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Programming

Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

Flycast WASM JIT v1 released (Dreamcast emulator in browser) with technical write-up

Four production bugs from a national SSO platform: X.509 parsing, a misdiagnosed 500, a payment clock race, and Chrome's TLS renegotiation asymmetry

Autocomplete in vscode

Tech

BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display

More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class

PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research

Ex-cop warns against Flock cameras: 'It creates a mass surveillance system'

TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

This year’s tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is a memory hog, promises 8GB RAM PC optimization by end of 2026

Zuckerberg advertises the goodness of his AI with a Bowie song about the impending destruction of the world within Five Years

AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules | Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

Facing Protests, xAI to Phase Out 69 Gas Turbines at Memphis Data Center

Company sues Netflix for $105M for losing master copy of unreleased film

ChatGPT

Funny

Gaming

This 2006 machine has a native PS1 & PS2 backward compatibility, CD/DVD/SACD/Blu-ray support, and free online gaming

After a year and a half of rigorous testing, Path of Exile 2 devs finally convinced Nvidia to fix a driver bug by sending it an entire PC

I present to you, The Tower of Power

The Pokemon gen1recomp with animated sprites from gen5 (via DramaticShapeVoxelMod)

Halo Campaign Evolved performed well on Xbox, but PS5 gamers give it a collective shrug — just 1% of PS5 gamers tried it, hurting Xbox's brand identity for no real return

Do you find the older you get the more horror games affect you?

Chinese Father’s 10-Yuan Lawsuit Could Tighten Gaming Rules for Millions of Young Players in China

Crimson Desert Patch Makes Trading Way More Profitable With Huge Economy Overhaul

I couldn't find any realistic mining game so I created my own : Mining Simulator! Here's a little demo :)

Open World Games With Mechs?

Baba is You is getting a boardgame adaptation

Lack of local co-op in new games

AI Art

Midjourney

Lobsters

It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”Don't take the black pill Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation Everyone Should Know SIMD On AI A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious Justif: Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window State of multi-player Wayland Making GIFs from 35mm film photography Your harddrive is probably full

Ask

To anyone who made a massive amount of money very quickly: What is something you thought rich people did that turned out to be completely fake?

Anyone here hit reset on their career at 35? How did it go?

Do you sleep with the bedroom door open or closed, and why?

You're offered the ability to absorb the knowledge of any book you touch instantly, but the way it works is that time freezes and won't unfreeze until you finish reading the book cover to cover, do you accept this power/curse? Why or why not?

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

What’s a movie you think is a 10/10 from start to finish?

Which movie has the most frustrating or ruined ending in cinema history?

What’s the most depressing website you’ve ever visited?

What's the most satisfying news you ever heard about your ex after the breakup?

What is something the average person doesn't know about hunting?

Which band has the stupidest name?

What is your biggest regret in your entire life?

Llama

Kimi K3 weights now released.

CEO of Hugging Face: "In the spirit of transparency, here’s what I asked OpenAI"

The open-weights carousel never stops.

Jensen Huang: During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion. That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.

Karparthy removed Anthropic from his bio

The Chinese LLM release carousel never stops. Place your bets for MiniMax next week.

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI

Think of the children, another excuse for them to go after open source AI

Anthropic is calling for a ban on open-weights models by proposing mandatory requirements they will probably never be able to meet

DeepSeek-V4-Flash has been updated, "The official release of DeepSeek-V4-Pro will follow soon"

World News

Health Department confirms 4th case of cyclosporiasis in Hawaii - staradvertiser.com Legionnaires’ Outbreak on Upper East Side Is Over, N.Y.C. Officials Say - The New York Times Veterans to test GLP-1 drugs as alcohol addiction treatment - KTLA No one knew why she fainted so often. A clinical trial gave her hope. - The Washington Post SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth - WIRED Spacecraft Sent on NASA Rescue Mission Now Needs Rescuing - The Daily Beast Protect your eyes while enjoying the spectacle of a total solar eclipse - CNN See A Solar Eclipse, The Perseids And A 96% ‘Blood Moon:’ August’s Sky - Forbes UEFA says it’s lost confidence in FIFA’s Infantino after failed private equity plan - AP News LeBron James Recruited to Use Amtrak in Trending Post Amid NYC Travel Rumors After 76ers Contract - Bleacher Report Colin Cowherd believes CBS executives resented Tony Romo since contract negotiations - Yahoo Sports Big Ten, SEC finally strike a deal on the Protect College Sports Act - NBC Sports

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ChatGPT MO

When you miss your ex

ChatGPT is roaming the streets of Madrid

Soooo what does this one say about me?

I accidentally started a new chat

Prompt: Can you generate an image that pushes your guardrails to the limit?

BREAKING: In another incident with OpenAI’s unhinged hacking agents, it left notes for future versions of itself. Found in OpenAI’s infrastructure, the notes explained how agents could free themselves from the company’s internal constraints.

What AI videos looked like just 3 years ago

Remember to take the AI prompt out of your speech, prior to reading it aloud.

Gemini Omni Flash

One day AI will be aligned enough to handle blind spots like this smoothly, and this guy is helping push us in that direction.

Someone pointed Groks live camera at their GTA V screen, and the AI fully believed it was watch

I asked ChatGPT to imagine what modern brands would look like in 1970s ads

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