47 requests, zero answers — How Proton VPN keeps saying no to data demands
Every order sought to unmask a user behind a server IP and a timestamp, and Proton VPN says it holds no such data to give
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International calls, virtual numbers, SIM cards
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs
Who is enjoying good success with Mealie's Meal planner? Does anyone have advice on how to tighten up the rules? I don't quite have as many…
Mealie is a recipe management app for your kitchen.
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.
OnePlus will stop selling new products in Europe and North America
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
Was the UK government ever realistically going to be able to restrict VPNs?
The government has ditched its VPN ban plans. Here is why the policy collapsed under technical reality.
Denshattack! - Official Launch Trailer
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FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE - Pixel Trailer
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Co-Founder of Controversial NSO Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport
Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.
The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the healt…
The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike
I built a resume PDF builder — $9 once vs Zety ~$284/year
Build a professional resume and download the PDF. No sign-up, no monthly fee. Works offline.
I also filed the corners off my MacBook
I like my new-to-me MacBook because it enables me to create more stuff compared to my now almost 8 year old Thinkpad I had before, mainly due to battery and screen reasons. There is one thing about it that I cannot wrap…
Calls Grow to Boycott 'The Odyssey,' Filmed in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
One critic noted that Sahrawis "are beaten, arbitrarily arrested, and have their equipment confiscated for trying to make their own films of life under occupation."
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.
You'll now be able to spot an AI-generated song on Spotify
Streaming giant Spotify has stopped short of expunging artificially generated music from its platform, but it is making it easier for listeners to work out that they are listening to tracks produced using AI.
I built a PDF invoice generator that runs entirely in your browser — $9 one-time, no subscription
Professional PDF invoices in 2 clicks. No sign-up, no monthly fee.
OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical mani…
Surveillance State’s Newest Terror Weapon: “Autonomous Police Drones”!
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Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6
Over 100 countries currently do not have access to PSN, which has huge ramifications for a digital exclusive PS6.
Event Horizon | Sam Neill Explains the Black Hole | 4K Scene
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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were th…
Jolla J2 Unboxing and first impressions
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FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.
Delete GrapheneOS? WTF?!
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The making of African Kung Fu Nazis | The Wild True Story Behind the Cult Film | OTAKU
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The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE - Dhole Moments
Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I’ve certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been working on building out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Activity…
TIL Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek TNG has a platinum record
Jonathan Frakes talks William Riker, playing trombone with Phish, and more
Mysteries of Telegram DataCenters
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in Singap…
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
The kids (with phones) are alright – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
There was a remarkable video going around the Scottish socials yesterday which led to quite a bit of media coverage. It’s a four-minute long video showing some furious Scotrail passengers confronting a drunk middle-aged…
Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study Finds
Two years ago, Mozilla published Over the Edge: How Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice, a report by independent researchers Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles documenting how Microsoft used ...
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Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage trucks. As the trucks roll their normal routes, the cameras would scan yards and house fronts for code violati...
How to unionize your tech workplace
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.
The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
A thought experiment in what we built without noticing.
US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics
Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers
Mega Man X Regenesis (Fan Game) | Official Release Date Trailer
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Long-Term Data Storage for Home Users - YouTube
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities.
Bindery: self-hosted, folder-watching converter for ebooks and comics
Drop e-books and comics into a folder, get Kobo/Kindle-ready files out. kepubify + KCC with a WebUI, in one Docker image. - jarynclouatre/bindery
LuisCore /for-agents.json — agent bootstrap — LuisCore inference-scale runtime substrate
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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants re…
Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
Expensive and pointless? Black Ops 1 and 2 PS4 and PS5 ports cost a lot of money and barely offer any upgrades over the originals
You may not have expected much from the Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 ports, but they've somehow managed to be more disappointing.
Made With GameMaker 2026
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How The Spread Of Local AI Models Makes Copyright Enforcement Harder
The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination o…
Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be
A new hypervisor-based bypass method, demonstrated extensively within the Linux gaming community using Proton and Wine, has emerged
TIL Ancient Roman farm women made wine, oil and profits. Historians dismissed them as 'housekeepers'
Female farm managers are hidden in plain sight in ancient Roman texts, mentioned in laws, literature and grave inscriptions across five centuries. Modern historians have generally assumed they were housekeepers, in char…