UZDoom 5.0 Release Announcement Trailer
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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the oppositi…
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
This month, EPA issued guidance clarifying that the Clean Air Act Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected to a public electricity grid, commonly referred to as “islanded” p…
Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health
By Stephen Fontenot | While social media algorithms have become excellent at matching a user’s viewing habits with targeted, personalized content, psychologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have determined that …
Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July
Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market rese…
A new survey of VPN apps available in the US shows that a worryingly large number of them behave in unacceptable ways.
[NSFW warning: dataset name] R34dle — free browser higher-or-lower, looking for playtesters
Rule34dle (also searched as r34dle) is a free higher or lower guessing game: two characters, one count shown, one hidden. Guess which has more posts. Daily Wordle-style board or endless streak.
Haiku
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out! | PCSX2
Nearly six months after the release of PCSX2 2.6.0 (and two years after the big milestone release of 2.0.0) - we are excited to unveil PCSX2 2.8.0 and showcase what we have been working on since then!
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wast…
Per-entry memory cut by 56%, sparing Cloudflare 130 Gen 13 servers’ worth of DDR5.
World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea
GPS-free navigation at sea was demonstrated using quantum sensors that measure gravitational field changes to determine their location.
Retro Assembly is great
The personal retro game collection cabinet in your browser. Join us on Discord https://discord.gg/gwaKRAYG6t - arianrhodsandlot/retroassembly
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
TIL about the Mesozoic marine revolution
The Mesozoic marine revolution (MMR) refers to the increase in shell-crushing (durophagous) and boring predation in shallow-sea (neritic) and some deep-sea marine organisms throughout the Mesozoic era (251 Mya to 66 Mya…
Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Orbify Demo 2 v72 — interactive Gaussian-splat navigation visualization.
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Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”Optimus Prime drops this line like it’s an established law of the universe, not just a personal belief. And honestly, for a giant alien robot who turns...
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution
100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses
Exploited Data Workers Are "the Secret Ingredient of 'AI' Itself" [Video/Transcript]
Workers in the Global South are deliberately invisibilized by the companies that produce AI, says a sociologist.
Pick a top tier: Asymmetry in puzzle games
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ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
MILITSIONER - Release Window Trailer | Gamescom 2026
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.
US: Chinese hackers broke into NASA, DOE, DOJ, NIH, HHS, Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Senate; DOJ and FBI seize 2 platforms used by China …
The Justice Department and FBI announced court-authorized domain seizures today to deny malicious cyber actors access to two complementary hacking platforms known as “QScan” and “QTRouter,” used to target U.S. critical …
Self-Host Weekly (28 August 2026)
I'll take "things nobody asked for" for $500, Alex
Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more
Windows 11's KB5120998 optional update is breaking custom cursors and resetting wallpapers to black. Here's why you should hold off for now.
The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario
MapQuest shared a tool for users to generate joke screenshots with their own names for Lake Ontario, writing: "Lake Are We Doing This Again?"
GTA6 Extended Look
Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, this extended look at the next Grand Theft Auto showcases the biggest, most immersive evolution of t...
Mario Kart Wiicompiled + Retro Rewind | Trailer
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Signal Messenger: Introducing Automatic Key Verification
Signal now offers a feature called “automatic key verification” which complements the existing safety number system. Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an additional, streamli…
Sovereign Tech Agency Invests €500k in Flatpak
We’re building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
First patient to have brain surgery with real-time AI assistance
Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns
Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.
Monty's 3rd Videon on Wolfenstein - And on fascists
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online
Flock Safety has been facing scrutiny amid concerns about privacy and police misuse of its surveillance technology.
Real Science Is Harder Than Benchmarks: University students find that AI isn’t the cure-all in drug discovery, as AI isn’t as capable as hu…
Can AI discover new drugs on its own? Northeastern students tested top AI models and found they still can’t replace human researchers.
Visio-Display: a self-hosted digital signage platform with one-command deployment
Visio-Display is a digital signage platform that enables remote management and control of connected displays. - woofix/visio_display
Paramedic cockroaches: cyborg care when rescuers can’t reach
‘Swarms’ of cyborg cockroaches with cameras and medical injectors could deliver supervised emergency care to people trapped in collapsed buildings, caves or other places too dangerous for rescuers to reach.
Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to…
Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan
Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to deliver.
As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code
Linux distros are defining the line in the sand.
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days
The original Snowboard Kids has been fully decompiled in only 84 days! In this post I delve into what changed and what lessons might apply to future projects.
GTA6 Extended Look
Watch "Grand.Theft.Auto.VI.An.Extended.Look.2026.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH" on Streamable.
With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.
The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.
Inside Games on the GTA 6 Extended Look [SPOILERS]
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Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hi…