TIL chrysalis comes from the Greek word gold, so named because many butterfly chrysalis have gold dots or gold colouring.
a pupa of a butterfly; broadly : an insect pupa; the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa; a protecting covering; also : a sheltered state or stage of being or growth… See the full definition
Just an FYI, but ErsatzTV is no longer maintained if you use it.
It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update. Over the past five years, ErsatzTV has grown far b...
Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data
Masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users were apparently leaked.
Man uses ChatGPT to sell his Cooper City home: ‘It exceeded our expectations'
Robert Levine used AI to plan, price, market and list the property, saving about 3% of the total sale price that would have gone to a realtor.
Google Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks
Google Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks
MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI
The account is an example of how artificial intelligence is being used to push political agendas in wartime
Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating.
THAT law and it's copies here and abroad
Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026
A new voice actor leak has allegedly outed a Xenoblade game for 2026, and it could be the return of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Self-Host Weekly (20 March 2026)
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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ popular AI chatbots like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Google Gemin helped teen users plan violence and kill…
Popular AI chatbots willingly assist users to plan school shootings, antisemitic attacks, or political assassinations. Learn what CCDH found.
RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities
"Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair…
Palworld 1.0 is still "top secret," but it'll have something for everyone
He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative
He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative.
Elon Musk to Owe Estimated $2.1 Billion After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before 2022 Buyout
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Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy
The FF9 anime has resurfaced once again, now officially in development at EuroVisual and titled Black Mages Legacy.
Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong…
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months behind bars after AI software misidentified her. She's at least the ninth American it's happened to.
‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal
AI models generate meal plans that get necessary calories and macronutrients wrong, posing potential health risks to teenagers trying to lose weight
VoidAuth Release v1.10.0 - Declared OIDC Clients and Passkey Management
What's Changed Features 🚀 Unix Socket Connections for Postgres DB by @repomaa in #303 Environment Variable and Container Label Declared OIDC Clients by @MrNavaStar in #288 Passkey Management by @n...
TIL: How The Founder Of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, Planned on Eradicating Palestinians as Early as 1890
A Historical Timeline of Israel’s Slow Erasure of Palestine
How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platfo…
How much do large language models actually hallucinate when answering questions grounded in provided documents? Despite the critical importance of this question for enterprise AI deployments, reliable measurement has be…
Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes
Mediahuis suspends Peter Vandermeersch, who says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’, after investigation by newspaper where he was once editor-in-chief
Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign | AIVD
Russian state hackers are engaged in a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants. The Dutch intelligence and securit…
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
: Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much
Meta has acquired Moltbook. I am starting to doubt myself.
Meta’s acquisition of Moltbook, the AI-agent social network, feels like a PR stunt, given its fake traffic and security flaws. Is this just attention seeking, or am I missing something?
Japanese Developer Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Called an 'Insult to Life Itself' to Release Cosy God Sim Game - IGN
A machine learning animation technology from the same creator whose work was infamously shot down by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki in a viral video almost 10 years ago, will be used in a new evolution/god-sim game comi…
New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use
Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware by mimicking
From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT
The market for the digital items plummeted after their glory days in 2021 and 2022, and they’ve proven to be not only an artistic and aesthetic disaster, but a shortcut to financial ruin
Starfield Story DLC, Free Spaceflight Update and PS5 Release Date Confirmed
Bethesda has announced its long-awaited list of updates and additions to Starfield, which fans have been anticipating as the game's 'version 2.0' moment.
Hitler and Innocent
A screenshot of Louis’ LinkedIn profile before we reached out to him. Racking up 35 retractions in just 24 months, chemist Hitler Louis has scored a place on our leaderboard. The papers…
UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers
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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally b…
M365 Copilot gets its own version of Claude Cowork
The Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 brings new agentic AI tools to create and edit documents, alongside the launch of an E7 price tier that bundles AI tools with M365 apps for $99 per user each month. Businesses should be …
Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative
A self-hosted, open-source messaging platform with text, voice, and screen sharing. - Harmony-Messenger/Harmony-Frontend
Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received, but the studio wasn't going to b…
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
This robotic hand has such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them
New research could improve robot performance when a light touch is needed, such as in health care and manufacturing.
FF7 on Steam Is Being Replaced (And Your Saves Won’t Carry Over)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity
Proton Mail gave FBI payment data from Swiss servers, proving encrypted email privacy has limits when governments use legal treaties to demand user information.
Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade
'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline
Grasshopper's weird tower-climbing roguelike is closing all online features in August.
Jensen Huang: Nvidia “100% in Israel” despite war
Huang says workforce fears have intensified as war spreads, but insists Nvidia will continue to build its presence in Israel.
Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon se…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades
A new rumor suggests Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, could cost between $999 and $1,200 while delivering major performance gains over the Xbox Series X.
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow
Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.
Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question o [...]
Co-founder of tech company charged with diverting $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of export laws
The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidiaâs artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of US laws barring exports to that cou…
YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable
VRC Non-Skip ads are now generally available globally in Google Ads and Display & Video 360.
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN
Veteran role-playing game maker Obsidian Entertainment has no plans to continue The Outer Worlds with a third game, the studio has confirmed.