NHS manager who groomed young girls on Snapchat jailed for 28 years for rape and abuse
Paul Lipscombe used fake names and lied about his age to win over his victims.
Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to…
Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS.
Who here works for The Onion?
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe …
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Spotlighting the people, connections, and stories behind your music – Spotify for Artists
Expanded Song Credits, SongDNA, About the song
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.
LifeWise Academy, a controversial religious program, will be in almost half of Ohio’s public school districts this school year
LifeWise Academy, a controversial Hilliard-based religious instruction program, will be in almost half of Ohio’s public school districts this school year.
Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease
Sam Altman and his husband have reportedly invested in a gene-editing startup which aims to eliminate hereditary diseases
Most people in France would sell their data for under €40/month
A survey by France's data protection authority reveals that 65% of French are open to selling access to their personal data for €40/month.
US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know
OpenAI, Perplexity AI and Yahoo have expressed interest in buying Chrome, as Google's legal battle escalates. Here's what it could mean for the future of the web.
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Everything you wanted to know about using Cloudflare Zero Trust Argo tunnels for your personal network
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…
Self-Host Weekly #145: Agentic
Knitted socks, dad jokes, database backups, and breaking Docker releases
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 …
Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 22, 2025
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 …
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…
AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’
Users say OpenAI’s updated GPT-5 version is less chatty and fun, changing a unique connection they had come to rely on
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.
South Korea objects as US immigration raids Hyundai plant
Seoul demands protection for nationals, investors as Trump’s immigration crackdown sees hundreds detained in ICE raid.
Tesla offers pay package to CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion
Tesla is asking shareholders to approve a pay package that would award 423 million shares to CEO Elon Musk if he hits certain milestones.
Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues
The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns
Attorney General Pam Bondi is all-in on Trump's escalating assault on trans people.
Bathroom Doomscrolling May Increase Your Risk of Hemorrhoids
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: According to a new medical survey, scrolling on your smartphone while using the toilet may dramatically increase your risk of hemorrhoids. The evidence is laid o…
President Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels
Move comes after accusing Venezuela of buzzing US warship and a deadly US missile strike in Caribbean Sea
A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to …
Cloudfare outage post mortem
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.