Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI
In a legal analysis for consumer advocates, experts warn of massive protection gaps due to the planned "digital EU omnibus". Big Tech is favored.
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it:
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
Sailfish OS showed me what Linux phones could actually be, and we need more of it
A fantastic idea, but it needs more support
007 First Light – Official Launch Trailer
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Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most
Xbox gamers quickly make their opinions known following the opening of Xbox Player Voice, with thousands sharing their opinions.
Lawful Masses: Bambu Labs AGPL problems just got worse
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It's me again. My Kubernetes devolver has reached the astral plane.
Generate compose.yml from your Kubernetes manifests. Same charts, same values, no second stack to maintain. Public domain.
Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto
Pope Leo XIV called for artificial intelligence to be more strictly regulated, warning that it can help spread misinformation and normalize war. He also issued an unprecedented apology for the church's role in slavery.
California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seein…
New 'physics shortcut' lets laptops tackle quantum problems once reserved for supercomputers and AI
Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.
Play Five Nights at Epstein’s Online for free
Five Nights at Epstein's Sneaking onto the island to investigate was a bad idea… You were discovered by him and barely escaped,...
Reimagined MMORPG EverQuest Legends set to launch for PC in July 2026 | RPG Site
EverQuest Legends is described as a "solo/casual version of EverQuest" able to be played entirely in single player.
Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’
Jensen Huang tried again to defend one of the company's most unpopular initiatives
Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026)
Legal threats, exposed vulnerabilities, and a fond farewell
Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release Trailer - Hades 1 in Hades II mod
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MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
Packaging Stremio’s GTK4 Shell: CEF Integration Adventures
Nine days debugging one function call, and other lessons from browser-engine integration Introduction When Stremio released their new GTK4-based shell using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead of Qt5/QtWebEngine, …
metube: Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites
Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for youtube-dl / yt-dlp) - alexta69/metube
AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure
AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.
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…
"Honestly difficult to imagine a path forward with it" - licensed Paranormal Activity horror game "technically done for good", says Mortuar…
A byproduct of the Warner Bros. sale meant the Mortuary Assistant creator asked Paramount for an extension on the Paranormal Activity game. Paramount said no.
Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS
Dell and Asus have announced new mini PCs intended for use with Windows 365. These systems will not power themselves, but will simply allow users to operate Windows running in the cloud.
Fortnite Developer Epic Games Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Blaming 'Downturn in Engagement'
Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale.
Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs
EPFL researchers have developed new software – now spun-off into a start-up - that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the busin…
Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks
How I found critical vulnerabilities in Petlibro smart pet feeders allowing complete account takeover via broken OAuth, access to anyone's pet data, device hijacking, and private audio recordings - and how they're still…
Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for print…
Pope Leo Calling for AI "Disarmament", Warns of its Risks(Including Fueling Warfare) in 42,300-Word Encyclical; Opaque Algorithms Controlle…
Pope Leo XIV presents "Magnifica Humanitas" as the Church’s response to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for AI to be ...
Warhorse Announces a Lord of the Rings RPG and a New Kingdom Come Adventure
Shortly after its parent company, Embracer Group, made an important announcement, Warhorse Studios revealed no fewer than two separate projects. The initialâ¦
Malvertising Campaign on Meta Expands to Android, Pushing Advanced Crypto-Stealing Malware to Users Worldwide
Many people believe that smartphones are somehow less of a target for threat actors.
President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint t…
starting a screening series, looking for recs
had a couple of v pleasant movie watching experiences with others and realized I
have been missing out on one of life's utmost pleasures, watching movies in a
group setting. to remedy this, I am starting to screen movie…
Kate Mulgrew on the Personal Cost of Playing Captain Janeway
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Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?
In-car, smartphone infotainment systems are a pro for car shoppers, but not necessarily carmakers who'd rather keep your data all for themselves.
Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
(e) (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developer…
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
Corporate employees said Amazonâs race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and âmore work for everyoneâ.
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media â and generating about $117m a year, data shows
TIL: Life imitates Art. Full stop.
After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against govern…
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
The REAL Supervillain was Capitalism.
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The guy who helped create Adult Swim got screwed over by Cartoon Network
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Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
The Voluntary Trap: How Denmark Repackaged Chat Control After Defeat
After Germany blocked the October vote, Europe’s surveillance proposal didn’t die—it evolved. Denmark’s November compromise claims to abandon mandatory scanning while preserving identical outcomes through legal sleight …
Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Ultimate Chicken Horse - 10th Annifursary Update (and sale)
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