My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments
We continue our annual tradition of looking back at Microsoft's wins, fails, and WTF moments: its victories, failures, and things that left you shaking your head. There's no other way to say it: Microsoft had a bad 2025.
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
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,
Bullet Heaven Festival 3.0 event on Steam is now live!
Enter Bullet Heaven Festival, a reverse bullet hell celebration. Unleash relentless projectiles, upgrade abilities, conquer foes, and ascend to ultimate power!
Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones
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One industry, one fight
by Games Workers // Video Game Unions Present a United Front Across Western Europe
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Was Announced, Then Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations - IGN
The studio behind the Postal franchise just announced that it will be publishing a brand new Postal game, to be developed by Goonswarm Games. Unfortunately, it even more recently announced it would be cancelling said ga…
Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the department’s then-DEI office. Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font…
X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse
X rolled out a new feature that lets users alter any image via AI prompts, igniting backlash among users, particularly artists, who fear their work can be misused, misrepresented, and altered without their consent.
Pebble Round 2 Announced
Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, aiming to cut costs as DDR5 prices continue to rise. More details here.
Released: CyberTools Admin 1.5.0 — Backup/Restore Automation for CyberPanel & Linux Servers
CyberTools Admin – Server Automation & Backup Control Version 1.5.0 (Auto-Healing Rollout) Author: Jeffery Raskin • Release: 2025-10-31 🧠 Secure, Intelligent Server Management for Professionals Built for CyberPanel, VP…
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
: Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
Taskbar Treasure Week event on Steam is now live!
From desktop pets to incremental idle loops, this curated showcase brings together the coziest indie games of the year. Including new demos, fresh releases, and special discounts.
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?
You’re spoilt for choice, choose your preferred method of installation.
Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).
Self-hosted API for creating and querying JSON data on different storage providers. - TimoKats/emmer
AMD Supposedly Resuscitates "Discontinued" B650 Chipset, Motivated by DIY Cost Fluctuations
Around late summer, rumors emerged about AMD leadership notifying its motherboard manufacturing partners about an upcoming discontinuation of the venerable B650 chipset. At the time, alleged "clearance plans" targeted a…
Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves
With a visual overhaul, new features and providers, and a custom-built streaming protocol, it's our biggest update yet!
Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune
Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.
Tor Project received $2.5M from the US government to bolster privacy
The US government contributed over $2.5 million to the Tor Project last year, continuing its financial relationship with the nonprofit.
European space agency confirms 'external servers' breached in cyberattack
ESA is investigating the extent of the breach
A friend of mine made a sick tutorial for eu5 if anyone's interested!
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Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel
Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith
Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner who tried to sell it for $75 million acted in bad faith
'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the f…
"They've just had an incredible year."
Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting
Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
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Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the Linux kernel's Rust code.
Sabotaging Bitcoin
Source I find myself in the unusual position of defending Bitcoin from its critics, if only reluctantly. In 2024 Soroush Farokhnia & Amir...
When a video codec wins an Emmy
It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Em
Notepad++ updater installed malware
The updater for the open-source editor Notepad++ has installed malware on PCs. An update to Notepad++ v8.8.9 corrects this.
Findroid v1.0.0 with a complete redesign is here
After more than 1 year, the Compose rework is finally here! ⚠️ This update requires Jellyfin Server 10.11.0+. Please update your server before installing. New features Fresh New Look: Enjoy a com...
Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
Scientists are on the verge of a dental miracle.
Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced op…
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code
The Algorithm Finally Works For You
Whether That’s Good Remains To Be Seen
You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar
Razer showed off its 3D "desk companion," Project AVA, at CES. The 3D hologram can perform tasks like scheduling and live translation.
Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality
A factory in space has been switched on and has reached temperatures of about 1,000C.
Red Dead 2 Comparison Videos Are Lying to You
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'Classic Doom Mods' - Civvie11
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There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
: SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck
AI-Generated Ghost Player assistance would help out players who can’t progress in a game…
Flotsam, an exploration city-builder where you scavenge the oceans and explore the flooded remnants of the old world with your floating col…
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Order of the Sinking Star | Official Announcement Trailer | Jonathan Blow [1:31]
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Termix 1.8.0 has been released.
Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities. - Termix
Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.