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Anthropic says it has identified thousands of 'fraudulent accounts' taking Claude and 'extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models'

This AI bot roasts any website URL you give it and it's hilariously, scathingly mean

Todd Howard says AI's 'not a fad' but 'we're not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that's where we want to be'

'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an AI coding tool deciding to 'delete and recreate the environment' from scratch, while Amazon says 'misconfigured access controls' were to blame

A Grok update was apparently delayed because Elon Musk wanted it to be better at answering questions about Baldur's Gate

A redditor claims to have found a horrifying, AI-generated, multi-limbed figure in a rental house listing photo and it's exactly the sort of Phasmophobia-style jump scare I didn't need this morning

Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs

New research suggests folks are relying on 'outdated visual cues' to identify AI-generated faces—but I did get 14/20 on the test

Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux

'This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors': Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge

'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

Mozilla 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

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system

Surf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup

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Critics 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'

Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0

Microsoft's AI PC beginner's guide demonstrates how convoluted its branding has become, but hey, at least 'AI is not here to replace you'

My favourite thing about Linux gaming will now automagically apply crucial fan patches to your Metal Gear installs, making it even easier than on Windows

Windows 11 is getting a handy internet speed test built right into the taskbar

Rufus developers have been blocked from downloading Windows ISOs, and believe there to be 'active intentional involvement from Microsoft'

After Microsoft couldn't keep its AI hands to itself, a notoriously complex Linux distro has started its long march away from GitHub

Microsoft lawyers had to consult with representatives of The Fonz to get a Weezer music video on the Windows 95 install CD

Thanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating

CachyOS isn't joining new Linux gaming distro collab, says it doesn't think a 'collective with strings attached' is necessary

Discord delays its global age verification rollout and cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification vendor after upsetting almost everyone on Earth: 'We've made mistakes'

GOG declares 'The future of preservation is decided by players who give a sh*t' after New Blood CEO expresses concern for the storefront's lifespan

Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 23, 2026)

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?

YouTube was partially busted for a while, but it's fixed now

US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

Security 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

Crypto 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'

New ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files

The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage

'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers

It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk

Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second