2026-05-10
No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious
And if you think otherwise, you'd better at least attempt to don your philosophy cap.
Community mods are giving us the remasters companies can't deliver
A few years ago, a passion project from a few Zelda fans gave us a decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which let it run natively on...
Gamble With Your Friends is Steam's latest friendslop hit
Tenstack's Gamble With Your Friends is a new Steam friendslop success story, having sold over 1 million copies in its first week
WorkOS
My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is...
Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data
Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use...
The TechBeat: What Happens When Crypto Communities and Their Developers Disagree (5/10/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
Why You Probably Shouldn’t DIY a Car Airbag
Car airbags are both a very simple concept and a marvel of engineering, replacing the bone-shattering impact of unforgiving plastic and steel with a relatively soft landing in a funky-smelling...
Magic designer says this underrated Final Fantasy MTG Commander deserves more play
Magic: The Gathering principal designer Gavin Verhey says one Commander from the Final Fantasy set remains completely overlooked.
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse
Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
AI Isn’t Actually Making Running a Company Easier — It’s Exposing These 3 Gaps in How People Lead
AI helps reveal the structural gaps in how decisions are made, alignment holds and organizations scale. Here's what to do if it's shown you gaps in your business.
The Hidden Cost of WordPress Plugin Bloat (And How to Fix It)
The real cost is not just speed. It is security surface area, update fatigue, compatibility conflicts, and the quiet accumulation of technical debt that make every future change harder than...
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine
"We're rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI." The post Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine appeared...
Micro app 17: The Cooldown
One of the cool things about the agentic coding era is how quick it is to iterate on an idea and see if it's worth pursuing further. When I was...
Monster Demolition
Our next entry in the archives is Monster Demolition, which has had some video footage online of the game running for many years. The game was apparently turned into Rampage,...
You can get the first Mortal Kombat movie for free, but you'll have to use Bing
The 2021 Mortal Kombat movie is available for free through a Bing and Microsoft Rewards promotion for Mortal Kombat 2
The Terror star says America’s healthcare system is this season’s real monster
The adaptation of Victor LaValle's novel is set in the decrepit New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, which Dan Stevens says feels too like the real world.
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System." The post Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System appeared first on...
Asymmetry Between Defensive and Acquisitive Instrumental Deception
Write-up of a recent research sprint looking at factors influencing strategic deception in modelsTL;DRI tested models in a controlled scenario where they could deceptively inflate self-reported performance to influence an...
The 10 most perfect sci-fi anime movies of the last 5 years
The animated medium is uniquely suited to boundary-pushing science fiction.
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