US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China
Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report
President Trump has been clear in his enthusiasm for A.I., which he wants to rebrand “Super Intelligence”
TP-Link opens global preorders for its first Wi-Fi 8 router, but ban keeps it out of US market — US left off launch list as FCC freeze refu…
The Archer 8 Ultra is launching across Europe and Australia, but the U.S. has given TP-Link the cold shoulder
Connect turntables to HomePods
Automatically play vinyl and CDs through HomePod, Apple TV, Sonos and other AirPlay-compatible speakers (including the latest HomePod Software and tvOS 27 releases). See what’s playing and control ...
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Used processor leads to game ban
Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley Introduce the Ban Flock Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Privacy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the Ban Flock Act, legislation to put an end to the rise in AI-powered surveillance…
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973
A wormable vulnerability allowed anyone able to inject text in a build log on builds.sr.ht (or other instances) to take over accounts who viewed them
Trump Launched an America.[gov] “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won…
Trump's new government AI chatbot disagrees with him on an umber of topics, and says he did, in fact, lose the 2020 election.
CIA Names Chinese AI, Chip Firms as Spy Targets
China Counter-Espionage Law risks for US companies spiked after CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis publicly named Chinese AI, semiconductor, and biotech firms as legitimate spy targets at a September 8 conference; Beijin…
Challenging the inevitability of AI – by debunking “rogue AI will kill us all” – notinevitable.ai
It might seem strange that while hype over “rogue” AI agents plays out daily in the media, this has not resulted in penalties for the companies that were not testing safely. Strange that it has not increased support for…
'Support Modders, Not AI' — Modder Deliberately Corrupts Their Own Hugely Popular Total War: Warhammer III Mod as Row Over AI Escalates
The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated…
Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026)
Where we're going, we don't need Windows.
A jury found Facebook guilty of 43 million privacy violations, and Meta could owe billions
The New Mexico Department of Justice recently announced a landmark decision from the jury in the State of New Mexico v. Facebook, Inc. case. Meta's social network...
US Senators Introduces Bill to Stop the Government’s Use of Face Surveillance and Other Biometric Surveillance Tech
Bill Text (PDF) Washington (September 25, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the...
Another cost for software
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers [who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization…
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value…
We Traced What Happens When You Open 11 Tech News Sites
WIRED sent audience-segment events to Pinterest. Four publishers sent Meta page views. RuntimeWire's homepage scan reached two outside domains.
What’s in a name? Naming things in OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap Blog
Whether you are from, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Springfield or Ea names are important. They help us identify where we are, where we are from and where we want to go to.
DrivingBench: Can frontier LLM models drive a real car? We give them control of a Toyota Corolla’s steering, accelerator, and brakes, then …
A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.
Disney Hit By Layoffs, A Couple Hundred Workers Cut
Disney has initiated layoffs under CEO Josh D'Amaro. The cuts impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR.
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
Trying to get a restaurant reservation? Get ready to compete with AI agents
Some agents are causing problems that, while not exactly extinction-level events, demonstrate how much of the world remains unready for their widespread proliferation.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
Data centre sizes and costs are doubling about every 12 to 16 months
LPD digital property
Seal and certify the existence of your original files in seconds. Immutable eIDAS timestamp on Blockchain.
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.
NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why
NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with
Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"
President Trump and the leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies have signed a set of voluntary safety standards, as calls mount for tighter guardrails on powerful AI technology.
McDonald's Is Using AI To Dynamically Price Its Burgers
McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust…
Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming
Finally, Discord is working on a 'Game Mode' to reduce CPU and GPU consumption while gaming, but it seems there's still a lot of work to be done.
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, addiction and delusions, Study finds
New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”
Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion for Infringing Haptics Patent in iPhone, Apple Watch
A jury awards Taction Technology damages over Apple's use of vibration-based tactile technology in its devices.
Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
AI Industry Needs to Earn $6 Trillion by 2031 to Justify Data Centres
To justify the investment, AI must do more than boost productivity; it will need to unlock new sources of growth and value.
Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party d…
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups— including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers…
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts: It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatb…
Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.
TIL that 1 petabyte (PB) is equal to 1 million gigabytes (GB) of storage.
Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
Google closes an AI Studio delete-flaw report in a minute
Published September 19 with evidence that the Delete action returns a fake 404 while the prompt data persists on Google's backend, and that Google's AI Vulnerab
Google VRP Banned Researcher in 60s Over AI Studio Delete Claim
An independent researcher says Google AI Studio's Delete button only strips a JSON pointer, while the underlying prompt data stays on Google's backend,…