Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, heâs no longer the outsider he once was
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player
I've spent the last year or so slowly replacing the everything-machine in my pocket with devices that do one thing and do it well. A BOOX e-reader for books. Retro handheld consoles for games. An automatic watch that te…
Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June
The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.
The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02]
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Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethe…
Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation
'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential…
A former veteran Bethesda developer has cast doubt on the possibility of a Morrowind remaster in the same vein as the recently released Oblivion remaster, saying going back to play The Elder Scrolls 3 now, over 20 years…
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
VPN providers will need to obtain a license from the government to operate in Turkey.
Türkiye'de VPN servislerine yönelik radikal bir yasal düzenleme yolda. Lisans almayan uygulamaların erişimi tamamen engellenecek.
What the biggest viral videos of 2025 teach us about AI - BBC Bitesize
Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House
Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs confirms that legislative work on mandating RSS channels' maintenance on government bodies is underway
Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs is working on legislation that could require all government bodies to provide RSS or Atom channels on their websites. If adopted, the regulation would place Poland among the first EU…
How Big Tech Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs
Until quite recently, many Big Tech firms opposed the militarization of AI, but that now seems like ancient history as they move to sign partnerships with arms companies. The prospect of lavish Pentagon funding for AI i…
The Netherlands consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not sufficient…
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) launches an investigation into online game platform Roblox in connection with possible risks that minors in the EU face on the platform.
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
India's telecom authority DoT mandates permanent SIM binding for messenger services. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal must comply within 90 days.
Claude AI down: Anthropic users hit with errors as chatbot goes offline
Claude, the Anthropic AI chatbot, has gone down in a major outage.
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything
Engineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath.
'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Length…
Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had already been rebooted on…
Bogdan's Blog – LinkedIn Interview Scams
Fake jobs, real malware. Here's how scammers are baiting devs on LinkedIn.
TIL that contraception is illegal in Afghanistan
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception
RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting
Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.
Three Decades Of ReactOS
Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clo…
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable - EFF
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file pub…
British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets
British soldiers will be able to make faster, better decisions on the battlefield through thousands of new radios, headsets and tablets.
Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.
Why We Make Alis: The Enemy Within
Rebuilding the real world: A game project committed to realistic locations and interactions.
The Free Shepherd | World Premiere | The Game Awards 2025
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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components
Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
Voiden CLI Runner
Design, Test and Document APIs in plain Markdown. Compose Requests with API blocks. Reuse, Replace & Version everything just like code. Offline, Truly Git Native, No Lock-in. - VoidenHQ/voiden
Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.
Want to try Lasuite numérique (Visio, Docs, Drive), the french open source self-hosteable office suite? I've been working on a way to insta…
One-click deploy La Suite to a Kubernetes cluster. Contribute to baptisterajaut/lasuite-platform development by creating an account on GitHub.
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
VoidAuth Release v1.5.0 - Multi-Factor Authentication 🔒
What's Changed Features 🚀 MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains Email Templat...
An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card
A developer’s Apple Account got banned after they used a compromised gift card, locking away their digital life.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs
The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work adding ever more features to the DE and polishing the exper…
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.
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls - Fighting Avengers Trailer
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Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus
The city council of Santa Monica, California voted unanimously to demand Waymo cease nighttime operations at two charging lots.
How Sam Altman’s victory over Elon Musk clears way for OpenAI’s trillion-dollar ambitions
OpenAIâs plans now seem all but guaranteed, given that the worldâs richest man couldnât put a stop to them
TIL getting married young during the European Medieval times was rare.
A lot of people still believe that in medieval Europe everyone got married at a very young age, that child marriages were very common.This is not the case. Please note: this article is a work in pr…
Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout
The proposed acquisition will place EA under the private ownership of investors including Saudi sovereign wealth fund, PIF.
Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
The AI Paradox, Economic Servitude, and the Myth of Billionaire Altruism
Mewgenics Features Trailer
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TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
The long and fraught history of the plant shows that it got an unfair reputation from the beginning
Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters
As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahead of the midterms.
New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient
The ThinkPad T14 series is among the most well known and liked business laptop series. It is not a premium series, but it delivers a well-rounded combination of quality and features. With the lastest Intel Lunar Lake CP…
Xikipedia - the doomscrollable wikipedia
Wikipedia you can doomscroll