Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”
Tinder is rolling out a new way for users to prove they’re real as AI-generated profiles continue to flood dating apps.
U.S. startup nails flight test of a drone built for hypersonic speeds
If tests succeed, engineers will gradually expand the flight envelope before the Mk 2.2 prototype attempts supersonic flight.
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
TIL that Rudyard Kipling (writer of the jungle book) wrote a poem called "IF". A few lines of this poem are highlighted in the entrance of …
By Emilio Sánchez Vicario, CEO and Founder at Academia Sánchez-Casal.
Google ends its 30% app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.
AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector
Many companies ship AI chatbots as thin wrappers around commercial LLM APIs with zero cost controls. What if a tool behaved like an overly engaged, perfectly valid user - and just burned through their budget?
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
Do you use a keyboard to navigate websites? If so, you've probably run into countless accessibility issues where groups of inputs or widgets are not easy, or even possible to get to with just the keyboard. A keyboard-ac…
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over Sept…
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over, Apple announced today. Cook will continue on as Apple CEO through the summer, with …
I designed a board game (creative commons/open source)
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Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative
VPNs are the only way Russians can access the platforms — for now
Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss
But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: "We totally reject global governance of AI."
Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr
Overseerr and Jellyseerr are merging into a unified project: Seerr
Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon se…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine
Todd Howard also says the upcoming RPG is a return to Bethesda's 'classic' RPG formula
Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.
"Servers will remain online until March 12th"
Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’
Empirical analysis of Global Privacy Control compliance across popular websites accessed from California. Independent research by webXray.
Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president
The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law.
Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation— The Times says Wikipedia was "hacked" and calls it an "important victor…
The Times (UK) reports "How Epstein scrubbed 2008 sex crime conviction from the internet" by "hiring a team of hackers"[citation needed] to "remove negative information about him on Wikipedia and Google". It quotes Epst…
Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir contract be scrapped
Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should âhave their hands ripped off our NHSâ, say MPs
Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server
Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.
Big turn-based games (RPGs, city builders, tactics, etc.) festival on Steam this week. Trailer showcase from it with 25 game announcements.
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Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received, but the studio wasn't going to b…
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game
The artist whose work was used in Marathon without their permission has now been credited as a visual design consultant following the game's release.
Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot?
Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Health to aggregate data from hospitals and wearables. Would you trust the tech giant with your medical information?
Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infur…
"Spot test" goes back at least one year and affects multiple markets.
OpenAI swaps Nvidia for Cerebras with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller AI encoding model that generates over 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware. It is OpenAI's first
"I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)" by batty
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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents
:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK – An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime
The control and strategic manipulation of information has long played a role in the geopolitical and ideological competition between the Islamic Republic of Iran and its political adversaries, including Israel. Prior Ci…
Found a clean browser game site for incremental / idle fans
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Popular self-hosting services worth running
The best self-hosted apps do three things well: they solve a real daily problem, they are easy enough to deploy and maintain, and they deliver a clear advantage over the cloud alternative. Some are broad platforms, whil…
Pragmata - World View Trailer
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I don't want your PRs anymore
I really appreciate that you're enjoying the software I'm maintaining and want to help. But we need to rethink this collaboration, because I feel like we're increasingly wasting each other's time.
Cambodia aims to shut down all online scam centers within weeks
Cambodia says it is close to shutting down all online scam centers operating in the Southeast Asian country.
TIL that skijoring (skiing behind a horse) was once an Olympic sport.
Once an ancient mode of transport and Olympic sport, it’s reemerged as a fashion spectacle.
TIL: Romans and Greeks routinely used folded sheets of lead or pewter to inscribe curses
A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: κατάδεσμος, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. Its name originated from the Greek and Latin words f…
English Wikipedia bans archive.today
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack against a blog.[1] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests t…
Amid Crowded Skies, Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk
The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit…
A decade before Stalker, [Chasm: The Rift, an] obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shooters
Chasm: The Rift is an early European contender to American FPS supremacy.
Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks.
How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platfo…
How much do large language models actually hallucinate when answering questions grounded in provided documents? Despite the critical importance of this question for enterprise AI deployments, reliable measurement has be…
New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
I’ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like 13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuh…
The AI Revolution Could Usher In a New Age of Stagnation
Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions.
METRO 2039 | GAMEPLAY TEASER
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Virtual Machines vs LXC vs Docker: What’s the Real Difference?
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IPv6 adoption statistics – Google
We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.
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Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.
A new incident response report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN) identifies a coordinated network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels targeting Albertan audiences with nearly 40 million views, expl…