'Peppa Pig' Backlash As Hasbro Asks Child Actors To Sign AI Clause
'Peppa Pig' owner Hasbro has stoked anger by requiring child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices to artificial intelligence.
Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors'
A peer-reviewed Nature critique argues that Microsoft's 2025 Majorana quantum-computing breakthrough -- and its claim that it could enable "a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but…
Enshrouded - Official Version 1.0 Release Date Trailer [October 15]
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If Phones Are Killing Pedestrians, Why Is It Only Happening in America?
Smartphone adoption tracks America's pedestrian death spike almost perfectly. The problem: every other country has smartphones too.
SEGA under fire for Sonic the Hedgehog ARG, as its terms of service reveals participant data is harvested for AI model training
The Chaos Hunt ARG has players recovering chaos emeralds from around the USA.
New DLC Character Coming to BlazBlue: Central Fiction a Decade After It Was Released
Arc System Works is blowing the dust off its 2015 2D fighting game BlazBlue: Central Fiction and adding a new DLC character a decade down the track.
AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption
Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI t…
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
Star Trek but the Borg are Australian
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AI crash coming closer? South Korea’s Kospi plunges 10%, triggers trading halt
South Korean stocks experienced a sharp decline, with the Kospi index plummeting nearly 10% from its record high. Chip giants SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics led the sell-off as investors grew concerned about an overst…
GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc
Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.
Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
The firm alleged that Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to access data from its Claude AI model.
Toyota And Nissan Admit Their American-Made Vehicles Aren't Up To Japanese Standards
Toyota and Nissan are warning Japanese buyers that US-made vehicles imported to the island nation might have quality issues. This is what automakers are saying.
UK Wikipedia Workers seek union recognition
Wikipedia workers in Britain request union recognition with UTAW, national branch of the CWU
Nvidia liquid cooling design claims 100% reduction in water use
The system circulates coolant at up to 45°C in a closed loop, but critics say it leaves out water consumed by power plants supplying the grid
Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones
âI deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,â says one government employee.
Some Retailers Are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a Disc
Two retailers have announced that they will not be selling Grand Theft Auto 6 due to the game not releasing on a disc.
75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why
A new NYT analysis found that anyone shorter than 5-foot-6 — about half of American adults — would frequently be knocked to the ground in front of today's average vehicle.
‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools
Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says
Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers.
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GTA 6 Reveals $80 Price Tag And Ultimate Edition Bonuses
Take-Two is breaking the existing $70 price barrier for most games
BlazBlue Centralfiction (2017) will be getting a new character; more details at Evo
new character coming to Blazblue Centralfiction. More info at EVO
Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"
The company says subsidizing hardware costs is ultimately worse for the consumer.
Laying the First Stones
A VPS, a reverse proxy, a password manager, and a DNS zone full of forgotten history. The autonomous stack begins to take shape.
OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
I built Raza Photos: a local, distributed photo library for your Apple devices if you are tired of clouds and subscriptions.
Download Raza Photos by RADU ZAHARIA on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Raza Photos.
MoodPin | Wear your state. Capture what matters.
MoodPin is a magnetic AI status badge that shows your real-life state and captures conversations, ideas, and follow-ups you do not want to lose.
Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says
Some companies' push to maximize AI use is leaving some engineers fixing AI-generated code, fueling burnout and frustration, a VC partner said.
Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’
If that sounds a lot like a cartel, well, you wouldn't be the first person to point that out
AI stock slump raises the question if investors are just taking profits or getting very nervous
Tech companies are spending big on AI, but investors might be getting nervous. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft plan to spend up to $720 billion this year on AI data centers.
you can go see John Waters for 60 dollahs in NY this friday [update: SOLD OUT]
B&N Union Square in New York City, with Criterion, welcomes John Waters to discuss HAIRSPRAY & DESPERATE LIVING on Friday, June 26th at 6PM.
‘Flow’ Producer Matiss Kaza Boards ‘Insectarium,’ Mexican Stop-Motion Maestro Sofia Carrillo’s Feature Debut
New producers from Canada and Lithuania lift ‘Insectarium,’ at Cannes’ Annecy Animation Showcase, into a full-blown international co-production.
Cloudflare, Chrome, Firefox Developing Next-Gen Privacy Pass: PACTs
Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens
The hidden cost of your AI rollout: burning out the high performers running it
Companies are leaning on their best people to lead the AI charge. A Wellhub executive explains why that strategy could backfire—and what HR is doing about it.
USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950
The bare-bones Blank Slate's base price will rise to over $25,000 once its mandatory destination fee is finalized.
TIL about the card game BattleCards
BattleCards was a fantasy-themed card game published in 1993 by Merlin Publishing. The game features a unique "Scratch and Slay" system created by Steve Jackson. The cards came in 10 card booster packs which included wa…
LiftTrace v1.0.0-rc.5: Scheduled Automatic Backups + Raspberry Pi support
v1.0.0-rc.5 — 2026-06-10 Added Scheduled Automatic Backups for both server mode and Android local-only mode. Pick daily or weekly, server backups land in the same directory as manual full-backups,...
“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis
New comments from Xbox leadership highlight concerns over affordability, accessibility, and how more players can be brought into gaming.
GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch
Rockstar Games has finally announced the price of GTA 6, while confirming it features a “single-player experience” at launch.
We’re making Bunny DNS free
Your DNS bill shouldn't scale with your traffic. So we removed query fees from Bunny DNS entirely. No per-request billing and no query limits.
US president may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug — Public notice of a single “compassionate use” c…
White House spokesperson denied it was Trump only after story was published.
The Other Side of Android: My Favorite F-Droid Apps
Time to look beyond the Play Store
TIL that cars in Europe have grown average 1.2cm longer every year since 2000
Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market
The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.
TIL you can look at the very first commit of git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatch…
Meta's Program That Spies on Every Employee's Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion
A Meta initiative to spy on employee's computers to gather data for training has caused an internal leak at the company.
60% of TikTok videos are AI slop; 21% of YouTube ones
Studies by online video editing platform Kapwing have revealed that almost 60% of TikTok videos are AI slop, while the...
SpaceX Shares Fall Below $150 Debut Price For First Time
A losing streak for Elon Musk’s rocket maker cut its market value by nearly $1 trillion.
Stanford graduates rethink their futures as AI transforms tech
The BBC spoke with Stanford University graduates about what they really think about artificial intelligence.
‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it funny at first. But novelty soon turned to concern