Electric cars saved oil-importing countries $20 Billion in crude oil imports in the 6 months since the US-Israel war with Iran began
Electric car fleets have saved oil-importing countries $20bn since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, according to new data released by Ember.
Investigation reported more than 300 climate misinformation videos to YouTube and TikTok. Neither of them care to remove them
A joint investigation by Science Feedback and Fundación Maldita.es reported more than 300 climate misinformation videos in French and Spanish. YouTube never answered, and TikTok restricted only a small minority of them …
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
Banks including JPMorgan and MUFG are shopping AI data center debt tied to Oracle as credit default swaps spike and bond order books thin out.
We Told TikTok About 100 Accounts That Sell Drugs: They Did Nothing
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UK recruiters report record AI cheating in graduate job interviews
ISE’s Student Recruitment Report 2026 shows that graduate jobs have stabilised, but AI misconduct and record applications are disrupting recruitment.
People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media – but the truth is far more complicated
Bot traffic has really reduced in the wake of an attack on a Russian internet company – but it doesn’t tell the full story
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Fitbit Edge May Be the Sweet Spot for Smartwatch Noncommittals - CNET
Google's new $179 tracker sits between the screenless Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch 5, promising some of the best parts of both without fully committing to either.
French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown...
Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of…
Peppermint OS Expands Beyond Debian with Void Linux-Based PepVoid
Peppermint OS is testing PepVoid, a new Void Linux-based edition featuring Xorg and XLibre, with an official release potentially coming in November.
'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store price…
A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.
"Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot - Robot Girl Gang
The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"
Honda Wants to Put a Robotic Lab Assistant on Future Commercial Space Stations
Honda today announced efforts to develop a robotics solution for future commercial space stations that could reduce the time needed for astronauts to conduct experiments and laboratory operations in space.
Qualcomm CEO says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by…
Cristiano Amon on the China vs. US AI sentiment, how AI is changing smartphones and wearables, Qualcomm’s data center strategy, and what 6G will unlock.
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Amid a surge in AI content, many are placing extra value on art that's obviously made by a human. But can that last, asks Ros Atkins
Anthropic will be ‘most ridiculous IPO’ of year, analyst says
Anthropic reportedly plans to list on the Nasdaq before Thanksgiving, and one bearish advisory firm suggests that investors sit this one out.
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite pirac…
Transitioning from Adobe to a free alternative without an adjustment period sounds like a dream.
Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic”…
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You're protected from the methods I use here. You disabled JavaScript, so this fingerprinting trick can't run at all. You're still vulnerable to network-based methods. Read on to see what it does to everyone else.
The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants: "These facilities could lock America into decades of …
Energy companies plan to increase the amount of gas-fired electrical capacity by as much as 44 percent by 2030 across the US.
XRP Bug Could Have Let Hackers Print Billions in Crypto Out of Thin Air
Crypto has dealt with multiple inflation bugs this year, one of the many signs that vulnerabilities found in industry projects are becoming more serious.
'Just canceled your order': Elon Musk trolled as he 'doxxes himself' with his full address
Elon Musk was mocked online on Sunday morning after he showed off an AI shopping assistant and appeared to reveal the address where he gets his mail.âI just asked Grok @Bot to research the most fun Lego Star Wars kits…
Russia’s Yandex says data centre in Vladimir shut down after drone attack
Third strike on Yandex facilities in a week comes as Russia and Ukraine escalate attacks on tech infrastructure.
Still no Cringley obit on https://www.cringely.com/
Last week somebody rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents bossed around by a smarter one, and the whole thing cost about eight dollars — sandwich and a coffee. But the part that lit up my corner of t…
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Global experts warn that today’s decisions across health, finance, climate, defense and security sectors will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to preventable illness and early …
Tech Workers Have Long Resisted Unions. Will AI and Politics Change the Equation? | KQED
Silicon Valley’s white-collar workers have been largely detached from organized labor. Artificial intelligence and ICE are giving employees new reasons to unionize.
Protecting Who? “Bring Your Own Power” Projects for AI Data Centers Would Wreak Havoc on Communities and the Environment, New Report Finds
The rapid expansion of “Bring Your Own Power” arrangements for AI data centers will lead to a massive gas buildout that poses serious risks to communities and the environment
2 Characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers: Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impe…
Why аррӏө.com, a Cyrillic lookalike of apple.com, still displays in Unicode in Chromium, and how its IDN checks, the .com registry, and webmail handle it.
AI LLMs that see every letter: Most LLMs never see the individual letters of a word directly. A new method changes that by retrofitting exi…
Most AI language models never see the individual letters of a word directly. A new method changes that by retrofitting existing models at a fraction of the usual training cost.
Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again
Likely to offer new options with DDR4 support.
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
TL;DR AWS Bedrock AgentCore is AWS’s managed platform for deploying and operating AI agents. It’s a one stop shop allowing developers to easily deploy their…
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Every figure in the AI chapter, with sample sizes.
Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet: Google, Meta, and Microsoft are said to be securing e…
Google, Meta, and Microsoft are said to be securing expensive land routes as fighting around Yemen threatens the submarine cables connecting Europe and Asia.
Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance: From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China …
From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China is building tech capabilities that extend well beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the N…
Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work: It's an automation "arms race."
Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work.
Mac Users Are Nuking Every Trace of Apple AI on Their Machines: Sayonara useless AI features, and hello disk space.
Privacy-minded Apple users are deleting all the company's AI features from their machines, in a miss for the company.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Says A.I. Is Trained to ‘Hijack Your Intimacy’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is warning people to be “concerned about the people building A.I.”
‘AI slop’ hides the conversations we should be having
The term “AI slop” hides conversations we need to have. When we call something “AI slop,” we’re often doing more than complaining about one output. Optimists use the term to quarantine failures away from AI’s promise; c…
A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new report
Scholars from top institutions, including UC Berkeley, have released a study that maps out — and confirms the viability of — such a pause.
ICE is reportedly using a Palantir database to compile dossiers on protestors - Engadget
An attorney representing protestors said this infringes on First Amendment rights.
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
An Anthropic Model Submitted A False Homicide Tip To Philadelphia Police
Thankfully, it does not seem to have diverted police resources.
Mainstream News Anchors Now Talking About the AI Bubble Bursting at Any Moment: "I think the entire AI boom is investing in the wrong futur…
A sudden correction in the stock market prompted Bloomberg TV to call on a long time AI pessimist to make his case for an AI bubble.
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
We Have Entered a Cybersecurity Hellscape, Japan Warns
We haven’t quite reached the cyber apocalypse that artificial intelligence companies have warned their technology could unleash on the world, but we’re getting uncomfortably close to a catastrophe on a national scale. A…