The Year Ahead for Battlefield 6 | 2026 Roadmap
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Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI
It gave the leader of a nonprofit involved with it "a very grimy feeling."
How I Won a Championship That Doesnāt Exist Or How I Learned To Poison The LLM Supply Chain
Poisoning the LLM knowledge supply chain with a fake Wikipedia edit and a single domain registration
I investigated Windows 11's massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
Windows 11 updates are now crossing 5GB. Our analysis shows that bundled AI and Semantic Search files are causing this massive storage bloat.
Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
Noriyoshi Ohba x Rieko Kodama (2001) - shmuplations.com
Originally featured in the Sega Consumer History book, this interview with Noriyoshi Ohba and Rieko Kodama is a nostalgic look back at their careers.
Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they've been buying freely for years.
RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later
No relief in sight from the RAMpocalypse.
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites
PlayStation Studios removed PC references across most studio pages, adding credibility to the rumor that Sony may be changing its first-party PC release plans.
GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview
GameStop made a takeover bid for eBay, offering $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion.
EU Commission bans top officials from using Signal groups
Due to concerns about targeted digital espionage, the EU Commission has instructed its highest-ranking officials to immediately dissolve a central Signal group.
The Anatomy of Search Engine Spam
Black hat SEO is endlessly fascinating phenomenon to study. This post is about some tactics they use to make their sites rank higher. The goal of blackhat SEO is to boost the search engine ranking of a page nobody partiā¦
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million ā backbone codec of the internet gets meteoricā¦
Existing licensees are grandfathered.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Googleās AI research lab hope to block the use of the companyā¦
UK staff of Googleās AI research lab hope to block the use of the companyās artificial intelligence models in military settings.
"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
VS Code credited Copilot for human work after a default change that bypassed user settings.
Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books
They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.
The first trailer for HBOs Harry Potter show is out
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Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
Self-Host Weekly (3 April 2026)
Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
Iāve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. Iāve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and Iāve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.
White House App Reportedly Shares User Data With Third Parties and Relies on Russia-Founded Firm Linked to Staff Data Exposure
The White House app is reportedly sending user data to third-party platforms without disclosure, raising privacy concerns.
post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
L'internet Post-Americain, par Cory Doctorow Source : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition Transcription franƧaise : en attente.
Iranās AI memes are reaching people who donāt follow the news ā and winning the propaganda war
In an online environment which blurs news and entertainment, Iranās AI propaganda videos are reaching a huge audience globally.
FCC Commissioner Demands Close Scrutiny of 49.5% Foreign Investment in Paramount's Proposed Merger With Warner Bros.
Federal Communications commissioner Anna Gomez on Tuesday urged the agency to closely scrutinize foreign investment tied to Paramount Globalās proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs
The American EV brandās sales rebounded in the first quarter, but a new problem is making its presence felt.
The open web isn't dying. We're killing it
The open web is under pressure from AI companies and large platforms, but its troubles did not start with AI. We also chose convenience over control, and we will have to change that if we want a better web.
Sriracha imageboard and forum server now supports sending email notifications
Imageboard and forum server
AaluxxMyth of Maya Protocol on Decentralized Swaps & Untraceable Digital Cash | Tune-in to a LIVE MoneroTalk episode TOMORROW 1/8 at 6:00PMā¦
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New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB
VECT 2.0 was built to lock your files and demand a ransom. A rookie coding mistake means it's just destroying them instead.
Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses ā zero-day game releases become norm as security concernsā¦
This time around the company might have a point, though.
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 9ā¦
San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind ā yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with noā¦
What are your thoughts on cal.com changing to cal.diy?
Discover Cal.diy, the 100% MIT-licensed community fork of Cal.com. Designed for self-hosters, it removes enterprise code for a pure open-source experience.
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing āI Donāt Wanna Waitā on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off āDragostea Din Teiā by O-Zone, which anyone ā¦
The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 | Caio Bianchi
For years, Microsoft survived on inertia. Windows was the default. Office was the default. GitHub, after the acquisition, became the default forge for softwa...
French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
French protestors says Windows 10's ESU will only leave users in the lurch, potentially rendering millions of PCs obsolete as they upgrade to Windows 11.
Meta Sheds Influencer Andrew Tate's Lawsuit Over Instagram Ban
Meta convinced a federal court to quash a lawsuit challenging its termination of six Instagram accounts run by self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan.
Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries
A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices. But consumer advocates argue that it contains far too many loopholes that companies could exploit.Ć¢ĀĀ
Remote Code Execution in Forgejo?
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azureāfrom a former Azure Core engineer.
LibreOffice Drama: The Document Foundation Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep
TDF has used a bylaw Collabora publicly opposed to strip over 30 of its most active developers of their membership.
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint
Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Security, Vulnerabiliā¦
Itās not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans
What about the EUās own complicity in funding the market for spyware, even when we recognise the harms it inflicts?
A Worthy Alternative to Discord!? [Matrix] (Techsplainations)
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A Cryptography Engineerās Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!
You donāt look a day over 30 lives.
Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai
Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.
Mozilla Introduces Thunderbolt: An Enterprise AI Client Built for Control and Independence
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
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Join the rebellion with Fedimapāexplore the galaxy to find your hidden rebel base (Server).
āThe cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employeesā: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.