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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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NewsGoogle has published a list of ways AI is currently being used by threat actors to more efficiently hack you
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NewsA human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an 'angry' blog about him
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NewsThis space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them
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News'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout
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NewsDiscord will decide which servers to age-gate 'with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review'
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)
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NewsGoogle has published a list of ways AI is currently being used by threat actors to more efficiently hack you
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NewsA human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an 'angry' blog about him
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NewsThis space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them
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News'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout
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NewsMicrosoft AI CEO curiously omits 'Microsoft AI CEO' from list of white collar jobs that will be replaceable by AI in next 18 months
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NewsFollowing Discord's suit, OpenAI will also predict your age based on your usage to know if it should ID you at the digital door
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NewsAnthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril', and so he's off to become 'invisible' and study poetry
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NewsAI-assisted hacking group hits targets with a complicated 'social engineering' scam that involves deepfaked CEOs, spoofed Zoom calls and a malicious troubleshooting program
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AI warsDid they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
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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'
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NewsUK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back
By Harvey Randall Published
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Operating Systems
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NewsMicrosoft lawyers had to consult with representatives of The Fonz to get a Weezer music video on the Windows 95 install CD
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NewsThanks to Microsoft adding all those extra features to Notepad, it now unfortunately sports one more: An exploitation vulnerability with a high security rating
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NewsCachyOS isn't joining new Linux gaming distro collab, says it doesn't think a 'collective with strings attached' is necessary
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NewsMicrosoft is apparently now going to focus on 'improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows' which is better than more AI
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NewsMicrosoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state'
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NewsA whole bunch of different Linux gaming distros are teaming up to 'improve the open source gaming ecosystem'
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NewsNvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux, and after testing it I'm equal parts impressed and optimistic for the future of non-Windows gaming
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newsFrance is banning government officials from using Microsoft Teams and Zoom 'amid rising geopolitical tensions and fears of foreign surveillance or service disruptions'
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NewsMicrosoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture
By Andy Edser Published 9 Comments
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)
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NewsOh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
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age appropriateHere's what happens if you don't complete Discord age verification
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NewsSteam now lets early access devs show a 1.0 release date, then says eh, maybe leave it blank: 'Just because this feature exists, does not mean you should or must use it'
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NewsSteam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta
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NewsYouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service
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Dressed? ImpressedRoblox codes for February 2025: Get free items with the latest codes
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NewsEpic says I can change baby, I promise, as it returns for its now-annual tradition of admitting its launcher 'sucks'
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newsEpic Games Store to test forums for 'top games,' walking back previous plans, and a technical overhaul is coming: 'We're ripping out the guts'
By Tyler Wilde Published 8 Comments
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Security
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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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News'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year
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NewsGoogle says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'
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NewsAudio 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
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NewsIt never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk
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NewsCloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second
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NewsThis sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves
By Andy Edser Published
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)
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NewsThe EU declares TikTok's 'infinite scroll' and 'highly personalised recommender system' are 'addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act'
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NewsOh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
By Lincoln Carpenter Published 33 Comments
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