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Now you can work or study with friends right on your desktop — the On-Together demo has been released. The game runs alongside your screen, helping you work while making breaks more fun: friends can join in, sit at the same virtual table, work, chat, play mini-games, and earn cute pets for their productivity. A Pomodoro timer, to-do list, and calendar help you stay focused, and you can earn rewards for your character based on your productivity. While you take breaks, you can engage in activities reminiscent of Animal Crossing: fishing, fruit picking, strolling, and decorating your space. Gather your friends in this new office for free — click here.

POV: You're reflecting after watching the first episodes of the fifth season.

Feel old: the internet compared how the characters from "Stranger Things" looked after the first season and how they look now.

Russians are increasingly using neural networks — over the past ten months, traffic to AI services has increased nearly SIX-fold. At the top among Russian users is ChatGPT, which accounts for almost 40% of the traffic, followed by Deepseek and GigaChat. The latter has become the most popular among all domestic models. According to Sberbank, the monthly audience of GigaChat has now reached 19 million people.

Now you know why Tesla has autopilot. You still have to keep at least one hand on the steering wheel.

Chinese Manufacturers Are Halting Development of Thin Smartphones — There has been a shake-up among producers due to poor sales of the iPhone Air and Galaxy S25 Edge. Several "clones" from Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo have been canceled. Additionally, key suppliers have reportedly dismantled most production lines for the iPhone Air, with a complete halt in production expected in the coming weeks. Moreover, thin smartphones evoke unpleasant associations among Asians.

T-Bank has launched a "trap for scammers" — now anyone can "haunt scammers using a fraud roulette." Tests have shown that 2,000 participants can shut down a YEAR'S worth of work from a fraudulent call center consisting of 30 people. They received over 3 million calls and wasted 44,000 hours of fraudulent time. But the most important thing is to keep your cards close to your chest and not let the scammers know they've fallen into a trap. The best time for hunting is on weekdays from 9 AM to 6 PM, as they are most active during this period. A new hobby has emerged: disrupting criminals from scamming people over the phone.

The Nvidia RTX 50xx Super series graphics cards will not be released, according to insiders who report that memory chips have become too expensive for the new GPUs. The current RTX 50 series cards use 2-gigabyte GDDR7 chips, while the new ones were expected to utilize 3-gigabyte GDDR7 chips. The issue is that there simply aren't enough of these new chips available. Insiders are hopeful that Nvidia will be able to source the memory chips and eventually release the graphics cards, albeit at a higher price. However, that's not all: Nvidia's founder, Jensen Huang, has decided to eliminate all risks and will now sell the RTX 50xx GPUs... without memory. Partners will have to find, purchase, and install the memory themselves. Gaming is becoming a luxury.

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Neural networks accelerate the search and recovery of scooters—Yandex's ML models have increased their availability to 83% and continue to search for lost devices. Throughout the year, the algorithms have identified scooters with damage and sent them to a SPA for restoration and repair so that they can return to the streets as quickly as possible. The service has also replaced the scooter fleet in Moscow with a new generation, which is much more convenient to use and maintain. As a result, the availability of shared scooters has reached 91%. Furthermore, the models were entirely developed in-house at Yandex.

We're restoring old photos with the new Nano Banana Pro, and it turns out that this model handles it beautifully: it captures every detail and recreates the image as if it was taken yesterday. Let's save the prompt and head over to test it out:

Ultra-realistic recreation of an old vintage photo, keeping the same original face (99% likeness, no alteration). Transform into a modern high-quality digital portrait with vibrant updated colors, smooth realistic skin textures, and natural lighting. The outfit and background should be upgraded into a clean, modern aesthetic while preserving the authenticity of the original pose and expression.

An 87-year-old Japanese grandmother has become a VTuber—she hosts streams where she gives advice to young people. In Japan, there is even a dedicated project that specializes in "VTuber grandmas." You can officially rent a grandma who will connect with you via Zoom or Google Meet to keep you company if you're feeling lonely or simply want some wise advice. In particularly tough situations, the grandmother can even help you gently say goodbye to a toxic partner. Finally, a subscription to a grandma!

GigaChat AI Models Released as Open Source — everything has been published under the MIT license, allowing for commercial use. Available model lineup: - GigaChat 3 Ultra-Preview — a flagship model with 702 billion parameters, fully trained from scratch. This model outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 in Russian language tasks and can remember 128,000 tokens, which is 8 times more than competitors like babymmly-2, Sage, and MMLU-Ru. - Lightning — a compact model designed for quick responses, comparable in speed to Qwen3-1.7B, but much smarter and larger in parameters. - GigaAM-v3 — five audio models for Russian that convert voice to text with punctuation, understand accents, spontaneous speech, and even musical queries. It excels in speech recognition, showing a −50% word error rate (WER) compared to Whisper-large-v3. An alternative to DeepSeek has been created. You can find it on GitHub — here.

Now you know what happens when you ask ChatGPT a silly question. The ending was a killer.

The fifth season of "Stranger Things" is a HIT. Critics and viewers are thrilled with the premiere of the finale: it has an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. While this is lower than previous seasons, it’s still impressive. The show has returned to its roots: it's a classic 80s-style adventure filled with humor, warmth, and childlike cleverness. Viewers are praising the season for its nostalgia, relatable characters, and the spirit of teamwork, as friends stick together through thick and thin: > "The fifth season reminds us why we fell in love with 'Stranger Things' in the first place." > > "Epic, funny, scary, and heartfelt." > > "The season of 'Stranger Things' kicked off brilliantly. The simple return to the basics highlights the unity of friends coming together for a common goal." > > "It's a fantastic adventure film in the spirit of the 80s, in the best possible way: kids outsmarting adults, plenty of humor, and surprisingly a lot of heart.

⚡️ Starting January 1, Russian banks will increase fees for transfers and card services — all due to the introduction of a 22% VAT. Previously, card transactions were tax-free. This will significantly impact businesses: prices for goods and services may rise, and banks may reduce cashback offers. According to forecasts, the budget is expected to receive an additional 30 billion rubles from these changes. Days without price increases: 0.

⚡️Vkusno – i Tochka has introduced SOCKS — you can get this rare merchandise by purchasing the Winter Combo. There are four pairs in the collection: — Socks with Big Hit; — Socks with Christmas ornaments; — Socks with a snowman; — Socks with French fries. Let's stay warm!

The fifth season of "Stranger Things" will be released in just 4 hours—it's the finale of Netflix's most ambitious series. There will be a total of 8 episodes—each one feels like a separate blockbuster, with a combined budget of $400 million. That's 4 times more expensive than the finale of "Game of Thrones." The Duffer brothers have warned that the characters will be ruthlessly and brutally killed off, and there won't be a happy ending. We're staying up all night!

A little motivation in the middle of the workweek.