M365 Copilot gets its own version of Claude Cowork
The Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 brings new agentic AI tools to create and edit documents, alongside the launch of an E7 price tier that bundles AI tools with M365 apps for $99 per user each month. Businesses should be …
[OC] Dagger Directive mission playthrough, edited to be a more fun watch than raw footage.
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TIL the Windows 7 default wallpaper was created at a resolution of 10800×6750. The size of the source file is 556 MB.
Harmony, also internally referred to as img0, is the default wallpaper for all available Windows 7 editions, except Starter, which uses a different version of Harmony...
Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance
This four-week consultation on open source software tackles the cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and automotive sectors.
Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received, but the studio wasn't going to b…
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity
Proton Mail gave FBI payment data from Swiss servers, proving encrypted email privacy has limits when governments use legal treaties to demand user information.
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…
Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete
An eyewear breakthrough by Finnish company IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the 'head-tilt' struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the huma…
'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline
Grasshopper's weird tower-climbing roguelike is closing all online features in August.
Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See
Under the TikTok deal, its Chinese owners will sell U.S. operations to a group of pro-Israel billionaires eager to censor critical content.
Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon se…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge
Bluesky disclosed a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April, and a new CEO takes charge.
fast16 | Mystery ShadowBrokers Reference Reveals High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - IT Notes
How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.
VoidAuth Release v1.1.0 - Passkey-only Users 🔑
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Approval emails for new users
Admin notification emails, and ADMIN_NOTIFICATION variable for determining maximum notification frequency
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MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow
Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.
Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question o [...]
YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable
VRC Non-Skip ads are now generally available globally in Google Ads and Display & Video 360.
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks
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US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada,…
We'll begin notifying parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to self-harm, so they have the information they need to support them.
With OD and Physint in the works, Hideo Kojima says Kojima Productions is heading towards its "Third Phase," with the creator to focus on "…
The studio is set to "move forward with preparations for the espionage action title 'Physint'"
“Sloppenheimer:” Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack
Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.
OPM established the United States Tech Force initiative to recruit over 1,000 AI specialists and digital experts into the federal workforce…
WASHINGTON, DC — The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), the White House Office of Science Technology and P…
Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union
Workers at the studio behind ‘Solar Ash’ and ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ will soon be represented by a Burbank-based Communications Workers of America Local.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up
Microsoft is currently in an ongoing battle to improve Windows 11 for idle use and gaming to compete with SteamOS, and it has a big plan for it.
GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information
Doesn’t care if its devices can’t be sold in regions that require ID verification.
Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.
Odysseus - Your own AI workspace, running on your hardware
Odysseus — a self-hosted AI workspace: chat, agents, tools, model serving, email, research, and more. Your models, your hardware, your data.
I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots
How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden
A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager.
‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near
Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
A decade before Stalker, [Chasm: The Rift, an] obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shooters
Chasm: The Rift is an early European contender to American FPS supremacy.
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.
Iran social media strategy pivots to information war amid US-Israel attack
Cyber experts say influence operations in ‘asymmetric’ campaign to intensify moral pressure on US and Israel
Inside China’s robotics revolution
The long read: How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
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Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file
Thankfully, the issue has since been hotfixed by Arc Raiders, but the fault still lies with Discord
Asking the Self-Hosting Community to Take a Brief Three-Question Survey
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Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with …
Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over 'Myspace Dragon Hoard'
Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its MySpace Dragon Hoard collection.
US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI
Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots
Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies
Microsoft's Windows boss just sent out a long non-apology to frustrated Windows 11 users, promising big changes. Here's a translation of what you can really expect.
Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design
I play games to experience a crafted piece of artistry. DLSS 5 offers none of this, instead replacing the paintbrush held in a human hand with an AI slopping a big vat of oil over the canvas. What are we doing here?
They wanted to make Free Software illegal and have all computers approved by the government.
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TIL knocker uppers were people who went around knocking on windows to wake people up in pre-alarmclock times.
From candles that drop metal nails to the knocker uppers of industrial Britain, people devised plenty of cunning ways to ensure a timely wake-up before alarm clocks came along.
TIL it takes the average mammal 12 seconds to poop.
Defecation duration is surprisingly similar throughout the mammal world. The average mammal defecates for 12 seconds, even though volume varies greatly between species.
Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9
The first release of Euro-Office will be made available for all users on June 9, also integrated into Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring