No AI until high school: NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade
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Siri Might Actually Be Good Now. Or Maybe It Was Just That Bad Before.
It took two more years than Apple anticipated, but an improved Siri is finally here.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
It was already rumored, but now we know.
Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times
The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
Hands-on with the Anbernic RG 55G1; Anbernic's Snapdragon Gamble
Anbernic's first Snapdragon-powered handheld is beautifully designed, comfortable to use and capable, but the G1 Gen 2's weak GPU makes a starting-from $150 price harder to justify.
Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs
Sony Japan has introduced a new customer harassment policy following widespread backlash toward its decision to stop producing physical game discs starting January 2028.
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement
You thought ray tracing was bad...
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Uber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithm
Landmark lawsuit claims tech companyâs pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings
Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it'
Apple executives' decision to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" on its Maps app is setting off a firestorm inside the tech giant, with employees furious that leadership caved to President Donald Trump out of fear of hi…
1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global …
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.
About half of Americans say they spend too much time on their smartphone
Seven-in-ten adults under 30 say they spend too much time on their smartphone, as do about two-thirds of those ages 30 to 49.
Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good • Tero Piirainen
I care about Bun. I have been rooting for it since the initial release in 2022. I switched all my development from Node to Bun. I used it in the development of the Nue framework and now with my new project Hertta.
Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus
The confluence of lingering cost pressures and advancing technology appears to be translating into a boom in smaller businesses’ deploying AI-designed graphics and logos.
Small update: Wandering Alchemist (Free GPS walking game) is now available on iOS 💚
Download Wandering Alchemist by Andreas Friedle on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Wandering Alchemist.
Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail.
We created a fake holiday home listing on 10 Downing Street, were able to make a test payment and publish a fake 10/10 review through booki…
The scam-ridden platform failed to block a phony listing of the most famous address in the country
Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were…
"There were two months where I was working something like at least 12 hours every day."
3 sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by pe…
TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Donald Trump. The local jury refused to indict him. He was immediatly relea…
A jury declined to indict a father who allegedly fatally shot his daughter in the chest following an argument about President Donald Trump.
Apple Maps follows Google, changes name of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'
Reuters | Posted: September 1, 2026 11:50 PM | Last Updated: 19 hours ago
TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Trump. The jury refused to prosecute him. The man was released.
A jury declined to indict a father who allegedly fatally shot his daughter in the chest following an argument about President Donald Trump.
Uber is laying off 10% of staff
The message below was shared with Uber employees today.
Self-custodial wallet that you never knew exists
Your all-in-one crypto wallet with chat, calls, marketplace, and DeFi. Send, swap, stake, and trade securely.
Open source Peer-to-peer Huggingface with a Social Layer
Find, discuss and download AI models, peer to peer. No company owns it, hosts it, or can shut it down.
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that tr…
Architecture of Disappearance: The Kill Cloud’s Dispersal of Violence and the Erosion of Sovereignty
“Seemingly non-violent technical acts we were trained to do came to a head when we started hearing battle managers coordinating airstrikes from within the Operations Modules. Radios and servers patched into distant ends…
Snickers reveals digital candy bar you can ‘feed’ to ChatGPT when it gives bad answers
Snickers is taking its long-running “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” slogan into the AI era with a digital candy bar designed specifically for chatbots.
John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'
Apple has a new CEO, and Lake Ontario has a new name, apparently.
The ChatGPT desktop app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong …
Your smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study finds
A study found that fitness trackers overestimate calories burned, and accuracy worsens as body fat increases.
"Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy
Failbetter, New Blood and other game developers on the importance of honing your visual (and technical) literacy if you want to effectively fight against genAI.
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond
Pizza restaurants: Why pizza-making robots are not cutting it
A string of failures has sapped confidence that robots will take over production at pizza restaurants.
Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6
PlayStation believes "reasonable consumers would not be misled" by its current disclosures
Quebec updates government websites to remove ‘Lake America’ from some maps
Google had implemented Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario.
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Flock Enables Law Enforcement Personnel to Misuse Vehicle Location Info for Surveillance, Stalking
A class action lawsuit alleges that Flock’s nationwide network of license plate cameras allows law enforcement to stalk and surveil individuals for personal purposes.
Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neither the public nor …
Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS
Fairphone Gen 6 Plus launches with Murena's privacy-focused /e/OS, bringing current-gen sustainability and more to consumers.
Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting ps…
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff
Uncertainty around the TTRPG's performance is to blame.
Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
Avoiding software without AI code is getting very difficult.
Capcom Spotlight Set for September 16 Ahead of TGS 2026
Capcom Spotlight streams September 16 ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2026, with Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, Pragmata, and more on display.
Konami Press Start Showcase Set for September 3
Konami is the latest publisher to stake out September 3, announcing a Konami Press Start showcase for that Thursday at 8:00 AM Pacific (11:00 AM Eastern). The stream promises the latest information on upcoming titles, .…