Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time
Microsoft just handed bosses the ultimate tracking tool. Here is why the 'cover for me' excuse is officially dead and how 365 monitors you.
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026)
Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
Day 1 of posting an indie game I found that I think it is cool - LOVE ETERNAL
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire
Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. Find out more inside.
YouTube now lets you hide Shorts
You now have the power to remove short-form videos from your YouTube feed if you don’t want to see them.
Cracking a Malvertising DGA From the Device Side
When piracy streaming sites inject third-party JavaScript into your browser, the domains hosting that JavaScript are designed to be invisible. They rotate every three hours, use algorithmically generated names on cheap …
BIGO Ads Deploys C2-Style Infrastructure to Survive Domain Bans. Here's the Decrypted Config.
The BIGO Ads SDK ships with an encrypted configuration file that maps out a global network of ad-serving domains, backup hosts, and failover infrastructure. The file is AES-encrypted with a hardcoded key, served from Al…
Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M b…
An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.
Radicale v3.7 collection sharing?
A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server. - Kozea/Radicale
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 c…
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
Hold on to Your Hardware - マリウス
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus
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‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going - TDF Community Blog
The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. …
I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence
'More DLC = More FPS' — Monster Hunter Wilds Players Ask Capcom for Answers After Theory Suggests a Backend DLC Check Is Tanking Performanc…
Monster Hunter Wilds fans are asking Capcom for answers after one player seemed to discover that PC performance is dictated by the number of DLCs a user has.
Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, US judge says
Judge says there is plenty of evidence to suggest OpenAI’s leaders made assurances nonprofit structure would be kept
New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight
Researchers have developed a ‘negative luminescence’ system to create an innovative way of sending hidden information.
An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.
Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance
This four-week consultation on open source software tackles the cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and automotive sectors.
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever
: Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.
The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought
By the time you read this, the widespread embargo on every foreign-made consumer drone will be in effect. That’s essentially all of them.
Quake Brutalist Jam 3 released (Map pack + full conversion)
Quake Brutalist Jam III is a megalithic community project more than a year in the making. It features an entirely new arsenal, a set of new monsters, new powerups, and a complete visual overhaul of Quake's existing rost…
Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users
Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government's proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be fo…
Digital ID in the UK: The Government Says It Is Voluntary, But Your Employer Might Not Give You a Choice
The UK's new Digital Access to Services Bill promises a free, voluntary digital ID. But right-to-work checks are a 'priority use case,' and 19 million Britons face digital exclusion.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens
Kevin Patel - Application Security Engineer @ NISC
Great roundup from our PC Jesus Steve.
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Announcing the Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and …
Major VPN provider says it could leave Canada over lawful access bill
OTTAWA — Virtual private network service NordVPN warned on Friday it could pull out of Canada over the federal government’s proposed lawful access bill. NordVPN said in a social media post it is reviewing the bill and w…
Due to relentless AI scrapers notabug.org is currently down.
Currently repositories are available via git access. If you know the git+ssh url of a repository you can now clone it again.
Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!
We're in the era of trillion-dollar companies, but that doesn't mean you should leave $5 on the table!
Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges
Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
Dozens of Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO's speech
Some students were protesting against the company's controversial work with the US government on artificial intelligence.
EU takes a big first step in weakening digital privacy and in empowering big tech
By approving the first Digital Omnibus on 16 June, the European Parliament has taken a worrying step towards weakening a decade of digital rights protections.
TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years
New Federal Data Show More Than 49,000 Deaths In A Single Year, Marking The Highest Rate Recorded Since The Early 1940s.
Pebble just revealed the Pebble Round 2!!
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AGDQ 2026 Schedule
Check out the schedule for Awesome Games Done Quick 2026!
Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the remediation of c…
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduc…
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
What's your best software?
Evidence-based reviews and comparisons focusing on privacy and security.
Razer’s AI wearable is a headset with built-in cameras - Say hello to the Snapdragon-powered ‘Project Motoko’ concept.
That certainly is something you wear.
State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
Epoch AI released new data finding that global AI compute capacity is doubling every 7 months, with Nvidia chips accounting for over 60% of…
Total available computing capacity from AI chips across all major designers has grown by approximately 3.3x per year since 2022, enabling larger-scale model development and consumer adoption.
OPM established the United States Tech Force initiative to recruit over 1,000 AI specialists and digital experts into the federal workforce…
WASHINGTON, DC — The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), the White House Office of Science Technology and P…
Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse
The Oscar-winning actor has trademarked several phrases, including "Alright, alright, alright" from the cult classic film, Dazed and Confused.
Smart Locker tai cac co so giao duc hien dai
SimpleTech chuyên cung cấp các mẫu tủ gửi đồ thông minh Smart Locker hiện đại, vận hành tự động, bảo mật cao, đây chính là giải pháp lưu trữ, giao nhận hàng tiện ích cho chung cư, văn phòng và doanh nghiệp thời đại số.