Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
VSeeBox: reverse engineered
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Week of action planned against license plate readers
People in 460 cities will be participating in the week of action.
Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams c…
This treasure trove of data came at a relatively affordable $10 million.
Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite list…
A third-party seller may be to blame
LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada
Large Language Models display an uncanny ability to construct human-sounding speech, and can synthesize concepts in novel ways. Is this because they are truly thinking like human beings in some way, or have they found a…
Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs
DDR5-6000 with CL 28 or 30 sounds about right to me.
Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely mak…
Over 8,000 paid games analyzed never received a single Steam review
Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.
If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits
Zen IdP, A tiny, declarative OIDC provider in Go (YAML-based, zero external DB required)
Declarative, zero-maintenance OIDC Identity Provider - varavelio/zen-idp
Fired Rockstar devs don’t want you to boycott GTA 6 but ask for support - Dexerto
Former Rockstar Games developers are urging Grand Theft Auto 6 not to boycott GTA 6, but to also support them as well.
How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Why is the military and a cheese fortune teller contacting me about SondeHub.org
Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M
The information will be used to refine the company's artificial intelligence systems.
Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excite…
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
September is Wikipedia's labor organizing edit-a-thon in solidarity with the Wikimedia tech workers union (WWU)
From 1–30 September 2026, a month long online community editing event dedicated to all topics covered under WikiProject Organized Labour including strike actions, trade unions, labor law, union busting etc..
Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds
Researchers evaluated 21 language models, such as GPT and Gemini, and found that they all alter their discourse to align with the user’s bias, potentially functioning as echo chambers.
The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup …
Manga, light novels, manhwa, and more have vanished
Building Cocoon: An Interview with the Development Team
The developers behind Cocoon talk about the project's origins, its distinctive design and sound, the challenges of building for dual-screen handhelds, and where the project goes after its Metamorphosis.
The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank
ECB researchers warn AI stocks face a likely correction, putting pension and index fund holders at risk — regardless of whether AI succeeds.
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees: while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest.
Many employers worry remote workers feel disconnected. A new study found they reported higher well-being and were no more likely to feel isolated than their
Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable
Sony's DRM and EAC are slowing down Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC! Cracked version runs faster when they're taken out. #MarvelTōkonFightingSouls #marveltokon #marvel #fightinggames
'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and or…
Tripwire sees preservation as a responsibility.
Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for 'anti-consumerism' and make a 'concrete commitment…
A manifesto threatens to target not just the GTA 6 makers, but everyone who violates Cyberleek's "three commandments."
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
YouTube is making a major change to how long-form video views are counted
YouTube is changing how it counts public views on long-form videos, with a view soon being registered as soon as a video begins playing.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans | TechCrunch
"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on a support page.
The Amazon tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…
GTA 6 gameplay and map leaked ahead of Netflix Extended Look - Dexerto
Leaked GTA 6 gameplay showing Jason playing basketball, driving, and fighting has appeared online alongside new images revealing the game’s map.
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
llms.txt: What the 2026 Data Actually Shows
Adoption sits around 10% of domains, major AI crawlers rarely fetch it, and Google has said it won't support it. Here's why it's still worth twenty minutes — and what it isn't.
TIL 11/14 current feeder judges (those whose clerks most frequently go on to SCOTUS clerkships) were Republican appointees
In the United States, feeder judges are prominent judges in the American federal judiciary whose law clerks are frequently selected to become law clerks for the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.[1] Feeder judges are a…
Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound
EPFL engineers have designed acoustic cavities that convert sound waves into thrust, propelling small robots and ultralight aerial vehicles without on-board actuators or electronics.
How weaving helped invent modern computing - and is shaping its future
Weaving is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, but its patterns helped inspire early computing. Today, textile makers are using conductive yarns and digital looms to invent new kinds of technology.
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why you’re getting emails about “Your Beauty and Electronics items”
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres.…
Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
Aaron Rodgers Reportedly Funded NJ Police Surveillance Cameras
Aaron Rodgers allegedly funded $37,000 in license plate reader cameras for NJ police while publicly criticizing drone surveillance over his own property.
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
Fairphone 6+ is now official and coming to the US
Here are the upgrades compared to the Fairphone 6 and how much the new phone costs. Fairphone has today announced its latest smartphone, the Fairphone 6+....
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts s…
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
GPU and RAM prices have both risen ~19% across the EU over the past 1-2 months, verified with fixed-basket price tracking
EU-wide +19.2% over 30 days on a 176-model fixed basket. Germany +19.6%, France +18.1%. Data + methodology.
i built a price tracker for EU PC hardware because I was tired of overpaying
Track GPU, CPU, RAM and SSD prices across 27 European stores. Updated every 6 hours.