Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
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The lord almighty has spoken
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says it will not conduct new performance-based layoffs, shifting from last year's 5% workforce reduction.
Saros - Gameplay Overview Trailer | PS5 Games
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Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News
Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW
OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’
Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion â on the eve of Valentineâs Day, itâs being turned off for good. How will users cope?
Claude Desktop Extensions 0-Click RCE Vulnerability Exposes 10,000+ Users to Remote Attacks
A new critical vulnerability discovered by security research firm LayerX has exposed a fundamental architectural flaw in how Large Language Models (LLMs) handle trust boundaries.
TIL there are four major blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Mosquitoes love to drink O blood, they think it's delicious.
Most people don’t think about their blood type unless they need surgery or are planning to donate blood. But we can learn more from our blood types than simply whether or not we can safely accept a transfusion from a do…
4Chan for Clankers
what your clawkers are really thinking
The web’s clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch
Several LinkedIn posts from now former Highguard developers confirmed the news, which comes ahead of the game's first post-launch update.
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
God of War Trilogy Remake - Announcement Teaser | PS5 Games
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Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
Non-contributors dictating how the hen makes bread.
Discord’s UK age verification reportedly shifts flows to Persona for some users
Discord appears to be routing UK users through Persona for age verification, despite positioning k-ID as its official partner. Here's what we know so far.
Kena: Scars of Kosmora - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
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Crimson Moon - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
https://store.playstation.com/concept/10013260 Wishlist Crimson Moon on PlayStation 5! Prepare, violent one, for an all-new gothic action-adventure RPG. In C...
Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal
As Dylan Faden, you'll take on a wide range of paranatural threats head-on, utilizing the environment, deploying extraordinary abilities and the raw force of...
BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.
From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.
Direct Emissions in Semiconductor Manufacturing Are Increasing Again – What Is Behind the Shift?
interface (formerly Stiftung Neue Verantwortung) emerges as Europe's premier Think Tank for cutting-edge tech policy. Our expert team navigates AI, cybersecurity, and more, shaping the continent's digital landscape.
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstech…
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19)
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007 First Light - Story Trailer | PS5 Games
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Project Windless - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games
Every legend has a beginning. Project Windless is a single-player open-world action RPG set in the universe of the acclaimed Korean fantasy novel series The ...
UK government announces crackdown on AI chatbots and infinte scroll
'The action we took on Grok sent a clear message that no platform gets a free pass.'
Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition is now available on Steam
Rediscover the dark fantasy classic that defined the modern ARPG genre; fully remastered with a new class, fresh content, quality‑of‑life upgrades, and an overhauled endgame. Chain brutal skill and item synergies, rise …
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours
and we have made back our development budget after 3 hours. Thank you all :)
Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai
OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
Two Midwesterners are fighting back after the platforms they created to report on public Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity were censored by government officials.
At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring
International strike is taking place between February 10 and February 12
TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why
In computing, internationalization and localization (American) or internationalisation and localisation (Commonwealth), often abbreviated i18n and l10n respectively, are means of adapting to different languages, regiona…
TIL: The Median Age for FOX, CNN & MSNBC Viewers is Around 70 Years Old
Who’s Watching the News? Mostly Boomers
Ireland is investigating X over Grok-made potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualised images, containing or otherwise in…
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced that it has opened an inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC) under section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018.
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backups
The fourth article in my series about "self-hosting for newbies" explaining how I take care of backups for my YunoHost server.
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.
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You: Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having B…
Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.
Toph Character Reveal Trailer (Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game)
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Gothic 1 Remake | Release Date Trailer (June 5th)
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LifeWise Academy, a controversial religious program, will be in almost half of Ohio’s public school districts this school year
LifeWise Academy, a controversial Hilliard-based religious instruction program, will be in almost half of Ohio’s public school districts this school year.
The plot to kill Americans: Kennedy escalates attacks on vaccines
The Trump administration’s assault on vaccines and public health infrastructure represents nothing less than a plot to kill Americans through the deliberate spread of disease.
TIL that soda crackers were shipped in barrels, and that's where the name of the store came from
The name ties into the history of what Cracker Barrel is trying to replicate (an old country store) and looks back on gatherings around cracker barrels.
US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know
OpenAI, Perplexity AI and Yahoo have expressed interest in buying Chrome, as Google's legal battle escalates. Here's what it could mean for the future of the web.
FreshRSS release v1.27.0
Milestone
A few highlights ✨:
Implement support for HTTP 429 Too Many Requests and 503 Service Unavailable, obey Retry-After
Add sort by category title, or by feed title
Add search operator c: fo...
No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer
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Tesla offers pay package to CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion
Tesla is asking shareholders to approve a pay package that would award 423 million shares to CEO Elon Musk if he hits certain milestones.