OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority
Startup still believes in âprinciple of treating adults like adults, but getting experience right will take more timeâ
AMD: Ryzen Desktop CPUs Reportedly See a Price Increase of Over 50% in Some Countries
The Ryzen 9000 series CPU lineup is "particularly notable for its price increases."
Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship
AdHoc says the core game experience has been preserved on Nintendo platforms despite it blacking out explicit scenes, but fans aren't having it
AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)
New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts... and it only costs a couple of dollars.
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being a Hollywood Liberal: Zootopia 2 - The Philosophical Salon
In Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush & Byron Howard, 2025), Hollywood once again entrusts its political intuitions to animals, as though nonhuman faces could soften the blows of contentious themes. The ... Read More
South Korea allows using uncensored personal information for AI training
(세종=연합뉴스) 이세원 기자 = 인공지능(AI) 기술 개발을 가속하도록 비식별조치를 하지 않은 개인 정보를 이용할 수 있는 특례를 도입한다.
Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists
Report claims unrestricted online access will be a ‘government privilege’, limited to individuals vetted by regime
Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.
Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender has taken a firm view on genAI art assets. "I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life more difficult in many ways."
Hugging Face: We Used AI to Catch the First Confirmed AI Agent Breach of a Major AI Platform
The company says the attack was carried out end to end by an autonomous AI-agent system.
Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism
A new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard.
Action RPG The Awakener: Battle Tendency launches on May 5 for PC | RPG Site
Taner Game's other RPG, The Awakener: Risen, is still in development.
The first episode of Fallout season 2 solves the 15-year-old New Vegas mystery of the missing Vault 24
I should have guessed: commies.
Australia expands age checks to AI chatbots, app stores, porn sites and more
The rules are already drawing criticism from some firms: Aylo, the operator of Pornhub, has responded by blocking Australian users from its platforms entirely.
Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually. And it might be working.
Rather than, y'know, outright theft.
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American c…
After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns
New online safety codes requiring R-rated games and websites to verify their users' ages come into effect, prompting concerns about online privacy.
Fate/Extra Record Delayed Beyond Spring 2026, Bandai Namco No Longer Publisher
Type-Moon has delayed Fate/Extra Record beyond Spring 2026 and confirmed Bandai Namco is no longer the publisher.
New open world parkour game Panline is so exact a reflection of Mirror's Edge it gives me vertigo
Panline is an open world parkour game heavily inspired by DICE's cult classic Mirror's Edge, save for the in-game PSP and mystifying absence of the colour red.
Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck: Flipper One hacking multitool offers 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and Linux on ARM
With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be â it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back
The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.
Does TikTok's new Terms of Service track race, gender identity, and immigration status?
Users are concerned TikTok is collecting new kinds of personal data. It's more complicated.
AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate th…
It's almost like we could all see this one coming.
"How my side project got banned from the internet" | Bogdan Chadkin
A little piece about dealing with security providers and clearing my side project's reputation after a false positive flagging.
Google Maps said a hike would take 5 hours. B.C. rescuers pointed out how wrong that was
Hikers recently rescued from an extremely challenging trail in B.C. had planned their trip using Google Maps, prompting a warning about the perils of relying on that platform in the backcountry.
Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than impose an outright ba…
Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph
Kobo's Storygraph integration launches in June and will automatically sync progress with the reading platform.
GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform
📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform - spacebarchat/spacebarchat
Sectigo’s Wrongful Revocation of RustDesk’s EV Certificate: A Concerning Precedent for the Software Security Ecosystem
Overview On December 8th 2025, Sectigo abruptly revoked RustDesk’s Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificate without presenting any evidence of malicious behavior or security compromise. Th...
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Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says
Powerful forces are exploiting parents’ fears to strengthen their toxic business models. Here’s how we stop them.
Judge rules DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal / The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ pr…
DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to scan grants for terms related to DEI.
Layoffs and the threat of AI: Why Irish tech workers are finally turning to unions
“You know the people on the Titanic with the violins? That’s how we feel,” one tech worker said.
Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads
The figure appears to come from a quarterly investor update, but Telly didn't provide any comment on the report.
Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself
Capcom's sci-fi shooter is ready for the world, but are we ready?
STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | Five Eras Reveal Trailer
An epic saga of men battling through five eras and five cities.Tune-in to Xbox Presents: A Special Look at STRANGER THAN HEAVEN, a standalone broadcast featu...
AI companies turn knowledge into a proprietary asset. Share your knowledge openly and freely.
AI companies control much of the data powering AI models. Share your knowledge openly and freely to make information accessible to everyone. Open access ensures that anyone can contribute to and benefit from AI developm…
TIL the word "fnord," from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gives characters subconscious feelings of unease and confusion, thus preventing ration…
Fnord (/fnɔːrd/) is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia. It entered into popular culture after appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) of novel…
Advanced satellite technology has uncovered at least 28 additional large stone circles near Rujm el-Hiri, once thought to be israel's lone …
For decades, the massive stone circles of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights were considered a singular, mysterious anomaly—often dubbed "Israel's Stonehenge." However, new research led by Ben-Gurion University of the Ne…
Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims
Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
Every millenial nerd’s fantasy
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How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.
Animal Farm trailer treats the source material with exactly as much dignity as it deserves
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How Iran’s Censorship Ministry Got Inside Wikipedia
Persian Wikipedia's Senior Figures Coordinated with the Iranian Government and Shaped Wikipedia strategy
People Hate AI Art
So I had ChatGPT generate that for me.
Booting from a vinyl record
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! W…
Pangolin 1.15: iOS and Android apps, device approvals and posture, 1 year anniversary, stability, and more | Pangolin Blog
One year ago, in January 2025, we unleashed the very first beta of Pangolin. To be honest, it was a bit lean and had a few "character-building" bugs - but it quickly struck a chord as the go-to open-source alternative t…