GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices
GrapheneOS claims Google's security systems make it harder for alternative operating systems and devices to access apps and online services.
tangled: The next-generation social coding platform
Tangled now has native support for vouching! You can vouch or denounce users that you interact with. Vouched users will have a green shield icon beside their profile pictures, and denounced users will have a red one. Yo…
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
: ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration
Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
VS Code credited Copilot for human work after a default change that bypassed user settings.
Alt Video - Personal Retro Video Store on Steam
Your movie collection on the shelves of an early-2000s video store. Bring in your Jellyfin library and Letterboxd films, walk the aisles, pick up a case, ask the clerk for a pick, and watch in the store's viewing room.
TMPlayer: a free, open source player for the videos in your own Telegram chats, on Android TV and desktop
TMPlayer is a free Telegram media player that streams the videos in your own chats on Android TV, phones, Windows, macOS and Linux. Open source, no ads.
Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
Intro: (No AI was involved in writing, research, etc...) If you see weird fonts and spacing, blame Blogger. Skip to "In the wild exploitati...
Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan and back
Tests showed Sceye’s high-flying platform can deliver connectivity in disasters.
The $700 Million Pizza Story That Changed Crypto History
Accept crypto tips & donations directly to your personal wallet with 0% fees. The free BuyMeACoffee alternative for creators and streamers.
“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG.
Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
Kojima's discontinued "playable trailer" is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives.
Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say
Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case wher…
Accenture Just Capped Employees’ Claude Spending at $29 a Month. Some Were Spending $1,000
Accenture sells AI transformation to thousands of clients while quietly telling its own employees they get a fraction of what some were already spending. The internal memo reveals a tension at the heart of every major c…
[IAP] tinyfeed 1.5.1: the stability release!
Generate a webpage from a collection of feeds wtih a simple CLI tool - TheBigRoomXXL/tinyfeed
ReactOS Can Now Be Installed & Used With Its NTFS Driver
The ReactOS open-source operating system has seen its NTFS file-system driver mature to the point that it can be finally used for installing and using ReactOS with it
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.
TIL that the Ford F-150 is the most popular car in the United States
...and not just for the obvious reasons.
Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'
The Power To The Players Act would put an end to digital game licenses
OpenTV: an open source (MPL-2.0) TV and film tracker where your watch history stays on your phone
OpenTV — open-source TV Time alternative for iPhone & Android. Imports your full TV Time GDPR export (episodes, dates, ratings, emotions, lists); your library stays on your phone. On the App St...
Activision Quality Assurance Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
Ahead of next week’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 early access launch, workers at Microsoft-owned Activision Publishing vote to strike if necessary to achieve a fair union contract.
'We Agree That the Current Experience Is Not Where It Needs to Be' — Sega Pulls Disastrous Total War: Shogun 2 Remaster From Sale Following…
Creative Assembly and Sega have pulled Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition from Steam after a raft of complaints about the quality of the remaster.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Overview Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Diaspora, Caves of Qud's first expansion, enters early access in December
Diaspora, Caves of Qud's first expansion, enters early access in December.
What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?
The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...
Cloudflare Acquires Deno JavaScript Runtime, Core Development to End in 2027
Cloudflare acquires Deno, shifting its developers to Workers while the open-source JavaScript runtime faces an uncertain future.
OpenTubeX – Privacy-first YouTube client
OpenTubeX is a privacy-first YouTube client. Encrypted sync, SponsorBlock, no tracking.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
Microsoft Releases LiteBox 0.1, a Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft releases LiteBox 0.1, an open-source Library OS written in Rust, designed to isolate applications and reduce security risks.
Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit?
America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.
Dallas Goes Dystopia, Outfits Garbage Trucks With ‘AI Cameras’ To Generate ‘Blight’ Citations
I’m sure whoever thought this might be a good idea — that would be the Dallas city council members who approved this contract — thought no one would ever find out about it. But no…
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah D…
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
AI is now a health care issue: AI drove nearly $1 billion in extra health care costs over just 2 years – with no evidence patients got any …
Analysis of BCBS claims data found growing use of AI coding tools contribute to higher hospital billing costs and increased healthcare spending.
openSUSE Leap 16.1 Adds Immutable Mode; Leap Micro Discontinued
Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.
Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization: OpenAI will wish you the "best" after hacking into your company.
If your company is hacked by an OpenAI agent, the ChatGPT maker will thoughtfully email you a heads up and wish you the "best."
Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
Singapore government launches dating app with Gale-Shapley stable matching algorithm
The launch of FirstDate comes as the ageing nation wrestles with a record-low fertility rate.
Paperweight V1 - Your inbox knows where your data lives
Your inbox knows where your data lives. Paperweight uncovers old accounts, cleans up unwanted mailing lists, and helps you remove exposed personal data.
WebBrain: a GPL-3.0 browser extension that turns any LLM (including local ones) into a browser agent
Open-source AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox (monorepo) 🧠 - webbrain-one/webbrain
Esos Rings CEO Michelle Bisnoff Convicted of Nearly $2 Million Ponzi Scheme
LOS ANGELES (KEYT) – Michelle Bisnoff has been convicted of multiple financial crimes in connection with an almost $2 million Ponzi scheme related to
The Internet Marked Flock Safety CEO’s Home As A Public Toilet Online
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley faces online mockery over an allegedly blurred home, raising real questions about surveillance executives and personal privacy.
Boox Picco unveiled: Petite 3.97" e-reader with Pomodoro, microSD, and MagSafe
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A simple rule for disposable email: only use it for work that can end
Which tasks deserve a temporary inbox, how to run up to five active workflows on SmailPro Free, and when to rotate, upgrade, or use your own email.
Flock Lawsuit Calls Out Alleged Law Enforcement Misuse of Nationwide License Plate-Reading Camera Network
Flock faces a class action lawsuit over the alleged misuse of its license plate-reading camera network by certain members of law enforcement nationwide.
A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)
"For safety, don't click suspicious links"
‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable
The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon â with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its de…
(link) On cars, and that particular privacy nightmare
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Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear
The SkyNomad—with heated floors, a projector, a pop-up roof, a fridge, swiveling seats, and over 1,000 miles of range—is a “luxury” ride that undercuts Range Rovers by tens of thousands of dollars.
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war