Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds.
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
Do you use a keyboard to navigate websites? If so, you've probably run into countless accessibility issues where groups of inputs or widgets are not easy, or even possible to get to with just the keyboard. A keyboard-ac…
Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.
A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.” W…
10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that …
ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use— RFI signals growing interest in ad tech platforms that collect dev…
(ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.
Addicted to the algorithm: New research exposes how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media
As the European Commission prepares a new Digital Fairness Act (DFA) to tackle addictive design of social media and other harmful digital practices, new research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) reveals intense lob…
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.
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and s…
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
Google ends its 30% app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores
Google is changing how it collects fees on the Play Store, and making it easier to use third-party app stores and billing systems.
Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P – Krebs on Security
For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and…
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.
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American c…
After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
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.
Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027
Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027
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
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
Anthropic is untrustworthy
An examination of the gap between Anthropic's image and actual behavior.
Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
Welcome to Wikimedia's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work
"Our goal is to make great games again, without having to look over our shoulder constantly, wondering what the next announcement brings, and who will fall"
Game companies see share prices plummet following the launch of Google's very limited virtual world generator, Project Genie
Gaming companies saw share prices plummet this week after Google rolled out Project Genie 3, an AI tool that lets users…
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.
Remember my kubernetes devolver ? It has breached containment
Convert Kubernetes manifests to compose.yml + Caddyfile
AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate th…
It's almost like we could all see this one coming.
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.
The web’s clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets
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Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.
The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.
Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative
VPNs are the only way Russians can access the platforms — for now
Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote
Tesla filed a criminal complaint and called police to its Gigafactory Berlin after accusing an IG Metall union representative of...
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
Claude Desktop Extensions 0-Click RCE Vulnerability Exposes 10,000+ Users to Remote Attacks
A new critical vulnerability discovered by security research firm LayerX has exposed a fundamental architectural flaw in how Large Language Models (LLMs) handle trust boundaries.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026)
Discord creates discord, MinIO's repository goes dark, and I'm still not deploying OpenClaw
Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model
The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.
Seven takeaways from the latest International AI Safety report
Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption
The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know …
Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.
TIL Operation Northwoods - A DoD/CIA plan to commit terrorist attacks on US soil to invade Cuba
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense of the US government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives to both stag…
Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
Without AI you will be a âweaker and poorer nationâ, says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm
Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
HDDs for the current and next decade.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 0.34 “Doomed Geometries” has been released (+ tournament announcement)
We are pleased to announce the release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: 0.34 “Doomed Geometries”!
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backups
The fourth article in my series about "self-hosting for newbies" explaining how I take care of backups for my YunoHost server.
New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles
UCLA researchers have developed a nickel-iron battery that recharges in seconds and lasts for 30 years.
Resident Evil Requiem - 4th Trailer
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.Resident Evil Requiem is now available for pre-order! Experience terrifying survival horror with FBI analyst G...
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front…
Forward Auth with Authentik and Envoy Gateway
Using Authentik for forward authentication at the domain-level with Envoy Gateway.