Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds.
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
Do you use a keyboard to navigate websites? If so, you've probably run into countless accessibility issues where groups of inputs or widgets are not easy, or even possible to get to with just the keyboard. A keyboard-ac…
Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.
A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.” W…
10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that …
The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026
From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.
US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about rep…
Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs
Panasonic was one of the last Japanese companies still manufacturing TVs.
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and s…
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
Google ends its 30% app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.
Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P – Krebs on Security
For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and…
Liz Franczak: Conspiracy and Techno-Capitalism
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Heartbreaking? Inspirational?
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse
The Oscar-winning actor has trademarked several phrases, including "Alright, alright, alright" from the cult classic film, Dazed and Confused.
Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in
News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.
A plan for a post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...
Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground?
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch
While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.
TIL Operation Northwoods - A DoD/CIA plan to commit terrorist attacks on US soil to invade Cuba
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense of the US government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives to both stag…
Next Dragon Quest and more to be announced this month
Big Dragon Quest news is on the way including the announcement of the series’ next game. That’s according to Yuji Horii, the series’ creator. During a KosoKoso podcast, which is now private, Horii said that a live strea…
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
How Open Source Projects Change Hands
There are fewer ways to leave your package than to kill it.
Some power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers, as 70% of Americans say not in my backyard
It's a new legal fight over "public use," but 45 states have already enacted eminent domain reform laws in response to Supreme Court rulings.
'My heart is empty': Millions of Chinese forced to end AI relationships
A boyfriend betrayed 17-year-old Xiaoxue, so she made an AI partner. But now the government is trying to end her relationship.
They Said Self-Hosting Was Hard! - arthurpizza
We install Debian, Docker, Immich, and even Nextcloud and run a tiny self-hosted virtual Homelab. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Virtual Machine Setup 5:11 First Boot 5:45 SSH Login 6:35 Docker without Sudo 8:06 ...
Nokia N900 Necromancy
Building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, booting from SD card, and giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone.
Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft in…
Marathon cinematic short director, Alberto Mielgo, speaks up about the AI questions and the plagiarism scandal tied to the game, calling the situation a genuine mistake that’s been blown out of proportion.
PCOS Is Officially Renamed, After Decades of Misinformation
First, it was named after two men.
Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
Update (October 26, 2025): Just found out that someone posted this on Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687458
Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now.
AI is teaching teenagers about love now.
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with …
Samsung avoids strike as workers approve massive bonus deal
Amid booming demand for AI chips, the government-backed deal will make more than 60% of the South Korean tech giant's workforce eligible for bonuses of about $370,000 this year.
Researchers have just unveiled a technique called FROST that lets a website work out which other websites and apps you have open, without y…
Most of the surveillance stories we’ve looked at here lately have involved things you can at least see when you walk past them: cameras at the gate, sensors on the shelf, a label adjusting a price as you move through sp…
We wrote "esperto-wiimote", a Wiimote remapper with good IR tracking and complex key combos
Advanced Wiimote remapping software. Contribute to KayJay7/esperto-wiimote development by creating an account on GitHub.
Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter
Play for free Now! Get ready to Ignite the Battle with Marvel Rivals!
‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email
And I understand why he got annoyed and angry.
installing LineageOS is easy, actually
Blorp â A Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more!
RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.
200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
Stolen data is being held for ransom by the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group
The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
Donut Labs released VTT's independant test results!
%PDF-1.7 %љ 2 0 obj << /AcroForm 4 0 R /Lang (fi) /MarkInfo << /Marked true >> /Metadata 5 0 R /Pages 6 0 R /StructTreeRoot 7 0 R /Type /Catalog /ViewerPreferences 8 0 R >> endobj 5 0 obj << /Length 3305 /Subtype /XML /…
TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering
Hi friends and welcome to the last post for this year! Whenever someone asks me how to get started with reverse engineering, I always give the same advice: buy the cheapest IP camera you can find. These devices are self…
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
One more piece of bad news for VR.
Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?
Automated music discovery and search for Lidarr. Contribute to aquantumofdonuts/mixarr development by creating an account on GitHub.
Gujarat: Hackers steal maternity ward CCTV videos in India cybercrime racket
Police say that dozens of videos of pregnant women undergoing medical check-ups were sold on the internet.