Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI
In a legal analysis for consumer advocates, experts warn of massive protection gaps due to the planned "digital EU omnibus". Big Tech is favored.
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Here’s a photo of a Christmas tree, as my camera’s sensor sees it:
TIL the Sundance Kid lived in Canada for three years
Harry Longabaugh — better known as the Sundance Kid — is perhaps most famous for his daring bank and train robberies as part of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. But the American outlaw’s short stint as a cowboy and businessm…
'Baldur’s Gate 2: F My Bhaal Femcel Life' - Warlockracy
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TIL: The word Vatnik is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian gover…
vatnik - Vatnik (Russian: ватник, pronounced [ˈvatʲnʲɪk]) is a political pejorative used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfa...
MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
Extremely rare East German game console from the late 1970s tested — only such device produced by communist GDR, bought for $1,000 at aucti…
Machine with just a few Pong variants was snagged for roughly $1,000 in an online auction.
The 25 Best Movies of 2025
From another Paul Thomas Anderson masterpiece to the thrill of seeing Timothée Chalamet's potential fulfilled, the best movies of 2025.
Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System
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Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks
How I found critical vulnerabilities in Petlibro smart pet feeders allowing complete account takeover via broken OAuth, access to anyone's pet data, device hijacking, and private audio recordings - and how they're still…
Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for print…
Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?
In-car, smartphone infotainment systems are a pro for car shoppers, but not necessarily carmakers who'd rather keep your data all for themselves.
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media â and generating about $117m a year, data shows
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI
The president stumbled through a word salad as he tried to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs.
WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit | High-power Meshtastic solution with nRF52840, SX1262, and SKY66122 PA for extended mesh range | RAK10724
What is WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit? The WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit brings more TX power and better reception to Meshtastic networks. Powered by the RAK3401 WisBlock Core module with the Nordic nRF52840 MCU and a…
Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal
For years, Windows users frustrated with constant changes, aggressive updates, and growing system bloat have flirted with switching to Linux. But 2025 marks a noticeable shift: a new generation of Linux distributions bu…
'Horrible Racist' Stephen Miller Slammed for Using Classic TV Christmas Special to Bash Immigrants
Stephen Miller uses classic TV Christmas special featuring Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra to bash immigrants.
TIL: There are just over 9,000 Mediators (a.k.a. Arbitrators, or Conciliators) in the US as of the year 2024
Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators facilitate negotiation through dialogue to help resolve conflicts outside of the court system.
Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole
The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more
The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed s…
Top Open Source licenses in 2025
The top 20 OSI-Approved licenses most frequently sought out by our community in 2025 based on number of pageviews.
Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents
:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé Nast
WIRED Database Leaked: 40 Million Record Threat Looms for Condé NastA comprehensive investigation into the current WIRED database leak and the threat of an imminent, much larger compromise targeting the Condé Nast portf…
No pain, no game: how South Korea turned itself into a gaming powerhouse
Gaming was once compared to drugs, gambling and alcohol in South Korea. Now its gaming academies offer a chance to earn a six-figure salary – if you make the grade
Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome
A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.
GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.
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Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
The YouTuber doesn't seem fazed by Apple's threats.
AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writi…
Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”
In an interview, CEO George Arison claimed artificial intelligence can help solve âdifficultâ gay dating problems.
Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation
Although Windows has had awareness of the NVMe storage media protocol since Windows 8.1, it turns out that the stock Microsoft driver for NVMe devices, disk.sys, offers suboptimal performance. This driver dates back to …
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors
I wrote last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a CGM) on my arm 24/7 to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague, Karen …
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Opinion: Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card
‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires
Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting it
Best Chinese Movies of 2025 (and more)
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Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake
Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month
The game streaming service will make almost all of its users pay extra for extended access.
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Packaging Stremio’s GTK4 Shell: CEF Integration Adventures
Nine days debugging one function call, and other lessons from browser-engine integration Introduction When Stremio released their new GTK4-based shell using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead of Qt5/QtWebEngine, …
I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting
Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.
Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you.…
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
Void Phone VX1 is Linux phone with enterprise management features
X's Generative AI Image Edit Tool Ignites Backlash — Users Fear Image Misuse
X rolled out a new feature that lets users alter any image via AI prompts, igniting backlash among users, particularly artists, who fear their work can be misused, misrepresented, and altered without their consent.
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems
ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, aiming to cut costs as DDR5 prices continue to rise. More details here.
22 Weird Facts About the 1976 Cyclops (The Big Bus)
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Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors | Fortune
Zuckerberg's had many clashes with neighbors over real-estate projects.
Did Obsidian Master the Art of the Efficient Epic? | NYT
Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.
The Time Tunnel (1966): Banned Alternate Ending and Hidden Truth They Tried to Hide
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