A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlight…
As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at all
Announcement: I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark Ties. Full statement below:
As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bun…
Fortnite now allows creator-made games to sell in-game items — and immediately, the platform's most popular experience Steal the Brainrot has added $45 premium item bundles and a chance-based roulette wheel.
Xikipedia - the doomscrollable wikipedia
Wikipedia you can doomscroll
Dealing with faulty RAM modules in 2026
How to test and safely keep using your RAM
TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.
"Baba Yetu" (Swahili: "Our Father") is the main theme song for the 2005 video game Civilization IV. It was composed by Christopher Tin and performed by Ron Ragin and the Stanford Talisman.[1][2][3] For its re-release in…
Xbox Developer_Direct Returns January 22: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation to be shown
We're kicking off 2026 with the fourth installment of Developer_Direct on January 22 – bringing you new gameplay and insights for Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation.
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French
Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an emotional narrative and old-school design.
Lucille Ball Rescued Star Trek From Cancellation—Here's Why It Backfired
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This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000
The Dacia Spring sees a dramatic price cut in Germany, with a €5,000 discount and a lightweight spec aimed squarely at urban electric drivers
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm
People's sexual orientation, ethnicity, or political views could be exposed in proposed EU changes to the 'GDPR' digital-rights laws, civil society experts warn, after a leaked draft.
The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought
By the time you read this, the widespread embargo on every foreign-made consumer drone will be in effect. That’s essentially all of them.
US shutters phisherfolk’s $14.6M password-hoarding platform
: Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
Calling it now
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Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.
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Spider-Man's own enemies started complimenting him
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Gen Z went to movie theaters most often in 2025, according to New Exhibition Report. Also - the number of habitual moviegoers - those who s…
Cinema United's Strength of Exhibition Report also indicated the number of habitual moviegoers grew by 8 percent.
Epoch AI released new data finding that global AI compute capacity is doubling every 7 months, with Nvidia chips accounting for over 60% of…
Total available computing capacity from AI chips across all major designers has grown by approximately 3.3x per year since 2022, enabling larger-scale model development and consumer adoption.
Mullvad VPN - AND THEN? A film about Chat Control and mass surveillance
Chat Control is back on the menu. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now presents "And Then?"
Zuckerberg eyes massive [datacenter] expansion with Meta Compute play
: No wonder he's going nuclear
ESCAPE FROM EVER AFTER (Impressions)
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NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have "dummy data"
NordVPN denied allegations that its internal Salesforce development servers were breached, saying that cybercriminals obtained "dummy data" from a trial account on a third-party automated testing platform.
NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions
NVIDIA has announced that starting January 1, 2026, each GeForce NOW cloud gaming subscription will be limited to 100 hours of play time per month. The company is implementing its long-lasting promise revealed in 2024, …
AGDQ 2026 Schedule
Check out the schedule for Awesome Games Done Quick 2026!
Interesting site with tons of resources
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure mean…
SicMu Neo | F-Droid
Simple, full-featured, file-based music player
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...
Wing's drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts
The drone delivery service will be available to 40 million customers in the US from Los Angeles to Miami.
DSpico the first open source flashcart for the DS(i) finally released!
DSpico is a project by the LNH team, consisting of two parts: an open-source DS(i) flashcart and an app launcher compatible with many existing DS(i) flashcarts. All components —PCB, software, shell, stickers, and box ar…
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says it's "very odd" to see characters he created in the Prime Video show with "no credit" and "no residuals"
"In some ways, I think doing narrative in video games is a little akin to doing comic book work"
Behind the Scenes - Prince of Persia (1989) [Making of]
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Meta names Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump adviser, as president and vice chairman
Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as its new president and vice chairman.
How AI broke the smart home in 2025
Why AI hasn’t made the smart home smarter
When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%
Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November
Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete
An eyewear breakthrough by Finnish company IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the 'head-tilt' struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the huma…
Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance
This four-week consultation on open source software tackles the cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and automotive sectors.
Omni-Man’s Fatherly Advice
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The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
With virtually no content and limited benefits, 8K TVs were doomed.
New Episode of The Amazing Digital Circus Soon
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Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again
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'Sinners’ and the Legacy of Southern Vampirism – Scalawag
Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' continues a tradition of using vampires to explore Southern identity and politics.
(Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38]
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Moral Panic and Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban: A Critical Youth Work Perspective
John Sutcliffe critiques Australiaâs impending social media ban for under-16s.
"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
Manyverse – a peer-to-peer social network
A social network off the grid – mobile and available on Android