My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
TIL why María Corina Machado is relevant in the whole Venezuela thing
María 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 who…
Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’
"People decided that it was time that we took our future into our own hands"
How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates)
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One industry, one fight
by Games Workers // Video Game Unions Present a United Front Across Western Europe
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge
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 department’s then-DEI office. Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font…
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 — Backup/Restore Automation for CyberPanel & Linux Servers
CyberTools Admin – Server Automation & Backup Control Version 1.5.0 (Auto-Healing Rollout) Author: Jeffery Raskin • Release: 2025-10-31 🧠 Secure, Intelligent Server Management for Professionals Built for CyberPanel, VP…
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
Volumetric Display With Lasers And Bubbly Glass
There’s a type of dust-collector that’s 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.…
700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
: More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised
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
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen
America’s Pedestrian Death Crisis: 77% Rise in a Decade Shows How Car Capitalism Kills Walkers
Memory Price Surge Squeezes Game Console Margins; 2026 Shipment Forecast Revised Downward
TrendForce’s 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 shipm…
When a video codec wins an Emmy
It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em
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.
Notepad++ updater installed malware
The updater for the open-source editor Notepad++ has installed malware on PCs. An update to Notepad++ v8.8.9 corrects this.
Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.
Humanoid showdown: Chinese firms make up 55% of robot exhibitors at US tech event
Chinese humanoid robot makers will dominate CES 2026, with nearly a dozen firms and a record Hong Kong delegation showcasing next-gen machines.
Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs, Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’
Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’
‘I wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement – you could die any minute’: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia
âThere was no animation software in those days. So I videotaped my brother David running, jumping and climbing in a car parkâ
The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026
From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.
Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"
Dell is the first hardware maker to openly admit that the recent AI PC push from Microsoft and its partners isn't working.
Samsung, SK Reportedly Hike Server DRAM Prices 60-70% – Google, Microsoft in the Queue
With Jensen Huang officially confirming at CES that all six of NVIDIA’s Rubin chips are back from manufacturing partners and set for a 2026 launch, th...
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.
News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.
Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
The number of questions on Stack Overflow fell by 78 percent in December 2025 compared to a year earlier. Developers are switching en masse to AI tools in
Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users
Privacy and security experts fear that a partnership between Ring and Flock could result in footage being used for inappropriate surveillance.
'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Length…
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 on…
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Add /llms.txt endpoint that serves a concatenated, text-only version of all Tailwind CSS documentation pages optimized for Large Language Model consumption. Extract text from MDX files, removing J...
TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker
I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.
Exiting the Billionaire Castle
In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist (that Venn diagram is becoming more of a circle each and every day) run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to …
Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent
Amazon tests Shop Direct, pulling product listings from other retailers without consent, highlighting data scraping issues.
You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar
Razer showed off its 3D "desk companion," Project AVA, at CES. The 3D hologram can perform tasks like scheduling and live translation.
This AI-Powered Drink Machine Slops You Up Some Generative Booze
I could use a stiff serving of AI slop right about now.
TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining
The first two mines in the world to start moving all of their iron ore using fully remote-controlled trucks have just gone online in Western Australia's Pilbara.
F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email
And I understand why he got annoyed and angry.
TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.
"Baba Yetu" (Swahili: "Our Father") is the main theme song for the 2005 video game Civilization IV. It was composed by Christopher Tin and performed by Ron Ragin and the Stanford Talisman.[1][2][3] For its re-release in…
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
Code is a liability (not an asset)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
Stolen data is being held for ransom by the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group
TIL Chung Sun-sin, head of South Korea Office of Investigation protected his son who bullied his classmate close to suicide so that his son…
School bullying will affect the college admissions for the bully for four years starting in 2026. Thatâs double the current period of two years.
Skate Story is now available
Hey all, in partnership with the wrist-guard warriors at Devolver Digital, I'm so incredibly proud to announce that SKATE STORY is available now! This has been quite the journey after 6 long years of development and I h…
This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?
Automated music discovery and search for Lidarr. Contribute to aquantumofdonuts/mixarr development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bits & Bops, a rhythm minigame collection, has been released on Steam
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