CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage
: Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again
Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers
: But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says
Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore'
Who knew Valheim had so many food deserts?
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far
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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again
“It was extremely difficult,” IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. “But changing minds was harder than adding skills.”
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attem…
Not the hill I'd die on, but I'm not a billionaire.
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel
You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar
Razer showed off its 3D "desk companion," Project AVA, at CES. The 3D hologram can perform tasks like scheduling and live translation.
Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck
AI-Generated Ghost Player assistance would help out players who can’t progress in a game…
Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production
Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company said in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday.
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…
How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant
Confused about VPNs? Learn how VPNs really work, different VPN Protocols, what they hide, what they don’t, and how to judge VPN providers.
Report: China is said to have a functioning EUV lithography system
An investigation reveals how far China's own chip manufacturing has progressed. The technology of world market leader ASML plays a crucial role.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections
Videos on social media show Waymo's autonomous cars stuck in the road following a major power outage.
iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper
Get hands-free guidance, visual analysis, and instant access to the world's repair knowledge.
Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices.
How do you check if food is healthy?
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TIL that ultra-processed food make up two-thirds of the calories consumed by American children
Many states have proposed bans on the sale of ultraprocessed foods in schools. The problem is the way they define ultraprocessing.
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition
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How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by the Chinese company Sipeed. Released last year, it enables remote control of a computer or server using a virtu...
AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012
Loveholidays unveils huge Cyber Monday sale — with trips from just £19
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”
Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data
[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articl…
Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats'
The creator of the original Thomas the Tank Engine mod for Skyrim has now put Thomas in Morrowind, apparently in defiance of legal pressure from Mattel.
Saros - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games
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This $30 DIY E Ink Reader Is a Pocket-Sized Library
Build this $30 pocket-sized E Ink reader to turn every spare minute into a distraction-free reading session.
Bit Sets: An introduction to bit manipulation
Learn about bitwise operators and bit manipulation by implementing a BitSet class in JavaScript.
Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc…
Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17
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TIL Romania’s illicit handmade CoBra computer of the 1980s. The authorities could seize the students’ electronics, make them pay fines, an…
In their poor, Communist country, Romania's computer curious built an underground industry.
Everybody Loves Scrappy Doo
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PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing | TechCrunch
Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.
France announces a crucial step toward phasing out Windows
La direction du numérique en France va basculer de Windows à Linux et l'État engage un grand chantier de réduction de la « dépendance numérique
First AI Model From Zuckerberg's Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals
An executive told Bloomberg that Meta's latest Muse Spark AI model won't be able to keep up with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini in some areas.
Suspect Arrested After Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
A 20-year-old man was arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they publi…
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic
Reddit itself has been subpoenaed by a secret Washington grand jury, with the government wanting to know the identity of a specific user.
The Enterprise Explodes Over and Over in LEGO — Star Trek TNG "Cause and Effect"
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Fully programmable microrobots operate at cellular scale using nanowatt power
New cell-scale robots can sense their environment, compute decisions, and move independently without magnetic or ultrasonic control systems.
Calibre 9.7 E-Book Manager Released With Offline HTTPS Content Server Mode
Calibre 9.7 introduces full offline mode for HTTPS content server connections, improved annotations grouping, viewer zoom enhancements, and several bug fixes.
EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
TIL in 1982 William Shatner paid $10,000-15,000 to an ex-Green Beret named Bo Gritz leading a mercenary force on a raid into Laos
For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.
Elon Musk seeks ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of lawsuit
Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman removed from their roles as officers in the company as part of a lawsuit.