Millions of students' personal data stolen in major education breach
ShinyHunters claims it stole personal data from 275 million users on Instructure’s Canvas platform across schools and education providers.
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player
I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable n…
Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions'
A $50 increase in the US. Further increases rolling out in Japan, Europe, and Canada.
The devout Muslim making a living from Islamophobic AI slop — A content creator in Pakistan is earning money from viral videos that stir up…
A content creator in Pakistan is earning money from viral videos that stir up hate in UK
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
Website with videos of sex abuse of drugged women, girls hosted in the Netherlands
The case of Gisèle Pelicot, whose husband drugged her and lent her unconscious body to dozens of men to rape her, made headlines worldwide. But it turns out that her case is not one horrifying incident. It’s a genre wit…
Verizon cuts several hundred US workers months after slashing 13,000 jobs
Verizon cuts hundreds of jobs across the US, impacting less than 1% of its head count, as it continues to reduce costs beyond 2026.
Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts
A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social med…
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
Can we build our own software based firewall ?
Learn what a firewall is, why it is important, how it works, and firewall best practices. Learn how a firewall can ensure the data is harmless and prevent data from being stolen or compromised.
Canvas hack strands university students during finals week
An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials â at a time when many are taking o…
Meta takes Ofcom(UK media regulator) to court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates fees based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case…
Meta has launched a judicial review against Ofcom's calculation of fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act.
Announcing the new LibreOffice website! - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice’s website is the main source of information about the software (and project), and typically has 45,000 – 65,000 visitors every day. It is also the place to download the suite, of course, and make donations t…
GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone
A small flaw in Android 16's networking stack let ordinary apps leak data outside the VPN tunnel, exposing real IP addresses
The Sinking City 2 — Official Gameplay Reveal
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Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.
Kash Patel claims AI has stopped school shootings: ‘I’m using it everywhere’
Patel says that he has ‘every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI’
AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada
In a post on its website, Telus Digital announced a partnership with an “AI-powered speech enhancement” company to “soften accents.”
StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal
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GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview
GameStop made a takeover bid for eBay, offering $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company…
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
“You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”
The organizers of Japan's Tokyo Game Dungeon have been going to great lengths to spread awareness about what they call "sekkyo ojisan."
FCC Commissioner Demands Close Scrutiny of 49.5% Foreign Investment in Paramount's Proposed Merger With Warner Bros.
Federal Communications commissioner Anna Gomez on Tuesday urged the agency to closely scrutinize foreign investment tied to Paramount Global’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines | More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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Meta Sheds Influencer Andrew Tate's Lawsuit Over Instagram Ban
Meta convinced a federal court to quash a lawsuit challenging its termination of six Instagram accounts run by self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan.
After Xbox and Windows, now GITHUB is in crisis, "failing me, every single day, and it is personal"
One of GitHub's most staple contributors announced they are abandoning ship due to constant outages. GitHub's COO responds, promising change, but is it all too little too late?
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…
The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.
Fans worry that they might never truly own their beloved games.
Bethesda Union Workers To Protest Mass Layoffs Next Week
'The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear. We won't let that happen'
"My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out a…
Following the news developer id Software has been significantly impacted by Asha Sharma's sweeping Xbox job cuts, John Carmack has shared his thoughts.
This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing wi…
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TIL about hedonic regression which decomposes the item being researched into its constituent characteristics
In economics, hedonic regression, also sometimes called hedonic demand theory, is a revealed preference method for estimating demand or value of a characteristic of a differentiated good. It decomposes the item being re…
TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.
The heat generated by the small box of powerful computers is enough to heat the pool about 60% of the time.
Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett and Gary Lockwood in The Lieutenant (1964)
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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? 💻🔪
Try to spot who liked hacking away at corpses rather than computers
The US Department of Justice is asking a Mississippi court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against xAI
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.
Nvidia CEO : AI means we need new social norms. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the stree…
everybody should buy what Iâm selling, itâs common sense
Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on thre…
Apple's outgoing chief executive has long been a proponent of pro-privacy systems, especially end-to-end encryption
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
Yesterday we wrote about the Trump administration forcing Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The short version: dumb. Today, Axios got White House officials on the record, and it turns ou…
Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It
"It’s time for a 'big tech' company to do better"
Being Followed By A Drone While Driving? Here's Why It May Be Tracking Your Car.
Flock Safety has signed agreements with several cities to deploy an automated drone system that can (and will) follow cars on the road.
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Mark Zuckerberg is seriously struggling to lift their spirits following massive layoffs.
How UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 work (really good explanation)
Jumping into unicode and binary
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
PCB prices are up 40% because of a material most people have never heard of
The disruption at Jubail did not begin with the missile strikes on April 6 and 7. Plants had already been shut down in late March as it...
Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
"Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back."