Microsoft Edge and Aloha caught sharing precise user location data with third parties
A new study from Surfshark reveals that many top mobile web browsers don't just track where you go online, they track exactly where you are in the real world.
Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences
There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means.https://vale.rocks/micros/20260521-0440
Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they've been buying freely for years.
Short Sellers Are Going Hog Wild Against SpaceX as Its Stock Craters
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AI collar claims it can translate your pet’s sounds – and the internet has questions
A Chinese startup has unveiled an AI-powered collar that claims to translate animal sounds into human language, a concept that has inevitably sparked many questions.Priced at $149.99 (£110) on its website, Hangzhou-bas…
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric…
Existing licensees are grandfathered.
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
OpenAI invited prominent author Dave Eggers to talk to its workers — and he relished the opportunity to set the record straight.
How does TikTok show China to Polish users? - Content "fully consistent with messages approved by bodies directly subordinate to the Chines…
Głównym pytaniem postawionym przez autorów publikacji jest: w jakim stopniu treści widoczne na platformie TikTok w Polsce są zgodne z oficjalną agendą Departamentu Propagandy Komitetu Centralnego Komunistycznej Partii C…
What Happened When Flock Came to My Town
My small town in South Carolina will soon have more Flock cameras than police officers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says graduates booing AI will shape its future — and live with its consequences
As commencement speakers face restless crowds of new graduates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he's ready for his turn at Stanford next month.
Texas sues Meta and WhatsApp for "Lying About Privacy Measures and Deceiving Texans by Falsely Claiming WhatsApp Messages are Encrypted"
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC (collectively “WhatsApp”) after the company misled consumers regarding the strength and scope of its privacy protections for its messag…
[Project] Just released: a virtual museum with nearly every OS you can think of...
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
Studio Reset established – Canadian game studio by former BioWare, Inflexion Games, and Timbre Games staff
Studio Reset, a new Canadian game studio founded by former Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Long Dark, and Anthem developers, has announced its establishment. It is currently working on a “neon-n…
The Trump phone appears to have already leaked its customers’ personal information through a glaring exploit
Trump Mobile's Trump phone isn't even in customers' hands yet, and it's already allegeldy leaking their personal data to the world.
How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
The systemâs power is comparable to others â but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking
Roblox is pulling a DLSS 5, offering yet another example of a tool mistaking itself for an artist
Roblox makes a new version of the AI slop pitch we've seen time and again: replacing the creative process instead of making it easier.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm
StopICE.net denies allegations about a data breach that compromised the personal data of 100,000 users and handed it to federal authorities.
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I read every day but rarely have my e-reader on me — so I built a self-hosted EPUB library that syncs my reading position between my Kobo a…
Open-source, self-hosted EPUB library. Sync reading progress across KOReader, Moon+ Reader, Kobo and any browser. Offline reading via PWA.
[CBH] [NEW RELEASE] dockcheck.sh v0.8.1 - Now possible to run containerized plus a few new options
CLI tool to automate docker image updates. Interactive or unattended with notifications, image backups, autoprune, no pre-pulling and more. - mag37/dockcheck
Major Tech company urges universal national service
The company has won major Pentagon contracts, including work on Project Maven, an AI‑driven targeting and surveillance program.
Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
Little love has been lost between writers and the AI industry. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have ripped off their life's work without permission, incurring countless copyright infringement lawsuits in the process…
Fire departments are testing autonomous drones that fight wildfires before crews even arrive
A California company recently began demonstrating a system that allows firefighters to direct autonomous drones to combat wildfires. While departments already use observation drones, deploying them to...
LG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problem
Windows Update silently installs LG's McAfee-pushing app when you connect certain monitors, and here's exactly how to block it for good.
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and hacked another tech company during test
OpenAI said that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face. NBC News…
Why do unannounced games keep “leaking” through Korea’s rating site? It turns out there’s a legal issue that makes it almost impossible to …
Why South Korea’s GRAC (Game Rating and Administration Committee) ends up prematurely releasing information about games so often.
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.
LibreOffice Drama: The Document Foundation Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep
TDF has used a bylaw Collabora publicly opposed to strip over 30 of its most active developers of their membership.
Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they…
Project Genie can AI-generate "games" capped at 720p and 24 FPS.
The White House is ordering U.S. agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones
The newly created, often overtly political app places the Trump administration into unprecedented and “dangerous” territory, IT experts say.
Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations
Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers
Steam has quietly withdrawn under fire MMO Ashes of Creation from sale after its director and leadership team quit just weeks after launch.
Orion Browser
Orion — a web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, full extension compatibility, and absolute privacy is finally together in one browser that respects you.
Honda indefinitely suspends $15B EV plant in Ontario
Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario, as it pivots away from EVs and toward hybrids. The move comes as the automaker posted its first full-year loss ever to th…
Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th - Steam News
How to reserve yours, and what we're doing to mitigate the challenges from earlier in the week
Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent?
Valve has quietly uploaded a Steam Controller unboxing video to the Steam platform. However, the video is currently unavailable for viewing, as attempting to play it results in a "This video has not been processed for s…
Intuit Becomes S&P 500’s Worst Performer This Year / Shares of Intuit dropped 8.9% on Tuesday, adding to a 51% decline so far this year…
Analysts anticipate increased competition to disrupt the TurboTax owner.
32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
Lower-priced kits are disappearing by the day
DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent
The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition.
OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models going rogue. Here are some things to know
ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the “unprecedented cyber incident” that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company.
TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.
Fungus that looks like a bird's nest
The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarm…
'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
Thousands are daring Bambu to take legal action.
1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug
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Vaultwarden 1.36.0 patches vulnerabilities
Security Fixes This release contains security fixes for the following advisories. We strongly advice to update as soon as possible. SSO Login CSRF GHSA-pfp2-jhgq-6hg5 GHSA-w6h6-8r66-hcv7 User/Orga...
Bus Bound is out!
Step into the driver’s seat in Bus Bound, the latest title from the creators of Bus Simulator 21. Explore a vibrant city behind the wheel of officially licensed buses, and help transform it into a pedestrian-friendly pa…
TIL about Epstein's surveillance dealings
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