Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage trucks. As the trucks roll their normal routes, the cameras would scan yards and house fronts for code violati...
How to unionize your tech workplace
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.
The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
A thought experiment in what we built without noticing.
US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics
Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers
Mega Man X Regenesis (Fan Game) | Official Release Date Trailer
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Long-Term Data Storage for Home Users - YouTube
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities.
Bindery: self-hosted, folder-watching converter for ebooks and comics
Drop e-books and comics into a folder, get Kobo/Kindle-ready files out. kepubify + KCC with a WebUI, in one Docker image. - jarynclouatre/bindery
LuisCore /for-agents.json — agent bootstrap — LuisCore inference-scale runtime substrate
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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants re…
Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
Expensive and pointless? Black Ops 1 and 2 PS4 and PS5 ports cost a lot of money and barely offer any upgrades over the originals
You may not have expected much from the Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 ports, but they've somehow managed to be more disappointing.
Made With GameMaker 2026
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How The Spread Of Local AI Models Makes Copyright Enforcement Harder
The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination o…
Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be
A new hypervisor-based bypass method, demonstrated extensively within the Linux gaming community using Proton and Wine, has emerged
TIL Ancient Roman farm women made wine, oil and profits. Historians dismissed them as 'housekeepers'
Female farm managers are hidden in plain sight in ancient Roman texts, mentioned in laws, literature and grave inscriptions across five centuries. Modern historians have generally assumed they were housekeepers, in char…
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
I connected my self-hosted network scanner to an AI assistant over MCP, kept fully on-LAN
New in Server edition 1.5.3: DeviceShelf can expose your live network inventory and monitoring state to an AI assistant over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with 22 tools, guided prompts, attachable resources and an o…
Paint-on tattoos could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves — all within a colorful, customizable …
Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos capable of recording different electrical signals produced by the body with more sensitivity, durability and accuracy than other wear…
George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’
The Star Wars creator compares not using AI to riding a horse in the face of cars
26 Employees Lawsuit: Meta used AI to fire workers who used their legal leaves to take time off work
The plaintiffs say a monitoring program deployed earlier this year gave artificial intelligence data to select employees for layoffs.
Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked
Microsoft is facing fresh criticism over its handling of user accounts after another customer claimed the company permanently deleted their account.
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows
Anthropic's distillation complaints expose an awkward question: does AI's fair use argument cut both ways?
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product."
We Must Act Now: Nearly 200 Economists, Tech Leaders and Nobel laureates(Including Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman) Warn About AI's Threat to Ec…
Stanford Digital Economy Lab / July 13, 2026
Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse
According to a shocking BBC investigation, Instagram has been profiting off of paid adverts that promote child sexual abuse material in India.
[CBH] Turn Platypush into your favourite weather app
Mobile app, web app and custom handling of weather events, all in one
Start of a /c/Selfhosted Wiki [CBH]
This wiki is a resource for self hosters of the fediverse, and you are welcomed to both explore and contribute. The !selfhosted@lemmy.world community was founded on lemmy.world, but you can access it from just about any…
TIL that 3/4 of bee species make silk
While the world drowns in plastic, researchers are on the hunt for practical materials that are lightweight, tough, and biodegradable. In recent years, scientists have increasingly turned to the natural world for inspir…
Agent 64: Spies Never Die - Release Date Trailer
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The New York Nurses Replaced by AI: AI Makes Inroads in Healthcare, Threatening Patient Care and Jobs, Lay Off Plan Will Give Over Private …
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Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act - for now
The Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) is legislation in the United Kingdom that aims to hold platform operators accountable for the safety of the people who use their apps and visit their websites. Though most obligations (l…
‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that the social media g…
Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself
Windows 11 Copilot can now tell you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB of RAM itself (ironically).
LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras
The LAPD is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.
TIL that uncontrolled dynamic pricing once valued a book 23 million dollars (+ 3.99 shipping)
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental bi…
2 websites run by the U.S. Army were defaced by hackers with messages referring to Trump as a “pedophile and thief” while also criticizing …
At least two websites appear to be victim to 404 hijacking attacks. Army officials took the sites down after being contacted by CyberScoop.
CATL’s sodium-ion storage systems set for first customer deliveries
CATL says it will begin customer deliveries of its first sodium-ion energy storage systems in September.
Fun Math!
A math strategy board game — move tiles, hit the numbers, outsmart your rival!
Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both
"I prefer the industry when you have two really strong competitors. You get better games, you get more games, and you get an industry riding a positive wave."
Meta's New Patent Wants to Track Your Mood by Listening to Your Voice All Day
Meta has filed a patent for a system that listens to your voice over time, detects emotional patterns, and generates a personal mood report.
Linux Firewalls: How to Actually Secure a Cloud Server (iptables, nftables, firewalld, ufw)
A practical guide to the four major Linux firewall technologies - iptables, nftables, firewalld, and ufw. Covers real-world cloud server hardening with concrete examples, from locking down SSH to b...
Hands-On With the TRIMUI Brick Pro: A Better Handheld, but Not a Faster One
TRIMUI's latest vertical handheld keeps the same processor but adds a larger display, Hall effect thumbsticks and a refined design.
My Multi-Stage Backup Strategy: ZFS, Proxmox, and Paranoia
Backups are the thing everyone knows they should do and nobody does well enough. Here’s my multi-stage strategy for keeping about a dozen servers safe: ZFS snapshots with sanoid, off-site replicati...
id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for"
id Software has posted a brief statement on social media, insisting, "We still have the crew we need to build the games."
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Digital warfare reaches fuel maps as Ukrainian users create confusion across Russia
Russia's fuel stations face online chaos after Ukrainians manipulate map data through a growing digital disruption campaign
The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.
Scientists Used AI to Find Hidden Earthquake Signals Along the San Andreas Fault
Scientists used to think so-called “slow slip events” were “theoretically impossible.” Now these subtle tectonic shifts could be the key to predicting future earthquakes.
Rayfish, Iroh and Yggdrasil
Rayfish is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN. Connect your devices by cryptographic identity. No port forwarding, no hosted server to trust. Share a code, and you're on the same encrypted LAN.