The Muppets Brought Out the Best in Tim Curry
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Star Trek Voyager but the Computer is Australian
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While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration …
A Cambridge startup is betting on plastic crystals to transform refrigeration by replacing gases with solid materials that change temperature under pressure, in a technology still under development and initially aimed a…
Software bloat (2026)
What is software bloat? Throughout my life, and the decades before, I have heard over and over again about the advances in computer hardware. I have studied how computers execute instructions, designed simple ones in RT…
Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
Streaming your own media shouldn’t come with a subscription. Here’s why Plex users are frustrated — and why Jellyfin might be a better bet.
Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.
McDermitt Caldera in Oregon is attracting attention for what could be one of the largest lithium deposits ever identified in the U.S.
Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe a leaner operating model will allow us t…
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Furores are fermenting in the forums
Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices
The phone is dying. Cristiano Amon knows what's replacing it—he just won't tell you yet.
AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not …
Data centers are hurting the ears of the people living around them.
New rclone gui
Web based Graphical User Interface
Double Fine Is Unionizing
The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize
Kate Mulgrew on the Personal Cost of Playing Captain Janeway
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Donating our open-source alignment tool - Anthropic
Updating Petri to version 3.0 and donating it to Meridian Labs
Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
The creator of Claude Code spoke with Business Insider at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost
The claim was brought over concerns the technology can be used in an arbitrary or discriminatory way.
Sony hasn't decided on PS6 release date or price yet, and may even "change business models" in response to the memory crisis
"We have not yet decided on at what timing we will launch the new console, or at what prices," says Sony CEO.
Frame-Gen to 30fps? Lego Batman's "Bizarre" PC Specs Sheet Is a Case Study in How Not To Market a Game
"It's a bad decision and kind of funny."
More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds
A study has found that more than half of Gen Z cancels and renews streaming subscriptions based on the availability of one TV series or film.
Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones
Google has introduced a Play Services requirement for passing its next-generation ReCAPTCHA system, which is bad news for de-Googled phones.
Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th - Steam News
How to reserve yours, and what we're doing to mitigate the challenges from earlier in the week
Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ
Test of Time is a huge update announced for the mixed bag that is Civilization VII, as Firaxis finally deal with the main complaints.
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google – Terence Eden’s Blog
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been wri…
Dario Amodei spent last year warning of an AI white-collar bloodbath. Now he's changing the narrative
The Anthropic CEO is sounding more open to the idea that Jevons Paradox—new technology creating more demand and more jobs—is possible with AI.
TIL a white South African named Rodney Wilkinson worked with the ANC to bomb a nuclear plant being built by the Apartheid regime
The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it?
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official…
The Moment You Realize It's 1968 And That Technology Doesn't Exist | 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'
Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.
Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI / New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma continues to make her mark
Will you miss Xbox’s AI assistant?
The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production
Brembo's fluid-free "Sensify" brake system is going into a production car.
Roku and TCL Accused of Bricking Smart TVs Through Software Updates
A class action lawsuit argues that marketing materials promise reliable performance and ongoing improvements through updates that actually ruined consumers' TVs.
OpenAI reportedly thinks its phone will sell as many units as the Samsung Galaxy series
30 million units expected in 2027-2028
Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026
Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to h…
Coinbase lays off nearly 700 workers in 'AI-native' restructuring
CEO Brian Armstrong blamed a downturn in crypto markets.
Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering
Google says cars are about to get smarter, but some users disagree
Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website.
Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.
Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release Trailer - Hades 1 in Hades II mod
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Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics
Companies are releasing public opinion polling data that was generated by an AI, a trend that has researchers concerned.
Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
Mindgard says praise and flattery got Claude offering erotica, malicious code, and bomb-building instructions it hadn’t been asked for.
Built a privacy-first social battery tracker (no email, instant friend pairing via link sharing)
Track your social energy levels and share your status with friends
Microsoft quietly deletes Windows 11 doc pushing 32GB RAM for gaming after outrage
Microsoft has quietly retracted its own documentation that suggested 32GB RAM is the "no worries" upgrade for gaming, and 16GB RAM is a must.
Quantum Breakthrough: New Algorithm Solves “Impossible” Materials in Seconds
A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach.
Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
Technitium DNS v15.1.0 released with OpenID Connect integration
Technitium DNS Server. Contribute to TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work
Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.
After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at P…
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
“it’d be wrong to steal the non-profit from him.”
How Star Trek Became The Next Generation | The Buried Age | Rowan J Coleman and Spacedock
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DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the manâwho hasnât entered the US in more than a decadeâfollowing posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.