Travel Gear Korea vs Classic Luggage - Real Difference?
Explore the real difference between Travel Gear Korea and classic luggage, with top picks, essential accessories, and expert comparisons for Korean travel.
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
The push to keep open-source open in the era of age-gating.
Introducing ReactOS 0.4.16
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Dokimon Quest is free on Steam due to Aug, 26th.
A monster-taming RPG meets GBC-era nostalgia. Capture and train 140+ Dokimon across 15+ towns. "Whoa, watch out — Dokimon are dangerous!" Uncover the mystery behind your missing childhood friend in the Xelos region.
Make AI Companies Criminally Liable for Preventable Harm
A new corporate offense would ensure accountability when preventable harm is caused by AI agents, argues Darryl Slabe.
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the [...]
When Vibe Scammers Met Vibe Hackers: Pwning PhaaS with Their Own Weapons
What happens when AI-powered criminals meet AI-powered hunters? A technical arms race where both sides are vibing their way through explo...
Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions'
A $50 increase in the US. Further increases rolling out in Japan, Europe, and Canada.
Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
Seems widespread, the spotify subreddit is actively removing discussion of the problem
TIL about system justification theory and how people defend unfair systems because it’s easier than admitting they’re being screwed
System justification theory is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function. It proposes that people have several underlying needs, which vary from individ…
ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it
ReFS for me, but not for thee!
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costs
SEATTLE – A consumer-protection lawsuit from Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman accuses Amazon.com of collecting funds from millions of its customers in response to since invalidated tariffs, passing the buck on risin…
RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components
Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the oppositi…
Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health
By Stephen Fontenot | While social media algorithms have become excellent at matching a user’s viewing habits with targeted, personalized content, psychologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have determined that …
Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games
Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill.
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
This month, EPA issued guidance clarifying that the Clean Air Act Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected to a public electricity grid, commonly referred to as “islanded” p…
Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July
Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market rese…
A new survey of VPN apps available in the US shows that a worryingly large number of them behave in unacceptable ways.
Things are getting bad out there.
The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/ But what you really oug…
Bogdan's Blog – LinkedIn Interview Scams
Fake jobs, real malware. Here's how scammers are baiting devs on LinkedIn.
“Puke or be puked on for your soul.” Russian Roulette drinking game Drunken Goddess Reflux gets over 200,000 Wishlists on Steam
Publisher Alliance Arts announced that their upcoming game Drunken Goddess Reflux had reached over 200,000 Steam Wishlists.
Digg Is Back Again, but With a New Format and Focus on AI
Using the 1,000 most influential voices in AI that also happen to be on X, Digg wants to be your source of AI news.
Haiku
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers
Meta's forthcoming layoffs will reportedly eliminate about 10% of its workforce, even as Q1 profits hit $26.8 billion and AI spending rockets toward $145 billion this year alone.
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic
A digital billboard company now has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks. Thanks, I hate it.
World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea
GPS-free navigation at sea was demonstrated using quantum sensors that measure gravitational field changes to determine their location.
Who here works for The Onion?
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe …
[NSFW warning: dataset name] R34dle — free browser higher-or-lower, looking for playtesters
Rule34dle (also searched as r34dle) is a free higher or lower guessing game: two characters, one count shown, one hidden. Guess which has more posts. Daily Wordle-style board or endless streak.
Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wast…
Per-entry memory cut by 56%, sparing Cloudflare 130 Gen 13 servers’ worth of DDR5.
Meta made settlement for 18BL
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
NGINX Rift CVE-2026-42945 scores 9.2 after 18 years, enabling unauthenticated RCE or DoS via crafted HTTP requests.
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.
AtlasOS - Optimized Windows, designed for enthusiasts.
AtlasOS is an optimized version of Windows, designed for enthusiasts and gamers. Experience faster performance, better privacy, and enhanced gaming capabilities.
Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs. With only 578 servers (compared to Pro…
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now yo…
The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice
Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.
“You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”
The organizers of Japan's Tokyo Game Dungeon have been going to great lengths to spread awareness about what they call "sekkyo ojisan."
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs
The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work adding ever more features to the DE and polishing the exper…
People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers
A majority of Americans say they're against the local construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence.
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Orbify Demo 2 v72 — interactive Gaussian-splat navigation visualization.
Chris Hansen Buys Ads Before Every Screening of A24’s ‘Primetime’
Robert Pattinson plays the former 'Dateline NBC' correspondent in the Sept. 25 release.
Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI
The faculty voted Monday to require universal proctoring for all in-person examinations in response to mounting concerns over AI-assisted cheating and declining student reporting of Honor Code violations. The policy, wh…