The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source
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Browser tool that offers surfers way to implement privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from regulat…
A web-browser tool that offers surfers a one-click way to implement their privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from state regulators and aggrieved consumers over the selling and s…
Why Blade Runner Is A Masterpiece
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The Boys alternate ending
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Wie SSD-Zugriffszeiten zum digitalen Fingerabdruck werden
IT-Forscher haben mit „FROST“ einen Seitenkanalangriff demonstriert, bei dem Browser über SSD-Zugriffszeiten Informationen über das Nutzerverhalten ausspähen.
Ronny Chieng's 'Fuck AI' Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates
"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.
Good Luck Opting Out: Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Google, X, Uber, OpenAI, Tinder and 30 other companies make it almost impossible for users to co…
EPIC’s report Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes by Justin Sherman, EPIC Scholar in Residence, and Caroline Kraczon, EPIC Counsel, investigates whether the consumer opt-out processes…
'Autopsy Of A Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor' - Hackaday
Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging can attest to. …
The largest study of AI use by undergrads is in, revealing disparities in access — and in cheating
Researchers found that how student use, and misuse, AI varies by subject and by socioeconomics.
Crystal Project II - Announcement Trailer
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YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
YouTube said it will start automatically detecting "photorealistic" AI videos and slapping them with a more noticeable label.
Microsoft Threatens Researcher Over Bug Reports, Triggers Cybersecurity Uproar
Microsoft says it will coordinate 'as needed with law enforcement' after a disgruntled researcher exposed Windows bugs without proper coordination.
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
Dat is volgens Aerdts (Economische Zaken) "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".
Life Is Strange (Original Game)
Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic finale! In three days, a deadly inferno will destroy Caledon University.
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We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees
A new report claims AI is getting too expensive for big companies
US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
Some leaders like Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon and Box’s Aaron Levie have been saying all along that there won’t be a white-collar wipeout.
Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch
If you weren't aware, a legal battle has been unfolding between Unknown Worlds, the developer of Subnautica 2, and its parent company and former publisher, Krafton, in what appears to have been a bit from Krafton to avo…
Dont be unlucky and have anything happen to your Steam Controller
@Steam This is how a customer of 18 years gets treated...my controller fell out of the box the second I opened it landed on the ground and got busted up...and I have ZERO options cant even get it fixed. Never even got t…
Canada vows to amend Bill C-22's encryption and metadata rules amid massive tech backlash
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the government will clarify how the lawful access bill impacts encryption, but insists the legislation "needs to happen"
How The Soviet Union Adapted The Lord of the Rings
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PSA: netbird Android client defaults to force relay connection
This seems like a bad default. The point of a p2p overlay network like this is to optimize the connection speed/latency/path while still offering security. Forcing relay use by default defeats half...
The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
TIL that the U.S. Congress has its own intelligence agency
Congress has its own CIA and it’s sounding the alarm about anti-AI grievances
Hollywood’s Top Execs Got a 51% Pay Hike in 2025 as Layoffs Erased 17,000 Jobs
As the pay gap between media executives and their employees remains massive, one Los Angeles nonprofit is pushing for an "Overpaid CEO" tax
European Union: Chinese online retailer Temu hit with 200 million euro fine over unsafe toys and electronics
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war
Infinity Ward’s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting
Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
AI code increasingly leads to production failures
The rapid introduction of AI-generated code is increasingly leading to production failures, according to a survey.
Oura launches Ring 5, world’s smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO
Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bn
AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.
Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals
A new survey reveals Google's push for Gemini Intelligence on Android isn't landing with the people the way it hoped for.
The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi
An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the “Eloi” of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many.
Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad
“I don't want recommendations! I know what I want to watch."
Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure got a job at dad’s company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don’t have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry).
Discarr: open-source disc rip → Sonarr/Radarr import pipeline [Node.js, GPL-3.0]
Disc scanning and HEVC encoding queue for Sonarr/Radarr
Last.fm is now independent
Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The tea…
US law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred grows
The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
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New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes
A new Halo Campaign Evolved report claims the remake relied heavily on outsourcing and includes major mission and gameplay changes.
Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been renamed to Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams | RPG Site
Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been renamed and development reshuffled as revealed in the Stream.
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action…
"I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]"
Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud" - Gingerlime
Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Str…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT
CD PROJEKT RED today announced that a third expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling role-playing games of all time, is coming next year. Songs of the
The VFX Shift That Saved Star Trek: The Next Generation | TREK WORLD
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