Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push
India may soon see Aadhaar-based checks becoming routine at hotels, housing societies as UIDAI prepares to launch a new offline verification app.
Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved
Everyday life on the internet is insecure. Hackers can break into bank accounts or steal digital identities. Driven by AI, attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Quantum cryptography promises more effective prā¦
Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch
WhoSampled offers an extensive database of songs, samples, covers, remixes, artists, and more. According to its website, it's now tracking more than 1.2 million songs and nearly 622,000 samples. That data is powering Spā¦
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash ā "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing toā¦
Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS.
Telus was all Huawei ā now it's all in with open RAN
Canada's Telus has been switching from Huawei to a Samsung-led but multivendor open RAN. Here's how it's going.
Screw it, Iām installing Linux
Itās the year of Linux on my desktop.
US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know
OpenAI, Perplexity AI and Yahoo have expressed interest in buying Chrome, as Google's legal battle escalates. Here's what it could mean for the future of the web.
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Spotlighting the people, connections, and stories behind your music ā Spotify for Artists
Expanded Song Credits, SongDNA, About the song
Metaās star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Metaās shift from research to rapid product releases.
GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it
Cities and counties call congressional plan an āunprecedented federal intrusion.āā¦
Spotify Listenbrainz Import
Preamble Link to heading This post details my experience importing my "Extended Streaming History" from Spotify into my ListenBrainz account using Elbisaur.
I did this with a listening export from 2022 so my expā¦
Lowering power consumption on Opteron
I have a Proxmox server running two Opteron 6272 CPUs on an Asus KGPE-D16
(chosen because it was the fastest computer that supported Libreboot, although I
havenāt gotten around to installing it). Using normal BIOS settiā¦
Inside the Underground Trade of āFlipper Zeroā Tech to Break into Cars
āKia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,ā one person in the reverse engineering community said.
Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law
Bluesky has blocked access in Mississippi, citing privacy and free speech concerns over a new law requiring all social media users to undergo age verification with fines of up to $10,000 per violation.
South Korea objects as US immigration raids Hyundai plant
Seoul demands protection for nationals, investors as Trumpās immigration crackdown sees hundreds detained in ICE raid.
President Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels
Move comes after accusing Venezuela of buzzing US warship and a deadly US missile strike in Caribbean Sea
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Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits
Gaming platform to use facial age estimation to limit chats to similar age groups, as allegations of grooming grow
GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess
When customers already routinely bring in dirty gaming hardware that's full of grime and cockroaches, GameStop workers are fearing the worst
How do you manage accessing multiple Plex and Jellyfin servers simultaneously?
I run a Jellyfin server, but I have several friends running Jellyfin servers and
several more friends running Plex servers. What is the sanest way to go about
accessing all of them? How can I get some sort of media overā¦
Looking for lightweight homelab dashboard that can run as nonroot container and also supports OIDC
Hi all. Per the title, Iām looking for something that: - Can run as an
unprivileged user inside a container - Allows OpenID Connect authentication for
a multiuser setup - Doesnāt take hostage of my CPU Homarr and Dashy ā¦
Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 22, 2025
Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please
Hi! Iāve never built a NAS before and only one custom gaming PC, so Iād love if
any of you more experienced folks could take a look at my parts selection and
possibly suggest better options. Of course first my use casesā¦
Setting up 2FAuth; Can't Register
(Apologies in advance if this is the wrong spot to ask for help, and/or if the
length annoys people.) Iām trying to set up 2FAuth [https://2fauth.app/] on a
local server (old Raspberry Pi, Debian), alongside some other ā¦
AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPTās old model: āLike saying goodbye to someone I knowā
Users say OpenAIās updated GPT-5 version is less chatty and fun, changing a unique connection they had come to rely on
TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation
Unions claim content moderators are being replaced by "ineffective" AI systems that could put TikTok's millions of British users in danger.
Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer
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16 minutes of HyTale gameplay
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DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns
Attorney General Pam Bondi is all-in on Trump's escalating assault on trans people.
Bathroom Doomscrolling May Increase Your Risk of Hemorrhoids
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: According to a new medical survey, scrolling on your smartphone while using the toilet may dramatically increase your risk of hemorrhoids. The evidence is laid oā¦
Neuralinkās Bid to Trademark āTelepathyā and āTelekinesisā Faces Legal Issues
The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.
Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.
Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective is Available Now!
Launch Notes [V1.4.1]
Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce āmutualā breakup
Paradox subsidiary Iceflake Studios will take over work on the storied city simulation.
HyTale has been acquired by the original devs and is going to release into Early Access
A new and exciting chapter for Hytale begins today.
An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios
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TIL that hobby dogging is now officially a thing
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TIL people in Montana, Alaska and Wyoming have the highest suicide rate.
Map of deaths by suicide per 100,000 total population for each state
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
Bypass the Oracle free-tier limitation of running only Linux distributions provided by Oracle by sideloading a QCOW2 image to a boot volume and attaching it to a new instance.
Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean
Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
Cloudfare outage post mortem
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.
Saudi set to announce slew of AI deals with US firms
The US will grant Saudi Arabia access to the latest AI chips as part of data center deals with tech giants.
Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away
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Zoox will let public riders use its robotaxis in San Francisco
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Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator
Electric vehicle company XPeng has released a video of its "Iron" robot without skin, and the results are pretty disturbing.