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Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.
TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years
New Federal Data Show More Than 49,000 Deaths In A Single Year, Marking The Highest Rate Recorded Since The Early 1940s.
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?
For the past 3 years Ben Ward has been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 19…
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 isn’t love
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
DEAD OR ALIVE 6 Last Round - Announcement Trailer
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A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time developer Sanzaru Games pitched a Jak & Daxter remaster years ago, and a short clip of the proposal has just be…
It's been revealed that Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time developer Sanzaru Games pitched a Jak & Daxter remaster to Sony at some point.
DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts
Free speech advocates warn the subpoenas threaten long-standing protections for anonymous speech.
Discord’s 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.
At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring
International strike is taking place between February 10 and February 12
Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report
A new industry report from Epyllion has broken down the video games industry's battle in the attention economy, which it is struggling with.
Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.
Your fav guide/method for securing Jellyfin?
Hello. I have just recently started with self hosting my media with Jellyfin…
and I am LOVING it! I had been carrying around media players for decades, with
everyone looking at me like an insane crank for not giving up …
Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
Critics say Max, a WhatsApp rival, could be used to track users, though state media says it is not a spying app
One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI
Survey respondents cited being asked to accept shorter deadlines and lower fees, or losing commissions altogether.
India is offering foreign cloud giants a 21‑year tax holiday if they run global AI workloads from Indian data centers
India woos global cloud service companies with tax holiday for 20 years.
UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup
As TikTokâs U.S. shift sparks user migration, UpScrolled surges.
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.
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://arstech…
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.
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being a Hollywood Liberal: Zootopia 2 - The Philosophical Salon
In Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush & Byron Howard, 2025), Hollywood once again entrusts its political intuitions to animals, as though nonhuman faces could soften the blows of contentious themes. The ... Read More
South Korea allows using uncensored personal information for AI training
(세종=연합뉴스) 이세원 기자 = 인공지능(AI) 기술 개발을 가속하도록 비식별조치를 하지 않은 개인 정보를 이용할 수 있는 특례를 도입한다.
OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAI’s 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.
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.
Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors,...
OpenAI swaps Nvidia for Cerebras with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller AI encoding model that generates over 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware. It is OpenAI's first
Rebranding our open-source Selfhosted social project to Bitsocial
Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer protocol for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property. - Bitsocial
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core - Early Access Release Date Trailer
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Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents
Cloudflare has announced a new feature that automatically serves websites in Markdown to AI agents. With Markdown for Agents, the company is responding to
TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.
A social lubricant is any food, beverage, drug, or activity that stimulates social interactions or helps people feel more comfortable in social occasions.[1] Different cultures use different social lubricants for this p…
The first episode of Fallout season 2 solves the 15-year-old New Vegas mystery of the missing Vault 24
I should have guessed: commies.
The lord almighty has spoken
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says it will not conduct new performance-based layoffs, shifting from last year's 5% workforce reduction.
From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
The web’s clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026)
Discord creates discord, MinIO's repository goes dark, and I'm still not deploying OpenClaw
A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles
Indie.io's Jess Mitchell says the platform will help smaller creators with discoverability in an ever-busier games landscape
Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative
VPNs are the only way Russians can access the platforms — for now
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
Claude Desktop Extensions 0-Click RCE Vulnerability Exposes 10,000+ Users to Remote Attacks
A new critical vulnerability discovered by security research firm LayerX has exposed a fundamental architectural flaw in how Large Language Models (LLMs) handle trust boundaries.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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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.
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.
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
New attack eavesdrops on headphone audio from 30 meters away
Electromagnetic (EM) side-channel leakage and injection are typically treated as distinct physical phenomena, threatening data confidentiality and integrity respectively. This work investigates how EM injection can be u…
Hands-on with the Anbernic RG 55G1; Anbernic's Snapdragon Gamble
Anbernic's first Snapdragon-powered handheld is beautifully designed, comfortable to use and capable, but the G1 Gen 2's weak GPU makes a starting-from $150 price harder to justify.