TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia showed their might, but a less glamorous but highly practical class of vessels k…
Warcraft III: Legacy (The Frozen Throne 1.29) is now available on Battle.net again
All players who own Warcraft 3 now have access to the original 1.29 client from the Battle.net App. To install it, click the Game Version dropdown on the bottom left corner of your Battle.net Warcraft III playscreen and…
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, …
After shaking off Nexon’s copyright infringement accusations, Dark and Darker survives the Korean legal system and will continue development
Development on hardcore fantasy PvPvE game Dark and Darker is free to continue without fear of supreme court shutdown.
AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?
Digital clones of porn performers are on the rise. Is it a moneymaking dream or a dystopian nightmare?
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 17 hours
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I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. It’s the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you won’t get the sam…
Cyberpunk bartending sim VA-11 Hall-A devs' first game in 10 years finally launches this summer
.45 Parabellum Bloodhound is more my speed.
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week
For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private Network (VPN) usage sur…
TIL Benjamin Netanyahu thinks 1 Israeli life is worth 40 American lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a single Israeli is worth 40 American lives, during an unhinged rant in which his Jewish supremacy and disrespect for the United States was on full display.
Verified by Spotify: New No AI badge— it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof l…
Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, it’s more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is provid…
Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. — 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some oth…
BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
I’m pleased to say that the project has now fully migrated management of all repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. The main BookStack project repository now lives here:
How I Won a Championship That Doesn’t Exist Or How I Learned To Poison The LLM Supply Chain
Poisoning the LLM knowledge supply chain with a fake Wikipedia edit and a single domain registration
SCAN FACE TO PLAY: PlayStation ID Verification - Gamers Nexus
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Subnautica 2 Early Access Cinematic Trailer
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Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
French protestors says Windows 10's ESU will only leave users in the lurch, potentially rendering millions of PCs obsolete as they upgrade to Windows 11.
Transly - the CLI tool for incremental app translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.)
Cache-driven incremental translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.) - translate-tools/transly
The Smallest Enterprise Homelab
Disclaimer: This blog was written without the help of LLMs (although that should be obvious) or any kind of financial incentive. I bought all the hardware myself, don’t have stocks in any of these companies and don’t us…
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint
Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Security, Vulnerabili…
Arcade Drift Car Physics Explained (from Parking Garage Rally Circuit)
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Pokemon Nature Documentary YouTuber Is Getting Shut Down By Nintendo
Nintendo filed a series of copyright strikes against the channel that made mock nature documentaries about Pokemon.
What are your thoughts on cal.com changing to cal.diy?
Discover Cal.diy, the 100% MIT-licensed community fork of Cal.com. Designed for self-hosters, it removes enterprise code for a pure open-source experience.
I made a synthwave flying game you can play in a browser
A browser game where the closer you fly your glider to obstacles, the faster you go.
It’s not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans
What about the EU’s own complicity in funding the market for spyware, even when we recognise the harms it inflicts?
INDUSTRIA 2 - Launch Trailer
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Open source died in March. It just doesn't know it yet.
Five supply chain attacks in 12 days exposed a broken trust model. Learn why scanning and hardening fail, and why trusting the source is the only fix.
Trump uses Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to justify expanding spying powers as deadline nears
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Thursday, and the president is claiming Saturday’s shooting proved “the safety of our nation” depends on the program.
Remote Code Execution in Forgejo?
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
Adinkra Match - Apps on Google Play
Match Adinkra symbols • Ghana memory game • Multiplayer battles
Google Signs Pentagon AI Deal Despite Employee Backlash
The agreement reportedly allows the U.S. military to use Google’s AI models for classified work including 'any lawful government purpose.'
China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles
A research team at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has advanced "all-iron" flow battery technology.
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently.
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
Over 80 Chrome Extensions Found Selling Their Users Data - And It’s All Completely Legal
Your Extensions Sell Your Data - And It's Perfectly Legal
Greece’s AI Smart Policing system ruled unlawful after €4 million public spending
The decision confirmed long-standing concerns raised by EDRi member Homo Digitalis about facial recognition and data protection violations.
TIL the original Mad Max owes its unique style to the leftover cameras that McQueen's movie The Getaway left in Australia and no one wanted
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Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.
Greece to ban anonymity on social media
"The major problem behind anonymity is toxicity," argues digital governance minister
Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses internal targets for active users and revenue — Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave shares all tre…
OpenAI's apparent missed targets shake up investor confidence.
Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PC
After months of testing and improvements, security engineer and modder Andy Nguyen has finally released PS5-Linux, allowing users to turn their console into a functional Linux gaming PC.
Shipworms can sink a boat. Northeastern researchers explain digestive process
Known as the clam that has sunk a thousand ships, shipworms are strange looking—and strange acting—animals.
FxSound | Boost Your Sound Experience Now
Enhance your Windows audio experience with FxSound's free, open-source software for superior sound quality, volume, and bass customization. Perfect for music, gaming, and transcriptions.
Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company
Vibe coding is collapsing the distance between idea and deployment. But the real risk is whether your company has the judgment system to govern what AI can now build.
Final Fantasy XIV free trial now includes the Shadowbringers expansion
Free trial now to include FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers!