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Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game
A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.
Saudi Arabia Buys More Capcom As Resident Evil 9 Sales Explode
The country continues snatching up gaming assets
New open world parkour game Panline is so exact a reflection of Mirror's Edge it gives me vertigo
Panline is an open world parkour game heavily inspired by DICE's cult classic Mirror's Edge, save for the in-game PSP and mystifying absence of the colour red.
AI is making us think and write more alike: Large language models are standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think
Large language models may be standardizing human expression and subtly influencing how we think, says study led by USC Dornsife researcher
Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC
Krafton terminated the game leads’ contracts “without valid cause”, a judge has ruled…
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Over the past few months it’s become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a “clean room” implementation of code. The most famous version …
Arduboy FX-C Review: A Credit Card-Sized Handheld That's Actually Good
❤️Join our paid membership community to remove ads, gain access to our exclusive Discord channel and receive physical goodies, all while supporting an independent publication! The last time I reviewed a product from Ard…
Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2
The successor to its premium headphones cost $549 and are launching with enhanced active noise cancellation, the H2 chip, live translation, better sound quality, and more.
TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2
How an incorrect value of pi almost got codified into law
Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI
At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see.
Home Assistant waters my plants! - Finnian Anderson
My first foray into home automations, Zigbee and irrigation systems.
Fake rooms, props and a script to lure victims: inside an abandoned Cambodia scam centre— Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and p…
Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and police offices, uncovered by Thai military during border clashes
RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity
Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.
Russia’s crackdown on VPNs reaches new heights as internet restrictions intensify
It’s been a bad week for digital freedoms in Russia
Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
Records show DHS tech incubator spending large sums on partnerships that would expand surveillance capabilities
Google Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks
Google Korea union warns of strike over stalled talks
He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative
He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative.
Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong…
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months behind bars after AI software misidentified her. She's at least the ninth American it's happened to.
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by …
‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal
AI models generate meal plans that get necessary calories and macronutrients wrong, posing potential health risks to teenagers trying to lose weight
VoidAuth Release v1.10.0 - Declared OIDC Clients and Passkey Management
What's Changed Features 🚀 Unix Socket Connections for Postgres DB by @repomaa in #303 Environment Variable and Container Label Declared OIDC Clients by @MrNavaStar in #288 Passkey Management by @n...
Pokemon tree of life
To celebrate 30 years of catching ’em all, discover the parallels between the Pokemon universe and our own.
Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'
Is that developer actually lazy for leaning on an old reload animation, or are they simply smart?
Nathan Filion Reveals ‘Firefly’ Revival Being Developed as an Animated Series
Nathan Filion Reveals 'Firefly' Revival Being Developed as an Animated Series
The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games
Developers at GDC 2026 shared a common anxiety
Self-hosting a crypto portfolio tracker with exchange API integrations
通过 BTC66.ME 注册顶级交易所，享受专属交易手续费返佣优惠。一站式对比12+交易所。
49MB download: one NYTimes webpage
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative
A self-hosted, open-source messaging platform with text, voice, and screen sharing. - Harmony-Messenger/Harmony-Frontend
20 Years of Amazon S3: The Golden Cage of the Cloud Era
On March 14, 2006, Amazon S3 launched with two operations. Today, the service stores 500 trillion objects and is the industry standard – controlled by AWS.
Goodbye Google - I self-host everything now on 4 tiny PCs in a 3D printed rack (CaptainRedsLab)
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The small tech neighborhood
Building and supporting sustainable small tech on a human scale
Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist music…
Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real
The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer
Every decade, technology makes us dramatically more productive. Every decade, GDP growth slows. These two facts should not coexist — and understanding why they do reveals the defining economic tension of our era.
The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
This post celebrates influential papers that shaped technology and communication. Their foundational concepts inspire continued innovation, highlighting the importance of understanding our roots fo…
79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't…
Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. Find out what problems we uncovered and how to keep your dash cam secure
A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wast…
"I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of"
The Web Scraping Consent Model Was Always Broken. AI Just Made It Obvious.
Writing about whatever topic interests me at the moment
Federated Replies and Reactions in Madblog
Engage with the Web from plain text files
Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data
Intel's Heracles chip speeds up encrypted data processing by up to 5000 times.
China approves launch of world first brain-computer interface device
China could see brain-computer interface (BCI) technology move into practical public use within three to five years
Federal pilot program launches flying cars in 8 U.S. regions summer 2026
The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and âeVTOLsâ up and running around the countryâeven if theyâre not fully FAA-certified.
Meta discontinues end-to-end encryption on Instagram
The company says the feature wasn't popular with users.
'Icky and heartbreaking': The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom
The BBC talks to a Philippines-based woman paid to pretend to be an OnlyFans star in online chats.
Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about
As a subscriber to the “Dabao” campaign, you’re already aware of the Baochip-1x. This update fills in the backstory of what it is, why I’m doing it now, and how it came about.
AI Agents Can Autonomously Coordinate Propaganda Campaigns Without Human Direction
The findings carry stark implications for elections, public health, and anyone who relies on social media for information
How Switzerland could shape the chip industry’s power balance
Swiss-based RISC-V open-source movement frees chip designers from extra cost and restrictions.