U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the U.S. government has taken a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel.
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.
TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation
Unions claim content moderators are being replaced by "ineffective" AI systems that could put TikTok's millions of British users in danger.
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable - EFF
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file pub…
Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut
Video. Footage captures Russia's first anthropomorphic robot, AIdol, toppling seconds into its debut at a Moscow tech event, prompting assistants to rush in after the mishap.
Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict
Redditor confessed to violating actresses’ “moral rights” in landmark ruling.
Why We Make Alis: The Enemy Within
Rebuilding the real world: A game project committed to realistic locations and interactions.
TIL CAD competition is a thing
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Kickstarter United NYC-OPEIU 153 Declares Victory and Ends 40+ Day Strike — OPEIU Local 153
New York, NY – Today, the members of Kickstarter United (KSRU) ended their 42 day-strike and declared victory over the tech company. KSRU secured an escalating minimum salary floor tied to cost of living, strong protect…
In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica
A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.
Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective is Available Now!
Launch Notes [V1.4.1]
Halo Infinite's Last Update Arrives This Month As Devs Move To Other Halo Projects
After four years, Halo: Infinite proves to be finite after all, but the team isn't leaving Halo behind.
South Korea objects as US immigration raids Hyundai plant
Seoul demands protection for nationals, investors as Trump’s immigration crackdown sees hundreds detained in ICE raid.
Tesla offers pay package to CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion
Tesla is asking shareholders to approve a pay package that would award 423 million shares to CEO Elon Musk if he hits certain milestones.
Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues
The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.
AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times
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I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew
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Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup
Paradox subsidiary Iceflake Studios will take over work on the storied city simulation.
HyTale has been acquired by the original devs and is going to release into Early Access
A new and exciting chapter for Hytale begins today.
Open Source Blackout
"Open Source Blackout", an article by Sebastian Bergmann
Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 Shell and every associated core feature and element are actually broken, and have been like this for many months.
How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure suffered the software equivalent of a cardiac arrest. After much panicke…
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever…
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ …
"If we delivered a bad quarter, it is evidence there's an AI bubble. If we delivered a great quarter, we are fueling the AI bubble."
Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still ragi…
Microsoft flexes about Copilot's coding skills and Windows 11 users respond with merciless trolling.
Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand
The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox game, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat!
Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets
Spanish legacy media companies in Spain have scored a victory against social media giant Meta after a Madrid-based court ordered that it must pay news outlets nearly half a billion euros in damages.
An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios
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Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’
Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok boasted that the billionaire had the "potential to drink piss better than any human in history," among other absurd claims.
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielde…
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Four major publishing firms accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to joi…
Rockstar has been accused of union busting, but the company says the fired employees were "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum"
Android QuickShare is now compatible with AirDrop
Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.
Moving Beyond the NPM elliptic Package
If you’re in a hurry, head on over to soatok/elliptic-to-noble and follow the instructions in the README in order to remove the elliptic package from your project and all dependencies in node…
When it comes to nukes and AI, people are worried about the wrong thing | It’s more subtle than Skynet.
Who’s really in charge on health policy?
Ritual of Raven Trailer
Trailer zu Ritual of Raven von Spellgarden Games/Team17.
Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic
Steam punk magical-realist world-building at its finest.
TIL Mark Twain didn't say "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes"
Mark Twain? Theodor Reik? John Robert Colombo? James Eayrs? Anonymous?
Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading
We don't know what's going on, but something is definitely happening.
Western US states fail to agree on plan to manage Colorado River before federal deadline
Stakeholders have spent months ironing out disagreements over how to distribute water from the sprawling basin
‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK
Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that p…
Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel
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TIL - FBI recommends using an adblocker for security
The FBI is warning the public that cyber criminals are using search engine advertisement services to impersonate brands and direct users to malicious sites that host ransomware and steal login credentials and other fina…
Turning up the heat - Hot Isostatic Processing | Aerospace Manufacturing
Wallwork Group’s second hot isostatic pressing (HIP) has recently been commissioned at the company’s Bury headquarters, so Mike Richardson caught up with company group director, Simeon Collins to hear more.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
Age verification lands in Italy − here’s how it affects VPN users
Mandatory age checks will be enforced from November 12, 2025
Government Reopening Hits a Snag After Rand Paul Throws a Wrench in Shutdown Deal
A deal to end the 41-day government shutdown is running into turbulence, thanks to a single Senate objection: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Senate Republican and Democratic leaders say they need to resolve Paul’s objection to…
California cop tried to stop a man pointing a gun at a female driver. It was a plainclothes ICE agent
The FBI has requested that ICE agents identify themselves in an effort to prevent criminals from donning masks and posing as federal agents
Transgender TSA officer sues Kristi Noem after Trump’s executive order bars her from patting down travelers
Exclusive details: TSA officer Danielle Mittereder ‘just wants to do her job,’ her attorney told The Independent. ‘And she’s not allowed to do it, for the sole reason that she is transgender.’