TIL that in Connecticut, USA, a man was held captive by his stepmother for 20 years, beginning since he was a child.
A Connecticut woman accused of imprisoning her stepson for nearly two decades and subjecting him to starvation and relentless abuse has plead not guilty to charges including assault, kidnapping and cruelty.
God of War Trilogy Remake - Announcement Teaser | PS5 Games
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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
The second installment of the collection featuring “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” and “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (HD Collection version)” “I...
BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.
Saros - Gameplay Overview Trailer | PS5 Games
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Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
Western Digital consumer share drops to just 5% as enterprise takes the rest, company has NO more HDD capacity after gigantic AI deals.
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
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New AI system paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints, by eliminating drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences…
A team of EPFL researchers has taken a major step towards resolving the problem of drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. Their breakthrough paves the …
007 First Light - Story Trailer | PS5 Games
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Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store
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Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.
Untitled John Wick Game - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
Created in collaboration between Saber, Lionsgate, and franchise director Chad Stahelski, the new “Untitled John Wick Game” will feature an original script s...
About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP
You want to have encrypted, self-hosted and free software chat? Which standard should you use?
Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
Segundo a Google, a ideia de substituir ferramentas por software de código aberto não contribuiria para o crescimento económico na Europa
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch
Several LinkedIn posts from now former Highguard developers confirmed the news, which comes ahead of the game's first post-launch update.
Direct Emissions in Semiconductor Manufacturing Are Increasing Again – What Is Behind the Shift?
interface (formerly Stiftung Neue Verantwortung) emerges as Europe's premier Think Tank for cutting-edge tech policy. Our expert team navigates AI, cybersecurity, and more, shaping the continent's digital landscape.
Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface
The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors
Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours
and we have made back our development budget after 3 hours. Thank you all :)
You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
Want to migrate away from discord ? I made a helmfile for stoatchat (previously revolt) with experimental video sharing support
One-click deploy stoatchat to a Kubernetes cluster (or with docker-compose) - baptisterajaut/stoatchat-platform
Project Windless - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games
Every legend has a beginning. Project Windless is a single-player open-world action RPG set in the universe of the acclaimed Korean fantasy novel series The ...
Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
Non-contributors dictating how the hen makes bread.
4Chan for Clankers
what your clawkers are really thinking
Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.
Japanese Developer Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Called an 'Insult to Life Itself' to Release Cosy God Sim Game - IGN
A machine learning animation technology from the same creator whose work was infamously shot down by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki in a viral video almost 10 years ago, will be used in a new evolution/god-sim game comi…
My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
For the past 3 years Ben Ward has been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 19…
A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.
What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
DEAD OR ALIVE 6 Last Round - Announcement Trailer
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DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts
Free speech advocates warn the subpoenas threaten long-standing protections for anonymous speech.
Discord’s UK age verification reportedly shifts flows to Persona for some users
Discord appears to be routing UK users through Persona for age verification, despite positioning k-ID as its official partner. Here's what we know so far.
At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring
International strike is taking place between February 10 and February 12
Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News
Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW
UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup
As TikTokâs U.S. shift sparks user migration, UpScrolled surges.
Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die
Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstech…
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.
OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
Two Midwesterners are fighting back after the platforms they created to report on public Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity were censored by government officials.
OpenAI swaps Nvidia for Cerebras with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller AI encoding model that generates over 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware. It is OpenAI's first
Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week
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Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents
Cloudflare has announced a new feature that automatically serves websites in Markdown to AI agents. With Markdown for Agents, the company is responding to
The lord almighty has spoken
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says it will not conduct new performance-based layoffs, shifting from last year's 5% workforce reduction.
From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.