New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games
There are rumors of a new Xbox Game Pass tier coming from Microsoft, and this one would offer only first party games.
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disint…
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is faulty design
Did games really get more costly to make?
By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a third-person action RPG set in the universe of The Expanse.You’re no hero — just a mercenary caught in the wrong place at the...
TIL Trenton, New Jersey, councilwoman Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a 2013 City Council meeting believing the Blue Waffle di…
Blue waffle is a fictitious sexually transmitted disease said to affect only women, causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. The disease has been confirmed as false. According to Dr. Elizabeth Bosk…
Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, or 70+% of the total yearly US government budget
But for TeraFab, money is not the only limitation.
Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France
The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed that DNS providers can be legally compelled to block access to domain names to stop piracy.
It's not just a RAM crisis — Panasonic says data center batteries are also selling out months in advance
Panasonic plans to triple battery production as hyperscale AI infrastructure drives unprecedented demand across global data centers
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
I remixed Claude's new buddy into "buddymon"
Claude Code plugin — collectible creatures discovered through coding - CircuitForgeLLC/buddymon
Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic secures large investment as director Casey Hudson rejects use of gen-AI, saying "I'm just really unimpr…
KOTOR spiritual successor Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic gathers funds as director talks studio size, game length, and gen-AI.
Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market - Jeff Geerling
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not …
Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe a leaner operating model will allow us t…
Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology
Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.
I investigated Windows 11's massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
Windows 11 updates are now crossing 5GB. Our analysis shows that bundled AI and Semantic Search files are causing this massive storage bloat.
Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from Chi…
U.S. still depends on China, despite years of onshoring efforts.
DMM Games’ new Kumasan Black label will be dedicated to “edgy” and explicit adult games, according to director
Exnoa and DMM Games recently launched Kumasan Black, a new sub-label of game developer Studio Kumasan dedicated to "edgy games."
Translator On Kingdom Come 2 Claims He Was Replaced With AI
The English translator and editor for KC:D II claimed that he's been replaced with AI in a bid to make Warhorse Studios 'more effective' and 'save finances'
China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US
With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.
New Mexico's Meta Ruling and Encryption - Schneier on Security
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems worryin…
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Self-hosting Upgrade: planning my first 3-node cluster for deployment in a data center
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Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs
Last month Walled Culture wrote about an important case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), the EU’s top court, that could determine how VPNs can be used in that region…
Wishlisted Indie Game Showcase is LIVE NOW | 70+ trailers, world reveals and more! (4/27/2026)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
State censorship shapes how Chinese chatbots respond to sensitive political topics, study suggests
Chinese chatbots may be censored by the state, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. China has a robust program of censorship and all China-originating LLMs must be approved by the Chinese government before rele…
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
How difficult could it really be?
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks
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Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
TIL a white South African named Rodney Wilkinson worked with the ANC to bomb a nuclear plant being built by the Apartheid regime
The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it?
The AI-designed car is taking shape
Experts say the increasingly reliance on AI could lead to job losses.
The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does
You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber and watch…
We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry
AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess
A single threat actor used Claude and ChatGPT to compromise nine Mexican government agencies and steal hundreds of millions of citizen reco…
A single threat actor compromised nine Mexican government agencies and stole hundreds of millions of citizen records.
AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.
Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder …
A new beginner's guide to AI PCs published in Microsoft's learning center does a poor job of explaining the reality of AI PCs.
Frame-Gen to 30fps? Lego Batman's "Bizarre" PC Specs Sheet Is a Case Study in How Not To Market a Game
"It's a bad decision and kind of funny."
"Every great search must come to an end": Ask.com shutdown, ending ask Jeeves.
As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.
Residents in communities across the U.S. are taking a radical step to oppose the AI building boom.
TIL about Epstein's surveillance dealings
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Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft
Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
Nuclear Power Plants Far More Popular Than AI Data Centers For Local Areas
Seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed.
How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — Monokai
On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. — 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some oth…
Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial; Ordered to pay $3 Million
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