Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law
Bluesky has blocked access in Mississippi, citing privacy and free speech concerns over a new law requiring all social media users to undergo age verification with fines of up to $10,000 per violation.
Federal Reserve Says AI Data Center Buildout Is Making Everything More Expensive: "I’m getting increasingly nervous that that’s just straig…
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee told Semafor that AI-tied inflation is "jumping out of its lane."
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy: Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced lawsui…
Character.AI, the AI unicorn that faced several lawsuits over the deaths of minors as well as significant revenue struggles, is bankrupt.
Sprout - a modern motherboard for old iPods
Sprout – a modern motherboard for old iPods.
Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
Jacob Coxon’s Spy Warning Proves To Be Prescient: OpenAI’s Saudi Employee Arrested After Planting A Recording Device Wrapped Within Toilet …
Ex-Anthropic staffer Coxon had said he was 90% sure spies were inside OpenAI and Anthropic. Now an OpenAI employee faces federal charges.
Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
‘BYD effect’: electric vehicle boom becomes unexpected tool to combat inflation
More and more Australian consumers are expected to âunplug themselves from the oil shockâ with at least five EVs priced around or below $30,000
Survey: Almost Half of Women in Tech Have Experienced Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Programs to ensure higher representation of women are also in decline, according to ISACA’s 2026 Tech Workplace and Culture survey report.
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
Russia's Google Lost Three Data Centres in One Week. The Real Damage Isn't the Fire | Comuniq
Russia's Google Lost Three Data Centres in One Week. The Real Damage Isn't the Fire | Comuniq
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM
Around 100 million US dollars in cryptocurrency have been stolen from users of certain hardware wallets because whoever can read the screen wins.
What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?
The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
The pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using âsuperintelligenceâ wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity â and how our biggest challenge will be accepting weâre not the only intelligent beings
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots
Yandex's automated traffic fell by 94%, but that probably reflects widespread service outages rather than bot posting rates.
Flock Cameras Are Really Just the Start of Our Dystopian Surveillance Hell, Experts Warn: "Instead of having to go to a million different s…
The rising tide of all-encompassing police surveillance systems like Axon's Fusus make Flock Safety look like a privacy wonderland.
VoidAuth Release v1.1.0 - Passkey-only Users 🔑
What's Changed
Features 🚀
Passkey-Only Users 💯
Approval emails for new users
Admin notification emails, and ADMIN_NOTIFICATION variable for determining maximum notification frequency
DEFAULT_REDIR...
Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 22, 2025
Looking for lightweight homelab dashboard that can run as nonroot container and also supports OIDC
Hi all. Per the title, I’m looking for something that: - Can run as an
unprivileged user inside a container - Allows OpenID Connect authentication for
a multiuser setup - Doesn’t take hostage of my CPU Homarr and Dashy …
How do you manage accessing multiple Plex and Jellyfin servers simultaneously?
I run a Jellyfin server, but I have several friends running Jellyfin servers and
several more friends running Plex servers. What is the sanest way to go about
accessing all of them? How can I get some sort of media over…
Lowering power consumption on Opteron
I have a Proxmox server running two Opteron 6272 CPUs on an Asus KGPE-D16
(chosen because it was the fastest computer that supported Libreboot, although I
haven’t gotten around to installing it). Using normal BIOS setti…
Setting up 2FAuth; Can't Register
(Apologies in advance if this is the wrong spot to ask for help, and/or if the
length annoys people.) I’m trying to set up 2FAuth [https://2fauth.app/] on a
local server (old Raspberry Pi, Debian), alongside some other …
Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please
Hi! I’ve never built a NAS before and only one custom gaming PC, so I’d love if
any of you more experienced folks could take a look at my parts selection and
possibly suggest better options. Of course first my use cases…
Spotify Listenbrainz Import
Preamble Link to heading This post details my experience importing my "Extended Streaming History" from Spotify into my ListenBrainz account using Elbisaur.
I did this with a listening export from 2022 so my exp…
God of War Laufey's $150 Collector Box Includes a Light-Up Faye Statue but no game
God of War Laufey is the next big game to get a collector box without the game itself.
Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died
Gray got his start with Duke Nukem 3D, before moving to co-found Ritual Entertainment.
Anyone running Goatcounter? Hyper minimal analytics.
GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative…
GTA 6 Will Hit PC Just a Few Months After Consoles, According to a New Report
GTA 6 will launch on PC just a few months after consoles, according to a new report.
AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running
The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.
I am a solo dev creating a Mexican folklore horror game inspired by Silent Hill and a real life location in Mexico called Island of Dolls. …
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Car Park Capital now available in Early Access
The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propaganda to convince peop…
Nvidia donates $250m to UK for AI safety research
Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen
The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Res…
The extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to "severe negative outcomes" including psychological harm and suicide, a recent paper argues.
As PlayStation Pushes Ahead With Its Plan to Kill Physical Media, 35% of Marvel's Wolverine Sales Were on Disc
According to retail data, 35% of Marvel’s Wolverine sales were physical discs.
Microsoft’s Xandr fined €8.6M over Grindr user data exposure
In 2020, noyb has filed a complaint against the online advertising company Xandr for processing personal data from the dating app Grindr. This decision is a major blow to the online adtech industry.
Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise with self-hosted browser management
Institutions are recalculating who controls the technology they rely on. Mozilla has an independent option to offer. For years, organizations consolidated
Inside the Failed Fight to Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
Chris Roberts' upcoming single player magnum opus, Squadron 42, now has a Steam page, the company's focus on optimization will allow the ga…
Enlist in the UEE Navy in a cinematic, single-player space adventure. Pilot combat ships, fight on foot, and explore capital ships, space stations, and frontier outposts. Live and work alongside your crew as you battle …
Vibe-coded mashup mods are flooding X/Twitter, and modders hate it
A wave of AI-decompiled mashup mods has taken over X/Twitter this week.
Saudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters
Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents
The ‘Sophisticated’ Bug OpenAI Found in Its Conference Room Can Be Yours for $13.99
The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense is for tinkerers, not super-spies.
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improv…
Xbox announces what sounds like a generative AI-focused game-making department, Xbox Labs, while avoiding mentioning AI
Xbox Labs is Xbox's attempt to explore the recent rush of genAI-driven game ports and recompiles.
Saudi National Arrested for Installing Surreptitious Audio Recording Device at OpenAI
An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.
The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners: The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as…
The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as fundamental as reading and writing.
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
CHAPTER I: OUT OF THE BREACH | Hytale
Embark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons …