Screaming Wi-Fi, internet dresses and unhinged AI chatbots – 20 of the wackiest tech stories we saw in 2025

From fungal batteries to a dress made out of the internet, these wacky 2025 stories show just how strange modern tech can be.
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“Threat actors have a goal in mind and they’ll use whatever path they see to get that goal” – AWS CISO tells us how your company can stay safe, by being more like Amazon

Being smart about AI in cybersecurity can make all the difference, AWS CISO tells us.

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Engineers, AMD has a Christmas gift for you: Extensive benchmarking puts much cheaper Radeon Pro ahead of Nvidia’s finest in key engineering software packages

PugetSystems testing shows Radeon Pro GPUs frequently matching or exceeding Nvidia RTX Pro cards in engineering software despite significantly lower pricing.
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Too busy even for Santa? Japanese PC maker forced to stop sales due to deluge of orders

Mouse Computer halts all PC product sales due to massive order surge, component shortages, and disrupted New Year promotional plans.
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This is the cheapest OCuLink mini PC you can buy right now — NucBox K15 costs just $360 barebone and supports up to 24TB SSD

The NucBox K15 is a $360 mini PC supporting extensive SSD storage, quad display outputs, and hybrid Intel CPU performance.
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That’s a crossover we never saw coming – Facebook borrows the Linux scheduler from the Steam Deck to help run its data centers

Meta is testing a Steam Deck Linux scheduler on servers, betting that latency-driven design scales beyond gaming into production infrastructure.
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This new MVNO wants to let users pay with crypto – but security scrutiny may mean it never sees the light of day

Phreeli launches a privacy-oriented MVNO allowing crypto payments, eSIM activation, and unlimited plans, with security focused on compartmentalized data management.
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10 impossibly small Japanese laptops under 1Kg that you will probably never be able to buy (unless you fly there)

Ten impossibly small Japanese laptops under 1kg – but you’ll probably never be able to buy.

I tried to build a $550 rig to beat this $379 Machenike Ryzen 7 8745HS Mini PC — and I was unsuccessful

No other deal touches this Machenike AI mini PC for value – and it boasts an AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS with 16GB of high-speed RAM and a 512GB M.2 SSD.
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I tried to build a PC to beat this $440 Core i9-12900H laptop and failed miserably — this is truly the best PC deal of 2025

If you don’t mind an obscure Chinese brand, the Hasee X5 15.6 laptop is better than any PC in this price range