I made my phone slow on purpose ā VineWall Notes
I bought a brand new iPhone and immediately made it slow on purpose.
Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations
Youāre a smart cookie, so you opted to buy a copy of Microsoft Office for macOS back in 2019 or 2021, eschewing the Office 365 subscription, so you could keep on using Office 2019/2021 forever if you wanted to. Just likā¦
Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board
A couple was looking to get home in the Mission District only for their Waymo cab to veer off a highway and accelerate to highway speeds.
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
SpaceX IPO explained: Why Elon Musk's $1.75 trillion company could soon appear in popular index funds
Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for what could become the largest public listing in history, with a target valuation exceeding $1.75 trillion. While investors may focus on the IPO itself, the bigger development could beā¦
Iām a solo developer creating a detective horror game where you search for victims by a boat, inspired by the real-life Island of the Dollsā¦
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Plausible critical RCE < 3.2.1
Security related update This patch release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the following versions of Plausible Community Edition (image: ghcr.io/plausible/community-edition): Tags: v3.2 v3...
Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
Financial stakes of the AI race rise as Elon Muskās SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are slated to go public this year
PewDiePie releases Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor killer, Odysseous (FOSS)
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COā scrubbing microbes discovered in underground laboratory
You might not know it, but the hot water and rocks deep within Earth are teeming with undiscovered life. Dr. Tanvi Govil is one of the biologists studying this new frontier of microbial life that thrives in extreme placā¦
Tech titans mostly silent after Pope Leoās warning about risks of AI
The AI boomās highest-profile executives didnāt immediately weigh in on the popeās lengthy encyclical, though some tech industry leaders signaled support for his overarching message.
Sweden urges parents to restrict phone use around children
People also encouraged to make parts of home phone-free after research showed impact of adult screen use on children
the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I am trying to think of a list of all the wonderful things I've built with AI:
Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra with an NVIDIA RTX Spark chip and 128GB unified memory to challenge Apple MacBook Pro dominance.
Meta launches subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader āMeta Oneā subscription brand.
Star Citizen's single-player component is in the 'closing stages' of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadronā¦
Cloud Imperium Games is getting "imminently closer to launch."
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
These AI models are free, private, and will never say 'no'
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Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?
Feedback notes the proliferation of AI company logos, and agrees with one blogger's claim that many bear a striking resemblance to a certain anatomical feature
Odysseus - Your own AI workspace, running on your hardware
Odysseus ā a self-hosted AI workspace: chat, agents, tools, model serving, email, research, and more. Your models, your hardware, your data.
The Luna Deadline: industry problem, not just Luna
Amazon LunaĆ¢ĀĀs changes prove that digital ownership is fragile. Why buy means borrow in 2026 and how to protect your games, movies, and save data now.
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIVās new encyclical on AI
A Robot Hand That Taught Itself to Play Piano Could Change the Future of Machines
USC researchers built a robotic hand that hears a melody once and plays it back after just two minutes of self-taught practice on a keyboard. They say the implications go far beyond music.
Microsoft converts Office 2019 for Mac perpetual licenses to read-only versions
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...
You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
A cron job for every man, woman, and child.
Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9
The first release of Euro-Office will be made available for all users on June 9, also integrated into Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring
Mercedes-Benz may be shut out of U.S. market under bill aimed at Chinese automaker ownership
Mercedes-Benz's largest individual shareholder is BAIC, a Chinese state-owned automaker. Sources told CNBC that exemptions in the legislation would not apply.
Google won't rest until Gemini is everywhere in your home
The company is making it easier for manufacturers to make more Gemini-powered smart devices.
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equationāAā¦
Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?
dickover ā a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accā¦
I don't know if my (software development) job will still exist in ten years
In 2021, being a good software engineer felt great. The world was full of software, with more companies arriving every year who needed to employ engineers to write their code and run their systems. I knew I was good at ā¦
Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?
If you asked most people to name a defining feature of AI-generated writing, theyād probably say the em-dash ā like this. Language models use em-dashes so much that real humans who like em-dashes have stopped using themā¦
We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research
Many scientific discoveries used to be made by amateurs. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was a composer and an organist. Antoine Lavoisier, who laid the foundation for modern chemistry, was a politician.
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or āoptical character recognitionā, is the process of converting an image of text - say, a scanned page of a book - into actual text content. Better OCR is obvioā¦
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
How your dependencies became Bernies
Not a Security Issue (How to avoid bad AI bug reports)
How curlās disclosure policy filtered an AI scannerās findings at source
GitHub Actions is the weakest link
Anne Robinson would like a word with .github/workflows
The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source
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Wie SSD-Zugriffszeiten zum digitalen Fingerabdruck werden
IT-Forscher haben mit āFROSTā einen Seitenkanalangriff demonstriert, bei dem Browser Ć¼ber SSD-Zugriffszeiten Informationen Ć¼ber das Nutzerverhalten ausspƤhen.
Ronny Chieng's 'Fuck AI' Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates
"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals
A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals ā¦
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
'Autopsy Of A Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor' - Hackaday
Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging can attest to. ā¦
The largest study of AI use by undergrads is in, revealing disparities in access ā and in cheating
Researchers found that how student use, and misuse, AI varies by subject and by socioeconomics.
Crystal Project II - Announcement Trailer
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YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
YouTube said it will start automatically detecting "photorealistic" AI videos and slapping them with a more noticeable label.
Microsoft Threatens Researcher Over Bug Reports, Triggers Cybersecurity Uproar
Microsoft says it will coordinate 'as needed with law enforcement' after a disgruntled researcher exposed Windows bugs without proper coordination.
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
Dat is volgens Aerdts (Economische Zaken) "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".
Life Is Strange (Original Game)
Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic finale! In three days, a deadly inferno will destroy Caledon University.