"Every great search must come to an end": Ask.com shutdown, ending ask Jeeves.
As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.
Repterra, a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs, where you can breed (and ride) new dinosaur types to reclaim th…
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the wor…
Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves
After nearly 30 years, Ask.com has officially closed on May 1, 2026. It was the pioneer of question-answering search engines.
Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows
Stanford University report comes after two separate attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home
Omoggle - website where users give biometric date in "face-comparison" matches while system continously scans it for rating
Omoggle is a live face-rating and 1v1 arena game where players compete, climb ELO, unlock ranks, and battle for the leaderboard.
AI uses less water than the public thinks
By Jay Lund . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect many economic and natural resource sectors as these new technologies develop and mature. We are in the early years of this process. Like most new things, AI has…
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
How difficult could it really be?
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
Review: Ground Zero - A classic survival horror feel that [pays] homage to the classics of the genre. It [stays] authentic to the survival …
Our comprehensive review of Ground Zero will tell you why this is a modern classic survival horror game worth playing.
MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce
CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
fast16 | Mystery ShadowBrokers Reference Reveals High-Precision Software Sabotage 5 Years Before Stuxnet
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.
Fungus that looks like a bird's nest
Markiplier Made $50 Million at the Box Office. YouTube Wouldn’t Let Him Sell It on His Own Channel
One creator forced open a door that wasn't supposed to exist. Now the question is whether anyone else can walk through it.
All new laptops must have USB-C to be sold in the European Union(EU)
EU rules on common chargers apply to laptops from today. It means that all new laptops sold in the European Union must now support USB-C charging.
Oscars(AMPAS): AI actors and writers cannot win awards
Academy Awards organisers issued new rules on Friday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans and not artificial intelligence to be eligible for Oscars. The new rules also include…
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable To Brute Force Kind Attacks
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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up
Microsoft is currently in an ongoing battle to improve Windows 11 for idle use and gaming to compete with SteamOS, and it has a big plan for it.
Botspam Apocalypse
Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The “future” in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, it’s honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic …
The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS - VulpineCitrus
In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.
I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden
A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager.
Bobo Bay is RELEASED (Reminds me of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Chao Garden)
Bobo Bay is a pet simulation game where you collect, mash(breed), accessorize, and train little creatures to compete in races and other competitions.
"A Deliberate Process on Nacon's Part": French Union Calls for Boycott of Nacon and Spiders' Games Following Studio Closure
French union Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo calls for a boycott of Nacon published games following Spiders' closure.
‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near
Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! 🤦🏼
How a âkept backâ Proxmox kernel left my home lab exposed to CVEâ2026â31431 â why I now check upgradable packages and use apt fullâupgrade.
Open Records Laws Reveal Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs) Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.
Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country use and share data c…
How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test
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Bernie Sanders: AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs, they want to replace the working class. We must fight back.
By: Sen. Sanders; Fox News AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs, the reality is that they want to replace workers Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most transformational technology in the history of …
Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presid…
Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews…
LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes
Berlin, 30 April 2026 – The Document Foundation today announces the release of LibreOffice 26.2.3, the third maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, which was released in early February. This update delivers …
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not included
Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers - Ars Technica
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.
Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies
After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
MAGA Is Confused About ‘Animal Farm’
The new film is the latest adaptation of George Orwellâs novel. Based on the critiques coming from right-wing influencers, it seems few of them fully grasp the bookâs message.
AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool
Windows 11 Clock app gets a redesigned Focus mode with AI insights, task integration, and deeper customization. Here’s an early hands-on.
Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026)
AI and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Meta Cuts Off 1,000 Kenyan Contractors After They Reportedly Saw People Have Sex on Ray-Ban Glasses
Meta has terminated its contract with a Kenyan firm after reports of privacy breaches involving Ray-Ban smart glasses footage, raising concerns about data handling and AI training practices.
The Disco Elysium Iceberg – All Secrets, Theories & Lore Explained
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL cotton was used as boat armor in the American Civil War.
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia showed their might, but a less glamorous but highly practical class of vessels k…
TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethe…
Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation
Warcraft III: Legacy (The Frozen Throne 1.29) is now available on Battle.net again
All players who own Warcraft 3 now have access to the original 1.29 client from the Battle.net App. To install it, click the Game Version dropdown on the bottom left corner of your Battle.net Warcraft III playscreen and…
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, …
After shaking off Nexon’s copyright infringement accusations, Dark and Darker survives the Korean legal system and will continue development
Development on hardcore fantasy PvPvE game Dark and Darker is free to continue without fear of supreme court shutdown.
AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?
Digital clones of porn performers are on the rise. Is it a moneymaking dream or a dystopian nightmare?