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NewsOracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
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News512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
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NewsWeb-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
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NewsMicrosoft is building new '100% native' Windows programs to replace memory-hogging web apps
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NewsLocalSend is the most useful app I've come across in a very long time, letting me share files across devices with a couple clicks
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NewsIn the long list of awful things AI might lead to we can also add killing open-source software
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NewsOracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
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News512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
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NewsIn the long list of awful things AI might lead to we can also add killing open-source software
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NewsMeta to pay $375 million for 'thousands' of children's safety violations, a whole 0.19% of its 2025 revenue
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NewsNvidia CEO Jensen Huang says of AI that 'open is not a thing, it’s proprietary and open', sparking a conversation about bot orchestras
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NewsSenator Bernie Sanders announces bill to pause US data center construction: 'AI and robotics will impact our economy, our democracy, our privacy rights... even our very survival as human beings on this planet'
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NewsKingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director defends DLSS 5: 'No way haters will stop this'
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newsOpenAI discontinues Sora video generation app, Disney pulls out of $1 billion investment deal
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NewsMark Zuckerberg is building an AI co-CEO as part of his continuing mission to free himself from the burden of human interaction
By Lincoln Carpenter Published 8 Comments
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NewsFirefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux
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News'This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors': Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge
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News'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds
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NewsMozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it
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NewsHeroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome
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NewsFirefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system
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SponsoredSurf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup
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NewsCritics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'
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NewsGoogle will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'
By James Bentley Published 10 Comments
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NewsMicrosoft is building new '100% native' Windows programs to replace memory-hogging web apps
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NewsLinux kernel maintainer says AI has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better'
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NewsFormer Windows boss reveals previous plans to reduce Windows 11's memory and storage footprint by 20% and now I'm hoping Microsoft includes that in its new Windows 'quality' drive
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NewsMicrosoft is 'working on' removing the online account login requirement for new Windows 11 installs and also 'reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points'
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NewsMicrosoft might actually make Windows 11 good as the company promises to roll back AI features and improve performance
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NewsGnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers
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News'C:\ is not accessible – Access denied': Windows 11 users locked out of own boot drive on Samsung PCs due to major issue
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newsGoogle is adding official Chrome support for users running Arm and Linux and it's about time
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NewsThis vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (March 30, 2026)
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newsDiscord hit with 'major outage' affecting voice chat (Update: fixed!)
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News'Golden goose' indie games get Gabe Newell's attention, says Steam expert: 'You're like a little goblin that has a magical power to turn straw into gold'
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (March 23, 2026)
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BargainSteam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (March 16, 2026)
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NewsBluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'
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NewsPlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'
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NewsWeb-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
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NewsGoogle says it's preparing for the quantum apocalypse, when traditional encryption methods are broken by quantum computers, by 2029—which is much sooner than originally expected
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PsykeThe lyrics to the rap song about John McAfee, annotated
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NewsMalwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'
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NewsGoogle says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data
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NewsSecurity researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage
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NewsCrypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media, calls, and dating services sentenced to a 'statutory maximum of 20 years in prison'
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NewsNew ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files
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NewsThe Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage
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NewsMeta to pay $375 million for 'thousands' of children's safety violations, a whole 0.19% of its 2025 revenue
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