No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
Hidden Camera Build Proves You Can’t Trust Walnuts
Typically, if you happened across a walnut lying about, you might consider eating it or throwing it to a friendly squirrel. However, as [Penguin DIY] demonstrates, it’s perfectly possible to …
MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought
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TIL How to juggle 3 balls
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Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each
Some large /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses, the former Class A network blocks, are assigned in whole to single organizations or related groups of organizations, either by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numb…
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month
The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
1. Optimizing good information to push down the negative: using new content (blog, websites, press releases, public network profiles, google images, etc) and search engine optimization. Changing the Wikipedia profile. N…
Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News
Scam ads are big business for Meta....
'Baldur’s Gate 2: F My Bhaal Femcel Life' - Warlockracy
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Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
New Social Web Working Group at W3C
Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…
After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'
A recent interview session between Twitch streamers and content creators saw Sandfall Interactive's Guillaume Broche clarifying the studio's AI usage
Digital Tribulations 6: A Radical Hacker-Fanonian Critique of Digital Colonialism
The introduction to this series of interviews can be read here. Interview with Deivison FaustinoAt the presentation of the MTST’ book in São Paulo, I met Deivison Faustino, a figure who im
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad
Amazon is experimenting with AI dubs on anime and other projects, and what it has done with Banana Fish is downright disgraceful.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds
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Migrating Dillo from GitHub
I would like to migrate the Dillo project away from GitHub into a new home which is more friendly to be used with Dillo and solves some of its problems. This page summarizes the current situation with GitHub and why I d…
Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Windows 11 can't move the taskbar, and four years later, Microsoft still has no plans to bring it back. Here's why, according to Microsoft.
The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
How the moderators behind one of the internet’s most popular platforms for tech content have a say into which content you consume.
2025 Game Awards Results Discussion
Find all the winners for every category here.
CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage
: Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again
Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security
The PS5 BootROM keys have leaked, exposing unpatchable hardware security and potentially accelerating custom firmware, emulation, and piracy.
Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic? | NYT
Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.
How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
[id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized
id Software is the latest Microsoft-acquired team to organize
Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results
Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...
We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good.
We successfully plugged the hole in the ozone layer that was discovered in the 1980s by banning ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). But, it seems we might be unintentionally creating another p…
Disruption without dividend? - How the digital divide and task differences split GenAI’s global impact
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'It can be unnecessary - and even too much': Are violent video games like Grand Theft Auto 6 becoming too realistic?
The latest in the franchise is the most hyped release of 2026 and looks set to push the boundaries of gaming visuals – but it could prove more disturbing than entertaining.
AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, t…
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK
PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI
: Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits
What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar
An exploration of pressure-based interfaces and physical metaphors for digital weight
Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning wit…
A Reddit user says their new memory kit vanished somewhere between dispatch and delivery.
Nokia N900 Necromancy
Building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, booting from SD card, and giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone.
AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts …
The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll
In a feature the dating app says is set to roll out in the U.S. later this spring, Tinder plans to access users' camera rolls to pick photos and determine what they're into.
ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
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
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her ânext chapter.â The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.
Samsung, SK Reportedly Hike Server DRAM Prices 60-70% – Google, Microsoft in the Queue
With Jensen Huang officially confirming at CES that all six of NVIDIA’s Rubin chips are back from manufacturing partners and set for a 2026 launch, th...
Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)
But then I cut out the middle man—me."
Apple opens up its App Store to competition in Japan
Epic Games CEO says Fortnite won't return to Japan, though, because the new rules still require high fees.
TIL the Sundance Kid lived in Canada for three years
Harry Longabaugh — better known as the Sundance Kid — is perhaps most famous for his daring bank and train robberies as part of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. But the American outlaw’s short stint as a cowboy and businessm…
The Latest Monster Hunter Wilds PC Perf Drama Explained | Digital Foundry
Thousands upon thousands of DLC checks hammer the CPU.
'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Length…
Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had already been rebooted on…