FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - IT Notes
How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.
US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya.
The Document Foundation announced today the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1
Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube Berlin, 26 February 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1, the first maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2…
[OC] Dagger Directive mission playthrough, edited to be a more fun watch than raw footage.
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TIL the Windows 7 default wallpaper was created at a resolution of 10800×6750. The size of the source file is 556 MB.
Harmony, also internally referred to as img0, is the default wallpaper for all available Windows 7 editions, except Starter, which uses a different version of Harmony...
Hitler and Innocent
A screenshot of Louis’ 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 papers…
UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers
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Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?
Feedback notes the proliferation of AI company logos, and agrees with one blogger's claim that many bear a striking resemblance to a certain anatomical feature
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 …
With OD and Physint in the works, Hideo Kojima says Kojima Productions is heading towards its "Third Phase," with the creator to focus on "…
The studio is set to "move forward with preparations for the espionage action title 'Physint'"
Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive
You're not productive if you don't use a lot of AI.
US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
Rocket League will get updated to Unreal Engine 6 with new teaser shown
Epic Games developer Psyonix has published a sneak peek at an updated version of Rocket League running in Unreal Engine 6, revealing a first look at its new logo.
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 b…
"We genuinely didn't know how people would react"
Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s 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.
Star Trek Would've Collapsed Without Her Genius
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OPM established the United States Tech Force initiative to recruit over 1,000 AI specialists and digital experts into the federal workforce…
WASHINGTON, DC — The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), the White House Office of Science Technology and P…
'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.
The Luna Deadline: industry problem, not just Luna
Amazon Lunaâs changes prove that digital ownership is fragile. Why buy means borrow in 2026 and how to protect your games, movies, and save data now.
Club Penguin still gets regular updates.
The most exciting Club Penguin experience awaits! Join a hundreds of thousands of players in our community, get items, experience classic and original parties and games, and waddle on with friends. Play now—it's free!
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
How One Phone Call Created Genesis and Saved Star Trek | Trek World
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Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon se…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out! | PCSX2
Nearly six months after the release of PCSX2 2.6.0 (and two years after the big milestone release of 2.0.0) - we are excited to unveil PCSX2 2.8.0 and showcase what we have been working on since then!
A Robot Hand That Taught Itself to Play Piano Could Change the Future of Machines
USC researchers built a robotic hand that hears a melody once and plays it back after just two minutes of self-taught practice on a keyboard. They say the implications go far beyond music.
Good Luck Opting Out: Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Google, X, Uber, OpenAI, Tinder and 30 other companies make it almost impossible for users to co…
EPIC’s report Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes by Justin Sherman, EPIC Scholar in Residence, and Caroline Kraczon, EPIC Counsel, investigates whether the consumer opt-out processes…
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.
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada,…
We'll begin notifying parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to self-harm, so they have the information they need to support them.
Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly?
Driverless cars haven't always obeyed the rules of the road but, unlike vehicles with humans behind the wheel, they've gotten away with it. That's about to change in California.
The Oscars Ban AI From Winning Acting and Writing Awards
Hollywood gets a little firmer in its stance on generative AI by keeping it away from two of the biggest Oscars categories.
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.
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.
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 they’ll be unskippable
VRC Non-Skip ads are now generally available globally in Google Ads and Display & Video 360.
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
How difficult could it really be?
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
Microsoft converts Office 2019 for Mac perpetual licenses to read-only versions
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...
Asking the Self-Hosting Community to Take a Brief Three-Question Survey
Thank you for taking this quick three-question survey.
Leaving Apple behind after 18 years
I've just "finished" (as much as it can be finished) a project to migrate out of the Apple ecosystem. I'll share with you the why and how, what I gave up, what I gained, and what privacy really costs.
Why Blade Runner Is A Masterpiece
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Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with …
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.
Michael isn't a biopic it's an advertisement - the backdrop
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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.
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.
AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.
fast16 | Mystery ShadowBrokers Reference Reveals High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
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