Sorry, iPhone 17 Users: You Don’t Qualify for Apple’s $250 Million Siri Lawsuit Settlement
Apple still denies wrongdoing.
How to block unwanted outbound traffic from your containers
A story about a crypto-miner, a sketchy API wrapper, and the creation of Dockerwall: a zero-trust outbound firewall for Docker.
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Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs
The tech giant made thousands of engineers train their AI replacements—then fired them.
"600% Sound Volume" Firefox add-on blocked after apparently committing affiliate manipulation
To use these add-ons, you'll need to download Firefox.
A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now
Crying in the shower. Taking mental health leave. This is what it’s like to work at the tech giant during the AI job apocalypse.
How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton
New AI features are making their way to your Gmail inbox. Here's how to turn off Gemini in Gmail and why you should.
AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss
As managers continue to outsource data-gathering and decision-making to LLMs, the person above you on the org chart is transforming into a chatbot's clerk – and leaving product teams with the consequences.
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders
Speedrunning Marathons for Charity
Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal
Epic disputes that it impacts their ongoing antitrust dispute.
DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
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Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models
Rumor mill seems insistent that Nvidia won't have any new GeForce GPUs in 2026 — and that wouldn't surprise me.
Your Phone is an Entire Computer
The new MacBook Neo announcement raises old questions around what rights we have (and don't have) to install software on devices we own.
Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany
Windows 11’s market share is not increasing, and that’s concerning because Windows 10’s extended support ends in eight months.
Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to talk about the inner workings of the company that he joined less than a year prior. Days later, he “left” xAI, thoug…
New AI-Powered Android Malware Hijacks Devices for Ad Fraud
Android devices are being abused by a new AI-driven malware that secretly interacts with online ads using a hidden browser.
Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot?
Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Health to aggregate data from hospitals and wearables. Would you trust the tech giant with your medical information?
Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
“Cannot be explained” – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers
A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected double-protection mechanism that…
New Mastodon account documenting hate and racism on r/Monitors and r/ultrawidemasterrace Discord
12 Posts, 1 Following, 6 Followers · Exposing hate and bigotry on r/Monitors and r/ultrawidemasterrace as seen on their official Discord.
Piracy Giant HiAnime.to Announces Mysterious 'Goodbye'
HiAnime's reign appears to come to an end as a message posted on its official domain names says that it's "time to say goodbye"
Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point
An artist from Berlin decided to use 99 phones in a little red wagon to trick Google Maps into thinking there's a traffic jam to prove a big point
TIL that in Connecticut, USA, a man was held captive by his stepmother for 20 years, beginning since he was a child.
A Connecticut woman accused of imprisoning her stepson for nearly two decades and subjecting him to starvation and relentless abuse has plead not guilty to charges including assault, kidnapping and cruelty.
AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.
Cambridge University Researchers: AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kit…
The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally important types of play.
DXC Technology workers begin rolling strikes over underpayment
Technology workers will begin 24 rolling strikes until May 12.
Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried
Critics warn the vaguely worded proposal could have a chilling effect on internet freedom
America’s wildfire risk data quietly puts millions of homes in danger | Federal models keep missing homes that burn. A new AI tool zooms in.
Federal models keep missing homes that burn. A new AI tool zooms in.
PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy to Deliver Cryptomining Malware
Malicious PyPI package sympy-dev targets SymPy users, a Python symbolic math library with 85 million monthly downloads.
What are your thoughts on cal.com changing to cal.diy?
Discover Cal.diy, the 100% MIT-licensed community fork of Cal.com. Designed for self-hosters, it removes enterprise code for a pure open-source experience.
After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X
City councilors in the liberal enclave voted unanimously to leave a platform they said had become toxic under owner Elon Musk.
Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy
Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.
Former IT contractor convicted for wiping 96 US government databases
A federal jury has convicted a Virginia man for his role in a retaliatory cyberattack that wiped dozens of US government databases.
Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll
A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment.
Mega Man Actor Drops Out Of Sequel Over Non-Union Contract
SAG-AFTRA has ordered union members not to work on Mega Man: Dual Override
At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble
What, us worry? As OpenAI pivots to "last resort," tech titans pivot from bubble talk.
French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
French protestors says Windows 10's ESU will only leave users in the lurch, potentially rendering millions of PCs obsolete as they upgrade to Windows 11.
HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers …
Hard drives, often treated as a legacy technology, are once again being pulled into the spotlight.
X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs
X is rolling out a new feature called “Starterpacks” to all users in the coming weeks, the company’s head of product has announced.
Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing
Stardock Entertainment just announced they're expanding their publishing business for indie game developers, so they might end up funding some cool stuff.
Superconductors that operate at room temperature and no electricity loss? Harvard team of physicists map samples at millionths of a meter t…
For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with no loss. Now, in a…
Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the extent and depth of pervasive and multifacet…
Remote Code Execution in Forgejo?
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
The family the girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has launched a civil court lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Hardware Watchdogs & Auto Reboots in Proxmox
Leverage emulated hardware watchdogs inside VMs to do automatic health checking and diagnostic reboots on hang, all with native Linux packages
Final Trails Game to Be Announced in 2031 and Released in 2032, Confirms Falcom
Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo confirmed that the final Trails game will be announced in 2031 and released in 2032.
Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction
Animated and interactive intro to multi-cursor editing using Command D and clever text navigation techniques.
The Anatomy of Search Engine Spam
Black hat SEO is endlessly fascinating phenomenon to study. This post is about some tactics they use to make their sites rank higher. The goal of blackhat SEO is to boost the search engine ranking of a page nobody parti…
Apps helping boycott US goods gain popularity in Denmark
UdenUSA is currently the fourth most downloaded app in Denmark on the App Store, the American ChatGPT is in fifth place