Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both
Turning off unnecessary animations and transparency effects in Windows 11 may seem like a small change, but it can make a big difference in your PC's performance and usability.
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers
Sony Interactive Entertainment will increase prices for PlayStation Plus for new customers in select regions starting May 20, the company announced, citing “ongoing market conditions.”
Scientists Debate Humanity’s Response to Possible Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Scientists are debating how humanity could respond if intelligent life beyond Earth is ever confirmed. Here’s what researchers say.
Why South Korea Makes the Best Anti-Capitalist Movies | Hana from Korea
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America's productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the rea…
National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.
Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch said AI dominance will depend on who controls chips, energy, and computing infrastructure.
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11
Former Microsoft PM says the company's AI push failed, citing Copilot's dismal 3.3% adoption rate and calling for a massive factory reset.
Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled
The company says it has addressed a routing behavior that explained the odd patterns
Vinton Cerf: ‘I refuse to take responsibility for those who abuse my beautiful internet’
The computer scientist is optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. EL PAÍS spoke with him in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of the pioneering TCP/IP protocols that he co-invented
Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead
According to Palantir Technologies, “SaaS is dead.” This is especially true for off-the-shelf supply chain software. SaaS is too slow and eliminates differentiation.
7 Late-Career Career Change Secrets Drive $80K Gains
Discover proven benchmarks, a 90‑day plan, fast skill fixes, hidden costs, and remote roles to help adults 50+ become data analysts and add $80K to their salary.
Travel Gear Korea vs Classic Luggage - Real Difference?
Explore the real difference between Travel Gear Korea and classic luggage, with top picks, essential accessories, and expert comparisons for Korean travel.
Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data
TL;DR: Between May 2025 and May 2026, Waymo’s recall-scope count of autonomous cabs rose from 1,212 vehicles to 3,791 vehicles. That is more than a 3x increase in the Waymo fleet size in roughly one year. We set out to …
What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAI
60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast …
Only 25% of you will even try in the next year
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
The push to keep open-source open in the era of age-gating.
When Vibe Scammers Met Vibe Hackers: Pwning PhaaS with Their Own Weapons
What happens when AI-powered criminals meet AI-powered hunters? A technical arms race where both sides are vibing their way through explo...
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costs
SEATTLE – A consumer-protection lawsuit from Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman accuses Amazon.com of collecting funds from millions of its customers in response to since invalidated tariffs, passing the buck on risin…
Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games
Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill.
Digg Is Back Again, but With a New Format and Focus on AI
Using the 1,000 most influential voices in AI that also happen to be on X, Digg wants to be your source of AI news.
This Week in Self-Host
I'm officially back from my brief hiatus (shout-out to those who missed me), and as promised, have sifted through two weeks' worth of content to make up for it.
'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers
Meta's forthcoming layoffs will reportedly eliminate about 10% of its workforce, even as Q1 profits hit $26.8 billion and AI spending rockets toward $145 billion this year alone.
Japanese authorities just dropped a Minecraft map based on actual submarine topographic data, and it lets you explore the seabed from Tokyo…
The Japan Coast Guard's Minecraft map based on official topographic data of the seas and ocean around Japan is available for free.
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.
TIL that dwarf rats exist. They're said to rarely get tumors, and to have a longer lifespan than regular rats.
Details on the difference between standard and dwarf rats & how to identify them.
New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic
A digital billboard company now has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks. Thanks, I hate it.
Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs. With only 578 servers (compared to Pro…
The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice
Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now yo…
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs
The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work adding ever more features to the DE and polishing the exper…
People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers
A majority of Americans say they're against the local construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence.
Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI
The faculty voted Monday to require universal proctoring for all in-person examinations in response to mounting concerns over AI-assisted cheating and declining student reporting of Honor Code violations. The policy, wh…
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
PCOS Is Officially Renamed, After Decades of Misinformation
First, it was named after two men.
AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2
They sure took their sweet time didn't they. AMD have officially announced that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is officially coming to their older GPUs.
18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
NGINX Rift CVE-2026-42945 scores 9.2 after 18 years, enabling unauthenticated RCE or DoS via crafted HTTP requests.
Capcom Lists Dead Rising as One of Its 'Leading Brands' That It's 'Nurturing' — but Does That Mean Dead Rising 5?
Capcom is planning for Dead Rising's future. In its latest earnings report, the Japanese games company said it plans to nuture a handful of franchises for growth, with one of them being Dead Rising.
Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers
The cybersecurity threat experts feared for years just happened and "the world might actually be more dangerous."
Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says
Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash
The Talos Principle 3 | Announcement Trailer
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The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
Meta is facing another lawsuit over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
The lawsuit claims Meta is not doing enough to protect senior citizens and other vulnerable groups.
PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies
Reports claim that Saros' early sales have been below expectations for a PS5 exclusive, especially considering its relatively high budget.