TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are often "plumped" with a salt water solution to increase sell weight, making up as much as 30% of the to…
Plumping, also referred to as “enhancing” or “injecting,” is the process by which some poultry companies inject raw chicken meat with saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract, water and additives,[1] or some combinatio…
CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company
Are CPUs set to follow RAM and SSDs?
Oregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needs
Newly approved rules aim to ensure that smaller ratepayers don't wind up footing the bill for power grid upgrades that are primary needed to serve big new users.
FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
Trump FCC starts handing out exemptions to its ban on foreign-made routers.
Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
At Intel
Organising within and against the semiconductor industry
Someone finally did it: a high-end TV with a DisplayPort connection actually is coming this year, including 4K 180Hz support
4K at 180Hz over DisplayPort, and with a super-rich RGB-backlit mini-LED screen
Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch
Kagi's "Small Web" offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.
EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly?
Driverless cars haven't always obeyed the rules of the road but, unlike vehicles with humans behind the wheel, they've gotten away with it. That's about to change in California.
The Oscars Ban AI From Winning Acting and Writing Awards
Hollywood gets a little firmer in its stance on generative AI by keeping it away from two of the biggest Oscars categories.
“It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and aut…
Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety.
Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable"
Within days of Starfield's much-anticipated launch on PS5, fans are complaining of "totally unsurprising" crashes, free…
Early Access Launch | Road to Vostok
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can le…
In an industry that is facing wave after wave of layoffs, Greg Foertsch details how keeping the XCOM team together made for a better sequel.
New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games
There are rumors of a new Xbox Game Pass tier coming from Microsoft, and this one would offer only first party games.
Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disint…
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is faulty design
Did games really get more costly to make?
By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a third-person action RPG set in the universe of The Expanse.You’re no hero — just a mercenary caught in the wrong place at the...
TIL Trenton, New Jersey, councilwoman Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a 2013 City Council meeting believing the Blue Waffle di…
Blue waffle is a fictitious sexually transmitted disease said to affect only women, causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. The disease has been confirmed as false. According to Dr. Elizabeth Bosk…
Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, or 70+% of the total yearly US government budget
But for TeraFab, money is not the only limitation.
Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France
The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed that DNS providers can be legally compelled to block access to domain names to stop piracy.
It's not just a RAM crisis — Panasonic says data center batteries are also selling out months in advance
Panasonic plans to triple battery production as hyperscale AI infrastructure drives unprecedented demand across global data centers
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
I remixed Claude's new buddy into "buddymon"
Claude Code plugin — collectible creatures discovered through coding - CircuitForgeLLC/buddymon
Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic secures large investment as director Casey Hudson rejects use of gen-AI, saying "I'm just really unimpr…
KOTOR spiritual successor Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic gathers funds as director talks studio size, game length, and gen-AI.
Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market - Jeff Geerling
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not …
Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe a leaner operating model will allow us t…
Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology
Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.
I investigated Windows 11's massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
Windows 11 updates are now crossing 5GB. Our analysis shows that bundled AI and Semantic Search files are causing this massive storage bloat.
Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from Chi…
U.S. still depends on China, despite years of onshoring efforts.
DMM Games’ new Kumasan Black label will be dedicated to “edgy” and explicit adult games, according to director
Exnoa and DMM Games recently launched Kumasan Black, a new sub-label of game developer Studio Kumasan dedicated to "edgy games."
Translator On Kingdom Come 2 Claims He Was Replaced With AI
The English translator and editor for KC:D II claimed that he's been replaced with AI in a bid to make Warhorse Studios 'more effective' and 'save finances'
China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US
With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.
New Mexico's Meta Ruling and Encryption - Schneier on Security
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems worryin…
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Self-hosting Upgrade: planning my first 3-node cluster for deployment in a data center
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Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs
Last month Walled Culture wrote about an important case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), the EU’s top court, that could determine how VPNs can be used in that region…
Wishlisted Indie Game Showcase is LIVE NOW | 70+ trailers, world reveals and more! (4/27/2026)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
State censorship shapes how Chinese chatbots respond to sensitive political topics, study suggests
Chinese chatbots may be censored by the state, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. China has a robust program of censorship and all China-originating LLMs must be approved by the Chinese government before rele…
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
How difficult could it really be?
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks
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Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
TIL a white South African named Rodney Wilkinson worked with the ANC to bomb a nuclear plant being built by the Apartheid regime
The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it?
The AI-designed car is taking shape
Experts say the increasingly reliance on AI could lead to job losses.
The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does
You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber and watch…
We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry