A Room You Can't See (terrygodier.com)
A short documentary about music formats, streaming, and the quiet thing that disappeared when your library became endless. Oh, and a musician (me!) trying to work out whether the music changed, or I did.
Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off.
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website (lina.sh)
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.
The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ?
Join a community of people and start chatting!
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.
Self-Host Weekly (25 September 2026) by @eshol
I have no RAM, and I must scream
Aero: a Chromium-based privacy browser with zero ads, zero crypto, zero telemetry
A Chromium-based privacy browser. No ads. No crypto. No telemetry. - builtbyashwin/aero-browser
The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac
Apple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...
LG responds to TV spying allegations
The company claims reports about its capturing and uploading audio are misleading.
Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative
Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative since January. But many are unsure or unfamiliar with them.
My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try | Personal Site of Andrei N. Ciobanu
Before we begin, I’d like to clarify that the project ideas I am about to suggest are mainly intended for those who are interested in exploring new areas of knowledge. However, it’s important to note that most of these …
Wikidocs (for storing your home-lab structure)
📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki. Contribute to Zavy86/WikiDocs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Apple's new watches are always listening
The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand and write up summaries of everything they heard.
Meta suffers another legal loss after jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users
This follows another recent legal victory for New Mexico, where courts awarded $942 million in judgments against Meta across a two-part trial concerning minor safety controls
The Internet Used to Have Places
The older Internet felt more like a collection of places because communities had addresses, customs, memory, and edges.
Creating a Blog in Gemini://
Creating your own corner of Geminispace: why you'd want to blog on a protocol with no JavaScript, no CSS, and no AI slop; where to host a capsule (SmolPub,â¦
How the stories about all-powerful "AI" are swallowing the world
The x-risk of super intelligence going rogue must be addressed, and mint trillion dollar companies in the process. Plus: How workers can beat the tech oligarchy
Eight New Gas Plants Will Power Amazon's Next Wave of Data Centers
Utilities and independent power producers are building 17.5 GW of new gas generation to serve Amazon’s growing power needs.
English ↔ Claudish Translator
A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled 0.6B neural programs.
[AIP] Last weekend I published Plume RC1, my side-project for a self-hosted, flat-file publishing platform built to simplify independent pu…
Plume is your self-hosted, Markdown-powered publishing platform. Write in plain text, own your files, publish beautifully.
Democrats Demand Answers on Trump Plan to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
California Rep. Jared Huffman has accused Trump of “selling out America’s public lands to the richest corporations.”…
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
Internal Tech Emails: Mark Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica, and Trump's election campaign
Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" January 30, 2017
Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"
The Final Shape will remain final
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Sell You a Tamagotchi
At Meta Connect, Zuckerberg teases the keychain-like device, which is designed to run a user's personal Muse AI agent.
Signal Will Let You Sign Up Without a Phone Number — For $3
The feature is currently in testing on Android, with iOS support still a bit far away.
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and ‘use AI instead’
A Sydney tutoring company will shut its doors at the end of the week after telling customers artificial intelligence has rendered its service effectively obsolete.
Amazon Illegally ‘Bricked’ Older Kindle Models, Class Action Suit Claims
A class action lawsuit alleges that Amazon unfairly ‘bricked’ older Kindle devices by removing access to digital content and discontinuing software support.
Ownership and Storage
Data storage and data access aren't the same. Some places I'm happy to have the access to my data. Other places I don't want to have my data. The problem is people already have it, but maybe we can make a push for a new…
There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
Burnham announces plan for new UK center to fight disinformation
The United Kingdom will create a new national center "to detect, attribute and disrupt” hostile state disinformation, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations General Assembly.
Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows. Waymo now averaging 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week.
In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hot spots as well.
US bill threatens to turn your VPN into a piracy blocklist
The American Copyright Protection Act aims to force ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPNs to cut off access to foreign piracy sites
Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play.
Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play. Google doesn’t deserve me and my money anymore. https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ #XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android #FOSS #…
Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental "Data Center" Into Space Next Week
Google is gearing up to launch a fridge-sized data center satellite with the horsepower equivalent of a single server.
F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.
Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes, system layers, search, and exploded views.
Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes, system layers, search, and exploded views. - ashemag/human-atlas
GTA 6's $1 million billboard goes up despite protests from local police as Rockstar's real-life Miami takeover gets underway
The Kaseya Center is the first location to host Rockstar's marketing
AI Tech Workers' Inquiry 2026
How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
TIL Netflix was officialy supported on the PS2*
In the early 2000s, the PlayStation 2 (PS2) reigned supreme as the best-selling console in history, delighting millions of gamers around the world. But beyond the games, the device held a secret little known even to its…
Software Freedom Day is on September 19
The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day
Forgejo Scraping Protection: Nginx and Anubis
AYO provides customized AI solution for comapnies to improve their process. We take inspiration in the latest research in machine learning : deep learning, probabilistic models, neuroscience and physics.
Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games
Sony has filed a patent application for a PlayStation controller that could read payment details from a nearby credit card or phone.
“My Body, My Choice!”: Unpacking the Queer Subtexts of 'Junior' 30 Years Later
Ivan Reitman’s second team-up of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito after Twins (1988) has a bit of a cult status in my queer friend group.
OpenAI steals Human Mathematicians work to solve a Millenium Problem
A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.