GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
: As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out
AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations
Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations.
'There is no universe in which Proton VPN compromises its no-logs policy' — Proton joins the backlash against Canada's surveillance bill
Privacy giants are pushing back hard against the proposed Lawful Access Act
Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession
: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media
Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f
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Appwrite 1.9.0: Self-hosting with MongoDB as the underlying database
Learn how to self-host Appwrite with MongoDB as the database backend using the new installation wizard.
Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children
CCDH found that Grok floods X with sexualized images after launching a one-click editing feature in an 11-day period.
How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.
Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding
"It's either a passion project you spent ten years on, or you need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources"
Wizards of the Coast Developers Form Union with CWA
A supermajority of game developers behind the popular digital game Magic: The Gathering Arena has announced their intent to form a union with CWA, also marking the first unionization effort at Hasbro subsidiary Wizards …
Alleged Fable concept art seems to point towards a return to Fable 2's rogueish hive of scum and pub islands
Alleged Fable concept art which is claimed to have leaked via an unnamed developer's portfolio seems to point to a Fable 2 location being ion the reboot.
Market slumps as OpenAI reportedly misses internal targets for active users and revenue — Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and CoreWeave shares all tre…
OpenAI's apparent missed targets shake up investor confidence.
Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer
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Botspam Apocalypse
Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The “future” in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, it’s honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic …
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom…
The smart vacuum cleaner was remotely bricked for not collecting data.
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 17 hours
Welcome to Canonical and Ubuntu Status! View active incident progress, historical component status, and subscribe to email and RSS notifications for components and incidents on the move.
Rhythm Heaven Groove launches July 2
Rhythm Heaven Groove will launch for Switch on July 2, Nintendo announced.
Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
: Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug
Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
TIL about “Second Screen Viewing” and that Netflix pushes writers to make scripts and dialogues simpler to keep viewers who are on their ph…
Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.
The 2025 Steam Awards Winners
Vote for the 2025 Steam Award nominees during the Steam Winter Sale
openDesk 1.10. Enhanced security architecture
openDesk 1.10 strengthens the security architecture and introduces new features for project management and document editing in public administration.
We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research
Many scientific discoveries used to be made by amateurs. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was a composer and an organist. Antoine Lavoisier, who laid the foundation for modern chemistry, was a politician.
Stop Destroying Videogames initiative to get a public hearing organised by the European Parliament
Following the immense success of the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, it's set to get an official reply and public hearing in the European Parliament.
OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are…
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.
The Birth & Death of JavaScript
A talk by Gary Bernhardt from PyCon 2014
GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.
Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn
The major Hollywood deal means Netflix will takeover ownership of franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers
The maker of modular, repairable laptops says it's had to de-list separate memory purchases in order to keep supply for its pre-build customers, too.
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Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash
I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I g…
Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve Developer Diary Showcases Story, Living Skies, And Gameplay
A new Ace Combat 8 developer diary highlights its story, living skies system, and cinematic first-person presentation ahead of its 2026 release.
I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA
The journey towards being Infrastructure-as-Code is fun
NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoice
BATON ROUGE, La.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana granted NetChoice’s motion for summary judgment in NetChoice v. Murrill, striking down Louisiana’s Act 456. The court […]
Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill - National | Globalnews.ca
Signal is among the most prominent platforms to make such a threat while speaking out against Bill C-22, while VPN providers have also threatened to leave or curtail services.
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way
Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar
GitHub - Dr-Blank/Vaani: Beautiful, Fast and Functional client for your Audiobookshelf server.
Beautiful, Fast and Functional client for your Audiobookshelf server. - Dr-Blank/Vaani
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).
Self-hosted API for creating and querying JSON data on different storage providers. - TimoKats/emmer
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
Resources to Fight AI Sloppification At Work
If you are anxious about how AI will impact or is already impacting your job, you don’t just need to doomscroll about it. Collective action can, will, and is...
TIL about Trauma Bonding, when a victim of abuse forms an emotional bond with their abusers. This can happen in parent-child relationships.
Trauma bonds (also referred to as traumatic bonds) are emotional bonds that arise from a cyclical pattern of abuse. A trauma bond occurs in an abusive relationship, wherein the victim forms an emotional bond with the pe…
How Forza Horizon took on Japan with deep research – and 360-degree cameras
The open world driving sim has roared through locations from Colorado to Australia, its authentic feel resting on exhaustive research. But, as the team explain, Japan was the toughest challenge yet
G1 Currency System (potential UBI) updates to v2
Version 2 for Ğ1 software
Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy
Amazon is informing Prime members that their Echo devices are receiving a free automatic upgrade to Alexa Plus.
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.
Motorola phones are hijacking your Amazon app [Video]
A truly bizarre situation on Motorola phones has led to the software hijacking the Amazon app to inject an affiliate...