Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely
Only for three days, though, then it’s back to the misery feed Meta has decided to let Threads users make […]
Month: February 2026
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers
Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you’ve been and they’re going […]
Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up
Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent Telcos likely received advance warning about […]
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can’t have it
No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now Microsoft has released Windows […]
Fukushima’s radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar Back in 2021, in the thick of […]
Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer
If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what’s trying to use it today? FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his […]
River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management
Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That’ll never catch on FOSDEM 2026 Isaac Freund’s River compositor brings […]
One in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues
Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region’s capacity push Only 20 percent of datacenters are considered […]
Notepad’s new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft’s humble text editor Just months after Microsoft added Markdown […]
VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute
Judge agrees with Virtzilla’s argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany VMware appears to have […]