Christine Van Geyn: Privacy isn't a crime, but Bill C-22 acts like it is
Politicians reveal meme-level ignorance of constitutional guarantee of privacy in Canada
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never…
Best Online Food Ordering System for Restaurants in 2026
Launch your delivery platform with Enatega’s open-source, customizable, ready-to-use delivery app solution.
How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’
Spelers van de game Pokémon Go scanden jarenlang hun omgeving voor extra punten. Met behulp van die miljarden scans is nu een extreem nauwkeurig navigatiesysteem ontwikkeld voor onder meer militaire drones en robots.
Apple tried to blame the EU for its Siri AI mess, and the EU called them out publicly
Yesterday, Apple took the stage in Cupertino at WWDC to introduce us to iOS 27 and Siri AI. This is the much-improved Siri that we were promised two years
Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked Met police contract
Palantir is set to sue Sadiq Khan after the London Mayor blocked a £50m contract with the Metropolitan Police as he claimed the tech giant does not reflect the City's values.
Xbox Game Pass Lost "Millions Of Subscribers" After Last Year's 50% Price Hike
It turns out last year's Xbox Game Pass price hike really was unpopular, as it caused millions to unsubscribe.
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases - Ars Technica
Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
Global Smartphone Production Fell 1.7% YoY in 1Q26; Memory Cost Pressures Expected to Drive a Sharper Decline in 2Q26, Says TrendForce
TrendForce’s latest figures reveal that global smartphone production reached around 284 million units in the first quarter of 2026, marking a 1.7% YoY decline. Despite a sharp rise in memory prices since the second half…
Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages
New water-demand analysis puts data center cooling at roughly 4% of AI's footprint, with fabs and power generation taking the rest.
US asks China to resume rare-earth exports to Japan
Washington set to discuss topic at next week's G7 summit
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical spectrometer that delivers laboratory-grade precision in a …
New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses
Cameras in spectacles have lawmakers and regulators alarmed of surveillance risks.
The top 16 cars sold in China last May were EVs.
Car sales are down across the China - except for BEVs. The world's largest auto market is running away from anything with an engine in it.
You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
In a strongly-worded rebuke last month, Pope Leo called for AI to be “disarmed.”
the latest Shai Hulud malware contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety …
Attached: 1 image the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that …
New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites
New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.
Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot
An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU …
Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents
Microsoft will prevent Office 2019 for Mac owners from editing their documents from July 13, a restriction the company is attributing to the productivity suite's expiring digital certificate. The Office 2019 apps affect…
Synology is removing your Active Insight complimentary licenses
Synology Knowledge Center offers comprehensive support, providing answers to frequently asked questions, troubleshooting steps, software tutorials, and all the technical documentation you may need.
Donut Lab's miracle battery found to be a fraud, investigation claims
An independent investigation has produced definitive proof that Donut Lab's solid-state battery is actually a standard lithium-ion cell.
Congress Is Trying to Permanently Integrate U.S. and Israeli Defense Tech
A controversial proposal to entwine U.S. and Israeli tech in AI and autonomous systems closely resembles a pro-Israel bill that died earlier this year.
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."
Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic
iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use
What a great excuse to have complete access to all your pictures
Britain will become the first country in the world where it is impossible for children to take, share or view naked pictures on their devices.
Nintendo will pay a $40 million fine for faulty Joy-Cons
French authorities have fined Nintendo around $40m over faulty Joy-Cons.
UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images
If firms do not act, the PM said, ‘we will change the law … when it comes to the safety of our children, standing by is not an option’.
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openmediavault 7 approaching EOL
At 10.06.2026 openmediavault 7 will become EOL because Debian 12 estimates EOL (end-of-life) for the same time. This means no security/bugfix updates will be released anymore. Please upgrade to openmediavault 8 to be up…
Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones
And other key insights about the data center protest movement. Plus, Bernie Sanders' AI sovereign wealth fund proposal, Ted Chiang's argument against AI consciousness, and much more.
Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.
Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
It's a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April, we found out that nearly half of the data centers that were supposed to open this year had been cancelled or significant…
Meta Removes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses, Is Mad About it
Mostly just mad they got caught.
Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers
Amazon engineers called out their employer for conducting mass layoffs while it commits to spending $200 billion this year on AI infrastructure.
Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism — CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popul…
A CBC News investigation found a number of Facebook accounts run by people overseas impersonating real Albertan separatists.
macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
You'll need an M1 or better to run the next release of macOS.
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."
This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, link…
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
Asia tech stocks extend sell-off with SoftBank down over 7% as investors sour on AI-linked names
The tech stock sell-off accelerates in Asia. Tech stocks fell in Europe but rebounded later on Monday.
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Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts
Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding
Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene
Cop seemingly ignored Flock camera timestamp to justify arrests.
Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This
Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native content delivery.
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
The South Korean artificial sun, which goes by the name KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research), has made an important scientific discovery concerning nuclear fusion by being able to sustain plasma in hi…
The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
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Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century.