Facebook researchers previously proposed studying whether features were ‘addictive,’ documents show
Meta executives took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this month and testified that while use of the companyâs platforms could become problematic, it couldnât be considered addiction.
LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!
LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice On…
TIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class
Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.
Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet
China's S1500 floating turbine hovers at a 4,921 feet to harvest high-altitude winds, generating 1MW power equivalent to 328-foot ground turbines.
UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully
Our investigation found Reddit, Inc. (Reddit) used children’s personal information unlawfully.
An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%
Tesla's EU+EFTA+UK registrations fell 17% in January 2026 — down from already weak 2025 numbers. Without Tesla, BEV registrations would be up 16%.
TIL that Radon is a radioactive substance which can cause cancer. Colorado is full of radon. The average level of radon in Colorado homes i…
Only 50% of Colorado homes have been tested for radon.
TIL: Romans and Greeks routinely used folded sheets of lead or pewter to inscribe curses
A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: κατάδεσμος, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. Its name originated from the Greek and Latin words f…
News - Diablo 2: Resurrected, A Remaster Of A 26-Year-Old Game, Currently Has More Players Than Diablo 4
Diablo 2 has truly been resurrected.
0 A.D. R28: Boiorix has been released
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Release 28: “Boiorix”, the twenty-eighth version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-ti...
Former Diablo devs release demo for their Diablo 2-style action-RPG Darkhaven, but warn of "rough edges"
Moon Beast have release a pre-alpha demo of their action-RPG Darkhaven - a promising but very unfinished blend of Diablo and Minecraft.
Smiling Friends in Silent Hill 2
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Day 3 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Super Battle Golf
An online 1-8 player golf game where everyone plays at the same time. Swing, shoot, sabotage, and finish first by any means necessary in a free-for-all rush to the hole.
"I pray they are cursed to never play the game again" Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya goes off on Resident Evil Requiem leakers
Original RE2 director Hideki Kamiya has gone online to blast those who are sharing Resident Evil Requiem spoilers before its release.
Day 4 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Dobbel Dungeon
Gather your party, roll your dice and battle across the islands to put an end to a powerful curse once and for all in this roguelike turn-based tactical RPG!
Overwatch Rush - Official Gameplay Preview Video (OW Mobile Game)
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Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform
Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.
South of Midnight won Best Character Animation at the 53rd Annie Awards
Honored to share that our game took home Best Character Animation at the 53rd Annie Awards, and Most Innovative VFX at the 2025 Real-Time VFX Awards. Through handcrafted detail and visual magic, every movement carries s…
Marvel's Wolverine releases September 15, 2026
Who's ready for September 15, 2026? Wishlist Marvel's Wolverine now: play.st/4qPLzOn
Simpsons Hit & Run and Prototype studio Radical Entertainment is back as New Radical Games
The studio has a new website and appears to be looking for work…
"Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s*…
Digital game distribution and preservation platform GOG is asking players for support going into the future as it expands its efforts.
The accidental hacker: how one man gained control of 7,000 robots
When Sammy Azdoufal found he had access to data from robot vacuum cleaners around the world, he told a tech publication. But the implications could be mind-boggling
Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no idea
Appen hires workers around the world to do obscure tasks with little explanation. It has also held $17m in military contracts
Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto
Discord has announced it is delaying the global rollout of its Teen By Default age assurance system until the second half of 2026.
20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI.
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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts
Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.
'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a…
'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb'
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of r…
Connected cars can be hacked, research finds
Connected cars can be hacked, including Tesla's Model 3 and Cybertruck, new Northeastern research uncovers.
US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft
Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot
A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.
Sony develops technology to trace origin of AI-made music
Sony Group Corp. has developed technology to identify the original source of music generated by artificial intelligence in a bid to protect the rights of creators, amid growing concern about the unauthorized use of copy…
User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation cont…
Did he just unintentionally raise his own robot army?
Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy
Country’s largest local authority undertakes review of social media platform use as others sign out for good
Is The New York Times a games company? A familiar debate continues
“The New York Times is no longer a news company,” proclaims the caption of a chart posted on X Saturday summarizing how Times bundle subscribers have eclipsed news-only subscribers. The New York Times is no longer a new…
Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot
After a shadowban that even moderators were unable to reverse, a Reddit user was asked to pay for ads to get the ban removed.
FYI for anyone running roundcube: vulnerabilities found
CISA flagged two Roundcube Webmail vulnerabilities as actively exploited in attacks and ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch them within three weeks.
FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about rep…
Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs
Panasonic was one of the last Japanese companies still manufacturing TVs.
Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground?
An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling
AI is coming for everything, Wall Street seems to believe.
Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours
A technology has been developed that uses robots rather than humans to evaluate the performance of newly developed catalysts. By operating 45 times faster than manual work while also improving precision, it is expected …
Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"
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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch
While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
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The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
Donut Labs released VTT's independant test results!
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Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"
Microsoft Edge Secure Network VPN promises built-in privacy, but a security researcher says it behaves like a browser proxy than a full VPN.