When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech
Editorial: Cash-hungry Silicon Valley firms are scrambling for revenue. Regulate them now before the tech becomes too big to fail
The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling
Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way. From a report: The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for t…
Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.
Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as thei…
Japanese gamers on X discuss why classic titles like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quests are less popular among the country's young people.
Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at …
No ownership, just epic play while it lasts
BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.
Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
Western Digital consumer share drops to just 5% as enterprise takes the rest, company has NO more HDD capacity after gigantic AI deals.
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
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New AI system paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints, by eliminating drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences…
A team of EPFL researchers has taken a major step towards resolving the problem of drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. Their breakthrough paves the …
Fighting games have a product design problem
Fighting games in 2026 are floundering, with everything not called Street Fighter 6 relegated to the trash bin of history. The worst and most likely outcome is that other studios look at this and think SF6 is the destin…
Storyden: A forum for the modern age.
Storyden is a platform for building communities. A modern take on oldschool bulletin board forums. Designed to be the community platform for the next era of internet culture.
Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr
Overseerr and Jellyseerr are merging into a unified project: Seerr
Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel
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About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP
You want to have encrypted, self-hosted and free software chat? Which standard should you use?
HelixNotes now on Android, same Rust + Tauri codebase
A local markdown note-taking app. Plain .md files on your disk. Sync them your way, or don't.
Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.
Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store
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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
Segundo a Google, a ideia de substituir ferramentas por software de código aberto não contribuiria para o crescimento económico na Europa
Direct Emissions in Semiconductor Manufacturing Are Increasing Again – What Is Behind the Shift?
interface (formerly Stiftung Neue Verantwortung) emerges as Europe's premier Think Tank for cutting-edge tech policy. Our expert team navigates AI, cybersecurity, and more, shaping the continent's digital landscape.
Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
Dune II written in HTML5 / JavaScript
Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript - oklemenz/Dune2JS
Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface
The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors
You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
4Chan for Clankers
what your clawkers are really thinking
Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism
Non-contributors dictating how the hen makes bread.
Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.
My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers' brainwaves and send them electric impul...
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
For the past 3 years Ben Ward has been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 19…
A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.
What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts
Free speech advocates warn the subpoenas threaten long-standing protections for anonymous speech.
UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup
As TikTokâs U.S. shift sparks user migration, UpScrolled surges.
Discord’s UK age verification reportedly shifts flows to Persona for some users
Discord appears to be routing UK users through Persona for age verification, despite positioning k-ID as its official partner. Here's what we know so far.
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. **UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.** https://arstech…
Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die
Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity
Two Midwesterners are fighting back after the platforms they created to report on public Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity were censored by government officials.
OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
OpenAI’s restructuring may serve as a test case for how society oversees the work of organizations with the potential to both provide benefits and harm humanity.
The lord almighty has spoken
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says it will not conduct new performance-based layoffs, shifting from last year's 5% workforce reduction.
Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents
Cloudflare has announced a new feature that automatically serves websites in Markdown to AI agents. With Markdown for Agents, the company is responding to
OpenAI swaps Nvidia for Cerebras with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller AI encoding model that generates over 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware. It is OpenAI's first
Want to migrate away from discord ? I made a helmfile for stoatchat (previously revolt) with experimental video sharing support
One-click deploy stoatchat to a Kubernetes cluster (or with docker-compose) - baptisterajaut/stoatchat-platform
From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
The web’s clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
Today I learned about the critically endangered Cozumel raccoon.
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Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative
VPNs are the only way Russians can access the platforms — for now
REANIMAL | Release Trailer
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Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition out today
The edition celebrates 30 years of the limbless hero with five versions of the game, a never-before-playable prototype, 120 additional bonus levels, an exclusive interactive documentary, and more.