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…
/e/OS Security Updates
This page tracks official /e/OS releases and the security update information that can be verified from public release notes and GitLab backlog issues. It starts at /e/OS 3.0. Notes: this page is still a work in progress…
Red Dead 2 Comparison Videos Are Lying to You
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Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.
The Cause of the Supernova Finally Revealed | Certifiably Ingame
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An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted
The streamer remained surprisingly upbeat about the whole situation.
Trump Mobile Site Reportedly Exposing Customers' Private Data
The security flaw also suggests the carrier only has about 10,000 unique customers and about 30,000 T1 phone preorders, according to two YouTubers alerted to the bug by a viewer.
Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees
A Florida father says a Lyft driver attempted to charge him a $75 damage fee using what appeared to be an AI-generated image showing a fake mess inside the vehicle.
Trump uses Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to justify expanding spying powers as deadline nears
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Thursday, and the president is claiming Saturday’s shooting proved “the safety of our nation” depends on the program.
How Wildlife Traffickers Are Using Coded Language to Sell Protected Animals On Facebook
Coded language used in thousands of Facebook ads has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade the platform’s bans for years
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"
Angry tiny Texas town council member proposes total ban on cellular and GPS devices in protest over AI dispute
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changedetection.io: Self hosted website change detection
Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monito...
Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games"
It's obvious why Palworld's publishing arm has so many small games
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…
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.”
Google AI Mode shows the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search [Data Study]
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
CISA credential leak raises alarms, and Capitol Hill demands answers
Congressional Democrats demand answers after a CISA credential leak on GitHub exposed privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and internal agency systems.
Celebrating 15 Years of Terraria!
What a journey thus far! Let's take a look back... and ahead!
Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers.
BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance - Official SEGA Villains Stage DLC Animated Trailer
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Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop.
Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them
As resistance to datacenters grows, Musk and others are painting a rosy picture. But the US must institute protections
OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday
OpenAI is working with banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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 ...
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.
The Sanctuary Prophecy - Star Trek's Best Prediction | Trekspertise
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“It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and aut…
Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety.
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.
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.
Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hike
Starting on July 1, newly purchased Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions will cost $749.99, three times the current $249.99 rate.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Patch 1.5.0 Notes!
Content updates, fixes and changes in 1.5.0
A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory
A 19-year-old influencer is suing the dating app Meete, alleging the company misappropriated her TikTok videos and used geofencing to target "friends with benefits" ads to men in her own college dormitory.
Virtual Memory: A Deep Dive into Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals
From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the performance of data-intensive systems.
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
The Side Eye Monkey is Lost Media
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Roku and TCL are being sued for allegedly bricking smart TVs with bad updates
Roku and TCL are facing a lawsuit after updates allegedly bricked some TVs, leaving users with devices that stopped working way too soon.
Markiplier Made $50 Million at the Box Office. YouTube Wouldn’t Let Him Sell It on His Own Channel
One creator forced open a door that wasn't supposed to exist. Now the question is whether anyone else can walk through it.
Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in…
A wrongful death suit against Google alleges that the tech giant's AI urged a Florida man to arm himself and steal a robot body for it.
Mastodon now has an official share button for sites
The share button solves the problem of Mastodon users being on unique servers. It can also be customized and dynamically generated.
Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha
Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in widespread false-positive alerts, and in some cases, removing certificates from Windows.
Former PlayStation Chip Engineers Take on Nvidia
A new chapter is emerging in the race for AI semiconductors, as a Japanese startup founded by former PlayStation chip engineers sets its sights on challenging industry giant Nvidia with a radically different approach to…
A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From T…
The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company's nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and
TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia showed their might, but a less glamorous but highly practical class of vessels k…
Transly - the CLI tool for incremental app translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.)
Cache-driven incremental translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.) - translate-tools/transly
TIL women experience pain longer than men.
New study links testosterone-tuned monocytes to an anti-pain signal after injury.
A hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn them
A security flaw means the location of devices used by police, potentially including undercover officers and those travelling home, is visible to anyone with a phone or laptop.
Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed
Why are CEOs blaming AI for layoffs? Perhaps they don’t want to admit to their own mistakes.