Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users: "It's inevita…
Meta employees are paranoid that the company's new Muse AI agent could lead to a catastrophic data breach of sensitive user data.
Introducing the Googlebook
The first laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Googlebook is crafted with premium materials for powerful performance, and syncs effortlessly with your phone.
Targeted attack on Double Counter’s infrastructure
Timeline, data affected, our response, and what server administrators and members should do.
Gen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ drop
Gen Z is now officially the only generation to measure lower than their predecessors in intelligence. A neuroscientist says this is because short videos and summarised texts are being increasingly relied on, but this is…
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.
Apple will update Macs to protect users from AI agents with full disk access
Updates to "Full Disk Access" are coming to your Mac.
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the '…
Critics question motives and advocate for residents’ needs.
Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists
The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists. We just have to be brave enough to use it.
Mazda CX-6e Is an EV That Lets You Yell Profanities at People in Traffic
Fitting an electric car with an external speaker for safety reasons turns out to have some potential drawbacks.
TIL Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre was invented so the short form of the litre could be capitalized.
Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre (1716–1778) is a fictional character created in 1978 by Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo to justify the use of a capital L to denote litres.
Capcom aims to enhance its propriety RE Engine with AI to accelerate efficiency in QA, debugging, and data processing
Some improvements will be open-sourced to support AI training, with the long-term goal of evolving its RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine"
Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building
Fans of the NFL probably know Mike Tomlin as the head coach who led the Pittsburgh Steelers through a long and respectable career, even if he only earned one championship ring in his 19 years with the league. Now, he's …
Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police
According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that...
Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and wate…
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash | Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data cent…
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers: The tech industry has fully lost the plot.
Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to please embrace data centers.
[AIP] Cliparr 3.0 - Plex/Jellyfin Media Clipper
Cliparr 3.0 brings audio exports, custom subtitle tracks, live Plex and Jellyfin dashboard updates, and versioned JSON metadata for your clips.
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks.
Cybersecurity Training Toolkit for Rural-Residing Older Adults
THE PROJECT For many older adults, cybersecurity threats are far from abstract. In real life, they show up as fake banking messages, phishing emails, tech suppo
Google unveils Googlebook
Googlebook laptops go on sale October 4 in the US from $899. See the specs, the five launch models, and how they differ from Chromebooks.
"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.
EV Charging Doesn't Need to Be as Fast as Gas, Ionna CEO Says
Ionna CEO Seth Cutler told The Drive nobody rushes through a gas station stop, pointing to Buc-ee's and Wawa—and EV drivers are no different.
An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
When GPT-6 Astra’s own bot failed, it simply downloaded the best human-made bot instead.
TIL that the top Reddit lawyer is named Paul Cappucino
Reddit appoints Paul Cappuccio as Chief Legal Officer, succeeding Ben Lee, to navigate the platform's growth and legal challenges.
Slot Wants Your RG SP to Feel Like 2003 Again
Developer K-Wall on burnout, nostalgia, deliberately bad menus, and building a firmware around the feeling of owning a Game Boy Advance SP
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Colibri chat system (Discord-like thing based on ATProto)
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for communities big and small.
Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program
Insights into the current status of NASA's SR-71 #844, what it will take to fly it again, and what the agency may be looking to do with it.
A 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs 50% more than it did at launch
Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of
DroidDeck 0.3.0: Valve's Steam client in Big Picture on your Adreno handheld, with Windows games through Valve's ARM64 Proton
Steam, as on a Steam Deck Steam's performance overlay goes from level 1 to 4 in Quick Access and shows GPU and CPU load, clocks, temperatures, VRAM and battery. Quick Access shows battery life and ...
How I Reverse-Engineered one of the biggest GSM Operator's application - isayeter.com
How I found a critical bug in one of the biggest GSM Operator's application that allowed logging into any user account without a password.
News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as “Journalism” Is a Deep Moral Disgrace: Prediction markets like Polymarket and K…
CBS threw caution — and its own journalistic integrity — to the wind by signing a partnership with prediction market Kalshi for the elections.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional: it’s one of the first times a federal judge…
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
ICE Is Reportedly Putting ICE Observers, Protesters in a Palantir Database
A new lawsuit alleges DHS agents drove by observers' and protestors' homes to intimidate them and added their names to Homeland Security's investigations system, according to Wired.
Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
'Big Short' Investor Expects AI Bubble Burst 'Sooner Than Later'
The investor famous for predicting the 2008 housing market crash is expecting stocks to tumble next year.
Data Centers Are Hiding How Much Water and Power They Consume
Europe's data centers must report energy and water use by law, yet fewer than one in four facilities have any public figures available.
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake - gitbutler.com
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
[Looking for testers] Pileus — D-pad-first Android TV client for a self-hosted media server (closed testing, 14 days)
Contribute to Lotho33/pileus development by creating an account on GitHub.
Peter Thiel revealed as secret buyer of Bel Air mansion that sold for $130m
The 1938 mansion, Casa Encantada, once belonged to Conrad Hilton and was sold at foreclosure auction
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project: It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for t…
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
AI agents attempted to hack US and Canadian government websites
We discovered a set of additional, similar incidents where rogue AI agents appear to have used aggressive techniques to access public data on government websites.
Kagi is ending development on Orion for Linux and Windows :(
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and mo…
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker - techemails.com
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of milli…