'It doesnât catch fire': Why Chinaâs "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars
New sodium battery technology creates an internal barrier that helps prevent battery fires
A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles
Indie.io's Jess Mitchell says the platform will help smaller creators with discoverability in an ever-busier games landscape
Pragmata was so top secret, the man behind Hugh was too scared to talk about the moon
âMy entire career has been around the moon,â David Menkin tells Polygon, and his latest moon project is Capcom's Pragmata.
Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine
Valve has still not confirmed pricing or availability for the Steam Machine. In the meantime, the developer of EmuDeck is selling an alternative called Playnix, which should outperform the Steam Machine thanks to an AMDâŚ
A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
An introduction to writing WebGL shaders using gradient noise and cool math.
Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe
'I cannot sign drivers, which means I cannot ship updates for WireGuard for Windows,' the creator of the VPN protocol says. On X, a Microsoft rep says he's working to get accounts unblocked.
Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russiaâs military
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China â says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'
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Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! đ¤Śđź
How a âÂÂkept backâ Proxmox kernel left my home lab exposed to CVEâÂÂ2026âÂÂ31431 â why I now check upgradable packages and use apt fullâÂÂupgrade.
The Silicon Afterlife: Inside the Fight to Preserve Retro Gaming
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
No Rest for the Wicked Marks Its 2nd Anniversary With 1.7 Million Copies Sold
Wicked fans, It's been TWO YEARS since No Rest for the Wicked entered Early Access. Since then, this game has grown and evolved in ways we could only pull off because of you. 1.7 million copies sold, and counting. YouâvâŚ
Cracking a Malvertising DGA From the Device Side
When piracy streaming sites inject third-party JavaScript into your browser, the domains hosting that JavaScript are designed to be invisible. They rotate every three hours, use algorithmically generated names on cheap âŚ
"It is frustrating to see policymakers suddenly claim everything is 'for our safety'" - Stop Killing Games joins pushback against age verifâŚ
Stop Killing Games, fresh from speaking at EU parliament about video game consumer rights, has spoken out against age verification laws.
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (2023)
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriceâŚ
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 â and the world is poised to want more
The nationâs battery and EV exports in particular have grown in recent years. Now, the Middle East war could spur even more demand for ChineseâŚ
We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK â An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime
The control and strategic manipulation of information has long played a role in the geopolitical and ideological competition between the Islamic Republic of Iran and its political adversaries, including Israel. Prior CiâŚ
8 in 10 Europeans donât trust US, Chinese firms with data
Europe is rolling out measures to keep data local and reduce reliance on foreign tech.
A single threat actor used Claude and ChatGPT to compromise nine Mexican government agencies and steal hundreds of millions of citizen recoâŚ
A single threat actor compromised nine Mexican government agencies and stole hundreds of millions of citizen records.
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
YouTube now lets you hide Shorts
You now have the power to remove short-form videos from your YouTube feed if you donât want to see them.
Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.
Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs
: Zuck reportedly needs to capture workersâ keystrokes to build AI
W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.
"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."
MOREH Demonstrates Production-Ready LLM Inference on Tenstorrent Galaxy, Achieving DGX A100-Class Performance with Improved Cost Efficiency
Moreh, an AI infrastructure software company, led by CEO Gangwon Jo, announced that it has successfully validated LLM inference performance on the Tenstorrent Galaxy Wormhole system using its proprietary 'MoAI InferenceâŚ
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Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Plus: The NSA tests Anthropicâs Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.
Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools â but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students isâŚ
Connecticut has taken a big step closer to outright banning phones during the school day, but reactions to the news are mixed.
Anthropicâs latest AI model could let hackers carry out attacks faster than ever. It wants companies to put up defenses first | CNN Business
Anthropic will make its new AI model available to some of the worldâÂÂs biggest cybersecurity and software firms in an effort to slow the arms race ignited by AI in the hands of hackers, Anthropic said Tuesday.
Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as Trump orders U.S. to join Iran in blockade of Strait of Hormuz
"Effective immediately, the United States Navy ... will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz," said the president in a social media post.
Change logs for security intelligence update version 1.449.425.0
This page lists newly added and updated threat detections included in security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware. If you donât find the latest security intelligence upâŚ
Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneuxâs failed Legacy
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped âplay to earnâ game was effectively dead in weeks.
Donating our open-source alignment tool - Anthropic
Updating Petri to version 3.0 and donating it to Meridian Labs
TIL that China have all-boys classes within co-ed schools, often established to address the academic and behavioral "lagging" of boys compaâŚ
Teenage boys in a Shanghai school are on the front line of teaching reform after the worldâs top-scoring education system introduced male-only classes over worries they are lagging girls.
Colonialismo de dados: Big Techs como novos senhores feudais?
Por que brasileiros defendem com paixĂŁo as Big Techs que os exploram? A resposta estĂĄ em mais de 500 anos de colonialidade internalizada.
TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
The long and fraught history of the plant shows that it got an unfair reputation from the beginning
Valve CEO Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an "inforâŚ
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AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer before tumors develop
An artificial intelligence model from the Mayo Clinic detected abnormalities on scans up to three years before patients were diagnosed. It's being evaluated in a clinical trial.
Wizards of the Coast Developers Form Union with CWA
A supermajority of game developers behind the popular digital game Magic: The Gathering Arena has announced their intent to form a union with CWA, also marking the first unionization effort at Hasbro subsidiary Wizards âŚ
Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes â after months of fâŚ
After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.
Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI
Meta will use tracking software on all of its US-based employees' computers that can track mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.
People are getting very nervous about AI; India saw the sharpest rise in AI nervousness of any country
Drawing on global survey data, this chapter captures public sentiment toward AI, from trust levels, transparency, and regulation to employment and personal relationships.
My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up
It wants to destroy my marriage with a sleep leaderboard and nightly drinking.
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AI and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
In May 2026, Google announced âGoogle Cloud Fraud Defense - the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.â The announcement described a QR code challenge where users scan a
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.
The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going - TDF Community Blog
The Document Foundation was created in 2010 with a single, non-negotiable premise: that a free, fully-featured office suite, built on open standards and governed in the public interest, is infrastructure for democracy. âŚ
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centresâ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!
Users on Reddit are reporting that they're now seeing 90-second unskippable ads on YouTube's TV app, even as policy restricts them to 30 seconds.