Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away
He was aged just 38
Curated list of selfhosted apps for your homelab
Curating Top Open Source Apps for Homelab Enthusiasts - ccbikai/awesome-homelab
Private Tech Companies, the State, and the New Character of War
Ukraineâs war offers a window into how governmentsâ growing reliance on defense firms is eroding national sovereignty, security, and accountability.
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
“BG3 players exploit children.”
IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
Quentin Tarantino Ranks His Top 20 Favorite Films Of 21st Century [list inside]
Director Quentin Tarantino has ranked his favorite 20 films of the 21st century, including 'Black Hawk Down,' 'There Will Be Blood,' and more.
Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok claimed it would "vaporize" every Jewish person on the planet to save the brain of its creator.
Marathon Art Controversy Resolved As Artist Reaches Agreement With Bungie And Sony
Artist Antireal says the Marathon art dispute has been resolved with Bungie and Sony, closing months of controversy around stolen in-game assets.
ChatGPT down again
ChatGPT is experiencing a major global outage affecting thousands of users, including over 12,580 in the US, according to DownDetector.
Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.
This Sexy TV Series Makes One Of The Straightest Sports Gay
Heated Rivalry is a yaoi hockey romance so hot it could melt the rink’s ice
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence
This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States.
Kirin 9030: SMIC's first 5 nm class smartphone SoC debuts on Geekbench alongside Huawei Mate 80 Pro Max
Huawei's upcoming Mate 80 Pro Max has shown up on Geekbench with a new Kirin 9030 SoC. It is the first smartphone chip to be manufactured on the SMIC N+3 node.
SmartTube's signature has been compromised, possible injected malicious library found by some users
Important Announcement Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to rele...
Donald Duck Invents Cultural Imperialism
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How Hackers Use NPMSCan.com to Hack Web Apps (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun)
Deep-dive, no-login supply-chain analysis of popular npm ecosystems (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun) using NPMSCan to surface real-world attack paths: auth bypass, cache poisoning, SSRF, Nuxt payload traversal, legacy Rea…
Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption
Switzerland is worried about data privacy
Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost
Just a week ago, we discussed Microsoft's efforts to enhance File Explorer performance by preloading the application at startup. Recent testing by Windows Latest suggests that this approach results in diminishing return…
Uguu: simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading.
Uguu is a simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading. - nokonoko/Uguu
Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage
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Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards
With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.
Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession
: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
The cameras were located in private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
LET IT DIE offline version announced
An offline version of the free-to-play action game LET IT DIE is currently in production, publisher GungHo Online Entertainment and developer Supertrick Games announced.
Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Z TriFold, a foldable phone comprised of three ultra-thin (~4mm) panels and two sets of hinges, that unfolds into a 10-inch tablet. When closed, it resembles a standard smartphone with a…
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
India's telecom authority DoT mandates permanent SIM binding for messenger services. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal must comply within 90 days.
India orders phone makers to pre-install state-owned web safety app: Report
Directive gives companies 90 days to ensure Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones.
Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models [pdf]
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After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys
Advocates are fighting against the $16.7bn global smart-toy market, decrying surveillance and a lack of regulation
Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down
serverless, adminless, decentralized reddit alternative with no transaction fees and captchas over peer-to-peer pubsub to prevent spam - plebbit
Veronica Explains why she doesn't stream (from Netflix etc) #algorithmic_helplessness_sucks
I'm one of those hipsters who doesn't use streaming services. I did, a while ago, but I quit using them because the experience is kind of awful, and I'm happier now for it. I collect physical media...
TIL that it's even possible to make a kazoo sound good
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This Minecraft map that recreates [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D le…
Kowloon Walled City in Minecraft is a feat of virtual architecture, but it's missing one crucial ingredient.
How One Episode Almost Ended Star Trek Forever
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New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that pro…
Hakboard - Home Assistant Integration for Kanboard
🔸 Integrate Kanboard projects into Home Assistant dashboards and automations - aktive/hakboard
Monotype font licencing shake-down — Insanity Works
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Sub…
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Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information
E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.
As ‘Hitman’ Turns 25, IO Interactive CEO Talks Eminem-Slim Shady Collab, ‘007 First Light’ Inspiration and Future of the Video Game Franchi…
IO Interactive has had some big things to celebrate this fall, including the 25th anniversary of its "Hitman" franchise.
‘The new price of eggs.’ The political shocks of data centers and electric bills
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MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down
MKBHD is shutting down the Panels app this week. Users will get automatic refunds, and there are plans to open-source the code. Read on!
Netflix kills casting from phones
Cast isn’t gone, but it might not work.
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Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
1. Optimizing good information to push down the negative: using new content (blog, websites, press releases, public network profiles, google images, etc) and search engine optimization. Changing the Wikipedia profile. N…
[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articl…
Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?
EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages