Uncut’s New Music Playlist for December 2025
Sick already of wall-to-wall Wham! and Mariah? Then keep scrolling for a sackful of brilliant, brand new, sleigh-bell-free tunes. The only sop to seasonal festivities on this playlist is a…
Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk
AI bros love cribbing what humans make so they can churn out loads of meaningless slop. But one of those humans wasn’t going to take getting ripped off without fighting…
The Rise of the Multimodal Lakehouse
Subscribe • Previous Issues Multimodal lakehouses: The architecture AI teams are migrating to When the “lakehouse” was first introduced in 2020, the goal was to reconcile data warehouses and data lakes in…
Flea Teases First Solo Album With ‘A Plea’
(photo: Clara Balzary) Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has drafted some of the top players from the left-of-center jazz world for his first full-length solo album, which will be…
Wayne White’s ‘Appalachian Soul Stew’
Username Password, backstage at the Big Ears Festival in 2025. (Credit: Mimi Pond) Visual artist and puppeteer Wayne White doesn’t claim to be a good musician, at least not in…
80% of AI Startups Are Built on Chinese Models: The New Reality for 2026
Chinese developers have overtaken American creators in open-model downloads, with partners at Andreessen Horowitz estimating that nearly 80% of new AI startups are now building on Chinese open-source infrastructure. This…
Taiwan Calls out Tokyo Electron’s Failures in TSMC Secrets Case
Taiwanese prosecutors charged Tokyo Electron Ltd. for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. trade secrets, signaling stricter scrutiny of partnerships in an industry vital to…
Rüfüs Du Sol Make History With Highest-Selling Electronic Tour of All Time
Rüfüs Du Sol have officially made touring history. The Grammy-winning Australian trio has been recognised for delivering the highest-selling electronic tour of all time, following a record-breaking run of global…
Intel Pledges $208 Million Malaysia Chip Investment, Anwar Says
Intel Corp. will invest an additional 860 million ringgit ($208 million) to make Malaysia its assembly and testing operations center, according to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, giving a boost to…
Here’s Every Song Taylor Swift Wrote on Her Own
A prolific talent across country, pop and alternative – with even a little bit of rock and roll at times – Taylor Swift’s pen knows almost no bounds. From No.…