Noriyoshi Ohba x Rieko Kodama (2001) - shmuplations.com
Originally featured in the Sega Consumer History book, this interview with Noriyoshi Ohba and Rieko Kodama is a nostalgic look back at their careers.
Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th - Steam News
How to reserve yours, and what we're doing to mitigate the challenges from earlier in the week
AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, t…
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK
Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?
If you asked most people to name a defining feature of AI-generated writing, they’d probably say the em-dash — like this. Language models use em-dashes so much that real humans who like em-dashes have stopped using them…
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or “optical character recognition”, is the process of converting an image of text - say, a scanned page of a book - into actual text content. Better OCR is obvio…
Micron to boost DRAM output with $1.8bn chip fab buy
: Taiwan’s Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion
TIL some WW II bombers carried their own fighter jets.
What looks like a flying egg, was never designed to land, and was so light it could be thrown off course by its own guns? Introducing the Goblin XF-85 – the Cold War compact fighter designed to be carried in the belly o…
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…
TIL you can fry food in a microwave
You may be surprised to learn that you can in fact deep fry some foods in the microwave, but not all ingredients can be fried in this appliance.
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
Baldur's Gate 3
Baldur's Gate 3 Oyunu, bu uçsuz bucaksız, çeşitli dünyada her metrekare sırlarla dolu ve neredeyse her şey keşfedilmeyi bekliyor
ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
While looking down the back of the Internet for something or other, I stumbled across Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2001. It has been a quarter of a century since 2001 (!!) so that's a good excuse to look back at w…
I can't say I enjoy [Nightsoil, a] 19th century turd-collecting [adventure x sim] game [hybrid] but it did make me laugh when I patted my h…
Nightsoil is a sombre little top-down narrative adventure about a gong farmer – that is, a collector of human waste – i…
Atari Pole Position: Factory Assembly Line Footage
The development and release of Pole Position is probably worthy of an in depth deep dive for another time, so look out for that in a future post. In the meantime, I’ve come across some more e…
Fable - 30 Minute Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life
Step into Albion and find out what it means to build an extraordinary life.This extended gameplay demo dives into the heart of Fable's living population - a ...
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her ânext chapter.â The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.
We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research
Many scientific discoveries used to be made by amateurs. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was a composer and an organist. Antoine Lavoisier, who laid the foundation for modern chemistry, was a politician.
Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter
Play for free Now! Get ready to Ignite the Battle with Marvel Rivals!
Apple opens up its App Store to competition in Japan
Epic Games CEO says Fortnite won't return to Japan, though, because the new rules still require high fees.
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
How your dependencies became Bernies
TIL there are fart measuring underwear.
An intrepid team of scientists has created “Smart Underwear” to measure human flatulence in a bid to better understand our farts
TIL about Epstein's surveillance dealings
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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads
Nova Launcher has been sold to Instabridge, and the new owners are adding ads to the launcher's app drawer in the free version. Check it out!
MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI
The account is an example of how artificial intelligence is being used to push political agendas in wartime
Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating.
THAT law and it's copies here and abroad
"Touhou Koumakyou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil" Remake for PC, Switch (2), PS5
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL Reagan's CIA director aimed Cold War-style propaganda at Americans and recruited billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Sc…
Special Report: In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pioneered “perception management” to get the American people to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome” and accept more U.S. interventionism, but that propaganda structure con…
12 TB of Valve's data from 2003-2013 has leaked online, and Episode 3 content isn't off the table yet
The hunt for legendary gaming gold is afoot.
Is Palantir Under Contract to Surveil the Federal Workforce?
Implementation of the White House’s return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like “employee seat assignments.”
Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
STALKER 2: Cost of Hope – Official Story and Characters Trailer
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Pulling application credentials from Authentik with External-Secrets Webhook Provider
Using Authentik as a Kubernetes External-Secrets provider using webhooks
Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized [Updated]
Ubisoft has announced the closure of its Ubisoft Halifax studio, just days after it was announced employees were unionizing.
Who and What comprise AI Skepticism?
An attempt to do justice to a diverse community
The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate | Editorial
Editorial: Anthropomorphising tech helps Silicon Valley shares to soar, but our empathy should be directed to worthier causes
How do you manage accessing multiple Plex and Jellyfin servers simultaneously?
I run a Jellyfin server, but I have several friends running Jellyfin servers and
several more friends running Plex servers. What is the sanest way to go about
accessing all of them? How can I get some sort of media over…
Elon Musk to Owe Estimated $2.1 Billion After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before 2022 Buyout
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Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy
The FF9 anime has resurfaced once again, now officially in development at EuroVisual and titled Black Mages Legacy.
How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China (39C3)
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is one of, if not arguably the most advanced Internet censorship systems in the world. Because repressi...
PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and …
The PS5 Pro is about to cost $900, after all
Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
Showing just how insane it is to be a game developer right now, we've hit an all-time high for game releases on Steam in 2025 and not many get seen.
House Science Committee Questions DOE Science Chief About Agency Reorganization
Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil said the new fusion and computing offices will focus on fostering industries for emerging technologies.
Self-Host Weekly (29 May 2026)
We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
When the Category Leader Stalls : Postman and the Future of API Tooling
How Postman went from redefining API tooling to stalling at its own ceiling and what the next generation of tools is doing differently.
‘We’re basically pushers:’ Two California courtrooms hear how companies may have hooked kids on social media
"We're basically pushers," a tech company researcher writes in one chat. Social media users, school districts, and states want damages.
Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes
Mediahuis suspends Peter Vandermeersch, who says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’, after investigation by newspaper where he was once editor-in-chief
Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot
After a shadowban that even moderators were unable to reverse, a Reddit user was asked to pay for ads to get the ban removed.
China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along
China's semiconductor industry might have taken a technological leaps, as a report claims that the nation has built the first EUV prototype.