"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
How difficult could it really be?
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
āI believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasnāt really ready,ā one police official told federal regulators last month.
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
Thereās a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. āHans,ā one askā¦
MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfireāand cost companies their future workforce
CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MITās Andrew McAfeeāas IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.
āI want to cancelā: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthiā¦
Google has aggravated YouTube Premium subscribers once again with an unexpected price hike.
Final Fantasy XIV free trial now includes the Shadowbringers expansion
Free trial now to include FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers!
Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation
Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation
DUNE author Frank Herbert: "My Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction."
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Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
In May 2026, Google announced āGoogle Cloud Fraud Defense - the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.ā The announcement described a QR code challenge where users scan a
FxSound | Boost Your Sound Experience Now
Enhance your Windows audio experience with FxSound's free, open-source software for superior sound quality, volume, and bass customization. Perfect for music, gaming, and transcriptions.
There is no ethical consumption of HBOās Harry Potter series
You canāt without supporting Rowlingās transphobic bigotry.
Michael isn't a biopic it's an advertisement - the backdrop
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EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isnāt a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
fast16 | Mystery ShadowBrokers Reference Reveals High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites (game related site list)
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Oscars(AMPAS): AI actors and writers cannot win awards
Academy Awards organisers issued new rules on āFriday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans and not artificial intelligence āto be āeligible for Oscars. The new rules also includeā¦
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks
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What makes a good smartphone camera? - cadence's weblog (personal blog)
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
All new laptops must have USB-C to be sold in the European Union(EU)
EU rules on common chargers apply to laptops from today. It means that all new laptops sold in the European Union must now support USB-C charging.
"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can leā¦
In an industry that is facing wave after wave of layoffs, Greg Foertsch details how keeping the XCOM team together made for a better sequel.
You Can Now Selfhost Your Own Community or Build Your Own Platform on Our Open Source P2P Social Media Protocol
Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer network for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property.
Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During Ceasefire
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (source paywalled; alternativā¦
FBI Extracts Suspectās Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged āAntifaā activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch
The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and is blocking their ability to send software updates to users.
Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.
Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs
A European Union research service publishes a paper about calls for VPN regulation, noting that they're 'increasingly used to bypass online age verification.'
Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
The creator of Claude Code spoke with Business Insider at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update
Ofcom says decision is āreal win for children and familiesā but some users raise concerns over privacy
RedLetterMedia- What Are These Movies?!? / Whistle (2025) Movie Review
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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming ā but I'm not getting my hopes up
Microsoft is currently in an ongoing battle to improve Windows 11 for idle use and gaming to compete with SteamOS, and it has a big plan for it.
Botspam Apocalypse
Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The āfutureā in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, itās honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic ā¦
The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS - VulpineCitrus
In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.
"Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio
Peak has "had sooo many updates tho!"
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites
PlayStation Studios removed PC references across most studio pages, adding credibility to the rumor that Sony may be changing its first-party PC release plans.
āYour phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near
Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
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Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books
They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.
And just like that, the AI industry started caring about intellectual property
Copyright is suddenly very important to Anthropic now that its AI source code leaked. Just don't ask how it trained its AI in the first place.
Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones - Android Authority
Google has introduced a Play Services requirement for passing its next-generation ReCAPTCHA system, which is bad news for de-Googled phones.
TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large nā¦
The colonial government's trade in opium devastated Indian farmers, new research shows.
How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat ā and the cold? AAA put them to the test
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Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ālong shotā Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presidā¦
Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers - Ars Technica
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to āany lawful useā of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not included
Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now
A woman in London was asked to pay up if she wanted a video of her removed from social media.
TIL Antarctica has its own accent.
Antarctic English is a variety of the English language spoken by people living on the continent of Antarctica and within the subantarctic islands.[1]: vii Spoken primarily by scientists and workers in the Antarctic tourā¦
Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design
LLM-generated passwords appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure. Testing across GPT, Claude, and Gemini revealed highly predictable patterns: repeated passwords across runs, skewed character distributions, and draā¦
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.