Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’
Meta's recent cuts in its Reality Labs division, which focuses on virtual reality (VR), have raised concerns about a potential 'VR winter'. The company laid off 10% of its Reality Labs employees, primarily affecting VR-…
OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse
The OnePlus ColorOS 16.0.3.501 Anti-Rollback Fuse Incident refers to the January 2026 deployment of firmware updates by OnePlus that introduced a hardware-level anti-rollback mechanism. This permanently prevents users f…
TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries
Ice pellets (Commonwealth English) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail"), which is made of frost…
US controls 90% of AI chip markets and produces far more advanced AI models than China, yet it has lost much of manufacturing capacity need…
Winning the tech race is not about any single breakthrough. Leadership requires competing across the full menu of technologies, developing the dexterity to build at speed and scale, and defending our domestic markets fr…
Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention
The future is analog.
Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout
The proposed acquisition will place EA under the private ownership of investors including Saudi sovereign wealth fund, PIF.
RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!
DDR3 seemed plenty fast when it first showed up 19 years ago. Who could say no to 6400 Mb/s transfer speeds? Of course compared to the modern DDR5 that’s glacially slow, but given that RAM is…
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
I delivered this talk at the Everything Open 2026 conference in Canberra
memos migration strategy?
Describe the bug I recently updated to version 0.22.4 and found that the automatic backup function is gone. I remember that in previous versions, I could set automatic backup and a database backup ...
TIL that "aspirin" was actually originally a trademarked brand name owned by Bayer.
In the trademark world, "genericide" describes how a brand name can become so common it turns into a generic term for a product or service, irrespective of its origins. This scenario signals a brand's widespread accepta…
How GOG fixed Cold Fear | GOG Tech Talk
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Minnesota activist releases video of arrest after manipulated White House version
A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online.
Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Official Trailer
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New game for zombie and action lovers!
Experience the thrill of Rise of the Dead online game unblocked on Playgama! 🎮 Enjoy a seamless, no-download, no-registration gaming adventure on desktop, tablet, and mobile. 🚀 Play Rise of the Dead online today and d…
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'
That cloud is looking a little grey.
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Does TikTok's new Terms of Service track race, gender identity, and immigration status?
Users are concerned TikTok is collecting new kinds of personal data. It's more complicated.
Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads
The figure appears to come from a quarterly investor update, but Telly didn't provide any comment on the report.
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
Booting from a vinyl record
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! W…
One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI
Survey respondents cited being asked to accept shorter deadlines and lower fees, or losing commissions altogether.
Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors,...
The Microsoft-OpenAI Files: Internal documents reveal the realities of AI’s defining alliance
Internal emails, texts, slide decks, and deposition testimony show how Microsoft went from being sidelined at OpenAI’s founding to wielding decisive influence over the AI lab that launched the generative AI era — and ho…
A new look for Snikket on Android
Our upcoming release will include a visual refresh
Pangolin 1.15: iOS and Android apps, device approvals and posture, 1 year anniversary, stability, and more | Pangolin Blog
One year ago, in January 2025, we unleashed the very first beta of Pangolin. To be honest, it was a bit lean and had a few "character-building" bugs - but it quickly struck a chord as the go-to open-source alternative t…
Rebranding our open-source Selfhosted social project to Bitsocial
Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer protocol for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property. - Bitsocial
'Final Liberation (1997 PC)' - Minisodes
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TIL: The United States is Now Officially in First Phase of Civil War
According to Experts at University of Pennsylvania: A civil war split not by territory, but by ideology
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.
Pixlpal is more than just a screen
Pixlpal is a hackable, ESP32-S3-based desktop device with an 11.25-inch LED matrix, high-fidelity audio, and Home Assistant integration.
Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
Windows 11 Security Update KB5074109 Causes Freezes and System Lockups
Users report black screens and system freezes after installing KB5074109. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue.
I am a solo developer that just released a horror game called The 18th Attic where you can pet your cat to restore sanity - Let me know wha…
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Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.
“This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.
FBC: Firebreak Free Weekend + Double XP and Remedy discount on Steam
A three-player cooperative first-person shooter set within a mysterious federal agency under assault by otherworldly forces.
Tuvix Tricorder - An RSS Button For The Web
Discover RSS and Atom feeds on any website and subscribe with a single click. Introducing Tuvix Tricorder, the official companion browser extension for Tuvix RSS.
European Alternatives Portal
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
Polish state authorities respond to inquiries about presence on X following scandal involving Grok generating on-demand pornography
On X, Grok until recently allowed users to easily generate nude photos, including child pornography. In light of this, we asked the ministries and the offices of the Sejm, Senate and President of Poland about their plan…
Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children
CCDH found that Grok floods X with sexualized images after launching a one-click editing feature in an 11-day period.
Self-Host Weekly #155: One Hundred Million
Publication milestones, Docker management software, and protocol-defining debates
Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with comple…
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-ed…
New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people m…
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, and the University of Kentucky, finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to
I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA
The journey towards being Infrastructure-as-Code is fun
blog.smartere » Floppy Disks: the best TV remote for kids
Modern TVs are very poorly suited for kids. They require using complicated remotes or mobile phones, and navigating apps that continually try to lure you into watching something else than you intended to. The usual scen…
The time is now: Bye Bye Big Tech
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate
Researchers have built the first refrigerant-free system to reach sub-zero temperatures, a breakthrough that could reduce food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘pro…
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
The EU’s electricity transition reached a new milestone in 2025 with wind and solar generating more power than fossil fuels.
"It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks
The fallout from Ubisoft's bloodbath of game cancellations and cost-cutting continues, as unionised workers call a strike against the publisher's restructuring.