One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives
Carmakers keep loading new cars with driver aids, but a surprising share of owners never turn the fanciest ones on
TIL that in Massachusetts, white families have a median net wealth of $549,000. For black families, it is just $7,800
A detailed survey of family wealth in Massachusetts has found an estimated median family net wealth of $374,000 and higher median wealth among those with more education, homeowners, those 65 or older, rural residents, a…
Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM.
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.
‘They’re thinking about the likes’: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland
Social media platforms face public ire after fatal crash involving teenagers filming themselves driving on wrong side
Kingdom Rising
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Texas A&M physics prof writes: In ten years, light diffused by satellites will erase the the stars for the vast majority of humans. Save th…
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The defense revolving-door, Silicon Valley edition
An eye-opening glimpse at the links between two congressional committees and more than 100 defense contractors, consultants, and lobbyists.
The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a personalized price; Proposed enforcement policy would force companies to tell consu…
FTC says companies have to disclose personalized pricing and surveillance pricing
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
A Coddy Developer Survey revealed that AI coding is leading to a new kind of burnout.
Walmart is finally adding Tap to Pay
Beginning Aug. 24, we will be adding Tap to Pay to our payment options at select Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations, with plans to roll it out to all U.S. stores and clubs by the end of 2026 and to fuel stations by…
Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT Answers as Search Citations Drop 86%
ChatGPT is citing Reddit far less: reddit.com's share of ChatGPT Search citations collapsed from about 4% to about 0.5% on August 14, 2026. Daily data for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode from July 7 to …
'Hoard and Destroy'? Advocates Demand Federal Probe of Book-Burning by AI Giants
"AI companies are engineering a future where only the wealthiest incumbents can build high-quality AI models and operate as the sole holders of humanity's written works."
Uber Fined Nearly €825 Million Euros($966M Dollars) for Automated Driver Blocking
Uber fined nearly €825 million by Dutch data protection authority for automated driver blocking.
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.
TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children’s privacy
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws.
Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety
Former Meta safety engineer Arturo Béjar testified that his concerns about child safety fell on deaf ears.
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
Dutch regulator fines Uber $966m for automating driver suspensions
European regulators have imposed billions in penalties on US technology companies due to privacy, competition and digital market rules
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero: researchers got Claude Opus 5 to achieve a 100% score on the i…
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads
'Impeccable safety record'? Tesla Robotaxi filmed driving straight through traffic posts
Microsoft built a dedicated app that forces Bing everywhere on Windows 11, including Chrome, Firefox, and Brave
Microsoft built MicrosoftSettings.exe, an app that installs a Bing extension across Chrome and Edge, then redirects you to Microsoft Rewards.
Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky
Flock is selling "Drone as First Responder" tech, in the form of drones that are equipped with cameras that can read license plates.
China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux
The specialized Chinese version of Windows was already scheduled for retirement in February 2027, but now its end-of-life date has been moved up.
Remotely unlocking electric scooters
How subdomain recon, WordPress user enumeration, and a brute force led to admin access and remotely unlocking scooters.
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole
A grand jury made the exceedingly rare decision to decline federal charges against an Ohio man accused of tearing down a Flock ALPR.
What it looks like to live next to a sprawling data center
See how towering data centers transform neighborhoods and landscapes.
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.
GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners - Generalist AI
GEN-1.5 can in-context learn a new task from as little as 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data — or adapt with 1 to 10 gradient steps on minutes of data. These capabilities emerge from pretraining on large-scale physic…
Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner
Apple's CVE-2026-65400 Screen Sharing flaw is under active exploitation on internet-exposed Macs to install a Monero miner.
Fooling Flock: The Car Wrap That Blinds Plate Cameras
Flock cameras have earned their moment in the crosshairs, and it isn't hard to see why. License plate-reading cameras were sold on the premise of sharper law enforcement, but the rollout has produced misuse, false flags…
UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears
Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits of AI-enabled technology
Meta's $1.4 Trillion Reckoning: Can Infinite Scroll Be Illegal? - Gadget Review
Meta youth addiction trial seeks up to $1.4 trillion in penalties as 29 state AGs target infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmic design aimed at minors.
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta A…
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute
Researchers have demonstrated a quantum computation that appears to exceed the practical capabilities of leading classical simulation methods while also addressing a longstanding problem: how to verify the result.
Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50%
Delta CEO Ed Bastian says artificial intelligence could increase profits 50%. The airline’s plans point toward fewer office jobs, automated decisions and different fares for individual passengers.
Ukraine says more than 70 AI-enabled systems are striking battlefield targets as it seeks computer vision across all frontline drones
Ukraine’s Defence Forces are already using more than 70 systems powered by artificial intelligence and computer vision to strike battlefield targets, according to the Ministry of Defence.
littleFedi - a new light-weight fediverse server
A small ActivityPub server written in Go. One binary, no runtime, no external services.
Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review
Honey lost 7 million users after affiliate theft allegations triggered network bans and a creator lawsuit that survived PayPal's motion to dismiss.
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The first chatbot · ELIZA (1966)
A Critical Code Studies reading of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 chatbot, built on the original source recovered from the MIT archive.
EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with wha…
"It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society"
Kingdom Rising — Build, Raid, Rule
Build your kingdom, train an army and raid rivals in Kingdom Rising — a polished, premium fantasy strategy game.
Lane Departure Microscope
How a 7-inch digital microscope turned out to be running car dashcam firmware, complete with spoken lane-departure warnings and no speaker to play them.
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea
[AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer
🖨️ A self-hosted printing server webUI with multi-user support
Roblox tries to dismiss wrongful death lawsuit by arguing that a player gave up her right to sue when she was 8 years old
Roblox wants a wrongful death lawsuit to go to arbitration because of a clause in the terms and conditions - agreed upon by an eight-year-old.
Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus
Agencies tout very high success rates, but some experts compare it to “crime control theatre”
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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