Apple Joins Google in Offering Passport-Based Digital ID
Apple is launching a new type of digital identification for iPhone (and Apple Watch) that it calls simply "Digital ID". It is based on the user's existing passport and can be used in place of a Real ID at TSA checkpoint…
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched
Not to be confused with The Cube.
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
I delivered this talk at the Everything Open 2026 conference in Canberra
Google’s New Android Update Locks Your Apps And Hides Your Messages
What you need to know before this next update hits your phone.
Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook
The tech giant will begin closing accounts for under 16s, a week before an official ban.
TIL that Michel Temer, Former Conservative President of Brazil, is now a lobbyist for Tech Companies
After leaving office in 2019, the MDB leader returned to law and represented tech firms since then, including Google
Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support
Valve has spoken about potential anti-cheat issues on the Steam Machine which uses SteamOS and is not compatible with certain anti-cheats
Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!
Google has announced it is building a new way for 'experienced users' to install Android apps that haven't been verified.
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU - use this to EMAIL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
TL;DR: My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical valu…
Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.
Did Apple make the right choice in partnering with Google for Siri's AI features?
Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike
Cloudflare is down, causing many websites and big platforms to go dark.
Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’
Meta's recent cuts in its Reality Labs division, which focuses on virtual reality (VR), have raised concerns about a potential 'VR winter'. The company laid off 10% of its Reality Labs employees, primarily affecting VR-…
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
A new look for Snikket on Android
Our upcoming release will include a visual refresh
Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away
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The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6 [People Make Games 19:17]
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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative fa…
This report explores parents' and children's views on the Online Safety Act, including what's working so far (and what isn't).
Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha
Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in widespread false-positive alerts, and in some cases, removing certificates from Windows.
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What if POOLS and SEVERANCE had a baby? IGN just posted my indie game trailer : )
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France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for …
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE Paris, le 26 janvier 2026 N°295 Souveraineté numérique : l’État généralise « Visio », sa solution de visioconférence sécurisée et souveraine à destination des agents publics David Amiel, ministre dé…
How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]
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Alex Schapiro Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption
Switzerland is worried about data privacy
Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time
Waymo, a spinoff from Google, is expanding its autonomous vehicles rapidly in the face of competition from Tesla’s planned robotaxi service.
Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI
Researchers warn that U.S. data centers could devour vast amounts of energy and water unless stronger guardrails shape the industry’s growth.
Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX…
Shortage drives fraudsters to target legacy GPUs
New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that pro…
GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess
When customers already routinely bring in dirty gaming hardware that's full of grime and cockroaches, GameStop workers are fearing the worst
Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work [Update: see comment]
This is a post that we don’t take any joy in writing. When we wrote last month about our agreement with Core Devices, we went into it believing that coopera...
Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck Rises to 24% in 2025, Led by Millennials and Gen X: BofA Report
Inflation outpaces wages for middle- and lower-income households since January 2025, pushing more Americans into living paycheck to paycheck, especially among Millennials and Gen X.
Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.
Highguard | Official Launch Showcase
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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
Bypass the Oracle free-tier limitation of running only Linux distributions provided by Oracle by sideloading a QCOW2 image to a boot volume and attaching it to a new instance.
An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios
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Needy Programs
We used to use software; now software started to use us
Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds
Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison
Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away
He was aged just 38
Hakboard - Home Assistant Integration for Kanboard
🔸 Integrate Kanboard projects into Home Assistant dashboards and automations - aktive/hakboard
Dawn of the Tiberium Age mod v14.5.0 released.
CABAL.... I mean, Advanced AI Version 2 Online! Our latest update brings you the most advanced skirmish AI in all of classic Command & Conquer, new singleplayer and Co-Op missions, as well as game engine and balance imp…
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire
AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times
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