Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026)
Discord creates discord, MinIO's repository goes dark, and I'm still not deploying OpenClaw
A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyr…
Publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against the shadow library Anna’s Archive.
Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model
The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.
Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer
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A suspected YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping brow…
YouTube bug reportedly maxing out CPUs.
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.
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 …
Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.
The long read: What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out â but itâs going to take collective effort
Fable - Gameplay Teaser
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Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine
A massive security failure by the U.S. Department of Justice has exposed active passwords for Jeffrey Epstein’s personal accounts.
Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…
ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?
: $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts
German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns
Germany is moving to standardize on the Wire messaging platform following a wave of phishing attacks targeting politicians on Signal.
Demon Tides Review: Open-World Platforming Excellence Held Back By Weak Bosses
Demon Tides refines Fabraz’s 3D platforming with fluid movement and bold exploration, but weak bosses and flat writing hold Beebz back.
Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds
Linus plans to live forever. But just in case he doesn't, there's now a succession plan (though no actual successor).
New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles
UCLA researchers have developed a nickel-iron battery that recharges in seconds and lasts for 30 years.
Resident Evil Requiem - 4th Trailer
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.Resident Evil Requiem is now available for pre-order! Experience terrifying survival horror with FBI analyst G...
Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones
Embark's CEO says 'most' of the in-game voice lines are now recorded by real actors
Ubisoft Montreal Lead Fired After Critical Comments on New Return-to-Office Mandate
Ubisoft Montreal team lead David Michaud-Cromp was fired from Ubisoft after publicly criticizing the company's RTO mandate.
DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors
Waymo is running a pilot program in Atlanta, paying DoorDashers to close the doors of its self-driving cars.
SpaceX Stock Plummets to Record Low Near $120 After Seven-Day Slump
SpaceX stock drops 47% from its post-IPO high after a series of launch aborts, sending a chill through the broader tech and AI market ahead of August earnings.
TIL that Captain Moroni is a heroic figure in the Book of Mormon. Utah politician Mike Lee compared Donald Trump to Captain Moroni
Americans may have called President Donald Trump just about everything possible this year, good and bad. But standing by his side at an Arizona rally on Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee called him something new to urge Latter-d…
Pragmata - World View Trailer
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OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are…
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.
Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company
The publisher is restructuring around five 'creative houses' by implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.
Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users 'but it's not face recognition'
Meta’s latest attempt to comply with age verification requirements in Europe, Brazil and the US is to roll out AI-powered...
Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch
The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.
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
“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
Designer DNA could revolutionise cures for diseases
Scientists hope AlphaGenome programme ushers in new era of personalised medicine
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...
Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand
‘Monster Wolf’ was originally designed to protect cropland from deer, boars and bears
Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update
The inevitable has officially happened — Chrome is stepping into the world of agentic AI.
Immich v2.5.0 - 90000 Stars Release, with Free Up Space, non-destructive editing, backup and restore on the web, visual refreshing, and mor…
v2.5.0 Highlights Happy New Year! Welcome to Immich v2.5.0. This release is our fireworks to celebrate both the new year and reaching 90,000 stars on GitHub. It is packed with major features that h...
It's time to talk about my writerdeck
tldr: * I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) * I added some packages to make it work better for writing: * network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away * kmscon for custom…
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."
Predator spyware uses stealthy trick to disable iOS recording alerts(without triggering the green or orange status bar dots)
An analysis documenting how a commercial spyware sample, Predator, operates post-compromise.
AI homework tools cut exam scores by 20%, study of 26,000 Chinese students finds
Researchers in Sweden and Hong Kong say students may experience a deceptive sense of fluency – AI makes tasks feel effortless.
AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it
Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be
A new hypervisor-based bypass method, demonstrated extensively within the Linux gaming community using Proton and Wine, has emerged
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK go…
UK users can confirm their age by scanning an ID or using a credit card.
DigitalFoundry: Resident Evil 4 Remake's New PC DRM Impacts CPU Performance
The game doesn't run as well as it used to - and that's not acceptable.
Walmart cuts 1,000 roles to simplify operations, Reuters reports
Under new CEO John Furner and a reshaped leadership team, the retailer is doubling down on a tech-focused strategy.
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five