A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.
Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer
The pocket-sized AI computer, which Guinness World Records says is the smallest, debuted at CES. Soon, you'll be able to buy it.
‘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
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going?
California laws protecting student data have loopholes that allow tech companies to continue packaging and selling that information.
Pinokio: The 1-Click Localhost Cloud
Run your own personal Internet on Mac, Windows, and Linux with one click.
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 ...
Many EU states want to allow the US access to biometric police data
The EU countries have no fundamental problem with US law enforcement agencies accessing their national databases to search for threats.
Self hosting with subdomains
If like me you have several self hosted services, one challenge you may face is having a easy way to access them, this can be extra challenging if you have a single non fixed IP address.
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
In an interview, CEO George Arison claimed artificial intelligence can help solve âdifficultâ gay dating problems.
"This is a political deception" − New Chat Control convinces lawmakers, but not privacy experts yet
The EU Council seems to agree to the new compromise "without further changes"
Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable
Landing with the March Pixel Drop, your Google Pixel phone can now become a mini PC thanks to Android's Desktop Mode.
Understanding Why LLM's Choose To Behave Badly
Recent reports of large language models (LLMs) exhibiting behaviors such as deception, threats, or blackmail are often interpreted as evidence of alignment failure or emergent malign agency. We argue that this interpret…
Google Denies AI Shopping Will Hike Prices — Critics Warn Users May Lose Control
Google addressed the claims that its new AI agent shopping protocol will use data to overcharge consumers, denying them.
Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpect…
More fuel for the Windows 11 hate train.
The Road to Quantum Teleportation
Researchers managed to “beam” something across the lab. This could change your life forever.
Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law
YouGov polling across 5 major EU countries also reveals that 70% of respondents want further action against X if it fails to respond to data privacy and
Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024
We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 65 million monthly visits.
Medical AI transcriber for Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors: auditor general
Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor gen…
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
Google has a price for you. We found it.
Proton analyzed 54,000 profiles using real ad auction data to determine your worth to Google. How valuable is your data?
BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace
The updated Denza Z9 GT can drive up to 1036 km (644 miles) on a single charge, the Chinese automaker says.
SVG clickjacking
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet
Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever used a drawing tablet of this nature, you may have wondered, how it works, and…
TIL that incest is legal in many countries. For example: Brazil, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Mainland China (but incest is illegal in Hong …
Laws regarding incest (i.e. sexual activity between family members or close relatives) vary considerably between jurisdictions, and depend on the type of sexual activity and the nature of the family relationship of the …
Eyes of Iran: How the Islamic Republic secretly monitors citizens in real time
As they bomb Iran, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are calling on its people to rise up against the dictatorial regime, which is shaken but still standing.
I Hate Github Actions with Passion
I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Mer…
UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake
Copilot invented a football match that never happened
Xikipedia - the doomscrollable wikipedia
Wikipedia you can doomscroll
Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
Showing just how insane it is to be a game developer right now, we've hit an all-time high for game releases on Steam in 2025 and not many get seen.
Alpha Release - spreadsheet-termux
Self hostable collaborative spreadsheets
Social Insecurity: Billions of Social Security Number and Passwords
UpGuard research found a trove of sensitive information in an exposed Elastic database. Getting to the bottom of what it meant led us down an interesting path.
Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.
Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot
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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.
Goodnight Punpun creator Inio Asano says the manga scene’s attitude towards AI is one of the reasons he put Mujina Into the Deep on hiatus …
Inio Asano recently appeared on the WEEKLY OCHIAI talk show, where he discussed the use of generative AI in the manga industry.
Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
House Science Committee Questions DOE Science Chief About Agency Reorganization
Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil said the new fusion and computing offices will focus on fostering industries for emerging technologies.
Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”
VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.
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Former PlayStation Exec Wonders How Sony Will Maintain Investment in First-Party Games Without Releasing Them on PC
Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has suggested that Sony will struggle to recoup the huge budgets invested in its first-party games without porting them to PC.
We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry
Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
Windows 12 could be another costly upgrade for supporters of Microsoft operating systems. A new report reveals that the AI-dominated OS will require AMD and Intel CPUs with a dedicated NPU. Possibly surfacing in late 20…