Technology

Annie Altman accused her brother of sexually abusing and raping her between 1997 and 2006 at the family home in suburban Clayton, Missouri, starting when she was three and he ​was 12. She said the "last acts of sexual abuse and rape" occurred ​when Sam Altman was an adult. He is now 40.

They always go for the kids dont they. I dont know how credible this Annie Altman is, the family says she is mentally ill. But they would say that, wouldnt they.

This could make it easy for these people to identify strangers in public.

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-warned-by-dozens-of-organizations-that-facial-recognition-on-its-smart-glasses-would-empower-predators-185000998.html

Unfortunately, you'll lose some helpful features along the way.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-de-gemini-your-google-apps-170000462.html

One wonders if the CEO would reliably pass a Turing test.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-reportedly-building-an-ai-clone-of-mark-zuckerberg-130242840.html

It's part of a broader European movement to reduce reliance on American tech.

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/french-government-says-au-revoir-windows-bienvenue-linux-165407232.html

Here's to the crazy ones.

https://www.engadget.com/computing/a-maverick-hacker-got-mac-os-x-running-on-a-wii-200800027.html

The app adds separate toggles for Canvas, music videos and all other video content.

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/spotify-now-lets-you-turn-off-all-video-130000034.html

You can now create NotebookLM notebooks within the chatbot.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-bakes-notebooklm-its-research-tool-into-gemini-101850634.html

The HushJet Mini Cool costs $100 and lasts six hours per charge.

https://www.engadget.com/home/dyson-just-announced-its-first-ever-handheld-fan-with-a-motor-that-spins-up-to-65000-rpm-000135028.html

Users can still read books on the devices, but they can't purchase or download new ones.

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/amazon-is-cutting-off-support-for-older-kindles-115653205.html

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/russia-hacked-routers-to-steal-microsoft-office-tokens/

I think this is an excellent idea actually. Doesnt it feel like we are all tired of screens now and it feels good with proper books again?

https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-fact-checking-day-ai-iran-war-760d91b9658b4e40e653e84de09b27d6?taid=69ce766fe1f7f1000147e433

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159

The company is branching beyond audio-only formats and into visual and interactive ads

https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-spotify-debuts-carousel-ads-and-branded-playlist-takeovers/

The company continues to target Microsoft and Google with its suite of privacy-focused apps.

https://www.engadget.com/apps/proton-adds-a-secure-video-conferencing-service-called-meet-to-its-toolbox-121729143.html?src=rss

Full 64 rounds, 43/48 schedule compliance.

https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/we-broke-92-percent-of-sha-256.html

Hong Kong police gain warrantless power to force unlock of encrypted devices with jail time for refusal

https://www.gadgetreview.com/hong-kong-police-can-now-demand-phone-passwords-under-new-security-rules

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/musixmatch-launches-real-time-music-copyright-detection-service-302727233.html

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform

You can have look on the site if your country supports this shit. Mine does, which is why I feel no obligation to feel any sense of nationalism. Only a handful of countries say no to this.

Companies claiming 100% of their product's code is now written by AI consistently put out the worst garbage you can imagine. Not pointing fingers, but memory leaks in the gigabytes, UI glitches, broken-ass features, crashes: that is not the seal of quality they think it is. And it's definitely not good advertising for the fever dream of having your agents do all the work for you.

This is true in my personal experience too. Its much faster to use AI but it always causes some weird bugs and glitches over time, and duplicated code is common.

But I think companies will continue to use it, since its still faster than writing code manually. But software quality is going down and is going to be seen as something that can be patched with AI in the future.

These games were incredibly impressive actually. I guess many of you reading this were not born yet when this title came out, but the systems were so weak compared to todays systems, and yet the game managed to feel smooth and quick.

All these abstraction layers we have today may make it much quicker and easier to make a game, but its truly impressive to read about these guys who handcoded assembly to make these games shine. It wasnt just a game to these guys, it must have been a passion to create it.