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An axolotl from the Moskvarium is being broadcasted in the heart of New York — Times Square is showcasing the amphibian along with a cartoon featuring axolotls dressed in traditional costumes from Russia, the USA, China, India, and other countries. The symbol of the International Olympiad in Industrial Development, PROD, invites high school students from around the world to participate in an IT competition. This year, the competition will be held in both Russian and English for the first time. The strongest high school students will meet in the finals in Moscow.

Such protection should be on every PC.

Lol, the developers of the Chinese chatbot Kimi are giving away a subscription for $1 to anyone interested, but with one condition — you have to convince the AI to give you a discount. Kimi acts like a toxic zoomer, laughing at your attempts to appeal to its sympathy and gaslight it. The topic with the milling machine didn't work out.

The sex mod for The Sims 4 is played daily by nearly as many people as the highly anticipated Arc Raiders. The creator of WickedWhims revealed that over 300,000 players use the mod each day. For comparison, Arc Raiders has around 325,000 daily active users. WickedWhims is considered the most popular 18+ mod, adding various sexual options, an attraction system, relationships, a menstrual cycle, contraception, and dozens of other mechanics. All of this is for the sake of traditional values.

The legendary Studio Ghibli has released its advent calendar — inside are 24 treasures from the world of Hayao Miyazaki. The box is designed to look like Kiki's house from "Kiki's Delivery Service." Fans can look forward to magnets featuring the Baron, a lamp with Calcifer, a jade Totoro, a candle with No-Face, a necklace with a levitation stone, a nightlight in the shape of Jiji the cat, and other delightful items. Anime fans are throwing money at their screens.

In Russia, the world's first underwater digital voice communication technology has been developed, showcased by the Moscow Innovation Cluster at its booth during the Young Scientists' Congress. The system employs algorithms for digital hydroacoustics and neural network speech recognition, ensuring reliable voice communication underwater in any equipment. The companies also presented a next-generation glucometer, granules for 3D printing with metal and ceramics, as well as a mental health monitoring system.

A 19-year-old dropped out of university, made ChatGPT his tutor, and with the help of AI landed a job at... OpenAI — now he is working as an ML engineer. The brilliance lies in simplicity: 19-year-old Gabriel set challenges for himself, asked for explanations of solutions, wrote code alongside the neural network, debugged errors, and gradually built his own projects. This is how he taught himself machine learning from scratch. A few years later, he was invited to join the OpenAI Sora team for a position typically reserved for individuals with advanced degrees. This is the same guy who left school after the 9th grade.

No judgment: the guy warned his wife that they urgently needed a second monitor for work. The next day, the "urgent necessity" evaluated the new addition.

Ilya Kuruch participated in the VTB API Hackathon in his ironic persona. The event attracted 1,500 IT professionals from 150 cities, all competing for a prize of 2 million rubles. Sixty-two teams made it to the semifinals, but only 32 reached the final round. Participants competed to see who could solve tasks more quickly and accurately in one of three tracks: multi-bank, API security, and business process testing. Over the course of two weeks, the young specialists developed 120 solutions.

The anthem of Friday was created from the product messages and shared online. The IT specialists shed a knowing tear.

⚡️ The full-length movie "Jujutsu Kaisen: The Movie - Shibuya Incident" will be released in theaters across Russia on December 13 — just 8 days after its global premiere. The film will recap the events of the "Shibuya" arc and showcase the first two episodes of the new season. Anime fans, get ready for the excitement!

Russians will be charged 750 rubles for a smartphone and 1500 rubles for a laptop — the Ministry of Industry and Trade is actively preparing a new tax on electronics. The "technology fee" will need to be paid regardless of the gadget's price or the country of manufacture. Moreover, this amount is not final — it is highly likely that it will increase. The technology fee will come into effect on September 1, 2026.

AI Will Help the Ministry of Emergency Situations Prevent FIRES — the academy, in collaboration with Yandex, has launched a neural network for the agency, enabling staff to investigate fires more quickly and enhance fire safety. The neural network will analyze photographs and reports from the scene, identify key objects, and generate ready-made descriptions for official documents. What used to take 40–60 minutes can now be done in just seconds. The project is currently in the pilot phase but will soon be available to emergency workers across the country.

⚡️ Starting March 1, films that undermine traditional values will be banned in Russia — even on pirate websites. In simple terms: if a film includes content that the government deems inappropriate in its portrayal of family, relationships, culture, history, or morality, it will not be allowed to be distributed.

The same applies to owners of websites or social media pages with a daily audience of over 500,000 users. Roskomnadzor will issue a demand to the resource owner to cease the distribution of such content based on a conclusion from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation regarding the presence of unacceptable materials.

The law will come into effect on March 1, 2026. A setback for the film industry.

The new Nano Banana replaces… grandmothers — the neural network now perfectly generates cringy (but beloved in their own way) greeting cards from Odnoklassniki. You can create literally any greeting with any message — it all depends on your imagination. We've settled on greetings for colleagues.

Mac users, we have a gift for you: on GitHub, we've compiled a list of the best free applications for MacOS. You'll find everything here: — Text editors and office applications; — Tools for coders, including code editors and various frameworks; — AI tools to make your work easier; — Screen and audio recording services; — Various widgets, design applications, and a lot of other great stuff. — And it’s all free! Discover your new favorite app — here.

MSI has released a new budget-friendly gaming monitor — the MAG 275QF E20. And the price is truly remarkable: just $111 (around 8700 rubles). This monitor features a 27-inch Fast IPS panel with a resolution of 2560×1440, a refresh rate of 200 Hz, and a response time of 0.5 ms, covering 101% of the sRGB color space. It has a brightness of 300 nits and a contrast ratio of 1000:1. Notable features include a hardware blue light filter, flicker-free DC Dimming, and AI Vision, which automatically adjusts brightness and color. For gamers, it includes Adaptive-Sync and AI Crosshair, which draws a reticle and adapts it to the scene. Connectivity options include two HDMI 2.0 ports, one DP 1.4 port, and an audio output. The package also includes a stand with tilt adjustment. The monitor is already available in China.

Together with Yandex Market, we have created a RIDDLE for you. Answer: For those who don’t like to wait: it’s a smartphone. You can purchase this and thousands of other products in Split on the Market. Your order will arrive right away, and you can pay in installments, gradually, without any rush. Give it a try — here.

YouTuber Smilly is playing Minecraft on a receipt printer — every 0.5 seconds, the infernal machine prints a screenshot of the player's current position. Playing Minecraft on paper is a true torture. The image is small, monochrome, and constantly lagging, not to mention that gaming at 0.5 FPS is far from enjoyable. Nevertheless, the blogger intends to complete the game in this format. That feeling when a battle with the Ender Dragon takes 3 weeks and 47 rolls of receipt paper.

A Minion-Shaped Router Has Emerged as One of the Best in the World — Gamers and VR Enthusiasts Worldwide Have Launched a Hunt for Kevin. The reason is simple: the router from the Korean company Davolink costs just $99 (approximately 7,700 rubles) and supports the Wi-Fi 6 standard, which operates on the less common 6 GHz frequency. This channel is less congested than the standard 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz bands, resulting in fewer interferences. A new competitor has emerged for the mountain-shaped router.