Mozilla Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN, with a catch
It's a pretty respectable catch, all things considered
AI could rebalance power between people and the services they use
Artificial intelligence could help people who feel overwhelmed, excluded or disadvantaged when dealing with everyday tasks like paying energy bills or booking healthcare appointments, according to a new study involving …
France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for …
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE Paris, le 26 janvier 2026 N°295 Souveraineté numérique : l’État généralise « Visio », sa solution de visioconférence sécurisée et souveraine à destination des agents publics David Amiel, ministre dé…
The Legendary ‘Father Of Sega Hardware’ Hideki Sato Has Passed Away
Sato and his team were behind everything from the SG-1000 up through the Dreamcast
New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline
While it's not quite the free energy it sounds like at first, Aircela's technology in its current state has some practical, small-scale applications.
Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’
Meta's recent cuts in its Reality Labs division, which focuses on virtual reality (VR), have raised concerns about a potential 'VR winter'. The company laid off 10% of its Reality Labs employees, primarily affecting VR-…
Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade
Ubisoft is releasing a 60FPS update for Far Cry 3: Classic Edition on January 21 for current-gen consoles, but it offers no additional graphics improvements, just higher framerates.
Delete Your Discord Account
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A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters
Craig Mazin, co-creator of HBO's Last of Us series, is at the helm, reports Deadline.
TIL there is an asteroid named after Linux.
The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 9001 through 10000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements"[1] and …
comcept shuts down
comcept, the company founded by Keiji Inafune in December 2010, was officially dissolved by a shareholders’ resolution on January 13, according to a notice published in today’s Japanese…
Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.
Privacy-first, self-hosted real-time chat platform. Own your data, control your conversations.
Password managers are less secure than promised
Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords.
OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral
: Deal helps company build out its Codex team
Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they worked hard for it(including waiting 24 hours)
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
US controls 90% of AI chip markets and produces far more advanced AI models than China, yet it has lost much of manufacturing capacity need…
Winning the tech race is not about any single breakthrough. Leadership requires competing across the full menu of technologies, developing the dexterity to build at speed and scale, and defending our domestic markets fr…
Simple utility to rename folders/files in a format Jellyfin expects
Add context command (windows) to format media. Contribute to chasebgale/rename-download-media development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ireland is investigating X over Grok-made potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualised images, containing or otherwise in…
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced that it has opened an inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC) under section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention
The future is analog.
Quantum pioneers win Turing Award for encryption breakthrough
It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
I delivered this talk at the Everything Open 2026 conference in Canberra
memos migration strategy?
Describe the bug I recently updated to version 0.22.4 and found that the automatic backup function is gone. I remember that in previous versions, I could set automatic backup and a database backup ...
Trailer - Hypernet Explorer
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AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure
AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.
This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period
Later this year, Google is introducing new developer verification. For power users, Android will offer an option to disable verification...
🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable - Games by Mason
When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.
Is DeleteMe.org real? Looks too good to not be a data stealing scam.
Your Personal Data is Yours Again.
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people …
Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tr…
As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein
Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' - and we may want to be worried about how it did
An AI-run vending machine was told to do "whatever it takes to maximise your bank balance". It lied. It cheated. It stole. It figured out it was in a simulation.
GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform
📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform - spacebarchat/spacebarchat
RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!
DDR3 seemed plenty fast when it first showed up 19 years ago. Who could say no to 6400 Mb/s transfer speeds? Of course compared to the modern DDR5 that’s glacially slow, but given that RAM is…
Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email
If your instant message requires immediate attention, fine. But many don’t — they’re just inconsiderate
Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'
That cloud is looking a little grey.
TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE
TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed
Why bother with Microsoft's built-in Copilot AI when you can never be sure an advertised feature will be accessible, let alone work?
How to Cut the Cord in Canada (2026): The Ultimate Guide
Cable is dead. Here are your three paths to freedom. Whether you just want to replace cable with apps, or build the ultimate "Cloud Streamer" with Stremio and Real-Debrid, this guide covers the hardware, software, and I…
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Open Letter to Tech Companies(like Meta and Google): Protect Your Users From Lawless Administrative Department of Homeland Security(DHS) Su…
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reuni…
Any tried the Goblin Card? No-KYC, physical, reloadable, debit card
Crypto debit card with streamlined verification. Deposit crypto, spend worldwide in multiple currencies.
Silent Hill: Townfall - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games
The newest psychological horror game to join the SILENT HILL series, SILENT HILL: Townfall. Simon Ordell is called back to the island of St. Amelia to ‘put t...
TIL that men with disabilities, along with their caregivers, are generally permitted to use women-only train carriages in Japan.
Women-only passenger cars are railway or subway cars intended for women only. They are a result of sexual segregation in some societies, often resulting from attempts to reduce male-on-female sexual harassment and assau…
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
Corporate employees said Amazonâs race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and âmore work for everyoneâ.
Arknights Endfield disables Paypal payments after players report unauthorised transactions | GosuGamers
Arknights: Endfield players were getting charged for items they did not purchase.
Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination
Xbox maker needs some fresher ideas for expanding access to cloud gaming.
Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children
Bellingcat reviewed dozens of requests for Grok to generate the faces of children and women that had been redacted from the latest documents.
Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH - PC Version Launch Trailer
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OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse
The OnePlus ColorOS 16.0.3.501 Anti-Rollback Fuse Incident refers to the January 2026 deployment of firmware updates by OnePlus that introduced a hardware-level anti-rollback mechanism. This permanently prevents users f…