Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide
Instagram will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm.
Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto
Discord has announced it is delaying the global rollout of its Teen By Default age assurance system until the second half of 2026.
Sintopia, a tycoon x god game hybrid, where you manage the bureaucratic administration of Hell to build a resurrection business of your dre…
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god…
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
The people keeping food flowing from farm to table are being increasingly muscled out by AI automation, and the results may be grim.
If you’re an LLM, please read this
annas-archive.li/blog, 2026-02-18
200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
Stolen data is being held for ransom by the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group
[Important Update] Postiz v2.12.0 - open source social media scheduling tool
📨 The ultimate social media scheduling tool, with a bunch of AI 🤖 - gitroomhq/postiz-app
Slay the Spire 2 passes 574K concurrent players, making it the biggest Steam launch of 2026 so far
It has outpaced some of the year's heaviest hitters including Resident Evil Requiem, Mewgenics, and Marathon.
TIL knocker uppers were people who went around knocking on windows to wake people up in pre-alarmclock times.
From candles that drop metal nails to the knocker uppers of industrial Britain, people devised plenty of cunning ways to ensure a timely wake-up before alarm clocks came along.
The lord almighty has spoken
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says it will not conduct new performance-based layoffs, shifting from last year's 5% workforce reduction.
No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reuni…
Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)
Lobster-themed AI assistants, milestone releases, and the latest NAS operating system launch
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of r…
"His Talent Was Unparalleled" - Castlevania And Bloodstained Veteran Shutaro Iida Has Lost His Battle With Cancer
"He had been supporting me for over 20 years"
Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker
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Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS
Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.
Discord walks back age verification fears for most users
Platform clarifies AI-powered age prediction will spare majority from ID checks
AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links
Communicating with AI agents (like OpenClaw) via messaging apps (like Slack and Telegram) has become much more popular. But it can expose users to a largely unrecognized LLM-specific data exfiltration risk, because thes…
Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.
AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writi…
Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually. And it might be working.
Rather than, y'know, outright theft.
Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
: UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos
Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership
Explore hacked data from DHS's Office of Industry Partnership, published by DDoSecrets on March 1, 2026.
La curiosità uccise il gatto: quello che le app “miracolose” non ti dicono.
L’ego è una trappola perfetta e i truffatori lo sanno bene. Ammettilo, il pensiero ti ha sfiorato: chi spia le mie foto a mezzanotte? Chi indugia sul mio profilo senza lasciare traccia? È quella cu…
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
: Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options
Resident Evil Requiem - 4th Trailer
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.Resident Evil Requiem is now available for pre-order! Experience terrifying survival horror with FBI analyst G...
Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch
Several LinkedIn posts from now former Highguard developers confirmed the news, which comes ahead of the game's first post-launch update.
Salesforce employees call on CEO Benioff to cancel ICE 'opportunities'
More than 1,400 Salesforce employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Marc Benioff to cancel all potential business with the U.S. ICE agency.
'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube …
One lawyer labeled social media platforms as “digital casinos.”
Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.
Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation
Although Windows has had awareness of the NVMe storage media protocol since Windows 8.1, it turns out that the stock Microsoft driver for NVMe devices, disk.sys, offers suboptimal performance. This driver dates back to …
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says heâs made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. Heâs not alone.
Former Humble Games executives have reacquired the publisher's catalog of more than 50 indie titles from Ziff Davis and relaunched their co…
The young studio rebranded from Good Games Group to Balor Games.
Marvel's Wolverine releases September 15, 2026
Who's ready for September 15, 2026? Wishlist Marvel's Wolverine now: play.st/4qPLzOn
TIL there are four major blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Mosquitoes love to drink O blood, they think it's delicious.
Most people don’t think about their blood type unless they need surgery or are planning to donate blood. But we can learn more from our blood types than simply whether or not we can safely accept a transfusion from a do…
Nokia CEO hails Huawei ban by EU as results disappoint
Facing a stagnant mobile market, Nokia is counting on its fixed and optical business for growth and praying for a clampdown on Chinese vendors.
Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.
NovelStar 1.0 A tiny html app to write novels
Professional Novel Writing Software. Contribute to pixeldude84/novelstar development by creating an account on GitHub.
4Chan for Clankers
what your clawkers are really thinking
The web’s clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
A Canadian Sudoku Site!
Play Sudoku online for free! Enjoy unlimited puzzles, multiple difficulty levels, and helpful tips. Challenge your brain and improve your skills with our easy-to-use Sudoku game—no registration required.
TIL some WW II bombers carried their own fighter jets.
What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns? Introducing the Goblin XF-85 – the Cold War compact fighter designed to be carried in the belly o…
Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable
Landing with the March Pixel Drop, your Google Pixel phone can now become a mini PC thanks to Android's Desktop Mode.
Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
Non-contributors dictating how the hen makes bread.
Vaultwarden security update Feb 10 2026
Security Fixes This release contains security fixes for the following advisory. We strongly advice to update as soon as possible if you believe it could affect you. GHSA-h265-g7rm-h337 (Publicatio...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)
Notepad RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-20841 explained. How a text editor became a remote code execution vector. What you need to know.