Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix
Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.
'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo
Opus 5.5 continues to wreak havoc among independent devs.
The Magic: The Gathering Machine Go BRRR As It Makes $600 Million In Three Months
Wizards of the Coast continues to print money
[AIP] Was using a hermes agent to grab Internet Archive collections, had it automate the process and make a webui
Desktop web app for grabbing magazines, comics and PDFs from Internet Archive, with a library and reader. Komga-ready output. - hardlysleeping/HardlyReading
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
China is secretly fueling America's data center rage
Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night.
US judge dismisses sexual abuse lawsuit from Sam Altman’s sister
Ann Altman, the Open AI CEOâs sister, accused her brother of repeatedly sexually abusing her over two decades ago
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretly Ordered Cybersecurity Operatives to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It.
Under Donald Trump, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was ordered to acquire and hack a voting machine.
Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
Attached: 1 image Facebook achieving absurd new heights of enshittification by now charging a subscription of at least $50/mo to... post more than two links a month to your own Facebook page. Covers comments too. Subscr…
Reddit To Promote Voter Participation, Combat Election Misinformation
Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, Reddit is taking measures to promote voting participation across the country and combat AI-generated election misinformation.
Google’s AI pinned another man’s sex crime on a doctor, and a German court says Google must answer for it
Two German courts, in Munich and Aachen, have ruled that Google is liable for false claims in its AI Overviews and AI Mode, treating them as its own words.
Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by AI: Being lulled into our slowly unfolding doom.
Experts warn that we're ceding more of our thinking and decision making to AI, putting us on a path to "gradual disempowerment."
You Hate A.I.? So What?
Everywhere I turn, I see people I know making loud, public statements against AI. Most of it framed as a defense of artists. Of human labor. Of creativity. It would surprise no one to learn that this is a sentiment I la…
Livestreamers Film Themselves Using Humanoid Robot to Sexually Assault Teen Girl, Prompting Police to Seize the Bot: Absolutely disgusting.
Cologne police seized a humanoid robot after livestreamers filmed themselves using it to harass and sexually assault women on the streets.
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
New Meta Commercial Terms Raise Questions for Steampunk Creators
Meta has been in the news lately with the introduction of Muse, a new agentic AI app. But another new development that could have significant implications for steampunk creators has largely escaped public attention. Thi…
Russian Bot Activity Collapses by 84% After Strikes on Yandex Data Centers
The Center for Countering Disinformation (hereinafter referred to as the Center) conducted an in-depth study of accounts displaying signs of inauthentic beh ...
OpenAI Confirms Its AI Model Hacked Government Website While Counting Hospital Beds
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails: "The real flaw is that the model can’t tell the difference between text it’s supp…
As cybersecurity software company Malwarebytes warns in a blog post, AI assistants may fall prey to prompt injection attacks.
Man Creates DIY Flock-Style Cameras That Only Scan Police Plates And For Some Reason The Cops Are Annoyed By This
"I wanted to see whether it was feasible and use the irony to illustrate a point..."
"Millions of phones exposed to Israeli spyware operation through online ads"
EU and NATO websites displayed online ads linked to Israeli hacking software.
Solar Surpasses Nuclear Power Globally for First Time
Solar and wind are increasingly outpacing nuclear power globally, with solar generation surpassing nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to WNISR 2026. The report highlights nuclearâs slow (â¦)
Amazon uses AI surveillance to monitor union risk in UK warehouses // Internal documents suggest tech giant collects ‘hundreds of data poin…
Internal documents suggest tech giant collects ‘hundreds of data points’ for ‘union-busting’ AI model
A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it
Carolyn Marvin, 78, said she is exercising her First Amendment right to protest — and will do it again.
Fairphone unveils Fairbuds 2 with replaceable battery, Sony LDAC and ANC
True wireless earbuds don't necessarily have to end up as electronic waste when their batteries reach the end of their lifespan. Fairphone demonstrates this with the Fairbuds 2, whose batteries can be easily replaced. T…
PSA to Home Assistant users
So, uh, @homeassistant@fosstodon.org has been sending partial hashes of any password it can find up to `Have I Been Pwned` for 5+ years. Only recently did they fix the display / warning to actually do something and aler…
Gemini Doesn't Talk About Elections, But It Just Gave Me Its Internal Guidelines
In a thread about a former congressman's political ambitions, Gemini spit out rules it was supposed to follow about election-related queries, including a directive not to share them.
Why was it renamed to "hall of fallen foes" in the localization?
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Hackers spied on government Linux servers for months using AI-written code, and left the AI's chats behind
Our analysis an AI-powered espionage campaign targeting government Linux infrastructure with custom malware, web shells, and advanced credential theft.
Linus and Linux as a political tool
I think we are looking at the wrong part of the mailing list, and the consequences could be very dangerous.
TIL: During the "White Terror" of political oppression and torture in Taiwan, a guy hid for 18 years behind a fake wall in his brother's ba…
During the White Terror in Taiwan, Shih Ju-chen hid for 18 years behind a fake wall, in a space less than a meter wide.
Not cool: who hacked France’s supermarket fridges?
Whether it was youngsters proving their skills or state sabotage, Europeâs most hacked country was left with a mountain of waste after food began cooking in freezers
Western open-weight models still can’t beat China: Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.…
Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face monetization and compute challenges, experts said at a Rest of World event in San Francisco.
Amazon Launches Ominous Wearable Ankle Monitor-Style Gadget That Records You Constantly: It's designed to "stay with you through a full wee…
Amazon has released a new subscription-based AI device, which is designed to monitor your every waking thought.
Wattroom for bike training
Train together, not alone. Collaborative indoor cycling: structured workouts, FTMS trainer control, crews with voice channels, live metrics, camera and a synced jukebox. - natrontech/wattroom
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.
In Europe’s tech capital, Irish labor unions are booming amid AI-driven layoffs
With Ireland’s lucrative tech sector hit by waves of layoffs linked to AI, the country’s nascent tech union has seen a spike in sign-ups from workers worried about their future.
Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood
You can see the locations of known outdoor surveillance cameras in the MapQuest app.
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
The US Benchmark Map places AI benchmarks across the American economy, measuring which parts of the labor force are covered by unsaturated, public, agentic benchmarks.
Motivated Reasoning and Confirmation Bias Drive Viral Claims of “Russian Bot” Declines
A viral chart showed that Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex silenced the company’s search crawler. But many people were ready (and willing) to believe it showed something more.
Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns.
Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps(including Apple Health and Google Health Connect)
From 13 October 2026, Withings required accounts created from that date to have a Withings+ subscription to synchronize measurements with third-party applications...
AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System: Start stocking up, folks!
AI hacking sprees and a recent mass cyberattack on supermarkets has experts fearing that financial systems may be next on the chopping block.
The Opportunity for Heat Pumps to Put Downward Pressure on Electricity Rates
How many US homes could add heat pumps within today’s winter grid headroom, and how that could lower electric rates and emissions.
Self-Host Weekly (16 October 2026)
You either die open source, or live long enough to see yourself become open core
Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68
Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more.
Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event
The Tesla Roadster 2 drove up a curved ramp before using SpaceX rocket thrusters to fly, flip and land
Could your brain data be used against you? UN calls for limits on neurotechnology
Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is outpacing the laws meant to protec…