TIL that Radon is a radioactive substance which can cause cancer. Colorado is full of radon. The average level of radon in Colorado homes i…
Only 50% of Colorado homes have been tested for radon.
AI could rebalance power between people and the services they use
Artificial intelligence could help people who feel overwhelmed, excluded or disadvantaged when dealing with everyday tasks like paying energy bills or booking healthcare appointments, according to a new study involving …
Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at aucti…
Machine with just a few Pong variants was snagged for roughly $1,000 in an online auction.
1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks
At least 1,200 Ubisoft developers have gone on strike across Paris and Milan in response to the company’s recent massive cutbacks and RTO policy.
DigitalFoundry: Resident Evil 4 Remake's New PC DRM Impacts CPU Performance
The game doesn't run as well as it used to - and that's not acceptable.
.45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND is content complete – Sukeban Games
Developer Diaries from the Sukeban Staff (mainly just kiri)
The mObywatel's user interface source code has been published
After over one and a half years delay the parts of mObywatel's source code have been published, comprising the user interface of the mobile apps for Android and iOS.
Diablo | 30th Anniversary Spotlight
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Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tr…
As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children
Bellingcat reviewed dozens of requests for Grok to generate the faces of children and women that had been redacted from the latest documents.
YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step
YouTube star James Stephen Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, has acquired youth-focused financial services app Step.
The Silicon Afterlife: Inside the Fight to Preserve Retro Gaming
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‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push
Layoffs to affect 10% of workforce amid Australian companyâs restructuring plan to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales
Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition is now available on Steam
Rediscover the dark fantasy classic that defined the modern ARPG genre; fully remastered with a new class, fresh content, quality‑of‑life upgrades, and an overhauled endgame. Chain brutal skill and item synergies, rise …
Open Letter to Tech Companies(like Meta and Google): Protect Your Users From Lawless Administrative Department of Homeland Security(DHS) Su…
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user …
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023.
Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours
and we have made back our development budget after 3 hours. Thank you all :)
GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform
📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform - spacebarchat/spacebarchat
Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI
The president stumbled through a word salad as he tried to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs.
I Programmed the World's Smartest Pokedex - BigRig Creates
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The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
I’ve been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. So I pulled the system card, a whoppingly inefficient 244-page document that devotes just seven pages to the claim that the …
Presenting: SUDO for DOS
SUDO for DOS
Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'
In two major trials that kicked off this week, Meta has disputed the idea that social media should be considered an "addiction."
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)
I successfully failed with a literature related project and accidentally built a ChatGPT detector. Then I spoke to the people who uploade...
Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"
Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
Love, engineered in the age of AI
As chatbots grow more sophisticated, some people are forming romantic bonds — and even marriages — with artificial partners.
'Baldur’s Gate 2: F My Bhaal Femcel Life' - Warlockracy
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Google might think your Website is down
How Cross-page AI aggregation can introduce new liability vectors.
All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale (39C3)
The Deutschlandticket was the flagship transport policy of the last government, rolled out in an impressive timescale for a political pro...
Dutch government secures deal with European cloud platform STACKIT - Digital Government
STACKIT is a European platform that Dutch government organisations can use under pre-agreed conditions, boosting digital autonomy.
MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis
MSI has fired up the AM4 furnace again.
Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as thei…
Japanese gamers on X discuss why classic titles like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quests are less popular among the country's young people.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Gameplay Trailer
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IPv6 adoption statistics – Google
We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.
Self-Host Weekly (24 April 2026)
Big tech giveth, and big tech taketh away
Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.
A new incident response report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN) identifies a coordinated network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels targeting Albertan audiences with nearly 40 million views, expl…
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
In October 2025, Ring and Flock Safety announced our intention to work together on an integration with Community Requests. Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would requi…
Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality
Although at its face the results seem obvious, a recent study by [Sandrah Eckel] et al. on the impact of electric cars in California is interesting from a quantitative perspective. What percentage …
Automattic Planned to “Steal Every Single WP Site” From Hosts That Refused Trademark Deals, WP Engine Alleges in Latest Complaint
Newly unsealed passages cited in WP Engine’s complaint allege that Automattic categorized hosting companies as “friends,” “would-be friends,” and “charlatans,” and planned to “steal every single” site…
Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
Mozilla is experimenting with Brave's adblock engine, here's how to turn it on.
big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server"
A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discovery
MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past
In the new NBC News Decision Desk poll, a plurality of young Americans said they’d choose to live in the past if they had the option.
Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns
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We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feel…
Big Tech or Big Brother? We've fallen out of love with Big Tech because our devices feel less like helpful tools and more like strangers in our homes.
New Qualcomm exploit chain brings bootloader unlocking freedom to Android flagships
A new exploit, dubbed "Qualcomm GBL exploit," is being chained with other exploits to bring bootloader unlocking to several flagship phones.