Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Googleâs one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
X down â latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage
Technical issues come amid widespread criticism of Elon Muskâs platform
Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender has taken a firm view on genAI art assets. "I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life more difficult in many ways."
Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.22 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.
Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out
: Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole
SmartTube's signature has been compromised, possible injected malicious library found by some users
Important Announcement Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to rele...
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Palestinians in Gaza Are Watched, Tracked, and Targeted by Israeli Surveillance
Reporter Mohammed Mhawish describes the surveillance, from cameras at checkpoints to drones flying into peopleâs homes.
Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension
This Chrome extension, which works fine on Microsoft Edge, replaces "Microsoft" with "Microslop" all over the web.
The Genius Effects of Old Movies
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About KeePassXCâs Code Quality Control â KeePassXC
Managing a popular open source project is a lot of work and can be very rewarding. This is especially so for a security-critical application such as KeePassXC that enables people around the world to protect their most sâŠ
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever
: Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.
Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
If you want âŹ:\, you can have it, sort of
BentoPDF v1.16.0
Note Please use the edge release instead of the latest for this version. A very small bug has been fixed, but creating another release note would be tedious đ. So just for this instance, please use...
The Oscars award show signs deal to exclusively air on Youtube, starting in 2029
The Oscars will air on YouTube starting in 2029.
Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September â iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim
That's just one of many hefty price increases
Fallout season 2 won't pick a canon New Vegas ending: '15 years down the line, every faction might think they won'
But also, it was for sure Yes Man.
Why weâre taking legal action against SerpApiâs unlawful scraping
We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.
Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is
IRC, PDF copycats, and a celebration of all things self-hosted
Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse
The Oscar-winning actor has trademarked several phrases, including "Alright, alright, alright" from the cult classic film, Dazed and Confused.
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best â Wikimedia Foundation
New video docuseries celebrates the humans who make knowledge on Wikipedia possible; new tech partnerships highlight Wikipedia's value in age of AI.
finally have a privacy respecting phone wireless provider
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We were early but we weren't wrong about Venezuela...
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Gen Z went to movie theaters most often in 2025, according to New Exhibition Report. Also - the number of habitual moviegoers - those who sâŠ
Cinema United's Strength of Exhibition Report also indicated the number of habitual moviegoers grew by 8 percent.
Mozilla's New CEO: It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser
Can the AI push from Anthony Enzor-DeMeo mesh with the company's goal to be the most trusted software provider?
Hytale can now be pre-ordered
Embark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons âŠ
Summit for Lemmy
A mobile client for Lemmy. Contribute to idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox
Roblox requires facial age checks for all users globally to access chat
SicMu Neo | F-Droid
Simple, full-featured, file-based music player
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
One more piece of bad news for VR.
The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless
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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud â hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic
From Bubsy to MindsEye, these are the worst-reviewed games of the year
Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing Are you a mid high-tier normie or subhuman?
Are you a mid high-tier normie or subhuman? Explaining the guide to attractiveness thatâs blowing up on TikTok.
Wikipediaâs Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting
Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.
Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' â company warns that DRAM drought could last untâŠ
Micron has responded to criticism over its decision to exit the consumer memory business and warns that shortages may last until 2028.
âTheyâve pickled each othersâ brainsâ
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.
Standing on a Button for 8 Hours Breaks Portal 2 | Msushi
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Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after twoâdecade collection spree
A Reddit user known as âuncleseethâ has completed a 20-year quest to collect every physical North American Xbox 360 release, amassing 1,353 games and turning a casual achievements rivalry with friends into a lifelong puâŠ
Weâre All So Fâd | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]
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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns - Schneier on Security
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, repâŠ
Over half of enterprise AI stalls on infrastructure mess
: The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases
Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes
Ubisoft Halifax was the company's first North American studio to unionize. It is now being shut down, with over 70 developers being laid off.
Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Wonât Explain Why
In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.
New Social Web Working Group at W3C
Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be particâŠ
Digital Tribulations 6: A Radical Hacker-Fanonian Critique of Digital Colonialism
The introduction to this series of interviews can be read here. Interview with Deivison FaustinoAt the presentation of the MTSTâ book in SĂŁo Paulo, I met Deivison Faustino, a figure who im
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
ï»żOne year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
âELITEâ: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agencyâs activities on the ground.
CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage
: Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again