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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
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When the Dystopian Movie feels utopian, you know you're in Hell
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Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse)
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Students are increasingly pushing back on Silicon Valley's AI agenda, raising concerns about jobs, human agency, and the future of work.
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The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware
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$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
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Facebook and Messenger go down as users report major outage
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How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
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Please don't mess with links: (Maurycy's blog)
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AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw
The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher MrBruh after an AMD updater console window kept appearing on his new gaming PC.
Marcus Ranum: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security [2005]
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Chatbots just aren't very creative.
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
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Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
A Rivian Fender Bender Cost $42,000. Its CEO Says That Should Never Happen
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe exclusively told The Drive that no collision repair should cost tens of thousands of dollars — and explained why it's happened.
Elon Musk set to become world's first trillionaire as SpaceX lists on US stock market
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England: Police use of facial recognition technology growing rapidly - Statewatch
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Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
AI is hitting employment among young software developers hard
Employment in AI-vulnerable occupations, such as software development, has declined markedly faster among workers in their early 20s than among young workers in less-automatable jobs, new data from ADP and the Stanford …
Silicon Valley's AI elite are shelling out as much as $6,000/hour for 'nerdy escorts' who can talk tech and crypto
The AI grind often leaves workers with plenty of cash but not enough time, and chatbots can't fill the void.
Deezer Launches Free AI Music Detector for Playlists
43% of people joining Deezer from other streaming platforms already have AI music in their playlists
OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true
OpenAI writes that the now-banned accounts were "supporting covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and wider...
Petition: Reverse NHS England's decision to make its code repositories closed-source
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Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces
Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
Cloudflare reports agentic AI traffic surpasses human traffic
Cloudflare's internet-measurement tool, Cloudflare Radar, shows agentic AI bots now generate the majority of web requests, at 57.4% versus 42.6% from humans, data shared by CEO Matthew Prince on X and reported by NBC Ne…
Solar overtakes coal in US electricity for the first month on record
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This California city just approved the use of Flock drones as first responders, but residents are worried about 'militarization and surveil…
Stockton, California just invested millions of dollars in Flock drones to act as first responders.
Bucking RFK Jr., OB-GYNs release vaccine guidance that conflicts with CDC / Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the indepen…
Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule.
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
The Quiet Modder Behind Some of Handheld Gaming's Most Interesting Hardware Hacks
From RAM upgrades and storage mods to Steam Deck and ROG Ally experiments, e1000 has spent years pushing handheld hardware beyond what manufacturers thought possible
“I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers”: Colombia Law’s T…
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Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
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Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act
Cruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.
"Scammers have adapted": Valve confirms that physical Steam Gift Cards are dead. Once the current stocks are sold through, they're done.
Valve's Steam Gift Cards have been a staple in major retailers throughout the world for quite some time. But today, the firm confirmed they're being phased out.
Why Star Trek is Actually Socialist! | ft: @YUGOPNIK & @FreddaYT
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Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing
It's astonishing how much expectations are being lowered for the next Xbox.
Venture Bros explains minions
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Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB…
Samsung has 60 days to give Rossman a working replacement before he takes the company to court in Austin Texas.
Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim claims he was illegally fired for trying to implement safety mechanisms for the chatbot
Canada announces bill banning social media for anyone under 16
The regulation also imposes new safety expectations on 'AI chatbot services.'
Making a better Social Media
Introduction What is a ‘better’ social media? My last post on recreating old Facebook surprisingly made it to the front page of Hacker News, so it’s safe to assume there’s some interest, or nostalgia, for something in t…