Don’t toss cannabis leaves: Scientists found rare compounds with medical potential
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new layer of complexity in Cannabis, identifying dozens of previously unknown compounds—including the first-ever evidence of rare molecules called flavoalkaloids in its leaves. The…
The Sanctuary Prophecy - Star Trek's Best Prediction | Trekspertise
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Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves
After nearly 30 years, Ask.com has officially closed on May 1, 2026. It was the pioneer of question-answering search engines.
AI uses less water than the public thinks
By Jay Lund . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect many economic and natural resource sectors as these new technologies develop and mature. We are in the early years of this process. Like most new things, AI has…
MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce
CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
Markiplier Made $50 Million at the Box Office. YouTube Wouldn’t Let Him Sell It on His Own Channel
One creator forced open a door that wasn't supposed to exist. Now the question is whether anyone else can walk through it.
All new laptops must have USB-C to be sold in the European Union(EU)
EU rules on common chargers apply to laptops from today. It means that all new laptops sold in the European Union must now support USB-C charging.
Botspam Apocalypse
Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The “future” in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, it’s honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic …
"A Deliberate Process on Nacon's Part": French Union Calls for Boycott of Nacon and Spiders' Games Following Studio Closure
French union Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo calls for a boycott of Nacon published games following Spiders' closure.
Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! 🤦🏼
How a âkept backâ Proxmox kernel left my home lab exposed to CVEâ2026â31431 â why I now check upgradable packages and use apt fullâupgrade.
Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews…
LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes
Berlin, 30 April 2026 – The Document Foundation today announces the release of LibreOffice 26.2.3, the third maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, which was released in early February. This update delivers …
Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers - Ars Technica
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not included
AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool
Windows 11 Clock app gets a redesigned Focus mode with AI insights, task integration, and deeper customization. Here’s an early hands-on.
Meta Cuts Off 1,000 Kenyan Contractors After They Reportedly Saw People Have Sex on Ray-Ban Glasses
Meta has terminated its contract with a Kenyan firm after reports of privacy breaches involving Ray-Ban smart glasses footage, raising concerns about data handling and AI training practices.
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
Welcome to Canonical and Ubuntu Status! View active incident progress, historical component status, and subscribe to email and RSS notifications for components and incidents on the move.
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?
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