Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
The undersea cables carry a large share of global data traffic between Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Tehran proposes to impose a toll for submarine cables that provide internet communications. Iran also wants all manageme…
Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead
Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit red…
Former IT contractor convicted for wiping 96 US government databases
A federal jury has convicted a Virginia man for his role in a retaliatory cyberattack that wiped dozens of US government databases.
TIL the "dab" dance movement is banned in Saudi Arabia for supposed associations with narcotics and people got arrested for it
Entertainer Abdallah Al Shaharani later apologised for the ‘spontaneous movement’ which is banned in the country for supposed associations with narcotics
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you
Emulating the Sony PlayStation 3 just got even better, with the open source RPCS3 now configuring games for you.
Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'
Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.
Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI / New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma continues to make her mark
Will you miss Xbox’s AI assistant?
Over 92,000 tech layoffs in just 5 months of 2026: AI replacing jobs faster than expected as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon job cuts trigger fear …
Tech layoffs 2026: Over 92,000 tech jobs vanished by May 2026, with April seeing the worst layoffs in two years. US tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are cutting staff, citing AI efficiencies and past over-hi…
Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the extent and depth of pervasive and multifacet…
GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices
GrapheneOS claims Google's security systems make it harder for alternative operating systems and devices to access apps and online services.
The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production
Brembo's fluid-free "Sensify" brake system is going into a production car.
Xbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI
The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app.
Roku and TCL Accused of Bricking Smart TVs Through Software Updates
A class action lawsuit argues that marketing materials promise reliable performance and ongoing improvements through updates that actually ruined consumers' TVs.
Chocolate - The World's First Wii U GamePad Adapter for PC
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Stop Killing Games: EU Parliament Hearing on the ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’ ECI
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FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem
This move could kill burner phones if it goes forward.
OpenAI reportedly thinks its phone will sell as many units as the Samsung Galaxy series
30 million units expected in 2027-2028
Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026
Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to h…
Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched
Not to be confused with The Cube.
Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI
We are paying more for a PlayStation so that idiots can use ChatGPT to mislead people on dating apps – something is rotten in the state of gaming
tangled: The next-generation social coding platform
Tangled now has native support for vouching! You can vouch or denounce users that you interact with. Vouched users will have a green shield icon beside their profile pictures, and denounced users will have a red one. Yo…
Coinbase lays off nearly 700 workers in 'AI-native' restructuring
CEO Brian Armstrong blamed a downturn in crypto markets.
ECCO THE DOLPHIN: COMPLETE
/PRNewswire/ -- A&R Atelier today announced Ecco the Dolphin: Complete, a comprehensive new package that takes players on a journey through time and through...
AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not …
Data centers emit sounds from the humming of cooling systems, rumbling of diesel generators, and whirring of fans, which can be heard for hundreds…
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` - blag
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering
Google says cars are about to get smarter, but some users disagree
Self-Host Weekly (24 April 2026)
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PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features
PlayStation has revealed that players will need to verify their age later this year to continue using communication features.
Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and S…
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and other works to train Meta's AI systems.
INDUSTRIA 2 - Launch Trailer
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Physicists used a ferret to clean particle accelerator tubes.
In February 1971, physicists at the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, began testing the biggest machine in the world: a ring-shaped, 200-billion-electron-volt (BeV*) proton synchrotron particle accel…
Krafton still supporting Subnautica 2 launch despite Steam page change
Following their courtroom clash, developer Unknown Worlds is now listed as Subnautica 2's publisher rather than parent company Krafton.
Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT - CyberNetSec.io
A sophisticated campaign is abusing the Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a new RAT, PHANTOMPULSE, to targets in the finance and crypto sectors using social engineering and malicious plugins.
Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website.
Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.
Appwrite 1.9.0: Self-hosting with MongoDB as the underlying database
Learn how to self-host Appwrite with MongoDB as the database backend using the new installation wizard.
TIL the inventor of the Rubik's cube took a month to solve it the first time.
The current world record is 3.47 seconds. But back in 1974 when inventor Erno Rubik first came up with the best-selling game, it took him a wee bit longer.
How chatbot ads distort reality
AI companies are spending big bucks to try to convince us their products are anything but artificial.
Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.
McDermitt Caldera in Oregon is attracting attention for what could be one of the largest lithium deposits ever identified in the U.S.
Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics
Companies are releasing public opinion polling data that was generated by an AI, a trend that has researchers concerned.
Rhythm Heaven Groove launches July 2
Rhythm Heaven Groove will launch for Switch on July 2, Nintendo announced.
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 …
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
'Beamdog's Whimsical Baldur's Gate 2' - Warlockracy
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Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
Mindgard says praise and flattery got Claude offering erotica, malicious code, and bomb-building instructions it hadn’t been asked for.
Using mesh radio networks to use mainstream apps without siloed servers legally stealing our information
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe a leaner operating model will allow us t…
A major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power grid
The top North American grid watchdog warns that AI data centers threaten grid stability with power swings, calling for action to prevent outages.
An odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari
First up, you should go and watch The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa. It is a brilliant set of performances and a joy to see. While perusing the programme on the National Theatre website I stumbled upon a …