US-backed microreactor reaches criticality in major nuclear step
Antares reaches reactor criticality milestone, advancing plans for military microreactors by 2028
A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it
Jay Morris denies expertsâ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Metaâs Hyperion datacenter
School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
Canadian special forces Palantir deal reveals decay of Western ‘democracy’
The Canadian govt claimed Palantir is the only firm able to provide the tech — that's not enough reason to make more deals with the devil
LIPS Is An Open Source Sip-And-Puff Interface
Lots of us have– thanks to repetative stress injuries– developed mobility issues that we have to work around when using computers. Maybe it’s a trackball instead of a mouse, or a …
The US needs drones, not Trump-class battleships, Democrats argue
Lawmakers struck down a Democratic measure Thursday that would've scrapped $1 billion in defense funding to begin work on the Trump-class battleship.
AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he didn't expect this milestone until 2027.
The AI boom is gobbling up power faster than ever
If all data centers permitted through 2025 come online, they will use more than all the electricity used by any one US state in 2024, except Texas.
Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses — Some of the footage was allegedly intended for socia…
Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.
TIL they are currently testing a needleless SARS/COVID vaccine that was developed by AI.
Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. The vaccine generated immune responses against multiple coronaviru…
CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI
"We will fund this AI investment by reallocating the budget from 2026 annual salary adjustments."
UN food agency discloses breach affecting 600,000 Gaza households
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian organization, revealed over the weekend that its self-registration application (SRA) for Palestine was breached.
AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
AI found 21 FFmpeg zero-days, some 20 years old; Chrome 149 patched 429 bugs, including 100+ critical/high flaws.
Was the Starbucks Korea 'Tank Day' fiasco caused by AI?
When Starbucks Korea launched its “Tank Day” coffee promotion on May 18 — the day South Koreans commemorate the 1980 massacre of protestors in Gwan...
Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
MotoSync+ is a mobile app required to set up and troubleshoot Motorola WiFi routers. It suddenly stopped working, and no one knows why.
Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure
A Fedora 43 and Dovecot 2.4 upgrade may have uncovered an old Microsoft Outlook behavior where SSL/TLS settings allegedly failed to properly encrypt POP3 email connections.
Helium Crisis Tightens Grip On Global Chip Supply Chain
Helium gas powering the world’s most advanced semiconductor processes is suddenly in short supply, threatening to slow down production of the chips driving the AI boom
Password strength explained
I try to explain how attackers would guess your password, should they get their hands on your encrypted data. There are some thoughts on the strength of real-world passwords and suggestions for your new password.
AI is making me paranoid about contributions
A<!---->I has gotten to a point where I can no longer tell to what extent I’m dealing with a human online, and it’s taking a toll on my mental health.
Just tried UFO 50 Nonograms - Name your own price on itch.io
Incremental Picross / UFO 50 Fangame. 250+ puzzles
Fumito Ueda Reveals gen ATLAS Game
Single-player open-world action-adventure game was previously known as "Project: Robot"
The Complete Guide to Self-Hosting: From Hardware to Nextcloud
Ready for Self-Hosting? Our ultimate guide teaches you to reclaim data privacy & ditch costly subscriptions. Learn to build a personal cloud!
‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate …
A group of Amazon employees spoke out against unfettered AI infrastructure expansion at a Seattle Land Use and Sustainability Committee hearing this week.
NSFW TIL sperm during ejaculation can travel up to 28mph
Have you ever wondered how fast sperm travels, how long it can survive and how sperm is made? We're here with all the info you'll ever need about sperm.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
NASA orders International Space Station astronauts to shelter, prepare for evacuation due to air leak
A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS) prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of …
McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash
'God no,' one declared in a video demonstration of the update.
Google To Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Massive AI Compute Power
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for access to ~110,000 NVIDIA GPUs under a new multiyear deal.
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee: Remastered Official Announce Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Future of Guild Wars franchise.
Hear directly from our leadership team about our plans and how you can help shape what comes next in Guild Wars 2.
'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs
Jim Covello has been Wall Street's most consistent voice of AI doubt. Two years on, he asks:"when does the short term become the long term?"
Cardano social activity surges as ADA falls under 20 cents to four-year lows - Founder warned of a "wave of failures" in the ecosystem.
Santiment data show active addresses at a four-month high and social dominance near a 2026 peak after Charles Hoskinson warned of a "wave of failures" in the ecosystem.
Researcher who found Zcash's bug adds Monero to his audit queue
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers
Pritzker, who is widely viewed as having 2028 White House aspirations, is tapping into an issue seen as important to voters.
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
Subject-Avatar in Computerized Enunciative Spaces: Between Technical Standardizations and Practices of Resistance
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TIL that orgasm via masturbation or sex can provide relief for sinus pressure and nasal congestion.
Medical news is full of stories about promising new treatments for challenging conditions, or for additional health benefits of routine behaviours and habits. Who doesn’t want to feel good about drinking coffee or eatin…
How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.
Take This Data Center and Shove It -- Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more
Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more. Welcome to Virginia, ground zero for data center defiance.
Anthropic (Sorta) Calls for Pause on AI Development. You Should (Sorta) Take It Seriously
With its highly anticipated IPO around the corner, the company is balancing its long-held reputation as a leader in safety with the demands of its future shareholders.
Sony/Yoti reporting users to authorities for using GrapheneOS
I saw this on that site earlier today, thought it'd be worth a post. [...] Yoti automatically flags [...] any devices running GrapheneOS. These instances are automatically reported both to the authorities and our securi…
Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI To Be 'Addictive'
The new 'AI personal assistant' Scout has apparently already hooked its own employees
Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI
US firm says it will convene policymakers for discussion of dangers, in post detailing progress of its Claude model
Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?
A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. Nothing complicated, answers only one question: are the Claude-assisted releases unusually buggy?
Let us filter AI slop, you cowards - Online platforms could prove whether AI labels work by giving us a filter option, but then they’d have…
Let’s put those AI labels to the test.
The Infosec Phrasebook
Spend enough time around security people and you pick up a second vocabulary. It has a faintly military air and a noticeable per-syllable markup on vendor invoices.
JavaScript - To Semicolon, Or Not To Semicolon;
“To Semicolon, Or Not To Semicolon” - Shakespeare or something
Punycode: The algorithm that lets you use unicode in domains - Ian Duncan
A deep dive into how Punycode works, and why I think it's so neat.
Kevin O’Leary says he will shrink his Utah AI data center project after political backlash / The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 4…
The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 40,000-acre project by roughly half in a letter sent Thursday to Utah’s Senate president.
US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason for cuts …
AI overtook market and economic conditions as the leading reason companies cited for cutting jobs in May, according to the most recent report from Challenger, Gray and Christmas.