FRIENDSTER IS BACK, ARE WE FEELING OLD YET?

The legendary social networking platform Friendster, launched back in 2003 has returned from its almost a decade long 'hiatus' after its shutdown in 2018 to bring the service to a brand new and younger audience, as well as those who have spent years of their lives on the platform.

Friendster now flaunts itself as a 'slow moving' social media service focused on creating deep connections over algorithm driven contents on every scroll made. It is currently available only on iOS, with no announcement for Android or anywhere else yet.

With it's biggest change yet, Friendster emphasizes real-world connections, which means that the people on your friend list are people you've actually met in person, and have added by physically touching your phones together.

#AllYouNeedtoKnow

🔗 Friendster, Written by Sunstar
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Your PS5 can now become a Linux Gaming PC

ps5-linux exploits a patched hypervisor vulnerability to convert PS5 Phat to a Linux PC with HDMI 4K60 video and audio output. It includes M.2 SSD support and working USB ports.

Supported firmwares:
- 3.00, 3.10, 3.20, 3.21, without M.2 support
- 4.00, 4.02, 4.03, 4.50, 4.51 with M.2 support
- More versions later

This is a soft-mod and the internal SSD isn't modified, so you need to re-run the exploit in order to boot into Linux. Standby, resume and built-in bluetooth isn't supported.

🔗 GitHub
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15-year-old arrested in France over ANTS breach

A 15 year old minor (name/gender not revealed) has been arrested for the ANTS data breach, who claimed to have stolen over 19 million records in the post with the alias "breach3d".

The 15 year old faces two computer crime allegations linked to an intrusion in which between 12 million and 18 million lines of data were offered for sale on cybercrime forums. Each offense carries up to 7 years imprisonment and a maximum €300,000 fine.

Note: Image translated with Google Translate

🔗 PDF
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After almost 3 years, CannyBot is alive and running again!

Deployed @thecannybot once again, dropped some commands, and /8ball now responds with random stickers. Added a /dl command to download media with yt-dlp. More commands and other updates coming soon!

In the meantime, suggest ideas for commands or features for CannyBot

Add it in your group or try it out in ours: @agamtechtrickschat

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Spotify Rolls Out 'Verified by Spotify' Badge for Human Artists

The 'Verified by Spotify' badge with a green tick is for artists who have steady listener activity, follow platform rules, and display clear signals of a real artist such as tour dates, merch, or linked social accounts. Profiles that primarily represent AI-generated acts or AI personas are not eligible.

The badges will appear on artist profiles and in search over the coming weeks. More than 99% of artists that listeners actively search for will be verified at launch.

🔗 Spotify Newsroom
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Google Gemini may get ads soon

Google's chief business officer, who spoke on the Q1 earnings call, said that Google was "open" to the idea of including ads in Gemini. However, this is not a confirmation that ads will come.

Let’s also be clear, ads have always been a big part of scaling products to reach billions of people. And if done well, ads can be really valuable and really helpful commercial information, and at the right moment we’ll share any plans as we have said, but we’re not rushing anything here.

🔗 AndroidAuthority
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Google refuses to aid thousands of bricked Pixels

Thousands of Google Pixel users are reporting that some software updates, including custom ROMs, have bricked their devices, leaving them stuck in endless bootloops or completely dead. Despite the growing number of complaints on the official Issue Tracker, impacted owners claim that Google didn't provide a definitive patch, rendering many phones completely unusable.

As more customers find themselves in a support limbo, the frustration is growing. Those with devices out of warranty are being directed to paid repair services, even though the problem was triggered by a mandatory system update. Accusations of carelessness have been triggered by this alleged failure to provide free repairs or an instant software patch.

While Google has acknowledged it is investigating the issue, a universal solution still remains unavailable.

🔗 Issue Tracker | X
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A YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7GB and freezes tabs

Users using Firefox, Brave, Edge and more have reported video stuttering, unresponsive tabs and YouTube pages consuming 7GB RAM.

The bug was caused by a layout loop in the interface below the video player, where buttons like 'Like' and 'Share' are located. When the screen lacks space, a button hides, altering the container's width. This triggers the system to think there's space again, causing the button to reappear. This causes an endless layout recalculation loop.

YouTube has released a mitigation so this issue should be fixed now.

🔗 Bugzilla
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Your Phone Number can easily be leaked on Telegram due to this default setting

If you hide your number from your Telegram profile, it can still be obtained. You may ask, how? This is because of how Contact Discovery works on any messaging app (including WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc.).

If I save a random number on my phone that turns out to be yours, Telegram will automatically link the number to your profile. This is exploited by attackers, by saving thousands of numbers in the phone's contacts (with a .vcf file for a lot of numbers), and then syncing them in Telegram. If the contacts list contains your number, it'll be linked to your profile, and will be exposed.

This is how some people's numbers get leaked on Telegram as this option is set to "Everybody" by default.

If you want to prevent this, change "Who can find me by my number" to "My Contacts" in Privacy settings. This way, your number won't be linked to your profile as long as you don't have the attacker's number saved.

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Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit, alleging Apple advertised that Apple Intelligence features would be available with the launch of the iPhone 16, but offered a significantly limited or entirely absent version of Apple Intelligence.

Those who bought an iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro between June 10th, 2024 and March 29th, 2025 in the US will be able to submit a claim and receive $25, which may decrease or increase up to $95 per device, depending on claim volume and other factors.

🔗 Clarkson
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model without consent

Google Chrome downloads a 4 GB on-device AI model file called weights.bin in the OptGuideOnDeviceModel folder without any consent or setting. This is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. If the file is deleted, Chrome will re-download it.

This download triggers when Chrome's AI features are active, even if you're not "using" any AI feature. The AI features are turned on by default in newer Chrome versions.

🔗 That Privacy Guy!
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OpenAl accelerates Al phone for 2027 production

OpenAl is fast-tracking development of its first Al agent phone and aims to begin mass production in the first half of 2027.

Specifications:
- Customized Dimensity 9600 built on TSMC's N2P process in the second half of 2026
- Dual-NPU (for AI Compute)
- LPDDR6 + UFS 5.0
- Image Signal Processor with an enhanced HDR pipeline for real-world visual sensing
- pKVM and inline hashing for security.

If development stays on track, shipments could reach ~30 million units in 2027 and 2028.

🔗 Ming-Chi Kuo
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