Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%
Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for third-party app stores.
How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times |Artificial intelligence seems to be turning up, undisclosed, in the opinion pages of major news…
Artificial intelligence seems to be turning up, undisclosed, in the opinion pages of major news publications.
As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester"
Ultimately, we want to build a fleet of electric harvesters."
Support GrapheneOS in Proton's 2025 Fundraiser
Nominate a project or organization you believe in and help us the 10 beneficiaries of this year's Proton Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser.
Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says
Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash
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.
GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
: As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out
Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Windows 11 can't move the taskbar, and four years later, Microsoft still has no plans to bring it back. Here's why, according to Microsoft.
The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
How the moderators behind one of the internet’s most popular platforms for tech content have a say into which content you consume.
2025 Game Awards Results Discussion
Find all the winners for every category here.
Make it Shitty
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
The Low Orbit Security Radar is a weekly security newsletter from an offensive practitioner's perspective. One idea, curated news, and links worth your time. News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout …
Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion
A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.
Your Company Biggest AI Risk Is the AI Nobody Approved
The Numbers Are Worse Than You Think
Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boos…
Capcom told its investors that its players won't be presented with any AI-generated assets, but it's unclear where it draws the line.
Facebook and Instagram down in mass outage for thousands of users
Users are unable to access the platforms after an outage
Is Bambu Lab Next? Washington Eyes Potential U.S. Ban on 3D Printers
Washington reviews Bambu Lab over security risks after DJI. Learn about tariffs, market impact, and Bambu's response in the U.S.
Best Chinese Movies of 2025 (and more)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Pixel Airport Tycoon, a top down airport management and construction game, with extensive airport operations gameplay, released on Steam
Build your own airport from the ground up! Construct terminals, runways, and refueling stations, manage baggage handling and catering, research new technologies, and expand your grounds. Become the most successful airpo…
"The horror is almost secondary to the menial task": From Crow Country to Resident Evil 9, here's how horror games keep us scared
Interview | Exploring horror's enduring thrall with the creators of The Mortuary Assistant, Crow Country, and more
Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage
A cause is still yet to be revealed
[id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized
id Software is the latest Microsoft-acquired team to organize
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.
Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results
Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...
TIL my dog would probably eat me if I died alone.
As grim as it sounds, it's often expected—and biology explains why.
Real Estate Giant Redfin Exposed Users’ Personal Info on Listing Contact Forms
Contact forms on Redfin's real estate listings displayed past users’ names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.
A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’
The maker of the eCoffee Energyband says it electrically stimulates your nerves to keep you alert. Researchers are skeptical, and critics see it as a way for Chinaâs bosses to keep workers productive.
I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
Just Let Me Write Digits | Blog | Guillaume Endignoux
Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years.They have also brought many controversies: age ...
We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good.
We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another p…
Meta is facing another lawsuit over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
The lawsuit claims Meta is not doing enough to protect senior citizens and other vulnerable groups.
Using YouTube to steal your files
A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than the…
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, t…
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries
A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices. But consumer advocates argue that it contains far too many loopholes that companies could exploit.â
Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025
A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D.
ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.
First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides
Research Highlights: In a Phase 1, first-in-human trial, a one-time infusion of an investigational CRISPR-Cas9 therapy targeting angiopoietin-like protein 3 (ANGPTL3) was safe and reduced LDL cholesterol by nearly 50% a…
Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
@luana@wetdry.world It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firm…
Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows
"It really feels like the people in power want to be kings. Historically, that doesn't work out for kings..."
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
The City Attorneyâs Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 âface-swapâ apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area
10 Ways CRISPR Is Currently Curing Genetic Diseases
For most of human history, genetic diseases felt like fate. If a child was born with a broken gene, medicine…
From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules
How Google’s new Android sideloading and developer verification rules impact third-party stores, modding tools, retro emulators, and more.
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her ânext chapter.â The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.