Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases
Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative
I replaced my Samsung S24 with a Fairphone 6 running /e/OS and used it as my daily work phone. Here's whether a de-Googled smartphone holds up for professional use.
New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice
A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why.
Government pressure on Anthropic raises a core question: can Washington punish an AI company for refusing to redesign its systems for the Pentagon?
Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant
Story has a happy ending of sorts, but should serve as a cautionary tale.
AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite.
While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifyi…
Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit?
NordVPN is one of the most popular VPNs, which makes the critiques over its privacy practices extra concerning. We investigate the most prominent accusations.
Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld
Two years of work now sits on a shelf because AI needs the RAM more.
"How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard" - by Joel Hawksley
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a…
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people had personal and health information stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year.
Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub
Nintendo shut down the Eden switch emulator GitHub repository, but the project still has momentum even post-DMCA
I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using
Self-hosted menstrual cycle tracker. Privacy-first, Docker-ready, beautiful. Track periods, predict cycles, own your health data. - terraincognita07/ovumcy
North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says
Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North Korea
Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidating
More than just an emulation of the iconic home computer, the Commodore 64 Ultimate is a fantastic project for fans of that era. It’ll take some practice and memory recall from a bygone time, but it’s worth pursuing with…
This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials
A proof-of-concept prototype ahead of a more svelte custom PCB, LuckyBor's microcontroller-powered featurephone can call, text, and snap.
Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,
Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
Musk can't convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.
Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience
: Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in
Your Artificial Intelligence (AI) questions answered
A Teesside academic answers your questions, including how to spot AI and how to use it sustainably.
NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel
Microarchitecture analysts have examined NVIDIA's GB10 'Superchip' and determined that its CPU cores are capable of going toe-to-toe with Intel and AMD.
TIL that Rudyard Kipling (writer of the jungle book) wrote a poem called "IF". A few lines of this poem are highlighted in the entrance of …
By Emilio Sánchez Vicario, CEO and Founder at Academia Sánchez-Casal.
We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened
We published a Windows 12 article that did not meet PCWorld's editorial standards. We're sorry. Here's how we'll get better.
System76 on Age Verification Laws
Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.
Cross-Platform Desktop Wars: Electron vs Tauri: How do you explain the tradeoffs to users (without sounding defensive)?
Define, test, and document APIs like a developer, not a SaaS user. No accounts. No lock-in. No telemetry. Just Markdown, Git, hotkeys, and your damn specs. - VoidenHQ/voiden
Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds.
Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026)
Viral cheeseburgers, microslop, and a new place to run DOOM
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
Do you use a keyboard to navigate websites? If so, you've probably run into countless accessibility issues where groups of inputs or widgets are not easy, or even possible to get to with just the keyboard. A keyboard-ac…
Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.
A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.” W…
10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that …
Former Humble Games executives have reacquired the publisher's catalog of more than 50 indie titles from Ziff Davis and relaunched their co…
The young studio rebranded from Good Games Group to Balor Games.
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and s…
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
Google ends its 30% app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.
Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P – Krebs on Security
For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and…
Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027
Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027
TIL of the Mahmudiyah rape and killings by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder o…
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Ja…
Anthropic is untrustworthy
An examination of the gap between Anthropic's image and actual behavior.
Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
Welcome to Wikimedia's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets
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Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now.
AI is teaching teenagers about love now.
CPU scam: Chuwi CoreBook X uses AMD Ryzen 5 5500U instead of 7430U
A supposed bargain is currently causing considerable discussion: The Chuwi CoreBook X, which is officially advertised with an AMD Ryzen 5 7430U, has an older Ryzen 5 5500U installed. This not only raises the question of…
TIL that the worst driver in New York City likes to drive around in Brooklyn. He received 259 speeding tickets and paid over $60,000 in fin…
The top speeder, who drives often in southern Brooklyn, has been caught speeding by school zone speed cameras more than 1,000 times since mid-2023, according to new data from Transportation Alternatives and Families For…
Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in…
A wrongful death suit against Google alleges that the tech giant's AI urged a Florida man to arm himself and steal a robot body for it.
A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palanti…
A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.
Mastodon now has an official share button for sites
The share button solves the problem of Mastodon users being on unique servers. It can also be customized and dynamically generated.
They Said Self-Hosting Was Hard! - arthurpizza
We install Debian, Docker, Immich, and even Nextcloud and run a tiny self-hosted virtual Homelab. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Virtual Machine Setup 5:11 First Boot 5:45 SSH Login 6:35 Docker without Sudo 8:06 ...
Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops
Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.
Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4
An overengineered oversimplified hardware-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG - obelisk-complex/histv-universal