Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits
Gaming platform to use facial age estimation to limit chats to similar age groups, as allegations of grooming grow
Subnautica 2 Early Access sales top four million in under a week
Total sales for the Early Access version of Subnautica 2 surpassed four million copies sold just five days after release, developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment announced.
Ashes 2063 - An extremely polished post apocalyptic Doom conversion complete with drivable motorcycle, trading towns, a John Carpenter-esqu…
Ashes is a Post-apocalypse themed total conversion for the GZDoom engine. It combines old school build style level design and Doom style action with a twist of Stalker and Fallout.
Stationbreak - Announcement Trailer
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Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims
Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH - PC Version Launch Trailer
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Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
People Hate AI Art
So I had ChatGPT generate that for me.
Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut
Video. Footage captures Russia's first anthropomorphic robot, AIdol, toppling seconds into its debut at a Moscow tech event, prompting assistants to rush in after the mishap.
Beijing Unveils Supercritical CO2 Turbine That Could Upend Power Tech | OilPrice.com
Compact and versatile, the technology could revolutionize carbon capture by using CO2 for profitable energy generation, potentially lowering emissions and storage costs.
AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent
More people are saying no to data centers.
Self-Hosting security reference
Default-deny all inbound. Open only what is explicitly needed. This applies at the host firewall level regardless of what your cloud provider or router does.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
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Rustdesk's lesser known features
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. - rustdesk/rustdesk
Meta is restricting sexual health and queer accounts on Instagram
Instagram accounts linked to reproductive rights, sexual health and LGBTQIA+ groups have been disabled or restricted, organisations affected by the measures say.
The decision is being made on Stop Killing Games! + The ESA can't stop lying.
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Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off / All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recall…
All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recalled.
YouTube Is Making It Easier to Spot AI-Generated Videos
YouTube is revamping its AI labels on the platform, and introducing a new automated system to identify AI-generated videos.
Google’s latest swing at Chromebook gaming is a free year of GeForce Now
GeForce Now Fast Pass is a new service tier exclusively for Chromebooks.
Switzerland government release full FOSS LLM under Apache 2.0, argue for AI as Public Utility
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 2 September, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and d…
OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA…
AI labs are going after any compute-capable machine, including Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio devices, as well as the NVIDIA RTX Spark PCs.
Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective
Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 We haven't been complaining about RAM prices quite as much on the podcast
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
Sierra Club report: Texas coal plants draining state's shrinking water supply
Texas coal and gas power plants consumed more than 100 billion gallons of water in 2024, according to a new Sierra Club report that calls on state leaders to accelerate the shift to renewable energy a...
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused other executives of wrongly justifying layoffs on AI — and telling them to cut it out.
Gears Of War: E-Day Reportedly Has A Staggering $400 Million Budget
Video game budgets are soaring, with Gears of War: E-Day reported to cost over $400 million. To break even, the game might need to sell around 5.7 million copies, a significant challenge.
Using Black Ops 7 to understand America in 2025 [BDobbinsFTW]
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Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew
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An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it…
You can spend $50 more to get an entire PS5 Pro.
TIL about Trauma Bonding, when a victim of abuse forms an emotional bond with their abusers. This can happen in parent-child relationships.
Trauma bonds (also referred to as traumatic bonds) are emotional bonds that arise from a cyclical pattern of abuse. A trauma bond occurs in an abusive relationship, wherein the victim forms an emotional bond with the pe…
DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says | Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance …
Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.
PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates
Gamers may have begun to shy away from the now more expensive PS5. U.S. April data highlights a 30% decline in PlayStation console sales compared to the previous year. Before the impending Switch 2 price increase, Ninte…
Anyone tried Syncthing Tray on Android?
Syncthing Tray provides a tray icon and further platform integration for Syncthing. It focuses on GNU/Linux and Windows. If you don't know Syncthing yet, it makes most sense to checkout the website of Syncthing itself f…
Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users
Hydro One, Metrolinx and LCBO are displaying the name of Lake Ontario as 'Lake America,' following a similar change in Google Maps in the U.S.
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize t…
GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess
When customers already routinely bring in dirty gaming hardware that's full of grime and cockroaches, GameStop workers are fearing the worst
"It is frustrating to see policymakers suddenly claim everything is 'for our safety'" - Stop Killing Games joins pushback against age verif…
Stop Killing Games, fresh from speaking at EU parliament about video game consumer rights, has spoken out against age verification laws.
Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time
Waymo, a spinoff from Google, is expanding its autonomous vehicles rapidly in the face of competition from Tesla’s planned robotaxi service.
AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess
How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
Soccer Arcade Games Through The Years
In this 100% human-made post, we take a look back at the history of soccer arcade & pinball games, just in time for World Cup 2026.
Ubisoft confirms €1.16bn Tencent investment into Assassin's Creed maker is "on track", following last week's surprise delay to financial re…
Ubisoft has stated its transaction with Tencent is "on track to close in the coming days".
Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents
A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 c…
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs
How do an artist, a videographer, a musician and a copywriter feel about generative AI?
W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.
"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."