"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?
Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat
Microsoft just reported its Q4 2025 results, providing some interesting insights into its gaming ventures. The company's overall quarterly revenue increased by an impressive 17% compared to the same period last year, reâŚ
Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser
Out of Action's acrobatic movement and chill server culture are plucked out of the 2000s.
Smiling Friends in Silent Hill 2
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown â Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025?
I think I have made abundantly clear that I consider XCOM: Enemy Unknown to be one of the best strategy games of all time. When it was released in 2012, it single-handedly revitalized the turn-baseâŚ
Attorney General James Sues Game Developer for Promoting Illegal Gambling Through Video Games
NEW YORK â New York Attorney General Letitia James today sued Valve Corporation (Valve), a video game developer, for illegally promoting gambling through video
NovelStar 1.0 A tiny html app to write novels
Professional Novel Writing Software. Contribute to pixeldude84/novelstar development by creating an account on GitHub.
FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn
The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.
Why Havenât Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?
If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about âquantum computingâ, then we are on the cusp of a computing revolution, yet back in the real world things look a lot less direâŚ
TIL: The âPerfect Aryan babyâ chosen by Hitlerâs Nazi regimeâŚwas Jewish
She was six months old when Goebbels chose her Jewish face for Nazi propaganda. Hessy Taft spent 91 years savoring the beautiful reveng - JFeed Israel News
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoplesâ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
More than 145,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
While the world debates Moltbook's role in the AI ecosystem, it is just the tip of the iceberg of Titanic risk. SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team uncovered what lurks beneath: Thousands of exposed OpenClaw (Moltbot) contrâŚ
TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms
Broadcast executives warn the FCC that NextGen TV encryption could turn free over-the-air TV into gambling and pay-TV platforms, with major implications for consumers.
YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step
YouTube star James Stephen Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, has acquired youth-focused financial services app Step.
I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIGHT!
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New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
Iâve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like 13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuhâŚ
0 A.D. R28: Boiorix has been released
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Release 28: âBoiorixâ, the twenty-eighth version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-ti...
Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy
Discord users are unhappy with the platform's decision to roll out age verification requirements for adult user accounts starting in March.
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30â50% of time, pressured by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
As autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed in high-stakes environments, ensuring their safety and alignment with human values has become a paramount concern. Current safety benchmarks primarily evaluate whether aâŚ
Ring Search Party Looks for Lost Dogs. Its Super Bowl Ad Sparks Surveillance Fears
If you report a lost dog in the Ring Neighbors app, nearby cameras will use AI to scan for the missing pet. However, 'Search Party' is on by default, prompting some Big Brother comparisons.
'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks â and are now hunting for alternâŚ
Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March â and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
comcept shuts down
comcept, the company founded by Keiji Inafune in December 2010, was officially dissolved by a shareholdersâ resolution on January 13, according to a notice published in todayâs JapaneseâŚ
Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?
When you defeat a skeleton in a video game, there's a very good chance it will quickly reassemble itself. How did this trope start?
Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN
A UK tribunal has given the go-ahead to a ÂŁ656 million ($901 million) collective action lawsuit targeting Valve over alleged anti-competitive practices on PC storefront Steam.
I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphoneâs record growth shows the world does too
Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.
Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins
The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements for the first, in Los Angeles CountyâŚ
The DMCA Lawyer Randall Newman looks forward to abusing Section 1201 of the DMCA for profit and sport
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Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ringâs AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.
AIs canât stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulationsâ Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weaâŚ
Todayâs leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of âŚ
Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law: Reuters
Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan's offices on Wednesday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship
The messaging giant specifically mentions Mullvad and Amnezia as "well-regarded" VPN providers
Exclusive: Microsoftâs 2027 Xbox could be a huge shift for the platform
AMD CEO Lisa Su commented on Xbox's next-gen yesterday, and the news took Xbox staffers by surprise. Is 2027 a lock? Here's what we know.
Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial
By Clare Duffy, Samantha Delouya, CNN
âManfluencersâ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses
By Sophie Tanno, Ivana Scatola, CNN
New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border securiâŚ
Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.
Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain
The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.
Ignoring all the hype (and hate), Highguard needs a lot of work - SkillUp
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'FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 Skin' Game Pulled From Steam After What May Be a Nuisance DMCA Takedown From a Troll Claiming to Be Games WorkshâŚ
A strategy game dubbed âFTL in a Warhammer 40,000 skinâ was recently pulled from Steam, with its developer suggesting it may have been on the receiving end of a nuisance DMCA takedown from a troll claiming to be Games WâŚ
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.
HP says RAM now accounts for more than a third of its PC costs
HP says the cost of RAM has doubled in its PCs.
Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: âDespite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.â
PdfDing v.1.5.0 - workspaces + collections, 1500+ Stars and almost 200k image pulls
Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. - mrmn2/PdfDing
A Week on From Its Company Reshuffle, Ubisoft Has Announced a Just Dance+ Price Increase - IGN
Ubisoft's next change following last week's major company reorganization will be a price increase to its Just Dance+ service.
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given âŚ
Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background
I hate Discord with the intensity of a supernova falling into a black hole. I hate its ungainly profusion of tabs and vâŚ
UK watchdog hits Imgur owner with fine as promised
Owner of image sharing website Imgur has been hit with a nearly quarter million Pound fine.
More Mac malware from Google search
Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marekâs disease?
VLANâs and Subnets For Home Networks
How to secure your home network from threats from inside the house.
I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026
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TIL that Moore's law no longer applies.
New materials and arrangements are part of the answer to the law reaching its limits.