Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator
Electric vehicle company XPeng has released a video of its "Iron" robot without skin, and the results are pretty disturbing.
Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?
Google says Android-powered laptops are coming in 2026. Will they actually matter, though?
Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.
Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now
The problem is unsettling. The proposed solutions? Also unsettling.
Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order
Google has removed dozens of Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the U.S., marking the country's first pirate domain removals.
Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in
Fifo's Night - An Excellent (Free) 3D Platformer
Fifo’s Night is a new 3D platformer developed by students at Lightbox Academy. It’s a family-friendly, Halloween-themed game, and it’s free! I played a preview build earlier this year and came away...
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
'Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO
'Call of Duty' players are blaming Jeffrey Epstein for the franchise's shift to microtransactions after leaked emails between the financier and Bobby Kotick surfaced.
"The horror is almost secondary to the menial task": From Crow Country to Resident Evil 9, here's how horror games keep us scared
Interview | Exploring horror's enduring thrall with the creators of The Mortuary Assistant, Crow Country, and more
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App (Mobile Fortify) Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like thatâand only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
: By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it
‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained
RAM prices are surging worldwide, and AI demand, tariffs, and supply concentration have reshaped the memory market of today.
Microsoft's "commitment to Windows quality" starts with overhaul of beta program
Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.
New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content
Radiant Mobile aims to block users accessing material relating to over a hundred categories, including gaming, violence, and Satanism.
As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC
TIGA says employment fell for the first time in 15 years and the number of studios is dropping…
‘A consistent pattern of lying’: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman
The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAIâs fractious corporate past than previously documented
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
Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models
Rumor mill seems insistent that Nvidia won't have any new GeForce GPUs in 2026 — and that wouldn't surprise me.
Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%
Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November
PearPass: password manager with P2P and E2EE syncing with multiple devices.
No Cloud, No Data Centers, Just Your Devices.
Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things
Eurogamer speaks to George Osborn of the Video Games Industry Memo to learn about what could happen if Discord does go public.
'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular
From Micro$oft to Microslop? Copilot-inspired revamp for Edge stokes further AI rebellion
Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025
A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D.
Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpect…
More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.
Tuvix - Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator
Take back control of your internet with Tuvix, the open-source RSS aggregator. No algorithms, no tracking—just your content, your way.
Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.22 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.
Standing on a Button for 8 Hours Breaks Portal 2 | Msushi
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
The cameras were located in private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage
Technical issues come amid widespread criticism of Elon Musk’s platform
F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email
And I understand why he got annoyed and angry.
Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out
: Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole
Microsoft CEO Looking Ahead to 2026
As I reflect on the past year and look toward the one ahead, there’s no question 2026 will be a pivotal year for AI. Yes, another one. But this moment feels different in a few notable ways.
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT's mental health team is bleeding talent and facing controversy
Is Bambu Lab Next? Washington Eyes Potential U.S. Ban on 3D Printers
Washington reviews Bambu Lab over security risks after DJI. Learn about tariffs, market impact, and Bambu's response in the U.S.
How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models [pdf]
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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads
Nova Launcher has been sold to Instabridge, and the new owners are adding ads to the launcher's app drawer in the free version. Check it out!
Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there
There's inevitably plenty of reaction, little of it good.
Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete
An eyewear breakthrough by Finnish company IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the 'head-tilt' struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the huma…
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
The current state of app bloat.
TIL the first alternate history where the Axis Powers win WWII was written *before* WWII
A hypothetical military victory of the Axis powers over the Allies of the Second World War (1939–1945) is a popular topic in alternate history. Works of alternative history (fiction) and of counterfactual history (non-f…
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.”
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 …
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods
New Steam APIs and Workshop item options work together for better control as games and mods get updated
Sleeper Shells: How Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.