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Amazon’s AWS reports outage after UAE data centre struck
Availability Zone in ME-CENTRAL-1 brought offline in possible drone or missile attack
Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push
The Pentagon’s Claude Use in Iran Is a Reminder that Anthropic Never Objected to Military Use
The company objected to hypothetical future use cases, not anything the military is currently doing.
GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-n…
Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS which will see a phone with support, as well as features ported to other devices.
AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War
AWS says “objects” struck a data center in its UAE region (ME-CENTRAL-1), throwing sparks and starting a fire. The fire department shut off power to the building and its generators while they worked the scene, and AWS s…
Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown
The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science
A study from scientists at Zhejiang University is going viral for showing a correlation between short-form content and lower impulse control.
Does anyone have any experience with Sync-in for online files?
Sync-in server · Secure, open-source platform for file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing. - Sync-in/server
Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with makin…
Teams wants to monitor office attendance through Wi‑Fi, but critics say the feature feels more like surveillance than a productivity booster.
California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account set…
AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.
China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine
A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).
China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton
UFO-shaped eVTOL unveiled in China, offering 3-second takeoff, 992 lbs payload, aimed at logistics and aerial rescue missions.
TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40…
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TIL there's a trend called hobby dogging where people take an imaginary dog through an obstacle course.
Taking a dog for a walk — without the dog?
Pokémon Pokopia - Pokémon Day | Special Trailer
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Resident Evil Requiem Launches Big on Steam, Breaks Series Record
Resident Evil Requiem has landed on Steam, and is now the series' biggest launch to date on Valve's PC platform.
Laura Fryer talks about Phil Spencer, and tells her story of why she left Xbox
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When Video Games were Brown. | Ahoy
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New Frostrail video delivers more survival train horror shooting plus weird underground Tomb Raider temples
Here's an edited gameplay overview for Frostrail, the new wintry survival FPS from the creators of Barotrauma.
Crimson Desert First Look: The BlackSpace Engine Tech Preview
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RAIDED BY THE POLICE | Investigating Nintendo, Sega, & Devkit Arrests - Gamers Nexus
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Chase St, Minimalist "Suburban Nightmare" Horror, Out Now on Steam - Chase St, an indie from Ibzy Studios, [aims] to deliver the feeling th…
Chase St, an indie from Ibzy Studios, has launched on Steam to deliver the feeling that something is following you home.
[Precision Fermentation] Healthier Comforts, The Every Co Roll Out Animal-Free Egg White Protein Powder
Healthier Comforts has rolled out an animal-free egg white protein powder in the US, featuring The Every Company's precision-fermented OvoPro ingredient.
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
Turns out llms also have “artificial hive mind”, top AI models all say very similar sounding things, do you think that we can use this to d…
Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable meth…
Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed
Lenovo is doing something many aren't offering cheaper laptops with Linux pre-installed cutting the Windows tax. Learn more
January in Servo: preloads, better forms, details styling, and more! — The web works hard, but Servo contributors work harder.
The web works hard, but Servo contributors work harder.
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights.
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews
Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can’t log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error…
Ford Admits Its Current EVs Aren't Software Defined—And They're Worse for It
Ford's current EVs have a mess of control modules from different suppliers, slowing updates. Its next-gen EVs won't have that problem.
I Spent a Year Replacing My Subscriptions by Self Hosting. Here’s How.
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‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center
The tech giant’s latest project pairs massive renewable energy capacity with a 100-hour battery to support data center operations.
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances. But in reality, m…
Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.
Tempus v4.12.0 android subsonic client release
What's Changed chore(i18n): Update Polish translation by @skajmer in #441 feat: radio logos support for AndroidAuto by @dmachard in #435 feat: Port remove song of playlist from tempus ng by @tvill...
Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware
Scammers are preying on Windows 10 users who haven't moved to Windows 11 with ads that urge you to 'Upgrade to Win 11 Pro Today,' antivirus provider Malwarebytes reports.
Death by a thousand slops
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we h…
I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code
I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20…
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American c…
After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
I turned my Google TV into an Apple TV with this free app
Google TV has an ad problem. You turn it on, and before you even get to what you actually want to watch, you are greeted by a giant banner sitting at the top of your screen, sometimes promoting a newly released show, a …
AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate th…
It's almost like we could all see this one coming.
Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
Why you can't get a signal at festivals and sports matches
Connecting up music and sports events to the internet is a massive undertaking.
OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models
OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Defense Department to deploy its models in the agency's network, company chief Sam Altman has revealed on X.