DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
Article URL: [https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/ … ⌘ Read more

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who’s the Robot Now?
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences. ⌘ Read more

Pentagon releases second batch of UFO videos and documents
A mere two weeks after the first files dropped, the US government had released a second wave of secretive documents. For anyone with even a passing in… ⌘ Read more

The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more. ⌘ Read more

Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE. ⌘ Read more

Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
Plus: Instructure’s Canvas ransomware debacle comes to a close, an alleged dark net market kingpin gets arrested, OpenAI workers fall victim to a supply chain attack, and more. ⌘ Read more

TopResume Packages: Everything You Need to Get Hired
Discover ways to save at TopResume, including their free review service and 4-week Career Services Platform trial. ⌘ Read more

AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It
Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity. ⌘ Read more

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it’s like inside a company where “everyone is unhappy.” ⌘ Read more

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Got Its Drill Stuck on a Rock. Here’s How They Freed It
This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve. ⌘ Read more

28-year-old woman poses as 16-year-old at New York high school
A woman who was approaching 30 managed to spend two weeks attending classes at the school. While reliving our school days is sadly not an option for m… ⌘ Read more

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more. ⌘ Read more

Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more. ⌘ Read more

Why Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?
For the past week, a photo of me has been plastered on the CEO of Snap’s Wikipedia page. No one, not even Spiegel, seems to care. ⌘ Read more

This Treatment Could Reverse Osteoarthritis Joint Damage With a Single Injection
Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks. ⌘ Read more

Stop Trying to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto
On this week’s Big Interview podcast, actor-director Ben McKenzie talks about the rise of crypto, why he finds it dangerous, and why it benefits from having a mysterious creator. ⌘ Read more

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more. ⌘ Read more

Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the future of one of the world’s biggest companies. ⌘ Read more

Iconic pyramids at Teotihuacan become site of fatal mass shooting
The world-famous archaeological site was the scene of a shooting this week when an armed man opened fire on tourists. Situated approximately 40 miles … ⌘ Read more

FBI is now officially investigating spate of mysterious disappearances
The White House seems to have taken note of calls to look into any potential links between the cases. In recent weeks we’ve reported on a spate of mys… ⌘ Read more

Congress sets new deadline for release of 46 secretive UFO videos
Federal agency bosses have been handed a notice to release the videos within the next two weeks. According to reports, lawmakers in the US are pushing… ⌘ Read more

Mystery object seen over Mississippi turns out to be from Roswell
Aviation authorities have confirmed the identity of an object that was sighted high above the state last week. With all the talk of the US government … ⌘ Read more

When I’ve had a terrible week debugging and I leave early on Friday ⌘ Read more

Escaped capybara gives search teams the runaround in England
The evasive mammal managed to escape its handlers at Marwell Zoo last week and has been on the run ever since. An unexpected creature is currently on … ⌘ Read more

Woman spends 70 days counting out loud to reach 1,070,000
A woman from Nigeria has achieved a new Guinness World Record by counting out loud for several weeks straight. Imagine doing nothing at all with your … ⌘ Read more

When we come across a library that’s going to save us one to two weeks of dev ⌘ Read more

New vintage underway
As predicted, a late start for the 2026 Tasmanian wine grape vintage with harvest getting underway this week. ⌘ Read more

When a script saves me 2 hours of work per week and I never told anyone ⌘ Read more

When the sales rep comes to see me after their week of client meetings ⌘ Read more

When I read the summary of all the features I have to deliver next week ⌘ Read more

Insane show sees robots perform complex Kung Fu routine in China
A remarkable stage performance has this week highlighted just how far robots have come over the last few years. It wasn’t that long ago that a humanoi… ⌘ Read more

When the small script I started working on 2 weeks ago becomes a full-blown project ⌘ Read more

** Snakes snakes snakes, a week note **
I’ve been working on an ill advised project. This project will have to be done in many parts. Part one of many is done, and I’m debating if I should share it, or if I should wait to get the whole thing done. But now, a smash cut…I started this post off as a normal post, but now that it is an RSS sickos only post…

Check this shit out! I recently read about the $1 unistroke recognizer, and predictably, had to try to [implement my … ⌘ Read more

‘Impossible’ inside-out solar system discovered by astronomers
The discovery of a distant solar system with its planets in a seemingly impossible order has been revealed this week. The ordering of planets within a… ⌘ Read more

It was so great going to the sauna again, we were looking forward to that the whole week. :-) It’s been over a year, holy cow, time flies. We definitely have to pick up on that tradition again, that’s for sure.

We attended two Aufguss sessions, the first and last one in our four hour visit. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it to the other two, because the crazy people already occupied the entire sauna 15 minutes before the start. Yeah, no.

