Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.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 ...
I could only hope to make a game that inspires someone to think this deeply. Also, loved the comparison of paper defined by a printer to li…
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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…
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
I connected my self-hosted network scanner to an AI assistant over MCP, kept fully on-LAN
New in Server edition 1.5.3: DeviceShelf can expose your live network inventory and monitoring state to an AI assistant over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with 22 tools, guided prompts, attachable resources and an o…
Paint-on tattoos could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves — all within a colorful, customizable …
Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos capable of recording different electrical signals produced by the body with more sensitivity, durability and accuracy than other wear…
George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’
The Star Wars creator compares not using AI to riding a horse in the face of cars
26 Employees Lawsuit: Meta used AI to fire workers who used their legal leaves to take time off work
The plaintiffs say a monitoring program deployed earlier this year gave artificial intelligence data to select employees for layoffs.
Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked
Microsoft is facing fresh criticism over its handling of user accounts after another customer claimed the company permanently deleted their account.
Blender 5.2 LTS Released 🥳
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks
ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option
Ohio man says software update disabled car, leaving $1,600 bill and little options
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S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
Sam Neill: Cuddle A Duck
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AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows
Anthropic's distillation complaints expose an awkward question: does AI's fair use argument cut both ways?
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product."
We Must Act Now: Nearly 200 Economists, Tech Leaders and Nobel laureates(Including Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman) Warn About AI's Threat to Ec…
Stanford Digital Economy Lab / July 13, 2026
so easy migrating from GitHub to Forgejo
Using a distributed version control software system (like Git) allows you to keep control of the data inside the repository. If you want to download a local copy of your files, you can git clone your repo, or download t…