Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool â Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because theyâŚ
Project Genie can AI-generate "games" capped at 720p and 24 FPS.
Leaving Apple behind after 18 years
I've just "finished" (as much as it can be finished) a project to migrate out of the Apple ecosystem. I'll share with you the why and how, what I gave up, what I gained, and what privacy really costs.
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
Google is betting big on CO2 batteries to power its data centers with clean energy.
The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless
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Hardware Store Marauderâs Map Is Clarkian Magic
The âMarauderâs Mapâ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isnât real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesnât neeâŚ
EPA Advances Farmersâ Right to Repair Their Own Equipment, Saving Repair Costs and Productivity
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment ownersâ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.
TIL that contraception is illegal in Afghanistan
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception
RAM and SSD prices are still climbingâhereâs our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you canât, hereâs our best advice.
TikTok Deal Done And Itâs Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and itâs somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisâŚ
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns - Schneier on Security
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, repâŚ
Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When Itâs Ready' - IGN
Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has assured fans that he is "not going to abandon Haunted Chocolatier," saying: "it's taking a while to finish the game," and "that's okay."
How AI broke the smart home in 2025
Why AI hasnât made the smart home smarter
Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters
As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahead of the midterms.
TIL that William James Sidis, a child prodigy, was a socialist. I see an analogy to Einstein.
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This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
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Weâre All So Fâd | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]
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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
US shutters phisherfolkâs $14.6M password-hoarding platform
: Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost
Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs â whâŚ
"When players and devs unite⌠beautiful things happen"
Interesting site with tons of resources
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure meanâŚ
The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to incluâŚ
Fediverse is getting E2EE
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TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering
Hi friends and welcome to the last post for this year! Whenever someone asks me how to get started with reverse engineering, I always give the same advice: buy the cheapest IP camera you can find. These devices are selfâŚ
I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
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Inequality alone doesnât cause civil unrest â but internet access adds the crucial spark
Some regimes may be tempted to shut down the internet to maintain stability. But new research shows why reducing the wealth gap has become crucial for maintaining security.
Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims
Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
Days after killing the brand, Crucial shows up at Delhi Comic-Con â As Micron pivots to AI, Crucial's presence likely booked out months in âŚ
Local partners display RAM and SSD inventories as the consumer brand enters its final year.
TIL that Broccoli can significantly lower cancer risks
If you knew there was a simple approach to reduce your cancer risk, would you take it? Well, one of the simplest strategies linked to cancer prevention is to increase your broccoli intake.
What is a Passkey? - Computerphile
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Anyone can track WhatsApp and Signal users' activity, knowing only their phone number: "Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery ReceipâŚ
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as âŚ
[Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest
A short horror game set in a spooky winter forest.
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a moâŚ
China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions â DDR5-8000 and LPDâŚ
But can it make them in decent volumes?
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market - Jeff Geerling
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not âŚ
Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% â requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018
Not the best timing due to the RAMpocalypse, but there are leaner distros like Lubuntu available if you need them.
Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs
Last month Walled Culture wrote about an important case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), the EUâs top court, that could determine how VPNs can be used in that regionâŚ
Google Suggests Quantum Attacks on Cryptocurrency Encryption May Require Fewer Resources
Google researchers report that improved quantum algorithms could break widely used cryptocurrency encryption with fewer resources.
Running Tesla Model 3's Computer on My Desk Using Parts From Crashed Cars
David SchĂźtz's bug bounty writeups
F-35 source code leaked
âźď¸đşđ¸ Lockheed Martin has allegedly been breached and 375TB of data is being offered for sale on what appears to be a Russian 'Threat Market'. They've priced the highly confidential data at $598 million...
Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch
Kagi's "Small Web" offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.
Cash App launches 'pay later' feature for P2P transfers
Block says that the new feature has strong built-in protections to keep users from so-called debt spirals.
Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AIâ Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilitieâŚ
In the latest survey of National Education Union members, conducted ahead of Annual Conference in Brighton, 9,408 teacher members in English state schools gave us their views on the current uses of AI within education ââŚ
Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems
The mission commanderâs email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off and back on again?
Artemis II crew is just like us, needs help with Microsoft Outlook issues
And no, Commander Reid Wiseman didn't ask Copilot for assistance.
Whatâs the Most Overlooked Data Leak in LLM Workflows?
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Elon Musk's SpaceX set to go public in $1 trillion share listing
The companyâs public stock debut is set to be one of the most valuable in history, and could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.