A DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Governmentās ID Platform
Greg Hogan will oversee Login.gov as the government seeks to integrate driverĆ¢ĀĀs license and passport information into the service, making what one insider calls Ć¢ĀĀa national ID.Ć¢ĀĀ
Donāt toss cannabis leaves: Scientists found rare compounds with medical potential
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new layer of complexity in Cannabis, identifying dozens of previously unknown compoundsāincluding the first-ever evidence of rare molecules called flavoalkaloids in its leaves. Theā¦
Repterra, a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs, where you can breed (and ride) new dinosaur types to reclaim thā¦
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the worā¦
Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves
After nearly 30 years, Ask.com has officially closed on May 1, 2026. It was the pioneer of question-answering search engines.
Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows
Stanford University report comes after two separate attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanās home
AI uses less water than the public thinks
By Jay Lund . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect many economic and natural resource sectors as these new technologies develop and mature. We are in the early years of this process. Like most new things, AI hasā¦
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
How difficult could it really be?
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
āI believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasnāt really ready,ā one police official told federal regulators last month.
Review: Ground Zero - A classic survival horror feel that [pays] homage to the classics of the genre. It [stays] authentic to the survival ā¦
Our comprehensive review of Ground Zero will tell you why this is a modern classic survival horror game worth playing.
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
Thereās a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. āHans,ā one askā¦
MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfireāand cost companies their future workforce
CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MITās Andrew McAfeeāas IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
fast16 | Mystery ShadowBrokers Reference Reveals High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.
Fungus that looks like a bird's nest
Oscars(AMPAS): AI actors and writers cannot win awards
Academy Awards organisers issued new rules on āFriday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans and not artificial intelligence āto be āeligible for Oscars. The new rules also includeā¦
All new laptops must have USB-C to be sold in the European Union(EU)
EU rules on common chargers apply to laptops from today. It means that all new laptops sold in the European Union must now support USB-C charging.
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks
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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming ā but I'm not getting my hopes up
Microsoft is currently in an ongoing battle to improve Windows 11 for idle use and gaming to compete with SteamOS, and it has a big plan for it.
Botspam Apocalypse
Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The āfutureā in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, itās honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic ā¦
The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS - VulpineCitrus
In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.
Bobo Bay is RELEASED (Reminds me of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Chao Garden)
Bobo Bay is a pet simulation game where you collect, mash(breed), accessorize, and train little creatures to compete in races and other competitions.
"A Deliberate Process on Nacon's Part": French Union Calls for Boycott of Nacon and Spiders' Games Following Studio Closure
French union Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu VidƩo calls for a boycott of Nacon published games following Spiders' closure.
āYour phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near
Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! š¤¦š¼
How a Ć¢ĀĀkept backĆ¢ĀĀ Proxmox kernel left my home lab exposed to CVEĆ¢ĀĀ2026Ć¢ĀĀ31431 Ć¢ĀĀ why I now check upgradable packages and use apt fullĆ¢ĀĀupgrade.
Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data cā¦
How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat ā and the cold? AAA put them to the test
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Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ālong shotā Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presidā¦
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers - Ars Technica
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to āany lawful useā of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not included
Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies
After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
AI may be coming to Windows 11ās Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool
Windows 11 Clock app gets a redesigned Focus mode with AI insights, task integration, and deeper customization. Hereās an early hands-on.
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AI and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Meta Cuts Off 1,000 Kenyan Contractors After They Reportedly Saw People Have Sex on Ray-Ban Glasses
Meta has terminated its contract with a Kenyan firm after reports of privacy breaches involving Ray-Ban smart glasses footage, raising concerns about data handling and AI training practices.
TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia showed their might, but a less glamorous but highly practical class of vessels kā¦
TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing etheā¦
Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation
Warcraft III: Legacy (The Frozen Throne 1.29) is now available on Battle.net again
All players who own Warcraft 3 now have access to the original 1.29 client from the Battle.net App. To install it, click the Game Version dropdown on the bottom left corner of your Battle.net Warcraft III playscreen andā¦
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, ā¦
After shaking off Nexonās copyright infringement accusations, Dark and Darker survives the Korean legal system and will continue development
Development on hardcore fantasy PvPvE game Dark and Darker is free to continue without fear of supreme court shutdown.
AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?
Digital clones of porn performers are on the rise. Is it a moneymaking dream or a dystopian nightmare?
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 17 hours
Welcome to Canonical and Ubuntu Status! View active incident progress, historical component status, and subscribe to email and RSS notifications for components and incidents on the move.
I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldnāt Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. Youād expect the same answer each time. Itās the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you wonāt get the samā¦
Cyberpunk bartending sim VA-11 Hall-A devs' first game in 10 years finally launches this summer
.45 Parabellum Bloodhound is more my speed.
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations ā spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
TIL Benjamin Netanyahu thinks 1 Israeli life is worth 40 American lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a single Israeli is worth 40 American lives, during an unhinged rant in which his Jewish supremacy and disrespect for the United States was on full display.
Verified by Spotify: New No AI badgeā it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof lā¦
Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, itās more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is providā¦
Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
Self-hosting Upgrade: planning my first 3-node cluster for deployment in a data center
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BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
Iām pleased to say that the project has now fully migrated management of all repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. The main BookStack project repository now lives here: