Check your storage: Chrome may be downloading a 4GB AI model — here’s what we know
Chrome may be downloading a hidden 4GB AI file to your PC — here’s what it is and how to check if it’s there.
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Contemporary permaculture is founded on three core ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics serve as a guiding compass for its design principles, co-creating a holistic framework for regenerative li…
Self-Hosting security reference
Default-deny all inbound. Open only what is explicitly needed. This applies at the host firewall level regardless of what your cloud provider or router does.
Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro owners could get some cash.
Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
RAM prices are forcing companies to choose between higher prices and worse specs. Some have decided on doing both.
Australia's 'Payphone Tag' Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure
Payphone Tag is a new game (sport?) being played in Australia that uses the country's kinda-defunct public phone network and turns it into a geospatial game where you can claim whole regions of territory as your own, pr…
Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft
Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.
New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB
VECT 2.0 was built to lock your files and demand a ransom. A rookie coding mistake means it's just destroying them instead.
Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access
This five-year deal is one of many circular agreements keeping the AI sector afloat.
Microsoft Edge will load all your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says it's not a security concern
A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
Docker Engine 29 has changed the default image store to containerd, duplicating storage of (compressed) base image layers
Learn about Docker Engine v29 and how this foundational release sets the stage for the future of the Docker platform.
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
: Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default
Hyundai Reportedly Demanding ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Boston Dynamics Robots ASAP
Ex-employees from Boston Dynamics say the board is frustrated by delays as competitors nip at its heels.
U.S President administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms | Onshore wind development in the United States is being br…
Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.
Brandolini's law - Wikipedia
Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease o…
"The WKRP call letters are for sale. Will they live on the air in Cincinnati?" Yes, they did.
A small, low-power FM station in Raleigh, N.C., is auctioning off its iconic WKRP call letters to TV, AM and FM stations.
ESP32 Hosts SolarPunk Message Board
Solarpunk is sometimes thought of as the “good ending” to cyberpunk– there’s technology, but it’s community-focused instead of in the hands of evil conglomerates, and&…
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
: 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
TIL about enhanced weathering
Enhanced weathering, also termed ocean alkalinity enhancement when proposed for carbon credit systems, is a process that aims to accelerate natural weathering by spreading finely ground silicate rock, such as basalt, on…
Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline
The annual report reveals a field hitting breakthrough capabilities while raising urgent questions about environmental costs, transparency, and who benefits from the technology.
GameStop Is Offering to Buy eBay for $55.5 Billion in cash and stocks. If eBay isn't receptive to the offer, GameStop's taking its offer di…
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) today submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire 100% of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) at $125.00 per share in cash and stock. The offer represents a 46% premium to eBay’s unaffected closing price…
GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay
GameStop's boss Ryan Cohen says he sees potential to make eBay a much bigger rival to Amazon.
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player
I've spent the last year or so slowly replacing the everything-machine in my pocket with devices that do one thing and do it well. A BOOX e-reader for books. Retro handheld consoles for games. An automatic watch that te…
Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing …
Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
There was no ill intent by evil corporation, but rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code. As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well.
Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs
Even if the war stops now, Amazon will have to wait months before it can return its Middle East servers back to full operational status.
Change logs for security intelligence update version 1.449.425.0
This page lists newly added and updated threat detections included in security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware. If you don’t find the latest security intelligence up…
The Compose key is magic
Fast emoji and special character input on your Linux desktop? For free? In THIS economy?
UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence
UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces
NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest…
The next-generation thruster could one day propel humans to Mars.
A cross-national survey of 31,000 adults in 30 countries finds that digital health literacy is highest in low- and middle-income countries …
New York, NY | April 28, 2026: A cross-national survey of 31,000 adults in 30 countries finds that digital health literacy is highest in low- and middle-income countries and lowest in high-income countries, challenging …
Dutch group seeks court block on U.S. takeover of DigiD provider
A group of Dutch technology experts, journalists, and scientists is asking a court to recognize them as stakeholders so they can force the government to block the planned takeover of the Dutch IT service provider Solvin…
FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 per…
China currently handles the majority of device testing for the U.S. market.
Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now sh…
OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project would have restored cloud access to Orca fans.
Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand
Apple's most affordable MacBook ever appears to be a resounding hit with customers, based on comments shared by CEO Tim Cook this week. On an earnings call on Thursday, Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Ne…
Repterra, a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs, where you can breed (and ride) new dinosaur types to reclaim th…
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the wor…
Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows
Stanford University report comes after two separate attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
Oscars(AMPAS): AI actors and writers cannot win awards
Academy Awards organisers issued new rules on Friday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans and not artificial intelligence to be eligible for Oscars. The new rules also include…
The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS - VulpineCitrus
In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.
Bobo Bay is RELEASED (Reminds me of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Chao Garden)
Bobo Bay is a pet simulation game where you collect, mash(breed), accessorize, and train little creatures to compete in races and other competitions.
Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data c…
How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test
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Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presid…
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies
After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026)
AI and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
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