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Unethical conduct in Wikimedia Foundation

Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns

What are yalls opinions on the Fitbit Air?

I find the tech really cool, especially that it’s so thin… and the price is also pretty good

it’s just that google made it so I fear this thing is a privacy nightmare

GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

Peak social media - The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout

How embarrassing that this is what people are doing to create viral content.

I revived privacy.sexy, a script for debloating your OS

Hi HN. privacy.sexy builds privacy and hardening scripts for Windows, macOS and Linux. You pick the changes you want, read the exact commands and side effects, then copy or download the script and run it yourself. Nothing runs in the browser, no backend.

The original by undergroundwires hasn’t had a commit since April 2025 and the OSes moved on. Windows shipped Recall and Click to Do, wmic is gone, half the registry paths point at nothing. I forked it and started fixing.

What’s different:

• Updated the Windows catalog for the new AI features (Recall, Click to Do, Copilot).
• Removed tweaks I think were harmful, like ones that disabled browser updates or antivirus for a marginal privacy win. Gone or opt-in now.
• Deleted the Electron app. Shipping a stale Chromium to run a static page is a worse tradeoff than opening a browser.
• Fixed dead registry paths and stale commands across all three platforms.
• Added regression tests so a script that disables security-critical behavior fails CI.

One disclosure: I use AI assistance to write and research scripts, and review everything against vendor docs and the tests before merging. If you find a script that’s wrong, that’s the best bug report you can file and I’ll fix it fast.

Independent fork, AGPL-3.0 like the original, not affiliated with undergroundwires. The architecture and most of the script library are their work.

What I want most: eyes on the scripts. Feedback, and a star if you like it!

Code: github.com/Turtlecute33/Privacy.sexy-Revamped

OpenAI launches health bot a day after lawsuit says ChatGPT advice hospitalized a man

Freenet - Services Without Servers

OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

An intro to Go for non-Go developers

Bosch parts sheet demonstrates why EU Right to Repair is a meme

OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI

Open Source vs the Invisible Hand

Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled.

It was made by a sex bot company

While Realbotix focuses on robots for the classroom and home, the sibling company makes A.I.-powered sex dolls with names like Serenity and Harmony, marketed as the “world’s most advanced sex robot.”

Apple's App Store is on pace to add 1 million new apps this year, most are AI slop

I've been lurking on here for a while and if I may ask

Why has nobody been talking about the elephant in the room for people who know tech like us? I’m of course referring to the company persona, making everybody scan their face, and the fact they have ties to rick song and peter thiel. I’d be calling you a liar if you’re telling me it’s business as usual and that this bubble/honeypot of people’s permanent biometrics/data including kids data from roblox won’t pop. What’s even gonna be the aftermath? The black hats and human traffickers and doxers get thrown a bone and those responsible get away with it. I don’t know about you, but I find that pretty concerning. Anybody else been noticing that these users on roblox are trying to normalize it aswell? Just a thought.

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees