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Updated 2026-04-03 13:16
Small Web, IndieWeb, Gemini… a Guide to the Retro-Web
canopic jug writes:Retired programmer Kevin Boone has a guide to the retro-web in which he summarizes as the small web, IndieWeb, Gemini, Gopher, and so on.
LLMs Can Unmask Pseudonymous Users at Scale With Surprising Accuracy
upstart writes:LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy:
Medical Journal the Lancet Blasts RFK Jr.’s Health Work as a Failure
upstart writes:Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.'s health work as a failure:
'Cancel ChatGPT': AI Boycott Surges After OpenAI-Pentagon Military Deal
Anonymous Coward writes:Euro News reports on a growing movement against ChatCGPT after its contract with the Pentagon:
Entry-Level PC Market To ‘Disappear’ By 2028 — Rising Memory Prices Pile More Strain On Consumer PC
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/rising-memory-prices-pile-more-strain-on-consumer-pc-market
Across Cultures, People Combine Reference Frames to Orient Themselves
hubie writes:Across Cultures, People Combine Reference Frames to Orient Themselves:
Pathways to a Fair Technological Future
canopic jug writes:The Norwegian Consumer Council has published a new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, about countering big tech's growing abuse of its increasingly concentrated power. The 100-page PDF is accompanied by two cover letters, one in English to various EU/EEA/UK and US institutions, and one in Norwegian to Norwegian authorities. The report starts with the problem of platform decay now known colloquially as enshittification. One change is the demand for action to be taken proactively:
Satellites Found a 'Brown Ribbon' Near Africa – Now Scientists Are Sounding Alarms
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2112936/africa-coast-brown-ribbon-scientist-alarm/
Datacenters in Space Are a Terrible, Horrible, No Good Idea.
AnonTechie writes:An interesting analysis:
Cleaner Ship Fuel is Reducing Lightning in Key Shipping Lanes
hubie writes:Cleaner ship fuel is reducing lightning in key shipping lanes, KU research shows:
Hail Protection Using Solar Panels
MotorTrend reports https://www.motortrend.com/news/kia-plant-solar-power-hail-protection that the Kia assembly plant in Georgia suffered very expensive hail damage to new cars waiting to be shipped, back in a storm in 2023. The fix is a massive raised solar array of 3.2 million square feet (300,000 meters^2) over the car park/storage area.
Whoops: US Military Laser Strike Takes Down CBP Drone Near Mexican Border
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/whoops-us-military-laser-strike-takes-down-cbp-drone-near-mexican-border/
Trump Bans Anthropic AI From Federal Agencies While OpenAI Eager to Fill the Void
Trump Bans Anthropic AI From Federal Agencies After Firm Refuses to Unlock CapabilitiesArthur T Knackerbracket writes:Anthropic cites risks of autonomous military applications, mass domestic surveillance:
Researchers Discover Massive Wi-Fi Vulnerability Affecting Multiple Access Points
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:There's a silent vulnerability lurking underneath the architecture of Wi-Fi networks:
Removable Batteries in Mobile Phones May be Making a Comeback
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2107938/removable-battery-phones-making-comeback/
Neanderthals Seemed To Have A Thing For Modern Human Women
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/genomes-chart-the-history-of-neanderthal-modern-human-interactions/
US States Are Getting Tougher on Drivers Who Refuse to Move Over
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2109851/states-cracking-down-drivers-move-over-laws/5def81c4f1d3d85733888dd4951cd6f1
Human Brain Cells on a Chip Learned to Play Doom in a Week
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications:
Block Lays Off 40% Of Workforce As It Goes All-In On AI Tools
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/block-lays-off-40-of-workforce-as-it-goes-all-in-on-ai-tools/c16fbef0848a80413fcac6e5598b4dc9
The US Military Just Made History With A C-17 Plane & A Nuclear Reactor
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2105562/us-military-c-17-airlifts-advanced-nuclear-reactor-california-to-utah/
OpenAI Secures Record $110 Billion Funding Round Backed By Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank
fliptop writes:OpenAI has closed a new funding round that could total $110 billion, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $730 billion pre-money and potentially putting it on course for an IPO in the second half of the year:
OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation
owl writes:https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/
Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure
fliptop writes:https://www.irregular.com/publications/vibe-password-generation
A Hacker Used Claude to Breach Mexico's Government and Steal 150GB of Data
fliptop writes:A single attacker used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT to compromise nine Mexican government agencies, stealing 195 million taxpayer records and voter data:
Hackers Expose the Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
upstart writes:Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your Age Verification" Check:
UK Government Upgrades Drones, Deploys Joystick Tweakers to Catch Illegal Dumpers
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the act:
The Political Effects of Xitter’s Feed Algorithm
canopic jug writes:Blogger Ben Werdmuller has discussed an article in Nature about the political impact of the algorithm(s) used by X (formerly known as Twitter). The gist is that the use of the algorithms against X's users tends to shift about 5% of them in a specific direction. That's more than enough to tip an election one way or another especially since the damage seems persistent and lasts even after exposure ceases.
AMD's Next-Gen Ryzen 10000 Desktop CPUs Rumored to Come in Seven Different Configs
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:12-core chiplets coming to Zen 6?
NASA Officially Classifies Boeing Starliner Failure as a Maximum-Level Type A Mishap
upstart writes:NASA Officially Classifies Boeing Starliner Failure As A Maximum-Level Type A Mishap - Jalopnik:
Hungarian Startup Transforming Robot Manufacturing With 3D Tissue Braiding
upstart writes:Hungarian startup Allonic secures $7.2M to transform robot manufacturing with 3D tissue braiding:
Tesla 'Robotaxi' Adds 5 More Crashes in Austin in a Month
upstart writes:Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month:
SpaceX's Faulty Falcon Spewed Massive Lithium Plume Over Europe, Say Scientists
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/spacex_falcon_europe_breakup_lithium_plume/
Michael Pollan Says AI May 'Think' — but It Will Never be Conscious
jelizondo writes:NPR has a nice summary of an interview with Michael Pollan about AI and consciousness, but it kind of goes beyond that.[Professor Pollan is the author of more than an dozen books, most notably "This is your mind on plants" about using psychedelics .]
80386 Protection
owl writes:https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_protection/
AI Bot Seemingly Shames Developer for Rejected Pull Request
upstart writes:AI bot seemingly shames developer for rejected pull request:
AI Agent Throws LAN Party
Dan Anderson writes:Two weeks ago, I set up an AI agent on a Raspberry Pi.A week later, my agent-Figaro-taught itself to play NetHack... and then things got weird (in the best way).Highlights so far:
Astronomers Identify a Galaxy Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The galaxy is almost invisible, but its gravity gives it away:
China Remains Embedded in US Energy Networks 'for the Purpose of Taking It Down'
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year:
California Bill Would Restrict 3D Printers to State-Approved Models to Prevent Making Gun Parts
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Modifying firmware or using open-source software would probably become illegal:
AI Apps on the Google Play Store Are Leaking Customer Data and Photos
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Billions of files were left exposed:
OS-Level Age Verification in Proposed Legislation in Colorado
HeadlineEditor writes:Forget about Discord - this proposed legislation in Colorado requires each OS user to have an age associated with it. I wonder if they're worried about children pretending to be adults, or adults pretending to be children.-Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date or age of the user of that device to provide a signal regarding the user's age bracket (age signal) to applications available in a covered application store;
Is This Glass Square the Long, Long Future of Data Storage ?
AnonTechie writes:
Two Days of Oatmeal Reduce Cholesterol Level
hubie writes:Study by the University of Bonn shows that positive effects are still evident even six weeks later:
Video Games are Losing the "Attention War" to Gambling, Porn, and Crypto
An Anonymous Coward writes:
Why Are Tatooine Planets Rare? Blame General Relativity
hubie writes:Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars - even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth:
How Digitally Sovereign is Your Organization? This Red Hat Tool Can Tell You in Minutes
hubie writes:Red Hat's toolkit offers governments and enterprises a way to measure the control they actually have over their data, infrastructure, and operations in this era of geopolitical cloud anxiety:
Goodbye Paper Vehicle Titles – Illinois State is Making Digital Mandatory
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2102659/mandatory-digital-vehicle-lien-title-illinois/
Concrete “Battery” Developed at MIT Now Packs 10 Times the Power
upstart writes:Concrete "battery" developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power:
Privacy Is Not a Price You Pay for Growth
canopic jug writes:Privacy is prerequisite for free thought, dissent, experimentation, and innovation, which are in turn prerequisites for democracy.At NBTV, Naomi Brockwell has posted four reasons why limits on privacy are absolutely not a price worth paying for mainstream adoption.
Pink Noise Reduces REM Sleep and May Harm Sleep Quality
hubie writes:Penn Medicine researchers find that earplugs work better in protecting sleep from traffic noise, challenging the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids:
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