YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science
A study from scientists at Zhejiang University is going viral for showing a correlation between short-form content and lower impulse control.
Does anyone have any experience with Sync-in for online files?
Sync-in server · Secure, open-source platform for file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing. - Sync-in/server
‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC
Chris Stockman said last year that he had been asked to pitch a prequel to Embracer Group…
Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week
500,000 copies fly off the shelves in just its first week, people must really love eternally sawing wooden logs.
Cassette Beasts 2002 | Announcement Trailer
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026
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SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` - blag
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
IPv6 adoption statistics – Google
We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git log commands that diagnose a new codebase before you open a single file: code churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console
The Playnix Console is a €1,179 Linux-powered gaming machine with an RX 9060 XT inside.
XChat, the standalone app for messaging on X, is available on iOS now
X has launched XChat, a standalone app for accessing the social platform's messaging feature.
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
New car surveillance tech becomes mandatory by 2027, using infrared cameras to monitor driver sobriety and alertness with privacy and cost concerns.
Nextcloud stops bug bounty program due to increase of low-effort AI-generated reports
Nextcloud has joined a growing list of projects, including Curl, that have ended their bug‑bounty partnerships with HackerOne due to an unmanageable surge of low‑effort, AI‑generated security reports. I received the fol…
I Programmed the World's Smartest Pokedex - BigRig Creates
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Big tech giveth, and big tech taketh away
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’
Empirical analysis of Global Privacy Control compliance across popular websites accessed from California. Independent research by webXray.
Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past
In the new NBC News Decision Desk poll, a plurality of young Americans said they’d choose to live in the past if they had the option.
‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director
Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright
Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
Mozilla is experimenting with Brave's adblock engine, here's how to turn it on.
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
Dutch government secures deal with European cloud platform STACKIT - Digital Government
STACKIT is a European platform that Dutch government organisations can use under pre-agreed conditions, boosting digital autonomy.
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
I’ve been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. So I pulled the system card, a whoppingly inefficient 244-page document that devotes just seven pages to the claim that the …
Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”
Tinder is rolling out a new way for users to prove they’re real as AI-generated profiles continue to flood dating apps.
France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working
Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to expla…
Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.
A new incident response report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN) identifies a coordinated network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels targeting Albertan audiences with nearly 40 million views, expl…
Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"
Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
Two Twilight Princess PC Ports in the making
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Meta blocks dozens of Queer and pro-abortion accounts on Instagram for second time in six months
Instagram has suspended more than 100 LGBTQIA+ accounts worldwide in recent weeks, including an estimated 5 to 10 Dutch accounts — among them prominent queer organizations and nightclubs in Amsterdam — for the second ti…
Bitwarden CLI distributed through NPM has been compromised. Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident.
The Bitwarden security team identified and contained a malicious package that was briefly distributed through the npm delivery path for @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0 between 5:57 PM and 7:30 PM (ET) on April 22, 2026, in conn…
Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger
Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows…
The Silicon Afterlife: Inside the Fight to Preserve Retro Gaming
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Major Tech company urges universal national service
The company has won major Pentagon contracts, including work on Project Maven, an AI‑driven targeting and surveillance program.
Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled "in-vehicle toilet"
Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.
Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.
BIGO Ads Deploys C2-Style Infrastructure to Survive Domain Bans. Here's the Decrypted Config.
The BIGO Ads SDK ships with an encrypted configuration file that maps out a global network of ad-serving domains, backup hosts, and failover infrastructure. The file is AES-encrypted with a hardcoded key, served from Al…
Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims
Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giantâs anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam
Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with th…
There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.
Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer de…
If you can't afford one, build it yourself.
Pee and Poop in Your Car While Driving at 100 km/h to be Possible
Aito maker Seres Auto granted patent for seat-mounted retractable toilet.
Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.
A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.
TIL about the 1879 Mandalay Palace massacre, in which over forty royals were executed by co-conspirators to secure King Thibaw’s claim to t…
The 1879 massacre at Mandalay Palace (Burmese: ၁၈၇၉ မန္တလေးနန်းတွင်းလူသတ်ပွဲ), occurred on 13, 15 and 17 February 1879 (8th, 10th and 12th waning days of Tabodwe, 1240 M.E.) at the Mandalay Palace. It was one of the mos…
Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide
China-based researchers make up more than half of all lead authors at NeurIPS.
Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations
The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
How did Netgear do it? Nobody’s saying.
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”
Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider
Are AI agents employees or tools? A Microsoft exec suggested they're new paid "seats," a shift that could reshape SaaS pricing — and spark pushback.
DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More
DaVinci Resolve 21 is a photo editor now.
Cables of Resistance: the numbers don't add up
Last weekend was Cables of Resistance, a conference I've been organizing together with 20-something other people since last September. Th...