France to replace US's Teams and Zoom for 'sovereign control'
France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers
Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads.
Nokia vs Asus and Acer: Regional Court Munich redefines FRAND rules
Munich Regional Court ordered Asus and Acer to cease and desist in an infringement case concerning a Nokia video coding patent.
When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Damage in Iran and the Gulf - bellingcat
Bellingcat is introducing an updated damage assessment tool — called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map — focused on destruction in Iran and the Gulf .
Why adding modern controls to 1996's Tomb Raider simply doesn't work
For our C:\ArsGames series, we look at the controls conundrum of early 3D.
Storyden: A forum for the modern age.
Storyden is a platform for building communities. A modern take on oldschool bulletin board forums. Designed to be the community platform for the next era of internet culture.
TIL there are four major blood types: A, B, AB, and O. Mosquitoes love to drink O blood, they think it's delicious.
Most people don’t think about their blood type unless they need surgery or are planning to donate blood. But we can learn more from our blood types than simply whether or not we can safely accept a transfusion from a do…
Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai
UK government announces crackdown on AI chatbots and infinte scroll
'The action we took on Grok sent a clear message that no platform gets a free pass.'
‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront
Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative âanti-wokeâ reviews
When Comfort Comes From Code: Understanding AI Chatbots And Relevant Regulations
Introduction The days of fantasizing about having your own JARVIS—Marvel superhero Tony Stark’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant—are over. For no cost, you can now have engaging conversations with your fav…
TIL that "aspirin" was actually originally a trademarked brand name owned by Bayer.
In the trademark world, "genericide" describes how a brand name can become so common it turns into a generic term for a product or service, irrespective of its origins. This scenario signals a brand's widespread accepta…
YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscipriton or watch ads.
Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr
Overseerr and Jellyseerr are merging into a unified project: Seerr
Crimson Moon - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
https://store.playstation.com/concept/10013260 Wishlist Crimson Moon on PlayStation 5! Prepare, violent one, for an all-new gothic action-adventure RPG. In C...
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19)
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Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes
Dario Amodei’s 19,000-word essay warned against both “doomerism” about AI and dismissiveness of its risks.
Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation
Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation
The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users | New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.
New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.
OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’
Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion â on the eve of Valentineâs Day, itâs being turned off for good. How will users cope?
At Google - Organising at the digital arms dealer
Organising at the digital arms dealer
Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores
Company will close Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores to prioritize investment in growth areas.
When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech
Editorial: Cash-hungry Silicon Valley firms are scrambling for revenue. Regulate them now before the tech becomes too big to fail
Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition is now available on Steam
Rediscover the dark fantasy classic that defined the modern ARPG genre; fully remastered with a new class, fresh content, quality‑of‑life upgrades, and an overhauled endgame. Chain brutal skill and item synergies, rise …
Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine
A massive security failure by the U.S. Department of Justice has exposed active passwords for Jeffrey Epstein’s personal accounts.
Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
UN Human Rights Chief Says a ‘Handful of Men’ Have ‘Almost Unlimited Power’ Over AI
He also warned that advanced AI could pose an “existential risk” to humanity.
7 AI models ran real businesses
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2
How an incorrect value of pi almost got codified into law
Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…
Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
Ubisoft Montreal Lead Fired After Critical Comments on New Return-to-Office Mandate
Ubisoft Montreal team lead David Michaud-Cromp was fired from Ubisoft after publicly criticizing the company's RTO mandate.
Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal
As Dylan Faden, you'll take on a wide range of paranatural threats head-on, utilizing the environment, deploying extraordinary abilities and the raw force of...
Kena: Scars of Kosmora - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
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God of War Trilogy Remake - Announcement Teaser | PS5 Games
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Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust…
When people perceive artificial intelligence as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline
UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms
The UK has announced large-scale policing reforms, including new investments into artificial intelligence and increased Live Facial Recognition deployments.
Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
The second installment of the collection featuring “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” and “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (HD Collection version)” “I...
Is OpenAI dead yet?
Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.
noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children
The DSB decided that Microsoft unlawfully placed tracking cookies on the devices of a pupil
Cursor is better at marketing than coding
Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter
Eric Schmidt: ‘Europe doesn’t have an AI strategy. If it doesn’t invest heavily, it will end up using Chinese models’
The former Google leader warns about the risks to Europeans of their technological dependence
'Final Liberation (1997 PC)' - Minisodes
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Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping
We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.
TIL there's a whole genre of movies called Mockbusters, movies that bootleg the expensive originals.
These movies weren’t made to be remembered. They were made to be mistaken.
Ask Jeeves just shut down after 29 years, and nobody noticed
In the tech business, you sometimes have a weird moment when you learn a service is being discontinued, and your first reaction is, "Wait, is that still a thing?" For instance, around this time last year, we caught wind…
TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture
TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.