Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks.
Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as actin…
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
English Wikipedia bans archive.today
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack against a blog.[1] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests t…
A Podcast Episode about the Fediverse
Podcast Episode · Search Engine · 09/01/2026 · 39m
AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer before tumors develop
An artificial intelligence model from the Mayo Clinic detected abnormalities on scans up to three years before patients were diagnosed. It's being evaluated in a clinical trial.
Wizards of the Coast Developers Form Union with CWA
A supermajority of game developers behind the popular digital game Magic: The Gathering Arena has announced their intent to form a union with CWA, also marking the first unionization effort at Hasbro subsidiary Wizards …
RUINER 2 - Official Reveal Trailer
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Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president
The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law.
China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country
12 February 2026 | Fredrik Karrento Evidentiary note: The excerpts below are verbatim model outputs from multiple sessions. Section headings summarize the content of the excerpts without claiming the content necessarily…
Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock
The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.
Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists
Young adults are more likely than older Americans to believe that AI will create economic gains that benefit everyone, but they are also more likely to worry that AI will replace jobs they depend upon
Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations
The chatbot shall provide answers, including legal advice, in many different languages although it was only fed information in English, new documents show.
New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features
Adding message-tags, batch, msgid, and invite-notify.
Discord/Twitch/Kick/Snapchat age verifier: age verifies your account automatically as an adult on any website using k-id
age verifies your account automatically as an adult on any website using k-id
big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server"
A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discovery
The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
Did you think you could escape?
People are getting very nervous about AI; India saw the sharpest rise in AI nervousness of any country
Drawing on global survey data, this chapter captures public sentiment toward AI, from trust levels, transparency, and regulation to employment and personal relationships.
My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up
It wants to destroy my marriage with a sleep leaderboard and nightly drinking.
Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning
That helpful “Summarize with AI” button? It might be secretly manipulating what your AI recommends. Microsoft security researchers have discovered a growing trend of AI memory poisoning attacks used for promotional purp…
Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)
Notepad RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-20841 explained. How a text editor became a remote code execution vector. What you need to know.
'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center
"It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.
Trump’s Pal Mark Zuckerberg Censoring Site That Names ICE & Border Patrol Goons (ICE List)
ICE List says Meta is blocking its links after a leak that exposed the details of 4,500 federal immigration employees.
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
Salesforce employees call on CEO Benioff to cancel ICE 'opportunities'
More than 1,400 Salesforce employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Marc Benioff to cancel all potential business with the U.S. ICE agency.
For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal
The prime minister has endured years of abuse on the social media platforms he now seeks to regulate.
In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord
Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data. - Sharkord/shar...
This Autonomous Snow Blower Shovels on its Own, Recharges Itself, and Keeps Going
A viral video shows a $5,000 robot effortlessly clearing snow during a winter storm. We dive into how the Yarbo autonomous snow blower works, its limits, and why it has millions rethinking the worst chore of winter.
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025 | TechCrunch
Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years.
You can play the Lord of the Rings TCG online for free!
Play the Lord of the Rings TCG for free in your browser using GEMP. No limits, no clean-up, and no budget. Build your deck and play today!
Apple Eyeing A Partnership With Chinese Memory Makers YMTC And CXMT As The Big Three Adopt Hardball Tactics
The gambit might simply be Apple's way of countering the hardball negotiation tactics employed by SK hynix, Samsung, and KIOXIA.
"We have no desire to be a media empire," says Palworld publishing head, but Pocketpair would be stupid to let the survival game die out
Pocketpair aren't "trying to turn Palworld into this big, big, big, big, big, big thing"
Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated …
Lawyers representing Unknown Worlds' reinstated CEO have accused Krafton of intentionally leaking Subnautica 2's early access release date.
Arcade Drift Car Physics Explained (from Parking Garage Rally Circuit)
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TIL : Mount Olympus is the highest planetary mountain in our solar system (21.28km or 69,840ft)
Olympus Mons (/əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊ-/;[5] Latin for 'Mount Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars. As measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), it is 21.1 kilometres (69,000 ft)[3] or, more precisely, 21.2…
Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) t…
According to Jeff Gerstmann, a Fallout game was being developed by an Xbox-owned studio but will no longer see the light of day.
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds
: Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster
France to replace US's Teams and Zoom for 'sovereign control'
France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers
Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads.
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is 'simply impossible'
Valery Fadeev, head of Russia's Human Rights Council, concedes that blocking circumvention tools would devastate businesses and banks
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?
Why adding modern controls to 1996's Tomb Raider simply doesn't work
For our C:\ArsGames series, we look at the controls conundrum of early 3D.
5 Malicious Chrome Extensions Targeting Enterprise HR Systems
Five deceptive Chrome extensions were found abusing enterprise HR and ERP platforms to steal session tokens and hijack accounts.
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.
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A giant pit in Switzerland will soon house the world's most powerful redox flow battery
In northern Switzerland, a construction team is hard at work excavating a hole in the ground that will end up being over 88 ft (27 m) deep, and spanning the length of two soccer pitches. This pit will be home to Switzer…