FOSS Contra Big Tech
Taking on Big Tech is a phrase we hear ad nauseam in politics nowadays, but rarely with specificity. To âtake onâ is deliberately vague verbiage: it gestures to the existence of a conflict between the interests of âtechâŚ
âMalusâ: i'm so tired of this bs
I canât tell you how many times I have heard people predict the death of open source software over the years. Each time some new tech trend arrivesâcrypto, source available licensing, SaaSâpeâŚ
Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development
Ken Levine's Judas may be three years away, which would push the BioShock successor to 11 years in development if the latest timeline holds.
Pope Leo Calling for AI "Disarmament", Warns of its Risks(Including Fueling Warfare) in 42,300-Word Encyclical; Opaque Algorithms ControlleâŚ
Pope Leo XIV presents "Magnifica Humanitas" as the Churchâs response to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for AI to be ...
TIL: gendered button/zipper placement on clothes (and a guess at why)
Centuries-old habits shaped todayâs fashion standards.
Built a free British social chat site â would love
The UK's free social chat site. Live chat rooms, posts, follows and more. Join thousands of British people online.
Industrial Parts Pricing Software for Real-Time Monitoring
Optimize complex industrial parts pricing at scale. AI-powered pricing intelligence for B2B distributors & manufacturers. Track 500K+ SKUs, automate quotes & improve margins. Request demo.
Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Laid off workers at Meta contractor Covalen to mount strike action following loss of 700 jobs
Trade union representing Covalen workers have demanded the end of a "two-tiered treatment" of outsourced tech workers
Jira IS Turing-Complete
Building a Minsky Machine in Atlassian Automation 22nd May 2026
Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult foâŚ
It's time to talk about my writerdeck
tldr: * I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) * I added some packages to make it work better for writing: * network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away * kmscon for customâŚ
99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years
CEOs love automation, but don't think humans and machines can coexist in the workforce, survey finds.
Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences
There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means.https://vale.rocks/micros/20260521-0440
AI collar claims it can translate your petâs sounds â and the internet has questions
A Chinese startup has unveiled an AI-powered collar that claims to translate animal sounds into human language, a concept that has inevitably sparked many questions.Priced at $149.99 (ĂÂŁ110) on its website, Hangzhou-basâŚ
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectivâŚ
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says graduates booing AI will shape its future â and live with its consequences
As commencement speakers face restless crowds of new graduates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he's ready for his turn at Stanford next month.
Texas sues Meta and WhatsApp for "Lying About Privacy Measures and Deceiving Texans by Falsely Claiming WhatsApp Messages are Encrypted"
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC (collectively âWhatsAppâ) after the company misled consumers regarding the strength and scope of its privacy protections for its messagâŚ
[Project] Just released: a virtual museum with nearly every OS you can think of...
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
Rocket League will get updated to Unreal Engine 6 with new teaser shown
Epic Games developer Psyonix has published a sneak peek at an updated version of Rocket League running in Unreal Engine 6, revealing a first look at its new logo.
At Seoul's bridge control center, AI helps stop 99% of suicide attempts
For most Seoul residents, the Han River is a place for evening strolls, picnics and a brief respite from city life. But for Kim Jun-young, chief of...
The Trump phone appears to have already leaked its customersâ personal information through a glaring exploit
Trump Mobile's Trump phone isn't even in customers' hands yet, and it's already allegeldy leaking their personal data to the world.
LiftTrace v1.0.0-rc.4 released: NutriTrace federation + editable workout duration
Self-hosted weightlifting tracker â single Docker container, AGPL-3.0, no telemetry, no cloud sync. - TraceApps/lifttrace
TIL: the Welsh battle of Orewin Bridge may be almost entirely fictional
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The White House is ordering U.S. agencies to place its new app on all employeesâ government phones
The newly created, often overtly political app places the Trump administration into unprecedented and âdangerousâ territory, IT experts say.
How dangerous is Anthropicâs Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
The systemâÂÂs power is comparable to others â but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking
DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent
The lower prices could be aimed at undercutting the competition.
Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox
Groups claim games platformâs design and business model conflict with childrenâs developmental needs
Phonopolis Review: Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designâs masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetiâŚ
Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designâs masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetic in Phonopolis.
The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmâŚ
'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
Thousands are daring Bambu to take legal action.
TIL that before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the faâŚ
Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a centuryâs worth of schemes for automating authorship.
New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast
A way to stream audio around your entire house using inexpensive RaspberryPi computers and SnapCast
Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio
Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools
Dreams on a Pillow - Official Gameplay First Look
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Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch | Sid's Blog
The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open (yes, there are tens of us!), expecting to get some work done before my attention fragments. But Google had other plans. They had rolled out a new version of AnâŚ
How Sam Altmanâs victory over Elon Musk clears way for OpenAIâs trillion-dollar ambitions
OpenAIâÂÂs plans now seem all but guaranteed, given that the worldâÂÂs richest man couldnâÂÂt put a stop to them
What addiction medicine can teach us about depending on AI
People gradually rely on AI to reduce the discomfort of thinking. For some, that can become a problem.
Google AI engineer claims dismissal for opposing tech sales to Israel
âOur work on AI was sold to facilitate genocideâ: Artificial intelligence engineer claims Google unfairly sacked them for internally criticising the companyâs decision to continue supplying technology to the Israeli milâŚ
Meta and Snapchat blocking Saudi dissidentsâ accounts
US social media firms acting on orders from Middle East kingdom accused of being âÂÂinstruments of repressionâÂÂ
Independent Review Confirms Critical Telegram Vulnerability, Leaking Persistent Identifiers Enabling User Tracking, Previously Exposed by IâŚ
The privacy of hundreds of millions of users is at risk, experts say
SpaceX launches its biggest, most beefed-up Starship yet on a test flight
SpaceX has launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet. The rocket blasted off from the southern tip of Texas on Friday, carrying 20 mock Starlink satellites on a test flight extending halfway around the world.
Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse timâŚ
He doesn't want to diminish the current crisis, though.
They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. The plan is to take on AI and industry layoffs
"Who AI benefits and who it immiserates often is based on who gets to decide how itâs used. We know how tech is used on the day to day. We should be at the table as well."
Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"
Law enforcement intercepted VPN traffic, seized domains, and arrested its operator.
Destiny developers reflect on the end of an era: 'We all worked so hard to maintain the quality bar under unrealistic constraints'
"I logged in to the Tower and found a horde of guardians kneeling by Zavala, others saluting. It was like that from server to server."
Meta's Latest App Looks Like Reddit
Forum is a standalone version of Facebook Groups plus AI assistants.
Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs
The tech giant made thousands of engineers train their AI replacementsâthen fired them.
A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now
Crying in the shower. Taking mental health leave. This is what itâs like to work at the tech giant during the AI job apocalypse.