The political use of operating systems
Politics is the science and art of organizing, constituting and managing a state and the direction of public life. Expressing these directions represents a power, a duty and an honour, and even though the common belief …
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech
: Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence
Pope Leo Calling for AI "Disarmament", Warns of its Risks(Including Fueling Warfare) in 42,300-Word Encyclical; Opaque Algorithms Controlle…
Pope Leo XIV presents "Magnifica Humanitas" as the Church’s response to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for AI to be ...
Warhorse Announces a Lord of the Rings RPG and a New Kingdom Come Adventure
Shortly after its parent company, Embracer Group, made an important announcement, Warhorse Studios revealed no fewer than two separate projects. The initialâ¦
Today in “Google Broke Email”
I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email. Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At…
New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow: Starting February 24, 2026 at beta.stackoverflow.com
Update February 27th, 2026 Another post discussing the changes with the Chief Product and Technology Officer is here. Update February 26th, 2026 As was mentioned on February 20th, we have another ...
39C3: Liberating ESP32 Bluetooth
Bluetooth is everywhere, but it’s hard to inspect. Most of the magic is done inside a Bluetooth controller chip, accessed only through a controller-specific Host-Controller Interface (HCI) pr…
After originally being revealed in 2020, Ark 2 has been delayed again until 2028
Developer Studio Wildcard is focusing on a major 2027 expansion for Ark: Survival Ascended first…
Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.
Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Review - Not the game I was looking for
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Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed
Lenovo is doing something many aren't offering cheaper laptops with Linux pre-installed cutting the Windows tax. Learn more
Death by a thousand slops
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we h…
Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release Trailer - Hades 1 in Hades II mod
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Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware
Scammers are preying on Windows 10 users who haven't moved to Windows 11 with ads that urge you to 'Upgrade to Win 11 Pro Today,' antivirus provider Malwarebytes reports.
Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’
Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.
Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029
Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete
Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Ultimate Chicken Horse - 10th Annifursary Update (and sale)
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TIL about “Second Screen Viewing” and that Netflix pushes writers to make scripts and dialogues simpler to keep viewers who are on their ph…
Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.
Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
AI chatbots are generating fake titles that people insist are real.
The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators
Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to alge…
January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more! — The web works hard, but Servo contributors work harder.
The web works hard, but Servo contributors work harder.
Tempus v4.12.0 android subsonic client release
What's Changed chore(i18n): Update Polish translation by @skajmer in #441 feat: radio logos support for AndroidAuto by @dmachard in #435 feat: Port remove song of playlist from tempus ng by @tvill...
Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Apple's unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware, according to The Information. Apple normally releases new Mac m…
State of Play & State of Play Japan return on September 3
Two broadcasts, back-to-back, featuring updates from studios around the world and deeper dives on upcoming games from creators in Japan and Asia.
I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code
I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20…
Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret
Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.
Amazon MMO New World Has Just a Year to Live, Rust Dev Offers to Buy It - IGN
Amazon has announced that its MMO, New World, will be officially taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027.
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.
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI …
ARC-AGI-3 is the first fully-interactive benchmark in the ARC-AGI series, featuring hundreds of handcrafted games with thousands of levels.
China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
Breakthrough marks significant progress towards achieving ‘holy grail’ of clean energy
The mObywatel's user interface source code has been published
After over one and a half years delay the parts of mObywatel's source code have been published, comprising the user interface of the mobile apps for Android and iOS.
My experience with Navidrome
It's been a while since I dropped Lostify for my own Navidrome instance. And this is what I learned, what I've used, and what makes me happy about it.
Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feel…
Big Tech or Big Brother? We've fallen out of love with Big Tech because our devices feel less like helpful tools and more like strangers in our homes.
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
“Malus”: i'm so tired of this bs
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people predict the death of open source software over the years. Each time some new tech trend arrives–crypto, source available licensing, SaaS–pe…
Laid off workers at Meta contractor Covalen to mount strike action following loss of 700 jobs
Trade union representing Covalen workers have demanded the end of a "two-tiered treatment" of outsourced tech workers
Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore'
Who knew Valheim had so many food deserts?
blog dds: 2025-12-23 — An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
Several news outlets reported the discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape at the University of Utah in July 2025 and its successful restoration. This is a significant find, because up to now only…
Jira IS Turing-Complete
Building a Minsky Machine in Atlassian Automation 22nd May 2026
Mecha-Driven Sci-Fi JRPG STARBITES Is Out Now on PC and Consoles - Turn Based Lovers
STARBITES is now available in the West for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.
The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily
Human roles are often rich and complex, and not easily reduced to a technological solution.
Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness
Play Five Nights at Epstein’s Online for free
Five Nights at Epstein's Sneaking onto the island to investigate was a bad idea… You were discovered by him and barely escaped,...
Reimagined MMORPG EverQuest Legends set to launch for PC in July 2026 | RPG Site
EverQuest Legends is described as a "solo/casual version of EverQuest" able to be played entirely in single player.
Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’
Jensen Huang tried again to defend one of the company's most unpopular initiatives
TIL why María Corina Machado is relevant in the whole Venezuela thing
María Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for democracy in Venezuela despite her ties to the 2002 coup and support for U.S. sanctions. The Nobel Committee picked someone who supports war crimes over those who…