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.
Serenum: a weather service that really respects your privacy
Serenum is a weather service that takes your privacy very seriously (read more).
“ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy
When you paste ChatGPT’s response instead of your own feedback, you’re not being helpful. You’re being lazy and creating more work for everyone.
Gimp 3.2 is officially released. The game has changed. Adobe just got punched in the face.
We’re happy to present the first release of GIMP 3.2! This marks a year of design, development, and testing from volunteers and the community, as part of our plan to streamline releases after GIMP 3.0. We’re excited for…
How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. …
Justice League Hates AI
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Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes The EV We Want
Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of [ScottenMotors] 1977 F150 Super…
Liam Neesons Owl Daddy
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New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight
Researchers have developed a ‘negative luminescence’ system to create an innovative way of sending hidden information.
Three more AI psychoses
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cambodia aims to shut down all online scam centers within weeks
Cambodia says it is close to shutting down all online scam centers operating in the Southeast Asian country.
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'm a man in my late forties, and even though I've worked in the tech industry my whole life, I've never really dived into programming. I found out about pi‑mono through OpenClaw, and this is the fi...
Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones
Embark's CEO says 'most' of the in-game voice lines are now recorded by real actors
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core - Early Access Release Date Trailer
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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
GFiber and Astound to merge with Alphabet selling majority stake to Stonepeak.
Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year
"We will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing"
The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator
Stand-up comedy about having a homelab.
Firefox’s new AI ‘Smart Window’ (only in beta builds so far) surprises reviewer by unexpectedly handing browsing history to 3rd party hoste…
Firefox's new AI-powered 'Smart Window' feature is taking shape in development builds – I gave it a hands on in the latest v149.0b7 beta (on macOS).
Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used
E2EE has become a target of federal regulators.
AI bot spam
Digg is going away again, but Kevin Rose is coming back.
Rubenerd: Using Thunderbird for RSS
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
Digg Shut Down Again
Thanks for being part of our beta. Stay tuned for what comes next.
TIL : Mount Olympus is the highest planetary mountain in our solar system (21.28km or 69,840ft)
Olympus Mons (/əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊ-/;[5] Latin for 'Mount Olympus') is a large shield volcano on Mars. As measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), it is 21.1 kilometres (69,000 ft)[3] or, more precisely, 21.2…
Human Rights and Health Groups(including Amnesty) Urge Hospitals Not to Use Palantir Software and Demand That NHS England Cancels the Contr…
This briefing document outlines the key concerns regarding the involvement of Palantir Technologies in NHS data infrastructure and operations, including via their delivery of the FDP.
Biological computer with real human neurons learns to shoot in Doom
Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs claims have successfully programmed living human neurons to play the cult-classic 1993 video game Doom.
Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing, says price increase would equate to an 'upgrade' for the customer — …
The RAM crisis is unfair for everyone, but some situations absolutely beggar belief.
"600% Sound Volume" Firefox add-on blocked after apparently committing affiliate manipulation
To use these add-ons, you'll need to download Firefox.
Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats
Instagram will drop end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026, reversing years of Meta’s push for stronger privacy. Here's what it means.
Your Phone is an Entire Computer
The new MacBook Neo announcement raises old questions around what rights we have (and don't have) to install software on devices we own.
AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure
AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.
Donut Panic - Announcement Trailer - FGS Live From GDC 2026
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Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot?
Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Health to aggregate data from hospitals and wearables. Would you trust the tech giant with your medical information?
Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes
Researchers show GAN-trained phishing pages can trick Perplexity’s Comet AI browser in under four minutes, exposing a new AI-targeted attack surface.
The Internet, Reinvented. Introduction to Reticulum.
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Ageless Linux - Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.
Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
The new changes by the Pan-European Game Information age-ratings body (PEGI) will start from June.
Adobe to pay $75 million to resolve U.S. lawsuit over fees, subscription cancellations
Adobe said it will also provide $75 million of free services to customers, in addition to making the $75 million payment to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mini documentary about the face of the man they hired to play Big Brother in the movie "Nineteen Eighty-Four" with John Hurt and Richard Bu…
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Piracy Giant HiAnime.to Announces Mysterious 'Goodbye'
HiAnime's reign appears to come to an end as a message posted on its official domain names says that it's "time to say goodbye"
Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026)
Searching for the next "claw", Booklore goes nuclear, and sourdough starters
[DX] What's a Concord-like?
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Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice
AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs
AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.
Cambridge University Researchers: AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kit…
The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally important types of play.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptur…
The Met releases 100+ high‑res 3D models for interactive online viewing, with many available as free Open Access downloads
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
Corporate employees said Amazonâs race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and âmore work for everyoneâ.
Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, four execs over alleged $1.4 billion tax evasion
Milan prosecutors are pushing for a trial against Amazon's European arm and four executives. This follows allegations of tax evasion amounting to 1.2 billion euros. Amazon had previously settled a tax dispute with Italy…
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Exclusive: Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.