Hardware Store Marauderās Map Is Clarkian Magic
The āMarauderās Mapā is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isnāt real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesnāt neeā¦
Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'
A former engineer for Figure AI filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety.
Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims
Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.
Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments
Iām pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements the Key Transparency specification Iāve beā¦
Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflareās Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a moā¦
Hands on with North Koreaās Illegal Phones
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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
Trumpās immigration data dragnet
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards
The debate over generative AI in games continues.
Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.
Splitgate Has Fumbled Again and Failed to Secure Any Traction Following 'Rebrand'
Splitgate 2's rebrand hasn't been a success and the player count is quickly evaporating to leave nothing behind.
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). Itās distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). Itās the worldās first āpreservation archiveā for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with ā¦
China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions ā DDR5-8000 and LPDā¦
But can it make them in decent volumes?
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Opinion: Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card
Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters
The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology thatās changing the world.
RAM and SSD prices are still climbingāhereās our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you canāt, hereās our best advice.
TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering
Hi friends and welcome to the last post for this year! Whenever someone asks me how to get started with reverse engineering, I always give the same advice: buy the cheapest IP camera you can find. These devices are selfā¦
AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost
The Free Shepherd | World Premiere | The Game Awards 2025
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Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
Happy Public Domain Day everyone
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright tā¦
TikTok Deal Done And Itās Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and itās somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisā¦
LG TVsā unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVsā AI problems
LG says itāll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots arenāt going away.
ā bidicalc - a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
A speadsheet where formulas also update backwards
Freeing a Xiaomi Humidifier from the Cloud
Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results āat an astonishing scaleā
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A plan for a post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...
'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' ā Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthā¦
Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had already been rebooted onā¦
Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
Fediverse is getting E2EE
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Resources to Fight AI Sloppification At Work
If you are anxious about how AI will impact or is already impacting your job, you donāt just need to doomscroll about it. Collective action can, will, and is...
Inequality alone doesnāt cause civil unrest ā but internet access adds the crucial spark
Some regimes may be tempted to shut down the internet to maintain stability. But new research shows why reducing the wealth gap has become crucial for maintaining security.
TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.
"Baba Yetu" (Swahili: "Our Father") is the main theme song for the 2005 video game Civilization IV. It was composed by Christopher Tin and performed by Ron Ragin and the Stanford Talisman.[1][2][3] For its re-release inā¦
Inputs Of Interest: SafeTypeā¢ Vertical Keyboard With Mirrors Puts Pain In The Rear-View
Yep, this keyboard is another ebay special. I canāt stay away! This is a SafeTypeā¢ V801 from probably the early 2000s, although there is no date on it anywhere. Iām basing my guess on tā¦
AIās Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, tā¦
Does Anyone Still Play Connect 4?
Connect 4 is a classic strategy game where you drop pieces to align four in a row. Play against friends or computer on Infunx.
Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds
A study of 8,000 children suggests social media, not screens in general, may be fuelling a rise in inattention.
We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didnāt connect with thā¦
"Youāve now obviously got the cultural impact which is way more important than it was then."
Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: āWe See The Direction The Industry Is Headedā
"People decided that it was time that we took our future into our own hands"
Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Doā¦
This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes. The backlash has been swift, and now Larian ā¦
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge
Nokia N900 Necromancy
Building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, booting from SD card, and giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone.
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
'Harada TEKKEN is Completely Dead': Veteran Bandai Dev Shares Final Message with Fans
On social media, Katsuhiro Harada has shared a final heartfelt message marking the end of his time on the Tekken series.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Patch 1.5.0 Notes!
Content updates, fixes and changes in 1.5.0
Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team beā¦
MonoGame has been used to make all sorts of notable games, including Celeste and Bastion.
Today in āGoogle Broke Emailā
I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email. Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. Atā¦
Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia
Libs and the far-right ālink and buildā in the Bayās tech publication scene.