Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn…
Is it safe the new Syncthing-Fork v2.0.14 on F-Droid?
Wrapper for Syncthing - Open and decentralized file synchronization
It seems Bun were completely rewritten in Rust via LLM code generation and it's planned to replace original version
Blog post with details coming soon. It passes Bun's pre-existing test suite on all platforms (and fixes several memory leaks and flaky tests), the binary size shrinks by 3 MB - 8 MB, the benchm...
Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work
Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.
Oh no, Wikipedia has been turned into a gacha card game and I can already feel my time slipping away from me
The best part is it's completely free.
Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?
When you defeat a skeleton in a video game, there's a very good chance it will quickly reassemble itself. How did this trope start?
Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN
A UK tribunal has given the go-ahead to a £656 million ($901 million) collective action lawsuit targeting Valve over alleged anti-competitive practices on PC storefront Steam.
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
While the summit appeared cordial, China remains a key adversary of the United States, given its advanced intelligence and espionage capabilities.
TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why
In computing, internationalization and localization (American) or internationalisation and localisation (Commonwealth), often abbreviated i18n and l10n respectively, are means of adapting to different languages, regiona…
BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.
Saros - Gameplay Overview Trailer | PS5 Games
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After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at P…
Air Force bans smart glasses for troops in uniform
The Air Force is banning troops from wearing smart eyewear like Meta AI glasses. Other services allow commanders to dictate device policies.
Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
Western Digital consumer share drops to just 5% as enterprise takes the rest, company has NO more HDD capacity after gigantic AI deals.
Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit
Sony and Tencent have settled their dispute over upcoming Tencent game Light of Motiram…
ESTA: USA wants to check social media accounts of European travelers as well
For a vacation in the USA, people from Europe have so far not had to reveal too much. This could soon change if it's up to US border control.
Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative
Two council members have retracted their approval votes after people raised concerns.
Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance
A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
“it’d be wrong to steal the non-profit from him.”
Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week
For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private Network (VPN) usage sur…
Try not to get scammed while looking for work | Bogdan Chadkin
Couple weeks ago a CTO contacted me about a role at their company. After three failed calls, I figured they are trying to access my machine.
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
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New AI system paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints, by eliminating drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences…
A team of EPFL researchers has taken a major step towards resolving the problem of drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. Their breakthrough paves the …
26 Meta employees accuse Mark Zuckerberg of using AI to target 8,000 layoffs against workers on medical, parental or family leave
They went on parental and medical leave, then watched AI‑fed dashboards mark their output down, the lawsuit claims.
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased-Amy v. Apple
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which a…
After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case
TikTok recently settled its portion of the case with the plaintiff ahead of a jury trial that starts next week in Los Angeles. YouTube has also reached a deal, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant.
Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt
A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.
Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children
CCDH found that Grok floods X with sexualized images after launching a one-click editing feature in an 11-day period.
007 First Light - Story Trailer | PS5 Games
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Ignoring all the hype (and hate), Highguard needs a lot of work - SkillUp
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Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign | AIVD
Russian state hackers are engaged in a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants. The Dutch intelligence and securit…
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the manâwho hasnât entered the US in more than a decadeâfollowing posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Samsung users, if you are on One UI 8 and plan to downgrade to One UI 7 to be able to unlock the bootloader, do not install November's secu…
It looks like Samsung has silently removed the option to unlock the bootloader from One UI 8.0 onwards as it has been reported by some users in the forum (here, here). By reversing the Settings app code we can take a de…
Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage
Sony has announced that it is suspending fulfillment of all orders for nearly its entire SD and CFexpress memory card product lines.
PdfDing v.1.5.0 - workspaces + collections, 1500+ Stars and almost 200k image pulls
Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. - mrmn2/PdfDing
A Week on From Its Company Reshuffle, Ubisoft Has Announced a Just Dance+ Price Increase - IGN
Ubisoft's next change following last week's major company reorganization will be a price increase to its Just Dance+ service.
German intelligence offices snub US-owned Palantir software
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France, instead of US-based Palantir. Civil society has welcomed the move, but says more must be done.
Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infur…
"Spot test" goes back at least one year and affects multiple markets.
Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store
Note: AI technology was used to generate this article’s audio.
How EU anti-money laundering rules threaten financial privacy
Privacy First is drawing attention to the risks to financial privacy and fundament rights arising from the European Union’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework.
Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials
A drug already safe for humans reduces disease-linked early features of Alzheimerâs in a lab model of the disease, say neuroscientists.
Shark Game
A web game about resources, discovery and sharks.
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings Multipage View, PDF Signatures
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 adds multipage document view, enhanced PDF signatures, and a new Solver tool for spreadsheets, alongside performance fixes and improvements.
TIL that Moore's law no longer applies.
New materials and arrangements are part of the answer to the law reaching its limits.
Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.
Untitled John Wick Game - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
Created in collaboration between Saber, Lionsgate, and franchise director Chad Stahelski, the new “Untitled John Wick Game” will feature an original script s...
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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns
Chatbots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs in delusional chatbot users, an analysis found.
Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
Segundo a Google, a ideia de substituir ferramentas por software de código aberto não contribuiria para o crescimento económico na Europa