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Medic from TF2 facepalms at a computer.

Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse

By Joshua Wolens published

News "Even targeted age restrictions of specific features could mean that all users are required to complete intrusive age assurance processes".

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Microsoft campus

Using 'trillions of anonymised productivity signals', Microsoft thinks nearly half of people like AI in their work

By James Bentley published

News There's dozens of us who don't!

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A composite image of Gabe Newell, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.

Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets 'two thumbs up from me' for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is 'clueless'

By Rich Stanton published

News Newell was among the "top suggestions for board members" made to Musk.

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Ubuntu's software updater on an orange background.

Ubuntu servers restored after DDoS attack sends services down for days

By Jacob Ridley published

News Who has a gripe with Ubuntu?

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Screenshots of NordVPN, Windscribe, and Surfshark VPN windows overlapping on top of a pink and purple background.

I spent a full week testing different VPNs and I'm changing my no-VPNs-while-gaming advice

By Jacob Fox published

Ping or privacy VPN gaming isn't the pointless endeavour I assumed it was.

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China flag waving in the wind.

No, China hasn't made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it's made it much more expensive for companies to do so

By Rich Stanton published

News Maybe communism has something going for it.

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A view of a gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguin at the Paradise Bay in the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 20, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel 'ARC Simon Bolivar,' designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet.

'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel

By Jess Kinghorn published

News Batten down the distros.

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Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros

By Joshua Wolens published

There are dozens of us.

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Elon Musk strikes a pose in a silly outfit.

Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'

By Rich Stanton published

News Hey, it's better than "Axon."

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Randy Pitchford at the "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" world premiere held at The Lighthouse Pier 61 on November 10, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Stephanie Augello/Variety via Getty Images)

Randy Pitchford says Gearbox has a firm no-AI policy after posting an AI-generated image of an AI working at Gearbox

By Andy Chalk published

news Randy just wanted to have a little fun, but it didn't work out so well.

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