Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority"
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC ā Today, The Tech Oversight Project pā¦
Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps
Hackers have targeted a spread of apps or sites that aim to track ICE activity, in one case even sending push notifications to users in an attempt to intimidate them.
Police raid X offices in Paris, summon Elon Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino
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Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Announced for February 5
Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 2.5.2026
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.
Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate
Sharing a YT video about labor and working from home is enough to get you terminated, it seems
Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
1. Optimizing good information to push down the negative: using new content (blog, websites, press releases, public network profiles, google images, etc) and search engine optimization. Changing the Wikipedia profile. Nā¦
Announcing Timeship v0.1.0: Self-hosted ZFS snapshot browser for TrueNAS
Self-hosted ZFS snapshot file browser. Contribute to SmilyOrg/timeship development by creating an account on GitHub.
Fifteen Years of Waterfox: Alex Kontos on Independence, AI, and the Future of Browsers
TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. Inā¦
What police surveillance technology looks like in Cleveland
Video cameras and license plate readers are just some of the surveillance tools Cleveland police are using across the city.
"This game is my apocalypse" - A thoughtful review of Terra Nil from a Solarpunk's perspective
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I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well
Nearly 20 years after its introduction, the iPod Nano is still a perfectly functional music player.
Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm
StopICE.net denies allegations about a data breach that compromised the personal data of 100,000 users and handed it to federal authorities.
Privacy vs. Profit: The Impact of Google's Manifest Version 3 (MV3) Update on Ad Blocker Effectiveness
Authors: Karlo Lukic (Goethe University Frankfurt), Lazaros Papadopoulos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Asking the Self-Hosting Community to Take a Brief Three-Question Survey
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Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers
Steam has quietly withdrawn under fire MMO Ashes of Creation from sale after its director and leadership team quit just weeks after launch.
Three Decades Of ReactOS
Over the past couple of years with the Jennyās Daily Drivers series, weāve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source cloā¦
FBI Couldnāt Get into WaPo Reporterās iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At leā¦
The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat
We don't need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.
Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound
Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
Open Source Brand Fonts - Google Design
Learn why top brands are open-sourcing custom fonts, boosting type accessibility, innovation, and brand recognition
Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance
Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.
Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?
Wikipedia's 25th anniversary sparks a debate: Can it adapt to the needs of Gen Z and beyond?
Operation Sovereignty - Germany plans a breakthrough from M$
A cross-party parliamentary commission aims to end dependence on US tech giants and increasingly rely on European open-source solutions.
Union leaders have a message for Newsom: Regulate AI if you want to be president
The governor will need workers and unions in 2028. They are trying to push him to the left on AI ā even as business interest push the other way.
Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceXāCreating the Worldās Most Valuable Private Company
By fusing SpaceX and xAIĆ¢ĀĀwhich acquired X last yearĆ¢ĀĀElon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.
High-Altitude Adventure With a DIY Pico Balloon - IEEE Spectrum
A $4 Raspberry Pi Pico can help you track a DIY balloon around the world.
New Epstein files reveal contact with Bitcoin dev Andresen before CIA briefing
Two days before Gavin Andresenās controversial decision to discuss Bitcoin at the CIA, Jeffrey Epstein wanted to call him.
Windscribe alleges warrantless seizure of VPN server by Dutch authorities
Windscribe VPN has alleged that local authorities in the Netherlands seized one of its servers without a warrant, sparking concerns about procedural overreach and potential implications for user privacy. The incident waā¦
European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams
The Matrix protocol is being lined up as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams
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.
Tempus v4.2.4 android subsonic client release
What's Changed chore: Update russian strings.xml by @Sevinfolds in #249 fix: disallow duplicate songs in queue by @eddyizm in #252 fix:github release check by @eddyizm in #253 fix: Fixed crash whe...
Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN
Sony has patented a system to use AI to generate individualized podcasts featuring its biggest characters and mascots.
Time has not been kind to VHS: As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include ā¦ bakinā¦
50 years after its launch, the technology is all but obsolete.
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use ā firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users nā¦
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.
Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they've been buying freely for years.
LinkedIn Data Lean Is Insane - YouTube
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White House App Reportedly Shares User Data With Third Parties and Relies on Russia-Founded Firm Linked to Staff Data Exposure
The White House app is reportedly sending user data to third-party platforms without disclosure, raising privacy concerns.
Voters Increasingly Use AI as Political Advisor. A New Study Shows the the Risks.
In an experiment during Japanās February 2026 Lower House election, policy stances dominated AI chatbotsā voting guidance, and left-leaning stances caused five AI models to recommend the Japanese Communist Party. The reā¦
Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs
The American EV brandās sales rebounded in the first quarter, but a new problem is making its presence felt.
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.
tinyfeed 1.5.0: build a webpage for your feeds
Generate a webpage from a collection of feeds wtih a simple CLI tool - TheBigRoomXXL/tinyfeed
TIL that In many reptile species, females are larger than male species, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are lā¦
Fecundity selection, also known as fertility selection, is the fitness advantage resulting from selection on traits that increases the number of offspring (i.e. fecundity).[1] Charles Darwin formulated the theory of fecā¦
AI Company Clones Musicianās Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings ā¦
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The Document Foundation Blog: Let's put an end to the speculation
Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collaboraās and Michael Meeksā biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the eventsā¦
Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history
After the national record was already broken, it now also applies at the global level. A different country previously held the record.
Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March