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• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News

  

  How the moderators behind one of the internet’s most popular platforms for tech content have a say into which content you consume.

  lemmy.world #technology xn--gckvb8fzb.com 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion

  

  Find all the winners for every category here.

  lemmy.world #games screenrant.com 12 clicks 2025-12-12

• 'Intellexa Leaks' Reveal Wider Reach of Predator Spyware

  

  “This investigation provides one of the clearest and most damning views yet into Intellexa’s internal operations and technology," said Amnesty International Security Lab technologist Jurre van Bergen.

  lemmy.ml #privacy commondreams.org 14 clicks 2025-12-06

• Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments

  

  We continue our annual tradition of looking back at Microsoft's wins, fails, and WTF moments: its victories, failures, and things that left you shaking your head. There's no other way to say it: Microsoft had a bad 2025.

  lemmy.world #technology pcworld.com 12 clicks 2025-12-19

• X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse

  

  X rolled out a new feature that lets users alter any image via AI prompts, igniting backlash among users, particularly artists, who fear their work can be misused, misrepresented, and altered without their consent.

  lemmy.world #technology ibtimes.co.uk 11 clicks 2025-12-26

• Pebble just revealed the Pebble Round 2!!

  

  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  lemmy.world #technology youtube.com 10 clicks 2026-01-02

• No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse

  

  Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade

  lemmy.world #games theguardian.com 10 clicks 2025-12-27

• ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems

  

  ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, aiming to cut costs as DDR5 prices continue to rise. More details here.

  lemmy.world #technology technobaboy.com 11 clicks 2025-12-26

• Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production

  

  Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company said in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday.

  lemmy.world #technology techxplore.com 10 clicks 2026-01-01

• Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?

  

  You’re spoilt for choice, choose your preferred method of installation.

  lemmy.world #selfhosted docs.searxng.org 10 clicks 2026-01-01

• Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).

  

  Self-hosted API for creating and querying JSON data on different storage providers. - TimoKats/emmer

  lemmy.world #selfhosted github.com 10 clicks 2025-12-31

• What are movies with great FOOT CHASES?

  

  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  hexbear.net #movies youtube.com 17 clicks 2025-11-17

• Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics

  

  When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government

  lemmy.world #technology haveibeenflocked.com 10 clicks 2025-12-31

• Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached

  

  We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...

  lemmy.world #technology github.com 11 clicks 2025-12-25

• European space agency confirms 'external servers' breached in cyberattack

  

  ESA is investigating the extent of the breach

  lemmy.world #technology techradar.com 10 clicks 2025-12-31

• The Time Tunnel (1966): Banned Alternate Ending and Hidden Truth They Tried to Hide

  

  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  hexbear.net #movies youtube.com 11 clicks 2025-12-26

• Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

  

  : Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

  lemmy.world #technology theregister.com 11 clicks 2025-12-24

• How I Left YouTube

  

  What was the road like when I left?

  lemmy.world #technology zhach.news 11 clicks 2025-12-25

• DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)

  

  There are plenty of lovely e-readers out on the market that come with an nice big e-paper display. There aren’t nearly as many that come with two. [Martin den Hoed] developed the Diptyx e-rea…

  lemmy.world #technology hackaday.com 11 clicks 2025-12-24

• [id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized

  

  id Software is the latest Microsoft-acquired team to organize

  lemmy.world #games kotaku.com 12 clicks 2025-12-13

• Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results

  

  Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...

  lemmy.world #technology 9to5mac.com 12 clicks 2025-12-19

• Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic? | NYT

  

  Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.

  lemmy.world #games nytimes.com 10 clicks 2025-12-26

• I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

  

  Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.

  lemmy.ml #opensource blog.joinmastodon.org 16 clicks 2025-11-18

• AMD Supposedly Resuscitates "Discontinued" B650 Chipset, Motivated by DIY Cost Fluctuations

  

  Around late summer, rumors emerged about AMD leadership notifying its motherboard manufacturing partners about an upcoming discontinuation of the venerable B650 chipset. At the time, alleged "clearance plans" targeted a…

  lemmy.world #technology techpowerup.com 11 clicks 2025-12-24

• The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

  

  Mo-bo, mo' problems.

  lemmy.world #technology pcgamer.com 11 clicks 2025-12-24

• Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves

  

  With a visual overhaul, new features and providers, and a custom-built streaming protocol, it's our biggest update yet!

  lemmy.world #selfhosted home-assistant.io 11 clicks 2025-12-23

• We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good.

