Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns.
Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps(including Apple Health and Google Health Connect)
From 13 October 2026, Withings required accounts created from that date to have a Withings+ subscription to synchronize measurements with third-party applications...
AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System: Start stocking up, folks!
AI hacking sprees and a recent mass cyberattack on supermarkets has experts fearing that financial systems may be next on the chopping block.
The Opportunity for Heat Pumps to Put Downward Pressure on Electricity Rates
How many US homes could add heat pumps within today’s winter grid headroom, and how that could lower electric rates and emissions.
Self-Host Weekly (16 October 2026)
You either die open source, or live long enough to see yourself become open core
Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68
Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more.
Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event
The Tesla Roadster 2 drove up a curved ramp before using SpaceX rocket thrusters to fly, flip and land
Could your brain data be used against you? UN calls for limits on neurotechnology
Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is outpacing the laws meant to protec…
Israeli ad company helped a spyware firm target Al Jazeera through no-click online ads
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We…
Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: ‘If You Pay For It, You Own It’
Today, Rep. Ritchie Torres (NY-15) announced he will introduce the Power To The Players Act, legislation that would direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish regulations protecting consumers’ ability to own and p…
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model
Meta says Muse excels at âmulti-step reasoningâ and âcomplex software engineeringâ as it races to catch up to Chinese rivals
Jev Meets the Trolley Problem
I asked Jev and 13 other decision models the Trolley Problem.
Tab Manager & Session Saver – local tab session backup for Firefox
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Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.
Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to build a Linux page cache fix that hit 23x read throughput, but kernel reviewers found a race before anything merged.
NightOwl - force dark mode on any website in Firefox, with per-domain toggle
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Tab Manager & Session Saver - save and restore named tab sessions in Firefox (local-only, no sync)
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Using Artificial Intelligence to reverse engineer hardware
After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i w…
Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking With My Sonarr
PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
What the West can learn from AI optimists in the rest of the world: The developing world’s enthusiastic adoption of AI and necessity-driven…
The developing world’s enthusiastic adoption of AI and necessity-driven innovations offer lessons for an anxiety-ridden West.
Meta Glasses Said to Be Recording Even When They’re in Sleep Mode: "Can't trust anyone these days."
Users of the infamous Ray-Ban Meta glasses report being recorded by the devices even when they're inactive.
The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a second
The next-gen Roadster has been in development for nearly a decade. But perhaps it was worth the wait.
Big Walk Xbox Absence Explained as House House Backs BDS Boycott
House House says Big Walk is not on Xbox because Microsoft and Xbox remain BDS boycott targets. Here is what is confirmed about Big Walk platforms, the studio’s statement, and how Xbox players should read the gap.
World War Z and the Hollywood hasbara apparatus
Alongside World War Z, a lengthy list of Hollywood projects were/are explicitly created with Zionist politics in mind.
MyChart and a major hospital said I could opt out of sharing my health data. But they didn’t make it easy // My journey included a notary, …
My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.
Forgejo v17.0
Forgejo version 17.0 was released on 15 October 2026. Forgejo is a lightweight, community-developed, self-hosted platform for code collaboration.
Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt
Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as potential interest rate hikes spook markets
Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
Discover-Techâs Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
FTC probes Anthropic and OpenAI "breaches", wonders who should be liable
FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.
Terraform Meets Proxmox: Lessons from a VMware Migration
Infrastructure simplifying engineer
The Fediverse is at risk by the EU KIDS ACT!
The EU’s planned KIDS Act poses technical and organizational challenges for the Fediverse. However, it is unlikely to be the end, as some critics warn.
GTA VI changes everything!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Scientists just voted to redefine how the world keeps time
A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour
Robot seized by German police after it was allegedly used to grope teenage girl
Police have launched an investigation on suspicion of sexual harassment after the robot's owner, 16, and his companion are said to have streamed the incident.
Saudi Arabia: Death Penalty for Facebook Comment
A Saudi court has sentenced a Sri Lankan migrant worker to death over a Facebook comment that was deemed blasphemous.
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans
From Mario to machine guns: how Ubisoft Paris made Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Tactics
The studio is swapping the Mushroom Kingdomâs vivid palette for the blood-soaked grit of military action series
Whistleblower Exposes Meta, Bolsonaro, and Cerimedo Election Meddling Partnership
On Mexican TV, assassination target of jailed disinformation merchant Fernando Cerimedo explains how he worked with the Bolsonaros and Meta to reduce Lula’s visibility on its platforms
OpenAI’s London staff receive average of £2.3m per person annually
Accounts for the Westminster-based company behind ChatGPT show that 110 staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares
EU privacy watchdog warns smart glasses expose bystanders to covert recording
Brussels, 13 October – During its latest plenary, the EDPB has adopted statement 1/2026 on smart glasses and published the report “The connected gaze.
An AI agent deleted a fully edited new season of the Swedish TV show "The Challenge Sverige", weeks before its Nov 22 premiere, after its p…
Premiären pÃ¥ TV4 var bara fem veckor bort. Men nu har nästa säsong av âThe challengeâ plötsligt raderats av en AI-agent, enligt källor till Aftonbladet. Nu tvingas TV4 skjuta upp premiären till nästa Ã¥r.
Data Centers Are Driving Conservative Rural Voters to The Democratic Party En Masse: It turns out that middle America REALLY detests data c…
The share of Americans living near data centers who plan to vote blue is rising noticeably as the backlash continues.
Ahead of the midterms, Meta has paid at least 29 anti-LGBTQ accounts for their posts
The company’s invite-only program for content creators has accounts promoting white supremacy, neo-Nazi ideologies and histories of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
Homeland Security eyes no-bid deal for AI-assisted search of billions of communication records
The system would combine live wiretaps, phone location data, email, and financial records. ICE says only one company can build it.
Surveillance at Scale : How AI training platforms gather personal data from European workers
DiPLab is releasing a report on the surveillance of data workers today. Entitled “Surveillance at Scale : How AI training platforms gather personal data from European workers” this report is a research project in collab…
Other AI Companies Should Be Very Afraid of What Just Happened to Character.AI, According to Its Own Bankruptcy Documents: Be afraid.
The bankruptcy of the notorious AI companion platform Character.AI should be a warning to other AI companies.
An Open Letter to Anthropic: What's Your End Game With Claude?
Enshittification, nerfed, lobotomized, whatever you want to call it, is this the beginning of the end for Claude's highest-paying users?
OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.