Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1
USB dongles with not enough bandwidth
The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026
As 007 makes his gaming return, you can climb a mountain in Cairn, play a scaredy-cat in Resident Evil, and play a criminal couple in GTA VI
Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit, offering new approach to fusion ignition
Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized "density-free regime" for fusion plasmas, achieving stable operation at …
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Hunting For North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down …
We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]
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From scourge to saviour: How the sun powered the grid through a heatwave
For so long, the pounding sunshine of an Australian heatwave was the grid's biggest threat. It has now become its greatest asset.
I met a lot of weird robots at CES -- here are the most memorable
If the robots don't always give a totally accurate representation of where commercial deployment is at the moment, they do give visitors a peek at where their parent companies might be headed.
TIL there's a housekeeping olympics.
The Housekeeping Olympics at ISSA Show North America November 10, 2025 | Michelob Ultra Arena | Las Vegas Participate Sponsor Inquire The viral Housekeeping Olympics returns each year as part of ISSA Show North America—…
Why Are Open Source Load Testing Tools Popular for Performance Validation
Explore the best open source load testing tools with feature comparisons, use cases, CI/CD integration benefits & best practices for modern teams.
PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
PS5 ROM keys leaked on New Year's Eve. Sony faces an unpatchable hardware nightmare. Get full details on the hack, BrutalSam, and jailbreak
About KeePassXC’s Code Quality Control – KeePassXC
Managing a popular open source project is a lot of work and can be very rewarding. This is especially so for a security-critical application such as KeePassXC that enables people around the world to protect their most s…
Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.
HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easil…
The company is reportedly looking for an alternative to Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron.
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever
: Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.
BentoPDF v1.16.0
Note Please use the edge release instead of the latest for this version. A very small bug has been fixed, but creating another release note would be tedious 😂. So just for this instance, please use...
Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim
That's just one of many hefty price increases
What is a Passkey? - Computerphile
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It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
Just like Google plan with Chrome, Mozilla aren't sitting still on expanding Firefox into something resembling a web browser but with more AI.
Matthew McConaughey trademarks iconic phrase to stop AI misuse
The Oscar-winning actor has trademarked several phrases, including "Alright, alright, alright" from the cult classic film, Dazed and Confused.
The Netherlands consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not sufficient…
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) launches an investigation into online game platform Roblox in connection with possible risks that minors in the EU face on the platform.
RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon
RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon
Total War: Warhammer 40k
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selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images
An introduction to updating container images from the command line with dockcheck
TIL three silos built at Malley's Chocolate factory were meant to store cocoa, milk, and sugar.
Visible from the 480 freeway, three bright pink silos marked “Cocoa,” “Milk,” and “Sugar” sit on the grounds of Malley’s Chocolates in Brook Park. The location is home to the company’s chocolate factory and a shop lined…
Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag
Grok, the AI chatbot on the X social media platform, has issued answers recently that have startled and amused users, including insinuating that President Donald Trump is a pedophile and that Erika Kirk is actually Vice…
Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.
X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool
: Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions
The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to inclu…
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
One more piece of bad news for VR.
"Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot a…
Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics have laid off 20 more staff, their fourth round of job cuts in just 12 months.
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want clien…
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: “Any relevant de…
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity
What is Divinity's combat like, what does "more ambitious" than Baldur's Gate 3 mean, how far into development is it, and more questions answered.
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
Google is betting big on CO2 batteries to power its data centers with clean energy.
EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.
Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
While looking down the back of the Internet for something or other, I stumbled across Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2001. It has been a quarter of a century since 2001 (!!) so that's a good excuse to look back at w…
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree
A Reddit user known as “uncleseeth” has completed a 20-year quest to collect every physical North American Xbox 360 release, amassing 1,353 games and turning a casual achievements rivalry with friends into a lifelong pu…
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.
Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return a…
A buyer in Spain says a “new” ADATA XPG memory kit arrived with counterfeit contents.
Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse - Dhole Moments
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements the Key Transparency specification I’ve be…
Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic
The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t nee…
Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims
Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé Nast
WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé NastA comprehensive investigation into the current WIRED database leak and the threat of an imminent, much larger compromise targeting the Condé Nast portf…
GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.
Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized [Updated]
Ubisoft has announced the closure of its Ubisoft Halifax studio, just days after it was announced employees were unionizing.
Who and What comprise AI Skepticism?
An attempt to do justice to a diverse community