AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, ā¦
How AI broke the smart home in 2025
Why AI hasnāt made the smart home smarter
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
TIL children in Australia leave out beer for Santa.
Looking at other Christmas traditions from across the globe.
Days after killing the brand, Crucial shows up at Delhi Comic-Con ā As Micron pivots to AI, Crucial's presence likely booked out months in ā¦
Local partners display RAM and SSD inventories as the consumer brand enters its final year.
4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced
Plex was once the go-to media server, but growing restrictions and paywalls are pushing users away. Here's why you should consider switching.
What is a Passkey? - Computerphile
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selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images
An introduction to updating container images from the command line with dockcheck
TIL: A study found that all major AI models, deployed in a hypothetical corporate environment, tend to blackmail employees or act against cā¦
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs
Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters
As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahead of the midterms.
The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to incluā¦
The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless
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Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst
Last year, I bought an Nvidia GPU for self-hosting AI tools. I'm not a gamer, and I would've never bought this thing if it weren't for AI. I simply don't want to rely on big tech for tools that I would share my personalā¦
The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic
From Bubsy to MindsEye, these are the worst-reviewed games of the year
Weāre All So Fād | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]
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[Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest
A short horror game set in a spooky winter forest.
TIL that William James Sidis, a child prodigy, was a socialist. I see an analogy to Einstein.
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Alleged Fable concept art seems to point towards a return to Fable 2's rogueish hive of scum and pub islands
Alleged Fable concept art which is claimed to have leaked via an unnamed developer's portfolio seems to point to a Fable 2 location being ion the reboot.
Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade
Ubisoft is releasing a 60FPS update for Far Cry 3: Classic Edition on January 21 for current-gen consoles, but it offers no additional graphics improvements, just higher framerates.
TIL there is an asteroid named after Linux.
The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 9001 through 10000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements"[1] and ā¦
Arknights Endfield disables Paypal payments after players report unauthorised transactions | GosuGamers
Arknights: Endfield players were getting charged for items they did not purchase.
Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination
Xbox maker needs some fresher ideas for expanding access to cloud gaming.
Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads
The figure appears to come from a quarterly investor update, but Telly didn't provide any comment on the report.
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires ā The HFT Guy
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, Iām still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapterā¦
A new look for Snikket on Android
Our upcoming release will include a visual refresh
Booting from a vinyl record
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or ā if all else fails ā the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescueā¦ Fun, eh? Boring! Wā¦
Pangolin 1.15: iOS and Android apps, device approvals and posture, 1 year anniversary, stability, and more | Pangolin Blog
One year ago, in January 2025, we unleashed the very first beta of Pangolin. To be honest, it was a bit lean and had a few "character-building" bugs - but it quickly struck a chord as the go-to open-source alternative tā¦
One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI
Survey respondents cited being asked to accept shorter deadlines and lower fees, or losing commissions altogether.
Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors,...
Rebranding our open-source Selfhosted social project to Bitsocial
Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer protocol for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property. - Bitsocial
The Microsoft-OpenAI Files: Internal documents reveal the realities of AIās defining alliance
Internal emails, texts, slide decks, and deposition testimony show how Microsoft went from being sidelined at OpenAIās founding to wielding decisive influence over the AI lab that launched the generative AI era ā and hoā¦
Cataloging modern-era physical releases for the Mega Drive and Sega Genesis
Cataloging modern-era physical releases for the Mega Drive and Sega Genesis
Life is Strange: Reunion officially announced, will conclude the Max and Chloe saga | VGC
The latest entry in Square Enixās series is coming in Marchā¦
TIL: The United States is Now Officially in First Phase of Civil War
According to Experts at University of Pennsylvania: A civil war split not by territory, but by ideology
Tuvix Tricorder - An RSS Button For The Web
Discover RSS and Atom feeds on any website and subscribe with a single click. Introducing Tuvix Tricorder, the official companion browser extension for Tuvix RSS.
Self-Host Weekly #155: One Hundred Million
Publication milestones, Docker management software, and protocol-defining debates
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
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The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the āChildrenās Wellbeing and Schools Billā, lawmakers now want clienā¦
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the āChildrenās Wellbeing and Schools Billā, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: āAny relevant deā¦
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
Google is betting big on CO2 batteries to power its data centers with clean energy.
Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More
Popular open source licenses, Santa tracking, and saying goodbye to an old friend
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isnāt possible.
Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hateāthe showrunners thoughtā¦
Highguard's trailer landed with a thud at 2025's biggest award show, but it didn't pay for the privilege.
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
US tech enabled Chinaās surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
Hardware Store Marauderās Map Is Clarkian Magic
The āMarauderās Mapā is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isnāt real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesnāt neeā¦
Pixlpal is more than just a screen
Pixlpal is a hackable, ESP32-S3-based desktop device with an 11.25-inch LED matrix, high-fidelity audio, and Home Assistant integration.
Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims
Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
Windows 11 Security Update KB5074109 Causes Freezes and System Lockups
Users report black screens and system freezes after installing KB5074109. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue.
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a moā¦