What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?
Two new studies show that kids and teens frequently encounter graphic violence, sexual content, and adult strangers on the app.
openmediavault 7 approaching EOL
At 10.06.2026 openmediavault 7 will become EOL because Debian 12 estimates EOL (end-of-life) for the same time. This means no security/bugfix updates will be released anymore. Please upgrade to openmediavault 8 to be up…
Christine Van Geyn: Privacy isn't a crime, but Bill C-22 acts like it is
Politicians reveal meme-level ignorance of constitutional guarantee of privacy in Canada
YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and w…
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never…
Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.
How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’
Spelers van de game Pokémon Go scanden jarenlang hun omgeving voor extra punten. Met behulp van die miljarden scans is nu een extreem nauwkeurig navigatiesysteem ontwikkeld voor onder meer militaire drones en robots.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 2…
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in t…
Apple tried to blame the EU for its Siri AI mess, and the EU called them out publicly
Yesterday, Apple took the stage in Cupertino at WWDC to introduce us to iOS 27 and Siri AI. This is the much-improved Siri that we were promised two years
Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked Met police contract
Palantir is set to sue Sadiq Khan after the London Mayor blocked a £50m contract with the Metropolitan Police as he claimed the tech giant does not reflect the City's values.
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans
A viral phenomenon is sweeping Facebook, with AI-generated content boosting calls for Islamophobic violence in Dearborn, Michigan.
DOGE Officially Shuts Down as Trump Administration Ends Government Efficiency Office
DOGE has officially ended operations after leading major federal spending cuts under President Trump. Here's what the agency accomplished and what happens next.
Xbox Game Pass Lost "Millions Of Subscribers" After Last Year's 50% Price Hike
It turns out last year's Xbox Game Pass price hike really was unpopular, as it caused millions to unsubscribe.
i built a price tracker for EU PC hardware because I was tired of overpaying
Track GPU, CPU, RAM and SSD prices across 27 European stores. Updated every 6 hours.
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases - Ars Technica
Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
Global Smartphone Production Fell 1.7% YoY in 1Q26; Memory Cost Pressures Expected to Drive a Sharper Decline in 2Q26, Says TrendForce
TrendForce’s latest figures reveal that global smartphone production reached around 284 million units in the first quarter of 2026, marking a 1.7% YoY decline. Despite a sharp rise in memory prices since the second half…
TIL Balanitis is a common cause of penile swelling. It occurs when the glans (head) penis is inflamed. About 3% to 11%Trusted Source of peo…
Penile swelling is a symptom of an underlying medical condition. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, treatments, and when to see a doctor.
Magicians: The Devil's Deal - Reveal Trailer | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
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METRO 2039 | Gameplay Reveal
There's a liar in these tunnels... In the Xbox Games Showcase, we revealed our first full gameplay trailer for METRO 2039, featuring nearly three minutes of ...
Halo: Campaign Evolved | New Missions Trailer
Before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Master Chief and Sgt Johnson take part in Operation: Meteorite, in which they infiltrate a mysterious Covenant...
Fable | Xbox Games Showcase Trailer
Fable launches February 23, 2027.Become the Hero you want to be in an immersive open-world action-RPG where each choice shapes your journey, reputation is ev...
New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make
OpenAI's new "Computer History" for ChatGPT on macOS will record "everything" you do on your PC to fine-tune the AI model.
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages
New water-demand analysis puts data center cooling at roughly 4% of AI's footprint, with fabs and power generation taking the rest.
Gears of War: E-Day | Gameplay Demo Reveal | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
An XBOX Console Exclusive.Experience the horror and brutality of Emergence Day. Fourteen years before the original Gears of War, join Marcus Fenix and Domini...
US asks China to resume rare-earth exports to Japan
Washington set to discuss topic at next week's G7 summit
Clockwork Revolution - The Heist | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
An XBOX Console Exclusive.Change the past. Control the future.When your gang’s heist goes sideways, you’re thrown back in time and discover your reality has ...
AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty
AI content at volume is bankrupting professional trust
Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
TLDR: Since Tesla’s June 2025 robotaxi launch, Tesla has built a 39-vehicle unsupervised fleet, while Waymo has a newly disclosed 3,791-vehicle U.S. fleet. So Tesla appears to be on pace to catch up with Waymo’s autonom…
Best Online Food Ordering System for Restaurants in 2026
Launch your delivery platform with Enatega’s open-source, customizable, ready-to-use delivery app solution.
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots /// In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least …
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…
Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical spectrometer that delivers laboratory-grade precision in a …
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.
TIL they are currently testing a needleless SARS/COVID vaccine that was developed by AI.
Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. The vaccine generated immune responses against multiple coronaviru…
New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses
Cameras in spectacles have lawmakers and regulators alarmed of surveillance risks.
The top 16 cars sold in China last May were EVs.
Car sales are down across the China - except for BEVs. The world's largest auto market is running away from anything with an engine in it.
You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
In a strongly-worded rebuke last month, Pope Leo called for AI to be “disarmed.”
Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years
After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.
the latest Shai Hulud malware contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety …
Attached: 1 image the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that …
Bad Magpie | Official Announce Trailer
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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites
New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.
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 …
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…
Persona 4 Revival: Pre-order Trailer
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