Just discovered that Qobuz published an AI charter. Thoughts?
Artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry at an unprecedented pace. Faced with the explosion of AI-generated content and the legitimate questions it raises, Qobuz has chosen transparency.
Ashes 2063 - An extremely polished post apocalyptic Doom conversion complete with drivable motorcycle, trading towns, a John Carpenter-esqu…
Ashes is a Post-apocalypse themed total conversion for the GZDoom engine. It combines old school build style level design and Doom style action with a twist of Stalker and Fallout.
Stationbreak - Announcement Trailer
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The decision is being made on Stop Killing Games! + The ESA can't stop lying.
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TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.
There are about three million parking spaces in New York City, but drivers are always struggling to find one that’s open. Can the system be fixed?
Gears Of War: E-Day Reportedly Has A Staggering $400 Million Budget
Video game budgets are soaring, with Gears of War: E-Day reported to cost over $400 million. To break even, the game might need to sell around 5.7 million copies, a significant challenge.
When the Dystopian Movie feels utopian, you know you're in Hell
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The Privacy Wiki
A meta-aggregator comparing privacy tool recommendations across multiple sources
Firefox privacy project Arkenfox is EoL, potentially impacting Librewolf & Phoenix
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Share your experience on fighting* for privacy and what obstacles - if any - have recently been put in place by your government to make res…
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PSN Single-Letter Username Glitch: What Actually Broke
A PSN glitch let users claim single-letter usernames blocked since 2006. Here's the validation failure behind it and what Sony will likely do next
Electronic Arts Announces Plans to Cram Far More Advertising Into Its Games / EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA …
EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA Sports titles
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
How UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 work (really good explanation)
Jumping into unicode and binary
Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
"Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back."
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
Being Followed By A Drone While Driving? Here's Why It May Be Tracking Your Car.
Flock Safety has signed agreements with several cities to deploy an automated drone system that can (and will) follow cars on the road.
Nvidia CEO : AI means we need new social norms. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the stree…
everybody should buy what Iâm selling, itâs common sense
Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It
"It’s time for a 'big tech' company to do better"
Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal, its largest ever
Under the terms announced Monday morning, Fox Corporation will pay $160 per share, split as $96 in cash and the remainder in Fox Class A common stock....
French spy service drops Palantir
Europe is seeking to wean off U.S. tech for sensitive services.
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Ever give your photo ID to a cannabis club in Spain?
TikTok Alternative "Loops" is now on Google Play
Loops is officially live on the Google Play Store. To everyone on Android who's been waiting, thank you for sticking around. You've been asking for this since day one, sideloading builds, poking me in replies, reminding…
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Mark Zuckerberg is seriously struggling to lift their spirits following massive layoffs.
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
Restricting Fable and Mythos has the same unintended consequence of harming defense while doing nothing to impede attackers. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience.
The US Department of Justice is asking a Mississippi court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against xAI
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.
OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on thre…
Apple's outgoing chief executive has long been a proponent of pro-privacy systems, especially end-to-end encryption
Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Yesterday we wrote about the Trump administration forcing Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The short version: dumb. Today, Axios got White House officials on the record, and it turns ou…
Bruce Schneier: We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it
We have opened the AI Pandoraâs box. Now we have to make the best of it
PCB prices are up 40% because of a material most people have never heard of
The disruption at Jubail did not begin with the missile strikes on April 6 and 7. Plants had already been shut down in late March as it...
The rise of "dopamine sites": fake food delivery and shopping apps that satisfy cravings without spending a cent
Young people, particularly in South Korea, have begun visiting so-called "dopamine sites" for the same reason people doomscroll on phones. The trend might be the latest expression...
Amazing article on mechanical watches.
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
Quentin Tarantino Ranks His Top 20 Favorite Films Of 21st Century [list inside]
Director Quentin Tarantino has ranked his favorite 20 films of the 21st century, including 'Black Hawk Down,' 'There Will Be Blood,' and more.
Alternative to github for hosting portfolio pieces, personal projects, etc. ?
I donât need to self host a git server or anything like that. Just need a place
I can link to in my CV with some code examples. Microsoft pushing their AI
rubbish has been the final straw.
Good actually user friendly foss chat app?
Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ?
Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough
to make people switch to, that wonât have issues and send th…
GNU Octave
GNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.
Early Thursday showing: Loved Martin McDonagh, Collin Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson in In Bruges? Then you’ll love Banshees of Inisherin (20…
(posting early as I may not have time to post it in the AM) IMPORTANT NOTE:
please use a good VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere else on the
internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy. We will be using Bl…
Proposal: Difficulty Penalty for New Hash Rate to Enhance Monero’s 51% Attack Resistance
Hi all, First, an encouragement: I just added another 40kH/s to p2.pool mini. I
have been following Monero for some time, since around 2017, but usually keep to
myself. Iâve just a couple of days ago had an idea thoug…
Raspberry pi lidarr docker container
I am diving into the world of self hosting by setting up a small server on my
raspberry pi4. I already have tailscale, pihole, and navidrome setup in
containers on my pi, I now want to add lidarr or some alternative to …
Self hosting Signal server
Does anyone have any experience in successfully self-hosting Signal server using
docker? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Thanks all for your response. I gave up on
Signal and installing Matrix server instead.
US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal
Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become the centre of a intense political debate in the recent years.
Shai-Hulud round 2 on GitHub, massive leaks of data and propagation of stealer
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.
Apple's iOS takes a bite out of your freedom
Apple corporate headquarters keeps a tight lock on the apps available for its mobile operating system (iOS), which is used on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Software developers even have to pay a tax to Apple to pub…
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars (2001) (5:30PM Eastern US Time)
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else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy. We will be using
Blorptube tonight: https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine. It i…
This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilities.
/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.
reality — an open, secure, de-Googled system is not open, not secure, and not a de-Googled system!? This is just a new anøm disguised as open source. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tor nodes in Advanced Privacy are rout…
Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)
A Mastodon client for the Apple 2
Idea on how to fight qubic.
Whenever qubic finds 2 blocks in quick succession, they donât publish them and
instead keep building on them in secret as long as they are 2 block ahead of the
public chain. When the rest of the network gets close to …