TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia showed their might, but a less glamorous but highly practical class of vessels k…
France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working
Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to expla…
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam | TechCrunch
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.
A new incident response report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN) identifies a coordinated network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels targeting Albertan audiences with nearly 40 million views, expl…
Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics
Mozilla is accusing Microsoft of using Windows design choices and Copilot integrations to steer users toward Edge and make Firefox harder to use, raising fresh concerns about browser competition and platform control.
SpaceX sued for alleged home damage in South Texas— The lawsuit filed by 80 plaintiffs Thursday accuse Elon Musk's company of gross neglige…
The lawsuit filed by 80 plaintiffs Thursday accuse Elon Musk's company of gross negligence and trespassing for loud blasts from 11 rocket tests.
Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed
Why are CEOs blaming AI for layoffs? Perhaps they don’t want to admit to their own mistakes.
Confessions of a Millennial in Tech - by Elena Verna
A lot of mixed feelings and unanswered questions.
Vaultwarden update (security!)
Security Fixes This release contains security fixes for the following advisories. We strongly advice to update as soon as possible. GHSA-937x-3j8m-7w7p Unconfirmed Owner Can Purge Entire Organizat...
Meta blocks dozens of Queer and pro-abortion accounts on Instagram for second time in six months
Instagram has suspended more than 100 LGBTQIA+ accounts worldwide in recent weeks, including an estimated 5 to 10 Dutch accounts — among them prominent queer organizations and nightclubs in Amsterdam — for the second ti…
Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger
Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows…
Half of teenage girls in Japan consult AI about their problems; less than 30% of men in any age group do
生成AIは勉強や仕事の手助けだけでなく、悩み相談の相手として若い女性に浸透している―。内閣府の消費者委員会が実施した生成AIに関するアンケートで、10代女性の52.4％が使用目的に悩み相談を挙げた。 ...
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.
Play games, save forests | Simon Clark
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
"Far Far West" launches to over 15k concurrent players, 98% positive on Steam
our day 1 reviews have been through the (saloon) roof!!! 98% OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE?!?!? y'all... we have no words 😘 if you haven't already, please do give FFW a review on steam, it helps us out alot 😁
Meshcore.io - Why The Split? - MeshCore Blog
Migrating to the new meshcore.io site
TIL mosquitos can bleed animals to death if there are enough of them.
The bites leave animals anemic and bleeding under their skins, and they also become exhausted from constantly moving in an attempt to avoid the insects.
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.
Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
Mozilla Introduces Thunderbolt: An Enterprise AI Client Built for Control and Independence
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
Fedimap
Join the rebellion with Fedimap—explore the galaxy to find your hidden rebel base (Server).
America Used to Own the Internet. Now It’s Running Scared.
The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.
TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are often "plumped" with a salt water solution to increase sell weight, making up as much as 30% of the to…
Plumping, also referred to as “enhancing” or “injecting,” is the process by which some poultry companies inject raw chicken meat with saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract, water and additives,[1] or some combinatio…
Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology
Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.
Netizen
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Security Through Obscurity Is NOT Bad - Mo Beigi
Why security through obscurity still matters: not as your only defence, but as a practical layer that raises attacker cost.
A new liquid battery stores solar heat for weeks
Scientists have engineered a water-soluble pyrimidone molecule that captures solar heat and releases it days or weeks later—enough to boil water on demand.
WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch
The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and is blocking their ability to send software updates to users.
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.
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player
I've spent the last year or so slowly replacing the everything-machine in my pocket with devices that do one thing and do it well. A BOOX e-reader for books. Retro handheld consoles for games. An automatic watch that te…
DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More
DaVinci Resolve 21 is a photo editor now.
Lulu Chased by a Shadow
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay
GameStop's boss Ryan Cohen says he sees potential to make eBay a much bigger rival to Amazon.
The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire
For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.
"Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio
Peak has "had sooo many updates tho!"
Cables of Resistance: the numbers don't add up
Last weekend was Cables of Resistance, a conference I've been organizing together with 20-something other people since last September. Th...
Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss
Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected
Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
Opinion: Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently
Android Sideloading: New Rules, Advanced Flow & What Users Need to Know (2026) - World Today Journal
Google is implementing significant changes to the way users sideload applications on Android devices, a practice that allows installation of apps from sources
GameStop Is Offering to Buy eBay for $55.5 Billion in cash and stocks. If eBay isn't receptive to the offer, GameStop's taking its offer di…
GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) today submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire 100% of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) at $125.00 per share in cash and stock. The offer represents a 46% premium to eBay’s unaffected closing price…
A suspected YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping brow…
YouTube bug reportedly maxing out CPUs.
ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?
: $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts
Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books
They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.
VPN providers will need to obtain a license from the government to operate in Turkey.
Türkiye'de VPN servislerine yönelik radikal bir yasal düzenleme yolda. Lisans almayan uygulamaların erişimi tamamen engellenecek.
Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage s…
The difference between a sync and a backup is illustrated quite adeptly.
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the
Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing …
Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.