Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements
You'll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its minimum memory requirement for
Pixlpal is more than just a screen
Pixlpal is a hackable, ESP32-S3-based desktop device with an 11.25-inch LED matrix, high-fidelity audio, and Home Assistant integration.
Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge
Bluesky disclosed a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April, and a new CEO takes charge.
China’s Smart Glasses Are Already Leaving Ray-Bans in the Dust
Meta's Ray-Bans are falling further behind as competing smart glasses bring the heat.
Creator of Mikrotik IaC modules gauging community interest
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Windows 11 Security Update KB5074109 Causes Freezes and System Lockups
Users report black screens and system freezes after installing KB5074109. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue.
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...
Like many of us - Beets don't tolerate ice
Deicers made with a mixture of sugar beet molasses and salt are gaining traction.
World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Col…
From hunting the Higgs to warming your home
Grist (spreadsheets) v1.7.12 adds Automations
What's Changed Airtable imports are now smoother, and the import lands in your current workspace instead of somewhere unexpected. Suggestions got a visual refresh with automatic comparison highligh...
Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.
“This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.
Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC
Sony confirms hardware price hikes; PS5 Pro will cost $900 from April 2…
Why GrapheneOS is Almost Impossible to Crack (Forensic Teams Have Tried)
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New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight
Researchers have developed a ‘negative luminescence’ system to create an innovative way of sending hidden information.
Three more AI psychoses
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cambodia aims to shut down all online scam centers within weeks
Cambodia says it is close to shutting down all online scam centers operating in the Southeast Asian country.
AI coders are carrying half-open laptops
Techies are walking with their laptops open to keep their agents running. They told Business Insider their stories, from offices to school halls.
Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union
Workers at the studio behind ‘Solar Ash’ and ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ will soon be represented by a Burbank-based Communications Workers of America Local.
Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs
Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures
Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.
Meta and Snapchat blocking Saudi dissidents’ accounts
US social media firms acting on orders from Middle East kingdom accused of being âinstruments of repressionâ
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EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way
Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
TIL about featherbedding
Featherbedding is the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers.[1] The te…
The Many Adventures Of Homer DuBois
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AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool
Windows 11 Clock app gets a redesigned Focus mode with AI insights, task integration, and deeper customization. Here’s an early hands-on.
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…
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information
Doesn’t care if its devices can’t be sold in regions that require ID verification.
Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection
tl;dr Argumate on Tumblr found you can sometimes access the base model behind Google Translate via prompt injection. The result replicates for me, and specific responses indicate that (1) Google Translate is running an …
QWOP
QWOP is a simple game about running extremely fast down a 100 meter track.
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs
Google's web browser has been "silently" installing an AI model on users' devices without asking for consent.
Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.
I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots
How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
Polish state authorities respond to inquiries about presence on X following scandal involving Grok generating on-demand pornography
On X, Grok until recently allowed users to easily generate nude photos, including child pornography. In light of this, we asked the ministries and the offices of the Sejm, Senate and President of Poland about their plan…
DRAM prices predicted to jump 63% in Q2, NAND up to 75% — follows 95% jumps in Q1, Trendforce says AI server demand keeps supply tight
NAND Flash contract prices are now rising faster than DRAM.
Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke
🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.11.7 We are pleased to announce the latest stable release of Jellyfin, version 10.11.7! This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. As alway...
Meta Cuts Off 1,000 Kenyan Contractors After They Reportedly Saw People Have Sex on Ray-Ban Glasses
Meta has terminated its contract with a Kenyan firm after reports of privacy breaches involving Ray-Ban smart glasses footage, raising concerns about data handling and AI training practices.
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, …
AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?
Digital clones of porn performers are on the rise. Is it a moneymaking dream or a dystopian nightmare?
I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. It’s the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you won’t get the sam…
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice
"Without the enthusiasm or financial support from our publisher to continue development, we simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form"
New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people m…
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, and the University of Kentucky, finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to
Round-the-clock renewables: New report says clean energy now challenges fossil fuels on price
The cost of battery storage has dropped more than 90 per cent since 2010, bringing the cost of renewable energy down with it.
BBC Vows to Fight Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit Over Documentary Editing
The BBC vows to fight back against Trump's $10 billion lawsuit over edited footage. Is this a "cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator?" Support for Trump's lawsuit raises concerns about the future of media…
Does anyone use Colota?
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I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA
The journey towards being Infrastructure-as-Code is fun
Rubenerd: Using Thunderbird for RSS
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.