GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims * TorrentFreak
GitHub has published its 2025 transparency report, revealing record levels of DMCA takedown activity across two separate metrics.
Pragmata was so top secret, the man behind Hugh was too scared to talk about the moon
“My entire career has been around the moon,” David Menkin tells Polygon, and his latest moon project is Capcom's Pragmata.
No Rest for the Wicked Marks Its 2nd Anniversary With 1.7 Million Copies Sold
Wicked fans, It's been TWO YEARS since No Rest for the Wicked entered Early Access. Since then, this game has grown and evolved in ways we could only pull off because of you. 1.7 million copies sold, and counting. You’v…
Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps — with little evidence they work and few regulations.
Mad Television Tycoon, a TV station management game from Eggcode Games, creators of Mad Games Tycoon and Mad Tower Tycoon, released in earl…
In Mad Television Tycoon, you take control of a TV station. Accept the challenge and lead your network to success. Your task is to create a diverse schedule, maximize advertising revenue, and outshine the competition.
TIL that an Argentina Court issued an international arrest warrant against an Iranian for blowing up a synagogue. Iran told Argentina they …
Le nouveau ministre de l'Intérieur de la République islamique Ahmad Vahidi est, selon la justice argentine, un des cerveaux de l’attentat terroriste contre la mutuelle juive Amia, le plus grave de l’histoire…
Atlassian Will Collect Jira and Confluence Data by Default to Train AI Models
Atlassian is enabling AI training data collection by default for Free, Standard, and Premium customers from August 17, with no opt-out for metadata on lower tiers.
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
China’s ‘land aircraft carrier’ charges flying drone with microwave beam
While the technology is still at an early stage, it may one day allow drones to fly indefinitely.
Darwin's Paradox! on Steam - I love games you can finish in a few hours!
Step into a cinematic adventure as Darwin, a brilliant octopus trapped in a mysterious industrial world. Use his unique abilities - swimming, wall-climbing, shooting ink, camouflage, and more - to overcome traps and esc…
TIL there's a marathon run at 1210 meters below sea level.
The World's Deepest Marathon is a record breaking challenge to run a full marathon, 1,120 meters below sea level.
Sovereign Tower Turns Life Inside A Magical Kingdom Tower Into A Deep Management RPG
I recently had the chance to try Sovereign Tower, a very intriguing management RPG that puts players in control of a tower that could be described as not only
The Anatomy of Search Engine Spam
Black hat SEO is endlessly fascinating phenomenon to study. This post is about some tactics they use to make their sites rank higher. The goal of blackhat SEO is to boost the search engine ranking of a page nobody parti…
RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later
No relief in sight from the RAMpocalypse.
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
L'internet Post-Americain, par Cory Doctorow Source : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition Transcription française : en attente.
Dorothy Fontana Knew Star Trek Had Stopped Taking Risks
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Iran’s AI memes are reaching people who don’t follow the news – and winning the propaganda war
In an online environment which blurs news and entertainment, Iran’s AI propaganda videos are reaching a huge audience globally.
The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026 | Caio Bianchi
For years, Microsoft survived on inertia. Windows was the default. Office was the default. GitHub, after the acquisition, became the default forge for softwa...
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
Blombooru: A modern, self-hosted, single-user booru built with FastAPI & Tailwind. Docker-ready and simple to set up.
A modern, self-hosted, single-user booru built with FastAPI & Tailwind. Docker-ready and simple to set up. - mrblomblo/blombooru
The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire
For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.
VPN providers will need to obtain a license from the government to operate in Turkey.
Türkiye'de VPN servislerine yönelik radikal bir yasal düzenleme yolda. Lisans almayan uygulamaların erişimi tamamen engellenecek.
It's Official - TurtleWoW is Over
After 8 years of operation, the largest Classic+ private server, TurtleWoW, will be shutting down on May 15th, in compliance with Blizzard's cease & desist order.
Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage s…
The difference between a sync and a backup is illustrated quite adeptly.
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the
The deepest strategy e-sport you've never heard of.
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Superhero Editorial Room 4
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The Last Time Everyone Watched the Same Thing
No one knew it at the time, but 2014 — more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment — marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since.
State of Kdenlive
In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug …
Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine
Valve has still not confirmed pricing or availability for the Steam Machine. In the meantime, the developer of EmuDeck is selling an alternative called Playnix, which should outperform the Steam Machine thanks to an AMD…
Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled "in-vehicle toilet"
Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen
Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface.
How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? This is a map with all of them
Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (2023)
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overprice…
AI warfare triggers Putin, as Kremlin moves to dismantle the last pieces of Russian internet: More and more restrictions are being imposed …
Telegram is blocked, VPNs are being chased after, but Putin suddenly talks about a national AI again.
'My Brain Chemically Desires Wizordum' - Civvie11
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'Video Game Review: Hades II' - No Rerolls
Hades II opens into ritual. Where the first game hurled you into rebellion with Zagreus’s fire‑bright defiance, the sequel begins in the hush of a forest clearing, lit by witch‑flame and shadow. Me…
'System Shock Remake Review' - MandaloreGaming
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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can s…
A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
An introduction to writing WebGL shaders using gradient noise and cool math.
Cracking a Malvertising DGA From the Device Side
When piracy streaming sites inject third-party JavaScript into your browser, the domains hosting that JavaScript are designed to be invisible. They rotate every three hours, use algorithmically generated names on cheap …
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to iden…
Honestly, whatâs hotter than a real person?
Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
Sam Altman's cryptocurrency turned identity verification startup Tools for Humanity is offering a new set of perks to people who scan their eyes at one of the company's orbs.
NES composer Masanori Miyamoto uploaded original synth compositions before they're converted
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3DV (Computer Animated Short Film) (1983)
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Radicale v3.7 collection sharing?
A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server. - Kozea/Radicale
YouTube now lets you hide Shorts
You now have the power to remove short-form videos from your YouTube feed if you don’t want to see them.