Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
Critics say Max, a WhatsApp rival, could be used to track users, though state media says it is not a spying app
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models [pdf]
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Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns
New reporting on the federal government's online surveillance indicates they're paying close attention to ICE crackdown reactions.
Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information
E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.
Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that the…
DC officially memory holing the Snyderverse
At the start of Peacemaker Season 2, James Gunn retcons Season 1 in a way that will upset fans of the Justice League.
Strengthening Monero Amid Attacks – With Xenu of Anti Moonboy News |(MT 359)
Strengthening Monero Amid Attacks â With Xenu of Anti Moonboy News |(MT 359)
TODAYâS ðSHOW: Moneroâs network is facing coordinated selfish-mining
âmarathonsâ by Cubic, causing multi-block reorganizations th…
Idea on how to fight qubic.
Whenever qubic finds 2 blocks in quick succession, they donât publish them and
instead keep building on them in secret as long as they are 2 block ahead of the
public chain. When the rest of the network gets close to …
Self-Host Weekly #146: Survey Says
Survey results, cranberry sauce, government affairs, and open-source burnout
/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.
reality — an open, secure, de-Googled system is not open, not secure, and not a de-Googled system!? This is just a new anøm disguised as open source. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tor nodes in Advanced Privacy are rout…
Good actually user friendly foss chat app?
Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ?
Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough
to make people switch to, that wonât have issues and send th…
Alternative to github for hosting portfolio pieces, personal projects, etc. ?
I donât need to self host a git server or anything like that. Just need a place
I can link to in my CV with some code examples. Microsoft pushing their AI
rubbish has been the final straw.
Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo
Amazon Leo has over 80 launches planned to get its satellite internet off the ground.
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away
He was aged just 38
What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones?
CT scans reveal severe battery defects inside Haribo’s 20,000 mAh power bank and earbuds, explaining their quiet removal from Amazon.
Marathon Art Controversy Resolved As Artist Reaches Agreement With Bungie And Sony
Artist Antireal says the Marathon art dispute has been resolved with Bungie and Sony, closing months of controversy around stolen in-game assets.
Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately this is quit…
TIL Rinaldo Nazzaro is the leader of a neo-nazi terrorist group. He grew up in the United States and has many supporters around the world.
Rinaldo Nazzaro says detention of suspected Base members in Spain justifies ‘resistance … by any means necessary’
TIL that the very distinctive vocal style employed by the lead singers of bands like Pearl Jam and Creed (among many others) is called "yar…
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Self-Host Weekly #148: Maintenance Mode
Object storage, piracy, potty cams, and Raspberry Pi price increases
Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
The iPhone versus Android battle has just taken a sudden twist as hackers attack smartphones.
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT's mental health team is bleeding talent and facing controversy
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
Second IC :) – Sam Zeloof
Homemade 1000+ transistor array chip
[The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social medi…
Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges.
(Free) Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It on Steam
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant
Confused about VPNs? Learn how VPNs really work, different VPN Protocols, what they hide, what they don’t, and how to judge VPN providers.
After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know
After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, …
Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
[Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his workbench? Why not, indeed? Well, all you need is a 17-foot-long X-axis and…
Report: China is said to have a functioning EUV lithography system
An investigation reveals how far China's own chip manufacturing has progressed. The technology of world market leader ASML plays a crucial role.
Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know
Those who use the popular platform are being urged to think very carefully about whether they want this setting enabled.
Innovators gear up work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth
Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard is developing a plane powered by liquid hydrogen after a much-hyped flight in 2015 that used sunlight to travel around the world.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
LumenTale: Memories of Trey | Explore the region of Talea
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FM Radio on LineageOS?
I installed LineageOS on my Samsung device, and there doesnât seem to be a radio
app. I have access to an identical device which is running the stock OS. I
extracted the radio app on the other device (with App Manager…
Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers
Concord is not completely dead. Community developers have brought Sony's shut-down hero shooter back online with fan-made custom servers, rebuilding its backend API and getting full matches running again.
Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome!
So the last month or so I have started the slow transition of deGoogling and
other efforts… its scary because I’ve been using Google for 20 years. But I have
jumped into the deep end with NextCloud and I cannot believe …
FreshRSS release v1.27.0
Milestone
A few highlights ✨:
Implement support for HTTP 429 Too Many Requests and 503 Service Unavailable, obey Retry-After
Add sort by category title, or by feed title
Add search operator c: fo...
GTA IV Is A Snapshot of the World Before It Changed
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A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections
Videos on social media show Waymo's autonomous cars stuck in the road following a major power outage.
The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement
The New York Times filed a copyright lawsuit against Perplexity, joining other publishers using legal action as leverage to force AI companies into licensing deals that compensate content creators.
Boing.
Boing
Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III
The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – and ending…
Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push
India may soon see Aadhaar-based checks becoming routine at hotels, housing societies as UIDAI prepares to launch a new offline verification app.
Android QuickShare is now compatible with AirDrop
Sharing moments shouldn’t depend on the phone you have. Starting today with the Pixel 10 family, Quick Share now works with AirDrop, making secure file transfers between Android phones and iPhones more seamless. This bu…
It's your fault my laptop knows where I am: Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
I’m in Introduction to Algorithms (577) this semester at UW, and I’ve been enjoying hearing Renault explaining how to prove program correctness, DP, network flow, and the circumstances under which Dijkstra invented his …
TIL that it's even possible to make a kazoo sound good
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