New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites
New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.
TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining
The first two mines in the world to start moving all of their iron ore using fully remote-controlled trucks have just gone online in Western Australia's Pilbara.
Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?
How many data centers will be built – and how much electricity they’ll need – is uncertain. Being prepared costs money, but so does being unprepared.
The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast
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Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash
Vince Zampella is the former CEO of video game developers Infinity Ward, the studio behind the wildly successful "Call of Duty" franchise.
Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs
EPFL researchers have developed new software – now spun-off into a start-up - that eliminates the need for data to be sent to third-party cloud services when AI is used to complete a task. This could challenge the busin…
Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot
An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU …
TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber
Adequate intake of dietary fiber is associated with digestive health and reduced risk for heart disease, stroke, hypertension, certain gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. According…
Bits & Bops, a rhythm minigame collection, has been released on Steam
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TIL: There are just over 9,000 Mediators (a.k.a. Arbitrators, or Conciliators) in the US as of the year 2024
Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators facilitate negotiation through dialogue to help resolve conflicts outside of the court system.
Capcom Looks to Grow Mega Man, Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry with New Projects
Capcom has released its 2025 Integrated Report, and tucked inside COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto’s section is a passage that gives fans of the company's under utilized IPs something to pay attention to.
Persona 4 Revival: Pre-order Trailer
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I built an AI app that helps people choose what to watch in seconds
Mood based AI movie finder — better than JustWatch, Reelgood & IMDb lists.
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel under September agreement
Nvidia has purchased Intel shares worth $5 billion, the semiconductor firm said in a filing on Monday, carrying out a transaction announced in September.
Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents
Microsoft will prevent Office 2019 for Mac owners from editing their documents from July 13, a restriction the company is attributing to the productivity suite's expiring digital certificate. The Office 2019 apps affect…
Synology is removing your Active Insight complimentary licenses
Synology Knowledge Center offers comprehensive support, providing answers to frequently asked questions, troubleshooting steps, software tutorials, and all the technical documentation you may need.
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
Today in “Google Broke Email”
I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email. Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At…
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!
39C3: Liberating ESP32 Bluetooth
Bluetooth is everywhere, but it’s hard to inspect. Most of the magic is done inside a Bluetooth controller chip, accessed only through a controller-specific Host-Controller Interface (HCI) pr…
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
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.
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.
After originally being revealed in 2020, Ark 2 has been delayed again until 2028
Developer Studio Wildcard is focusing on a major 2027 expansion for Ark: Survival Ascended first…
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…
Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Review - Not the game I was looking for
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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…
Donut Lab's miracle battery found to be a fraud, investigation claims
An independent investigation has produced definitive proof that Donut Lab's solid-state battery is actually a standard lithium-ion cell.
Camera Chase Vehicle
You stumble on a weird robot chassis in an industrial warehouse. Its adorable, enormous and will likely be scrapped.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
AI chatbots are generating fake titles that people insist are real.
The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators
Scientific calculators are an amazing invention that take pocket calculators from being merely basic arithmetic machines to being pocket computers that can handle everything from statistics to alge…
TIL chrysalis comes from the Greek word gold, so named because many butterfly chrysalis have gold dots or gold colouring.
a pupa of a butterfly; broadly : an insect pupa; the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa; a protecting covering; also : a sheltered state or stage of being or growth… See the full definition
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…
Congress Is Trying to Permanently Integrate U.S. and Israeli Defense Tech
A controversial proposal to entwine U.S. and Israeli tech in AI and autonomous systems closely resembles a pro-Israel bill that died earlier this year.
Resonance: A Plague Legacy - Release Date Reveal Trailer
Pre-order Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on XBOX Series X|S today: https://www.xbox.com/games/store/p/9NFW93G1GFXGVenture into the world of Resonance on Aug...
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.
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.
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
Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret
Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."
Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic
iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use
That Drone in the Sky Could Be Tracking Your Car
Police are using their drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), airborne police cameras that make it easier than ever for law enforcement to follow you. "The Flock Safety drone, specifically, are flying…
Parent company of Truth Social reports $400M loss
The parent company of Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media platform, reported a net loss on Friday of more than US$400 million in the first quarter -- mostly from tumbling cryptocurrency valuations.
The mObywatel's user interface source code has been published
After over one and a half years delay the parts of mObywatel's source code have been published, comprising the user interface of the mobile apps for Android and iOS.
Nintendo will pay a $40 million fine for faulty Joy-Cons
French authorities have fined Nintendo around $40m over faulty Joy-Cons.
UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images
If firms do not act, the PM said, ‘we will change the law … when it comes to the safety of our children, standing by is not an option’.