Tear gas and pepper spray can have lasting health effects
The chemicals are widely used for crowd control, but their long-term health risks are poorly understood.
Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it
New research reveals how Americans are thinking about artificial intelligence.
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
As it turns out, telling the world’s workers to prepare for a dystopia rife with poverty and alienation isn’t the smartest way to market your exciting new tech.
Do you like (AI) clocks?
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
Looking for feedback: We built a minimal, passwordless VLESS-Reality proxy service
Simple, transparent, and logless VLESS proxy access.
Microsoft punishes idiots who purchased a "perpetual" license of Office 2019 for Mac by disabling it next month, pirates unaffected
A certificate issue means Office 2019 for Mac users won’t be able to edit or save documents starting July 13th.
TIL: There are giant viruses and they get viruses
Long overlooked because of their size, giant viruses are now redefining the frontiers of microbiology.
The 1994 Star Trek: TNG Screensaver Was a Desktop Holodeck
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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
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I Could've Rickrolled the Entire FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID.
How I found that anyone could register on FIFA's public Agent Platform, gain access to the Football Data Platform's Streaming Management panel, and get RTMP ingest URLs and stream keys for every live FIFA World Cup 2026…
SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billion
Elon Musk's rocket company announced on Tuesday that it had exercised its option to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion.
Arizona Pauses Data Center Tax Incentives After Governor Hobbs Signs Bill
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed a budget bill that imposes a three-year moratorium on new sales tax breaks for data centers, among the most restrictive state-level responses to an industry under fire from residents …
Despite now being seven years old, Devil May Cry 5 just had its best year of sales yet
Resident Evil and Street Fighter games also saw large year-on-year increases…
Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind
Sources have told The Verge that Ninja Theory staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, leaving the team looking for a buyer so...
Plasma 6.7
Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.
Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's…
The evolution sim that was never meant to be.
Swarm Simulator
An incremental game. Starting with just a few larvae and a small pile of meat, grow a massive swarm of giant bugs.
Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games
EA has launched new platform designed to make it easier for advertisers to integrate ads into its catalogue of games.
Canada wants to join the age verification bandwagon and censor the internet with Bill C-34
The legislation aims to censor political speech, while putting draconian rules around what kids can do online
Any self-hosted option for real time location sharing?
All-in-one family safety: location sharing, crash alerts, driver reports & more
Xbox Is Planning To Shutter Peabody-Award-Winning South Of Midnight Studio Compulsion Games [UPDATE: "in negotiations"]
Update: Studio leadership is currently in negotiations with Microsoft
Downloadable Xbox Thumbstick Toppers Give Gamers Accessibility Options
Microsoft has a history of taking accessibility options seriously for gaming controllers, and that trend continues with downloadable thumbstick toppers for Xbox controllers. Being straight from the…
Godot engine’s key figures answer a developer’s questions about everything from console porting and user support, to AI and the engine’s fu…
A Godot developer interviews W4 Games for AUTOMATON, discussing topics like console porting, user support, AI, and the engine’s future.
Open letter from The Document Foundatio about the Euro-Office announcement
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled —…
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs …
TIL that a recent data leak exposed Peter Thiel's secretive elite "club", Dialog Network
A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.
Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
The future of Senua, which Xbox just announced, is unclear.
TIL the "red mirage" is an observed phenomenon when the overall in-person vote count leans to one party, while provisional votes or absente…
In American politics, a blue shift, also called a red mirage,[1][2] is an observed phenomenon under which counts of in-person votes are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Republican Party (whose party co…
How a Single Rogue BGP Announcement Took Telegram Offline Across Three Continents
A single unauthorized BGP route from Reliance AS18101 redirected Telegram's global traffic into a blackhole taking users offline in India and more
Demon Bluff Demo - very fun puzzle game
The cards lie! In this single-player social deduction game, demons have infiltrated your village and disguised themselves as allies. Every card you turn over is either a friend or a foe. Can you see through their bluff?
Banning noise will be a disaster for statistical data products
Sadly, taking away valuable disclosure avoidance tools doesn't make fundamental trade-offs go away.
How deleting 80% of a bad movie magically makes it a masterpiece
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When The Internet Starts To Make Better Movies
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T'pol time travels for the first time
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Every Empire Dies The Same Way
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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life
ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on thi…
"The US is building a machine to watch the world" [YouTube]
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A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. - tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
Quiet Changes in Bitwarden
The password manager swapped its CEO, rewrote its core values, and briefly pulled "Always Free" from its pricing page.
WebSpace - Web Apps, Websites And PWAs Manager!
Your favorite web apps, now on your phone. Contribute to theoden8/webspace_app development by creating an account on GitHub.
Password strength explained
I try to explain how attackers would guess your password, should they get their hands on your encrypted data. There are some thoughts on the strength of real-world passwords and suggestions for your new password.
Handy flock camera license plate reader map
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
Alternatives to AdAway
AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android. - AdAway/AdAway
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
Browser tool that offers surfers way to implement privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from regulat…
A web-browser tool that offers surfers a one-click way to implement their privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from state regulators and aggrieved consumers over the selling and s…
Good Luck Opting Out: Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Google, X, Uber, OpenAI, Tinder and 30 other companies make it almost impossible for users to co…
EPIC’s report Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes by Justin Sherman, EPIC Scholar in Residence, and Caroline Kraczon, EPIC Counsel, investigates whether the consumer opt-out processes…
AARP calls on AZ Senate to bring nursing home camera bill to vote
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, c…
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
"I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore."