Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
Sam Altman's cryptocurrency turned identity verification startup Tools for Humanity is offering a new set of perks to people who scan their eyes at one of the company's orbs.
China exports a ton of cleantech — and the world is poised to want more
The nation’s battery and EV exports in particular have grown in recent years. Now, the Middle East war could spur even more demand for Chinese…
Life is Strange creator Don't Nod look to be in hot water as a financial report says they'll be out of cash by November
Minority stakeholder Tencent apparently aren't interested in offering further funding.
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Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models
Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s capabilities. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate
Sharing a YT video about labor and working from home is enough to get you terminated, it seems
EDRi launches new resource to document abuses and support a full ban on spyware in Europe
EDRi is launching a document pool to centralise resources that tracks abuse and support the growing push for a full EU-wide ban of spyware.
Ireland is updating it's laws to get more surveillance powers(including using spyware and intercepting communication encrypted or not encry…
From: Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Github, the first enterprise cloud solution to reach zero nines reliability
Attached: 2 images IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #github
1 In 5 Boys Know Someone Their Age Who's In A Relationship With An AI Chatbot
Over one third (36%) of boys admitted they prefer speaking to AI chatbots over family and friends.
New Epstein files reveal contact with Bitcoin dev Andresen before CIA briefing
Two days before Gavin Andresen’s controversial decision to discuss Bitcoin at the CIA, Jeffrey Epstein wanted to call him.
App turns phones into at-home ultrasound devices
A new app will allow pregnant women to conduct an ultrasound and receive an accurate fetal heart rate from their mobile phones.
DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What…
TIL Reagan's CIA director aimed Cold War-style propaganda at Americans and recruited billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Sc…
Special Report: The rapid expansion of America’s right-wing media began in the 1980s as the Reagan administration coordinated foreign policy initiatives with conservative media executives, including Rupert Murdoch, and …
Fifteen Years of Waterfox: Alex Kontos on Independence, AI, and the Future of Browsers
TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. In…
Christiano Ronaldo and Messi Dancing Challenge 😭 why they look too good
Nobody did it better than them so far 😅
Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company
By fusing SpaceX and xAIâwhich acquired X last yearâElon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.
Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons
Arms makers are teaming up with venture capital firms in a push to bring AI to the battlefield.
A Familiar Hunt | Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal | adult swim
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Should We Accept an AI-Governed Life? Superman and Batman Answer.
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New Mexico's Meta Ruling and Encryption - Schneier on Security
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems worryin…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business
SpaceX has acquired xAI, the company announced on Monday, merging two of Elon Muskâs most ambitious companies into the most valuable private company in the world.
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Terraform plugin for the Dominos Pizza provider
🎲🍕 The Terraform plugin for the Dominos Pizza provider - MNThomson/terraform-provider-dominos
A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats
Google’s Project Zero team found that WhatsApp can download a malicious media file without you doing anything at all.
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
Operation Sovereignty - Germany plans a breakthrough from M$
A cross-party parliamentary commission aims to end dependence on US tech giants and increasingly rely on European open-source solutions.
LLM/"AI" Policies | Jellyfin
The rise of LLMs as a useful development tool over the last year or so has been significant. The power and flexibility of tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have given a lot of functionality both to experienced develope…
FF7 on Steam Is Being Replaced (And Your Saves Won’t Carry Over)
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All-Screen Keyboard Has Flexible Layouts
Most keyboards are factory-set for a specific layout, and most users never change from the standard layout for their home locale. As a multilingual person, [Inkbox] wanted a more flexible keyboard.…
Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
FOSDEM 2026: One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
Haraltd v0.0.2 - A cross-platform Bluetooth daemon with JSON-RPC
A cross-platform daemon that provides a JSON-based RPC to interact with the native OS Bluetooth stack. - bluetuith-org/haraltd
Inside Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
From a media blockade to “nationalizing” government software, Denmark has become a laboratory for resisting U.S. Big Tech. But is the price of sovereignty too high?
Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives
New research from Proton shows that Europeans want to shed US tech dependence and build tech sovereignty for Europe. Read the full report.
Richard Pryor nails the connection between racism and capitalism
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ONE PIECE: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Securely erase empty space on Android
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Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’
Reese Witherspoon is again advising her followers that there's no time like the present to start learning about and using artificial intelligence.
EPA Advances Farmers’ Right to Repair Their Own Equipment, Saving Repair Costs and Productivity
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.
Meta discontinues end-to-end encryption on Instagram
The company says the feature wasn't popular with users.
Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around
Records from a single town in Illinois reveal more than 1,200 Flock searches investigate cases of loitering.
Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job
A new survey found that Gen Z workers are particularly invested in sabotaging their company's AI deployments.
Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed
Disney previously invested $1.5 billion in the Fortnite and Unreal Engine company…
Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN
Veteran role-playing game maker Obsidian Entertainment has no plans to continue The Outer Worlds with a third game, the studio has confirmed.
AI controls is coming to Firefox
AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code
The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says
FBI Director Kash Patel made the statement after right-wing media figures said they joined the chats and claimed participants were obstructing law enforcement.
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