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Solve the daily gossip mystery! A logic grid puzzle game inspired by Einstein riddles.
The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton
You almost definitely do not need a Death Stranding themed exoskeleton, and yet here it is anyway.
Splinter Cell designer says âone of the difficulties with modern stealth gamesâ is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much âharâŚ
Clint Hocking, the creative director of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory explains the issue of modern lighting in stealth games.
Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware - PiunikaWeb
An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
Curated list of selfhosted apps for your homelab
Curating Top Open Source Apps for Homelab Enthusiasts - ccbikai/awesome-homelab
The Big Tech Walkout 2026
Here is the full detailed programme for the Big Tech Walkout 2026 - bookmark it so you can refer back to it over the year
Week 3: OpenChaos - A PR hid vote manipulation in plain sight
A PR hid vote manipulation in plain sight. Democracy overruled the maintainer. So the maintainer wrote a constitution.
Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with compleâŚ
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edâŚ
Meta names former Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman. She is the wife of powerful US Senator David McCormiâŚ
Powell McCormick will serve as a member of Meta's management team and will help guide its strategy and execution, the company said.
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) â Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
'Threat to Media and Democracy': Trump Ally Larry Ellison Puts Up $40 Billion to Help Son Buy CNN Owner | Common Dreams
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, an ally of US President Donald Trump and one of the richest men in the world, pledged to provide $40.4 billion to help finance his son's hostile attempt to purchase Warner Bros. DiscoverâŚ
TIL the slender man stabber escaped with Charley Mecca out of fear that she would not be able to visit her, 23 November 2025
Chad âÂÂCharleyâ Mecca says Morgan Geyser ran away out of fear that the two would no longer be able to visit each other
FCC Official Warns Against Giving Starlink Too Much Control Over Rural Broadband
The FCC votes to examine the rules governing subsidies for ISPs in rural areas. But following a Starlink price hike, Commissioner Anna Gomez notes that affordability is a priority.
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.
Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the company's mindset for 2026 â shocker, it's all about AI.
Android QuickShare is now compatible with AirDrop
Sharing moments shouldnât depend on the phone you have. Starting today with the Pixel 10 family, Quick Share now works with AirDrop, making secure file transfers between Android phones and iPhones more seamless. This buâŚ
I built an open source app cost estimator after seeing founders underestimate infrastructure costs
Launch your delivery platform with Enategaâs open-source, customizable, ready-to-use delivery app solution.
Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter
Is this another Diablo Immortal situation?
TIL that Moore's law no longer applies.
New materials and arrangements are part of the answer to the law reaching its limits.
Why "It's Woke" Means Nothing Now
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Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war
Infinity Wardâs new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting
UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence
ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation
Heronâ A native third party Bluesky client for Android
A tiny, graceful bluesky client
'FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 Skin' Game Pulled From Steam After What May Be a Nuisance DMCA Takedown From a Troll Claiming to Be Games WorkshâŚ
A strategy game dubbed âFTL in a Warhammer 40,000 skinâ was recently pulled from Steam, with its developer suggesting it may have been on the receiving end of a nuisance DMCA takedown from a troll claiming to be Games WâŚ
Is OpenAI dead yet?
Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.
Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500⏠per year)
âBye bye bye.â It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.
AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D â AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts âŚ
The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Cataloging modern-era physical releases for the Mega Drive and Sega Genesis
Cataloging modern-era physical releases for the Mega Drive and Sega Genesis
Self-Host Weekly #148: Maintenance Mode
Object storage, piracy, potty cams, and Raspberry Pi price increases
𤨠The manager of a diner tells the X-Men to get out cause he wont serve an interracial couple
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Samsung, SK Reportedly Hike Server DRAM Prices 60-70% â Google, Microsoft in the Queue
With Jensen Huang officially confirming at CES that all six of NVIDIAâs Rubin chips are back from manufacturing partners and set for a 2026 launch, th...
The first episode of Fallout season 2 solves the 15-year-old New Vegas mystery of the missing Vault 24
I should have guessed: commies.
TIL that ultra-processed food make up two-thirds of the calories consumed by American children
Many states have proposed bans on the sale of ultraprocessed foods in schools. The problem is the way they define ultraprocessing.
007 First Light review â a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans
The stealth masters behind Hitman go loud for this game about BondâÂÂs brilliant beginnings
âMalusâ: i'm so tired of this bs
I canât tell you how many times I have heard people predict the death of open source software over the years. Each time some new tech trend arrivesâcrypto, source available licensing, SaaSâpeâŚ
Michael isn't a biopic it's an advertisement - the backdrop
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TIL: Besides offering a free compromised email check, haveibeenpwned.com also offers a free password compromise checking service (It's alsoâŚ
Pwned Passwords is a huge corpus of previously breached passwords made freely available to help services block them from being used again.
Being Kryptonian is TERRIBLE
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Standing on a Button for 8 Hours Breaks Portal 2 | Msushi
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Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit
The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing AI-written submissions are causing some to burn out and quit
Warhorse Announces a Lord of the Rings RPG and a New Kingdom Come Adventure
Shortly after its parent company, Embracer Group, made an important announcement, Warhorse Studios revealed no fewer than two separate projects. The initialâÂÂŚ
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 âŚ
TIL about the arc lamp
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).
Your Duolingo Is Still Talking to ByteDance: How Pangle Fingerprints You Across Apps After You Said No
This is Part 2 of my Pangle SDK research. Part 1 covered how I broke the encryption. This post covers what I found when I started comparing the decrypted data across apps. In Part 1, I decrypted 694 Pangle SDK payloads âŚ
The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US
The surprising order means any new Wi-Fi router models sold in the country must be US-made, or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department.
Babylon 5 free to watch on youtube
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs fromâŚ
Ubisoft worker unions confirm call for global strike as publisher proposes 200 voluntary redundancies in France
French unions representing workers at Ubisoft have reportedly voted unanimously in favour of strike action in response to a voluntary redundancy proposal.
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
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models [pdf]
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ZaneOps is a great self hosted PaaS alternative to Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages
ZaneOps is a self-hosted, open source platform as a service for hosting static sites, web apps, databases, CRONS, Workers using docker swarm as the engine.