In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administratio…
Security Fixes This release contains security fixes for the following advisory. We strongly advice to update as soon as possible if you believe it could affect you. GHSA-h265-g7rm-h337 (Publicatio...
Ricoh officially discontinues Pentax K-series DSLRs after 23 years, ending production as the last major DSLR maker pivots to an entirely new concept. K-mount stays.
@bekkaboo@girlcock.club Linux itself is heavily using AI models. Therefore, every Linux distribution moving to recent kernel versions is heavily built on top of using AI models. Creating a Linux distribution not heavily…
I’m the developer or SponsorBlock, an add-on for skipping integrated sponsorships, intros, outros and other unwanted sections of YouTube videos. It is a crowdsourced add-on, and relies on submissions on each individual …
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This late…
The EU’s Digital Omnibus quietly rewrites the GDPR in Big Tech’s favour – weakening data protection, user rights and enforcement. EFRI explains what is at stake.
I really appreciate that you're enjoying the software I'm maintaining and want to help. But we need to rethink this collaboration, because I feel like we're increasingly wasting each other's time.
This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare. In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up de…
Things are looking grim for DON'T NOD, the French company behind games such as Life is Strange, Jusant, Lost Records, and Aphelion. After announcing aâ¦
Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions.
Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.
Many people think these must be state sponsored attacks. However, our experience is these attacks are primarily orchestrated by companies selling dubious products marketed as private and secure. We did get targeted by s…
Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has assured fans that he is "not going to abandon Haunted Chocolatier," saying: "it's taking a while to finish the game," and "that's okay."
I recently had the chance to try Sovereign Tower, a very intriguing management RPG that puts players in control of a tower that could be described as not only
A med student says heâs made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. Heâs not alone.
We revisit Starfield on PS5 Pro to see how much it has improved since launch and what sort of upgrade the PS5 Pro delivers compared to PS5, Xbox, and more.
The FTC has been studying surveillance pricing since 2024 and recently its chairman told a Senate committee it may be time to review its disclosure rules for companies.
Le nouveau ministre de l'Intérieur de la République islamique Ahmad Vahidi est, selon la justice argentine, un des cerveaux de l’attentat terroriste contre la mutuelle juive Amia, le plus grave de l’histoire…
Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...