I thought moving into 2025 would ease the woes of stock shrotages, but it is still proving very hard to buy a PS5 disc drive. The disc drive is barely popping up at retailers. The PS5 Pro is a ...

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Yan, who shares a flat with a colleague in suburban Shanghai, was mocking himself, saying he was lazy, by using a new buzz phrase “bailan” which literally means “let it rot” that is ...

Read on to see if you might be dealing with brain rot yourself, and secure some tips to help you avoid it altogether in 2025 and beyond. It takes more than a few rat memes to qualify for brain rot.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US government’s V-Disc label (“V” for victory), founded to boost the morale of the military, ran ...

Others expressed stronger emotions. “He will rot in hell,” one man in his 50s who did not give his name said outside the building. “Carter’s failure… to properly deal with Iran made his ...

According to Oxford University Press, Brain rot is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state” after the overconsumption of material considered to be ...

SINGAPORE – “Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law,” wrote 19th-century Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Today, as Gen Z and Gen ...

It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. The nefarious thing? These symptoms are ...

The Oxford University Press word of 2024 was “brain rot”— meaning both the “low-quality, low-value content” found online and the intellectual deterioration from its overconsumption.

During development, Nintendo chose an optical disk format for the GameCube. It just wasn’t the right one. The “microdisk” was an 8-centimeter disk instead of 12 cm for CDs/DVDs. The result is that the ...

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, then you have ‘brain rot’ — the Oxford University Press’ (OUP) word of the year for 2024. Brain rot, manifest, delulu, and more: Top 10 words ...