Now, the bellies are stuffed with kebabs. Yum! Let’s see how often I wake up tonight to rehydrate.

NASA provides major update on Artemis II manned Moon mission
The launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) had been tentatively scheduled for as soon as next week. Those hoping to see the first crew fly around the… ⌘ Read more

Out-of-control Chinese rocket almost causes UK national emergency
A rocket that had been plummeting to Earth had a chance of falling on the UK and Northern Europe this week. According to reports, the UK government ha… ⌘ Read more

I’ve got sore muscles. The sticky snow couldn’t be pushed, it had to be laborously cleared shovel by shovel. :-D

In my lunch break, I went on a short stroll. Oh boy, walking through deep damp snow is exhausting! There were sections with easily 30 centimeters and more. Some big wind drifts had piled up. Despite melting off quickly in the 4°C, especially turning the trees brown again, the white landscape still looks so nice. I’m glad these road marking sticks finally came in handy for the snow plow guys. :-) The black and orange stripes are 30 cm high.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-01-26/

That’s probably it. There’s no significant snowfall announced for the rest of the week and temperatures are supposed to stay in the 2-4°C range by day.

Indian family terrified as ‘curse’ sees home catch fire 15 times in a week
The unexplained and seemingly spontaneous fires allegedly began happening after a sage visited the house. A peculiar story out of India this month tel… ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I love that you set your alarm. :-D Lucky for my new teammates (or maybe not) I’m not gonna leave them. No week has passed where my old mates didn’t consult me, so I reckon I’m still a secret service agent in the old team. :-P

** trees; week notes **

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A photo in lieu of week notes. ⌘ Read more

Took me nearly all week (in my spare time), but Mu (µ) finally officially support linux/amd64 🥳 I completely refactored the native code backend and borrowed a lot of the structure from another project called wazero (the zero dependency Go WASM runtime/compiler). This is amazing stuff because now Mu (µ) runs in more places natively, as well as running everywhere Go runs via the bytecode VM interpreter 🤞

This week, Mu (µ) get s bit more serious and starts to refactor the native backend (a lot). Soon™ we will support darwin/arm64, linux/arm64 and linux/amd64 (Yes, other forms of BSD will come!) – Mu (µ) also last week grew concurrency support too! 🤣

Manned lunar mission on track to launch in less than four weeks
The first manned mission to orbit the Moon in decades is still on course to launch as early as February 6th. NASA has revealed that it is preparing to… ⌘ Read more

** being goblin **
In response to my most recent week notes, Adrian shared this lovely quote on goblins with me. It comes from my favorite game designer, Avery Alder,

being goblin is a way of flagging that you want to include people not in spite of their sloppiness and uneven emotional growth, but because of it — because goblins come as they are, and they grow in community with one another. Being goblin means being intergenerational in an un-pr … ⌘ Read more

Hey folks! We have recently had a wonderful new release of #py5, read about the new 3D trimesh integration feature and the matplotlib TextPath integration.
That release was quickly followed by a release to fix some small issues that surfaced this last week. Please check out py5 0.10.9a1 and join us at https://github.com/py5coding/py5generator/discussions to share your experiences!

#CreativeCoding #Processing #Python #genuary (sorry for the hashtag spamming, I couldn’t resist!)

I basically worked through the Christmas break last year. I already had my holidays in Vietnam a few weeks earlier. 😆

Ending three luxurious do-what-I-please weeks; tomorrow is back to work. What do you all do during your break (and this assumes you had one, even if short)? I mostly did nothing, which in itself was truly something! So much, I long to do it all over again. A man can dream, right? Haha!

** 2026.01 week notes **
Will I succeed in making week notes a weekly activity this year?

Only time will tell!

…also, I mean…I feel like the answer is already“no” and that is fine, but anyways.

• I don’t usually take the holidays off from work, it is a nice time to catch up on stuff while still being able to hang out with my family who are all off from school and work.
  
• I’ve moved where I work in the house so that it is easier for me to hang out with the dog who’s struggling to go up and down stairs, which is kinda problematic since … ⌘ Read more

Unexplained Mysteries top 10 bizarre stories of 2025
To round out our festive week of top lists, here are the most bizarre stories of the last 12 months… ⌘ Read more

When a teammate lists all last week’s incidents I now have to deal with ⌘ Read more

Six secretive US Air Force flights land at Area 51 within one week
Some important people have recently been stopping off at the enigmatic facility for reasons unknown. The flights, which took place as recently as Dece… ⌘ Read more

When I return to a project after several weeks ⌘ Read more

When a “quick” ticket ends up taking over the whole week ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de A crocodile had bitten the big submarine internet cable that connects Australia to Europe. The investigations revealed that some construction work last week accidentally tore up the protective layer around it. That went unnoticed, unfortunately, so marine life had an easy job today. For just 40 minutes, they were quite fast in repairing the damage if you ask me! These communication cables are fricking large.

