Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot
An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU …
TIL Ancient Roman farm women made wine, oil and profits. Historians dismissed them as 'housekeepers'
Female farm managers are hidden in plain sight in ancient Roman texts, mentioned in laws, literature and grave inscriptions across five centuries. Modern historians have generally assumed they were housekeepers, in char…
Ohio man says software update disabled car, leaving $1,600 bill and little options
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Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer
If things go our way, YouTube’s notorious unskippable ads might be a thing of the past come this February. ...
‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried
Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?
In-car, smartphone infotainment systems are a pro for car shoppers, but not necessarily carmakers who'd rather keep your data all for themselves.
The Birth & Death of JavaScript
A talk by Gary Bernhardt from PyCon 2014
France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.
Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment a…
The senator's anger turned physical when he was recorded.
Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - CVE similar to Copy Fail
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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media â and generating about $117m a year, data shows
TIL: Life imitates Art. Full stop.
After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against govern…
Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents
Microsoft will prevent Office 2019 for Mac owners from editing their documents from July 13, a restriction the company is attributing to the productivity suite's expiring digital certificate. The Office 2019 apps affect…
Synology is removing your Active Insight complimentary licenses
Synology Knowledge Center offers comprehensive support, providing answers to frequently asked questions, troubleshooting steps, software tutorials, and all the technical documentation you may need.
Persona 4 Revival: Pre-order Trailer
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US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security imp…
Microsoft warns that new AI agents, which access your Documents and Desktop, introduce novel security risks like Xpia.
'Classic Doom Mods' - Civvie11
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Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI
The president stumbled through a word salad as he tried to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs.
Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal
For years, Windows users frustrated with constant changes, aggressive updates, and growing system bloat have flirted with switching to Linux. But 2025 marks a noticeable shift: a new generation of Linux distributions bu…
Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy
The US government contributed over $2.5 million to the Tor Project last year, continuing its financial relationship with the nonprofit.
Flotsam, an exploration city-builder where you scavenge the oceans and explore the flooded remnants of the old world with your floating col…
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in students
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Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole
The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more
'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular
From Micro$oft to Microslop? Copilot-inspired revamp for Edge stokes further AI rebellion
Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team be…
MonoGame has been used to make all sorts of notable games, including Celeste and Bastion.
The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed s…
Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents
:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure
A French aircraft carrier was tracked in real time via a sailor’s Strava activity, exposing a persistent operational security flaw.
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
Donut Lab's miracle battery found to be a fraud, investigation claims
An independent investigation has produced definitive proof that Donut Lab's solid-state battery is actually a standard lithium-ion cell.
Hades II Coming to Xbox Game Pass – Official Announce Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview 2026
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Big data centers in Florida must pay full power and infrastructure costs under new law
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a new law aimed at reining in large-scale data centers, saying everyday Floridians shouldn’t have to pay.
Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees
Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally
DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator
In its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry. “The safety culture is under threat,” a former head of the Nuclear …
Google told staff worried about Pentagon AI deals that the company is 'leaning more' into national security contracts
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told staff it's "incumbent on us to work with democratically elected governments."
New Social Web Working Group at W3C
Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…
Sign this petition to get Ursula von BigTech to stop drinking US big tech kool-aid
Europe faces a critical choice: enforce EU law and break up Google’s monopoly, or yield to Trump and Big Tech. Add your name to the petition!
Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome
A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.
Congress Is Trying to Permanently Integrate U.S. and Israeli Defense Tech
A controversial proposal to entwine U.S. and Israeli tech in AI and autonomous systems closely resembles a pro-Israel bill that died earlier this year.
Resonance: A Plague Legacy - Release Date Reveal Trailer
Pre-order Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on XBOX Series X|S today: https://www.xbox.com/games/store/p/9NFW93G1GFXGVenture into the world of Resonance on Aug...
Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge
Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them
Digital Tribulations 6: A Radical Hacker-Fanonian Critique of Digital Colonialism
The introduction to this series of interviews can be read here. Interview with Deivison FaustinoAt the presentation of the MTST’ book in São Paulo, I met Deivison Faustino, a figure who im
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
‘It does feel like an intimidation campaign’: why is US tech giant Palantir suing a small Swiss magazine?
An investigation by journalists working with Republik magazine may have struck a nerve by suggesting the company has failed in Switzerland
Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch
It's a pretty respectable catch, all things considered
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
The YouTuber doesn't seem fazed by Apple's threats.
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…