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2025 Game Awards Results Discussion
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Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments
We continue our annual tradition of looking back at Microsoft's wins, fails, and WTF moments: its victories, failures, and things that left you shaking your head. There's no other way to say it: Microsoft had a bad 2025.
Who cares about the Baltic Jammer? – Terrestrial Navigation in the Baltic Sea Region (39C3)
Reports of GNSS interference in the Baltic Sea have become almost routine — airplanes losing GPS, ships drifting off course, and timing s...
Hacking washing machines (39C3)
Almost everyone has a household appliance at home, whether it's a washing machine, dishwasher, or dryer. Despite their ubiquity, little i...
Presenting 14 practical vulnerabilities in GPG & similar tools on stage (39C3)
Might contain zerodays. https://gpg.fail/ From secure communications to software updates: PGP implementations such as *GnuPG* ubiquitous...
All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale (39C3)
The Deutschlandticket was the flagship transport policy of the last government, rolled out in an impressive timescale for a political pro...
AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)
I successfully failed with a literature related project and accidentally built a ChatGPT detector. Then I spoke to the people who uploade...
How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China (39C3)
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is one of, if not arguably the most advanced Internet censorship systems in the world. Because repressi...
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
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Inequality alone doesn’t cause civil unrest – but internet access adds the crucial spark
Some regimes may be tempted to shut down the internet to maintain stability. But new research shows why reducing the wealth gap has become crucial for maintaining security.
TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalat…
A utopian Russian novel predicted Putin’s war plan.
What the biggest viral videos of 2025 teach us about AI - BBC Bitesize
Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code
Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order
Google has removed dozens of Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the U.S., marking the country's first pirate domain removals.
Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify
Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata
Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI
In a legal analysis for consumer advocates, experts warn of massive protection gaps due to the planned "digital EU omnibus". Big Tech is favored.
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it:
'Horrible Racist' Stephen Miller Slammed for Using Classic TV Christmas Special to Bash Immigrants
Stephen Miller uses classic TV Christmas special featuring Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to bash immigrants.
LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlight…
[id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized
id Software is the latest Microsoft-acquired team to organize
Inputs Of Interest: SafeType™ Vertical Keyboard With Mirrors Puts Pain In The Rear-View
Yep, this keyboard is another ebay special. I can’t stay away! This is a SafeType™ V801 from probably the early 2000s, although there is no date on it anywhere. I’m basing my guess on t…
Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results
Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...
We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good.
We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another p…
Open-Source ASI Alignment Proposal That Makes Privacy a Law of Physics – Thoughts/Red-Team?
“A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence” - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-Constitution
AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, t…
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK
Bro, she's literally you
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Samsung confirms it isn't ending SATA SSD production
A Samsung Electronics spokesperson has confirmed that reports about the brand ending SATA SSD production are false.
MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
Packaging Stremio’s GTK4 Shell: CEF Integration Adventures
Nine days debugging one function call, and other lessons from browser-engine integration Introduction When Stremio released their new GTK4-based shell using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead of Qt5/QtWebEngine, …
Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
: SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks
How I found critical vulnerabilities in Petlibro smart pet feeders allowing complete account takeover via broken OAuth, access to anyone's pet data, device hijacking, and private audio recordings - and how they're still…
Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for print…
Affordable crm solutions for growing businesses
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OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her ânext chapter.â The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.
Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.
Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy
The US government contributed over $2.5 million to the Tor Project last year, continuing its financial relationship with the nonprofit.
Apple opens up its App Store to competition in Japan
Epic Games CEO says Fortnite won't return to Japan, though, because the new rules still require high fees.
Joint Force, a 2D puzzle game, is coming soon to Steam
Solve challenging puzzles to reunite Belcho and Nim.
Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?
In-car, smartphone infotainment systems are a pro for car shoppers, but not necessarily carmakers who'd rather keep your data all for themselves.
Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant
Confused about VPNs? Learn how VPNs really work, different VPN Protocols, what they hide, what they don’t, and how to judge VPN providers.
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media â and generating about $117m a year, data shows
Plebbit will be the first pure peer-to-peer social media protocol.
Contribute to plebbit/whitepaper development by creating an account on GitHub.
TIL: Life imitates Art. Full stop.
After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against government corruption goes viral on social media, he finds himself elected the country's new president.After a Ukrainian high-school teacher's tirade against govern…
Pluribus Season 1 Episode 8 - Dinner Scene.
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