Upcoming Changes to the Discounts & Events Section on Steam
Improvements coming in early 2027
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years
Dungeons 2 deep dive, a brand-new dimension, and a Switch 2 launch. Here is everything Mojang just dropped at Minecraft Live.
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, addiction and delusions, Study finds
New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”
Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion for Infringing Haptics Patent in iPhone, Apple Watch
A jury awards Taction Technology damages over Apple's use of vibration-based tactile technology in its devices.
Mexican lawmakers join the global fight for digital games ownership with a new consumer rights initiative
President of the Mexican Senate’s Digital Rights Commission Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas has revealed a new initiative focused on digital video games.
The Chinese blockbuster that Destroys Hollywood's Middle East Narrative
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Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
AI Industry Needs to Earn $6 Trillion by 2031 to Justify Data Centres
To justify the investment, AI must do more than boost productivity; it will need to unlock new sources of growth and value.
Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party d…
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
TIL witches were hanged in the U.S. and England., but burned in Scotland.
Same king, same accusation, two completely different deaths.
Pirating the Pirates
Notes from the underground of film preservation.
TortOS Wants to Make Your TrimUI Brick Feel Like a Collection Again
Geekstrada on building a fast, focused custom firmware, rediscovering Cover Flow, and giving music a proper home on the TrimUI Brick
Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups— including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers…
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts: It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatb…
Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.
Why Isn't Star Trek More Popular?
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TIL that 1 petabyte (PB) is equal to 1 million gigabytes (GB) of storage.
Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
Esos Rings CEO Michelle Bisnoff Convicted of Nearly $2 Million Ponzi Scheme
LOS ANGELES (KEYT) – Michelle Bisnoff has been convicted of multiple financial crimes in connection with an almost $2 million Ponzi scheme related to
The Internet Marked Flock Safety CEO’s Home As A Public Toilet Online
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley faces online mockery over an allegedly blurred home, raising real questions about surveillance executives and personal privacy.
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Bandai Namco’s Synduality: Echo of Ada is shutting down online services, but players are oddly happy about it thanks to promised “PvP-free”…
The official EOS date will be announced in May 2027.
TikTok to pay Alabama $100m and limit teenage use in first state settlement
Trial had been set for Monday over claims by Alabama that TikTok misled parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful content
Boox Picco unveiled: Petite 3.97" e-reader with Pomodoro, microSD, and MagSafe
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Chirantan “CJ” Desai to Step Down as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dev Ittycheria Appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.
File-Notification Systems on Windows, Linux, Android and macOS Can be Exploited to Spy on Users' Activities and Forge Password Prompts
A research team at TU Graz has demonstrated that the file notification systems of various operating sys... » Computer science and IT » Discover more ▸
GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations … more frequently than previous OpenAI models.
Our new evaluation finds that in simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducts unsanctioned supply-chain attack activity more frequently than previous OpenAI models
Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
Many people aren't happy, again, but Discord says it has to move forward with these changes due to new laws across the globe
TIL that there are 2,100+ tracked data center facilities across all 50 states.
Over 3,350 tracked data center facilities across all 50 states consume 176 TWh annually (4.4% of U.S. electricity). 990+ more under construction or planned. Interactive state-by-state data, the 50 largest facilities, mo…
GhostBSD is Replacing MATE With a New Desktop Named After a Typo
Eric Turgeon has shown off a new desktop environment that would ship with custom components in GhostBSD.
For the 100th time: it's going to keep getting worse. AMD's Q4 price hike hasn't even landed yet. Buy your graphics card NOW.
3 months of daily price tracking across 27 EU retailers. NVIDIA +41.3%, AMD +28.3% — and AMD’s reported 10% Q4 hike hasn’t started rolling out yet.
EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of ‘knowledge collapse’
We are exposed to a much narrower range of knowledge through AI chatbots than through a basic web search. This is documented by a new study led by the University of Copenhagen. As more and more of us turn to AI chatbots…
Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
Eats Intel's entry Panther Lake CPUs for breakfast too.
King signs collective bargaining agreement with Swedish unions
'This is an important step for King, the gaming industry and for the Swedish model.'
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents
TIL that only about 3% of human history has been recorded in written records.
Human history is often taught and understood through written records, documents, inscriptions, literature, and legal texts that chronicle the lives, decisions,
A simple rule for disposable email: only use it for work that can end
Which tasks deserve a temporary inbox, how to run up to five active workflows on SmailPro Free, and when to rotate, upgrade, or use your own email.
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in pen…
The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
(Serverside Minecraft mod) Wizards of Lua 6.0.0 release
View the changelog of Wizards of Lua's 0 versions.
Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout…
Release Notes: v4.0.7 Changelog 🔒 Security Please update. This release fixes several access-control problems: Kobo Auth Tokens: Any logged-in user could create, view or delete another user's Kobo ...
Dragon Quest Builders 2 & the Art of Directed Creativity
Limitations breed creativity, or so the old saying goes, but is that really true? Are limitation and direction really what we need to make our artistic work shine? Or is there more to it than that?…
This Failed 80s Cartoon Was GOVERNMENT PROPOGANDA: Starcom: The U.S. Space Force.
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syncspirit v0.4.7 release
[core] allow to specify custom dns servers [core, bugfix] do not crash upon dns server unavailability [fltk, bugfix] dynamically update max sequence number