Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts
A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social med…
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
Can we build our own software based firewall ?
Learn what a firewall is, why it is important, how it works, and firewall best practices. Learn how a firewall can ensure the data is harmless and prevent data from being stolen or compromised.
Canvas hack strands university students during finals week
An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials â at a time when many are taking o…
Meta takes Ofcom(UK media regulator) to court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates fees based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case…
Meta has launched a judicial review against Ofcom's calculation of fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act.
Announcing the new LibreOffice website! - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice’s website is the main source of information about the software (and project), and typically has 45,000 – 65,000 visitors every day. It is also the place to download the suite, of course, and make donations t…
GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone
A small flaw in Android 16's networking stack let ordinary apps leak data outside the VPN tunnel, exposing real IP addresses
The Sinking City 2 — Official Gameplay Reveal
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Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.
Kash Patel claims AI has stopped school shootings: ‘I’m using it everywhere’
Patel says that he has ‘every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI’
AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada
In a post on its website, Telus Digital announced a partnership with an “AI-powered speech enhancement” company to “soften accents.”
StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal
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GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview
GameStop made a takeover bid for eBay, offering $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company…
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
“You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”
The organizers of Japan's Tokyo Game Dungeon have been going to great lengths to spread awareness about what they call "sekkyo ojisan."
FCC Commissioner Demands Close Scrutiny of 49.5% Foreign Investment in Paramount's Proposed Merger With Warner Bros.
Federal Communications commissioner Anna Gomez on Tuesday urged the agency to closely scrutinize foreign investment tied to Paramount Global’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines | More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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Meta Sheds Influencer Andrew Tate's Lawsuit Over Instagram Ban
Meta convinced a federal court to quash a lawsuit challenging its termination of six Instagram accounts run by self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan.
After Xbox and Windows, now GITHUB is in crisis, "failing me, every single day, and it is personal"
One of GitHub's most staple contributors announced they are abandoning ship due to constant outages. GitHub's COO responds, promising change, but is it all too little too late?
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…
The US Department of Justice is asking a Mississippi court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against xAI
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.
Nvidia CEO : AI means we need new social norms. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the stree…
everybody should buy what Iâm selling, itâs common sense
Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on thre…
Apple's outgoing chief executive has long been a proponent of pro-privacy systems, especially end-to-end encryption
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Yesterday we wrote about the Trump administration forcing Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The short version: dumb. Today, Axios got White House officials on the record, and it turns ou…
Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It
"It’s time for a 'big tech' company to do better"
Being Followed By A Drone While Driving? Here's Why It May Be Tracking Your Car.
Flock Safety has signed agreements with several cities to deploy an automated drone system that can (and will) follow cars on the road.
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Mark Zuckerberg is seriously struggling to lift their spirits following massive layoffs.
How UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 work (really good explanation)
Jumping into unicode and binary
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
PCB prices are up 40% because of a material most people have never heard of
The disruption at Jubail did not begin with the missile strikes on April 6 and 7. Plants had already been shut down in late March as it...
Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
"Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back."
French spy service drops Palantir
Europe is seeking to wean off U.S. tech for sensitive services.
Bruce Schneier: We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it
We have opened the AI Pandoraâs box. Now we have to make the best of it
PSN Single-Letter Username Glitch: What Actually Broke
A PSN glitch let users claim single-letter usernames blocked since 2006. Here's the validation failure behind it and what Sony will likely do next
The rise of "dopamine sites": fake food delivery and shopping apps that satisfy cravings without spending a cent
Young people, particularly in South Korea, have begun visiting so-called "dopamine sites" for the same reason people doomscroll on phones. The trend might be the latest expression...
Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal, its largest ever
Under the terms announced Monday morning, Fox Corporation will pay $160 per share, split as $96 in cash and the remainder in Fox Class A common stock....
TikTok Alternative "Loops" is now on Google Play
Loops is officially live on the Google Play Store. To everyone on Android who's been waiting, thank you for sticking around. You've been asking for this since day one, sideloading builds, poking me in replies, reminding…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Ever give your photo ID to a cannabis club in Spain?
Electronic Arts Announces Plans to Cram Far More Advertising Into Its Games / EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA …
EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA Sports titles
OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
Restricting Fable and Mythos has the same unintended consequence of harming defense while doing nothing to impede attackers. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience.
Banning noise will be a disaster for statistical data products
Sadly, taking away valuable disclosure avoidance tools doesn't make fundamental trade-offs go away.
How deleting 80% of a bad movie magically makes it a masterpiece
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When The Internet Starts To Make Better Movies
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Soccer Arcade Games Through The Years
In this 100% human-made post, we take a look back at the history of soccer arcade & pinball games, just in time for World Cup 2026.
Every Empire Dies The Same Way
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