My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by āObjectsā in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War
AWS says āobjectsā struck a data center in its UAE region (ME-CENTRAL-1), throwing sparks and starting a fire. The fire department shut off power to the building and its generators while they worked the scene, and AWS sā¦
TIL at one time slaves escaped to freedom in Florida.
Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida
For the past 3 years Ben Ward has been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 19ā¦
A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.
What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isnāt love
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts
Free speech advocates warn the subpoenas threaten long-standing protections for anonymous speech.
DEAD OR ALIVE 6 Last Round - Announcement Trailer
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At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring
International strike is taking place between February 10 and February 12
Discordās UK age verification reportedly shifts flows to Persona for some users
Discord appears to be routing UK users through Persona for age verification, despite positioning k-ID as its official partner. Here's what we know so far.
Seoul Station: Being Homeless in a Zombie Apocalypse (and Trying to Escape your Past/Class)
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Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown
The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup
As TikTokĆ¢ĀĀs U.S. shift sparks user migration, UpScrolled surges.
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstechā¦
Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die
Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
OpenAI has deleted the word āsafelyā from its mission ā and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAIās restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
Two Midwesterners are fighting back after the platforms they created to report on public Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity were censored by government officials.
YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science
A study from scientists at Zhejiang University is going viral for showing a correlation between short-form content and lower impulse control.
US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal
Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become the centre of a intense political debate in the recent years.
Teamsā invasive WiāFi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line ā āThere must be a team at Microsoft tasked with makinā¦
Teams wants to monitor office attendance through WiāFi, but critics say the feature feels more like surveillance than a productivity booster.
Terraform plugin for the Dominos Pizza provider
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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS ā user age verified during OS account setā¦
AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.
China claims breakthrough with worldās first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton
UFO-shaped eVTOL unveiled in China, offering 3-second takeoff, 992 lbs payload, aimed at logistics and aerial rescue missions.
The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know ā¦
Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.
China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine
A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).
[Precision Fermentation] Healthier Comforts, The Every Co Roll Out Animal-Free Egg White Protein Powder
Healthier Comforts has rolled out an animal-free egg white protein powder in the US, featuring The Every Company's precision-fermented OvoPro ingredient.
The Jeff Dean Facts
A consolidated list of the Jeff Dean Facts! Contribute to LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts development by creating an account on GitHub.
I have made a Kubernetes to Docker-compose converter/devolver. It's horrible. It's glorious.
Converting helmfile/k8s to docker-compose, because someone asked, and now we all live with it - baptisterajaut/helmfile2compose
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
Remember my kubernetes devolver ? It has breached containment
Convert Kubernetes manifests to compose.yml + Caddyfile
Inside Anthropicās Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
Turns out llms also have āartificial hive mindā, top AI models all say very similar sounding things, do you think that we can use this to dā¦
Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable methā¦
TIL giraffes are 30x more likely than humans to be struck by lightning
Giraffes are around thirty times more likely to be killed by lightning than people, a statistic that sounds exaggerated until the numbers are scaled proper...
Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.
Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'
In two major trials that kicked off this week, Meta has disputed the idea that social media should be considered an "addiction."
Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAIās George Osborne
Without AI you will be a Ć¢ĀĀweaker and poorer nationĆ¢ĀĀ, says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm
Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights.
I Spent a Year Replacing My Subscriptions by Self Hosting. Hereās How.
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Resident Evil Requiem - 3rd Trailer
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Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Canāt Trust His Testimony.
WASHINGTON, DC ā Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergās testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerbergās testimony in frontā¦
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backups
The fourth article in my series about "self-hosting for newbies" explaining how I take care of backups for my YunoHost server.
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship
AdHoc says the core game experience has been preserved on Nintendo platforms despite it blacking out explicit scenes, but fans aren't having it
Dark patterns killed my wifeās Windows 11 installation ā OSnews
Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she canāt log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic errorā¦
Ford Admits Its Current EVs Aren't Software DefinedāAnd They're Worse for It
Ford's current EVs have a mess of control modules from different suppliers, slowing updates. Its next-gen EVs won't have that problem.
New Backyard Baseball game announced, coming July 2026
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Interesting Westworld style game with a Next Fest demo
Sister Lace is a first-person narrative survival game set in an elite academic campus where each student lives alongside a Sister, a humanoid robot designed to assist them. One night, a mysterious virus turns those meanā¦
TIL pediatricians are being used as a great source of antibodies.
Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative trā¦
TIL Ronald Reagan was deeply influnced by SciFi when implementing policy. He reportedly initiated cybersecurity changes within the DoD afteā¦
From hacking legislation to missile defense.