Phonopolis Review: Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designās masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetiā¦
Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designās masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetic in Phonopolis.
Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief ā¦
Asha Sharma's shake-up continues at Xbox as she brings more new people into key roles.
AI code increasingly leads to production failures
The rapid introduction of AI-generated code is increasingly leading to production failures, according to a survey.
Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible ā No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
Oura launches Ring 5, worldās smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO
Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bn
OpenMLS has undergone a security audit, funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency
OpenMLS, our implementation of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, has undergone a security audit. The audit is an important milestone for OpenMLS. In this post, we share the results and take the opportunity toā¦
82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for ā¦
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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being āforce-fedā Googleās AI Search
Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.
I Tested the Trump Phone for 96 Hours. Here's What It's Really Like
CNET has the Trump phone, and we put it through its paces over the long weekend to see how it matches up with other foreign-made phones.
Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, AĆ©ropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure got a job at dadās company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots donāt have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry).
Roku OSās home screen now features a large, permanent ad
āI don't want recommendations! I know what I want to watch."
Subnautica 2 Early Access sales top four million in under a week
Total sales for the Early Access version of Subnautica 2 surpassed four million copies sold just five days after release, developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment announced.
YouTube Is Making It Easier to Spot AI-Generated Videos
YouTube is revamping its AI labels on the platform, and introducing a new automated system to identify AI-generated videos.
Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud" - Gingerlime
Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though Iām pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Strā¦
FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent
A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' ā expert claims actionā¦
"I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]"
European Union: Chinese online retailer Temu hit with 200 million euro fine over unsafe toys and electronics
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.
The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi
An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the āEloiā of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many.
US law enforcement warns of āanti-tech extremismā as AI hatred grows
The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.
Destiny developers reflect on the end of an era: 'We all worked so hard to maintain the quality bar under unrealistic constraints'
"I logged in to the Tower and found a horde of guardians kneeling by Zavala, others saluting. It was like that from server to server."
Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals
A new survey reveals Google's push for Gemini Intelligence on Android isn't landing with the people the way it hoped for.
Samsung avoids strike as workers approve massive bonus deal
Amid booming demand for AI chips, the government-backed deal will make more than 60% of the South Korean tech giant's workforce eligible for bonuses of about $370,000 this year.
How to Make Money with AI Generated Hate Content Online (Even losers can do it!) (Satire article)
Are you not where you want to be in life? The right-wing media and algorithmically driven content shown on your social media feed is eating away your precious time. Your mind is occupied by thoughts about the things medā¦
PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates
Gamers may have begun to shy away from the now more expensive PS5. U.S. April data highlights a 30% decline in PlayStation console sales compared to the previous year. Before the impending Switch 2 price increase, Ninteā¦
Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater)
Riot Games' kernal level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update which is allegedly altering system firmware associated with cheating.
The pressure
I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food ā¦
All You Proxmox Users - ProxCenter
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Portabase 1.16: Open source database backup/restore tool, now with API REST
Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Valkey - Portabase/portabase
Happy Public Domain Day everyone
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright tā¦
Elon Muskās SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business
SpaceX has acquired xAI, the company announced on Monday, merging two of Elon MuskĆ¢ĀĀs most ambitious companies into the most valuable private company in the world.
Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons
Arms makers are teaming up with venture capital firms in a push to bring AI to the battlefield.
Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights ā counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return aā¦
A buyer in Spain says a ānewā ADATA XPG memory kit arrived with counterfeit contents.
HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptopsā CPUs
HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
Googleās Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the āeasier thingsā AI could soon replace
Pichai said apart from running a company, advances in AI could also help people evaluate medical treatment or decide whether to invest in a stock.
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit thā¦
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See
Under the TikTok deal, its Chinese owners will sell U.S. operations to a group of pro-Israel billionaires eager to censor critical content.
A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats
Googleās Project Zero team found that WhatsApp can download a malicious media file without you doing anything at all.
Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungieās plagiarized material and calls the art theft inā¦
Marathon cinematic short director, Alberto Mielgo, speaks up about the AI questions and the plagiarism scandal tied to the game, calling the situation a genuine mistake thatās been blown out of proportion.
AI controls is coming to Firefox
AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. Weāve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. Weāve also heard from
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
Road to Vostok Early Access Trailer
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Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
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Fifteen Years of Waterfox: Alex Kontos on Independence, AI, and the Future of Browsers
TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. Inā¦
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). Itās distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). Itās the worldās first āpreservation archiveā for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with ā¦
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the āChildrenās Wellbeing and Schools Billā, lawmakers now want clienā¦
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the āChildrenās Wellbeing and Schools Billā, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: āAny relevant deā¦
NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, ā¦
Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool ā Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because theyā¦
Project Genie can AI-generate "games" capped at 720p and 24 FPS.
The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic
From Bubsy to MindsEye, these are the worst-reviewed games of the year