As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC
TIGA says employment fell for the first time in 15 years and the number of studios is dropping…
The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator
Stand-up comedy about having a homelab.
Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
The small tech neighborhood
Building and supporting sustainable small tech on a human scale
'Icky and heartbreaking': The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom
The BBC talks to a Philippines-based woman paid to pretend to be an OnlyFans star in online chats.
Warhammer Blood Bowl announced for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, and PC
Publisher Nacon and developer Cyanide Studio have announced Warhammer Blood Bowl, a new game based on the latest official rules of the tabletop game. It will launch digitally for PlayStation 5, Xbo…
NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have "dummy data"
NordVPN denied allegations that its internal Salesforce development servers were breached, saying that cybercriminals obtained "dummy data" from a trial account on a third-party automated testing platform.
TIL: The United States Has 10x More Serial Killers Than Any Other Country on Earth
How Capitalism Fuels America’s Serial Killer Epidemic for Over 50 Years
Pokémon Pokopia - Pokémon Day | Special Trailer
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‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recog…
Texas's AG is suing Samsung, LG, TCL, Hisense, and Sony over their apparent use of ACR to deliver custom content and advertising.
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Opinion: Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is
IRC, PDF copycats, and a celebration of all things self-hosted
The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit
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Notepad++ Creator Don Ho Calls Out "Fake" MacOS App Over Trademark Violation
Notepad++ creator Don Ho said the macOS version of the popular Windows code editor is fake and using the Notepad++ trademark without permission. The unofficial Notepad++ app for macOS In a blog post, Ho said the macOS a…
'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?
Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best – 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.
Behind the Scenes - Prince of Persia (1989) [Making of]
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Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth - here's why
Canonical's pitch starts with snaps and security.
Plausible critical RCE < 3.2.1
Security related update This patch release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the following versions of Plausible Community Edition (image: ghcr.io/plausible/community-edition): Tags: v3.2 v3...
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20…
Companies like Wix, Snap, and Block have all recently pointed to AI to explain cuts.
Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games
Newell also said in 2023 testimony that Steam's 'unwritten rule' against charging lower prices on other storefronts does not exist.
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK go…
UK users can confirm their age by scanning an ID or using a credit card.
OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot
OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from employees and investors.
Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, re…
Steam's had a contentious history with adult content
A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition
GenAI technologies are being promoted as the door to a new era of economic dynamism. However, the opposite is more likely. While LLM-based tools haven’t measur…
Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold
'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'
Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again
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Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.
"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
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.
New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight
Researchers have developed a ‘negative luminescence’ system to create an innovative way of sending hidden information.
Three more AI psychoses
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
Cambodia aims to shut down all online scam centers within weeks
Cambodia says it is close to shutting down all online scam centers operating in the Southeast Asian country.
Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.
Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project could cost $5 trillion, or 70+% of the total yearly US government budget
But for TeraFab, money is not the only limitation.
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.
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.
Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So
Raspberry Pi has raised prices on many Pi 4, Pi 5, and Compute Module models as memory costs surge in 2026, undermining its once-low-cost SBC positioning.
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages
NVIDIA is reportedly going to recommence production of its GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs owing to DRAM supply shortages.
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 that’s blowing up on TikTok.