Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake
Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.
Curated list of selfhosted apps for your homelab
Curating Top Open Source Apps for Homelab Enthusiasts - ccbikai/awesome-homelab
Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick
Piracy apps are getting the boot from Amazon’s TV streaming sticks.
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
Turning up the heat - Hot Isostatic Processing | Aerospace Manufacturing
Wallwork Group’s second hot isostatic pressing (HIP) has recently been commissioned at the company’s Bury headquarters, so Mike Richardson caught up with company group director, Simeon Collins to hear more.
Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Waymo has been experimenting with programming to make its typically-cautious robotaxis "confidently assertive."
“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.
Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 has surpassed US$1,000,000 raised
Watch the stream with your best speedrun dinosaurs.
Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things
Bidding wars, mobile bookmarks, and my favorite new self-hosted apps from 2025
Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
Showing just how insane it is to be a game developer right now, we've hit an all-time high for game releases on Steam in 2025 and not many get seen.
Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
The iPhone versus Android battle has just taken a sudden twist as hackers attack smartphones.
TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery
The 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes[1] in prisons across the United States from August 21 to September 9, 2018.[2] It was one of the largest prison strikes in US history.[3][2] …
Why Do All Governments Work the Same Way? -CGP Grey (Youtube)
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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn't mean that it is," critic says.
Google might think your Website is down
How Cross-page AI aggregation can introduce new liability vectors.
The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore
Upgrading isn't all that it's made out to be.
WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé Nast
WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé NastA comprehensive investigation into the current WIRED database leak and the threat of an imminent, much larger compromise targeting the Condé Nast portf…
Private Tech Companies, the State, and the New Character of War
Ukraineâs war offers a window into how governmentsâ growing reliance on defense firms is eroding national sovereignty, security, and accountability.
Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell
Dell has highlighted that Windows 11's adoption is quite slower compared to Windows 10, but is hasn't noted the potential reasons behind this.
Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins
The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements for the first, in Los Angeles County…
Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security
The PS5 BootROM keys have leaked, exposing unpatchable hardware security and potentially accelerating custom firmware, emulation, and piracy.
Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that the…
I made a project that can install/configure/orchestrate 115+ applications on your homelab using Ansible!
Ansible playbook that installs and sets up self-hosted applications on your homelab using Docker - Dylancyclone/ansible-homelab-orchestration
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…
Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time at Jeffrey Epstein's Mansion
Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his apartment.
64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months
64GB of DDR5 RAM surges from the low $200s to over $1000 in six months, with prices still on the up
This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts
EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
Post-American internet by Cory Doctorow - YouTube - Nimrod Kamer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
An alternate universe where Jurassic Park is real and HBO made a documentary about it.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good.
We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another p…
TIL about Glanzbilder
For women of a certain age, Glanzbilder were a colorful collectors item in our childhood. Their history goes back to the late 1800s!
Western US states fail to agree on plan to manage Colorado River before federal deadline
Stakeholders have spent months ironing out disagreements over how to distribute water from the sprawling basin
Supreme Court extends temporary pause on $4 billion in SNAP payments for November
A deal in Congress to end the government shutdown includes full SNAP funding through September and could mean the Supreme Court will not have to issue a ruling later.
UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are ill…
French tech company Capgemini to sell its subsidiary working for US ICE amid international controversy over the deaths of two people in ICE…
French IT giant Capgemini said Sunday it was selling its subsidiary working for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency amid international controversy over the deaths of two people in…
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
The YouTuber doesn't seem fazed by Apple's threats.
An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card
A developer’s Apple Account got banned after they used a compromised gift card, locking away their digital life.
TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining
The first two mines in the world to start moving all of their iron ore using fully remote-controlled trucks have just gone online in Western Australia's Pilbara.
It's your fault my laptop knows where I am: Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
I’m in Introduction to Algorithms (577) this semester at UW, and I’ve been enjoying hearing Renault explaining how to prove program correctness, DP, network flow, and the circumstances under which Dijkstra invented his …
Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive
You're not productive if you don't use a lot of AI.
Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot
With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.
Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away
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How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games"
It's obvious why Palworld's publishing arm has so many small games
A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.
Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than …
Developing Linux for the Snapdragon X1 Elite took way too long.