Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in 'AI' Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
What if Reddit and Piefed had a baby?
Join Zyke, an open discussion forum where communities share ideas, debate trends and explore internet culture. Create posts, vote and discover what matters.
Meta responds after Muse AI gave stranger YouTuber’s home address on Facebook Marketplace
Meta has responded after a YouTuber said its Muse AI assistant shared his home address with strangers on Facebook Marketplace.
Pentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel — stolen info includes Social …
Breach could put those in sensitive national security roles at risk
Hands-On with Retroid Pocket Duo Lite; Not Quite Magic, But Close
Retroid gets the feel of two-screen gaming right, even if the hardware occasionally reminds you where the compromises were made.
Period tracking apps are creating more harms than benefits: Apps pose risks to health as well as privacy and require greater scrutiny
Apps pose risks to health as well as privacy and require greater scrutiny Digital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit and requires greater scrutiny, warn experts in The BMJ today. Widely promoted to…
For the first time, researchers have identified and named the key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual …
For the first time, researchers have identified and named the key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual imagery online.
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
Reddit imposes new restrictions on Old Reddit - Engadget
The Old Reddit is dying; the new Reddit struggles to avoid scraping.
British workers spend nearly £1bn of their own money on GenAI for work, research finds
British workers are spending close to £1 billion a year from their own pockets on generative AI (GenAI) tools they use for work, according to major new research from Deloitte UK.
Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
A spokesman for the Alaska Department of Public Safety said this is the first time he has seen AI be the cause of a hunting violation.
Upcoming Changes to the Discounts & Events Section on Steam
Improvements coming in early 2027
Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years
Dungeons 2 deep dive, a brand-new dimension, and a Switch 2 launch. Here is everything Mojang just dropped at Minecraft Live.
Mexican lawmakers join the global fight for digital games ownership with a new consumer rights initiative
President of the Mexican Senate’s Digital Rights Commission Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas has revealed a new initiative focused on digital video games.
TIL witches were hanged in the U.S. and England., but burned in Scotland.
Same king, same accusation, two completely different deaths.
TortOS Wants to Make Your TrimUI Brick Feel Like a Collection Again
Geekstrada on building a fast, focused custom firmware, rediscovering Cover Flow, and giving music a proper home on the TrimUI Brick
EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
For the 100th time: it's going to keep getting worse. AMD's Q4 price hike hasn't even landed yet. Buy your graphics card NOW.
3 months of daily price tracking across 27 EU retailers. NVIDIA +41.3%, AMD +28.3% — and AMD’s reported 10% Q4 hike hasn’t started rolling out yet.
Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
Eats Intel's entry Panther Lake CPUs for breakfast too.
King signs collective bargaining agreement with Swedish unions
'This is an important step for King, the gaming industry and for the Swedish model.'
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents
New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in pen…
The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
[AIP] PiMaps: offline-first, self-hosted maps with local search, routing and optional Kiwix (off-line Wikipedia) integration
Offline-first, self-hosted maps with local search, routing and optional Kiwix (off-line Wikipedia) integration. - BobbyLLM/pimaps
Companies Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds: One-quarter of companies and a third of data broker…
One-quarter of companies and a third of data brokers failed to fulfill personal data requests under state privacy laws.
Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get throu…
Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
Household data can convict, exonerate or mislead. That makes digital forensics indispensable and demands careful guardrails
Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights
The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, itâs looked back on with misty-eyed reverence
Badges, Not Just Bans: The White House Press Ban Just Got Physical
The White House confiscated MS NOW press badges and blocked entry after Trump banned the network, CNN, and Politico. Here's how outlets across the spectrum
Startup Claims Ocean Uranium Could Power Earth for 50,000 Years
Ocean uranium extraction startup Fluxnium raised $7M to commercialize DOE fiber technology, but costs still exceed market rates by more than 2x.
Newsom Orders California to Explore AI ‘Kill Switch’ and New Safety Rules
Official website of the State of California
Australia claims it is a global pioneer in preventing online harm – should other countries follow suit?
As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller country
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threa…
The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.
Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science.
Quality Software
We lost something over the last 10 years. Cloud solves some of the problems, but heavy usage of cloud creates so much more problems that it solves it. And the cost of the Cloud with the DevOps in it can be saved with sm…
Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent …
Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear
AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.
JPMorgan rolls out Claude changes: $2,000 spending limits and extra security
Internal Teams messages show that some engineers at the bank who use Claude have monthly spending limits.
Labor Market Outcomes for AI-Exposed College Majors: Graduating in AI Era Is Like Large Recession for Starting Pay
The most AI-exposed new college grads have initial employment declines of 5pp and earnings declines of 13%, partially driven by shifts to lower-paying sectors.
Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent t…
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026
Despite the harsh criticism, Sony's new Wolverine game may have sold tremendously well, achieving nearly 2 million sales in just a few days' time.
Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley
This is a blog post version of the talk I delivered at Software Should Work 2026. Shoutouts to Isaac Van Doren for running such a delightful conference and nailing it first try, and for infecting us all with his charmin…
How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture
You can just prove things, apparently.
Most of France’s "Competing" PC Hardware Retailers Are the Same Company
LDLC Group owns LDLC.com, Materiel.net, TopAchat and Rue du Commerce. What that means for French GPU prices, measured against Germany over 6 months.
TotalEnergies partners with Mistral to develop AI models for oil and gas exploitation
Three-year contract worth an estimated €100 million
Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you…
There are some questionable stages in the mutant maelstrom
Tens of millions of Russians have been forced to install a new app called Max on their phones
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to âbackdoorâ on their device
Who gets the kidney? AI chatbots do not make the same moral choices humans do
Researchers in the College of Information Sciences and Technology found that AI models approach high-stakes ethical decisions differently than humans do and show little of the uncertainty people may express when faced w…