How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech
Bellingcat found 31 posts by the BJP that appeared to feature AI-generated images, along with either anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim hate speech, in Assam and West Bengal within a month.
New Mastodon account documenting hate and racism on r/Monitors and r/ultrawidemasterrace Discord
12 Posts, 1 Following, 6 Followers · Exposing hate and bigotry on r/Monitors and r/ultrawidemasterrace as seen on their official Discord.
Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1
Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others.
Say hello to Neil Roberts 👨, new LibreOffice developer focusing on scripting support
The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, has a new developer in its team. Neil Roberts started work this month and will initially focus on LibreOffice’s scripting support. Let’s hear from him… …
Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending
Oracle has ratcheted up its capital expenditures as it builds data center infrastructure that can handle AI workloads.
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that theyâre heating up their surroundings, according to new research. Itâs an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predi…
FTC Takes Action Against Match and OkCupid for Deceiving Users by Sharing Personal Data with Third Party
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against OkCupid and its affiliate Match Group Americas over allegations OkCupid deceived users of its dating app by sharing their personal information,
Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid
Exclusive: Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills
Evercade Nexus - Announcement Trailer
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Super Meat Boy 3D | Launch Trailer
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Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed
Disney previously invested $1.5 billion in the Fortnite and Unreal Engine company…
After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X
City councilors in the liberal enclave voted unanimously to leave a platform they said had become toxic under owner Elon Musk.
Tech giants are spending more than ever to shape California politics. See how much
Tech giants involved in AI and cryptocurrency spent $39 million last year to influence lawmakers and policy. It's the start of what could be a spending blitz in the upcoming election.
US, EU move toward landmark biometric data sharing deal that give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to fingerprint and other…
The U.S. and European Union are in formal talks over a biometric data-sharing arrangement that could give the DHS access to EU biometric records.
Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract
Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics company
Spotted in the wild: Our first look at the X Money debit card Musk is rolling out
X Money cards are popping up on social media, buying ice creams and snacks at gas stations. Users are thanking William Shatner.
Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next
Google has started rolling out Android's new developer verification, with user-facing sideloading changes arriving later this year.
Money Isn't Going to Solve the Burnout Problem
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was …
Star Trek but the Computer is Australian
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It's not just a RAM crisis — Panasonic says data center batteries are also selling out months in advance
Panasonic plans to triple battery production as hyperscale AI infrastructure drives unprecedented demand across global data centers
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.
[Realm Drifters] | Keep Watch with the Gatekeeper of Bree | Midnight Ambience
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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
DUNE author Frank Herbert: "My Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction."
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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…
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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.
GrapheneOS Foundation Calls Out Brazil's Flawed Age Verification Law
People are going to have their personal info leaked by third party age verification services due to these laws. Children are going to be harmed by apps and websites changing their behavior to exploit them. It isn't goin…
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
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GIMP 3.2.2 Released with Various Improvements and UI/UX Updates
Release news for version GIMPÂ 3.2.2
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.