"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
In May 2026, Google announced “Google Cloud Fraud Defense - the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.” The announcement described a QR code challenge where users scan a
Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs
A European Union research service publishes a paper about calls for VPN regulation, noting that they're 'increasingly used to bypass online age verification.'
Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones - Android Authority
Google has introduced a Play Services requirement for passing its next-generation ReCAPTCHA system, which is bad news for de-Googled phones.
Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now
A woman in London was asked to pay up if she wanted a video of her removed from social media.
Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase
Game consoles usually become cheaper in the years following their launch. Not so the PlayStation 5, which was launched in November 2020 for $399, but five and a half years later costs $599. This obviously has a drastic …
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap
I worked at a startup in Toledo called Heartland Information Services. We ...
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Game
2,000 ships stranded. 3 transit slots per day. You decide who eats. A journalistic newsgame built on verified reporting about the 2026 Hormuz crisis.
LG Wing - A Missed CyberDeck Opportunity
Get the LG WING™ 5G Smartphone. Designed For The Way You Live, it Features a Fast Processor, Long Battery Life, OLED Screens, Incredible Cameras & More!
The Anti-AI Data Center Rebellion Keeps Growing Bigger - Public support for AI infrastructure has fallen sharply across party lines
Americans are turning against AI data centers over rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs. Discover what’s driving the backlash.
Fitbit Ditches the Screen With Its New $99 Whoop Rival
With a simple, screenless design and long battery life, the Fitbit Air has a lot of similarities to the Whoop 5.0, but costs a lot less. It marks a sharp turn for the Fitbit brand under Google.
Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production
The new headphones might help you decide what to make for dinner.
Amazon Ads lets advertisers use your LinkedIn data to send taregetd ads on TVs and streaming platforms
Precise LinkedIn targeting via job title, industry and more is coming to B2B marketers within Amazon DSP.
Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white supremacism into the mainstream
The online Agartha trend blends occult pseudoscience with neo-Nazism and weaponised irony to open a doorway to radicalisation.
Apple Faces £3 Billion UK Trial Over iCloud Lock-In Claims
Apple was not able to narrow the scope of a UK lawsuit accusing it of locking 40 million UK consumers into iCloud, to the detriment of third-party cloud storage providers. British consumer group Which? first filed the l…
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower | The Verge
I’m fine. Yarbo owners might not be.
Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find
This is your brain on AI. Any questions?
TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds
For You pages prioritized pro-Republican content in three states, researchers say, but TikTok says study does not reflect real user behavior
2K lays off staff working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos, while hinting at "new direction and focus"
Studio head has "never been more confident in the future of our game" but needed to "scale back our team to better align with where we are in development"
Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI
Kevin O'Leary is dismissing critics of his Utah data center, suggesting some of the opposition is being amplified by artificial intelligence.
Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19 | TechCrunch
The Gemini-powered health coach will act as a combination fitness coach, sleep expert, and health and wellness advisor.
Flying Car Laws EXPLAINED on Road with SkySurfer Aircraft 🚁 Flying Drone Vehicle
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You’ve Seen The Chip Shortage And The Memory Shortage, Now Prepare For The PCB Shortage
It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil of world events. Sometimes though, geopolitics intrude even into our space, and Reuters…
Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI deemed him a sex offender
Coveted fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has launched a civil lawsuit against Google after being wrongly identified as a sex offender in the AI-generated summary.
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Samsung crosses $1 trillion valuation as AI frenzy drives historic rally, lifting shares over 15%
The rally comes after the company reported an over eightfold increase in first-quarter operating profits last week.
Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.
Your feed is overrun with clips — this is the cutthroat community of “clippers” behind it
In the age of clips, what’s the value of the full-length work?
A Special Look at STRANGER THAN HEAVEN
5 Cities, 5 Eras, 1 show. Xbox Presents: A Special Look at STRANGER THAN HEAVEN is coming May 6th at 4 PM PDT. The broadcast will reveal more on the world, t...
Check your storage: Chrome may be downloading a 4GB AI model — here’s what we know
Chrome may be downloading a hidden 4GB AI file to your PC — here’s what it is and how to check if it’s there.
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Contemporary permaculture is founded on three core ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics serve as a guiding compass for its design principles, co-creating a holistic framework for regenerative li…
Self-Hosting security reference
Default-deny all inbound. Open only what is explicitly needed. This applies at the host firewall level regardless of what your cloud provider or router does.
Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro owners could get some cash.
Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
RAM prices are forcing companies to choose between higher prices and worse specs. Some have decided on doing both.
Australia's 'Payphone Tag' Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure
Payphone Tag is a new game (sport?) being played in Australia that uses the country's kinda-defunct public phone network and turns it into a geospatial game where you can claim whole regions of territory as your own, pr…
Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft
Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.
New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB
VECT 2.0 was built to lock your files and demand a ransom. A rookie coding mistake means it's just destroying them instead.
Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access
This five-year deal is one of many circular agreements keeping the AI sector afloat.
Microsoft Edge will load all your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says it's not a security concern
A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
Docker Engine 29 has changed the default image store to containerd, duplicating storage of (compressed) base image layers
Learn about Docker Engine v29 and how this foundational release sets the stage for the future of the Docker platform.
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
: Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default
Hyundai Reportedly Demanding ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Boston Dynamics Robots ASAP
Ex-employees from Boston Dynamics say the board is frustrated by delays as competitors nip at its heels.
U.S President administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms | Onshore wind development in the United States is being br…
Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.
Brandolini's law - Wikipedia
Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease o…
ESP32 Hosts SolarPunk Message Board
Solarpunk is sometimes thought of as the “good ending” to cyberpunk– there’s technology, but it’s community-focused instead of in the hands of evil conglomerates, and&…