Quantum Breakthrough: New Algorithm Solves “Impossible” Materials in Seconds
A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach.
The Anatomy of Search Engine Spam
Black hat SEO is endlessly fascinating phenomenon to study. This post is about some tactics they use to make their sites rank higher. The goal of blackhat SEO is to boost the search engine ranking of a page nobody parti…
Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative
I replaced my Samsung S24 with a Fairphone 6 running /e/OS and used it as my daily work phone. Here's whether a de-Googled smartphone holds up for professional use.
New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice
A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers
: But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan
APAC in Brief: PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!
Focused open source attacks. Smells like a corporate sponsored action.
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.
Sony's State of Play set for June 2
Sony Interactive Entertainment will host a State of Play on June 2 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET, the company announced. You will be able to watch it on YouTube (English, Japanese), Twitch, and Ti…
By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why.
Government pressure on Anthropic raises a core question: can Washington punish an AI company for refusing to redesign its systems for the Pentagon?
Using YouTube to steal your files
A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.
Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
Cloudflare Tunnel: proxy-dns Command Removal 2026 | What are some nice alternatives to encrypted DNS?
Learn about the removal of the cloudflared proxy-dns command in Cloudflare Tunnel, effective February 2, 2026. Stay updated on migration steps and alternatives. Visit https:mwpro.co.uk for more details.
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than the…
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)
But then I cut out the middle man—me."
Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans
The price of Lifetime Plex Pass plans will be increasing to $749.99 on July 1.
NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026
Philippines — Leading graphics card manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD are set to implement significant price increases starting in the first quarter of 2026,
Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant
Story has a happy ending of sorts, but should serve as a cautionary tale.
Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease
Update: Iron Galaxy has taken to social media to deny the speculation that it's working on a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, or anything Fallout-related. Whoops.
Samsung chip workers offered a $340,000 average bonus as union pushes toward $1M and an 18-day strike
Samsung Electronics will pay its chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 for the year, as the union pushes for compensation closer to $1m per employee and prepares for an 18-day walkout.
Google defeats US justice department bid to force ad tech sale
Judge declines to make Google sell AdX in win for firm against US antitrust enforcers’ attempts to break up big tech
NVIDIA buy Hugging Face for almost $13 Billion dollars
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide.
Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work
Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.
Just an FYI, but ErsatzTV is no longer maintained if you use it.
It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update. Over the past five years, ErsatzTV has grown far b...
A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.
10 Ways CRISPR Is Currently Curing Genetic Diseases
For most of human history, genetic diseases felt like fate. If a child was born with a broken gene, medicine…
After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at P…
Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going?
California laws protecting student data have loopholes that allow tech companies to continue packaging and selling that information.
Koei Tecmo is partnering with SpiralAI as it shows interest in creating "experiences that combine entertainment and AI" via chatbot-like LL…
Koei Tecmo and SpiralAI have jointly announced Geppetto2, a new LLM designed for entertainment and with conversational AI aspirations.
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
“it’d be wrong to steal the non-profit from him.”
AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite.
While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifyi…
No AI until high school: NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Siri Might Actually Be Good Now. Or Maybe It Was Just That Bad Before.
It took two more years than Apple anticipated, but an improved Siri is finally here.
TIL about Carnegie Mellon University's Buggy Races which is a relay race with five runners, using the buggy vehicle as the baton
Carnegie Mellon University is home to a variety of unique traditions, some of which date back to the early days of its over 100-year history. Many of these traditions hearken to the university's strength in engineering,…
Pebble Round 2 Announced
Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever
Proposed AI data center denied after massive public pushback - East Idaho News
POCATELLO — An application that would allow the potential construction of an artificial intelligence data center has been denied. On Monday, the minutes were posted for a public hearing in front of the Pocatello Hearing…
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data
Beyond The Dark was removed from Steam after it was discovered to contain malware designed to steal personal data and cryptocurrency.
ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Grok and Replika AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
Mullvad to patch VPN fingerprinting issue to stop your activity from being tracked across servers
The privacy-focused provider has started addressing a networking flaw that could allow websites to link user sessions across different VPN servers
Square Enix Drops The Adventures Of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Demo 30 Days Early, With Saves Carrying Into Full Game
Square Enix releases a free Prologue demo for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, allowing progress to carry over to the full game.
SVG clickjacking
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the manâwho hasnât entered the US in more than a decadeâfollowing posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Retro Games Millennials Love
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld
Two years of work now sits on a shelf because AI needs the RAM more.
"How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard" - by Joel Hawksley
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
Social Insecurity: Billions of Social Security Number and Passwords
UpGuard research found a trove of sensitive information in an exposed Elastic database. Getting to the bottom of what it meant led us down an interesting path.
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a…
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people had personal and health information stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year.
Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub
Nintendo shut down the Eden switch emulator GitHub repository, but the project still has momentum even post-DMCA
Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?
You’re spoilt for choice, choose your preferred method of installation.