Month: April 2026
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-generated Lego videos that have been produced by Iranian content creation group Explosive Media in…
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Little Snitch’s software counter surveillance jumps from Mac to Linux
The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early results from using the app on Linux: “On Ubuntu, I found 9 system processes making internet connections over…
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This Clever Bike Bell Can Even Be Heard by People Wearing Noise-Canceling Headphones
Škoda’s DuoBell is designed to avoid collisions between cyclists and pedestrians preoccupied by their podcasts. Source
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‘It’s a potential national security threat’: Proton study finds over 3,500 US legislators’ official emails leaked and exposed on the dark web
Thousands of official government email addresses are exposed online Credentials including plaintext passwords are available on the dark web The UK has the highest percentage of exposed credentials The official email accounts of public officials all over the world have been leaked online, with many exposed alongside their plaintext passwords,…
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Google has reportedly started to add Polymarket data to News results
Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, according to a report by Futurism. These look to appear as large blocks that include links to numerous ways for people to lose their money. Bets tend to appear in the “For you” section of Google News, which…
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‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
YouTube Premium has silently raised its tier prices Google started emailing users about the change before announcing it For a lot of subscribers, this could be the last straw YouTube Premium is the latest subscription service to hike its prices in the US, but the timing couldn’t be more awkward…
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