User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation cont…
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OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working
Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to expla…
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam | TechCrunch
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring
International strike is taking place between February 10 and February 12
No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse
Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade
Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic? | NYT
Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.
Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended
Update: Apparently a Ubisoft employee has now said on Reddit that post-launch support has not ended. Though it’s not clear when this issue will be resolved. Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition was…
How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP
NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography …
Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT
The market for the digital items plummeted after their glory days in 2021 and 2022, and they’ve proven to be not only an artistic and aesthetic disaster, but a shortcut to financial ruin
Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
Rather than having people verify their age on every app they use, Colorado's SB26-051 would implement a way for devices to share an 'age-bracket' signal to third-party apps.
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‘Persistent ASW Sense (ISR) as a Service’ is real
Twenty six compliant industry proposals have been assessed during the first formal tendering phase of the Atlantic NET programme, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed, following parliamentary questions about the status…
TIL mosquitos can bleed animals to death if there are enough of them.
The bites leave animals anemic and bleeding under their skins, and they also become exhausted from constantly moving in an attempt to avoid the insects.
AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War
AWS says “objects” struck a data center in its UAE region (ME-CENTRAL-1), throwing sparks and starting a fire. The fire department shut off power to the building and its generators while they worked the scene, and AWS s…
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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.
Apple Eyeing A Partnership With Chinese Memory Makers YMTC And CXMT As The Big Three Adopt Hardball Tactics
The gambit might simply be Apple's way of countering the hardball negotiation tactics employed by SK hynix, Samsung, and KIOXIA.
Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents (39C3)
This talk demonstrates end-to-end prompt injection exploits that compromise agentic systems. Specifically, we will discuss exploits that ...
Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC
Jason Schreier and John Linneman speculated about Sony backing away from putting Singleplayer games on PC. Schreier later said it's not speculation and he has more on that soon. https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-sc…
Drone use at center of El Paso airspace shutdown
The FAA lifted the restrictions hours after they were put in place. Rep. Veronica Escobar stressed there is no threat to El Paso or the surrounding areas.
ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
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DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI
In a recent DuckDuckGo poll, nine out of tenresponders said they don't want "AI" features.
WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers
Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads.
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Sandisk Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) today reported fiscal second quarter financial results. "This quarter's performance underscores our agility in capitalizing on better product mix, accelerating enterprise SSD deploymen…
Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consu…
Never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with the Pope.
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Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data
Comcast overhauled Internet plans to stop customer losses. It isn't working yet.
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Nokia CEO hails Huawei ban by EU as results disappoint
Facing a stagnant mobile market, Nokia is counting on its fixed and optical business for growth and praying for a clampdown on Chinese vendors.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
Proton's predictions for the internet, 2025 reviewed and 2026 projections
From age verification and VPN bans to AI gone wrong, these are our predictions for how the internet will change in 2026.
SPINE - This is Gun Fu
SPINE Game; Aksiyon, Macera, Üçüncü Şahıs, Siberpunk. Çıkış tarihi: Henüz açıklanmadı - PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch 2 Resmi web sitesi: https://spine.game/ Geliştirici: Nekki Yayıncı: Nekki
Fable Game
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Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
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Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Opinion: Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you
Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'
I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.
I love Subnautica and building bases in weird places in Creative Mode is an obsession of mine.
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TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.
Despite its name, the sandwich, which recently went viral on YouTube, is a purely British phenomenon.
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical…
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
TIL there was a double barrelled cannon.
John Gilleland developed a revolutionary double-barreled cannon meant to sweep Union infantry off the field. On a spring morning in April 1862, a number
Why Are We Still Doing This? - Ed Zitron
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Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.
To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.
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.
Trump uses Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to justify expanding spying powers as deadline nears
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Thursday, and the president is claiming Saturday’s shooting proved “the safety of our nation” depends on the program.
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.