OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are…
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.
Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch
The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon Musk's company xAI.
Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company
The publisher is restructuring around five 'creative houses' by implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.
Pragmata - World View Trailer
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Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones
Embark's CEO says 'most' of the in-game voice lines are now recorded by real actors
I have made a Kubernetes to Docker-compose converter/devolver. It's horrible. It's glorious.
Converting helmfile/k8s to docker-compose, because someone asked, and now we all live with it - baptisterajaut/helmfile2compose
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.
Kdenlive 26.04.0 is out, featuring contributions from more developers than ever before
The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the first major release of 2026. This cycle focuses on stability, interface polish and usability improvements.
“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting
Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.
Where Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go? AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.
Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist
Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn't "exist." Now they're saying exactly how it might work.
Susan Sarandon Says She Was Banned From Hollywood After Calling for Gaza Ceasefire: I Feel ‘Repression and Censorship’ in United States
Susan Sarandon says she was blocked from Hollywood film and TV roles after speaking out about a ceasefire in Gaza.
This is what counts as "romance" to cis people.
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Designer DNA could revolutionise cures for diseases
Scientists hope AlphaGenome programme ushers in new era of personalised medicine
Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won
Verizon changed policy after he bought the phone, wouldn’t unlock it despite FCC rule.
Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update
The inevitable has officially happened — Chrome is stepping into the world of agentic AI.
Immich v2.5.0 - 90000 Stars Release, with Free Up Space, non-destructive editing, backup and restore on the web, visual refreshing, and mor…
v2.5.0 Highlights Happy New Year! Welcome to Immich v2.5.0. This release is our fireworks to celebrate both the new year and reaching 90,000 stars on GitHub. It is packed with major features that h...
Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with comple…
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-ed…
TIL giraffes are 30x more likely than humans to be struck by lightning
Giraffes are around thirty times more likely to be killed by lightning than people, a statistic that sounds exaggerated until the numbers are scaled proper...
'I applied to be pope': Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT
Tom Millar thought he had unlocked the secrets of the universe.He said it replied, "Nobody's ever thought of things this way."
Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope …
More details on the unnamed game will be revealed another time
Predator spyware uses stealthy trick to disable iOS recording alerts(without triggering the green or orange status bar dots)
An analysis documenting how a commercial spyware sample, Predator, operates post-compromise.
Fluxer is another open-source Discord alternative
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.
Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'
In two major trials that kicked off this week, Meta has disputed the idea that social media should be considered an "addiction."
DigitalFoundry: Resident Evil 4 Remake's New PC DRM Impacts CPU Performance
The game doesn't run as well as it used to - and that's not acceptable.
What 2000s Sci-Fi Movies Perfectly Understood About Escapism
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Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots
On Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said the company is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles.
Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent
It's all fun and games until every aspect of your life is splashed all over the dark web.
Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC
It has also delayed 7 other games “to ensure enhanced quality benchmarks are fully met”…
Push to repeal Section 230 raises stakes for how social media moderates content
Lawmakers are renewing a push to take away the legal provision that shields social media companies from liability over content their users post.
Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them
We reveal the most common bloatware apps that weâve found on the latest laptops and explain how to get rid of them
A general-purpose library to add Webmentions to your website
A zero-cost library to integrate Webmentions in your website
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
In October 2025, Ring and Flock Safety announced our intention to work together on an integration with Community Requests. Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would requi…
A suspected YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping brow…
YouTube bug reportedly maxing out CPUs.
ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?
: $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts
German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns
Germany is moving to standardize on the Wire messaging platform following a wave of phishing attacks targeting politicians on Signal.
Schools are suing social media giants, seeking cash and redesigned apps
School districts, including LAUSD, are suing Meta, Google and TikTok, demanding they fund student mental health services and overhaul addictive designs.
Flock AI audit tool flags suspicious police searches as misuse cases mount in Georgia
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QuitGPT goes viral as users cancel ChatGPT in political protest
Users are walking away from ChatGPT and calling it a political statement
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.
Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only
On 14 January 2026, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on X that the company would stop offering its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (FSD) driver-assistance software as...
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK go…
UK users can confirm their age by scanning an ID or using a credit card.
Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.
Google might think your Website is down
How Cross-page AI aggregation can introduce new liability vectors.