TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change
Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing this week as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the U.S.
AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn't mean that it is," critic says.
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielde…
Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data c…
Sycophantic behavior in AI affects us all, say researchers
: Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it
After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series
"We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental."
Lulu Chased by a Shadow
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Sega Issues DMCA Takedowns to Scrub Persona 6 Images From the Internet, as Fans Expect Imminent Announcement
Images allegedly showing leaked Persona 6 characters and logos have been scrubbed from the internet via copyright claim, with Sega believed to be behind the takedowns.
EU Commission bans top officials from using Signal groups
Due to concerns about targeted digital espionage, the EU Commission has instructed its highest-ranking officials to immediately dissolve a central Signal group.
Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
Google has resumed work on JPEG XL support in Chromium after removing it three years ago. A developer says the current version is feature complete and under review.
TIL that Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are two different people!
The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.
Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs
Even if the war stops now, Amazon will have to wait months before it can return its Middle East servers back to full operational status.
This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026
A custom ROM gives the Nokia N8 a second life, fixing Symbian’s flaws and making the iconic camera phone surprisingly usable again in 2026.
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
: Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Demo Available Now | RPGFan
SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have released a demo for Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties. It is currently available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo
"Far Far West" launches to over 15k concurrent players, 98% positive on Steam
our day 1 reviews have been through the (saloon) roof!!! 98% OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE?!?!? y'all... we have no words 😘 if you haven't already, please do give FFW a review on steam, it helps us out alot 😁
In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
The EU’s electricity transition reached a new milestone in 2025 with wind and solar generating more power than fossil fuels.
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site
We revisit Starfield on PS5 Pro to see how much it has improved since launch and what sort of upgrade the PS5 Pro delivers compared to PS5, Xbox, and more.
Signal messages retrieved from iOS notification, as seen in Prairieland federal trial
TLDR: signal content in Apple notification can be retrieved even after signal app deletion. I saw from this reddit thread: Signal messages retrieved from iPhone after uninstalling app. : signal Referencing this news art…
A dark turn-based management game, [with some RPG elements], about prisoner quotas, heretic hunts, revolt, and supernatural horror is headi…
Steam Veil Games has released information on their upcoming turn-based roguelite Dark Rail. The game takes place in a grim industrial border town. Players
America's productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the rea…
National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.
Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled
The company says it has addressed a routing behavior that explained the odd patterns
pi-vox: AI Speech Intelligence for Multilingual Audio Analysis
AI speech solutions for voice authentication and synthetic voice detection. Protect against audio deepfakes in an AI-first world.
Upcoming adventure game Epoch Reset has awakened the Steins;Gate stan in me with its time-bending shoujo storyline
Complete with android repair mini games and timeloop mechanics.
Nex Playground review
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You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift
People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.
TIL that a British student named Henry Novak was recently stabbed. When the police arrived, the killer carried a knife. He screamed the st…
'Henry Nowak dying alone, humiliated and handcuffed was a direct consequence of Vickrum Digwa’s dishonesty.'
New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outages
The Japan Roaming service is the cornerstone of efforts to manage large-scale outages. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
Ask Jeeves just shut down after 29 years, and nobody noticed
In the tech business, you sometimes have a weird moment when you learn a service is being discontinued, and your first reaction is, "Wait, is that still a thing?" For instance, around this time last year, we caught wind…
Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet
Amazon has joined Starlink, Google, and Meta in the scramble to control how Africa goes online.
Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presid…
Booting from a vinyl record
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! W…
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub1.
Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW
BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.
Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026)
AI and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
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.
Deadlock Major Update — Old Gods, New Blood
This Deadlock Major Update — Old Gods, New Blood — includes overhauled Patrons and bases, six new heroes, a fast-paced game mode 'Street Brawl', HUD updates, many quality-of-life additions, revamped postgame with an MVP…
Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling
But the justices say that, in general, loot boxes cannot be taken on their own and must be considered within the context of the game they are part of
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the Linux kernel's Rust code.
Self-Host Weekly #147: Ad-Free
Default branches, PDF toolkits, streaming subscriptions, and a face full of turkey
Finally found a daily cryptic clue site worth sharing
Minute Cryptic: free daily cryptic crossword puzzle. Decode clever clues, train your brain with a new word challenge every day.
Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers
Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.
Arpeggi - A new iOS client for Navidrome and Subsonic
Help developers test beta versions of their apps and App Clips using the TestFlight app. Download TestFlight on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Watch, and iMessage.
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals
Grist (spreadsheets) v1.7.12 adds Automations
What's Changed Airtable imports are now smoother, and the import lands in your current workspace instead of somewhere unexpected. Suggestions got a visual refresh with automatic comparison highligh...
Don't Hijack My Mouse Pointer
With vibe-coding, more and more websites I am visiting are changing my mouse pointer