A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it
Jay Morris denies expertsâ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Metaâs Hyperion datacenter
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
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.
Website with videos of sex abuse of drugged women, girls hosted in the Netherlands
The case of Gisèle Pelicot, whose husband drugged her and lent her unconscious body to dozens of men to rape her, made headlines worldwide. But it turns out that her case is not one horrifying incident. It’s a genre wit…
Verizon cuts several hundred US workers months after slashing 13,000 jobs
Verizon cuts hundreds of jobs across the US, impacting less than 1% of its head count, as it continues to reduce costs beyond 2026.
Cool coool, the Chinese have Read Fahrenheit 451: "Wolf Pack" Robot Dog Drones can be Equipped with Grenade Launchers and Machine Guns for …
These drone wolf packs are designed for urban combat and help Chinese soldiers clear areas without risking themselves.
Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts
A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social med…
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans
Memory manufacturers are forecasting that memory shortages will persist until the end of 2028, when the supply chain balance is expected to be restored and memory will once again reach its commodity status. However, acc…
Self-Host Weekly #151: Figgy Pudding
Backing up Spotify, a modern take on recipes, and strange software names
China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
Can we build our own software based firewall ?
Learn what a firewall is, why it is important, how it works, and firewall best practices. Learn how a firewall can ensure the data is harmless and prevent data from being stolen or compromised.
Canvas hack strands university students during finals week
An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials â at a time when many are taking o…
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.
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.
An alternate universe where Jurassic Park is real and HBO made a documentary about it.
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Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore
Windows 11 is having its worst year yet, with nonstop bugs, broken updates, and unwanted features pushing users to the breaking point.
Canadian special forces Palantir deal reveals decay of Western ‘democracy’
The Canadian govt claimed Palantir is the only firm able to provide the tech — that's not enough reason to make more deals with the devil
Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced op…
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code
The Algorithm Finally Works For You
Whether That’s Good Remains To Be Seen
Cloudflare Tunnel: proxy-dns Command Removal 2026 | What are some nice alternatives to encrypted DNS?
Learn about the removal of the cloudflared proxy-dns command in Cloudflare Tunnel, effective February 2, 2026. Stay updated on migration steps and alternatives. Visit https:mwpro.co.uk for more details.
Home Office use of AI in asylum cases is unlawful
The Home Officeâs failure to inform asylum applicants that AI tools are being used in their assessments is likely to be unlawful, according to a legal opinion, published today.
LIPS Is An Open Source Sip-And-Puff Interface
Lots of us have– thanks to repetative stress injuries– developed mobility issues that we have to work around when using computers. Maybe it’s a trackball instead of a mouse, or a …
AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he didn't expect this milestone until 2027.
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listings
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms | TechCrunch
The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.
NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026
Philippines — Leading graphics card manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD are set to implement significant price increases starting in the first quarter of 2026,
Meta takes Ofcom(UK media regulator) to court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates fees based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case…
Meta has launched a judicial review against Ofcom's calculation of fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act.
Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far
By Lucy Crompton-Reid | With a decision on whether or not Wikipedia will be considered a category 1 service under … Continue reading "Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far"
This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again
“It was extremely difficult,” IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. “But changing minds was harder than adding skills.”
Announcing the new LibreOffice website! - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice’s website is the main source of information about the software (and project), and typically has 45,000 – 65,000 visitors every day. It is also the place to download the suite, of course, and make donations t…
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam - Official Gameplay Trailer
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DOGE whistleblower claims brakes were cut after post from Elon Musk
A US government agency worker who exposed alleged misuse of data by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) crashed his car after the brakes were cut, court documents show.
Future of Guild Wars franchise.
Hear directly from our leadership team about our plans and how you can help shape what comes next in Guild Wars 2.
Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID
OIDC integration for Home Assistant. Contribute to cavefire/hass-openid development by creating an account on GitHub.
Warnings About Retrobright Damaging Plastics After 10 Year Test
Within the retro computing community there exists a lot of controversy about so-called ‘retrobrighting’, which involves methods that seeks to reverse the yellowing that many plastics su…
Pebble Round 2 Announced
Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attem…
Not the hill I'd die on, but I'm not a billionaire.
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
: SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
The Latest Monster Hunter Wilds PC Perf Drama Explained | Digital Foundry
Thousands upon thousands of DLC checks hammer the CPU.
GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone
A small flaw in Android 16's networking stack let ordinary apps leak data outside the VPN tunnel, exposing real IP addresses
The AI boom is gobbling up power faster than ever
If all data centers permitted through 2025 come online, they will use more than all the electricity used by any one US state in 2024, except Texas.
Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses — Some of the footage was allegedly intended for socia…
Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.
Tempus v4.2.4 android subsonic client release
What's Changed chore: Update russian strings.xml by @Sevinfolds in #249 fix: disallow duplicate songs in queue by @eddyizm in #252 fix:github release check by @eddyizm in #253 fix: Fixed crash whe...
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs
Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem.
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee: Remastered Official Announce Trailer
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