We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell | Video Game History Foundation
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
UK eyes sweeping powers to regulate tech
The U.K. government has laid two amendments that would let it sidestep parliamentary debate so it can update online safety laws.
SiN Reloaded Announcement Trailer | Nightdive Studios
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto
YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.
Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive
Researchers have developed a method that allows data stored in DNA to be erased and overwritten repeatedly.
Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links
Microsoft's new "context preservation" keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft's browser engine, whether you want to be there or not.
Apple History Timeline Infographic
Apple History Timeline Infographic design that takes a look at the fascinating history of the technology company, Apple Inc.
Made a free habitat builder guide for Pokopia (NS2) — covers all 200+ builds
Complete Pokemon Pokopia habitat guide with all 200+ habitats, requirements, and Pokémon spawn locations. Build every habitat in Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2.
Planet of Lana 2 review - a grander, more dynamic platformer sequel that keeps hold of its heart
Despite a few underdeveloped ideas, Planet of Lana 2 is a bigger, smarter, and even better-looking puzzle-platformer than the charming original.
Link Preview Manifest: A Proposal for the Fediverse
TL;DR: Starting in Firefox version 142, Mozilla released a “Link Previews” feature whose main purpose is to push AI onto its users.
A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyr…
Publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against the shadow library Anna’s Archive.
Open Source, Incentives, and Why 'Monetize Later' Often Backfires
For a long time, I strongly believed in open source and paying it forward to the developer...
Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign | AIVD
Russian state hackers are engaged in a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants. The Dutch intelligence and securit…
Open Slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.
How EU anti-money laundering rules threaten financial privacy
Privacy First is drawing attention to the risks to financial privacy and fundament rights arising from the European Union’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework.
Slay the Spire 2 passes 574K concurrent players, making it the biggest Steam launch of 2026 so far
It has outpaced some of the year's heaviest hitters including Resident Evil Requiem, Mewgenics, and Marathon.
digiKam 9.0.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 9.0.0.
Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
How to Maximize Your Privacy on iPhone - Privacy Guides
We've covered the basics, like adjusting settings on your device, intermediate changes such as switching to private alternatives, and now it's time to cover advanced tips to protect your Privacy &a...
Oh no, Wikipedia has been turned into a gacha card game and I can already feel my time slipping away from me
The best part is it's completely free.
Report: Nagoshi Studio May Shut Down As NetEase Reportedly Pulls Funding
A report claims NetEase may stop funding Nagoshi Studio’s debut game Gang of Dragon, potentially forcing the studio to seek new investors.
The filthy rich, and what to do about them - MR Online
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends an unflinching analysis of the billionaire class that celebrates collective resistance to it.
Open source Intercom & CCTV platform with Mobile apps, Face and LP Recognition, Media Server (GPLv3)
Open-source intercom & video surveillance software platform RBT Teledom
The best cracked Minecraft launcher I know of, hope you are already aware. Have fun in any case!
UltimMC Launcher is a Minecraft launcher that helps to run and organise different versions of the game. You can create separate profiles for normal Minecraft,
"Life of Black Tiger", a hilariously bad looking game that somehow managed to get a gameplay preview shared by the official PlayStation You…
Life of Black Tiger is an interactive adventure story game is set in jungle, field, and forest surroundings. You can have a vivid and realistic experience th...
Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades
A new rumor suggests Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, could cost between $999 and $1,200 while delivering major performance gains over the Xbox Series X.
Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade
ClusterCut gives LocalSend some side
Because clipboard sharing shouldn't be a clusterf***. - keithvassallomt/ClusterCut
What You Don't Know About SAINSBURY'S and the AI BIOMETRIC PANOPTICON
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games
Following a series of leadership changes recently, Xbox has started officially teasing its next console, codenamed Project Helix, which will play "your Xbox and PC games."
RUINER 2 - Official Reveal Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam
Slay the Spire 2 has topped 177k concurrent players on Steam, and is steadily rising, setting a new record for a roguelike on the platform just weeks after Mewgenics smashed the previous record.
ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
The highs and lows of AI in the tattoo industry
Weymouth tattoo parlour owner says AI can save time but it can also make the job harder.
About open source and “whale fall”, or when community restarts projects from forks.
What happens when a large open source project dies.
Composting Mobile Phones: Hosting server on obsolete mobile phones— Exposing the Cloud, its servers and their energy footprint through ever…
In this workshop we collectively examine the infrastructure behind the Internet by building a our own (prototype) server on an old smartphone.
Can we share change.org links?
Remove FLOCK cameras from Illinois
Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry
More private by default Firefox ESR. Fork of ghostery. - openconstruct/Umbra
Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you
Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, they collected signal…
Nintendo Announces Indie World Showcase for Tomorrow
Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase, set to take place tomorrow, March 3.
TIL there's a trend called hobby dogging where people take an imaginary dog through an obstacle course.
Taking a dog for a walk — without the dog?
Pokémon Pokopia - Pokémon Day | Special Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Laura Fryer talks about Phil Spencer, and tells her story of why she left Xbox
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Boardroom Massacre | DOGMA (1999)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Turns out llms also have “artificial hive mind”, top AI models all say very similar sounding things, do you think that we can use this to d…
Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable meth…
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews
Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can’t log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error…
AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)
New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts... and it only costs a couple of dollars.
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American c…
After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
I turned my Google TV into an Apple TV with this free app
Google TV has an ad problem. You turn it on, and before you even get to what you actually want to watch, you are greeted by a giant banner sitting at the top of your screen, sometimes promoting a newly released show, a …