How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations ā spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
You should always change doors when playing Monty Hall
Utahās New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week
For the last couple of years, weāve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private Network (VPN) usage surā¦
TIL Benjamin Netanyahu thinks 1 Israeli life is worth 40 American lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a single Israeli is worth 40 American lives, during an unhinged rant in which his Jewish supremacy and disrespect for the United States was on full display.
U.S. Supreme Court Case on Data Privacy in Police Investigations
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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
Verified by Spotify: New No AI badgeā it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof lā¦
Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, itās more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is providā¦
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. ā 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some othā¦
Self-hosting Upgrade: planning my first 3-node cluster for deployment in a data center
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BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
Iām pleased to say that the project has now fully migrated management of all repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. The main BookStack project repository now lives here:
Self-hosted, booru-style gallery for a personal image collection written in Go
Self-hosted, booru-style gallery for a personal image collection - leqwin/monbooru
How I Won a Championship That Doesnāt Exist Or How I Learned To Poison The LLM Supply Chain
Poisoning the LLM knowledge supply chain with a fake Wikipedia edit and a single domain registration
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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Bus Bound is out!
Step into the driverās seat in Bus Bound, the latest title from the creators of Bus Simulator 21. Explore a vibrant city behind the wheel of officially licensed buses, and help transform it into a pedestrian-friendly paā¦
SCAN FACE TO PLAY: PlayStation ID Verification - Gamers Nexus
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Subnautica 2 Early Access Cinematic Trailer
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I investigated Windows 11's massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
Windows 11 updates are now crossing 5GB. Our analysis shows that bundled AI and Semantic Search files are causing this massive storage bloat.
Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
My friends are making a multiplayer idle fishing game and I wanted to share
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French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
French protestors says Windows 10's ESU will only leave users in the lurch, potentially rendering millions of PCs obsolete as they upgrade to Windows 11.
Roblox is pulling a DLSS 5, offering yet another example of a tool mistaking itself for an artist
Roblox makes a new version of the AI slop pitch we've seen time and again: replacing the creative process instead of making it easier.
Resident Evil - Exclusive Trailer Breakdown with Director Zach Cregger
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Transly - the CLI tool for incremental app translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.)
Cache-driven incremental translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.) - translate-tools/transly
Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
The Smallest Enterprise Homelab
Disclaimer: This blog was written without the help of LLMs (although that should be obvious) or any kind of financial incentive. I bought all the hardware myself, donāt have stocks in any of these companies and donāt usā¦
āThe cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employeesā: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
Valve's Ā£85 Steam Controller divides gamers ahead of May launch
The pad will be compatible with PCs, Valve's handheld console, the Steam Deck as well as its upcoming gaming PC.
Meta Sheds Influencer Andrew Tate's Lawsuit Over Instagram Ban
Meta convinced a federal court to quash a lawsuit challenging its termination of six Instagram accounts run by self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan.
inKONBINI is finally out! Really looking forward to playing this cosy little game.
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories is a cozy slice-of-life game about running a small-town convenience store, inspired by early 1990s Japan. Meet regulars, stock shelves, and watch quiet, everyday moments turn into meanā¦
Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries
A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices. But consumer advocates argue that it contains far too many loopholes that companies could exploit.Ć¢ĀĀ
Copy Fail ā CVE-2026-31431
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE ā no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint
Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Security, Vulnerabiliā¦
Arcade Drift Car Physics Explained (from Parking Garage Rally Circuit)
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Pokemon Nature Documentary YouTuber Is Getting Shut Down By Nintendo
Nintendo filed a series of copyright strikes against the channel that made mock nature documentaries about Pokemon.
What are your thoughts on cal.com changing to cal.diy?
Discover Cal.diy, the 100% MIT-licensed community fork of Cal.com. Designed for self-hosters, it removes enterprise code for a pure open-source experience.
I made a synthwave flying game you can play in a browser
A browser game where the closer you fly your glider to obstacles, the faster you go.
Itās not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans
What about the EUās own complicity in funding the market for spyware, even when we recognise the harms it inflicts?
INDUSTRIA 2 - Launch Trailer
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Google has a price for you. We found it.
Proton analyzed 54,000 profiles using real ad auction data to determine your worth to Google. How valuable is your data?
Open source died in March. It just doesn't know it yet.
Five supply chain attacks in 12 days exposed a broken trust model. Learn why scanning and hardening fail, and why trusting the source is the only fix.
Trump uses Correspondentsā Dinner shooting to justify expanding spying powers as deadline nears
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Thursday, and the president is claiming Saturdayās shooting proved āthe safety of our nationā depends on the program.
Remote Code Execution in Forgejo?
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
"Far Far West" launches to over 15k concurrent players, 98% positive on Steam
our day 1 reviews have been through the (saloon) roof!!! 98% OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE?!?!? y'all... we have no words š if you haven't already, please do give FFW a review on steam, it helps us out alot š
Adinkra Match - Apps on Google Play
Match Adinkra symbols ā¢ Ghana memory game ā¢ Multiplayer battles
Google Signs Pentagon AI Deal Despite Employee Backlash
The agreement reportedly allows the U.S. military to use Googleās AI models for classified work including 'any lawful government purpose.'
After Xbox and Windows, now GITHUB is in crisis, "failing me, every single day, and it is personal"
One of GitHub's most staple contributors announced they are abandoning ship due to constant outages. GitHub's COO responds, promising change, but is it all too little too late?
The Blood of Dawnwalker lets you complete areas in any order, kill any NPCs you like, and still complete the game after failing every questā¦
"We've structured the game in a way where, after the prologue, you can do basically whatever you want."
China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles
A research team at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has advanced "all-iron" flow battery technology.