Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage s…
The difference between a sync and a backup is illustrated quite adeptly.
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the
The deepest strategy e-sport you've never heard of.
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State of Kdenlive
In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug …
Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine
Valve has still not confirmed pricing or availability for the Steam Machine. In the meantime, the developer of EmuDeck is selling an alternative called Playnix, which should outperform the Steam Machine thanks to an AMD…
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.
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? This is a map with all of them
Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.
Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen
Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface.
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (2023)
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overprice…
AI warfare triggers Putin, as Kremlin moves to dismantle the last pieces of Russian internet: More and more restrictions are being imposed …
Telegram is blocked, VPNs are being chased after, but Putin suddenly talks about a national AI again.
'Video Game Review: Hades II' - No Rerolls
Hades II opens into ritual. Where the first game hurled you into rebellion with Zagreus’s fire‑bright defiance, the sequel begins in the hush of a forest clearing, lit by witch‑flame and shadow. Me…
'My Brain Chemically Desires Wizordum' - Civvie11
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'System Shock Remake Review' - MandaloreGaming
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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can s…
A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
An introduction to writing WebGL shaders using gradient noise and cool math.
Cracking a Malvertising DGA From the Device Side
When piracy streaming sites inject third-party JavaScript into your browser, the domains hosting that JavaScript are designed to be invisible. They rotate every three hours, use algorithmically generated names on cheap …
Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
Sam Altman's cryptocurrency turned identity verification startup Tools for Humanity is offering a new set of perks to people who scan their eyes at one of the company's orbs.
NES composer Masanori Miyamoto uploaded original synth compositions before they're converted
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Radicale v3.7 collection sharing?
A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server. - Kozea/Radicale
YouTube now lets you hide Shorts
You now have the power to remove short-form videos from your YouTube feed if you don’t want to see them.
China exports a ton of cleantech — and the world is poised to want more
The nation’s battery and EV exports in particular have grown in recent years. Now, the Middle East war could spur even more demand for Chinese…
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.
Apple's Spotlight Search Results Come With Engagement Metrics. No One Knew.
How Apple's Spotlight API exposes undocumented interaction data for every search result it serves to over a billion devices When an iPhone user types a query into Spotlight, Apple's servers return ranked results spannin…
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…
Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update
Steam reviewers, predominantly in China, have once again decided to review bomb Slay the Spire 2 following today's update
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you
Emulating the Sony PlayStation 3 just got even better, with the open source RPCS3 now configuring games for you.
App turns phones into at-home ultrasound devices
A new app will allow pregnant women to conduct an ultrasound and receive an accurate fetal heart rate from their mobile phones.
Stop Killing Games: EU Parliament Hearing on the ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’ ECI
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Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026)
Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going - TDF Community Blog
The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. …
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Mozilla Introduces Thunderbolt: An Enterprise AI Client Built for Control and Independence
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’
Reese Witherspoon is again advising her followers that there's no time like the present to start learning about and using artificial intelligence.
Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job
A new survey found that Gen Z workers are particularly invested in sabotaging their company's AI deployments.
Japan’s biggest “ghost developer” known for working for Atlus and Square Enix sees significant growth in console sector following shift awa…
Tose recently announced its financial results for the second quarter of th current fiscal year, reporting significant growth in sales.
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
Fairgame$ Sets Sights On Extraction Shooter Market | PSX Extreme
Haven Studios' Fairgame$ is supposedly leaning into the extraction shooter market as Sony continues hoping for the best.
TIL James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, founded an amateur cricket team called the Allahakbarries
Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven he…
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…
Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI Client
Thunderbolt is Mozilla’s new self-hostable AI client designed for organizations seeking to run AI on their own infrastructure and maintain data in-house.
Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.
To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.
Krafton still supporting Subnautica 2 launch despite Steam page change
Following their courtroom clash, developer Unknown Worlds is now listed as Subnautica 2's publisher rather than parent company Krafton.
Metro 2039 - Official Reveal Trailer
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The Year Ahead for Battlefield 6 | 2026 Roadmap
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My Quest to be the Scrobble King
Tired of streaming services dictating my music discovery, I resurrected an old internet relic to reclaim my listening experience.
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.
Fedimap
Join the rebellion with Fedimap—explore the galaxy to find your hidden rebel base (Server).
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…