A warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna, also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Ins…
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
[CW: imperialism] 80 Level: Can Fast Cuts Work in ASL Animation? Disney and Deaf West Say Yes
Disney and Deaf West Theatre address concerns about fast cuts in ASL animation, explaining how performance, iteration, and camera design preserve clarity while enabling cinematic storytelling in the Songs in Sign Langua…
Upcoming AAAA game: MAGA Simulator 2077 (sarcasm)
The year is 2077. The fewchur is here! Prezidint Trump is on his 14th turm. He's still cleening up the mess the Liburals made. Still Mayking America Grate! You are one of his most biggest supporturs. Fight thuh libs! Fi…
The Most Dangerous VPN of All Time (Onavo)
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Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename
I noticed that Notepad on my production PC was auto-updated, and it no longer has any reference to Copilot, but AI integration is not gone.
Bohrdom (by Cole Tomas Allen) on Steam
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AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried.
AI’s increasing ability to sift through data and track Americans’ locations has some lawmakers reconsidering parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Donut Browser - any opinions?
Open source anti-detect browser. Create unlimited local profiles with unique fingerprints, proxy support, and full browser automation.
TIL Trenton, New Jersey, councilwoman Kathy McBride fell victim to the hoax during a 2013 City Council meeting believing the Blue Waffle di…
Blue waffle is a fictitious sexually transmitted disease said to affect only women, causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. The disease has been confirmed as false. According to Dr. Elizabeth Bosk…
Quantum Computers Are Not A Threat To 128-bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
Withnail's Coat & I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
Fact Check: Did Alien Resurrection invent Dual Analogue First-Person-Shooters?
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TIL that Glencore is the largest company in Switzerland is a dominant player in african mines . The company is known for neocolonialism is …
Joint briefing on behalf of Resource Matters, ANEEJ and Spotlight on Corruption
Alter-Ego: near telepathic interface
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Best Death Scene Ever
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Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!
You don’t look a day over 30 lives.
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime
A real-world production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner dedicated, handling 248 GB of MySQL data across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, Neo4j, and live mobile app traffic — with zero downtime.
We wrote "esperto-wiimote", a Wiimote remapper with good IR tracking and complex key combos
Advanced Wiimote remapping software. Contribute to KayJay7/esperto-wiimote development by creating an account on GitHub.
Former PlayStation Exec Wonders How Sony Will Maintain Investment in First-Party Games Without Releasing Them on PC
Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has suggested that Sony will struggle to recoup the huge budgets invested in its first-party games without porting them to PC.
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher
An old Activision idea from the 1980s has led to some incredible things in the 2020s for Panic, the publisher of Despelote, Arco and Time Flies: “The range of things we received was wild."
The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog
Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.
Invincible's Animation Budget
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China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US
With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.
Action RPG The Awakener: Battle Tendency launches on May 5 for PC | RPG Site
Taner Game's other RPG, The Awakener: Risen, is still in development.
Someone accidentally leaked Star Wars: Galactic Racer's release date on Steam
It looks like Star Wars: Galactic Racer will release on 6th October, 2026.
“Age limits on social media are a dead end”
Public authorities should focus on regulating algorithms and imposing stricter controls on data collection instead, argues researcher.
TIL there was such a thing as lumberjack sandals.
Item from Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection. A pair of lumberjack sandals are shown. The description on the back of the photograph reads 'Loggers' sandals worn for noon hour to protect mess hall floors from …
Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
Starfish ROOM: DEFEND THE ROOMS available on Steam
In a world colonized by aliens, Kibo Wave has been chosen to fight various aliens, kill monsters, collect cards, and speedrun in seconds in an eternal loop in a 2D musou roguelite sci-fi queer game.
We can still have a Star Trek future
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SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` - blag
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
IPv6 adoption statistics – Google
We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git log commands that diagnose a new codebase before you open a single file: code churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console
The Playnix Console is a €1,179 Linux-powered gaming machine with an RX 9060 XT inside.
XChat, the standalone app for messaging on X, is available on iOS now
X has launched XChat, a standalone app for accessing the social platform's messaging feature.
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
New car surveillance tech becomes mandatory by 2027, using infrared cameras to monitor driver sobriety and alertness with privacy and cost concerns.
I love Subnautica and building bases in weird places in Creative Mode is an obsession of mine.
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TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.
Despite its name, the sandwich, which recently went viral on YouTube, is a purely British phenomenon.
Nextcloud stops bug bounty program due to increase of low-effort AI-generated reports
Nextcloud has joined a growing list of projects, including Curl, that have ended their bug‑bounty partnerships with HackerOne due to an unmanageable surge of low‑effort, AI‑generated security reports. I received the fol…
The Atlas of Surveillance
"The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance #technologies deployed by #law enforcement in communities across the United States. This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, faci…
Commercial Children sexual abuse websites have doubled from 7,028 sites(2024) to 15,031 sites(2025), Generating profits for the gangs opera…
Commercial child sexual abuse sites have doubled as gangs profit online. IWF urges tougher laws on payments, platforms and encryption.
I Programmed the World's Smartest Pokedex - BigRig Creates
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Kubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS is here. Try Plasma 6.6, Qt 6.10, KDE Frameworks 6.24, and more.
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Big tech giveth, and big tech taketh away
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’
Empirical analysis of Global Privacy Control compliance across popular websites accessed from California. Independent research by webXray.
Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past
In the new NBC News Decision Desk poll, a plurality of young Americans said they’d choose to live in the past if they had the option.
‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director
Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright
Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
Mozilla is experimenting with Brave's adblock engine, here's how to turn it on.