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How to Check Your Costco Gift Card Balance It’s essential to regularly check your Costco gift card balance to avoid surprises at the checkout counter. Fortunately, Costco makes it simple to check your gift card balance …
Hardware Isolation for Data Security-PlugMate. Any Alternatives?
You use your phone and computer for everything: Work. Money. Messages. Identity. But the device you rely on most is also the one you control the least.
BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace
The updated Denza Z9 GT can drive up to 1036 km (644 miles) on a single charge, the Chinese automaker says.
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
No one likes being recorded by Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses, which have gotten increasingly popular in the last year or so. Now the wearers know how everyone else feels. According to a joint investigation published by …
Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry
More private by default Firefox ESR. Fork of ghostery. - openconstruct/Umbra
Eyes of Iran: How the Islamic Republic secretly monitors citizens in real time
As they bomb Iran, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are calling on its people to rise up against the dictatorial regime, which is shaken but still standing.
The Gilded Age of Open Source is over - Joe Brockmeier
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Five of the most interesting upcoming indie games
From the ghostly Shutter Story to road trip adventure Outbound and strategy puzzler Titanium Court, here are the titles we enjoyed the most from this year’s Steam Next Fest showcase
Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.
Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot
Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
Windows 12 could be another costly upgrade for supporters of Microsoft operating systems. A new report reveals that the AI-dominated OS will require AMD and Intel CPUs with a dedicated NPU. Possibly surfacing in late 20…
Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.
"Servers will remain online until March 12th"
TIL Operation Northwoods - A DoD/CIA plan to commit terrorist attacks on US soil to invade Cuba
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation which originated within the Department of Defense of the US government in 1962. The proposals called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives to both stag…
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket
Paper price labels are being ditched for digital ones as online-style "dynamic pricing" comes to shelves in shopping centres.
It's time to pick up the reins, as the 13th century horse courier game The Legend of Khiimori is out in early access
And so enters a game that is a perfect venn diagram of horse girls and history buffs.
Denshattack – Indie World Showcase Trailer
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease
Update: Iron Galaxy has taken to social media to deny the speculation that it's working on a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, or anything Fallout-related. Whoops.
Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you
Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, they collected signal…
We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch
From the Zed Blog: Effective March 2, 2026, we're updating our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and related documentation. Our privacy commitments have not changed.
WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship
The messaging giant specifically mentions Mullvad and Amnezia as "well-regarded" VPN providers
Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain
The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.
TIL that Japan incorporates more disaster planning into its buildings and public spaces than any other nation
In her latest book, MIT Professor Miho Mazereeuw examines successful examples of “anticipatory design” in Japan, where structures and spaces are built with dual uses, for daily living and for when natural disasters or o…
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.
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TIL women experience pain longer than men.
New study links testosterone-tuned monocytes to an anti-pain signal after injury.
Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.
South Korean police deeply apologized for preventable loss of seized funds.
I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026
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Nintendo Announces Indie World Showcase for Tomorrow
Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase, set to take place tomorrow, March 3.
Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video
Here's a special video for the Stardew Valley 10 year anniversary. I go over some old builds of the game w/ commentary, briefly go over the many updates, gi...
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings Multipage View, PDF Signatures
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 adds multipage document view, enhanced PDF signatures, and a new Solver tool for spreadsheets, alongside performance fixes and improvements.
LibreOffice 26.2.1 Released With Over 70 Bug Fixes Across Writer, Calc, and Impress
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 26.2.1, delivering extensive bug fixes and stability improvements for the 26.2 productivity suite.
Open Source Software Resources for Space Downstream Applications
This page provides a list of open source software resources for developing space downstream applications, in the following categories: Positioning & Navigation Earth Observation software and data Satellite Communication…
Open Source and Incentives
How misaligned incentives undermine open source projects — and why 'monetize later' often leads to the very restrictions open source was meant to avoid.
For All Mankind — Mars Space Elevator Headline News | Season 4 Scene | Apple TV
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This Isn't Satire Anymore | Mike Judge's Reality
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The Terrifying Origin of The Borg | Star Trek Destiny
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Is Flock just a poor US-centric copy of, globally active Genetec?
Genetec provides unified security solutions that combine IP-based video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), communications, and analytics to help protect the everyday.
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art was ineligible for copyright.
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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.