  

  We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another p…

  lemmy.world #technology phys.org 12 clicks 2025-12-19

• Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune

  

  Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.

  lemmy.world #technology fortune.com 11 clicks 2025-12-26

• Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

  

  It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK

  lemmy.world #technology techradar.com 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts …

  

  The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D

  lemmy.world #technology tomshardware.com 11 clicks 2025-12-24

• 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.”

  lemmy.world #technology 404media.co 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things

  

  Bidding wars, mobile bookmarks, and my favorite new self-hosted apps from 2025

  lemmy.world #selfhosted selfh.st 13 clicks 2025-12-12

• What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar

  

  An exploration of pressure-based interfaces and physical metaphors for digital weight

  lemmy.world #technology shiveesh.com 10 clicks 2025-12-31

• 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.

  lemmy.world #technology it-notes.dragas.net 10 clicks 2025-12-31

• OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company

  

  Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.

  lemmy.world #technology wired.com 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy

  

  The US government contributed over $2.5 million to the Tor Project last year, continuing its financial relationship with the nonprofit.

  lemmy.world #technology cyberinsider.com 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• The Real Reason Sci-Fi Fears Artificial Intelligence

  

  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  hexbear.net #movies youtube.com 18 clicks 2025-11-11

• The Most Faithful Adaptation of The Odyssey Nobody Knows About

  

  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  hexbear.net #movies youtube.com 11 clicks 2025-12-25

• 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.

  lemmy.world #technology techcrunch.com 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• C++ on Uncyclopedia

  

  C=C+1 (also refered to as C++) is a programming language derived from C by programming language algebra. It is one of the most successful practical jokes ever played on nerds who take ideas like object-oriented programm…

  programming.dev #programmer_humor en.uncyclopedia.co 17 clicks 2025-11-18

• Do you like (AI) clocks?

  

  The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

  programming.dev #programmer_humor clocks.brianmoore.com 17 clicks 2025-11-17

• Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?

  

  Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/

  lemmy.world #technology daringfireball.net 12 clicks 2025-12-18

• TIL the Sundance Kid lived in Canada for three years

  

  Harry Longabaugh — better known as the Sundance Kid — is perhaps most famous for his daring bank and train robberies as part of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. But the American outlaw’s short stint as a cowboy and businessm…

  lemmy.world #til cbc.ca 10 clicks 2025-12-29

• Drova is surprisenly reactive

  

  "Drova - Forsaken Kin" is a pixel art Action-RPG inspired by the grim dark classics of

  lemmy.world #games gog.com 10 clicks 2025-12-25

• Unpacking The Birth of a Nation's Oversized Cinematic Legacy

  

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  hexbear.net #movies youtube.com 11 clicks 2025-12-25

• Uguu: simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading.

  

  Uguu is a simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading. - nokonoko/Uguu

  lemmy.ml #opensource github.com 14 clicks 2025-12-02

• Sabotaging Bitcoin

  

  Source I find myself in the unusual position of defending Bitcoin from its critics, if only reluctantly. In 2024 Soroush Farokhnia & Amir...

  lemmy.world #technology blog.dshr.org 10 clicks 2025-12-31

• ‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained

  

  RAM prices are surging worldwide, and AI demand, tariffs, and supply concentration have reshaped the memory market of today.

  lemmy.world #technology dig.watch 11 clicks 2025-12-24

• 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.

  lemmy.world #games gamingonlinux.com 12 clicks 2025-12-12

• 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.

  lemmy.world #technology aip.org 12 clicks 2025-12-18