OnePlus will allow downgrades (Edited to be less clickbaity)
OnePlus has issued a statement after reports that some phones were bricked when trying to downgrade the firmware or install a custom ROM.
Guild Wars Reforged | Launch Trailer
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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
The Boring Internet - Essay by Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
Walter Koenig's Private Little War
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Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans
Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum
A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning
The Bhaalspawn are back, baby!
Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
The undersea cables carry a large share of global data traffic between Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Tehran proposes to impose a toll for submarine cables that provide internet communications. Iran also wants all manageme…
Waymo Fleet More Than Triples In Size Year-over-Year, According to NHTSA Recall Data
TL;DR: Between May 2025 and May 2026, Waymo’s recall-scope count of autonomous cabs rose from 1,212 vehicles to 3,791 vehicles. That is more than a 3x increase in the Waymo fleet size in roughly one year. We set out to …
GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview
GameStop made a takeover bid for eBay, offering $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion.
Developers who crowdfunded $340k game budget are seeking legal action after platform fails to pay out over half the amount raised - AUTOMAT…
Skeleton Crew Studio, the team behind the upcoming Shibuya Scramble Stories, has yet to receive over half of the funds it raised.
'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers
Meta's forthcoming layoffs will reportedly eliminate about 10% of its workforce, even as Q1 profits hit $26.8 billion and AI spending rockets toward $145 billion this year alone.
CONTROL Resonant – Paranatural Manhattan Trailer
The Oldest House has fallen. Reality is bent. Time is warping.CONTROL Resonant features an open-ended, imaginative sandbox. Experience the largest and riches...
China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subs…
The subsea facility reportedly achieves a PUE below 1.15, far below the 1.5 industry average
Xthings Is Making a Narc Pole
The X Tower is an “urban guardian” that uses AI to detect public threats.
Konform Browser v140.7.1-100 released
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1666: Amsterdam - Reveal Trailer
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Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Official Summer Game Fest Trailer
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Mass data collection is increasingly being used to find & identify individuals
Data capitalism has meant in the past decade that it is now common for people’s data to be used, often without their knowledge or consent, for advertising and for influencing elections.
Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations
Software Freedom Conservancy (“SFC”) announces a new initiative regarding the software right to repair for users and consumers of 3D printers manufactured by Bambu Lab. After recent news of violations of the Affero Gene…
Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.
Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
GameStop Is Offering to Buy eBay for $55.5 Billion in cash and stocks. If eBay isn't receptive to the offer, GameStop's taking its offer di…
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) today submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire 100% of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) at $125.00 per share in cash and stock. The offer represents a 46% premium to eBay’s unaffected closing price…
Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account
The maker of the popular open source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.
Why GrapheneOS is Almost Impossible to Crack (Forensic Teams Have Tried)
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Big data centers in Florida must pay full power and infrastructure costs under new law
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a new law aimed at reining in large-scale data centers, saying everyday Floridians shouldn’t have to pay.
TIL Valnet owns most of the world's so-called "gaming journalism" and other pop entertainment websites.
The owner of entertainment websites Screen Rant, Collider, CBR and MovieWeb faces a lawsuit over exploitative work conditions.
PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
There’s not much worth quoting in this PC Gamer article but I do want to draw your attention to three things.
Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole'
The very tools regulators want to restrict are surging in popularity.
The Hobbit but it’s Oblivion NPC Dialogue
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What are the best alternatives to GloriaFood for restaurant online ordering?
Launch your delivery platform with Enatega’s open-source, customizable, ready-to-use delivery app solution.
‘Iron Lung’ Director Markiplier Cries After Self-Financed Movie Debuts to $21 Million Globally: ‘A Hero’s Moment to Show Indie Filmmaking I…
YouTuber Markiplier got emotional about the turnout for 'Iron Lung,' a very independent filmmaking adventure that had a $17.8 million domestic debut.
Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC
Sony confirms hardware price hikes; PS5 Pro will cost $900 from April 2…
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only
On 14 January 2026, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on X that the company would stop offering its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (FSD) driver-assistance software as...
DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
A new update now in testing sets Edge to automatically appear at startup, and you are forced to opt-out if you don't want it.
Open Source, Incentives, and Why 'Monetize Later' Often Backfires
For a long time, I strongly believed in open source and paying it forward to the developer...
TIL: About electric scissors
Electric scissors are handheld cutting tools that are powered by electricity. They are designed to make cutting tasks easier and more efficient, especially for people who have difficulty using traditional manual scissor…
AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India
India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
Intuit Becomes S&P 500’s Worst Performer This Year / Shares of Intuit dropped 8.9% on Tuesday, adding to a 51% decline so far this year…
Analysts anticipate increased competition to disrupt the TurboTax owner.
The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours
Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold ou…
Palantir Systems’ Potential for Enshittification Has Become an ‘Unacceptable’ Risk, UK Politicians Say
Plus dealing with Alex Karp doesn't seem worth the trouble.
ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect
ntsc-rs is a free, open-source VHS and analog TV video effect. Use it online in your browser, as a standalone application, or as a plugin for DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, and more.
Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize t…
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused other executives of wrongly justifying layoffs on AI — and telling them to cut it out.
Transly - the CLI tool for incremental app translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.)
Cache-driven incremental translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.) - translate-tools/transly