TIL that Japan incorporates more disaster planning into its buildings and public spaces than any other nation
In her latest book, MIT Professor Miho Mazereeuw examines successful examples of “anticipatory design” in Japan, where structures and spaces are built with dual uses, for daily living and for when natural disasters or o…
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.
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TIL women experience pain longer than men.
New study links testosterone-tuned monocytes to an anti-pain signal after injury.
I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video
Here's a special video for the Stardew Valley 10 year anniversary. I go over some old builds of the game w/ commentary, briefly go over the many updates, gi...
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art was ineligible for copyright.
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Amazon’s AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck
Availability Zone in ME-CENTRAL-1 brought offline in possible drone or missile attack
Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push
GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-n…
Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS which will see a phone with support, as well as features ported to other devices.
AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War
AWS says “objects” struck a data center in its UAE region (ME-CENTRAL-1), throwing sparks and starting a fire. The fire department shut off power to the building and its generators while they worked the scene, and AWS s…
Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown
The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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?
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Using YouTube to steal your files
A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.
‘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…
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.
How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or m…
Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees
Severance includes 4 weeks base salary plus 1 week per year of employment.
Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’
Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech
Bellingcat found 31 posts by the BJP that appeared to feature AI-generated images, along with either anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim hate speech, in Assam and West Bengal within a month.
New Mastodon account documenting hate and racism on r/Monitors and r/ultrawidemasterrace Discord
12 Posts, 1 Following, 6 Followers · Exposing hate and bigotry on r/Monitors and r/ultrawidemasterrace as seen on their official Discord.
Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1
Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others.
Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending
Oracle has ratcheted up its capital expenditures as it builds data center infrastructure that can handle AI workloads.
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that theyâre heating up their surroundings, according to new research. Itâs an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predi…
FTC Takes Action Against Match and OkCupid for Deceiving Users by Sharing Personal Data with Third Party
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against OkCupid and its affiliate Match Group Americas over allegations OkCupid deceived users of its dating app by sharing their personal information,
Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid
Exclusive: Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills
After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X
City councilors in the liberal enclave voted unanimously to leave a platform they said had become toxic under owner Elon Musk.
Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract
Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics company
Spotted in the wild: Our first look at the X Money debit card Musk is rolling out
X Money cards are popping up on social media, buying ice creams and snacks at gas stations. Users are thanking William Shatner.
Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next
Google has started rolling out Android's new developer verification, with user-facing sideloading changes arriving later this year.
It's not just a RAM crisis — Panasonic says data center batteries are also selling out months in advance
Panasonic plans to triple battery production as hyperscale AI infrastructure drives unprecedented demand across global data centers
Fedware: 13 Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban
The White House app ships with a sanctioned Chinese tracking SDK, the FBI app serves ads, and FEMA wants 28 permissions to show you weather alerts.
AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India
India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
AI chatbots lure vulnerable gamblers to unlicensed betting websites
Major chatbot platforms found to be advertising unregulated online casinos across the continent, exclusive Investigate Europe research shows.
How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas
China's OpenClaw use is soaring as tech giants hold meet-ups to help everyone add the artificial intelligence digital assistant to their devices.
Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests
A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.
Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses'
To gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries.
PineTime Pro Introduction
How is your day/night going RSS readers? In this blog post we go in depth on the new PineTime Pro hardware and share some pre-production information from JF.
AI and bots have officially taken over the internet
AI-driven traffic nearly tripled in 2025. AI agent traffic grew 7,851%. HUMAN's 2026 benchmark report analyzes more than one quadrillion interactions to map the rise of agentic AI, the threat landscape evolving alongsid…
The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue
Huge cuts announced this week show that truly no developer working in games is safe from corporate whims
How labor movements may help rebalance power in the technology sector
Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace, a Rutgers study h…
Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit
Reddit apparently banned Paul McCartney's account after he posted Fonda Theatre concert content to his own subreddit. The ban page is live and confirmed.
World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries
Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. …
First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales
The global memory shortage due to rapid AI data center expansion is hitting everyone, even the biggest tech companies in the world.
ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State.
Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinti…