Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’
The narrative, superhero game starring Aaron Paul of ‘Breaking Bad’ sold 1 million copies in the 10 days following its Oct. 22 release
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman in a Monday podcast interview that he believed AGI had been achieved, then seemed to slightly walk back the claim.
GTA: San Andreas's Original PC Version Can Now Be Beaten in Just an Hour Thanks to the Weirdest Skip You've Ever Seen
Over the years, speedrunners have found ways to break GTA: San Andreas that got an any% speedrun of it down to a little under three hours, but recently an absolutely buckwild bug was found that cut that time down even f…
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
Elden Ring's most comprehensive and faithful fan-made overhaul launches its biggest update yet, with full multiplayer
Elden Ring Reforged 2.0 overhauls the tremendously popular mod with a wealth of new weapons, spells, bosses, and full online support.
Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat
Microsoft just reported its Q4 2025 results, providing some interesting insights into its gaming ventures. The company's overall quarterly revenue increased by an impressive 17% compared to the same period last year, re…
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a mo…
One industry, one fight
by Games Workers // Video Game Unions Present a United Front Across Western Europe
iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current fin…
What will this mean for your Roomba?
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter gameplay trailer released | RPG Site
Falcom, GungHo, and CLE share a new gameplay trailer for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter at Taipei Game Show 2026.
Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track
Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want
'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for…
People Make Games spoke to developers protesting outside Rockstar and Take-Two's offices.
Approaching Docker, Containers, and Compose for curious Self-hosters - Linux Prepper episode
This is a bonus Linux Prepper podcast, available as a detailed companion to “A Great Year for Linux”. This is a discussion with HB, stemming from this post on Lemmy learning from admins who avoid container technology. W…
Switzerland government release full FOSS LLM under Apache 2.0, argue for AI as Public Utility
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 2 September, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and d…
We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good.
We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another p…
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
------------------------------------------------------------------- Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms ------------------------------------------------------------------- We made it our …
Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Some time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story…
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor applies to shut down business interests
Former prince seeks to dissolve Dragons’ Den-style startup competition and his innovation company
Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID
OIDC integration for Home Assistant. Contribute to cavefire/hass-openid development by creating an account on GitHub.
After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs
Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.
⇆ bidicalc - a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
A speadsheet where formulas also update backwards
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition will launch for Switch 2 on August 28, publisher Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware announced.
Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent
It's all fun and games until every aspect of your life is splashed all over the dark web.
[Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest
A short horror game set in a spooky winter forest.
Atelier Ryza Deluxe graphics/platform comparison
We cover Atelier Ryza, Ryza 2, Ryza 3, and the Ryza DX games across PS5, PS4, Switch, Switch 2, Steam Deck, and PC to help you find which version you should buy going over visuals, performance, load times, and more.
Hitler had hidden genetic sexual disorder, DNA analysis reveals
The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research
Trump pens letter asking Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu in corruption trial
US President Trump penned a letter asking the Israeli president to grant a full pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his ongoing corruption trial.
AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone - Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedi…
Gemini got morbid, Claude got radical, and Grok got confused.
Square Enix Drops The Adventures Of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Demo 30 Days Early, With Saves Carrying Into Full Game
Square Enix releases a free Prologue demo for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, allowing progress to carry over to the full game.
Introducing Proton Sheets
Proton Drive now includes Proton Sheets, giving you secure, encrypted spreadsheets for safer collaboration, organized data, and aligned teams.
Dawn of the Tiberium Age mod v14.5.0 released.
CABAL.... I mean, Advanced AI Version 2 Online! Our latest update brings you the most advanced skirmish AI in all of classic Command & Conquer, new singleplayer and Co-Op missions, as well as game engine and balance imp…
Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy advocates 72-hour work weeks despite overwhelming evidence.
In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away
He was aged just 38
Hakboard - Home Assistant Integration for Kanboard
🔸 Integrate Kanboard projects into Home Assistant dashboards and automations - aktive/hakboard
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire
TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS
TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune
Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.
The Smallest Enterprise Homelab
Disclaimer: This blog was written without the help of LLMs (although that should be obvious) or any kind of financial incentive. I bought all the hardware myself, don’t have stocks in any of these companies and don’t us…
Section 702 Explained: How U.S. Surveillance Law Shapes National Security And Privacy
What is FISA Section 702? In the early and mid-1900s, the United States government carried out surveillance programs that spied on Americans without warrants. In response, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Survei…
Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”
Flick Solitaire has been removed from the Russian version of Steam after federal censor Roskomnadzor demanded that Valve take it down.
TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery
The 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes[1] in prisons across the United States from August 21 to September 9, 2018.[2] It was one of the largest prison strikes in US history.[3][2] …
‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK
Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that p…
"Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair…
Palworld 1.0 is still "top secret," but it'll have something for everyone
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files
: Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash
Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue
Microsoft has found what caused an outage that crippled its services like Outlook and Teams. Thousands of users swarmed to social media to find out what was happening with their e-mails during the middle of the business…