YouTube Premium is getting pricier
The standard plan is going up by $2 a month in the US.
A new survey of 3,335 public servants across 10 countries found that 70% say they use AI, but confidence lags
A project by Public First for the Center for Data Innovation and Google
French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push
2026 is set to be l’année de Linux.
/e/OS flash party in Lyon
Mais on sait déjà qu'elle se tiendra le Samedi 21 Novembre et qu'elle sera hébergée par INRIA à la I-Factory sur le campus de la Doua ! Pensez à bloquer vos agendas :)
Study: Generative AI Is Eroding the Development Pathway for Software Developers
SNU Professor Taesup Moon’s Team Reveals How Generative AI Is Eroding the Development Pathway for Software Developers- What is disappearing is not only junior developers’ “jobs,” but also the “pathway...
Early Access Launch | Road to Vostok
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Microsoft's "commitment to Windows quality" starts with overhaul of beta program
Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.
Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026)
The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend
Limited Run Games Announces Widespread Delays, Concedes Delivery Dates Were "Too Aggressive" & "Overly Optimistic"
The company has once again promised to do better
TIL about Lithium + Fluorine liquid rocket propellant
The highest specific impulse chemical rockets use liquid propellants (liquid-propellant rockets). They can consist of a single chemical (a monopropellant) or a mix of two chemicals, called bipropellants. Bipropellants c…
TIL Tolkien supported fascist Spain
Web de Jose Manuel Ferrandez - Gimli - y sus actividades sobre TOLKIEN
Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps — with little evidence they work and few regulations.
Atlassian Will Collect Jira and Confluence Data by Default to Train AI Models
Atlassian is enabling AI training data collection by default for Free, Standard, and Premium customers from August 17, with no opt-out for metadata on lower tiers.
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
TIL James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, founded an amateur cricket team called the Allahakbarries
Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven he…
You Can Now Selfhost Your Own Community or Build Your Own Platform on Our Open Source P2P Social Media Protocol
Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer network for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property.
Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.
TIL that Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are two different people!
The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were us…
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
WordPress: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' by board
Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
L'internet Post-Americain, par Cory Doctorow Source : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition Transcription française : en attente.
Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change
European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children.
TIL how wild animals are vaccinated for rabies en masse
Oral rabies vaccination: a creative public health solution using vaccine-laden baits to protect wild animals and humans from a deadly disease.
Iran’s AI memes are reaching people who don’t follow the news – and winning the propaganda war
In an online environment which blurs news and entertainment, Iran’s AI propaganda videos are reaching a huge audience globally.
What police surveillance technology looks like in Cleveland
Video cameras and license plate readers are just some of the surveillance tools Cleveland police are using across the city.
Privacy vs. Profit: The Impact of Google's Manifest Version 3 (MV3) Update on Ad Blocker Effectiveness
Authors: Karlo Lukic (Goethe University Frankfurt), Lazaros Papadopoulos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models
Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s capabilities. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What…
TIL Reagan's CIA director aimed Cold War-style propaganda at Americans and recruited billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Sc…
Special Report: The rapid expansion of America’s right-wing media began in the 1980s as the Reagan administration coordinated foreign policy initiatives with conservative media executives, including Rupert Murdoch, and …
European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams
The Matrix protocol is being lined up as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams
Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority"
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project p…
FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan for 1M Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts
Usually, the commission takes weeks or months to respond to a filing, but it kicked off a public comment period for SpaceX's orbital data center plan in just a few days.
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
Did games really get more costly to make?
By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.
I love Subnautica and building bases in weird places in Creative Mode is an obsession of mine.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
Fedimap
Join the rebellion with Fedimap—explore the galaxy to find your hidden rebel base (Server).
Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable"
Within days of Starfield's much-anticipated launch on PS5, fans are complaining of "totally unsurprising" crashes, free…
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound
Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
Mozilla Introduces Thunderbolt: An Enterprise AI Client Built for Control and Independence
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about
: It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect
TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will produce 3 nanometer chips at its second, still-under-construction plant in Kumamoto, Japan, the company announced Thursday.
TIL that Broccoli can significantly lower cancer risks
If you knew there was a simple approach to reduce your cancer risk, would you take it? Well, one of the simplest strategies linked to cancer prevention is to increase your broccoli intake.
The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire
For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.
'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars
New sodium battery technology creates an internal barrier that helps prevent battery fires
Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around
Records from a single town in Illinois reveal more than 1,200 Flock searches investigate cases of loitering.