Australia's 'Payphone Tag' Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure
Payphone Tag is a new game (sport?) being played in Australia that uses the country's kinda-defunct public phone network and turns it into a geospatial game where you can claim whole regions of territory as your own, pr…
Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft
Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview
GameStop made a takeover bid for eBay, offering $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company…
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
VS Code credited Copilot for human work after a default change that bypassed user settings.
“You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”
The organizers of Japan's Tokyo Game Dungeon have been going to great lengths to spread awareness about what they call "sekkyo ojisan."
I'm Scared About Biological Computing
I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.
FCC Commissioner Demands Close Scrutiny of 49.5% Foreign Investment in Paramount's Proposed Merger With Warner Bros.
Federal Communications commissioner Anna Gomez on Tuesday urged the agency to closely scrutinize foreign investment tied to Paramount Global’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB
VECT 2.0 was built to lock your files and demand a ransom. A rookie coding mistake means it's just destroying them instead.
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access
This five-year deal is one of many circular agreements keeping the AI sector afloat.
Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'
Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.
Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI / New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma continues to make her mark
Will you miss Xbox’s AI assistant?
The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production
Brembo's fluid-free "Sensify" brake system is going into a production car.
Xbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI
The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app.
Roku and TCL Accused of Bricking Smart TVs Through Software Updates
A class action lawsuit argues that marketing materials promise reliable performance and ongoing improvements through updates that actually ruined consumers' TVs.
OpenAI reportedly thinks its phone will sell as many units as the Samsung Galaxy series
30 million units expected in 2027-2028
Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026
Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to h…
Microsoft Edge will load all your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says it's not a security concern
A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
Coinbase lays off nearly 700 workers in 'AI-native' restructuring
CEO Brian Armstrong blamed a downturn in crypto markets.
Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and S…
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been sued by five publishers and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech company illegally copied millions of books, articles and other works to train Meta's AI systems.
Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering
Google says cars are about to get smarter, but some users disagree
Xbox No Longer Developing Copilot For Consoles
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced that Microsoft will no longer develop Copilot for Xbox, and it's winding down mobile development as well.
Docker Engine 29 has changed the default image store to containerd, duplicating storage of (compressed) base image layers
Learn about Docker Engine v29 and how this foundational release sets the stage for the future of the Docker platform.
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Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website.
Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.
Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release Trailer - Hades 1 in Hades II mod
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Pollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statistics
Companies are releasing public opinion polling data that was generated by an AI, a trend that has researchers concerned.
Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
Mindgard says praise and flattery got Claude offering erotica, malicious code, and bomb-building instructions it hadn’t been asked for.
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
Using mesh radio networks to use mainstream apps without siloed servers legally stealing our information
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Microsoft quietly deletes Windows 11 doc pushing 32GB RAM for gaming after outrage
Microsoft has quietly retracted its own documentation that suggested 32GB RAM is the "no worries" upgrade for gaming, and 16GB RAM is a must.
Built a privacy-first social battery tracker (no email, instant friend pairing via link sharing)
Track your social energy levels and share your status with friends
Quantum Breakthrough: New Algorithm Solves “Impossible” Materials in Seconds
A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach.
New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content
Radiant Mobile aims to block users accessing material relating to over a hundred categories, including gaming, violence, and Satanism.
Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
: Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default
Hyundai Reportedly Demanding ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Boston Dynamics Robots ASAP
Ex-employees from Boston Dynamics say the board is frustrated by delays as competitors nip at its heels.
U.S President administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms | Onshore wind development in the United States is being br…
Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.
Technitium DNS v15.1.0 released with OpenID Connect integration
Technitium DNS Server. Contribute to TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Brandolini's law - Wikipedia
Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease o…
UK Google DeepMind employees vote to unionize over its AI defense deals
Staff at DeepMind's UK offices have voted to unionize days after the Pentagon confirmed it would work with Google on classified operations.
Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work
Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.
After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at P…
OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question
“it’d be wrong to steal the non-profit from him.”
ESP32 Hosts SolarPunk Message Board
Solarpunk is sometimes thought of as the “good ending” to cyberpunk– there’s technology, but it’s community-focused instead of in the hands of evil conglomerates, and&…
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
: 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
Notepad++ Creator Don Ho Calls Out "Fake" MacOS App Over Trademark Violation
Notepad++ creator Don Ho said the macOS version of the popular Windows code editor is fake and using the Notepad++ trademark without permission. The unofficial Notepad++ app for macOS In a blog post, Ho said the macOS a…
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the manâwho hasnât entered the US in more than a decadeâfollowing posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.