Social Media Platforms Are Training Their AI Models on Your Content, but You Can Stop Them (Sometimes)

August 18th, 2026 09:30 PM

Recently, the Amazon-owned Twitch made headlines for announcing that it would allow users to opt out of having their streams, VODs, and chats fed into an AI training machine. This, understandably, made a lot of people upset. But, it turns out, Twitch might be one of the more moderate social media sites on this front. Most social media apps are training some kind of AI on your data, and few make it as easy as a single toggle to opt out at all. Almost every social media site out there makes it...

Bethesda Finally Fixes Fallout 4's Virtual Keyboard Crash On Steam Deck

August 18th, 2026 05:43 PM

A new patch for Fallout 4 finally fixes the virtual keyboard crash that plagued Steam Deck users.

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

August 14th, 2026 11:24 AM

It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities...

REST API returns 400 for non-numeric IDs on integer path parameters

August 20th, 2026 12:00 AM

Several REST API endpoints previously accepted non-numeric or multi-value input on integer-typed path parameters without validating it up front. Instead of a clear error, these requests returned inconsistent responses (401 Unauthorized, 404 Not Found, or in rare latent-bug cases 200 OK). They now validate the parameter type and return 400 Bad Request. To migrate, send a single numeric ID with each request. Legitimate clients already do this, so no action is required for well-formed requests....

China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips

August 19th, 2026 07:11 AM

ByteDance and Tencent have received 10,000 H200 chips each, the Financial Times says, and other Chinese companies could follow.

1860s Connecticut farmhouse gets beautifully restored to its former glory

August 19th, 2026 07:05 AM

This 1860s farmhouse was envisioned by Chused & Co. for a young couple embarking on family life in Weston, Connecticut, emphasizing playfulness, vibrant colors, and the versatility to host guests. The design process was rooted in the joy of incorporating patterns and colors, resulting in truly vibrant spaces. The irregularly shaped rooms from the original […] The post 1860s Connecticut farmhouse gets beautifully restored to its former glory appeared first on One Kindesign.

Mix and match your Ork bits in the new Boyz kit

August 18th, 2026 12:00 AM

Make all of your Painboy dreams come true with a look at how the new miniatures work.

Evening Reading - August 18, 2026

August 19th, 2026 10:30 AM

It's nighttime in America, which means time for another edition of Evening Reading.

Agents on Rails, query method and more

August 14th, 2026 09:18 AM

Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s explore this week’s news in the Rails.Agents on RailsRead the announcement and the first benchmark report.Add support for the HTTP QUERY methodQUERY is a safe and idempotent HTTP method that conveys the query in the request content, making it suitable for queries too large or structured for a URL query string:# config/routes.rb query "search", to: "search#index" match "filter", to: "search#filter", via: :query # request handling request.query? # => true...