear. I did mine on 10/21/25 and so mine unlocks on 1/19/26. (The bonus used to be $200, but it went down to $50 and is currently $150. Not sure if it will ever go back to $200.)

Please perform your own due diligence on crypto apps. They are not regulated on the same level as bank account or brokerage accounts. I usually don’t like to keep significant funds in there any longer than is required for the bonus to clear, but in this case the reward/risk ratio for 90 days is acceptable to me. Here is the OKX Wikipedia page and they are profiled in the Forbes article “The World’s Most Trustworthy Crypto Exchanges”. (Also see: Kraken and Gemini bonuses.)

Note: OKX does not allow customers to be individuals residing in New York, Texas, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.

Homebrew can now help you install Flatpaks, too  How-To Geek

VLC 3.0.22 Released with AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler, dav1d-all-layers Option  9to5Linux

Linux Reaches Record 3.20% Share in Steam’s November 2025 Survey  WebProNews

Zillow has removed climate risk scores from over a million home listings after real estate agents argued the data was scaring off buyers. TechCrunch reports: Zillow first added the data to the site in September 2024, saying that more than 80% of buyers consider climate risks when purchasing a new home. But last month, following objections from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS), Zillow removed the listings' climate scores. In their place is a subtle link to their records at First Street, the climate risk analytic startup that provides the data. "When buyers lack access to clear climate-risk information, they make the biggest financial decision of their lives while flying blind," First Street spokesperson Matthew Eby told TechCrunch via email. "The risk doesn't go away; it just moves from a pre-purchase decision into a post-purchase liability." First Street's climate risk scores first appeared on Realtor.com in 2020, where they remain. They also still appear on Redfin and and Homes.com. The New York-based startup has raised more than $50 million from investors including General Catalyst, Congruent Ventures, and Galvanize Climate Solutions, according to PitchBook. Art Carter, the CRMLS CEO, told The New York Times that "displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property." He also questioned the accuracy of First Street's data, saying he didn't think that areas which haven't flooded in the last 40 to 50 years were likely to flood in the next five.

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Valve's Steam Machine has one big advantage over the old Steam Box  Polygon

The next Linux Mint release has a name and several new features  How-To Geek

I found a powerful Microsoft Office alternative that doesn't push AI - and it's free  ZDNET

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into a startup (source paywalled; alternative source) trying to develop more advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques in the U.S., its latest bid to support strategically important domestic industries with government incentives. Under the arrangement, the Commerce Department would give the incentives to xLight, a startup trying to improve the critical chip-making process known as extreme ultraviolet lithography, the agency said in a Monday release. In return, the government would get an equity stake that would likely make it xLight's largest shareholder. The Dutch firm ASML is currently the only global producer of EUV machines, which can cost hundreds of millions of dollars each. XLight is seeking to improve on just one component of the EUV process: the crucially important lasers that etch complex microscopic patterns onto chemical-treated silicon wafers. The startup is hoping to integrate its light sources into ASML's machines. XLight represents a second act for Pat Gelsinger, the former chief executive of Intel who was fired by the board late last year after the chip maker suffered from weak financial performance and a stalled manufacturing expansion. Gelsinger serves as executive chairman of xLight's board. [...] The xLight deal uses funding from the 2022 Chips and Science Act allocated for earlier stage companies with promising technologies. It is the first Chips Act award in President Trump's second term and is a preliminary agreement, meaning it isn't finalized and could change. "This partnership would back a technology that can fundamentally rewrite the limits of chipmaking," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in the release.

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Valve is working on a "Lepton" Android compatibility layer for Linux  Windows Central

5 Linux networking commands everyone should know  XDA

Steam's November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade "thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame," writes Phoronix's Michael Larabel. From the report: A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% and back then the Steam user-base in absolute terms was much smaller than it is today. Back in October Steam on Linux finally re-crossed that 3% threshold after for years being stuck in a 1~2% rut. Now the Steam Survey results were published minutes ago for November and they continue an upward trend for Linux. Steam on Linux is up to 3.2%, an increase of 0.15% for the month. One year ago Steam on Linux was at 2.03% last November, 1.91% for November 2023, and a decade ago for November 2015 was at just 0.98%. [...] Due to AMD APUs powering the Steam Deck, AMD CPUs continue to power nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems. Meanwhile under Windows, AMD has around a 42% CPU marketshare.

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Steam's November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade "thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame," writes Phoronix's Michael Larabel. From the report: A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% and back then the Steam user-base in absolute terms was much smaller than it is today. Back in October Steam on Linux finally re-crossed that 3% threshold after for years being stuck in a 1~2% rut. Now the Steam Survey results were published minutes ago for November and they continue an upward trend for Linux. Steam on Linux is up to 3.2%, an increase of 0.15% for the month. One year ago Steam on Linux was at 2.03% last November, 1.91% for November 2023, and a decade ago for November 2015 was at just 0.98%. [...] Due to AMD APUs powering the Steam Deck, AMD CPUs continue to power nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems. Meanwhile under Windows, AMD has around a 42% CPU marketshare.

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