DayOtter v0.4.0 - open-source, self-hostable Calendly alternative with a built-in scheduling assistant
The AI-native, open-source scheduling platform. Otter books meetings, protects your focus, and clears the back-and-forth — confirm-first. Self-host it all under AGPLv3. - Dayotter/dayotter
Microsoft Collects ‘Massive’ Amounts of Info From K-12 Students Without Parental Consent, Class Action Lawsuit Claims
A class action lawsuit alleges that Microsoft employs unlawful data mining to collect and profit from information about K-12 students in Washington.
Google has started encrypting its search results' URLs with "goto?=" links for logged out sessions and/or scrapers ( 28 August, 2026 )
Google now hides the destination URL on every search result behind an encrypted blob. I took the encryption apart, and I can still read every ranked URL off the page in one pass.
My experience with Navidrome
It's been a while since I dropped Lostify for my own Navidrome instance. And this is what I learned, what I've used, and what makes me happy about it.
"I Don’t Have a Smartphone…"
I Don’t Have a Smartphone… par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the companyâs next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
Cyber Resilience Act: EU Commission provides more clarity for open source
A Brussels guide specifies the Cyber Resilience Regulation. Manufacturers and open-source projects gain legal certainty before reporting obligations begin.
Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Goo…
The same products are showing up as 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to traditional search, a study found.
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technologyâs impact
This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
WIRED rebuilt Flockâs latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officerâs browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
Google defeats US justice department bid to force ad tech sale
Judge declines to make Google sell AdX in win for firm against US antitrust enforcers’ attempts to break up big tech
GPT-6 Astra reaches and surpasses human-level performance on ARC-AGI-3 with a memory harness, but still at 1000x the cost - ARC Prize Found…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reaches state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3
TIL Trever Moore had his own show on Comedy Central
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry
Hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding the AI industry. Economist Gerald Epstein says this bubble could burst.
tuios: Terminal UI OS (Terminal Multiplexer)
Terminal UI OS (Terminal Multiplexer). Contribute to Gaurav-Gosain/tuios development by creating an account on GitHub.
Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images
Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced âany naked underage imagesâ
Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’
Student protesters among those hacked, says digital rights group, though Aleksandar VuÄiÄâs government denies spying
Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits]
Beginning in November, we’re changing how cloud gaming is included with XBOX Game Pass.
Audacity 4.0 is finally out!
Flagship tour of what's new in Audacity 4.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance - 1st Trailer
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CERN Transitioning Industrial Computers To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop
OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of 'AI' is 'Non-Negotiable'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is "non-negotiable" for countries, comparing rejecting it to refusing electricity a century ago and predicting it will unleash an unprecedented boom in entrepreneurship. "The econo…
The Republican Nominee for New York Governor Generated a Creepy Video of Mamdani and Hochul
The video makes Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul look like they're hanging out in a prescription medication commercial.
NVIDIA buy Hugging Face for almost $13 Billion dollars
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide.
No AI until high school: NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Siri Might Actually Be Good Now. Or Maybe It Was Just That Bad Before.
It took two more years than Apple anticipated, but an improved Siri is finally here.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
It was already rumored, but now we know.
Flock bans Journalist from Convention, Journalist use their tools against them.
Flock takes their privacy very seriously when profiting off of the exploitation of yours. But that ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.
Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times
The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
Hands-on with the Anbernic RG 55G1; Anbernic's Snapdragon Gamble
Anbernic's first Snapdragon-powered handheld is beautifully designed, comfortable to use and capable, but the G1 Gen 2's weak GPU makes a starting-from $150 price harder to justify.
Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs
Sony Japan has introduced a new customer harassment policy following widespread backlash toward its decision to stop producing physical game discs starting January 2028.
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement
You thought ray tracing was bad...
Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely - ~tildes.official [Reddit Alternative]
292 comments in the discussion of this post on Tildes
Uber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithm
Landmark lawsuit claims tech companyâs pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings
Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it'
Apple executives' decision to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" on its Maps app is setting off a firestorm inside the tech giant, with employees furious that leadership caved to President Donald Trump out of fear of hi…
1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global …
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.
We are happy to announce the release of Kdenlive 26.08 🥳
We are happy to announce the summer release of Kdenlive 26.08. Continuing the efforts from the last version, the core team has been focusing mostly on stability - fixing bugs and crashes while also doing lot's under the…
About half of Americans say they spend too much time on their smartphone
Seven-in-ten adults under 30 say they spend too much time on their smartphone, as do about two-thirds of those ages 30 to 49.
Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good • Tero Piirainen
I care about Bun. I have been rooting for it since the initial release in 2022. I switched all my development from Node to Bun. I used it in the development of the Nue framework and now with my new project Hertta.
Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus
The confluence of lingering cost pressures and advancing technology appears to be translating into a boom in smaller businesses’ deploying AI-designed graphics and logos.
Small update: Wandering Alchemist (Free GPS walking game) is now available on iOS 💚
Download Wandering Alchemist by Andreas Friedle on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Wandering Alchemist.
Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail.
We created a fake holiday home listing on 10 Downing Street, were able to make a test payment and publish a fake 10/10 review through booki…
The scam-ridden platform failed to block a phony listing of the most famous address in the country
Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were…
"There were two months where I was working something like at least 12 hours every day."
3 sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by pe…