All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale (39C3)
The Deutschlandticket was the flagship transport policy of the last government, rolled out in an impressive timescale for a political pro...
AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)
I successfully failed with a literature related project and accidentally built a ChatGPT detector. Then I spoke to the people who uploade...
How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China (39C3)
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is one of, if not arguably the most advanced Internet censorship systems in the world. Because repressi...
Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI
In a legal analysis for consumer advocates, experts warn of massive protection gaps due to the planned "digital EU omnibus". Big Tech is favored.
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it:
TIL the Sundance Kid lived in Canada for three years
Harry Longabaugh — better known as the Sundance Kid — is perhaps most famous for his daring bank and train robberies as part of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. But the American outlaw’s short stint as a cowboy and businessm…
'Baldur’s Gate 2: F My Bhaal Femcel Life' - Warlockracy
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL: The word Vatnik is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian gover…
vatnik - Vatnik (Russian: ватник, pronounced [ˈvatʲnʲɪk]) is a political pejorative used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfa...
MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at aucti…
Machine with just a few Pong variants was snagged for roughly $1,000 in an online auction.
Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks
How I found critical vulnerabilities in Petlibro smart pet feeders allowing complete account takeover via broken OAuth, access to anyone's pet data, device hijacking, and private audio recordings - and how they're still…
Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for print…
Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?
In-car, smartphone infotainment systems are a pro for car shoppers, but not necessarily carmakers who'd rather keep your data all for themselves.
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media â and generating about $117m a year, data shows
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI
The president stumbled through a word salad as he tried to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs.
Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal
For years, Windows users frustrated with constant changes, aggressive updates, and growing system bloat have flirted with switching to Linux. But 2025 marks a noticeable shift: a new generation of Linux distributions bu…
TIL: There are just over 9,000 Mediators (a.k.a. Arbitrators, or Conciliators) in the US as of the year 2024
Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators facilitate negotiation through dialogue to help resolve conflicts outside of the court system.
Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole
The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more
The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed s…
Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents
:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse
Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade
Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome
A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.
AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writi…
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
In an interview, CEO George Arison claimed artificial intelligence can help solve âdifficultâ gay dating problems.
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Opinion: Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card
‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires
Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it
Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake
Spotify vs. Anna's Archive
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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you.…
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse
X rolled out a new feature that lets users alter any image via AI prompts, igniting backlash among users, particularly artists, who fear their work can be misused, misrepresented, and altered without their consent.
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, aiming to cut costs as DDR5 prices continue to rise. More details here.
Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune
Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.
How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
: Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)
There are plenty of lovely e-readers out on the market that come with an nice big e-paper display. There aren’t nearly as many that come with two. [Martin den Hoed] developed the Diptyx e-rea…
AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts …
The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D
AMD Supposedly Resuscitates "Discontinued" B650 Chipset, Motivated by DIY Cost Fluctuations
Around late summer, rumors emerged about AMD leadership notifying its motherboard manufacturing partners about an upcoming discontinuation of the venerable B650 chipset. At the time, alleged "clearance plans" targeted a…
The 20 best video games of 2025
A family classic reborn in a wide open world, a satirical adventure through teenage life and a mystery puzzler for the ages – our critics on the year’s best fun
‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained
RAM prices are surging worldwide, and AI demand, tariffs, and supply concentration have reshaped the memory market of today.
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Plebbit will be the first pure peer-to-peer social media protocol.
Contribute to plebbit/whitepaper development by creating an account on GitHub.
Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves
With a visual overhaul, new features and providers, and a custom-built streaming protocol, it's our biggest update yet!
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code
What the biggest viral videos of 2025 teach us about AI - BBC Bitesize
Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House