Password managers are less secure than promised
Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords.
Gucci criticised for 'AI slop' images ahead of major fashion show
Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.
'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center
"It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
New car surveillance tech becomes mandatory by 2027, using infrared cameras to monitor driver sobriety and alertness with privacy and cost concerns.
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Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for print…
We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened
We published a Windows 12 article that did not meet PCWorld's editorial standards. We're sorry. Here's how we'll get better.
BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes)
BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-…
Hardware Watchdogs & Auto Reboots in Proxmox
Leverage emulated hardware watchdogs inside VMs to do automatic health checking and diagnostic reboots on hang, all with native Linux packages
When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series' goofy puz…
In an alternate timeline, Resident Evil could've become a lot more serious.
Reddit's human content wins amid the AI flood
Reddit says its human contributors are valued amid an internet awash with AI-generated content.
A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
Cambridge University Researchers: AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kit…
The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally important types of play.
Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video
Here's a special video for the Stardew Valley 10 year anniversary. I go over some old builds of the game w/ commentary, briefly go over the many updates, gi...
Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper
Parents are forming a loose network teaching one another how to get their children off school-issued Chromebooks and iPads.
Portugal’s New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged €110B in Suspicious Contracts
iscover how Portugal’s new transparency initiative, Observatório de Integridade, is using open data to flag irregularities in public procurement. Learn how this database tool turns transparency into a proactive workflow…
Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now
When it comes to AI, death may be nothing more than a construct
Crimson Desert First Look: The BlackSpace Engine Tech Preview
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I bought "NEW" N64 Games from AliExpress... 💀 - Crackin' Carts
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RAIDED BY THE POLICE | Investigating Nintendo, Sega, & Devkit Arrests - Gamers Nexus
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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1; Mozilla recommend switching to Linux, for people who can't run Windows 10 or 11
Firefox version 115 ESR will be the last supported release for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country
12 February 2026 | Fredrik Karrento Evidentiary note: The excerpts below are verbatim model outputs from multiple sessions. Section headings summarize the content of the excerpts without claiming the content necessarily…
Koei Tecmo is partnering with SpiralAI as it shows interest in creating "experiences that combine entertainment and AI" via chatbot-like LL…
Koei Tecmo and SpiralAI have jointly announced Geppetto2, a new LLM designed for entertainment and with conversational AI aspirations.
Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease
Update: Iron Galaxy has taken to social media to deny the speculation that it's working on a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, or anything Fallout-related. Whoops.
Bloober Team's big reveal is Layers of Fear 3
Bloober Team's countdown to Valentine's Day has ended, and despite all those rose references, it's not a Rule of Rose r…
Man uses ChatGPT to sell his Cooper City home: ‘It exceeded our expectations'
Robert Levine used AI to plan, price, market and list the property, saving about 3% of the total sale price that would have gone to a realtor.
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs
: Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI
"600% Sound Volume" Firefox add-on blocked after apparently committing affiliate manipulation
To use these add-ons, you'll need to download Firefox.
Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
Uber expands Women Preferences for women riders and drivers across the United States.
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to prove it.
Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family's Intimate Conversations
Prego, the pasta sauce brand, announced a new lid-shaped device designed to record and preserve family dinner conversations.
Last Year In SBCs (single board computers)
While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from 8 different companie…
New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes
The ability to resell Steam items for real value is key to the state's case.
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?
Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware fo…
Major milestone in quantum internet demoed in Berlin, and separately by Cisco in New York.
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Facebook is absolutely cooked
Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse
TIL : Mount Olympus is the highest planetary mountain in our solar system (21.28km or 69,840ft)
Olympus Mons (/əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊ-/;[5] Latin for 'Mount Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars. As measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), it is 21.1 kilometres (69,000 ft)[3] or, more precisely, 21.2…
TIL Operation Northwoods - A DoD/CIA plan to commit terrorist attacks on US soil to invade Cuba
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense of the US government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives to both stag…
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palanti…
A WIRED analysis shows that ICE and CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone.
‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
Switch 2 price, PS6 release could be impacted by memory shortage
Rumors are surfacing about more problems related to RAM shortages.
Diffusion of Responsibility in a world with LLMs
One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked …
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties
Paris, March 10, 2026 – Just days before the first round of the municipal elections, a new investigation by the nonprofit organization People vs. Big Tech
Death by a thousand slops
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we h…
New AI system paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints, by eliminating drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences…
A team of EPFL researchers has taken a major step towards resolving the problem of drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. Their breakthrough paves the …