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Welcome to 2025. Goodbye to yesterday and the biggest losers in tech. Picking our favorite villains in 2024 was difficult when it wasn’t a great time for technology. With the frustration of social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they dance to ban TikTok in the US and the unedited and deep, it sounds loud. Is it a slop internet? Are you tired? Is AI talking to AIs about AIs? Amidst all of this, there’s the demise of previous interfaces, Intel’s major struggles to transform its economy, and, ugh, their AI assistants.
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Tintin dancing to Rhapsody in Blue.
It’s the start of a new year, and new works of art have entered the public domain. Today, many materials copyrighted in 1929 and sound recordings dating back to 1924 are fair game for adaptation, reuse, copying and sharing. Several directors started their first works with sound, such as Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail and Cecil B. DeMille’s Dynamite. 1929 was also the year Walt Disney directed the famous Skeleton Dance picture by Ub Iwerks, and when Mickey Mouse starred in his first talkie.
Two games from ten years ago are a hard flop.
Sony has just revealed the first set of PlayStation Plus games in 2025 available to all subscribers. This month includes Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Urgent Need for Speed Updates and Stanley Model: Ultra Deluxe. Suicide Squad it’s a surprising addition: It was delayed several times, received negative reviews and reportedly cost Warner Bros. $200 million. The developers announced that the current season will be the last, although there are no plans to close the game. So play while you… can?
