Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.
My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
âThis shouldnât be normalâ: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the worldâs biggest PC gaming storefront
Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative âÂÂanti-wokeâ reviews
Hitler and Innocent
A screenshot of Louisâ LinkedIn profile before we reached out to him. Racking up 35 retractions in just 24 months, chemist Hitler Louis has scored a place on our leaderboard. The papersâŚ
How to turn off Gemini in Gmail â and why you should | Proton
New AI features are making their way to your Gmail inbox. Here's how to turn off Gemini in Gmail and why you should.
Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month â yet another AI privacy nightmare
Microsoft has identified a bug in 365 Copilot Chat that allows the service to access and summarize confidential emails without user consent.
Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100-billion deal in favour of $30-billion investment
Nvidia is close to finalising a US$30 billion investment into OpenAI that will replace the long-term US$100 billion commitment. Read more.
For the past 3 years Ben Ward has been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 19âŚ
A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.
What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isnât love
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts
Free speech advocates warn the subpoenas threaten long-standing protections for anonymous speech.
DEAD OR ALIVE 6 Last Round - Announcement Trailer
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At least 1,200 Ubisoft workers strike in response to recent restructuring
International strike is taking place between February 10 and February 12
Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal
Epic disputes that it impacts their ongoing antitrust dispute.
Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Muskâs AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to talk about the inner workings of the company that he joined less than a year prior. Days later, he âleftâ xAI, thougâŚ
M365 Copilot gets its own version of Claude Cowork
The Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 brings new agentic AI tools to create and edit documents, alongside the launch of an E7 price tier that bundles AI tools with M365 apps for $99 per user each month. Businesses should be âŚ
Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware was "worried" how its OG RPG King's Field would be received, but the studio wasn't going to bâŚ
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
Discordâs UK age verification reportedly shifts flows to Persona for some users
Discord appears to be routing UK users through Persona for age verification, despite positioning k-ID as its official partner. Here's what we know so far.
Being Kryptonian is TERRIBLE
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New AI-Powered Android Malware Hijacks Devices for Ad Fraud
Android devices are being abused by a new AI-driven malware that secretly interacts with online ads using a hidden browser.
Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering âStop Cop Cityâ Protesterâs True Identity
Proton Mail gave FBI payment data from Swiss servers, proving encrypted email privacy has limits when governments use legal treaties to demand user information.
Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade
English Wikipedia bans archive.today
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack against a blog.[1] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests tâŚ
UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup
As TikTokâÂÂs U.S. shift sparks user migration, UpScrolled surges.
Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die
Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking thereâs a traffic jam to prove a big point
An artist from Berlin decided to use 99 phones in a little red wagon to trick Google Maps into thinking there's a traffic jam to prove a big point
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstechâŚ
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.
Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president
The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law.
Viral Child Soldiers on TikTok: The âDisney Starsâ of Sudanâs Civil War
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcatâs WhatsApp channel here. Child soldiers linked to Sudanâs warring factions have gained viral fame on TikTok, with their videos attracting millions of viewâŚ
China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country
12 February 2026 | Fredrik Karrento Evidentiary note: The excerpts below are verbatim model outputs from multiple sessions. Section headings summarize the content of the excerpts without claiming the content necessarilyâŚ
The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
Did you think you could escape?
Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If youâre already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon seâŚ
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
'Let it Die' servers shutting down, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline
Grasshopper's weird tower-climbing roguelike is closing all online features in August.
OpenAI has deleted the word âsafelyâ from its mission â and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAIâs restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades
A new rumor suggests Microsoftâs next-generation Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, could cost between $999 and $1,200 while delivering major performance gains over the Xbox Series X.
PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy to Deliver Cryptomining Malware
Malicious PyPI package sympy-dev targets SymPy users, a Python symbolic math library with 85 million monthly downloads.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
Two Midwesterners are fighting back after the platforms they created to report on public Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity were censored by government officials.
'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center
"It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow
Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.
OpenAI swaps Nvidia for Cerebras with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller AI encoding model that generates over 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware. It is OpenAI's first
Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta âLess Importantâ
Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025 | TechCrunch
Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years.
At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble
What, us worry? As OpenAI pivots to "last resort," tech titans pivot from bubble talk.
X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs
X is rolling out a new feature called âStarterpacksâ to all users in the coming weeks, the companyâs head of product has announced.
Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question o [...]
YouTube ads are about to get even longer and theyâll be unskippable
VRC Non-Skip ads are now generally available globally in Google Ads and Display & Video 360.
Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents
Cloudflare has announced a new feature that automatically serves websites in Markdown to AI agents. With Markdown for Agents, the company is responding to