Former chemical plant in North Wales, UK, could become AI data center
Carbon3.ai plans AI facility at factory site
Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade
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Colorado right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics now in effect
The new law will save the average household around $382 in repairs each year, according to the Colorado Public Interest Research Group.
Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard
At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living on the Enterprise-D? If such a person exists, i…
After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes
After memory and SSD prices surged due to the AI boom, power supplies and CPU cooling solutions now appear to be next in line for price increases, per the latest news from China.
AGDQ 2026 has ended, raising US$2,443,414 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation
🏁TIME🏁 #AGDQ2026 has raised a total amount of $2,443,414 for @preventcancer.org! Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support!! See you all next time a…
AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them
: Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow
Razer’s AI wearable is a headset with built-in cameras - Say hello to the Snapdragon-powered ‘Project Motoko’ concept.
That certainly is something you wear.
An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.
TIL there was a double barrelled cannon.
John Gilleland developed a revolutionary double-barreled cannon meant to sweep Union infantry off the field. On a spring morning in April 1862, a number
The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles
How a home computer, the Commodore 64, became one of the best-selling gaming machines of all time.
Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things
Eurogamer speaks to George Osborn of the Video Games Industry Memo to learn about what could happen if Discord does go public.
TIL there is a shark that bites perfect circles because it has only one tooth (kind of)
A detailed investigation into these strange creatures is finally giving scientists and fishermen valuable clues about when and where they strike.
Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox
Roblox requires facial age checks for all users globally to access chat
‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons
DBrand quickly launches matching color skins following criticism of new controllers…
AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull i…
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, US judge says
Judge says there is plenty of evidence to suggest OpenAI’s leaders made assurances nonprofit structure would be kept
Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender has taken a firm view on genAI art assets. "I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life more difficult in many ways."
'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells
Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.
Self-Host Weekly #153: Hivemind
Peer-to-peer chaos, German translations, and mild takes from ski patrollers
Danganronpa game simulator
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How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond
At this year’s IEDM conference, we lay the groundwork for a near future where semiconductors with nodes at 1nm and smaller are possible.
AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new
Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"
Dell is the first hardware maker to openly admit that the recent AI PC push from Microsoft and its partners isn't working.
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.
Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users
Privacy and security experts fear that a partnership between Ring and Flock could result in footage being used for inappropriate surveillance.
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J...
Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent
Amazon tests Shop Direct, pulling product listings from other retailers without consent, highlighting data scraping issues.
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes
Ubisoft Halifax was the company's first North American studio to unionize. It is now being shut down, with over 70 developers being laid off.
Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why
In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.
This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000
The Dacia Spring sees a dramatic price cut in Germany, with a €5,000 discount and a lightweight spec aimed squarely at urban electric drivers
Spherical Snake
Snake on a sphere
State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.
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NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have "dummy data"
NordVPN denied allegations that its internal Salesforce development servers were breached, saying that cybercriminals obtained "dummy data" from a trial account on a third-party automated testing platform.
TIL encoding and decoding come from Claude Shannon’s work, and "Claude Code" is named after him
The encoding/decoding model of communication emerged in rough and general form in 1948 in Claude E. Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," where it was part of a technical schema for designating the technol…
Dealing with faulty RAM modules in 2026
How to test and safely keep using your RAM
Calling it now
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Spider-Man's own enemies started complimenting him
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Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again
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"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
Moral Panic and Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban: A Critical Youth Work Perspective
John Sutcliffe critiques Australiaâs impending social media ban for under-16s.
‘I wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement – you could die any minute’: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia
âThere was no animation software in those days. So I videotaped my brother David running, jumping and climbing in a car parkâ
NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages
NVIDIA is reportedly going to recommence production of its GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs owing to DRAM supply shortages.
Post-American internet by Cory Doctorow - YouTube - Nimrod Kamer
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 has surpassed US$1,000,000 raised
Watch the stream with your best speedrun dinosaurs.
We were early but we weren't wrong about Venezuela...
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