Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult fo…
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…
Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show
Good morning, prospective Vault Dwellers! In order to best serve you in What Comes Next, we need volunteers for a very real, very scientific opportunity to beta test a better society. Visit this website if you’d like to…
How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP
NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all too forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography …
metube: Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites
Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for youtube-dl / yt-dlp) - alexta69/metube
Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents (39C3)
This talk demonstrates end-to-end prompt injection exploits that compromise agentic systems. Specifically, we will discuss exploits that ...
Fortnite Developer Epic Games Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Blaming 'Downturn in Engagement'
Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale.
99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years
CEOs love automation, but don't think humans and machines can coexist in the workforce, survey finds.
TIL that soda crackers were shipped in barrels, and that's where the name of the store came from
The name ties into the history of what Cracker Barrel is trying to replicate (an old country store) and looks back on gatherings around cracker barrels.
"I Don’t Have a Smartphone…"
I Don’t Have a Smartphone… par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Mario Kart Wiicompiled + Retro Rewind | Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
It's me again. My Kubernetes devolver has reached the astral plane.
Generate compose.yml from your Kubernetes manifests. Same charts, same values, no second stack to maintain. Public domain.
Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026)
Legal threats, exposed vulnerabilities, and a fond farewell
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.
Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences
There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means.https://vale.rocks/micros/20260521-0440
Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopif…
A Valve artist has defended AI disclosures on storefronts like Steam, saying they only scare those with "low effort" products.
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the Linux kernel's Rust code.
Who cares about the Baltic Jammer? – Terrestrial Navigation in the Baltic Sea Region (39C3)
Reports of GNSS interference in the Baltic Sea have become almost routine — airplanes losing GPS, ships drifting off course, and timing s...
Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS
Dell and Asus have announced new mini PCs intended for use with Windows 365. These systems will not power themselves, but will simply allow users to operate Windows running in the cloud.
Hacking washing machines (39C3)
Almost everyone has a household appliance at home, whether it's a washing machine, dishwasher, or dryer. Despite their ubiquity, little i...
Presenting 14 practical vulnerabilities in GPG & similar tools on stage (39C3)
Might contain zerodays. https://gpg.fail/ From secure communications to software updates: PGP implementations such as *GnuPG* ubiquitous...
AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)
I successfully failed with a literature related project and accidentally built a ChatGPT detector. Then I spoke to the people who uploade...
AI collar claims it can translate your pet’s sounds – and the internet has questions
A Chinese startup has unveiled an AI-powered collar that claims to translate animal sounds into human language, a concept that has inevitably sparked many questions.Priced at $149.99 (£110) on its website, Hangzhou-bas…
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the companyâs next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale (39C3)
The Deutschlandticket was the flagship transport policy of the last government, rolled out in an impressive timescale for a political pro...
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.
TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalat…
A utopian Russian novel predicted Putin’s war plan.
Industrial Parts Pricing Software for Real-Time Monitoring
Optimize complex industrial parts pricing at scale. AI-powered pricing intelligence for B2B distributors & manufacturers. Track 500K+ SKUs, automate quotes & improve margins. Request demo.
President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint t…
Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
(e) (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developer…
Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI
In a legal analysis for consumer advocates, experts warn of massive protection gaps due to the planned "digital EU omnibus". Big Tech is favored.
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says graduates booing AI will shape its future — and live with its consequences
As commencement speakers face restless crowds of new graduates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he's ready for his turn at Stanford next month.
Texas sues Meta and WhatsApp for "Lying About Privacy Measures and Deceiving Texans by Falsely Claiming WhatsApp Messages are Encrypted"
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC (collectively “WhatsApp”) after the company misled consumers regarding the strength and scope of its privacy protections for its messag…
[Project] Just released: a virtual museum with nearly every OS you can think of...
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
The Trump phone appears to have already leaked its customers’ personal information through a glaring exploit
Trump Mobile's Trump phone isn't even in customers' hands yet, and it's already allegeldy leaking their personal data to the world.
Studio Reset established – Canadian game studio by former BioWare, Inflexion Games, and Timbre Games staff
Studio Reset, a new Canadian game studio founded by former Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Long Dark, and Anthem developers, has announced its establishment. It is currently working on a “neon-n…
Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ — In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tip…
CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.
How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
The systemâs power is comparable to others â but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking
Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs
EPFL researchers have developed new software – now spun-off into a start-up - that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the busin…
Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis | TechCrunch
First responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them during emergency situations, including in at least two active crime scenes, TechCrunch found.
New 'physics shortcut' lets laptops tackle quantum problems once reserved for supercomputers and AI
Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.
Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
Packaging Stremio’s GTK4 Shell: CEF Integration Adventures
Nine days debugging one function call, and other lessons from browser-engine integration Introduction When Stremio released their new GTK4-based shell using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead of Qt5/QtWebEngine, …
Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Goo…
The same products are showing up as 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to traditional search, a study found.
Donating our open-source alignment tool - Anthropic
Updating Petri to version 3.0 and donating it to Meridian Labs
Myanmar junta deploys AI-powered Russian and Chinese tracking system to target 50,000 individuals for new wave of arrests
Mizzima The Spring Revolution Database (SRD) has issued an urgent public security warning, revealing that the Myanmar junta is utilizing…
Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks
How I found critical vulnerabilities in Petlibro smart pet feeders allowing complete account takeover via broken OAuth, access to anyone's pet data, device hijacking, and private audio recordings - and how they're still…