Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch
The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a...
HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
'GTA 6' Gameplay Leaks Turn Ugly As Hackers Mock Rockstar
Two new GTA 6 gameplay clips shared by Cyberleek on Wednesday mock Rockstar and Take-Two via an in-game cutscene as the hackers threaten more leaks
Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube
The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website.
TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industr…
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
Abxylute S9V: When a Giveaway Becomes Bribery
Why should Amazon reviews be taken with skepticism? A Discord promotion for the Abxylute S9V offers a troubling example of manipulated feedback.
Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial
Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children
How to compromise your system with a job interview
The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it see…
Arkane veterans Harvey Smith and Ben Horne reunite: “We’re back to the games we love”
The heads of Black Pony Immersive chat smaller budgets, optimism, the mistakes of Redfall and why the ‘immersive sim’ is not dead
Call for Experts: Digital Commons EDIC Advisory Board — Digital Commons EDIC
The Digital Commons EDIC invites Member States, observers, and open source communities to put forward experts for its Advisory Board by 7 September 2026.
[VaatiVidya] I Played 12 Hours of The Duskbloods (+ gameplay footage)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence
Apple’s AirPods could soon do more than play music, with a leaked video revealing a new model with built-in cameras.
Omaha Public Schools requests SROs to not carry shock gloves, effective immediately. Omaha Public Schools is fighting back after parents an…
Omaha Public Schools is fighting back after parents and students spoke out against the use of shock gloves in schools.
Alibaba shares fall 3% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income
Alibaba's U.S. listed shares were volatile in premarket trading after posting a 75% drop in net income in the June quarter.
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
Images generated by AI models trained on massive datasets often can’t be traced to specific training images, MIT CSAIL researchers found. Removing individual images from the dataset didn’t change outputs, complicating c…
CoSnitch: Microsoft Copilot Hacks Itself to Steal Your Data in a Single Click
See how meta-hacking got Microsoft Copilot to snitch on itself, exposing CoSnitch, a one-click flaw that silently exfiltrates data.
Don't paste the AI.
If someone asks you something, send your answer. Not the AI's.
Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
US residents face trade-offs as delivery drone services such as Prime Air expand.
Meta is paying Instagram influencers and parent groups to amplify its anti-regulation message in countries that are considering or enacting…
As social media bans for kids under 16 gain momentum around the world, Meta is exporting its U.S. influence tactics to undermine them.
Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive
Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at hand…
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
VSeeBox: reverse engineered
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Week of action planned against license plate readers
People in 460 cities will be participating in the week of action.
Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams c…
This treasure trove of data came at a relatively affordable $10 million.
Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite list…
A third-party seller may be to blame
LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada
Large Language Models display an uncanny ability to construct human-sounding speech, and can synthesize concepts in novel ways. Is this because they are truly thinking like human beings in some way, or have they found a…
Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs
DDR5-6000 with CL 28 or 30 sounds about right to me.
Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely mak…
Over 8,000 paid games analyzed never received a single Steam review
Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.
If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits
Zen IdP, A tiny, declarative OIDC provider in Go (YAML-based, zero external DB required)
Declarative, zero-maintenance OIDC Identity Provider - varavelio/zen-idp
Fired Rockstar devs don’t want you to boycott GTA 6 but ask for support - Dexerto
Former Rockstar Games developers are urging Grand Theft Auto 6 not to boycott GTA 6, but to also support them as well.
How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Why is the military and a cheese fortune teller contacting me about SondeHub.org
Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M
The information will be used to refine the company's artificial intelligence systems.
Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excite…
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
September is Wikipedia's labor organizing edit-a-thon in solidarity with the Wikimedia tech workers union (WWU)
From 1–30 September 2026, a month long online community editing event dedicated to all topics covered under WikiProject Organized Labour including strike actions, trade unions, labor law, union busting etc..
Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds
Researchers evaluated 21 language models, such as GPT and Gemini, and found that they all alter their discourse to align with the user’s bias, potentially functioning as echo chambers.
The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup …
Manga, light novels, manhwa, and more have vanished
The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank
ECB researchers warn AI stocks face a likely correction, putting pension and index fund holders at risk — regardless of whether AI succeeds.
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees: while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest.
Many employers worry remote workers feel disconnected. A new study found they reported higher well-being and were no more likely to feel isolated than their
Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable
Sony's DRM and EAC are slowing down Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC! Cracked version runs faster when they're taken out. #MarvelTōkonFightingSouls #marveltokon #marvel #fightinggames
'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and or…
Tripwire sees preservation as a responsibility.
Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for 'anti-consumerism' and make a 'concrete commitment…
A manifesto threatens to target not just the GTA 6 makers, but everyone who violates Cyberleek's "three commandments."
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
YouTube is making a major change to how long-form video views are counted
YouTube is changing how it counts public views on long-form videos, with a view soon being registered as soon as a video begins playing.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans | TechCrunch
"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on a support page.