Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say
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Spotlighting the people, connections, and stories behind your music – Spotify for Artists
Expanded Song Credits, SongDNA, About the song
China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subs…
The subsea facility reportedly achieves a PUE below 1.15, far below the 1.5 industry average
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.
Exploited Data Workers Are "the Secret Ingredient of 'AI' Itself" [Video/Transcript]
Workers in the Global South are deliberately invisibilized by the companies that produce AI, says a sociologist.
PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies
Reports claim that Saros' early sales have been below expectations for a PS5 exclusive, especially considering its relatively high budget.
Gacha Game Apologizes For Giving Players Malware With Some Free Loot Boxes
'This incident has served as a serious wake-up call for our team,' said the developers of Duet Night Abyss
Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC
The historic Rainbow Six developer will continue in a tech support role…
‘Stole a charity’: Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of betrayal in courtroom showdown
Trial is culmination of a years-long feud between Musk and Altman that has become increasingly vicious
Wuthering waves Aemeath Casual Outfit Mod Gameplay
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May 18 brings One UI 8.5 update for several Galaxy smartphones
Today, Samsung released the stable version of One UI 8.5 to phones across multiple segments and carried out a wider rollout for some devices.
An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went
Goooooooood morning, blog readers! You’re listening to the KGIZ morning zoo with your hosts, AI and The Bot.
Capcom Lists Dead Rising as One of Its 'Leading Brands' That It's 'Nurturing' — but Does That Mean Dead Rising 5?
Capcom is planning for Dead Rising's future. In its latest earnings report, the Japanese games company said it plans to nuture a handful of franchises for growth, with one of them being Dead Rising.
TIL there was such a thing as lumberjack sandals.
Item from Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection. A pair of lumberjack sandals are shown. The description on the back of the photograph reads 'Loggers' sandals worn for noon hour to protect mess hall floors from …
This Week in Self-Host
I'm officially back from my brief hiatus (shout-out to those who missed me), and as promised, have sifted through two weeks' worth of content to make up for it.
Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both
Turning off unnecessary animations and transparency effects in Windows 11 may seem like a small change, but it can make a big difference in your PC's performance and usability.
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2
They sure took their sweet time didn't they. AMD have officially announced that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is officially coming to their older GPUs.
Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history
This is a rare look at the tech giant's first operating system
Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub1.
DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
Ubisoft announces layoffs and the cease of game development at Red Storm Entertainment
The studio will remain open, but 105 people are being laid off as part of Ubisoft's cost reduction programme
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
US: Chinese hackers broke into NASA, DOE, DOJ, NIH, HHS, Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Senate; DOJ and FBI seize 2 platforms used by China …
The Justice Department and FBI announced court-authorized domain seizures today to deny malicious cyber actors access to two complementary hacking platforms known as “QScan” and “QTRouter,” used to target U.S. critical …
Scientists Debate Humanity’s Response to Possible Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Scientists are debating how humanity could respond if intelligent life beyond Earth is ever confirmed. Here’s what researchers say.
Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more
Windows 11's KB5120998 optional update is breaking custom cursors and resetting wallpapers to black. Here's why you should hold off for now.
The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario
MapQuest shared a tool for users to generate joke screenshots with their own names for Lake Ontario, writing: "Lake Are We Doing This Again?"
Perochialjoe Let's Play: Back to Saturn X E1 (Brutal Doom)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease
Sam Altman and his husband have reportedly invested in a gene-editing startup which aims to eliminate hereditary diseases
Google Uses Cox Ruling to Kill Last Copyright Claim in Textbook Piracy Lawsuit
Google is trying to put an end to the liability claim in its textbook piracy battle with several educational publishers.
Most people in France would sell their data for under €40/month
A survey by France's data protection authority reveals that 65% of French are open to selling access to their personal data for €40/month.
Signal Messenger: Introducing Automatic Key Verification
Signal now offers a feature called “automatic key verification” which complements the existing safety number system. Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an additional, streamli…
Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In
Following yesterday's polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications ar…
Sovereign Tech Agency Invests €500k in Flatpak
We’re building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
First patient to have brain surgery with real-time AI assistance
Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Everything you wanted to know about using Cloudflare Zero Trust Argo tunnels for your personal network
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women
Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the rate of
Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux
AI features are coming to the most popular Linux distro.
Nintendo Confirms It Has Under-Wraps Switch 2 Games Due Later This Year, as Share Price Drops Following Console Price Hike
Nintendo has confirmed it has multiple unannounced Switch 2 games set for launch later this year, as the company responds to questions about its decision to raise console prices.
New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient
The ThinkPad T14 series is among the most well known and liked business laptop series. It is not a premium series, but it delivers a well-rounded combination of quality and features. With the lastest Intel Lunar Lake CP…
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articl…
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
America's productivity boom started before AI, and a Stanford economist who decoded the Great Resignation says working from home is the rea…
National data show “a clear post-2020 surge in productivity growth exactly when WFH ramped up,” said Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom.
Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch said AI dominance will depend on who controls chips, energy, and computing infrastructure.
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns
Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.