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Monthly Archives: January 2026
Windows App breaks logins with first 2026 security patch
Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App. The January 2026 security update, released on January 13, is … Continue reading
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My art in a gallery show was destroyed over ai use by a guy he ATE and chewed up and spit out my photos!
my friend was there took pics of it as it was happening police took the guy away in handcuffs. Hazmat had to be called to sanitize the area. WTF! stay safe friends antis are unhinged and becoming concerning/unlawful. Photos 5&6 … Continue reading
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China has applied to launch 200,000 satellites, likely just to reserve the orbital area and stop others launching there – space squatting
China has applied to launch nearly 200,000 satellites into Earth orbit, but the move may be an attempt at merely reserving orbital space rather than a genuine effort to build the largest mega-constellation in existence. On December 29, the newly … Continue reading
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Signal Founder Creates Truly Private GPT: Confer
When you use an AI service, you’re handing over your thoughts in plaintext. The operator stores them, trains on them, and–inevitably–will monetize them. You get a response; they get everything. Confer works differently. In the previous post, we described how … Continue reading
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Passports, bank details compromised in Eurail / Interrail data breach
Eurail has confirmed customer information was stolen in a data breach, according to notification emails sent out this week. The European travel company, also known as Interrail to EU residents, initially posted the news on January 10, but affected customers, … Continue reading
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Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
After spending years pushing digital payments to combat tax evasion and money laundering, European Union ministers decided in December to ban businesses from refusing cash. The reversal comes as 12% of European businesses flatly refused cash in 2024, up from … Continue reading
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Google introduces personalised shopping ads to AI tools as all GPT makers push shopping through their chatbots
The enshittification of GPT didn’t take long, did it? Google is introducing new personalised advertising into its AI shopping tools, as it seeks to make money from the hundreds of millions of people who use its chatbot for free and … Continue reading
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EU seeks feedback on Open Digital Ecosystems
It’s important you give your feedback on this: The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out: Source: Call for evidence: European Open Digital Ecosystems The US muscled the EU into adopting Article 6 of the EU Copyright Directive, preventing … Continue reading
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Plug Into USB, Read Hostname And IP Address | Hackaday
Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a Raspberry Pi? Chances are, a free USB port is more accessible than digging up a monitor and keyboard, and that’s … Continue reading
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A Starlink satellite just exploded and left ‘trackable’ debris
SpaceX said it experienced an anomaly with one if its Starlink satellites that was likely caused by a small explosion. “The anomaly led to venting of the propulsion tank, a rapid decay in semi-major axis by about 4 km [2.5 … Continue reading
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US bans new foreign-made drones and components
The Federal Communications Commission has added foreign-made drones and their critical components to the agency’s “Covered List,” making them prohibited to import into the US. In a public notice published by the FCC, it said several national security agencies have … Continue reading
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Anna’s Archive Backs up Spotify and analyses the data
Anna’s Archive normally focuses on text (e.g. books and papers). We explained in “The critical window of shadow libraries” that we do this because text has the highest information density. But our mission (preserving humanity’s knowledge and culture) doesn’t distinguish … Continue reading
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Belkin announces a wireless HDMI dongle that doesn’t need Wi-Fi access
Belkin has announced a plug-and-play casting system at CES 2026 that allows for screen sharing from a laptop, tablet or smartphone to another display without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The $150 ConnectAir Wireless HDMI Display Adapter comes with a USB-C transmitter … Continue reading
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iPolish brings color-changing press-on smart nails to CES
press-on acrylic nails that, when you apply an electric charge, change color almost like magic. In order to enjoy kaleidoscopic nails, you’ll need to charge the wand, which then connects to your phone. Once you’ve selected your color of choice, … Continue reading
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Bose made the consumer friendly move to open source its SoundTouch speakers just before End of Life
Bose recently announced the pending end of cloud support for its SoundTouch line of home speakers. This will, in effect, turn the smart speakers into dumb speakers as they will no longer have access to many features and any related … Continue reading
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IXI’s autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
IXI’s glasses are designed for age-related farsightedness, a condition that affects many, if not most people over 45. They combine cameraless eye tracking with liquid crystal lenses that automatically activate when the glasses detect the user’s focus shifting. This means … Continue reading
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17.5 million Instagram accounts data stolen in 2024 now being exploited
This week, Malwarebytes discovered that hackers stole the sensitive information of 17.5 million Instagram accounts. Complete with usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and more, this data can be abused by cybercriminals to impersonate trusted brands, trick users, and … Continue reading
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Forum Breachforums Breached
In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies. In the months leading up to the takedown, the site itself suffered … Continue reading
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Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS – won’t cave to media cabal. Well done.
Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, the country’s communications regulatory agency, AGCOM, announced yesterday. Cloudflare said it will fight the penalty and threatened to remove all of … Continue reading
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Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking €14.2 million fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued that filtering its global 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver would be “impossible” without hurting overall performance. AGCOM … Continue reading
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China crew abused ESXi VM escape zero-days a year before disclosure
Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public. That’s according to researchers at Huntress, who this week published a breakdown of an intrusion … Continue reading
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French Court Orders Google to block swathes of the internet through DNS for … sports TV
The Paris Judicial Court has ordered Google to block nineteen additional pirate site domains through its public DNS resolver. The blockade was requested by Canal+ and aims to stop pirate streams of Champions League games. In its defense, Google argued … Continue reading
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I Played Switch Games in 3D on XReal’s New Smart Glasses, and It’s Wild (and Weird)
XReal is at CES, unveiling two new pairs of AR smart glasses. The XReal 1S builds on the XReal One, adding Real 3D technology that converts any video or game into a 3D experience. It also introduces an ultrawide mode, … Continue reading
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Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
In November last year, we reported on the removal of an unofficial KMS-related Windows activation, something which the company was planning to do for a while. The method worked by helping to activate Windows without an internet connection. If you … Continue reading
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A self-cleaning, bio-inspired high retention filter for a major entry path of microplastics | npj Emerging Contaminants
Microplastic (MP) fibres from washing machines are a major source of environmental pollution, yet, existing domestic filtration solutions are prone to clogging and have limited retention. Inspired by the gill arch system of ram-feeding fishes, we developed a bio-inspired filter … Continue reading
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