Fedware: 13 Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban
The White House app ships with a sanctioned Chinese tracking SDK, the FBI app serves ads, and FEMA wants 28 permissions to show you weather alerts.
AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India
India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
AI chatbots lure vulnerable gamblers to unlicensed betting websites
Major chatbot platforms found to be advertising unregulated online casinos across the continent, exclusive Investigate Europe research shows.
The Berlin Apartment review; [narrative-focused adventure unlocks inviting character dramas in key historical contexts]
The Berlin Apartment feels less like a traditional game and more like an interactive story, but it’s the everyday personal moments that make experiencing its shared place and the lives shaped by history more powerful.
How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas
China's OpenClaw use is soaring as tech giants hold meet-ups to help everyone add the artificial intelligence digital assistant to their devices.
Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say
While the scope of layoffs has stunned employees, industry analysts have told IGN that cost-reduction within Epic Games was inevitable amid growing external pressures and costly industry battles.
Sycophantic behavior in AI affects us all, say researchers
: Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it
Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI
Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.
Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests
A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.
TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are often "plumped" with a salt water solution to increase sell weight, making up as much as 30% of the to…
Plumping, also referred to as “enhancing” or “injecting,” is the process by which some poultry companies inject raw chicken meat with saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract, water and additives,[1] or some combinatio…
Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses'
To gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries.
PineTime Pro Introduction
How is your day/night going RSS readers? In this blog post we go in depth on the new PineTime Pro hardware and share some pre-production information from JF.
AI and bots have officially taken over the internet
AI-driven traffic nearly tripled in 2025. AI agent traffic grew 7,851%. HUMAN's 2026 benchmark report analyzes more than one quadrillion interactions to map the rise of agentic AI, the threat landscape evolving alongsid…
The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue
Huge cuts announced this week show that truly no developer working in games is safe from corporate whims
How labor movements may help rebalance power in the technology sector
Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace, a Rutgers study h…
Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit
Reddit apparently banned Paul McCartney's account after he posted Fonda Theatre concert content to his own subreddit. The ban page is live and confirmed.
World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries
Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. …
ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State.
Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinti…
First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales
The global memory shortage due to rapid AI data center expansion is hitting everyone, even the biggest tech companies in the world.
A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.
After Almost 4 Years, My Indie Game Is Almost Ready! 🥹
Abaddon is a first-person psychological horror game steeped in Lovecraftian elements. Descend into a haunting story as you take on the role of Jimmy, searching for his missing brother Georgie while confronting his past …
Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones
All news of Ukraine and the world, interviews, photos, videos. The latest breaking news, political news, business news, social news, cultural news, sports news from #Mezha
Cool coool, the Chinese have Read Fahrenheit 451: "Wolf Pack" Robot Dog Drones can be Equipped with Grenade Launchers and Machine Guns for …
These drone wolf packs are designed for urban combat and help Chinese soldiers clear areas without risking themselves.
Sony to hike PS5 prices by $100 as AI and Iran war push up memory chip costs
Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressures
Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” …
Former Nippon Ichi Software President Sohei Niikawa talks shares his opinions on the current state of Japan's game industry.
EnshittifAIcation
Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for …
TIL when you collect poop samples from the ocean most of the data comes back as being from unknown species
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
RSS feeds are beginning to break once xslt support begins being dropped by browsers soon
XSLT makes RSS feeds readable for normies. Chrome is removing it by 2026. Here's why that matters for podcasters and the open web.
The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine— Leonid Radvinsky’s widow left with power on wh…
Leonid Radvinskyâs widow has been left with a crucial role in deciding what happens to the business that made her husband a billionaire
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-app-privacy-concerns-1788881
The Trump administration's new app demands extensive hardware permissions, raising privacy concerns and sparking calls for deletion.
Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice —…
White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server
The Trump administration's White House App is under scrutiny after claims of embedded code tracking users' GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes.
I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me
Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role
Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. Heâs just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter
Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore
Interview: Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away
Booking.com under fire as hundreds of complaints lodged with Fair Trading
Hundreds of complaints against Booking.com are piling up as customers and hosts allege they have lost money, their property has been trashed and no-one is taking responsibility.
Simple Shared Family Calendar and Notes with Radicale
Anton Pirogov's personal homepage.
Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in…
Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions is increasing— Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emai…
The Loss of Control Observatory analysed over 183,000 AI interaction transcripts and found a 5x increase in scheming-related incidents over five months.
Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE
Your sovereign office. Euro-Office has 20 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
GitHub - damontecres/Wholphin: An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin
An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin. Contribute to damontecres/Wholphin development by creating an account on GitHub.
I Decompiled the White House's New App
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and …
The PS5 Pro is about to cost $900, after all
Another Meta ban wave may be locking users out of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Users are reporting a possible new Meta ban wave, with Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts suddenly disabled and little to no way to appeal.
Hades II Coming to Xbox Game Pass – Official Announce Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview 2026
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TIL about Elmer McCurdy: a train and bank robbing outlaw whose corpse, after his death, became a carnival funhouse attraction.
Did a dummy 'dead man' on a TV set turns out to be the real thing?
Translator On Kingdom Come 2 Claims He Was Replaced With AI
The English translator and editor for KC:D II claimed that he's been replaced with AI in a bid to make Warhorse Studios 'more effective' and 'save finances'
Developer of cozy tea shop adventure Wanderstop is shutting down: 'It's a particularly tough time for raising game funds'
The studio, Ivy Road, wasn't able to secure funding for its next game, Engine Angel.
Self.Tube: a mobile client for TubeArchivist
TubeArchivist Client for Android and Linux
TIL Valnet owns most of the world's so-called "gaming journalism" and other pop entertainment websites.
The owner of entertainment websites Screen Rant, Collider, CBR and MovieWeb faces a lawsuit over exploitative work conditions.