Colibri chat system (Discord-like thing based on ATProto)
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for communities big and small.
Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program
Insights into the current status of NASA's SR-71 #844, what it will take to fly it again, and what the agency may be looking to do with it.
A 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs 50% more than it did at launch
Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of
DroidDeck 0.3.0: Valve's Steam client in Big Picture on your Adreno handheld, with Windows games through Valve's ARM64 Proton
Steam, as on a Steam Deck Steam's performance overlay goes from level 1 to 4 in Quick Access and shows GPU and CPU load, clocks, temperatures, VRAM and battery. Quick Access shows battery life and ...
How I Reverse-Engineered one of the biggest GSM Operator's application - isayeter.com
How I found a critical bug in one of the biggest GSM Operator's application that allowed logging into any user account without a password.
News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as “Journalism” Is a Deep Moral Disgrace: Prediction markets like Polymarket and K…
CBS threw caution — and its own journalistic integrity — to the wind by signing a partnership with prediction market Kalshi for the elections.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional: it’s one of the first times a federal judge…
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
ICE Is Reportedly Putting ICE Observers, Protesters in a Palantir Database
A new lawsuit alleges DHS agents drove by observers' and protestors' homes to intimidate them and added their names to Homeland Security's investigations system, according to Wired.
Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
'Big Short' Investor Expects AI Bubble Burst 'Sooner Than Later'
The investor famous for predicting the 2008 housing market crash is expecting stocks to tumble next year.
Data Centers Are Hiding How Much Water and Power They Consume
Europe's data centers must report energy and water use by law, yet fewer than one in four facilities have any public figures available.
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake - gitbutler.com
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
[Looking for testers] Pileus — D-pad-first Android TV client for a self-hosted media server (closed testing, 14 days)
Contribute to Lotho33/pileus development by creating an account on GitHub.
Peter Thiel revealed as secret buyer of Bel Air mansion that sold for $130m
The 1938 mansion, Casa Encantada, once belonged to Conrad Hilton and was sold at foreclosure auction
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
AI agents attempted to hack US and Canadian government websites
We discovered a set of additional, similar incidents where rogue AI agents appear to have used aggressive techniques to access public data on government websites.
Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project: It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for t…
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
Kagi is ending development on Orion for Linux and Windows :(
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and mo…
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker - techemails.com
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of milli…
US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China
Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report
President Trump has been clear in his enthusiasm for A.I., which he wants to rebrand “Super Intelligence”
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our comments to the Utah D…
TP-Link opens global preorders for its first Wi-Fi 8 router, but ban keeps it out of US market — US left off launch list as FCC freeze refu…
The Archer 8 Ultra is launching across Europe and Australia, but the U.S. has given TP-Link the cold shoulder
Connect turntables to HomePods
Automatically play vinyl and CDs through HomePod, Apple TV, Sonos and other AirPlay-compatible speakers (including the latest HomePod Software and tvOS 27 releases). See what’s playing and control ...
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Used processor leads to game ban
Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley Introduce the Ban Flock Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Privacy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the Ban Flock Act, legislation to put an end to the rise in AI-powered surveillance…
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973
A wormable vulnerability allowed anyone able to inject text in a build log on builds.sr.ht (or other instances) to take over accounts who viewed them
Trump Launched an America.[gov] “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won…
Trump's new government AI chatbot disagrees with him on an umber of topics, and says he did, in fact, lose the 2020 election.
CIA Names Chinese AI, Chip Firms as Spy Targets
China Counter-Espionage Law risks for US companies spiked after CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis publicly named Chinese AI, semiconductor, and biotech firms as legitimate spy targets at a September 8 conference; Beijin…
Challenging the inevitability of AI – by debunking “rogue AI will kill us all” – notinevitable.ai
It might seem strange that while hype over “rogue” AI agents plays out daily in the media, this has not resulted in penalties for the companies that were not testing safely. Strange that it has not increased support for…
'Support Modders, Not AI' — Modder Deliberately Corrupts Their Own Hugely Popular Total War: Warhammer III Mod as Row Over AI Escalates
The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated…
Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026)
Where we're going, we don't need Windows.
A jury found Facebook guilty of 43 million privacy violations, and Meta could owe billions
The New Mexico Department of Justice recently announced a landmark decision from the jury in the State of New Mexico v. Facebook, Inc. case. Meta's social network...
US Senators Introduces Bill to Stop the Government’s Use of Face Surveillance and Other Biometric Surveillance Tech
Bill Text (PDF) Washington (September 25, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the...
Another cost for software
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers [who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization…
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value…
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
Metro 2033 and Last Light Redux will get a next gen update.
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NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions / As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, wh…
A federal version was halted by an appeals court.
Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns
Tech company releases Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers
Anthropic is urging the Australian government to give it approval to train its models on Australian copyrighted work
Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations
Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts. AI customer service won’t let her reach a human | It's part of a trend that experts say won't end…
Alexandra Mae Jones(external link) | CBC News | Posted: October 1, 2026 8:00 AM | Last Updated: 13 hours ago
Chinese hackers impersonated ex-US official to steal emails from AI experts
Key Findings In July 2026, a China-aligned threat actor Proofpoint tracks as TA419 conducted multiple credential phishing campaigns impersonating prominent economists and artificial
Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn: "What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and c…
Justifying the amount of capital spent on data centers would require AI to bring in $6 trillion in revenue by 2031.
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says memory and storage supply will likely be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than it was in 2026. He made the remarks during Micron's fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call on September 30, where the com…
Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
Google launched its Googlebooks platform a week ago, and a lot of people were wondering what this meant for Chrome OS and Chromebooks. Since Googlebooks and its Android-based Googlebook OS lack the management frameworks…
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in 'AI' Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."