WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.
Stanford scientists regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in major breakthrough
A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for …
Ashes 2063 - An extremely polished post apocalyptic Doom conversion complete with drivable motorcycle, trading towns, a John Carpenter-esqu…
Ashes is a Post-apocalypse themed total conversion for the GZDoom engine. It combines old school build style level design and Doom style action with a twist of Stalker and Fallout.
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
AWS shares the small number, as anti-data center protests focus on water usage
Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse)
Why can’t you repair a 2024 car like a 1998 Honda? Explore the rise of software-defined vehicles, proprietary tools, sensor calibration requirements, and the...
The decision is being made on Stop Killing Games! + The ESA can't stop lying.
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Why Students Are Rejecting Silicon Valley's Vision Of The Future
Students are increasingly pushing back on Silicon Valley's AI agenda, raising concerns about jobs, human agency, and the future of work.
Stationbreak - Announcement Trailer
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Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses | The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues …
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware
DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body
Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term changes to your genome.
Gears Of War: E-Day Reportedly Has A Staggering $400 Million Budget
Video game budgets are soaring, with Gears of War: E-Day reported to cost over $400 million. To break even, the game might need to sell around 5.7 million copies, a significant challenge.
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.
There are about three million parking spaces in New York City, but drivers are always struggling to find one that’s open. Can the system be fixed?
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.
Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outage
Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.
How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.co…
There's still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit br…
Please don't mess with links: (Maurycy's blog)
A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right?
AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw
The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher MrBruh after an AMD updater console window kept appearing on his new gaming PC.
Marcus Ranum: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [2005]
There's lots of innovation going on in security - we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security conference, o…
Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
Chatbots just aren't very creative.
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting
"I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this."
New Gaming Madness? - Chaos;Head Noah and the game I learned to love and hate
Have you ever hated and loved a video game at the same time? Or, perhaps, have you ever had a complicated relationship with one? Maybe it’s a game that has many flaws, yet manages to deliver fantas…
Google director René Mayrhofer, for Android platform security resigned, citing the company's military deals: "management has lost its moral…
"Proactively harming people is not something that I can or will be involved with," a Google director wrote in his resignation letter.
Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real
The eye condition bixonimania doesn't exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricatedâdespite obvious clues
Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week
500,000 copies fly off the shelves in just its first week, people must really love eternally sawing wooden logs.
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.
First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins
Don’t expect a pill to take you back to 21 any time soon.
Cassette Beasts 2002 | Announcement Trailer
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Date handsome cockroaches in a new dating sim from one of Japan’s leading pest control companies
From the country that gave the world a pigeon dating sim comes a short romance game starring cockroaches.
The earthly limits of data centre resistance— What started out as a laughable idea – deploying data centres in space – is apparently a less…
Whether or not data centres make it to space, the possibility itself exposes the limitations of resistance hinged only on proximate material experience, thus beckoning a wider and deeper movement.
Meet the Robot That Nurses Unplugged—Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
Spinning in circles and crying for help, Moxi robots became another charge to care for, nurses said.
Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe exclusively told The Drive that no collision repair should cost tens of thousands of dollars — and explained why it's happened.
Elon Musk set to become world's first trillionaire as SpaceX lists on US stock market
"SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the Moon, take you to Mars, and ultimately beyond," Elon Musk says at a launch event in Starbase, Texas.
Self-Host Weekly (12 June 2026)
An ode to what was, and what could have been
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
AI is hitting employment among young software developers hard
Employment in AI-vulnerable occupations, such as software development, has declined markedly faster among workers in their early 20s than among young workers in less-automatable jobs, new data from ADP and the Stanford …
Silicon Valley's AI elite are shelling out as much as $6,000/hour for 'nerdy escorts' who can talk tech and crypto
The AI grind often leaves workers with plenty of cash but not enough time, and chatbots can't fill the void.
Deezer Launches Free AI Music Detector for Playlists
43% of people joining Deezer from other streaming platforms already have AI music in their playlists
Atari Pole Position: Factory Assembly Line Footage
The development and release of Pole Position is probably worthy of an in depth deep dive for another time, so look out for that in a future post. In the meantime, I’ve come across some more e…
The best games of 2026 so far
If you fancy roaring around Japan’s open roads, scaling impossible mountains and playing with post-apocalyptic Pokémon, this year’s highlights mean you can do so without leaving your chair
Petition: Reverse NHS England's decision to make its code repositories closed-source
Previously, the NHS Service Standard held that “public services are built with public money, so unless there's a good reason not to, the code they're based on should be made available for other people to reuse and build…
OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true
OpenAI writes that the now-banned accounts were "supporting covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider...
Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
Cloudflare reports agentic AI traffic surpasses human traffic
Cloudflare's internet-measurement tool, Cloudflare Radar, shows agentic AI bots now generate the majority of web requests, at 57.4% versus 42.6% from humans, data shared by CEO Matthew Prince on X and reported by NBC Ne…