Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillan…
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.
Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?
The AI hype is based on the assumption that the frontier AI labs are producing better and better foundational models at an accelerating pace. Is that really true, or are people just in sort of a mass psychosis because A…
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
The current state of app bloat.
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
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.
Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
Rather than having people verify their age on every app they use, Colorado's SB26-051 would implement a way for devices to share an 'age-bracket' signal to third-party apps.
'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.
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes rotten security
: Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped
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In August, The Document Foundation had a major update to LibreOffice. But so much more is happening: conference news, a job opening, extens…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreO…
Microsoft CEO Looking Ahead to 2026
As I reflect on the past year and look toward the one ahead, there’s no question 2026 will be a pivotal year for AI. Yes, another one. But this moment feels different in a few notable ways.
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
‘Stop Killing Games’ Got Its EU Parliament Hearing
Progress may be slow, but it’s still progress. While I’ve been talking about the importance of video game preservation as a function of our own overall cultural preservation, very few p…
TIL women experience pain longer than men.
New study links testosterone-tuned monocytes to an anti-pain signal after injury.
GrapheneOS Foundation Seeking Remote App Developer
Attached: 1 image Ever seen our AOSP based apps (Phone,Messages,Gallery...) & thought I could make a difference to bring them up? We're seeking a senior Android engineer to take ownership of the default app suite: https…
How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China (39C3)
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is one of, if not arguably the most advanced Internet censorship systems in the world. Because repressi...
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Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews
TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patter…
Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds
A study of 8,000 children suggests social media, not screens in general, may be fuelling a rise in inattention.
Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree
A Reddit user known as “uncleseeth” has completed a 20-year quest to collect every physical North American Xbox 360 release, amassing 1,353 games and turning a casual achievements rivalry with friends into a lifelong pu…
Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’…
Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000.
People with macular degeneration and other forms of central vision loss can see details like text and faces with this device.
Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone
Zuckerberg spent five hours defending Instagram's design choices, and walked out having handed legislators and regulators their preferred blueprint for a national digital ID system.
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
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Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can "effectively contribute to realising a creator's vision"
Sony and Bandai Namco have announced a "collaborative initiative" focused on AI and the latest technologies can aid game development.
Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
Homedex: a living inventory for your homelab. What runs where, every port, route, and cert expiry. Read-only, no telemetry, MIT
The missing inventory for your homelab — auto-discovered services, ports, routes, and expiry dates from Docker and your reverse proxy. Read-only, no agents, no telemetry. - HarshShah0203/homedex
The White House is dictating access to frontier AI models, shifting power from tech giants, sources say
The Trump administration is taking steps to control who gets access to the latest frontier models, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
SpaceX stock falls back to earth shortly after Wall Street analysts release florid targets: ‘Paving the superhighway to the stars’
A wave of wildly bullish price targets from Wall Street's SpaceX underwriters arrived just before the stock fell—raising questions about how much analysts really know.
Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops
Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.
Rhythm Doctor 1.0 is Out Now!
We've completed Early Access and entered full release: the finale is here!
What to know about Trump's draft proposal to curtail state AI regulations
President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to stop regulating artificial intelligence. A draft executive order obtained by The Associated Press reveals the plan.
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
The people keeping food flowing from farm to table are being increasingly muscled out by AI automation, and the results may be grim.
Generation Discord: Lessons from Nepal’s Revolution- Uprisings fomented on social media, like the one that recently swept Nepal, catch lega…
Uprisings fomented on social media, like the one that recently swept Nepal, catch legacy journalism by surprise
That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.'
The release of U2's album Songs of Innocence spawned jokes, backlash, and arguably, a worse music industry.
Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff
: A lot of companies are turning to employee monitoring tools to make sure workers aren't slacking off
Engineering control and displacement: Digital wallets as an emerging instrument of silent genocide in Gaza
Introducing digital wallets as a solution for reconstruction functions as a cover for a new phase of engineering control over Palestinians
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each
Some large /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses, the former Class A network blocks, are assigned in whole to single organizations or related groups of organizations, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numb…
'Harada TEKKEN is Completely Dead': Veteran Bandai Dev Shares Final Message with Fans
On social media, Katsuhiro Harada has shared a final heartfelt message marking the end of his time on the Tekken series.
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
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CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company
Are CPUs set to follow RAM and SSDs?
European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks
EU lawmakers found their government-issued devices were blocked from using the baked-in AI tools, amid fears that sensitive information could turn up on the U.S. servers of AI companies.
Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?
EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages
‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers
The cybersecurity threat experts feared for years just happened and "the world might actually be more dangerous."