Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards
A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Social media platforms to be blocked from offering services to under-16s, marking a line in the sand and setting a new normal for future generations.
BYD Secretly Develops Humanoid Robot Codename 'Yao-Shun-Yu' as Auto Giants Race Into Embodied AI
BYD Secretly Develops Humanoid Robot Codename 'Yao-Shun-Yu' as Auto Giants Race Into Embodied AI BYD, China's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, has confirmed it is secretly developing humanoid robots under a projec…
UK: Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
A 13-year-old pupil from Manchester says "it's time" for something to be done, while another says he's "annoyed and disappointed".
Three Inverse Laws of AI - Susam Pal
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot services have become increasingly sophisticated and popular. These systems are now embedded in search engines, software devel…
Zuckerberg says Meta made 'mistakes' in AI workforce shift
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the social media giant has made mistakes in its AI transformation of its workforce, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. Zuckerberg is pumping hundreds of bil…
'He was always in the right spot': How Brazil is betting on 'smart vests' in its bid for World Cup glory
Player tracking technology has helped the Brazilian football team gather years of data on its stars in the run up to the 2026 World Cup.
Dell SEC Filing Signals Fresh Round of Workforce Reductions
Dell Technologies Inc. has fueled intensive market speculation regarding a fresh wave of impending job cuts.
Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says
A Washington driver's Tesla literally made an entrance by swerving into someone's garage door and smashing it completely open. Of course, because Tesla's autonomous driving software has a reputation for making dumb erro…
AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget
A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost as much as $14,000 in API pricing.
Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’
The whistleblower who exposed social media’s dangers to teenagers says the next major legal battle will be against the AI friends that minors interact with
Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
China didn’t make Americans hate data centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say itâs much more complicated than that.
Apple's Craig Federighi: Siri Won't Be Your AI Girlfriend
Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi and marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat down for an interview with Mostly Human after during WWDC, discussing the iOS 27 Siri changes, Apple's take on AI, new child safety p…
Anthropic to disable Fable 5, Mythos 5 after US export-control order
Anthropic's latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, will be disabled due to US export controls that cited national security risks.
NYC Amazon Driver Fired Over Pro-Union TikToks
An Amazon driver from Queens posted frequent TikToks documenting her life on the job without incident — until she started speaking up in favor of a City Council bill that Amazon opposes.
US’ first vertically integrated solar factory starts production to power 1.3M homes
Qcells begins solar cell production in Georgia at the US' only fully integrated solar manufacturing facility.
0807: a self-hosted file host with self-destructing links. Open source, Tor, no logs
No account, no ads. Files disappear whenever you choose.
Nintendo reportedly has “zero chance” against current Palworld after major lawsuit change it is now targeting older versions of the game in…
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have reportedly narrowed their Palworld lawsuit to older versions of the game.
White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access
Trump adviser David Sacks said restrictions aren’t connected to prior conflicts with AI company.
Watch Your Kids: Inside a Children's Smartwatch
Join us as we hack at a popular children's smartwatch and expose the secrets of every fifth child in Norway, their parents, and millions ...
X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf
(Creating) Data that is too dirty for "AI"
when datasets are scaled up to the volume of (partial) internet, together with the idea that scale will average out the noise, large dat...
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Sh*t’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Metaâs chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
Opensource AI Must Win
Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.
Class of AI Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled
According to a statement posted to its website on Friday, Anthropic was forced to “abruptly disable” two of its most prized frontier AI models in response to a highly restrictive U.S. government order. “We believe this …
The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months
Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart
Nintendo's patent lawsuit against Palworld gets a preliminary end date, as well as some changes suggesting it's falling apart.
AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch
Quis renovatores renovat — who updates the updater?
Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women
The DOJ says the domains were used to publish digitally forged nude and sexual images and videos of women without their consent. According to the Justice Department,...
Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of 25-Year Sentence
An appeals court rejected former billionaire and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s claim that his trial was unfair.
Washington Post subscriber sues news outlet, accuses it of using ‘surveillance pricing’ to gouge readers
Court papers allege that The Post began ‘covertly harvesting’ readers’ data from after Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for it in 2013
WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.
Stanford scientists regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in major breakthrough
A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for …
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
AWS shares the small number, as anti-data center protests focus on water usage
Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse)
Why can’t you repair a 2024 car like a 1998 Honda? Explore the rise of software-defined vehicles, proprietary tools, sensor calibration requirements, and the...
Why Students Are Rejecting Silicon Valley's Vision Of The Future
Students are increasingly pushing back on Silicon Valley's AI agenda, raising concerns about jobs, human agency, and the future of work.
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses | The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues …
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware
DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body
Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term changes to your genome.
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.
Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outage
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How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.co…
There's still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit br…
Please don't mess with links: (Maurycy's blog)
A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right?
AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw
The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher MrBruh after an AMD updater console window kept appearing on his new gaming PC.