Just kidding, I completely made that up. :-D I didn’t notice any outage either. But I didn’t try to connect to Down Under at the time span in question.

Trump lays out ambitious timetable for America’s return to the Moon
The first human to set foot on the lunar surface in more than five decades could do so sooner than you think. Last week, US President Donald Trump sig… ⌘ Read more

When the final build of the week passes perfectly right before I leave for vacation ⌘ Read more

Russia’s ‘Doomsday Radio’ broadcasts 15 more cryptic messages
The enigmatic station has been unusually active over the last week and nobody knows what that could mean. The mysterious shortwave radio station, whic… ⌘ Read more

When the week has just started and I find out the production release is postponed ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup did yjay some weeks ago 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Goes to show you just have a good nose for that. :^)

No doubt, I really do love them. Not only wonderful humans and like-minded, but also technically gifted. That made for a superb combination. I just hope the new team turns out to be equally great.

Bwahahahahaaahaaahaaahaaa, what a brilliant story! :‘-D I’ve been given at most ten weeks to return, let’s see. ;-)

@bender@twtxt.net That’s the best one of them. An almonds cake with hazelnut chocolate glaze. The one in front is similar, but with chocolate only. Gingerbread on the right. But it develops the best flavor and consistency only in a few weeks, right now it’s quite hard like a rock, but it will soften up.

All those years I always said that my teammates are THE VERY BEST I ever had. Fuck me, look at that, I didn’t leave the company, just changed projects and this is my farewell present:

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This emblem is the fleur-de-lis of the world scout movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement#WOSM_emblem I reckon I must have mentioned casually that I’m a scout. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Not for another two weeks i’m afraid 🤣

Let’s hope that the two cakes turn out better than last week:

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Thanks for the account! I figured out one thing at least so far, my WAF was blocking some of the AP requests. Fixed that. Anyway, holiday time 🤣 Back in ~2 weeks.

Sooooo looking forward to my holiday, after this week of work 🤯 16 day holiday in Vietnam! Whoohoo 🤟

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net I’ll also start spamming from my upcoming Vietnam holiday (flying out this Friday) for a couple of soliday weeks 🤣

Interviews! YouTube Silver Award Thingy! 50% Off Subs!
This was yet another fantastic week at The Lunduke Journal! ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Have we reached peak enshittification yet?

YouTube is completely broken for me for a week or more. The player doesn’t even load anymore. Trying to limit the search results to real videos doesn’t do shit, etc. It’s useless. But downloading the videos with yt-dlp still works like a dream.

@prologic@twtxt.net He’ll be probably back in a few days or weeks I reckon. It’s not the first time that his raspi (or what hardware does he use again?) is down. :-)

I’m building a service that lets you:

create and manage disposable, brandable email aliases so you can track leaks, forward important messages, and keep your real inbox clean.

I’ve just finishing building it for the most part, and have cut a v0.1.0 release. It’s currently closed source (to be decided later) and now open to beta testers. cc @bender@twtxt.net 🙏 I fully intend to monetize and offer this as a paid service in teh coming weeks/months, but beta/invite-only testers and early adopters/users first 🤟

sorry i haven’t been working on bbycll or even hanging around twtxt much at all as of late – gf was over for a few weeks, i turned twenty years old, and have been doing extremely unnecessary things to my website

** Autumnal week notes **
Someone I grew up with happened to go to the same college as me, and now we happen to live in the same relatively small city. We’ve been totally casual but pretty consistent mainstays of each others’ lives for going on 20 years at this point. She’s also one of the few people that I run into who knows that I can’t actually see well enough to reliably tell people apart from any further away than like 4 or 5 feet, and I always feel really appreciative whenever she waves that she also always says“hi” and who … ⌘ Read more

Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says ⌘ Read more

Zelenskyy: Russia has used over 3,270 drones and nearly 50 missiles against Ukraine this week ⌘ Read more

Rust Changes from “Master” to “Main”
Two weeks ago, The Lunduke Journal pointed out how many Leftist Open Source organizations (Rust, NixOS, Linux Kernel, etc.) still used the “Master” branch naming (against their “inclusive naming” rules). ⌘ Read more

When I run into a bug I thought I had fixed weeks ago ⌘ Read more

ProtoVault Breach Forensics Challenge Offsec CTF Week 1

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Maverick is back again with a fresh article this time I dug into ProtoVault Breach, the Week 1 forensics challenge from the Offsec CTF…

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](ht … ⌘ Read more

Israelis denied visas for World Championships
Israeli gymnasts, including defending world floor champion Artem Dolgopyat, cannot compete at next week’s World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Indonesia. ⌘ Read more

Israelis denied visas for World Championships
Israeli gymnasts, including defending world floor champion Artem Dolgopyat, cannot compete at next week’s World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Indonesia. ⌘ Read more

The controversy over the collapsed China spy case explained
The government is facing questions about why the case collapsed just weeks before a trial was due to go ahead. ⌘ Read more

What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!

Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. ⌘ Read more

It’s Sunday, and tomorrow I don’t have to work, as I have two weeks of vacation. The first time since May. My only breaks from work were when I hurt my hand and wasn’t able to type for a week, and two free days last week, but those also weren’t really relaxing for me. So I am very much looking forward to the next two weeks! I really feel the exhaustion from the last few months with work sometimes being stressful, the start of my fiancée’s teacher training, and some other topics. But this year again showed me that bi … ⌘ Read more

Strictly celebs starstruck as Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo soars into movie week
The Oscar nominee, who stars as Elphaba in the hit film, was Strictly’s first ever guest mentor. ⌘ Read more

Immigrants nationwide placed in solitary confinement for weeks, report says
Steph Solis ,  Staff Writer  -  msn | Axios

_Stephan: The United States is now running concentration camps. They don’t call them that, but as accurate information about their living conditions comes out, it is clear that is what they are. This is all part of the fascist coup, engineered by Trump, his vassals, the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court they have created toge … ⌘ Read more

Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs
Dozens of Chagossians have flown in to Heathrow Airport this week, putting pressure on housing services. ⌘ Read more

Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs
Dozens of Chagossians have flown in to Heathrow Airport this week, putting pressure on housing services. ⌘ Read more

What are you reading this week?
Perhaps we may try to revive this genre of sharing book titles in order to find something out of usual interests? Anything that you have in your reading or listening queue: tech, non-tech, pulp or snob.

I’m planning to reread again Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie (he has published couple (mediocre) albums on Spotify BTW). Also Mastery by Robert Greene.

In audiobooks Strange Things Happen by Stewart Copeland (The Police drummer and VGM composer) ⌘ Read more

Best Apple Deals of the Week: AirPods 4 for $89, AirTag for $64.99, and More Prime Day Sales Still Available
This week was Prime Big Deal Days, and although the event is officially over, we’re still tracking great leftover discounts on Amazon. This includes ongoing low prices on AirPods 4, MacBook Air, iPads, and more.

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Apple Hosts Unusual Colorado Event to Showcase Latest Hardware
Apple has invited a group of social media influencers to Colorado this week for an unusual event involving group hiking, trail running, and other outdoor activities designed to showcase the company’s recently launched iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.

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An invitation was [shared on X (Twitter)](https://x.com/JHawkShoots/statu … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Kernel Rust features; systemd v258, part 2; Cauldron kernel hackers; BPF for GNU tools; 6.18 merge window, part 1; Lifetime-end pointer zapping; Robot Operating System.

• Briefs: OpenSSH 10.1; Firefox profiles; Python 3.14; U-Boot v2025.10; FSF presidency; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security upda … ⌘ Read more

Gerrard set to hold talks over Rangers return
Rangers are poised to hold talks this week with Steven Gerrard over their managerial vacancy. ⌘ Read more

‘She hasn’t been feeling her best’: Dolly Parton’s sister asks fans for prayers
The message comes a week after the 79-year-old musician postponed gigs due to health issues. ⌘ Read more

Leading doctor’s 11th-hour bid for $2m rescue of Hobart Clinic
The former clinical director of the Hobart Clinic, psychiatrist Dr Hannah Lake, is part of a last-minute push for the institution to be given a reprieve before it closes its doors at the end of next week. ⌘ Read more

Dolly Parton’s sister asks fans to pray for country singer
The message comes a week after the 79-year-old musician postponed gigs due to health issues. ⌘ Read more

Optus email mishap left department in dark about triple-0 outage
The telco operator sent two emails about its outage, which understated its extent, to a departmental email address that had been changed a week earlier. ⌘ Read more

Dolly Parton’s sister speaks out over singer’s health concerns
Dolly Parton’s sister has asked fans to pray for the country music singer’s health just one week after the star delayed several concerts in Las Vegas. ⌘ Read more

Dazzling supermoon illuminates skylines around the world
From Paris to Taipei, this week’s supermoon, also known as the Harvest and Hunter’s moons, was captured in photos. ⌘ Read more

Bibbulmun Track record broken twice in one week
Two men have smashed the record for running one of the world’s longest walking tracks within days of each other. ⌘ Read more

Soaring rents pushing people away from jobs, community, review finds
Median rental prices have risen to more than $700 per week for the first time, according to Cotality’s Quarterly Rental Review. ⌘ Read more