European Union: Chinese online retailer Temu hit with 200 million euro fine over unsafe toys and electronics
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.
There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
[Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse”, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s nothin…
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next
Google has started rolling out Android's new developer verification, with user-facing sideloading changes arriving later this year.
ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it
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The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage
Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage
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.
Why Raiders of the Lost Ark Still Looks like a Billion Bucks
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Search robot thinks for itself— A robot that can locate lost items on command
A robot that can locate lost items on command – this is the latest development at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.
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…
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…
The Abandoned Practical Effect of Raiders of the Lost Ark
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AI chatbots lure vulnerable gamblers to unlicensed betting websites
Major chatbot platforms found to be advertising unregulated online casinos across the continent, exclusive Investigate Europe research shows.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
Iran war shows how AI speeds up military ‘kill chains’
The speed and scale of war are being enhanced by AI systems – but they also bring new risks for civilians and military combatants.
AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.
Microsoft is still faking Google's homepage on Bing 1.5 years after backlash, even as it pays $1 million for users
Microsoft is still spoofing Google’s homepage in Bing on Edge, despite backlash, while users grow increasingly frustrated with Google Search.
Looking for lightweight homelab dashboard that can run as nonroot container and also supports OIDC
Hi all. Per the title, I’m looking for something that: - Can run as an
unprivileged user inside a container - Allows OpenID Connect authentication for
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Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 22, 2025
Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
Here's How Israel ASSISTED Adam Sandler's Career..
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Sycophantic behavior in AI affects us all, say researchers
: Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it
Stranger than Heaven is Yakuza except set between 1915 and 1965 in five different cities—including Kamurocho
It's a grittier take than the recent Like a Dragon games, but I'm sure it'll still have bonkers mini-games.
The Muppets Brought Out the Best in Tim Curry
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Is Bambu Lab Next? Washington Eyes Potential U.S. Ban on 3D Printers
Washington reviews Bambu Lab over security risks after DJI. Learn about tariffs, market impact, and Bambu's response in the U.S.
Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks
Valve has long been preparing its software stack for the arrival of both the Steam Machine and the upcoming Steam Frame, and the latest update sees the gaming giant add a long list of fixes, QoL improvements, and featur…
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, The Verge, and Gizmodo, among others. The bl…
Crimson Desert First Look: The BlackSpace Engine Tech Preview
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Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.
ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners
Tired of those annoying cookie banners? They’re not just frustrating—they're a lazy response to GDPR. Discover three simple ways to block them and reclaim your browsing experience!
Plebbit will be the first pure peer-to-peer social media protocol.
Contribute to plebbit/whitepaper development by creating an account on GitHub.
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…
Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage
A cause is still yet to be revealed
"Masked characters can't express feelings with the mask on" Explain this:
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Pluribus Season 1 Episode 8 - Dinner Scene.
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AI code increasingly leads to production failures
The rapid introduction of AI-generated code is increasingly leading to production failures, according to a survey.
Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests
A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.
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
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.
Kingdom Hearts IV - Reveal Trailer
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Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract
Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics company
Spotted in the wild: Our first look at the X Money debit card Musk is rolling out
X Money cards are popping up on social media, buying ice creams and snacks at gas stations. Users are thanking William Shatner.
Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.
Defining Klingon Honour is Hard | Certifiably Ingame
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Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater)
Riot Games' kernal level anti-cheat, Vanguard, has received an update which is allegedly altering system firmware associated with cheating.
The AI-designed car is taking shape
Experts say the increasingly reliance on AI could lead to job losses.
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official…
At Intel
Organising within and against the semiconductor industry