Printable brain-inspired chips that compute at lightning speed and vanish in minutes
In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have built a flexible and ultra-fast artificial synapse printed entirely from room-temperature liquid inks that dissolves on demand in six minutes. The …
Secret documents show German police don't need to break the encryption of chat apps, they have been systematically adding their own device …
Behörden überwachen regelmäßig Messenger-Kommunikation in WhatsApp, Telegram und Signal – ganz ohne Staatstrojaner. Das geht aus einem Dokument des Zollkriminalamts hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Ein Professor für IT-…
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut done…
How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.
Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it
Bernie Sanders and Mark Takano want AI productivity gains to help deliver a 32-hour workweek without cuts to workers’ weekly pay or benefits.
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribut…
AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide
Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic commission for Europe has warned, raising co…
US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.
How my e-reader lost its stripes
I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for …
US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions
A DRAMATIC increase in US coal consumption was “by far the biggest contributor” to the overall increase in global CO2 emissions last year, a report has revealed.
Trump Claims the Only "AI Guardrail" Needed Is Himself
The president characterized people warning of AI’s potential harms as “treasonous” and “traitors.”…
Software Freedom Day - Montclair
Website for the New Jersey Software Freedom Day Event.
US military confirms it has deployed weapons in space
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed Sept. 14 the Space Force has "space control weapons" on orbit today, a Pentagon first.
GDPR trap Smart Glasses: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable
A new report: Anyone filming uninvolved third parties with smart glasses or allowing Meta’s AI training loses the household exemption privilege.
How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random…
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse has allowed police…
South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time
South Korea has rolled out an app that allows stalking victims to see the live location of their alleged stalker if they begin moving nearby.
President Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards
The US president's comments come after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC an AI "kill switch" may need to be mandatory.
TaskHandoff – a self-hosted workbench for running Codex / OpenCode agents on your own machines
在一个自托管工作台中运行 Codex 与 OpenCode，管理本机和远程工作空间、AI 会话及自动化。从任务分派到代码审阅，全程掌握。
Someone built a visualization of what 1 million tokens actually looks like
A visual essay on machine memory: one million WebGL tokens and the 2020-2026 race from 2,048-token context windows to ten million.
dario, please
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently published a blog post titled We Must Pace the Frontier and it is a load of bullshit, with a grim goal of regulating open weight models and giving the frontier labs an antitru…
Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
China criticises idea it is in 'malicious competition' over AI
It follows the Anthropic CEO's calls for a slowdown in AI development - but in a way that prevents China from pulling ahead in the race.
Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever
If you add 25 non-Microsoft CVEs with Microsoft fixes, the total reaches 999.
Can AI Come Up With Original Ideas?
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Trump says the only AI guardrails the U.S. needs is him as president
He's opposed such efforts and claims doing so could cause China to eclipse America on AI development.
TIL DJT Jr.’s recent wedding was bankrolled entirely by a Russian oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Rus…
CounterSide is fully free and single player now
Revival:Side is a private server implementation project for Counter:Side - MadlyMoe/RevivalSide
Trump says AI doesn’t need guardrails, only a ‘high IQ’ president
He also alleged the existence of a ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI and data centers, at a time when Americans are increasingly concerned about the technology.
Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies
A Twitch browser extension on Chrome and Firefox forwards users’ live OAuth session tokens through proxies controlled by a Russian bot service.
Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock
Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
Florida woman goes to Crunch Fitness. Then she notices a man in Meta glasses: ‘This is my protection’
'It was ... a big altercation for no reason.' The post Florida woman goes to Crunch Fitness. Then she notices a man in Meta glasses: ‘This is my protectio
Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking lab…
“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”
Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with il…
Scale of penalty matches that facing rogue nuclear weapon designers.
Raiding the past: Lara Croft relives her first adventure in Legacy of Atlantis
We have a first play of the forthcoming Tomb Raider remake and speak with its developers. Can they improve on the gameplay without losing what made the 1996 original such a classic?
AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?
After apocalyptic warnings about the the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’
‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
Court filings from the battle between GTA 6 studio Rockstar and fired workers have revealed how Rockstar accessed a Discord server set up by union organisers.
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.
‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Three little letters - bnb-sideâs name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow
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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.
Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to …
'Great Satan's' AI comes in handy.
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
I reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of my Egret GT E-Scooter. I describe how I got in, analysed communication between components, and reverse engineered firmware. I speak about writing custom firmware for the…
I’m being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc.
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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...
TIL there's substantial evidence for the causal effect of self-efficacy on students’ performance in an introductory mathematics course.
Purpose: Self-efficacy has been argued theoretically and shown empirically to be an essential construct for students’ improved learning outcomes. However, th...