t3jfel

damn the rabbit hole is deep

[t3jfel @t3jfel]

https://t.co/SoXBUxJUWM

[t3jfel @t3jfel]

#letsdefend I have gained new badge on @LetsDefendIO https://t.co/HV8QTelanK

[CS2 @CounterStrike]

The best players in the world.
The best crowds in the world.
The best talent in the world.
The best events in the world.
The best game in the world.

Thank you all for making Counter-Strike so special.

[CS2 @CounterStrike]

Counter-Strike turns 27 today, and we’re celebrating by watching the best in the world play at the Cathedral of Counter-Strike.

Thank you for playing and thank you for watching. Thank you for your frag movies, nade lineups, silly game modes and videos, jokes, quips, Counter-Strike lore, inside jokes only a CS player would understand, and for your feedback; all of it.

Most importantly, thank you for your passion for the game. It’s all of you who make Counter-Strike your favorite first person shooter’s favorite first person shooter.

Happy birthday, Counter-Strike. 🎉

[t3jfel @t3jfel]

@msftsecresponse A post saying, "Sorry, we were in the wrong" would worth much more than this essay.

[Mutahar @OrdinaryGamers]

I can’t wait for this ai hell to get corrected and pc part prices to drop

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

Discovering Linux was like finally unlocking the holy trinity of tech: freedom, privacy, and absolute customization. 🔐🐧

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI usage recently.

In his latest kernel update, Linus Torvalds revealed that the Linux kernel's private security mailing list has become "almost entirely unmanageable"

Why?

Because it is flooded with duplicate bug reports from people running the same AI tools on the same code.

Same bugs. Same day. No fixes. Just endless "pointless churn" for the volunteers keeping your Linux systems secure.

He is blunt (as always):

“AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain.”

This isn't anti-AI, it's anti-slop. Real open source work still needs humans who understand what they're reporting.

What do you think?

Is AI helping or hurting open source right now?

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

Bill C-22 empowers the government to order VPN providers in Canada to retain metadata for up to a year.

The EU's highest court has struck down this type of mass data retention legislation twice already, suggesting it won't stand up to scrutiny:

1. https://t.co/64ploFpFN3
2. https://t.co/AofRiNsiW9

We're going to reiterate this one more time: there is no universe in which Proton VPN compromises its no-logs policy.

[Mutahar @OrdinaryGamers]

Fucking hell

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Big shout-out to the homies at Microsoft for accidentally publishing Forza Horizon 6 on Steam early

Microsoft corrected the issue but it was too late. Stinky internet nerds yanked it and now it's all over piracy sites

Very cool, Microsoft.

[t3jfel @t3jfel]

When will we learn from data breaches? Storing confidental data with no basic security in place instructure....

[Svenja Hahn MdEP @svenja_hahn]

❌ Just NO!

VPNs are a core element of digital citizen’s rights & a free society. Prohibiting VPNs under the guise of children’s rights is not acceptable.

As MEP I will continue to fight for digital privacy rights & against prohibiting VPNs.

[Valve @valvesoftware]

It's here! Steam Controller has officially arrived. Made for you to play all your games on Steam, however you like to play them.

Buy now on @Steam. https://t.co/rRiQFxLKxA

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Let's fight this invasion of #privacy like we fought #ChatControl 💪

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.

The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions

Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs

Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.

The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.

Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.

Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.

Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.

Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.

Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.

In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.

The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.

After that, the door does not close again.

Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

[Pavel Durov @durov]

41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026.

Why?

🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks.

Now the state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users.

More data = More victims.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️🇫🇷 Following the French government's ban on Windows and its replacement with Linux, French activists are now saying goodbye to Windows 10 and actively encouraging people to embrace freedom and use Linux instead of paying for an upgrade to Windows 11, citing privacy concerns.

[Rooster @TheRooster]

This game is 15 years old.

> No ray-tracing
> No AI upscaling
> No frame-gen
> Takes only 20gb
> Developed in just 3 yrs

GTX 580 ran BF3 on Ultra with 1.5gb VRAM

Now you drop $1200 on a GPU and can barely hold 60 FPS in modern games without DLSS

Why did we go backwards?