'How Resident Evil 2 For The N64 Kept Its FMV Cutscenes' - Hackaday
Originally released for the Sony PlayStation in 1998, Resident Evil 2 came on two CDs and used 1.2 GB in total. Of this, full-motion video (FMV) cutscenes took up most of the space, as was rather c…
Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine
A massive security failure by the U.S. Department of Justice has exposed active passwords for Jeffrey Epstein’s personal accounts.
FF7 on Steam Is Being Replaced (And Your Saves Won’t Carry Over)
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Ardour 9.0 — What's new | Ardour DAW
What's new in the latest release of Ardour
"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…
Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business
Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent cloud computing unit.
Three Decades Of ReactOS
Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clo…
TIL that Adobe doesn't just sell expensive software. They also do research
Look into the future of innovation at Adobe Research
Darktable 5.4.1 is released 🥳
We’re proud to announce the bug-fix release of darktable, 5.4.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.4.1. To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarb…
This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts
EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
Timberborn - 1.0 release date and lore trailer
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Star Trek needs to go back to 20+ episode seasons — and there's never been a better time
It is time for Star Trek to boldly go where no streaming series has gone before: back to the 20+ episode seasons of old!
European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Microsoft Teams
The Matrix protocol is being lined up as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams
Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority"
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project p…
TIL: Besides offering a free compromised email check, haveibeenpwned.com also offers a free password compromise checking service (It's also…
Pwned Passwords is a huge corpus of previously breached passwords made freely available to help services block them from being used again.
Horizon Hunters Gathering - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games
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Orbitals – Nintendo Direct Trailer
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Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2
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FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan for 1M Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts
Usually, the commission takes weeks or months to respond to a filing, but it kicked off a public comment period for SpaceX's orbital data center plan in just a few days.
How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us
Once delivered via text message — no link required — Paragon’s spyware gains broad access to a phone’s contents, including encrypted messages.
Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News
Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound
Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about
: It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect
Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities
Waymo just closed a $16 billion funding round at a $126 billion valuation, the largest investment ever in an autonomous...
TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) will produce 3 nanometer chips at its second, still-under-construction plant in Kumamoto, Japan, the company announced Thursday.
Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?
A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.
ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use— RFI signals growing interest in ad tech platforms that collect dev…
(ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.
Addicted to the algorithm: New research exposes how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media
As the European Commission prepares a new Digital Fairness Act (DFA) to tackle addictive design of social media and other harmful digital practices, new research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) reveals intense lob…
"This game is my apocalypse" - A thoughtful review of Terra Nil from a Solarpunk's perspective
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Union leaders have a message for Newsom: Regulate AI if you want to be president
The governor will need workers and unions in 2028. They are trying to push him to the left on AI — even as business interest push the other way.
Tear gas and pepper spray can have lasting health effects
The chemicals are widely used for crowd control, but their long-term health risks are poorly understood.
Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.
The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.
Seeing Lord of the Rings in Theaters After Stranger Things Made Me Depressed
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Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance
Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.
Seven takeaways from the latest International AI Safety report
Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruption
Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps
Hackers have targeted a spread of apps or sites that aim to track ICE activity, in one case even sending push notifications to users in an attempt to intimidate them.
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At le…
Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data
This arrangement is part of negotiations tied to the US Visa Waiver Program and the Enhanced Border Security Partnership.
Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week
007 First Light headlines our newest issue about the most anticipated games of 2026 and beyond. Subscribe now!
As software stocks slump, investors debate AI’s existential threat
By Chibuike Oguh, Danilo Masoni and Medha Singh Feb 4 (Reuters) - Investors were assessing on Wednesday whether a selloff in global software stocks this week had gone too far, as they weighed if businesses could survive…
Netflix says users can cancel service if HBO Max merger makes it too expensive
There is concern that subscribers might be negatively affected if Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studios bu.
Estonian state trialing IT system free from US tech giants
The Estonian state is to analyze how viable it would be to reduce dependence on U.S. tech giants such as Microsoft, Google or Amazon for its software.
Melania Is Far-Right Propaganda. Thankfully, Nobody’s Buying It
The white supremacist classic The Birth of a Nation was such effective filmmaking that it revived the Ku Klux Klan. Melania Trump’s cack-handed Amazon documentary has got a few Republicans excited, but little more than …
PicoCalc | ClockworkPi
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High-Altitude Adventure With a DIY Pico Balloon - IEEE Spectrum
A $4 Raspberry Pi Pico can help you track a DIY balloon around the world.
Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Announced for February 5
Nintendo will broadcast a Partner Direct later this week, showing off more games coming to Switch and Switch 2.
This Autonomous Snow Blower Shovels on its Own, Recharges Itself, and Keeps Going
A viral video shows a $5,000 robot effortlessly clearing snow during a winter storm. We dive into how the Yarbo autonomous snow blower works, its limits, and why it has millions rethinking the worst chore of winter.
CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Alex Karp said the majority of humanity will be working in manufacturing and vocational jobs.