Does Anyone Still Play Connect 4?
Connect 4 is a classic strategy game where you drop pieces to align four in a row. Play against friends or computer on Infunx.
I built an AI app that helps people choose what to watch in seconds
Mood based AI movie finder â better than JustWatch, Reelgood & IMDb lists.
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon
RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon
TIL why MarĂa Corina Machado is relevant in the whole Venezuela thing
MarĂa Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for democracy in Venezuela despite her ties to the 2002 coup and support for U.S. sanctions. The Nobel Committee picked someone who supports war crimes over those whoâŚ
Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: âWe See The Direction The Industry Is Headedâ
"People decided that it was time that we took our future into our own hands"
AIâs Memorization Crisis | Large language models donât âlearnââthey copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
Large language models donât âlearnââthey copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - Xâs deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why wonât Apple and Google pull iâŚ
Once youâve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge
One industry, one fight
by Games Workers // Video Game Unions Present a United Front Across Western Europe
Nokia N900 Necromancy
Building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, booting from SD card, and giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone.
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the departmentâs then-DEI office. Rubioâs memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenureâs official fontâŚ
Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, US judge says
Judge says there is plenty of evidence to suggest OpenAIâs leaders made assurances nonprofit structure would be kept
Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things
Bidding wars, mobile bookmarks, and my favorite new self-hosted apps from 2025
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
Released: CyberTools Admin 1.5.0 â Backup/Restore Automation for CyberPanel & Linux Servers
CyberTools Admin â Server Automation & Backup Control Version 1.5.0 (Auto-Healing Rollout) Author: Jeffery Raskin ⢠Release: 2025-10-31 đ§ Secure, Intelligent Server Management for Professionals Built for CyberPanel, VPâŚ
State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
Youâve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.
X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool
: Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
Volumetric Display With Lasers And Bubbly Glass
Thereâs a type of dust-collector thatâs been popular since the 1990s, where a cube of acrylic or glass is laser-etched in a three-dimensional pattern. Some people call them bubblegrams.âŚ
700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
: More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised
'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells
Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.
TIL encoding and decoding come from Claude Shannonâs work, and "Claude Code" is named after him
The encoding/decoding model of communication emerged in rough and general form in 1948 in Claude E. Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," where it was part of a technical schema for designating the technolâŚ
Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith
Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner who tried to sell it for $75 million acted in bad faith
Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
While looking down the back of the Internet for something or other, I stumbled across Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2001. It has been a quarter of a century since 2001 (!!) so that's a good excuse to look back at wâŚ
How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond
At this yearâs IEDM conference, we lay the groundwork for a near future where semiconductors with nodes at 1nm and smaller are possible.
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen
Americaâs Pedestrian Death Crisis: 77% Rise in a Decade Shows How Car Capitalism Kills Walkers
Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs
EPFL researchers have developed new software â now spun-off into a start-up - that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the businâŚ
Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized [Updated]
Ubisoft has announced the closure of its Ubisoft Halifax studio, just days after it was announced employees were unionizing.
Who and What comprise AI Skepticism?
An attempt to do justice to a diverse community
Memory Price Surge Squeezes Game Console Margins; 2026 Shipment Forecast Revised Downward
TrendForceâs latest report states that rising memory prices have significantly increased BOM costs in consumer electronics, leading brands to hike retail prices and dampening market demand. After reducing its 2026 shipmâŚ
When a video codec wins an Emmy
Itâs not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em
The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate | Editorial
Editorial: Anthropomorphising tech helps Silicon Valley shares to soar, but our empathy should be directed to worthier causes
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.
AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
Yes, âAIâ will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or âautonomouslyâ exploiting new
Inside ICEâs Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel
Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after twoâdecade collection spree
A Reddit user known as âuncleseethâ has completed a 20-year quest to collect every physical North American Xbox 360 release, amassing 1,353 games and turning a casual achievements rivalry with friends into a lifelong puâŚ
Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes
Ubisoft Halifax was the company's first North American studio to unionize. It is now being shut down, with over 70 developers being laid off.
Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Wonât Explain Why
In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.
Danganronpa game simulator
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Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security
The PS5 BootROM keys have leaked, exposing unpatchable hardware security and potentially accelerating custom firmware, emulation, and piracy.
'It can be unnecessary - and even too much': Are violent video games like Grand Theft Auto 6 becoming too realistic?
The latest in the franchise is the most hyped release of 2026 and looks set to push the boundaries of gaming visuals â but it could prove more disturbing than entertaining.
âI wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement â you could die any minuteâ: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia
âÂÂThere was no animation software in those days. So I videotaped my brother David running, jumping and climbing in a car parkâÂÂ
'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' â Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's LengthâŚ
Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had already been rebooted onâŚ
Dealing with faulty RAM modules in 2026
How to test and safely keep using your RAM