Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent
It's all fun and games until every aspect of your life is splashed all over the dark web.
TIL getting married young during the European Medieval times was rare.
A lot of people still believe that in medieval Europe everyone got married at a very young age, that child marriages were very common.This is not the case. Please note: this article is a work in pr…
An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling
AI is coming for everything, Wall Street seems to believe.
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.
Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground?
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Is Ubiquiti helping the Russian Military?
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours
A technology has been developed that uses robots rather than humans to evaluate the performance of newly developed catalysts. By operating 45 times faster than manual work while also improving precision, it is expected …
Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"
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Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War
Based on Hunterbrook Media’s reporting, Hunterbrook Capital is short $UI and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication. Positions may change at any time. See full disclosures below. Our affiliate…
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch
While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
How to revert Firefox’s latest changes to address bar suggestions
In a recent update Firefox changed the order of it's URL bar suggestions order to make search suggestions appear first before recently visited URLs. This is annoying so I changed it back.
Thermodynamic Computing Promises Energy-Efficient AI Images
What if AI could create stunning images with a fraction of the energy used today?
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital
A Chinese programmer died in hospital after fainting while working at home late last year.Gao Guanghui (transliterated), 32, allegedly died of cardiac arrest, leading his family to believe that he died from overwork.Acc…
I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
In which I give you yet another reason to ignore the naysayers
Blizzard Entertainment dates ‘next chapter’ reveals for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment will showcase “what comes next” for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo over the next few weeks, starting January 29 and ending February 11, the…
YouTube - OpenAI Showed Up At My Door. Here's Why They're Targeting People Like Me - More Perfect Union
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries
Ice pellets (Commonwealth English) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail"), which is made of frost…
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.…
Malicious VS Code AI Extensions Harvesting Code from 1.5M Devs
Two popular AI coding extensions with 1.5M installs secretly harvest your entire codebase and profile you. Both are still live in the marketplace.
TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change
Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing this week as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the U.S.
The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
Some global users are turning to services like Proton Mail and UpScrolled instead.
TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover
Are you heading to UpScrolled?
'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI
Microsoft appears to be finally listening to users calling for fundamental changes with Windows 11.
Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.
From Patch Tuesday disasters to the "Microslop" PR nightmare, Windows 11 is losing trust. It's also losing one more thing: market share.
Neocities deindexed from Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic
Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.
Approaching Docker, Containers, and Compose for curious Self-hosters - Linux Prepper episode
This is a bonus Linux Prepper podcast, available as a detailed companion to “A Great Year for Linux”. This is a discussion with HB, stemming from this post on Lemmy learning from admins who avoid container technology. W…
French tech company Capgemini to sell its subsidiary working for US ICE amid international controversy over the deaths of two people in ICE…
French IT giant Capgemini said Sunday it was selling its subsidiary working for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency amid international controversy over the deaths of two people in…
FBC: Firebreak Free Weekend + Double XP and Remedy discount on Steam
A three-player cooperative first-person shooter set within a mysterious federal agency under assault by otherworldly forces.
Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux
Developer Natalie Vock working for Valve has sent in even more impressive performance improvements for AMD GPUs on Linux with Mesa.
Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
Salazar v. Paramount hinges on video privacy law's definition of "consumer."
Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son
Two crypto thieves decided to settle an argument over who was wealthier by screensharing as they transferred crypto between wallets to prove ownership. In doing so, one of them — known online as "Lick" — revealed a wall…
Report: Payday developer Starbreeze is making more layoffs
The company previously confirmed a round of job cuts in October 2025.
'Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO
'Call of Duty' players are blaming Jeffrey Epstein for the franchise's shift to microtransactions after leaked emails between the financier and Bobby Kotick surfaced.
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The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
Donut Labs released VTT's independant test results!
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PodOsef — MP3-first podcast publishing (no DB, static, minimal)
Over a decade ago I wrote a PHP-based podcast publishing/archive system. The idea behind it was MP3-first: no DB, no complications – just drop an MP3 file into a folder and distribute. The software could generate HTML a…
PearPass: password manager with P2P and E2EE syncing with multiple devices.
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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduc…
Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"
Microsoft Edge Secure Network VPN promises built-in privacy, but a security researcher says it behaves like a browser proxy than a full VPN.
Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?
The AI hype is based on the assumption that the frontier AI labs are producing better and better foundational models at an accelerating pace. Is that really true, or are people just in sort of a mass psychosis because A…
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%
The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products. For orders placed before 1 April 2026, but delivered after 1 April 2026, the adjusted prices will apply.
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also have …
Hiroshima scientists turn any smartphone into a radiation detector
Prompt, individual-based dose assessment is essential to protect people from the negative consequences of radiation exposure after large-scale nuclear or radiological incidents. However, traditional dosimetry methods of…