Co-Founder of Controversial NSO Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport
Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.
The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the healt…
The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike
Delete GrapheneOS? WTF?!
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I also filed the corners off my MacBook
I like my new-to-me MacBook because it enables me to create more stuff compared to my now almost 8 year old Thinkpad I had before, mainly due to battery and screen reasons. There is one thing about it that I cannot wrap…
Sam Neill: Cuddle A Duck
Watch "Sam Neill: Cuddle A Duck" on Streamable.
TIL that uncontrolled dynamic pricing once valued a book 23 million dollars (+ 3.99 shipping)
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental bi…
You'll now be able to spot an AI-generated song on Spotify
Streaming giant Spotify has stopped short of expunging artificially generated music from its platform, but it is making it easier for listeners to work out that they are listening to tracks produced using AI.
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.
Blender 5.2 LTS Released 🥳
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
Was the UK government ever realistically going to be able to restrict VPNs?
The government has ditched its VPN ban plans. Here is why the policy collapsed under technical reality.
OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical mani…
62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6
Over 100 countries currently do not have access to PSN, which has huge ramifications for a digital exclusive PS6.
so easy migrating from GitHub to Forgejo
Using a distributed version control software system (like Git) allows you to keep control of the data inside the repository. If you want to download a local copy of your files, you can git clone your repo, or download t…
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were th…
I built a resume PDF builder — $9 once vs Zety ~$284/year
Build a professional resume and download the PDF. No sign-up, no monthly fee. Works offline.
I built a PDF invoice generator that runs entirely in your browser — $9 one-time, no subscription
Professional PDF invoices in 2 clicks. No sign-up, no monthly fee.
The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE - Dhole Moments
Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I’ve certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been working on building out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Activity…
Mysteries of Telegram DataCenters
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in Singap…
The kids (with phones) are alright – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
There was a remarkable video going around the Scottish socials yesterday which led to quite a bit of media coverage. It’s a four-minute long video showing some furious Scotrail passengers confronting a drunk middle-aged…
Expensive and pointless? Black Ops 1 and 2 PS4 and PS5 ports cost a lot of money and barely offer any upgrades over the originals
You may not have expected much from the Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 ports, but they've somehow managed to be more disappointing.
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study Finds
Two years ago, Mozilla published Over the Edge: How Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice, a report by independent researchers Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles documenting how Microsoft used ...
Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage trucks. As the trucks roll their normal routes, the cameras would scan yards and house fronts for code violati...
Jolla J2 Unboxing and first impressions
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How to unionize your tech workplace
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.
The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
A thought experiment in what we built without noticing.
Grok Build quietly shut down data uploads via cloud update after being exposed to developer repository but unannounced no response
Reproduce it yourself: Grok Build CLI uploads your entire repo + full git history to xAI's cloud, independent of what the model reads. Deny only blocks reading; a committed file still ships in ...
Palantir has a nemesis and I accidentally found him
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US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics
Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers
Hacker Fables - A satirical cyberpunk novella you can read as a man page
The satirical cyberpunk novella to read while your AI agent completes Jira tickets.
Nekome: Nazi Hunter
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities.
Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants re…
Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
[CBH] Turn Platypush into your favourite weather app
Mobile app, web app and custom handling of weather events, all in one
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’
The Star Wars creator compares not using AI to riding a horse in the face of cars
Bindery: self-hosted, folder-watching converter for ebooks and comics
Drop e-books and comics into a folder, get Kobo/Kindle-ready files out. kepubify + KCC with a WebUI, in one Docker image. - jarynclouatre/bindery
26 Employees Lawsuit: Meta used AI to fire workers who used their legal leaves to take time off work
The plaintiffs say a monitoring program deployed earlier this year gave artificial intelligence data to select employees for layoffs.
Long-Term Data Storage for Home Users - YouTube
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LuisCore /for-agents.json — agent bootstrap — LuisCore inference-scale runtime substrate
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Paint-on tattoos could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves — all within a colorful, customizable …
Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos capable of recording different electrical signals produced by the body with more sensitivity, durability and accuracy than other wear…
Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked
Microsoft is facing fresh criticism over its handling of user accounts after another customer claimed the company permanently deleted their account.
How The Spread Of Local AI Models Makes Copyright Enforcement Harder
The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination o…
Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent, and Microsoft is also selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs.
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
Start of a /c/Selfhosted Wiki [CBH]
This wiki is a resource for self hosters of the fediverse, and you are welcomed to both explore and contribute. The !selfhosted@lemmy.world community was founded on lemmy.world, but you can access it from just about any…
TIL the difference between Possums and Opossums
Contrary to popular belief, possums and opossums aren't the same animals at all. So what are the differences between them?
I connected my self-hosted network scanner to an AI assistant over MCP, kept fully on-LAN
New in Server edition 1.5.3: DeviceShelf can expose your live network inventory and monitoring state to an AI assistant over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with 22 tools, guided prompts, attachable resources and an o…