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
more efficiency for AI art
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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?
Palform - form building that's encrypted, open-source, and hosted on EU servers. thoughts??
Build end-to-end encrypted forms with advanced enterprise-grade features in just a few simple clicks; no coding required.
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.
Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued?
The AI hype is based on the assumption that the frontier AI labs are producing better and better foundational models at an accelerating pace. Is that really true, or are people just in sort of a mass psychosis because A…
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40%
The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products. For orders placed before 1 April 2026, but delivered after 1 April 2026, the adjusted prices will apply.
Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
2026 Enterprise Storage Guide: Sourcing 26TB & 28TB HDDs with 5-Year Warranty (Tax-Optimized for Europe)
Premium Seagate Exos enterprise hard drives in the USA. High-capacity internal hard drive solutions (12TB-26TB) for NAS & data centers. Certified refurbished hard drives with a 5-year warranty. Fast US shipping.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
Rather than having people verify their age on every app they use, Colorado's SB26-051 would implement a way for devices to share an 'age-bracket' signal to third-party apps.
Researchers Embrace Complexity in Social Media and Teen Mental Health
A new study finds longer daily use of social media use was associated with negative outcomes for adolescents, but not all platforms are the same.
Anthropic Told the Pentagon No. Now the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Them.
In January, U.S. special operations forces captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. An AI model helped process intelligence and analyze satellite imagery during the raid. That model was Claude, built by Anthropic, d…
Your Company Biggest AI Risk Is the AI Nobody Approved
The Numbers Are Worse Than You Think
One billion identity records exposed in unsecured ID verification database | Biometric Update
The exposed fields reportedly included full names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and national identification numbers.
Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone
Zuckerberg spent five hours defending Instagram's design choices, and walked out having handed legislators and regulators their preferred blueprint for a national digital ID system.
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
The people keeping food flowing from farm to table are being increasingly muscled out by AI automation, and the results may be grim.
Engineering control and displacement: Digital wallets as an emerging instrument of silent genocide in Gaza
Introducing digital wallets as a solution for reconstruction functions as a cover for a new phase of engineering control over Palestinians
Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers
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Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.
PodOsef — MP3-first podcast publishing (no DB, static, minimal)
Over a decade ago I wrote a PHP-based podcast publishing/archive system. The idea behind it was MP3-first: no DB, no complications – just drop an MP3 file into a folder and distribute. The software could generate HTML a…
MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process
Are we going to be able to 3D print completed engines in the future?
Nintendo is issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition's poorly-received premium Switch 2 Edition upgrade
Nintendo is reportedly issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X's Switch 2 upgrade.
I can't say I enjoy [Nightsoil, a] 19th century turd-collecting [adventure x sim] game [hybrid] but it did make me laugh when I patted my h…
Nightsoil is a sombre little top-down narrative adventure about a gong farmer – that is, a collector of human waste – i…
European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks
EU lawmakers found their government-issued devices were blocked from using the baked-in AI tools, amid fears that sensitive information could turn up on the U.S. servers of AI companies.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile: Auto Uploads to OneDrive Raise Privacy Risks
Microsoft’s mobile Microsoft 365 Copilot update that swaps the old document viewer for an AI‑first, chat‑centred workflow is now colliding with real world expectations — and, according to multiple user reports and one r…
Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich
As governments race to restrict minors’ social media use, the tech billionaires who built the platforms are imposing strict screen limits at home.
TIL there are motorized skiis.
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Corporate Targets for Tech Worker Activism Against ICE
A coalition of tech industry workers, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends cultivating solidarity among all workers in tech.
Palantir Technology salty about Swiss Magazine 'Republik' uncovering their failed attempts establishing surveillance technology contracts (…
Internal documents show how the country finally rejected pitches by tech company Palantir.
EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, b…
Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be "locked behind a paywall"
AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower Engl…
MIT researchers find AI chatbots often show bias, giving less accurate or more dismissive answers to some users. The findings highlight growing risks, especially for marginalized communities worldwide.
Using YouTube to steal your files
A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.
‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC
Chris Stockman said last year that he had been asked to pitch a prequel to Embracer Group…
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals
Asha Sharma’s Xbox profile shows a surprisingly new gamer history. What does it say about Xbox’s future?
Resident Evil Requiem's 'Terrifying Nightmare Set' sells out in under 5 hours and includes every gamer's biggest fear: exercise equipment
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10 Ways CRISPR Is Currently Curing Genetic Diseases
For most of human history, genetic diseases felt like fate. If a child was born with a broken gene, medicine…
Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).