TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethe…
Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation
My friends are making a multiplayer idle fishing game and I wanted to share
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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
inKONBINI is finally out! Really looking forward to playing this cosy little game.
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories is a cozy slice-of-life game about running a small-town convenience store, inspired by early 1990s Japan. Meet regulars, stock shelves, and watch quiet, everyday moments turn into mean…
Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries
A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices. But consumer advocates argue that it contains far too many loopholes that companies could exploit.â
Google has a price for you. We found it.
Proton analyzed 54,000 profiles using real ad auction data to determine your worth to Google. How valuable is your data?
"Far Far West" launches to over 15k concurrent players, 98% positive on Steam
our day 1 reviews have been through the (saloon) roof!!! 98% OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE?!?!? y'all... we have no words 😘 if you haven't already, please do give FFW a review on steam, it helps us out alot 😁
The Blood of Dawnwalker lets you complete areas in any order, kill any NPCs you like, and still complete the game after failing every quest…
"We've structured the game in a way where, after the prologue, you can do basically whatever you want."
The Men Who Spend Hours Talking to Porn Bots— “It’s just nice to feel heard.”
When human connection feels too tough, these men turn to porn bots. We talked to them about why.
‘Stole a charity’: Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom showdown
Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly vicious
HardenedBSD Officially on Radicle
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sun, 04/26/2026 - 18:19
Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history
This is a rare look at the tech giant's first operating system
Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub1.
DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit
Google is trying to put an end to the liability claim in its textbook piracy battle with several educational publishers.
Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In
Following yesterday's polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications ar…
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the rate of
Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux
AI features are coming to the most popular Linux distro.
‘Stop Killing Games’ Got Its EU Parliament Hearing
Progress may be slow, but it’s still progress. While I’ve been talking about the importance of video game preservation as a function of our own overall cultural preservation, very few p…
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.
Wuthering waves Aemeath Casual Outfit Mod Gameplay
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps | TechCrunch
There have been plenty of rumors about OpenAI's hardware plans, which involve launching a pair of earbuds. A new note from industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the AI company might be working on a phone in collab…
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
We wrote "esperto-wiimote", a Wiimote remapper with good IR tracking and complex key combos
Advanced Wiimote remapping software. Contribute to KayJay7/esperto-wiimote development by creating an account on GitHub.
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher
An old Activision idea from the 1980s has led to some incredible things in the 2020s for Panic, the publisher of Despelote, Arco and Time Flies: “The range of things we received was wild."
Former PlayStation Exec Wonders How Sony Will Maintain Investment in First-Party Games Without Releasing Them on PC
Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has suggested that Sony will struggle to recoup the huge budgets invested in its first-party games without porting them to PC.
TIL there was such a thing as lumberjack sandals.
Item from Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection. A pair of lumberjack sandals are shown. The description on the back of the photograph reads 'Loggers' sandals worn for noon hour to protect mess hall floors from …
Starfish ROOM: DEFEND THE ROOMS available on Steam
In a world colonized by aliens, Kibo Wave has been chosen to fight various aliens, kill monsters, collect cards, and speedrun in seconds in an eternal loop in a 2D musou roguelite sci-fi queer game.
Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared
Palworld passes 40 million players ahead of its July 10 exit from Early Access, with Pocketpair recapping two and a half years of updates.
Update: 136 workers have been laid off at id Software
The news comes with Xbox preparing to 'reset' its video game division by eliminating 3,200 roles.
Eve Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
"If we improve the code and we can all benefit from it, it's good for everyone," says Fenris's Ben Hunter, as he talks security, LLM coding, and help from Godot
Sony's Disc-Free 2028 Plan Hands it Total Price Control, Dutch Group Warns in Exclusive Wccftech Statement as €400M Lawsuit Escalates
Sony’s end of PlayStation discs could hand it total price control, the Dutch group behind the €400M Fair PlayStation lawsuit tells Wcctech.
A Modern Setup Guide for the PSP-2000 (Jailbreak, Plugins, and More)
Giving Sony's legendary handheld a second life with modern storage, custom firmware, and a fresh setup
[Drawn Out] Rockstar & Sony Think You're Stupid
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Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach
Modern PC games make you install a ring-0 anti-cheat driver you can't audit.
ASCILINE: A high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine. Streams binary-encoded frames via WebSockets for ultra-low latency, 3…
A high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine. Streams binary-encoded frames via WebSockets for ultra-low latency, 30 FPS playback using HTML5 Canvas and requestAnimationFrame. - Yusuf...
The 1994 Star Trek: TNG Screensaver Was a Desktop Holodeck
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GTK on Android
Attached: 1 video Continuing the GTK on Android saga, here's Jorts (Granite / elementary) Now onto pushing my patches for it to Pixiewood #GTK #elementary #elementaryOS #Granite #GNOME
"The US is building a machine to watch the world" [YouTube]
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A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. - tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
The Viltrumites Find Conquest's Search History
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Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real
The eye condition bixonimania doesn't exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricatedâdespite obvious clues
First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins
Don’t expect a pill to take you back to 21 any time soon.
Meet the Robot That Nurses Unplugged—Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank (Tribeca 2026 Best Animated Short)
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A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
Atari Pole Position: Factory Assembly Line Footage
The development and release of Pole Position is probably worthy of an in depth deep dive for another time, so look out for that in a future post. In the meantime, I’ve come across some more e…