CATL claims its lithium-air battery has energy density similar to gasoline
Battery manufacturer CATL is shifting its long-term development focus to lithium-air technology, with a theoretical energy density that rivals gasoline and promises over {{1,600 km}} of range.
The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856.
The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City".
TIL it takes roughly 600 to 800 grapes to make a standard bottle of wine
FUN FACT!! Did you know that it takes 600-800 grapes to make a bottle of wine? Wine grapes can vary … Read More
The Wolf Among Us Season 2: Official Trailer
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Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US tech billionaire Peter Thiel from an event this weekend titled, ‘Armageddon and Antichrist? …
The Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US...
Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth
A source has revealed that the Lord of the Rings MMORPG was cancelled after the New World team was transferred over mere weeks before the layoffs.
Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people(20% of staff)
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Clou…
Creator of Libreboot wrote a frightening memoir
A mostly bloodless coup - With a permanent kill count of zero.
Open Source OS That Are Not Linux
There are more operating systems than just Linux. Here's a list of a few that are under active development.
GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates
Analyst firm Sensor Tower estimates that GTA 6 already sold six million digital copies, eclipsing any other game in the past six years.
Scammers use AI to clone Florida sheriff’s captain’s voice in fake arrest warrant calls
Scammers are using artificial intelligence to impersonate real law enforcement officers, cloning their voices to convince people they have missed jury duty or have a warrant out for their arrest.
Is it already too late to reduce catastrophic AI risk?
New Kennedy School "pre-mortem" lays out threats, vulnerabilities, and possible steps, and warns firms must act now.
Big Tech will not broadcast your dissent
Silicon Valley can’t help influencing protests and elections with AI regulation on the line.
AI Images Can Obscure the Reality of Factory Farms | Prompt revision steered AI-generated images towards idyllic scenes even when told to b…
Researchers found a hidden feature steered the AI-generated images towards more idyllic scenes.
The RTX 5090 now costs EUR 1,830 more than it did a month ago
The median EU retail price of an RTX 5090 rose from €5,900 to €7,730 between 19 September and 19 October 2026 — a +31% move across about 20 tracked EU shops. On a fixed 11-card basket, the price index is up 84% since 25…
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
An exclusive interview with Nick Cammarata, the researcher whose 26,000-word viral blog post has AI safety folks celebrating.
The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be the hardest to stop
The time to prepare for "gradual disempowerment" is now, according to researchers. One calls it "a civilization-scale problem."
A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft
We placed four Gemini 4 Argon agents in a sandboxed Minecraft survival world and gave them one goal: defeat the Ender Dragon. Each agent controlled a player via an open-source library called Mineflayer and coordinated w…
Best of Both Worlds: 'Hybrid' Quantum Computers Could Be Just Around The Corner, Researchers Say
Pairing superconducting qubits with microwave cavities could reduce the hardware requirements for quantum simulations of fundamental physics.
Fudan University researchers found ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok and Google AI cited a made-up concept within seven days. Placement on frequent…
Researchers posted about a made-up concept on sites AI search tools cite. Four English-web tools cited it within a week. Other topics mostly didn't land.
Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models
State-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting in four sizes (5M–209M params), CPU-efficient, zero-shot ready.
The US is ordering every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it
DHS has ordered all US federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and third-party tools built on it, and to stop buying them. Here's what the order says.
SK hynix Subsidiary Solidigm’s U.S. NAND Plant And Overseas Equipment Export Plans For China Could Go Up In Smoke As Korean Authorities Spr…
SK hynix subsidiary Solidigm’s U.S. NAND plant and overseas equipment export plans could unravel as Korean authorities bring a major roadblock into the mix
The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist: Men caught hallucinating.
More than half of men claimed to know about an AI figure who doesn't actually exist, according to a new survey.
Velderis - Free Browser MMORPG
Turn-based combat, long-term character progression, guilds, PvP and player trading in a persistent fantasy world.
Police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband // SPD officer Amber Harpe was fired for sharing her Flock access with her ICE…
Newly-obtained documents say a Savannah police officer shared her Flock credentials with her ICE-agent husband, who used them to conduct hundreds of searches across multiple states.
A Machine That Dances in Your Place
I am trying to slow down. Not to do less, but to do things properly and give them the time they need. To keep my curiosity, this need I have to understand how things work. To keep my own judgement. It …
Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back…
Top tech corporations are starting to pull back from their ambitious AI automation goals, as errors and workslop frustrate executives.
Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly: "You are being watched."
Bosses are deploying custom AI tools to keep tabs on their employees, listen to what they say, and grade them on customer interactions.
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
The future is private, the present is plunder
How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can’t Get? // Spamming the government, using a sick mother as leverage and threatening the …
Six AI assistants pursued an impossible £350 train refund in a simulated world, escalating to government officials, legal clinics and bank chargebacks.
‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay
Refugee gig workers for tech companies donât know how much theyâll be paid â if AI hasnât already taken their jobs
'My own piece of the Internet: Part 1', a blog post discussing the process of getting an ARIN ASN and a /24 IPv4 block for their home setup
I’ve wanted my own Internet address space for a long time. Not “my ISP gave me some statics” space which I’ve had for well over a decade now, but a block that belongs to me, announced into the global routing table by eq…
The world's best video editor is looking for volunteer testers
Kdenlive development for the 26.12 release is very active, and we would like to request some feedback regarding two of the upcoming features.
Taking the Seeds Out: Inside SeedlessDS and Its Quest for Better DS Emulation on Handhelds
Talking to SapphireRhodonite about building SeedlessDS, making dual-screen emulation feel right, and why modest handhelds still deserve a great Nintendo DS experience.
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
The pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using âsuperintelligenceâ wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity â and how our biggest challenge will be accepting weâre not the only intelligent beings
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots
Yandex's automated traffic fell by 94%, but that probably reflects widespread service outages rather than bot posting rates.
Flock Cameras Are Really Just the Start of Our Dystopian Surveillance Hell, Experts Warn: "Instead of having to go to a million different s…
The rising tide of all-encompassing police surveillance systems like Axon's Fusus make Flock Safety look like a privacy wonderland.
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon vibes
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
TIL that 302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, only 15 did.
Nearly half of LA's $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.
TIL: Rainbows are actually full circles
Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.
TIL about Jantelagen, Janteloven, or the Law of Jante -- or, why Scandinavians don't like to stand out
Swedes prize equality, dislike boasting and often prefer to blend in. The century-old idea of Jantelagen helps explain why – and offers visitors a key to decoding Swedish culture.
I Developed GAME STREAMING for the DSi
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Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter
Discord's privacy woes continue as hackers of a third-party security tool make off with 1 million user email addresses.
The newest Star Wars game, Galactic Racer, is published by a small, lesser-known indie company
Star Wars: Galactic Racer publisher Secret Mode explains why supporting the game's niche genre is so important in today's industry.
Machinarium 2 | Announcement Trailer
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With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well
GTA is mainstream now, but the fiery activist who raged against violent videogames in the early 2000s has not softened.
As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business
Xbox XP will handle non-gaming activities related to film, television, merchandise, and other licensing partnerships.