700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
: More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised
What the biggest viral videos of 2025 teach us about AI - BBC Bitesize
Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House
Behind the Scenes - Prince of Persia (1989) [Making of]
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"The horror is almost secondary to the menial task": From Crow Country to Resident Evil 9, here's how horror games keep us scared
Interview | Exploring horror's enduring thrall with the creators of The Mortuary Assistant, Crow Country, and more
Moral Panic and Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban: A Critical Youth Work Perspective
John Sutcliffe critiques Australiaâs impending social media ban for under-16s.
TIL my dog would probably eat me if I died alone.
As grim as it sounds, it's often expected—and biology explains why.
Starcom: Unknown Space
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
Movie Duels [Star Wars: Jedi Academy mod] Update No. 7 Released
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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again
“It was extremely difficult,” IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. “But changing minds was harder than adding skills.”
Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026
As 007 makes his gaming return, you can climb a mountain in Cairn, play a scaredy-cat in Resident Evil, and play a criminal couple in GTA VI
Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery
A visitor who noticed the piece says staff "admitted they had no idea about the piece or when it arrived".
Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at aucti…
Machine with just a few Pong variants was snagged for roughly $1,000 in an online auction.
How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN a…
Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next …
Roberts Space Industries' sim keeps raking in the cash.
TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Aga…
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TIL: Merriam-Webster.com provides a 'Rhymes' section for (nearly) each word in their online dictionary. Also, check out their RhymeZone pag…
to pay or hurl back : return; to make a reply to; to say in reply… See the full definition
TIL that when Americans migrate from violent states, the risk of future violence follows them
The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley.
Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More
Popular open source licenses, Santa tracking, and saying goodbye to an old friend
'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity
What is Divinity's combat like, what does "more ambitious" than Baldur's Gate 3 mean, how far into development is it, and more questions answered.
I met a lot of weird robots at CES -- here are the most memorable
If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.
TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber
Adequate intake of dietary fiber is associated with digestive health and reduced risk for heart disease, stroke, hypertension, certain gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. According…
Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the company's mindset for 2026 — shocker, it's all about AI.
Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag
Grok, the AI chatbot on the X social media platform, has issued answers recently that have startled and amused users, including insinuating that President Donald Trump is a pedophile and that Erika Kirk is actually Vice…
Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
The YouTuber doesn't seem fazed by Apple's threats.
Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft in…
Marathon cinematic short director, Alberto Mielgo, speaks up about the AI questions and the plagiarism scandal tied to the game, calling the situation a genuine mistake that’s been blown out of proportion.
Self-Host Weekly #151: Figgy Pudding
Backing up Spotify, a modern take on recipes, and strange software names
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
In an interview, CEO George Arison claimed artificial intelligence can help solve âdifficultâ gay dating problems.
TIL: The word Vatnik is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian gover…
vatnik - Vatnik (Russian: ватник, pronounced [ˈvatʲnʲɪk]) is a political pejorative used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfa...
An alternate universe where Jurassic Park is real and HBO made a documentary about it.
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Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore
Windows 11 is having its worst year yet, with nonstop bugs, broken updates, and unwanted features pushing users to the breaking point.
‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires
Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
China wants more homegrown chips in its cars. The hard part isn’t geopolitics
China’s push to localise automotive chips is gaining ground, but mostly in mature control systems rather than high-end computing. Observers say the main hurdles are technical, not geopolitical.
The Trump phone just missed another release date
So much for launching ‘later this year.’
Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake
Cloudflare Tunnel: proxy-dns Command Removal 2026 | What are some nice alternatives to encrypted DNS?
Learn about the removal of the cloudflared proxy-dns command in Cloudflare Tunnel, effective February 2, 2026. Stay updated on migration steps and alternatives. Visit https:mwpro.co.uk for more details.
Spotify vs. Anna's Archive
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Photofield v0.21.0 released: search chips, wildcard date search
Happy New Year! 🥂 This release introduces interactive search chips for easier filtering and wildcard date patterns for recurring date searches. Added Improve search with search chips for easier ...
NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026
Philippines — Leading graphics card manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD are set to implement significant price increases starting in the first quarter of 2026,
The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System
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Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
While looking down the back of the Internet for something or other, I stumbled across Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2001. It has been a quarter of a century since 2001 (!!) so that's a good excuse to look back at w…
Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each
Some large /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses, the former Class A network blocks, are assigned in whole to single organizations or related groups of organizations, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numb…
MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought
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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you.…
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks
LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram with aerospace composite and on-device AI Gram 2026 blends aerospace-grade materials with enhanced offline AI features
Pebble Round 2 Announced
Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever