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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)

1736 points by john-doe 4 days ago | 1134 comments

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)

1731 points by haunter 3 days ago | 591 comments

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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1620 points by CliffStoll 3 days ago | 248 comments

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Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)

1603 points by diebillionaires 3 days ago | 645 comments

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Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

1535 points by thitran 5 days ago | 752 comments

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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)

1418 points by anonymousiam 1 day ago | 517 comments

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)

1319 points by PriorityLeft 2 days ago | 967 comments

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)

1018 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 818 comments

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Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

912 points by stefanpie 2 days ago | 621 comments

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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)

859 points by teleforce 6 days ago | 510 comments

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

840 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 453 comments

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David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)

836 points by defrost 1 day ago | 158 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

822 points by thm 2 days ago | 711 comments

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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

812 points by flipped 2 days ago | 321 comments

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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)

780 points by e12e 3 days ago | 876 comments

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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (red-squares.cian.lol)

764 points by cianmm 3 days ago | 167 comments

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The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)

759 points by speckx 2 days ago | 346 comments

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DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (status.denic.de)

745 points by warpspin 4 days ago | 408 comments

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GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)

710 points by n1b0m 5 days ago | 693 comments

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Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com)

709 points by SergeAx 4 days ago | 542 comments

21.

Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)

706 points by jeromechoo 3 days ago | 328 comments

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Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)

688 points by ribtoks 1 day ago | 352 comments

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)

684 points by amrrs 4 days ago | 328 comments

24.

StarFighter 16-Inch (us.starlabs.systems)

679 points by signa11 3 days ago | 379 comments

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DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (github.com)

676 points by alattaran 6 days ago | 280 comments

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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (blog.cloudflare.com)

654 points by rolph 3 days ago | 368 comments

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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)

653 points by whatisabcdefgh 3 days ago | 192 comments

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Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com)

640 points by cft 5 days ago | 232 comments

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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)

633 points by maxloh 5 days ago | 304 comments

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Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (old.reddit.com)

624 points by newsoftheday 2 days ago | 245 comments