How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Mozilla Introduces Thunderbolt: An Enterprise AI Client Built for Control and Independence
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’
Reese Witherspoon is again advising her followers that there's no time like the present to start learning about and using artificial intelligence.
Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job
A new survey found that Gen Z workers are particularly invested in sabotaging their company's AI deployments.
Japan’s biggest “ghost developer” known for working for Atlus and Square Enix sees significant growth in console sector following shift awa…
Tose recently announced its financial results for the second quarter of th current fiscal year, reporting significant growth in sales.
Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims
Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giantâs anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing
Fairgame$ Sets Sights On Extraction Shooter Market | PSX Extreme
Haven Studios' Fairgame$ is supposedly leaning into the extraction shooter market as Sony continues hoping for the best.
TIL James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, founded an amateur cricket team called the Allahakbarries
Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven he…
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam
Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with th…
Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI Client
Thunderbolt is Mozilla’s new self-hostable AI client designed for organizations seeking to run AI on their own infrastructure and maintain data in-house.
Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.
To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.
Krafton still supporting Subnautica 2 launch despite Steam page change
Following their courtroom clash, developer Unknown Worlds is now listed as Subnautica 2's publisher rather than parent company Krafton.
Metro 2039 - Official Reveal Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
The Year Ahead for Battlefield 6 | 2026 Roadmap
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
My Quest to be the Scrobble King
Tired of streaming services dictating my music discovery, I resurrected an old internet relic to reclaim my listening experience.
There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.
Fedimap
Join the rebellion with Fedimap—explore the galaxy to find your hidden rebel base (Server).
Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer de…
If you can't afford one, build it yourself.
Phubbing Explained: Stop This Rude Phone Behavior | HuffPost Life
Etiquette experts break down this egregious behavior — and what to do about the "phubbers" in your life.
Voiden - an Offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown
Redefining how developers work with APIs. One Git-native, composable workspace. Offline-first. Markdown-powered. Developer-loved.
Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight;In addition to the penalty, a permanent injunction required domain re…
Spotify and several major record labels have secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.
In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy
OpenAI says its safeguards âsufficiently reduce cyber riskâ for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model.
Pee and Poop in Your Car While Driving at 100 km/h to be Possible
Aito maker Seres Auto granted patent for seat-mounted retractable toilet.
FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
Trump FCC starts handing out exemptions to its ban on foreign-made routers.
Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.
A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.
The False Promise of App Store Age Verification
An analysis of the unconstitutional App Store Accountability Act and its impact on age verification and parental controls.
Crimson Desert sales top five million
Total sales for open-world action adventure game Crimson Desert have surpassed five million units, developer Pearl Abyss announced.
TIL about the 1879 Mandalay Palace massacre, in which over forty royals were executed by co-conspirators to secure King Thibaw’s claim to t…
The 1879 massacre at Mandalay Palace (Burmese: ၁၈၇၉ မန္တလေးနန်းတွင်းလူသတ်ပွဲ), occurred on 13, 15 and 17 February 1879 (8th, 10th and 12th waning days of Tabodwe, 1240 M.E.) at the Mandalay Palace. It was one of the mos…
Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400%
Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.
EU age verification app announced to protect children online
EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…
Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's hairbrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI
Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans, and more on the making and legacy of Black & White as it turns 25.
Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide
China-based researchers make up more than half of all lead authors at NeurIPS.
‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking...
In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up â a phenomenon thatâs intriguing game developers and psychologists alike
Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations
'Addicted to hacking': Young hacker behind historic breach speaks out for 1st time, before reporting to prison
ABC News speaks with a young hacker about what experts call a wide-ranging menace: a new generation of tech-savvy teens who are uniquely dangerous and surprisingly young.
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.
Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good
The publisher's "license to distribute" has come to an end, so it's goodbye to the Telltale Games inspired outing.
The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
How did Netgear do it? Nobody’s saying.
From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary
Gen Z is furious about AI, and so is the American countryside.
Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency
Announcing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”
Starfield has sold 140K copies on PS5
The high-profile port has had a middling start, raising questions about the long-term viability of delayed multiplatform releases and the true cost of exclusivity and subscriptions.
Tech Otakus Save The World – Robotics;Notes Elite – Review
Kaito and Akiho, two students of the Robot Club, want to build a giant robot, and their version of Japan loves robotics! Sadly, they are the only members left in the club, which is in danger of bei…
How Iran’s Information War Machine Operates Online
In just 69 minutes, Iran took advantage of a global network of accounts and media channels to spread its narrative around the world.
Did games really get more costly to make?
By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.
Your Duolingo Is Still Talking to ByteDance: How Pangle Fingerprints You Across Apps After You Said No
This is Part 2 of my Pangle SDK research. Part 1 covered how I broke the encryption. This post covers what I found when I started comparing the decrypted data across apps. In Part 1, I decrypted 694 Pangle SDK payloads …