Canada vows to amend Bill C-22's encryption and metadata rules amid massive tech backlash
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the government will clarify how the lawful access bill impacts encryption, but insists the legislation "needs to happen"
Steam removes horror game after malware steals player data
A free horror game on Steam turned into a real-world cybersecurity threat after a gamer discovered malware hidden within it.
Dont be unlucky and have anything happen to your Steam Controller
@Steam This is how a customer of 18 years gets treated...my controller fell out of the box the second I opened it landed on the ground and got busted up...and I have ZERO options cant even get it fixed. Never even got tâŠ
The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldnât let me say no.
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form theyâre signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
'Halo 2 and 3 Remakes Already In Development, According To New Report' - Wolf's Gaming Blog
Halo: Campaign Evolved is in development, but remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 are also confirmed, with early development underway. Notable features will connect the remakes with upcoming content.
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
European Union: Chinese online retailer Temu hit with 200 million euro fine over unsafe toys and electronics
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
The Boring Internet - Essay by Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
I Tested the Trump Phone for 96 Hours. Here's What It's Really Like
CNET has the Trump phone, and we put it through its paces over the long weekend to see how it matches up with other foreign-made phones.
Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
TIL: About electric scissors
Electric scissors are handheld cutting tools that are powered by electricity. They are designed to make cutting tasks easier and more efficient, especially for people who have difficulty using traditional manual scissorâŠ
AI code increasingly leads to production failures
The rapid introduction of AI-generated code is increasingly leading to production failures, according to a survey.
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible â No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater)
Riot Games' kernal level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update which is allegedly altering system firmware associated with cheating.
Oura launches Ring 5, worldâs smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO
Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bn
Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief âŠ
Asha Sharma's shake-up continues at Xbox as she brings more new people into key roles.
AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.
All You Proxmox Users - ProxCenter
The vCenter alternative for Proxmox. DRS, micro-segmentation, Ceph monitoring, Site Recovery, CVE scanning â 100% self-hosted.
Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets
The longtime Google employee was charged in New York for allegedly breaking insider trading laws.
TIL: the Welsh battle of Orewin Bridge may be almost entirely fictional
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Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals
A new survey reveals Google's push for Gemini Intelligence on Android isn't landing with the people the way it hoped for.
The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi
An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the âEloiâ of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many.
Roku OSâs home screen now features a large, permanent ad
âI don't want recommendations! I know what I want to watch."
Subnautica 2 Early Access sales top four million in under a week
Total sales for the Early Access version of Subnautica 2 surpassed four million copies sold just five days after release, developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment announced.
Destiny developers reflect on the end of an era: 'We all worked so hard to maintain the quality bar under unrealistic constraints'
"I logged in to the Tower and found a horde of guardians kneeling by Zavala, others saluting. It was like that from server to server."
Samsung avoids strike as workers approve massive bonus deal
Amid booming demand for AI chips, the government-backed deal will make more than 60% of the South Korean tech giant's workforce eligible for bonuses of about $370,000 this year.
Meta is restricting sexual health and queer accounts on Instagram
Instagram accounts linked to reproductive rights, sexual health and LGBTQIA+ groups have been disabled or restricted, organisations affected by the measures say.
Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, AĂ©ropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure got a job at dadâs company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots donât have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry).
YouTube Is Making It Easier to Spot AI-Generated Videos
YouTube is revamping its AI labels on the platform, and introducing a new automated system to identify AI-generated videos.
The pressure
I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food âŠ
Last.fm is now independent
Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The teaâŠ
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused other executives of wrongly justifying layoffs on AI â and telling them to cut it out.
Phonopolis Review: Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designâs masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetiâŠ
Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designâs masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetic in Phonopolis.
US law enforcement warns of âanti-tech extremismâ as AI hatred grows
The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire worldâs white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize tâŠ
PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates
Gamers may have begun to shy away from the now more expensive PS5. U.S. April data highlights a 30% decline in PlayStation console sales compared to the previous year. Before the impending Switch 2 price increase, NinteâŠ
Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts â Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Built an API dev tool and got 12k+ installs already, this is what happened since we open sourced.
Design, Test and Document APIs in plain Markdown. Compose Requests with API blocks. Reuse, Replace & Version everything just like code. Offline, Truly Git Native, No Lock-in. - VoidenHQ/voiden
OpenMLS has undergone a security audit, funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency
OpenMLS, our implementation of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, has undergone a security audit. The audit is an important milestone for OpenMLS. In this post, we share the results and take the opportunity toâŠ
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' â expert claims actionâŠ
"I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]"
Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud" - Gingerlime
Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though Iâm pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like StrâŠ
More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR databases, law enforâŠ
How to Make Money with AI Generated Hate Content Online (Even losers can do it!) (Satire article)
Are you not where you want to be in life? The right-wing media and algorithmically driven content shown on your social media feed is eating away your precious time. Your mind is occupied by thoughts about the things medâŠ
US Law Enforcement Warns of âAnti-Tech Extremismâ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent
A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being âforce-fedâ Googleâs AI Search
Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.
82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for âŠ
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