TIL Vim uses hjkl keys for cursor movement because they doubled as arrows keys on Bill Joy's original keyboard.
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the…
dario, please
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently published a blog post titled We Must Pace the Frontier and it is a load of bullshit, with a grim goal of regulating open weight models and giving the frontier labs an antitru…
Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
China criticises idea it is in 'malicious competition' over AI
It follows the Anthropic CEO's calls for a slowdown in AI development - but in a way that prevents China from pulling ahead in the race.
Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever
If you add 25 non-Microsoft CVEs with Microsoft fixes, the total reaches 999.
Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies
A Twitch browser extension on Chrome and Firefox forwards users’ live OAuth session tokens through proxies controlled by a Russian bot service.
Arizona Pauses Data Center Tax Incentives After Governor Hobbs Signs Bill
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed a budget bill that imposes a three-year moratorium on new sales tax breaks for data centers, among the most restrictive state-level responses to an industry under fire from residents …
Needed to replace an older server while on a budget. Went for a rackmount chassis with "normal" ATX hardware inside
The IPC 4U-40255 is the perfect rack for a cost-effective server system.
TaskHandoff – a self-hosted workbench for running Codex / OpenCode agents on your own machines
在一个自托管工作台中运行 Codex 与 OpenCode，管理本机和远程工作空间、AI 会话及自动化。从任务分派到代码审阅，全程掌握。
AV2 Specification - Released
Video Codec Working Group (VCWG)
Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with il…
Scale of penalty matches that facing rogue nuclear weapon designers.
‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response
Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026)
The Jellyfin team took a page from Microsoft's playbook and skipped a major version number (v11) with the release of v12 this week – just three months after its v10.11 release. (While the team provides the rationale beh…
Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026
Early sales data has also been shared
007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans
The stealth masters behind Hitman go loud for this game about Bondâs brilliant beginnings
NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.47 released: Foods quick-view, scheduled backups, diary drill-down
Self-hosted personal nutrition tracker — single Docker container, AGPL-3.0, no telemetry, no cloud sync. - TraceApps/nutritrace
GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union
GTA 6 developers have formally announced a union to combat Rockstar Games’ actions which will be debated in court. On Thursday, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and Rockstar staff members announced…
AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?
After apocalyptic warnings about the the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’
TIL about the Spark-gap transmitter
A spark-gap transmitter is an obsolete type of radio transmitter which generates radio waves by means of an electric spark.[1][2] Spark-gap transmitters were the first type of radio transmitter, and were the main type u…
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.
How Halo Became a Game Boy Color Game: An Interview With Halo: Combat Devolved Creator Mike Miller
Mike Miller discusses recreating Halo: Combat Evolved on Nintendo's humble handheld, from technical limitations to the creative liberties needed to make it work.
TIL: Peter Jackson made the decision to model one of the orc leader's face mask after Harvey Weinstein
The actor says the Weinstein orc was intended as a message to the domineering sexual predator producer
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow
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TIL that in Wales, politicians can't lie. It's illegal
Welsh parliament agrees law to outlaw lying in future Senedd election campaigns.
Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being rebooted without its live service bits following negative playtest feedback
Guerilla's game is seemingly the latest casualty in a string of live service fumbles for Sony.
Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200
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Can AI Come Up With Original Ideas?
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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
2XKO Active Development Will End in December 2026
Servers to remain online, all gameplay content unlocked in September. Read for details on timing and refunds.
Shapez 2 - 1.0 Launch Trailer
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Balatro publisher Playstack is being sold to GameSpot owner IMC
The proposed majority takeover values the UK publisher at around $169 million.
Trump says the only AI guardrails the U.S. needs is him as president
He's opposed such efforts and claims doing so could cause China to eclipse America on AI development.
TIL that Elon Musk is buying ads on Instagram. He is urging US voters to check their registration status on his website
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails, only a ‘high IQ’ president
He also alleged the existence of a ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI and data centers, at a time when Americans are increasingly concerned about the technology.
Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
State of Mind is free on GOG for the next two days.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity? Berlin, 2048 – The world
Vampire Survivors’ developer is working on over 15 games, including IP collaborations
Poncle is opening studios in Italy and Japan…
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
I reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of my Egret GT E-Scooter. I describe how I got in, analysed communication between components, and reverse engineered firmware. I speak about writing custom firmware for the…
‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Three little letters - bnb-sideâs name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand
Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking lab…
“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”
KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing
Can we really play GTA VI on PC before an official port?
Portal 2: Community Edition goes open beta on April 17
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Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a …
'Beamdog's Whimsical Baldur's Gate 2' - Warlockracy
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Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared
Palworld passes 40 million players ahead of its July 10 exit from Early Access, with Pocketpair recapping two and a half years of updates.
Sony's Disc-Free 2028 Plan Hands it Total Price Control, Dutch Group Warns in Exclusive Wccftech Statement as €400M Lawsuit Escalates
Sony’s end of PlayStation discs could hand it total price control, the Dutch group behind the €400M Fair PlayStation lawsuit tells Wcctech.
Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to …
'Great Satan's' AI comes in handy.
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.