The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months
Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
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TIL cheap litter boxes are decapitating cats
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Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart
Nintendo's patent lawsuit against Palworld gets a preliminary end date, as well as some changes suggesting it's falling apart.
Chat control: what is in our politicians head?
On Tuesday, the European Parliament will vote on a request for urgent procedure aimed at reviving the previously rejected, indiscriminate mass surveillance of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0"). This move, push…
AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch
Quis renovatores renovat — who updates the updater?
Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women
The DOJ says the domains were used to publish digitally forged nude and sexual images and videos of women without their consent. According to the Justice Department,...
Why Vandal Savage Had To Win To Be Defeated | Justice League
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Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of 25-Year Sentence
An appeals court rejected former billionaire and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s claim that his trial was unfair.
Washington Post subscriber sues news outlet, accuses it of using ‘surveillance pricing’ to gouge readers
Court papers allege that The Post began ‘covertly harvesting’ readers’ data from after Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for it in 2013
WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.
Your Home Network Might Be Hacked Right Now...
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Stanford scientists regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in major breakthrough
A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for …
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
AWS shares the small number, as anti-data center protests focus on water usage
Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse)
Why can’t you repair a 2024 car like a 1998 Honda? Explore the rise of software-defined vehicles, proprietary tools, sensor calibration requirements, and the...
Doctor Who Argues AI Art in 1979
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Why Students Are Rejecting Silicon Valley's Vision Of The Future
Students are increasingly pushing back on Silicon Valley's AI agenda, raising concerns about jobs, human agency, and the future of work.
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses | The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues …
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
AI Actor Tilly Norwood To 'Star' In Feature Film 'Misaligned'
Controversial AI actor Tilly Norwood will 'star' in Misaligned, marking the first time she has lead a feature film.
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware
You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went
You all donated en masse to have me use Windows 11 for a month, and so I did. What was it like for a long-time Linux user to go back and experience Windows as it exists now? Is it really as bad as we’ve collectively mad…
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances
The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote.
DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body
Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term changes to your genome.
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
Residents no longer have to shoulder the costs of developing the grid to accommodate these large power users.
Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.
Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries
Performance won't differ between the new EU model and the one you've already come to know.
Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.
Game Overthinker: Plaguestation
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Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outage
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There's still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit br…
Blood of the Dawnwalker is much more than its Witcher 3 inspirations (Hands-On Impressions)
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How to Setup Authelia in Docker with SWAG Reverse Proxy (2026)
Stop exposing unsecured apps. Learn how to deploy Authelia in Docker with a KeyDB backend and SWAG to enforce centralized Multi-Factor Authentication.
How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.co…
Please don't mess with links: (Maurycy's blog)
A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right?
'Ethical and Moral Considerations in Proprietary Software Usage' by Bradley M. Kühn
In this philosophical essay, I explore the question: “When (if at all) is it ethically and morally acceptable to use proprietary software in the production and/or improvement of urgently needed copylefted FOSS?”The ques…
Researchers discover Claude's secret thoughts – and how it lies and cheats
Researchers discover a consciousness-like area in Claude's neural network where it secretly thinks [--] and consciously manipulates tests.
AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw
The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher MrBruh after an AMD updater console window kept appearing on his new gaming PC.
What Happened to tea.xyz
On June 4th, tea.xyz launched what it had been promising since 2022: a cryptocurrency that pays open source maintainers. Within the first hour of official trading, the token fell 75% from its opening price. A week later…
Marcus Ranum: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [2005]
There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, o…
MIT researcher proposes a way to detect nuclear weapons in space
MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian is proposing a way to determine if a satellite orbiting Earth contains a nuclear weapon. He describes his idea for a satellite-based sensor system that could orbit close by a suspect satel…
Researchers find a way to reliably spot AI writing
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on identifying surfac…
Wearing what you loot
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Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
Chatbots just aren't very creative.
Valheim 1.0 & Deep North: Sept 9.
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations - Official Trailer
HELL FREEZES OVER in DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations, an all-new campaign expansion that unleashes a brutal new chapter of the Slayer’s saga. Wounded and ...
Ofcom fines porn site provider £630,000 over failed age checks
Ofcom has fined a slew of sites it says are failing to prevent children accessing their adult content.