Wong Kar-Wai Faces Career-Ending Backlash in China as ‘Blossoms’ Scandal Explodes
The slow-burning disaster surrounding “Blossoms Shanghai,” which is supposed to have its North American premiere next month, has now reached a point where it’s hard to see how he recovers from this.
In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away
He was aged just 38
Hakboard - Home Assistant Integration for Kanboard
🔸 Integrate Kanboard projects into Home Assistant dashboards and automations - aktive/hakboard
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire
Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.
TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS
TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.
Exit series now streaming in US
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Ireland is updating it's laws to get more surveillance powers(including using spyware and intercepting communication encrypted or not encry…
From: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune
Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.
they couldn't even afford extras, so they just shot the whole scene like they were two...
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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…
Section 702 Explained: How U.S. Surveillance Law Shapes National Security And Privacy
What is FISA Section 702? In the early and mid-1900s, the United States government carried out surveillance programs that spied on Americans without warrants. In response, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Survei…
Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”
Flick Solitaire has been removed from the Russian version of Steam after federal censor Roskomnadzor demanded that Valve take it down.
TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery
The 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes[1] in prisons across the United States from August 21 to September 9, 2018.[2] It was one of the largest prison strikes in US history.[3][2] …
‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK
Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that p…
"Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair…
Palworld 1.0 is still "top secret," but it'll have something for everyone
LibreOffice invites contributors and the FOSS community to submit talks, lectures and ideas for this year’s conference that will be held in…
Join us in Pordenone, Italy, to share what you are doing for and with LibreOffice, how you are integrating LibreOffice in your infrastructure, how you are using LibreOffice to achieve Digital Sovereignty, and how LibreO…
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files
: Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash
Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue
Microsoft has found what caused an outage that crippled its services like Outlook and Teams. Thousands of users swarmed to social media to find out what was happening with their e-mails during the middle of the business…
Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models
A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.
Yakuza 0 is being delisted on all platforms on December 8 (being replaced by Y0:DC), Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2 also being delisted from Microsoft…
Yakuza 0 Will be Delisted & Replaced by Yakuza 0 Director's Cut Starting Dec. 8th. https://ow.ly/AW7950XyiP5
LLMDeathCount.com
Large Language Models like ChatGPT have led people to their deaths, often by suicide. This site serves to remember those who have been affected, to call out the dangers of AI that claims to be intelligent, and the corpo…
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congr…
Muddy water is coming out of Morgan County taps.
TIL Apollo astronaunts had to use a fecal bag, leave it open, massage in a bacterocide before discarding.
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Blizzard Entertainment dates ‘next chapter’ reveals for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment will showcase “what comes next” for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo over the next few weeks, starting January 29 and ending February 11, the…
🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable - Games by Mason
When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.
Pangolin 1.15: iOS and Android apps, device approvals and posture, 1 year anniversary, stability, and more | Pangolin Blog
One year ago, in January 2025, we unleashed the very first beta of Pangolin. To be honest, it was a bit lean and had a few "character-building" bugs - but it quickly struck a chord as the go-to open-source alternative t…
The poor man's process is a cheap filmmaking technique to shot car scenes. The car is stationary. Somebody shakes it & lights are cleverly …
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How do you check if food is healthy?
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
TIL about Glanzbilder
For women of a certain age, Glanzbilder were a colorful collectors item in our childhood. Their history goes back to the late 1800s!
220-ton flywheel generator in Germany
Unusual power supply for the ASDEX Upgrade fusion device
Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
Former PlayStation Chip Engineers Take on Nvidia
A new chapter is emerging in the race for AI semiconductors, as a Japanese startup founded by former PlayStation chip engineers sets its sights on challenging industry giant Nvidia with a radically different approach to…
YSK: Championship Manager 01/02 is legally available for free
Championship Manager 01/02 is an iconic game in the "football manager" canon. While Football Manager as a series is now the king of that genre, Championship
Border Patrol used hidden cameras to flag drivers hundreds of miles from the border: AP
The CBS12 News I-Team is digging into a new Associated Press investigation that reveals U.S. Border Patrol has been tracking and flagging drivers.
Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’
It’s not yet clear how the FBI collected the video. Experts said in some cases it’s possible to collect data from the complex infrastructure that has enabled cloud-based cameras.
TIL there is an asteroid named after Linux.
The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 9001 through 10000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements"[1] and …
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
Chinese Pudu robots found open to hijacking
: The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots
After about 8 months, I love this Android browser. Not Chrome, FF, or Edge based.
A fully free (as in freedom) open source browser with a focus on a privacy.
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper
Get hands-free guidance, visual analysis, and instant access to the world's repair knowledge.
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five
99% Invisible - Enshittification
Jared Wilson is a seventh-generation farmer. He runs a family farm in Missouri, and like most farmers today, he’s facing a lot of challenges, including inconsistent weather and a shaky global economy. But one problem th…
So... Bilbo was kinda Bougie
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