State of Kdenlive
In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug …
TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large n…
The colonial government's trade in opium devastated Indian farmers, new research shows.
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
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.
German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns
Germany is moving to standardize on the Wire messaging platform following a wave of phishing attacks targeting politicians on Signal.
Judge rules DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal / The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ pr…
DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to scan grants for terms related to DEI.
Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI
His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole'
The very tools regulators want to restrict are surging in popularity.
Please just stop
First it was a meme. Then it's what men started saying when words failed them.
Researcher claims Claude Desktop installs “spyware” on macOS
A security researcher claims Claude Desktop installed spyware on his Mac. We examine the findings.
AI Assistants Are Leaking Your Conversations
A study conducted by researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute has revealed that ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Grok, and Perplexity AI use different types of trackers from Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies,…
Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims
Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.
Your Duolingo Is Talking to ByteDance: Cracking the Pangle SDK's Encryption
When you open Duolingo to practice Spanish, BeReal to share a photo, or Character.AI to chat with a bot, you probably don't expect your battery level, storage capacity, and internal IP address to be sent to ByteDance, t…
Some Unknown Group Is Reportedly Using Claude Mythos Without Permission
What's been pitched as the most dangerous AI model in the world allegedly has a giant security hole.
Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled "in-vehicle toilet"
Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.
[Beta] Dorsal - an open source, iOS-native, album-focused music client for Jellyfin (Siri, CarPlay, Offline/Downloads, Gapless Playback, EQ)
An album-focused iOS/iPadOS music player for Jellyfin. Your digital record shelf and player. - jaredreich/dorsal
People Hate AI Art
So I had ChatGPT generate that for me.
Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data c…
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
In a thriving online economy, Polymarket gamblers are discussing how to profit from war
A Guardian investigation reveals how the prediction market can shape news â and how it rules on âthe truthâ
Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same
New battery storage techniques are about to change the cost and availability of renewable energy on the utility grid.
Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"
Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky
As space junk accumulates, astronomer Sam Lawler explains why we should be concerned about the rapid proliferation of private satellites in low orbit
The deepest strategy e-sport you've never heard of.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? This is a map with all of them
Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
There was no ill intent by evil corporation, but rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code. As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well.
AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent
More people are saying no to data centers.
Self-Hosting security reference
Default-deny all inbound. Open only what is explicitly needed. This applies at the host firewall level regardless of what your cloud provider or router does.
Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off / All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recall…
All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recalled.
Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen
Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface.
AI warfare triggers Putin, as Kremlin moves to dismantle the last pieces of Russian internet: More and more restrictions are being imposed …
Telegram is blocked, VPNs are being chased after, but Putin suddenly talks about a national AI again.
Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs
Even if the war stops now, Amazon will have to wait months before it can return its Middle East servers back to full operational status.
Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters
It's been a bad week for burritos on wheels.
Sierra Club report: Texas coal plants draining state's shrinking water supply
Texas coal and gas power plants consumed more than 100 billion gallons of water in 2024, according to a new Sierra Club report that calls on state leaders to accelerate the shift to renewable energy a...
The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can s…
Nintendo sued by players who say they should get any tariff refunds received by the US government
A messy situation gets messier
It's Official - TurtleWoW is Over
After 8 years of operation, the largest Classic+ private server, TurtleWoW, will be shutting down on May 15th, in compliance with Blizzard's cease & desist order.
Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March
Spotify adds 'Verified' badge to distinguish human acts from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says | Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance …
Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.
This programmer wants to use your phone to fight ICE
Sherman Austin's text alerts are powering community defense.
I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPod
In 2026, my favorite music player has no Wi-Fi, no notifications, and no subscription. Here's why I'm using an iPod instead of an Android.
Asus tells reviewers one Zenbook A16 price, then immediately hikes it
Asus told reviewers that its Zenbook A16 laptop, one of the first with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite inside it, would be $1,599. A day after the launch, it raised the price. Is that fair, even in the age of shortages?
Radicale v3.7 collection sharing?
A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server. - Kozea/Radicale
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
Remove Paywall, free online paywall remover. Get access to articles without having to pay or login. Works on Bloomberg and hundreds more.
A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data
A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data â including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics â from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute th…
A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
An introduction to writing WebGL shaders using gradient noise and cool math.