Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout
The proposed acquisition will place EA under the private ownership of investors including Saudi sovereign wealth fund, PIF.
Why I'm Leaving Big Tech
After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off. There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many tens of thousands o…
How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do
In Iran, not only mobile and fixed networks are jammed, but also Starlink. We explain how this is likely achieved despite thousands of satellites.
LET IT DIE offline version announced
An offline version of the free-to-play action game LET IT DIE is currently in production, publisher GungHo Online Entertainment and developer Supertrick Games announced.
VoidAuth Release v1.5.0 - Multi-Factor Authentication 🔒
What's Changed Features 🚀 MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains Email Templat...
Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus
The city council of Santa Monica, California voted unanimously to demand Waymo cease nighttime operations at two charging lots.
Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer
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'FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 Skin' Game Pulled From Steam After What May Be a Nuisance DMCA Takedown From a Troll Claiming to Be Games Worksh…
A strategy game dubbed ‘FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 skin’ was recently pulled from Steam, with its developer suggesting it may have been on the receiving end of a nuisance DMCA takedown from a troll claiming to be Games W…
Self-Host Weekly #148: Maintenance Mode
Object storage, piracy, potty cams, and Raspberry Pi price increases
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.
Calibre-Web-Automated v4.0.2 - Includes critical database stability updates + a number of snazzy new features
Release Notes: v4.0.2 🚨 Critical Updates These changes are essential for database stability and compatibility with Calibre 9. Calibre 9 Metadata Compatibility: Fixed critical UI crashes (500 error...
Is OpenAI dead yet?
Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.
This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry
Clicks Communicator is a BlackBerry-like smartphone with a physical keyboard. There's also the Clicks Power Keyboard, which is a power bank with a sliding keyboard.
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
: Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
Veronica Explains why she doesn't stream (from Netflix etc) #algorithmic_helplessness_sucks
I'm one of those hipsters who doesn't use streaming services. I did, a while ago, but I quit using them because the experience is kind of awful, and I'm happier now for it. I collect physical media...
Today's gossipdle
Solve the daily gossip mystery! A logic grid puzzle game inspired by Einstein riddles.
Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle
The proboscis is 100% finer than the best manmade tips, cheaper, and biodegradable.
TIL there's a short TV episode where Mark Hamill plays himself getting abducted by the Joker and the Trickster, both also voiced by him
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TIL: The United States is Now Officially in First Phase of Civil War
According to Experts at University of Pennsylvania: A civil war split not by territory, but by ideology
Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with comple…
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-ed…
Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok
Researchers uncovered 354 AI-focused accounts that had accumulated 4.5bn views in a month
Curated list of selfhosted apps for your homelab
Curating Top Open Source Apps for Homelab Enthusiasts - ccbikai/awesome-homelab
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.
Tech Otakus Save The World – Robotics;Notes Elite – Review
Kaito and Akiho, two students of the Robot Club, want to build a giant robot, and their version of Japan loves robotics! Sadly, they are the only members left in the club, which is in danger of bei…
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.
TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia showed their might, but a less glamorous but highly practical class of vessels k…
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
Fable - Gameplay Teaser
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TIL about Miki Endo who sacrificed her life giving warning broadcasts during the 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Miki Endo (遠藤 未希, Endō Miki; July 18, 1986, Japan – March 11, 2011, Minamisanriku, Japan) was an employee of the town of Minamisanriku's Crisis Management Department, tasked with broadcasting disaster advisories and…
Following Doom & Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D Is The Latest Classic FPS To Get A Voxel Transformation
Update: Here are some comparison shots
Commission blocks EU funding for Huawei solar tech
A Commission spokesperson says the EU has decided to take “concrete action right now” against the “risk of disruption of the EU’s critical infrastructure by foreign actors.”
Team Fortress 2 Classified (fan-made overhaul & expansion) is now available on Steam
After an exhausting year of porting, which followed an exhausting half-decade of legal uncertainty, Team Fortress 2 Classified is now available on Steam! What are you waiting for? Get playing already!
Microsoft Issues Emergency Windows 11 Out-of-Band Update
Windows 11 users receive an emergency out-of-band update fixing freezes, Outlook and OneDrive issues, and system instability.
How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton
New AI features are making their way to your Gmail inbox. Here's how to turn off Gemini in Gmail and why you should.
[Exclusive] Memory Crunch Hits PCs: Dell Hikes Prices 15-20% Mid-December, Lenovo from January 2026
Soaring AI-server memory demand is driving DRAM prices sharply higher—and now PC and notebook makers are feeling the squeeze. Industry sources reveale...
LumenTale: Memories of Trey | Explore the region of Talea
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New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient
The ThinkPad T14 series is among the most well known and liked business laptop series. It is not a premium series, but it delivers a well-rounded combination of quality and features. With the lastest Intel Lunar Lake CP…
Time has not been kind to VHS: As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … bakin…
50 years after its launch, the technology is all but obsolete.
Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to talk about the inner workings of the company that he joined less than a year prior. Days later, he “left” xAI, thoug…
Bernie Sanders: AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs, they want to replace the working class. We must fight back.
By: Sen. Sanders; Fox News AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs, the reality is that they want to replace workers Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most transformational technology in the history of …
Your Duolingo Is Still Talking to ByteDance: How Pangle Fingerprints You Across Apps After You Said No
This is Part 2 of my Pangle SDK research. Part 1 covered how I broke the encryption. This post covers what I found when I started comparing the decrypted data across apps. In Part 1, I decrypted 694 Pangle SDK payloads …
TIL that Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s
A molecule produced by cancer cells can shield the brain from Alzheimer’s disease in mice.
DIY, Full-Stack Farm Automation
Recently, [Vinnie] aka [vinthewrench] moved from Oregon to Arkansas to start a farmstead. This is a style of farming that focuses not just on a profitable farm where produce is sold at market, but …
AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts …
The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models [pdf]
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TIL people in Montana, Alaska and Wyoming have the highest suicide rate.
Map of deaths by suicide per 100,000 total population for each state
Ubisoft worker unions confirm call for global strike as publisher proposes 200 voluntary redundancies in France
French unions representing workers at Ubisoft have reportedly voted unanimously in favour of strike action in response to a voluntary redundancy proposal.
TIL that Moore's law no longer applies.
New materials and arrangements are part of the answer to the law reaching its limits.
Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App
Apple has set a new deadline of November 1, 2026 for all Patreon creators to switch from Patreon's legacy billing system to the App Store's in-app purchase system in the Patreon app on the iPhone and iPad, as reported b…