The founder of Infomaniak (a Swiss-based cloud provider) transferred the majority of the company's voting rights to a Swiss public-interest…
Infomaniak transfers the majority of its voting rights to a Swiss public-benefit foundation. Your cloud remains sovereign, independent, and true to its values. Forever.
TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change
Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing this week as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the U.S.
AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn't mean that it is," critic says.
Susan Sarandon Says She Was Banned From Hollywood After Calling for Gaza Ceasefire: I Feel ‘Repression and Censorship’ in United States
Susan Sarandon says she was blocked from Hollywood film and TV roles after speaking out about a ceasefire in Gaza.
Manyverse – a peer-to-peer social network
A social network off the grid – mobile and available on Android
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielde…
Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas
Plus, Nex Playground heads to Europe and Phasmaphobia devs launch publishing arm
Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data c…
Sycophantic behavior in AI affects us all, say researchers
: Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it
After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series
"We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental."
The Linux kernel is just a program
Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: the Linux kernel is …
Lulu Chased by a Shadow
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Sega Issues DMCA Takedowns to Scrub Persona 6 Images From the Internet, as Fans Expect Imminent Announcement
Images allegedly showing leaked Persona 6 characters and logos have been scrubbed from the internet via copyright claim, with Sega believed to be behind the takedowns.
EU Commission bans top officials from using Signal groups
Due to concerns about targeted digital espionage, the EU Commission has instructed its highest-ranking officials to immediately dissolve a central Signal group.
OASIS approves Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 Standard, marking 20 years of interoperable document innovation
BOSTON, MA, 3 December 2025 — Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS Standard, the organization’s …
DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
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Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
Google has resumed work on JPEG XL support in Chromium after removing it three years ago. A developer says the current version is feature complete and under review.
TIL that Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are two different people!
The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.
Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs
Even if the war stops now, Amazon will have to wait months before it can return its Middle East servers back to full operational status.
This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026
A custom ROM gives the Nokia N8 a second life, fixing Symbian’s flaws and making the iconic camera phone surprisingly usable again in 2026.
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
: Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Demo Available Now | RPGFan
SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have released a demo for Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties. It is currently available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo
"Far Far West" launches to over 15k concurrent players, 98% positive on Steam
our day 1 reviews have been through the (saloon) roof!!! 98% OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE?!?!? y'all... we have no words 😘 if you haven't already, please do give FFW a review on steam, it helps us out alot 😁
In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
The EU’s electricity transition reached a new milestone in 2025 with wind and solar generating more power than fossil fuels.
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site
We revisit Starfield on PS5 Pro to see how much it has improved since launch and what sort of upgrade the PS5 Pro delivers compared to PS5, Xbox, and more.
China wants more homegrown chips in its cars. The hard part isn’t geopolitics
China’s push to localise automotive chips is gaining ground, but mostly in mature control systems rather than high-end computing. Observers say the main hurdles are technical, not geopolitical.
Signal messages retrieved from iOS notification, as seen in Prairieland federal trial
TLDR: signal content in Apple notification can be retrieved even after signal app deletion. I saw from this reddit thread: Signal messages retrieved from iPhone after uninstalling app. : signal Referencing this news art…
A dark turn-based management game, [with some RPG elements], about prisoner quotas, heretic hunts, revolt, and supernatural horror is headi…
Steam Veil Games has released information on their upcoming turn-based roguelite Dark Rail. The game takes place in a grim industrial border town. Players
OPM established the United States Tech Force initiative to recruit over 1,000 AI specialists and digital experts into the federal workforce…
WASHINGTON, DC — The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), the White House Office of Science Technology and P…
America's productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the rea…
National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.
Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled
The company says it has addressed a routing behavior that explained the odd patterns
pi-vox: AI Speech Intelligence for Multilingual Audio Analysis
AI speech solutions for voice authentication and synthetic voice detection. Protect against audio deepfakes in an AI-first world.
Upcoming adventure game Epoch Reset has awakened the Steins;Gate stan in me with its time-bending shoujo storyline
Complete with android repair mini games and timeloop mechanics.
Nex Playground review
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Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out
Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate
Samsung confirms it isn't ending SATA SSD production
A Samsung Electronics spokesperson has confirmed that reports about the brand ending SATA SSD production are false.
You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift
People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.
Star Wars: Throne Room (ANDOR Special Edition)
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TIL that a British student named Henry Novak was recently stabbed. When the police arrived, the killer carried a knife. He screamed the st…
'Henry Nowak dying alone, humiliated and handcuffed was a direct consequence of Vickrum Digwa’s dishonesty.'
Miniaturization of Surveillance Cameras | Josh Frankel
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New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outages
The Japan Roaming service is the cornerstone of efforts to manage large-scale outages. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Monero support finally coming soon to THORChain
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The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
GrapheneOS Foundation Calls Out Brazil's Flawed Age Verification Law
People are going to have their personal info leaked by third party age verification services due to these laws. Children are going to be harmed by apps and websites changing their behavior to exploit them. It isn't goin…
Ask Jeeves just shut down after 29 years, and nobody noticed
In the tech business, you sometimes have a weird moment when you learn a service is being discontinued, and your first reaction is, "Wait, is that still a thing?" For instance, around this time last year, we caught wind…
Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet
Amazon has joined Starlink, Google, and Meta in the scramble to control how Africa goes online.
Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presid…
Phony security rules will make India’s phones less safe
The Indian government has introduced countless rules supposedly to make smartphone safer. In reality, the rules will make phones less safe, and enable further mass surveillance and authoritarianism…