The Griffin, Ship of the Damned, Explained | Certifiably Ingame
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TIL the last convicted Salem witch, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., was officially exonerated in 2022, 329 years after she had been found guilty
Elizabeth Johnson Jr. has been officially exoneratedâthanks to a dogged band of middle schoolers
TIL there's actually a difference between coffin and casket. Coffins are tapered to the body (6 or 8 sides), usually with a separate lid, t…
A coffin or casket is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for burial, entombment or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
Hands on with the Retroid Pocket Nova; A custom OLED love letter to 4:3 gaming
A 4:3 OLED screen, sixth-generation console power and Retroid's most refined handheld design yet.
This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing wi…
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Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independe…
An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit
Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release: Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights nativ…
Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and the ability to carry out long-horizon agentic tasks.
Finally some good news from #Signal 🥳
Signal is working on a way to sign up without a phone number. The feature has not yet been officially confirmed, and it is not yet known whether it will be available to all users or in what form.
The CIA’s most ridiculous Cold War spy weapon was a Xerox photocopier
A disused bowling alley, a fire-prone photocopier, and a home-movie camera: inside the CIA's wild secret operation against the KGB.
‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ officially had the biggest domestic opening day OF ALL TIME with $168M.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day with a $360M opening has beat Avengers Endgame's all-time opening record at the domestic box office.
TIL World’s biggest beer, wine and spirits producers have collectively lost $830 billion in market value over just four years. Changing dri…
A global shift in drinking patterns has wiped out more than US$800 billion from the value of leading alcohol companies.
The most underrated programming language: Pokémon Yellow
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I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins.
$10,000. Two secret years of real market history. One button. You will probably lose to a couch.
Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week
500,000 copies fly off the shelves in just its first week, people must really love eternally sawing wooden logs.
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
TIL At least 25 of the Snapple "Facts" are false, outdated, exaggerated or inconclusive
Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, based in Plano, Texas, United States. Snapple originated as an apple juice first produced in 1972 by Unadulterated Food Products, with the name Snapp…
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026
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Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use.
Cassette Beasts 2002 | Announcement Trailer
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Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands
The U.S. has used tariffs and security rules to keep Chinese cars off dealer lots. Alphabet’s robotaxi company appears to be buying them by the boatload.
Indie Arcade Gallery Shooter - Nova Swarm (Steam)
Nova Swarm is a fast vertical shoot 'em up. Start with one ship, unlock the rest one by one, defeat bosses, and choose run-long upgrades that shape a different build each time. Chase ranked scores across a 30-ship roste…
'Halo 2 and 3 Remakes Already In Development, According To New Report' - Wolf's Gaming Blog
Halo: Campaign Evolved is in development, but remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3 are also confirmed, with early development underway. Notable features will connect the remakes with upcoming content.
Edward Snowden interview: 'Smartphones can be taken over' by GCHQ using activation programs
Smartphone users can do "very little" to stop security services getting "total control" over their devices, US whistleblower Edward Snowden tells the BBC in his first British TV interview.
Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests
One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of th…
Illinois Governor Signs School Cellphone Ban to Avoid Student Distractions
SB 2427 creates distraction-free classrooms that allow students to learn and grow without the attention demands of cell phones
The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients
The US Food and Drug Administration named Dexcom as the first manufacturer selected for its Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes pilot on Tuesday. The programme, known as TEMPO, allows digital health devices…
95-Year-Old William Shatner Reacts to His Life in Photos with Daughter Melanie: ‘Star Trek’ & More
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Memdeklaro - A privacy-friendly decentralized identity framework
Memdeklaro - Empowering people to self-declare their own identity without third parties. Open source, non-government and non-corporate.
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
New FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.
"We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of di…
Shuji Utsumi, president of Sega, has spoken up in defence of physical games - though he understands the importance of digital storefronts, too.
Star Trek Colony vs Starbase | Certifiably Ingame
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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? 💻🔪
Try to spot who liked hacking away at corpses rather than computers
Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
On July 20, Wiki Workers United U.S. demanded voluntary recognition as a union from the Wikimedia Foundation, following a similar request for voluntary recognition made by WWU-UK, the UK branch of WWU, in June. The requ…
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, c…
OpenAI Says Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems With Lean Proofs: The proof files are public, but the new model is still private.
OpenAI paired its Astra proof claims with Lean certificates and a public repository. That makes the results checkable, but it does not make the unreleased model or peer review disappear.
Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter
The start of something big, or is something else affecting the numbers?
FANTASTIC video on configuring Openwrt VLANs
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man (Odyssey review)
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.
The heat generated by the small box of powerful computers is enough to heat the pool about 60% of the time.
Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
It has long felt like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had it out for his own company. Soaring capital expenditures could seal the deal.
Is Routine worth playing?
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
UK Facial Recognition Rollout
Police could use live facial recognition across town centres, matching CCTV images to passport photos under new government plans.
Mark Zuckerberg's Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down.
Monero support finally coming soon to THORChain
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
Emily Wilson, whose recent translation of The Odyssey was cited as inspiration, trashed the film in a 4,000 word review.
Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.
TIL about hedonic regression which decomposes the item being researched into its constituent characteristics
In economics, hedonic regression, also sometimes called hedonic demand theory, is a revealed preference method for estimating demand or value of a characteristic of a differentiated good. It decomposes the item being re…
The 14 steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
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Gosuki v1.4.2: open-source, cloudless, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager
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