Since the summary doesn’t say which three popular password managers:

As one of the most popular alternatives to Apple and Google’s own password managers, which together dominate the market, the researchers found Bitwarden was most susceptible to attacks, with 12 working against the open-source product. Seven distinct attacks worked against LastPass, and six succeeded in Dashlane.

Benj Edwards handles most of their AI coverage. I wouldn’t take his use of AI as a sign of what the rest of the staff is doing.

Benj Edwards, the author responsible, has posted his side.

Ars Technica has published a retraction

edit: Benj Edwards, the author responsible, has posted his side. tl;dr: He was sick and he messed up, and he asked for the article to be pulled because he was too sick to fix it right away.

The Palantir connection isn’t the only bad bit here:

Sure enough, Discord’s support article describing its age verification process now features a disclaimer informing UK users that they “may be part of an experiment where your information will be processed by an age-assurance vendor, Persona.” And while Discord had previously insisted that facial age verification recordings would only be stored and processed locally, the notice about Persona says that “the information you submit will be temporarily stored for up to 7 days, then deleted.”

They tried so hard to convince people the verification would be safe, and they’re already experimenting with making it less safe.

Benj and Kyle were the authors of the article; Dan’s name wasn’t on it.

I expect that not only will the current FCC decline to do anything about this, the complaint may have given Trump a new business idea.

However, the only reason I can see for using it over Fedora Silverblue is that Origami ships with a well-configured, ready-to-use COSMIC Desktop out of the box, rather than GNOME.

The author doesn’t seem to be aware of Fedora COSMIC Atomic. That seems like a better reference point.

However, Epic Game Store only actually exists on Windows, and it’s on iOS in the EU.

Your information seems to be outdated. On the EGS download page I get an “Install on Windows” link with text below it “Also available on Mac OS, Android, iPhone (EU only) and iPad (EU only).”

The git repo has a server installation guide.

$24.95/yr seems high. Are you looking at a specialty TLD? I paid around 10 USD/yr for a .com with Cloudflare, and 12 CAD/yr for a .ca with Canspace.

About that: Metroid Prime Producer Reportedly Leaving Nintendo After 40 Years, Unsure if There Will Be Another Game to Wrap Up Sylux’s Story

Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?

Canada’s GameStop stores went back to being EB Games last year after GameStop sold them.

Now, third-party games can offer premium in-game items and effects, with developers pocketing 37% of the proceeds — temporarily doubled to 74% for 12 months.

Epic, the company that has been fighting Apple over app store commissions, intends to leave developers who create games inside Fortnite with just 37% of the money they bring in.

This bit from the IGN report linked in the article highlights the bullshit of microtransaction pricing:

Steal the Brainrot’s 4,900 V-Buck “Present Rot” bundle has also come under fire — not only for its price, but for it being advertised as a limited-time discount on its usual 5,400 V-Buck cost. One of the constraints Epic Games has placed on third-party microtransactions is a 5,000 V-Buck upper limit for any individual item — meaning this item’s saving is discounted from a price that couldn’t actually be sold.

It’s too hard to tell real CSAM from AI-generated CSAM. Safest to treat it all as CSAM.

Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.

Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.

This is a followup to their Screw it, I’m installing Linux article in November.

Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. None of that has anything to do with Linux, mind you. It just meant I didn’t install it on my desktop until Sunday evening.

Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?

Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on “certified” Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google.

The requirement is that developers submit their own personal identity details to Google, not users’ personal identity details. It’s explained on the linked site:

In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

Paying a fee to Google
Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
Providing government identification
Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
Listing all current and future application identifiers