Flock Goes Global: How a $7.5 Billion Surveillance Company Found Its International Partner in South Africa's Most Controversial Camera Netw…
Vumacam sells Flock surveillance in South Africa. Its founder was criminally investigated for operating unlicensed. Its cameras have been called digital apartheid. It all tracks.
U.S. Lawmakers Work on Unified Site-Blocking Bill to Counter Online Piracy * TorrentFreak
Last week's Supreme Court decision in Cox Communications reshaped the piracy liability landscape, creating new urgency for site-blocking.
Someone finally did it: a high-end TV with a DisplayPort connection actually is coming this year, including 4K 180Hz support
4K at 180Hz over DisplayPort, and with a super-rich RGB-backlit mini-LED screen
Time has not been kind to VHS: As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … bakin…
50 years after its launch, the technology is all but obsolete.
Voters Increasingly Use AI as Political Advisor. A New Study Shows the the Risks.
In an experiment during Japan’s February 2026 Lower House election, policy stances dominated AI chatbots’ voting guidance, and left-leaning stances caused five AI models to recommend the Japanese Communist Party. The re…
Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users n…
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
In Asia, the global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
One month into the war in Iran, a growing shortage of crude oil is threatening to morph into something worse: a shortage of nearly everything.
Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI
It gave the leader of a nonprofit involved with it "a very grimy feeling."
The Tragic Beauty of Majora's Mask
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Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they've been buying freely for years.
LinkedIn Data Lean Is Insane - YouTube
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric…
Existing licensees are grandfathered.
In Israel, a rabbinical judge can force couples into divorce if the wife dresses indecently
Israeli rabbis are to clamp down on the growing number of devout Jewish women wearing the burka by declaring the garment an item of sexual deviancy.
White House App Reportedly Shares User Data With Third Parties and Relies on Russia-Founded Firm Linked to Staff Data Exposure
The White House app is reportedly sending user data to third-party platforms without disclosure, raising privacy concerns.
Physicists used a ferret to clean particle accelerator tubes.
In February 1971, physicists at the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, began testing the biggest machine in the world: a ring-shaped, 200-billion-electron-volt (BeV*) proton synchrotron particle accel…
Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs
The American EV brand’s sales rebounded in the first quarter, but a new problem is making its presence felt.
TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
The long and fraught history of the plant shows that it got an unfair reputation from the beginning
The open web isn't dying. We're killing it
The open web is under pressure from AI companies and large platforms, but its troubles did not start with AI. We also chose convenience over control, and we will have to change that if we want a better web.
Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns…
This time around the company might have a point, though.
TIL:despite cracking down traditional views, Mao Zedong allegedly had many sexual relationships with young women, which he viewed through a…
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician is a memoir by Li Zhisui, one of the physicians to Mao Zedong, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, which was first published in 1994.…
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.
G1 Currency System (potential UBI) updates to v2
Version 2 for Ğ1 software
LibreOffice Drama: The Document Foundation Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep
TDF has used a bylaw Collabora publicly opposed to strip over 30 of its most active developers of their membership.
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Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai
Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.
Adobe Data Breach 2026: Mr. Raccoon Leaks 13M Support Tickets | The CyberSec Guru
Report on the alleged Adobe data breach. Threat actor Mr. Raccoon claims 13M support tickets, 15k employee records and HackerOne data leaked via BPO.
Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance
This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to it. What’s being said here isn’t nearly as ominous as this single sentence he sent to CIA lead…
SKG Update: plans coming to fruition / Ubisoft sued by consumer watchdog
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LightSpeed Studios Q&A: “Designing for 100 Million People Pleases No One”
We spoke with LightSpeed Studios about theiush into AAA original IPs and franchise-building, their design process, and their mo-cap facility.
"Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio
Peak has "had sooo many updates tho!"
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites
PlayStation Studios removed PC references across most studio pages, adding credibility to the rumor that Sony may be changing its first-party PC release plans.
Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from Chi…
U.S. still depends on China, despite years of onshoring efforts.
America’s Largest Public Hospital System Says AI Could Replace Radiologists
NYC hospital chief proposes AI-only cancer screening to cut costs, but radiologists warn of patient safety risks as regulatory battles loom.
Self-Host Weekly (3 April 2026)
Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995
Germany Misses Out On DDR5 RAM Price Relief As Other Regions See Temporary Declines
DDR5 RAM prices in Germany rose by 1.1% over 2.5 weeks, contrasting with a 30% drop in China and 20% in the US, with prices still 313% higher since July 2025.
Reddit adds labeling for non-human accounts, weighs personhood verification methods— Billions of bots no boon for messy human messaging pla…
Messaging platform Reddit has introduced a new labeling system for automated accounts, in an attempt to sort the humans from the bots.
Turkey announces ID verification for social media within 3 months
Adalet Bakanı Akın Gürlek, sosyal medya platformlarına kimlikle giriş uygulamasının üç ay içerisinde yürürlüğe gireceğini belirtirken, kimlik ibraz etmeyen hiçbir kullanıcının sosyal medyada hesap açamayacağını ve kulla…
Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes…
Meanwhile, we are happy to learn that the toilet urine extractor fan has been fixed.
Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’
Around seven in 10 children remain on major platforms. Who could possibly have predicted that this wasnât going to work? Well, lots of people
Why SSD prices are skyrocketing, and why they'll get worse in the near-term
Features SSDs: WTF? April 2, 2026 Last Updated: 2026-04-02 We dive deep into why SSD prices are skyrocketing, and why we think they'll get worse in the near-term The Highlights Similar to RAM (DRAM) prices for system me…
Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
A new update now in testing sets Edge to automatically appear at startup, and you are forced to opt-out if you don't want it.
TIL that In many reptile species, females are larger than male species, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are l…
Fecundity selection, also known as fertility selection, is the fitness advantage resulting from selection on traits that increases the number of offspring (i.e. fecundity).[1] Charles Darwin formulated the theory of fec…
EU Commission bans top officials from using Signal groups
Due to concerns about targeted digital espionage, the EU Commission has instructed its highest-ranking officials to immediately dissolve a central Signal group.
Report: EU Commission wants to involve US more closely in tech regulation
A committee is to improve dialogue between the EU and the USA on tech regulation. Differences of opinion are to be discussed there in the future.
Retro The Weather Channel May Be the Best Thing to Watch on Not-TV
One theme of DTF St. Louis, definitely not its main one, is that with smartphones, there is no real need for a weatherman anymore. By this point it’s a pretty old joke (that isn’t even really a joke), but in the whodunn…
Cash App launches 'pay later' feature for P2P transfers
Block says that the new feature has strong built-in protections to keep users from so-called debt spirals.
Self-Hosted Offline EAS Alerts Over Meshtastic with RTL-SDR
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[Redacted] The Safehouse - Announcement Trailer
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Pulling application credentials from Authentik with External-Secrets Webhook Provider
Using Authentik as a Kubernetes External-Secrets provider using webhooks