TIL Trenton, New Jersey, councilwoman Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a 2013 City Council meeting believing the Blue Waffle di…
Blue waffle is a fictitious sexually transmitted disease said to affect only women, causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. The disease has been confirmed as false. According to Dr. Elizabeth Bosk…
Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox
Groups claim games platform’s design and business model conflict with children’s developmental needs
Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
A new update now in testing sets Edge to automatically appear at startup, and you are forced to opt-out if you don't want it.
Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials
A drug already safe for humans reduces disease-linked early features of Alzheimerâs in a lab model of the disease, say neuroscientists.
To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic
'They're playing games. It's just that their attention and needs are changing,' says Astrid Entertainment CEO Sharon Tal Yguado.
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core - Early Access Release Date Trailer
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Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the dev…
The authorities apparently got tired of asking and just went in themselves.
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workersâ keystrokes and mouse activity.
TIL: Besides offering a free compromised email check, haveibeenpwned.com also offers a free password compromise checking service (It's also…
Pwned Passwords is a huge corpus of previously breached passwords made freely available to help services block them from being used again.
People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly conversational agents such as ChatGPT or Gemini, are now used daily by a growing number of people worldwide. While many users trust the answers of AI agents to their qu…
Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist
Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn't "exist." Now they're saying exactly how it might work.
Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW
BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideo…
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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.
‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says
Datacentres used 22% of countryâs electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests
Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree
If Elon Musk's bot ruled the world, total societal collapse would apparently follow.
Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative
Shift comes amid mounting reports of successful social engineering attacks targeting higher-ups in government
New Letter Warns Next Grok ‘Mistake’ Could Be Leaked National Security Files
Today, a coalition of 30+ organizations and AI experts released a new letter warning of the potential national security implications of the Pentagonâs use of Elon Muskâs Grok. The letter, signed by organizations inc…
Upcoming AAAA game: MAGA Simulator 2077 (sarcasm)
The year is 2077. The fewchur is here! Prezidint Trump is on his 14th turm. He's still cleening up the mess the Liburals made. Still Mayking America Grate! You are one of his most biggest supporturs. Fight thuh libs! Fi…
Where Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go? AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.
Schools are suing social media giants, seeking cash and redesigned apps
School districts, including LAUSD, are suing Meta, Google and TikTok, demanding they fund student mental health services and overhaul addictive designs.
I built an open source app cost estimator after seeing founders underestimate infrastructure costs
Launch your delivery platform with Enatega’s open-source, customizable, ready-to-use delivery app solution.
TikTok’s algorithm systematically skewed to the right during the 2024 US elections, study finds
‘Bot’ accounts were directed mostly towards content aligned with the Republican Party.
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI— Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilitie…
In the latest survey of National Education Union members, conducted ahead of Annual Conference in Brighton, 9,408 teacher members in English state schools gave us their views on the current uses of AI within education –…
Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs
Last month Walled Culture wrote about an important case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), the EU’s top court, that could determine how VPNs can be used in that region…
Meta found liable in child exploitation case
New Mexico hails ‘historic’ win after jury finds firm misled consumers over safety and enabled harm against users
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung's memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom | Fortune
An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump Fortune Editor-in-Chief: Alyson Shontell sat down with President Trump in the Oval Office for an hour. Tariffs, Intel, AI, Boeing, Iran—and the question every CEO eventual…
Slay the Spire 2 - Early Access Trailer
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Devil Daggers 2 is in development, as its creator confirms fewer than 1,500 people survived longer than 8 minutes in the original
Because it's as scary as it is hard.
TIL Dayglo fluorescent paint was discovered by two teenagers experimenting with chemicals in their basement.
In the 1930s, the Switzer brothers stumbled onto a way to mimic fluorescence. That led to Day-Glo, which has been making the world a brighter place ever since
Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam
The feline fighting game surpassed Hades 2's record
Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.
The Boring Internet - Essay by Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
TIL that Adobe doesn't just sell expensive software. They also do research
Look into the future of innovation at Adobe Research
Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO
Sony's recent financial results briefing reveals how the PlayStation company is going to handle the rising memory prices.
I Tested the Trump Phone for 96 Hours. Here's What It's Really Like
CNET has the Trump phone, and we put it through its paces over the long weekend to see how it matches up with other foreign-made phones.
"A Deliberate Process on Nacon's Part": French Union Calls for Boycott of Nacon and Spiders' Games Following Studio Closure
French union Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo calls for a boycott of Nacon published games following Spiders' closure.
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Exclusive: Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.
Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea Announced - RPGamer
Natsume unveiled a new title in the Harvest Moon series. Farming sim Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea is in development for PC and consoles.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic secures large investment as director Casey Hudson rejects use of gen-AI, saying "I'm just really unimpr…
KOTOR spiritual successor Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic gathers funds as director talks studio size, game length, and gen-AI.
SCAN FACE TO PLAY: PlayStation ID Verification - Gamers Nexus
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State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
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TIL: About electric scissors
Electric scissors are handheld cutting tools that are powered by electricity. They are designed to make cutting tasks easier and more efficient, especially for people who have difficulty using traditional manual scissor…
All-Screen Keyboard Has Flexible Layouts
Most keyboards are factory-set for a specific layout, and most users never change from the standard layout for their home locale. As a multilingual person, [Inkbox] wanted a more flexible keyboard.…
X has placed new daily post limits on unverified accounts
Free X users consistently keep hitting rate limits now, because of the new 50 original posts per day restriction.
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 …