Fifteen Years of Waterfox: Alex Kontos on Independence, AI, and the Future of Browsers
TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. InâŚ
Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceXâCreating the Worldâs Most Valuable Private Company
By fusing SpaceX and xAIâÂÂwhich acquired X last yearâÂÂElon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.
Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons
Arms makers are teaming up with venture capital firms in a push to bring AI to the battlefield.
Elon Muskâs SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business
SpaceX has acquired xAI, the company announced on Monday, merging two of Elon MuskâÂÂs most ambitious companies into the most valuable private company in the world.
A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats
Googleâs Project Zero team found that WhatsApp can download a malicious media file without you doing anything at all.
Operation Sovereignty - Germany plans a breakthrough from M$
A cross-party parliamentary commission aims to end dependence on US tech giants and increasingly rely on European open-source solutions.
EPA Advances Farmersâ Right to Repair Their Own Equipment, Saving Repair Costs and Productivity
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment ownersâ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.
TIL that Broccoli can significantly lower cancer risks
If you knew there was a simple approach to reduce your cancer risk, would you take it? Well, one of the simplest strategies linked to cancer prevention is to increase your broccoli intake.
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code
AI controls is coming to Firefox
AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. Weâve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. Weâve also heard from
Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool â Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because theyâŚ
Project Genie can AI-generate "games" capped at 720p and 24 FPS.
TIL that contraception is illegal in Afghanistan
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception
Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs â whâŚ
"When players and devs unite⌠beautiful things happen"
Road to Vostok Early Access Trailer
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Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit thâŚ
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When Itâs Ready' - IGN
Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has assured fans that he is "not going to abandon Haunted Chocolatier," saying: "it's taking a while to finish the game," and "that's okay."
WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit | High-power Meshtastic solution with nRF52840, SX1262, and SKY66122 PA for extended mesh range | RAK10724
What is WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit? The WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit brings more TX power and better reception to Meshtastic networks. Powered by the RAK3401 WisBlock Core module with the Nordic nRF52840 MCU and aâŚ
US shutters phisherfolkâs $14.6M password-hoarding platform
: Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts
NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, âŚ
How AI broke the smart home in 2025
Why AI hasnât made the smart home smarter
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
Days after killing the brand, Crucial shows up at Delhi Comic-Con â As Micron pivots to AI, Crucial's presence likely booked out months in âŚ
Local partners display RAM and SSD inventories as the consumer brand enters its final year.
What is a Passkey? - Computerphile
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Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters
As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahead of the midterms.
The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to incluâŚ
TIL that William James Sidis, a child prodigy, was a socialist. I see an analogy to Einstein.
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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the âChildrenâs Wellbeing and Schools Billâ, lawmakers now want clienâŚ
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the âChildrenâs Wellbeing and Schools Billâ, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: âAny relevant deâŚ
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns - Schneier on Security
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, repâŚ
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
Google is betting big on CO2 batteries to power its data centers with clean energy.
Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See
Under the TikTok deal, its Chinese owners will sell U.S. operations to a group of pro-Israel billionaires eager to censor critical content.
I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless
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The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic
From Bubsy to MindsEye, these are the worst-reviewed games of the year
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
Weâre All So Fâd | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]
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Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights â counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return aâŚ
A buyer in Spain says a ânewâ ADATA XPG memory kit arrived with counterfeit contents.
US tech enabled Chinaâs surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
Hardware Store Marauderâs Map Is Clarkian Magic
The âMarauderâs Mapâ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isnât real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesnât neeâŚ
Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims
Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a moâŚ
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards
The debate over generative AI in games continues.
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). Itâs distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). Itâs the worldâs first âpreservation archiveâ for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with âŚ
China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions â DDR5-8000 and LPDâŚ
But can it make them in decent volumes?
RAM and SSD prices are still climbingâhereâs our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you canât, hereâs our best advice.
AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost
TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering
Hi friends and welcome to the last post for this year! Whenever someone asks me how to get started with reverse engineering, I always give the same advice: buy the cheapest IP camera you can find. These devices are selfâŚ
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
[Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest
A short horror game set in a spooky winter forest.
Happy Public Domain Day everyone
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright tâŚ