Critics Slam Tesla's Gamification Of FSD As Driver Hits 25,000-Mile Streak
A driver just surpassed 25,000 miles while operating on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, but some critics argue that the gamification is dangerous.
A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS s…
HDMod - A Spelunky Remake
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TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards
Over 80% of foods marketed to toddlers in the United States are ultraprocessed, while nearly half also fail to meet global nutritional guidelines, a new study found.
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, rai…
Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of The Static Blog
A CDN for a blog with three visitors a day is objectively overkill. I did it anyway, apex domain and all, moving my whole DNS zone over to Bunny in the process.
RustDesk now supports unattended remote access on Wayland, including the login screen and multi-monitor setups
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.
The AYN Thor Lite Has Become Something Much Bigger Than AYN Built
From Cocoon and iiSU to custom buttons, skins and emulation, the community is giving AYN's cheapest Thor a life of its own
Research: The whole Reddit has become more negative over time. Also, the longer the community exists, the more negative it get — and the lo…
Beyond the algorithm, online negativity takes on a life of its own. Here’s why.
The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
There are loads of options for getting new music into your ears if you're fed up with Spotify.
Flock Safety privacy changes: retention cut to seven days
Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.
Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started
Twitch announced on its official X channel that it has added a setting that allows users to opt out of having their channel content used to train...
'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind th…
He hates snakes. Of this, I am pretty sure.
'Sanctuary: Shattered Sun' Demo & Kickstarter
Command vast armies across the surface of a star-encompassing Dyson Sphere in this next-gen RTS. Shatter the map itself with superweapons, freeze oceans to create new invasion routes, and control hundreds of units in yo…
Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud gam…
Moonloot, a studio Netflix founded in 2022, is also being closed.
Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game …
Rideshare Stimulator has finally gotten a genAI disclosure on Steam after a furore, with Saber's CEO insisting that it's "swim or die" with genAI at large.
Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor Launch Trailer
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STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Official Update 2.0: Back to the Zone Overview Trailer
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TIL the priest related to the botched Ecce Homo was arrested for sexual assault
70-year-old one of six arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and fraud
Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"
Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux / SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming.
Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'
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Netflix to shut down two game studios: Night School and Moonloot
Oxenfree Night School and Moonloot closing, as streaming giant continues to shrink internal game studio operation
Laura Fryer - HR is killing Games
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Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement
"Apologies are simply in too short a supply these days to spurn one when it's offered."
Darksiders 4 & the next game in the Kingdom Come franchise are expected to release in FY 2027/28 (April 2027 - March 2028)
Darksiders 4 & the next game in the Kingdom Come franchise are expected to release in FY 2027/28 (April 2027 - March 2028) https://embracer.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Embracer-Group-publishes-Interim-Report-Q1-April…
Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do"
The ridiculously complex Campaign for North Africa boasts 1,500 hours and recommends you play with 10 people - these gamers aim to finish it with two.
TIL some reptiles can also generate their own heat
Salvator merianae, a giant tegu lizard endemic to South America, regulates its own body temperature during the mating season without relying on external heat and without shivering. Experiments conducted by researchers a…
TIL about the myth of Telegonus, a not so known son of Odysseus
In Greek mythology, Telegonus (/təˈlɛɡənəs/; Ancient Greek: Τηλέγονος, "born afar") was the son of Circe and Odysseus[1] and thus, brother to Agrius and Latinus[2] or Nausithous and Nausinous,[3] and Cassiphone.[4] In s…
More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6
In a new interview, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said that more people are buying the $100 edition of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6)
After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi …
Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.
Terraria's biggest mod, Calamity, is shutting down after 10 years over what the makers call a "troubled past" and "irrecoverably tainted re…
"Most of us want to simply move on…"
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understan…
"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially…
Quake 4: Awakening was in development at Ritual Entertainment before being scrapped.
gethomepage 2.0 with authentication
What's Changed ⚠️ Breaking Changes Feature: homepage auth (#6769) @shamoon 🚀 Features Enhancement: Add album count to Jellyfin widget (#6974) @alexclarke Enhancement: signout button (#6962) @sha...
Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley remains adamant that it's just one big misunderstanding, arguing that "we're not Big Brother."
PayPal Honey Under Fire: Affiliate Tracking Lawsuit Moves Forward
PayPal Honey faces a federal lawsuit over alleged affiliate tracking and commission diversion. Here's what the court ruled and what happens next
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
Inside Swiff: An Interview with NaviVani on Bringing Flash Games Back to Android
From childhood memories to the RG Rotate, the developer behind Swiff explains why the lost games of the early web still matter.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Is No Longer Playable On Switch
We'll be playing all our games through the Cloud in three years, apparently. Not sure how excited I am about that based on this ongoing trend.
Hubzilla 11.4 Docker Image
A multi-arch docker container for Hubzilla, based on Alpine Linux, Nginx, and Postgres/MariaDB - dhitchenor/hubzilla
Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the tex…
They thought they could get away with it.
Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia
Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" Grok chatbot called for the assassination of its creator and said he watched CSAM.
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed
Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices.
Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting
Starting in version 1.93, Brave is rolling out new protections against GPU and graphics-driver fingerprinting, de-identifying WebGL vendor and renderer strings and adding noise to the list of supported extensions.
AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them
The number of AI generated uploads to CGTrader would suggest AI is taking over the platform, but buyers are refusing to pay for AI generated models.
Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal f…
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out – Krebs on Security
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily p…