Oblivion Remastered Switch 2 sold out on release date, showing appeal of physical games
Digital may be the only option for Switch 2 owners who haven’t purchased Oblivion Remastered. On its release date, The Elder Scrolls game is out of stock at popular retailers. Collectors rejoiced after learning that Bet…
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Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley remains adamant that it's just one big misunderstanding, arguing that "we're not Big Brother."
A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS s…
Critics Slam Tesla's Gamification Of FSD As Driver Hits 25,000-Mile Streak
A driver just surpassed 25,000 miles while operating on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, but some critics argue that the gamification is dangerous.
HDMod - A Spelunky Remake
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TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards
Over 80% of foods marketed to toddlers in the United States are ultraprocessed, while nearly half also fail to meet global nutritional guidelines, a new study found.
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, rai…
RustDesk now supports unattended remote access on Wayland, including the login screen and multi-monitor setups
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of The Static Blog
A CDN for a blog with three visitors a day is objectively overkill. I did it anyway, apex domain and all, moving my whole DNS zone over to Bunny in the process.
Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.
The AYN Thor Lite Has Become Something Much Bigger Than AYN Built
From Cocoon and iiSU to custom buttons, skins and emulation, the community is giving AYN's cheapest Thor a life of its own
Research: The whole Reddit has become more negative over time. Also, the longer the community exists, the more negative it get — and the lo…
Beyond the algorithm, online negativity takes on a life of its own. Here’s why.
The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
There are loads of options for getting new music into your ears if you're fed up with Spotify.
Flock Safety privacy changes: retention cut to seven days
Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.
Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started
Twitch announced on its official X channel that it has added a setting that allows users to opt out of having their channel content used to train...
PayPal Honey Under Fire: Affiliate Tracking Lawsuit Moves Forward
PayPal Honey faces a federal lawsuit over alleged affiliate tracking and commission diversion. Here's what the court ruled and what happens next
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind th…
He hates snakes. Of this, I am pretty sure.
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the tex…
They thought they could get away with it.
'Sanctuary: Shattered Sun' Demo & Kickstarter
Command vast armies across the surface of a star-encompassing Dyson Sphere in this next-gen RTS. Shatter the map itself with superweapons, freeze oceans to create new invasion routes, and control hundreds of units in yo…
Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia
Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" Grok chatbot called for the assassination of its creator and said he watched CSAM.
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed
Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices.
Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting
Starting in version 1.93, Brave is rolling out new protections against GPU and graphics-driver fingerprinting, de-identifying WebGL vendor and renderer strings and adding noise to the list of supported extensions.
AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them
The number of AI generated uploads to CGTrader would suggest AI is taking over the platform, but buyers are refusing to pay for AI generated models.
Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal f…
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out – Krebs on Security
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily p…
Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, current a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Trump admin empowers private US firms to go after transnational cybercriminals
“By partnering with vetted United States companies subject to the direction and oversight of the Federal Government, we will enhance our ability to counter [transnational criminal organizations’] threats and combat tran…
Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime
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Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud gam…
Moonloot, a studio Netflix founded in 2022, is also being closed.
Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game …
Rideshare Stimulator has finally gotten a genAI disclosure on Steam after a furore, with Saber's CEO insisting that it's "swim or die" with genAI at large.
Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor Launch Trailer
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STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Official Update 2.0: Back to the Zone Overview Trailer
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TIL the priest related to the botched Ecce Homo was arrested for sexual assault
70-year-old one of six arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and fraud
New messenger app sends texts by virtual pigeon and sometimes the bird just dies
A messaging app has come up with maybe the least efficient alternative to WhatsApp imaginable: sending your texts by virtual carrier pigeon.
Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"
Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux / SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming.
This AI Chatbot Was Just One Busy Guy, and He Has Hit His Limit
People ask Tucker Bryant's ChatTJB for advice on everything from their fiction and personal dilemmas to how they should spend their free time.
The Rust programming language project is adopting an LLM policy
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gamblin…
A King County Superior Court judge issued a final order requiring KalshiEX (Kalshi) to cease many of its Washington operations after finding that Kalshi likely violated the Washington Gambling Act and the Consumer Prote…
How AI text watermarking works: a visual guide
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
AI giants stay quiet on climate as California prepares to force disclosure
In a few short years, artificial intelligence startups have grown into some of the most powerful and influential businesses in the world, reaching near-trillion-dollar valuations.
AI: Considerations for people who make decisions (Bert Hubert)
Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two different and brief…
Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature
Short post, I've just had these ideas bouncing in my head for a while and it keeps annoying me phones have never implemented them. First is a "guest lock"...
“An inherent conflict of interest”: More than 800 USA Today Co. employees want the company to end its new Palantir partnership
"Part of the problem is that we know very, very little about how Palantir’s software is going to be used."
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women
A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.