Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models
A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.
Yakuza 0 is being delisted on all platforms on December 8 (being replaced by Y0:DC), Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2 also being delisted from Microsoft…
Yakuza 0 Will be Delisted & Replaced by Yakuza 0 Director's Cut Starting Dec. 8th. https://ow.ly/AW7950XyiP5
LLMDeathCount.com
Large Language Models like ChatGPT have led people to their deaths, often by suicide. This site serves to remember those who have been affected, to call out the dangers of AI that claims to be intelligent, and the corpo…
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congr…
Muddy water is coming out of Morgan County taps.
TIL Apollo astronaunts had to use a fecal bag, leave it open, massage in a bacterocide before discarding.
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Blizzard Entertainment dates ‘next chapter’ reveals for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment will showcase “what comes next” for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo over the next few weeks, starting January 29 and ending February 11, the…
🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable - Games by Mason
When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.
Pangolin 1.15: iOS and Android apps, device approvals and posture, 1 year anniversary, stability, and more | Pangolin Blog
One year ago, in January 2025, we unleashed the very first beta of Pangolin. To be honest, it was a bit lean and had a few "character-building" bugs - but it quickly struck a chord as the go-to open-source alternative t…
How do you check if food is healthy?
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
TIL about Glanzbilder
For women of a certain age, Glanzbilder were a colorful collectors item in our childhood. Their history goes back to the late 1800s!
220-ton flywheel generator in Germany
Unusual power supply for the ASDEX Upgrade fusion device
Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
Former PlayStation Chip Engineers Take on Nvidia
A new chapter is emerging in the race for AI semiconductors, as a Japanese startup founded by former PlayStation chip engineers sets its sights on challenging industry giant Nvidia with a radically different approach to…
YSK: Championship Manager 01/02 is legally available for free
Championship Manager 01/02 is an iconic game in the "football manager" canon. While Football Manager as a series is now the king of that genre, Championship
Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’
It’s not yet clear how the FBI collected the video. Experts said in some cases it’s possible to collect data from the complex infrastructure that has enabled cloud-based cameras.
TIL there is an asteroid named after Linux.
The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 9001 through 10000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements"[1] and …
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper
Get hands-free guidance, visual analysis, and instant access to the world's repair knowledge.
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five
99% Invisible - Enshittification
Jared Wilson is a seventh-generation farmer. He runs a family farm in Missouri, and like most farmers today, he’s facing a lot of challenges, including inconsistent weather and a shaky global economy. But one problem th…
Witchfire - The Reckoning Update Trailer
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TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against c…
The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist cultural organization founded on 26 June 1950 in West Berlin. At its height, the CCF was active in 35 countries. In 1966 it was revealed that the Central Int…
Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time at Jeffrey Epstein's Mansion
Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his apartment.
Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth - here's why
Canonical's pitch starts with snaps and security.
Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users 'but it's not face recognition'
Meta’s latest attempt to comply with age verification requirements in Europe, Brazil and the US is to roll out AI-powered...
Apple's Spotlight Search Results Come With Engagement Metrics. No One Knew.
How Apple's Spotlight API exposes undocumented interaction data for every search result it serves to over a billion devices When an iPhone user types a query into Spotlight, Apple's servers return ranked results spannin…
Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC
It has also delayed 7 other games “to ensure enhanced quality benchmarks are fully met”…
Meta to Slash 8,000 Jobs This Week Amid $145B AI Push
Meta is reportedly cutting about 8,000 jobs while raising AI infrastructure spending, highlighting Big Tech’s shift toward leaner, AI-focused teams.
Absurdly Fast EV Chargers Are Coming To America, But Cars Aren't Ready
Forget 400 kilowatts. The next wave of electric vehicle chargers are getting ready for much faster speeds.
ExcaliDash: self host ExcaliDraw with multi user and server side storage
A self-hosted dashboard and organizer for Excalidraw with multi-user collaboration and scoped sharing. - ZimengXiong/ExcaliDash
We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with th…
"You’ve now obviously got the cultural impact which is way more important than it was then."
Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)
TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Moz…
'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?
Pirates are already playing Microsoft’s 'Forza Horizon 6' days before its official launch | Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files th…
Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam.
AI coders are carrying half-open laptops
Techies are walking with their laptops open to keep their agents running. They told Business Insider their stories, from offices to school halls.
FTC Seeks Comment on X Corp. Petition to Set Aside or Modify FTC Order Concerning Twitter
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a petition from X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, to set aside or modify its
Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.
A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to …
Cloudfare outage post mortem
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company…
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate
Researchers have built the first refrigerant-free system to reach sub-zero temperatures, a breakthrough that could reduce food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
The gaming giant said the handheld had not changed but the rise reflected "the current state of component costs"
‘Stole a charity’: Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom showdown
Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly vicious
Horizon Chase Turbo is getting delisted after the Epic Games layoffs
Originally developed by AQUIRIS (now known as Epic Games Brazil), the retro racer Horizon Chase Turbo is getting delisted from all stores.