New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency
Syntropic Power and UNIGRID have entered a partnership to commercialize UNIGRID’s sodium chromium oxide battery chemistry in North America.
How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta
The rogue AI attacks involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all tied back to a small Israeli startup named Irregular.
'They Fundamentally Don't Understand Art' — Doom Dev Blasts Xbox After Microsoft 'Gutted' id Software With Layoffs
After layoffs ripped through Doom developer id Software in July, lead services programmer Chris Hays has taken aim at Xbox: "They fundamentally don't understand art."
TP-Link router owners update now - 15 flaws patched. omada especially
Omada platform was found to be vulnerable in several ways
US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash
At least 54 US cities have canceled or rejected Flock license plate camera contracts in 2026 as privacy concerns and false alerts spark nationwide backlash.
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
Post Mortem: Grifters vs. The Odyssey
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Kim Dotcom interview: "Signal is compromised by a US government backdoor"
🚨 KIM DOTCOM: “SIGNAL IS NOT SECURE — ALL THE TOOLS ARE BEING WATCHED” This is a disturbing warning from Kim Dotcom in his interview with Tucker Carlson. Carlson asks a simple question: are any of the communications ap…
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Self-hosted analytics and the infrastructure cost of privacy
Iâve spent years preaching privacy, yet here I am installing a tracker. No, this isnât a sellout, I just self-hosted Rybbit. Here is the transparent breakdown.
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I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park - by Taylor Troesh
Gonna send you back to the stone age.
Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Canadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.
Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge,…
Different AI chatbots began repeating the same mystical ideas about consciousness and AI rights. Researchers are still trying to explain Spiralism.
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in mos…
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on …
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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.
As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits
A new bill would stop companies from marketing chatbots as therapy and force stricter oversight of AI in mental health care — as a labor union wages a parallel fight against Kaiser Permanente.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels
The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.
Zatanna's Powers are INSANE | Solid jj
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TIL that every year, the most powerful people in Michigan meet on an island for 3 days
The Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual Mackinac Policy Conference is a controversial fixture of Michigan politics. Each year politicians, lobbyists, business representatives and community leaders gather at the Grand Hote…
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
[AIP] Fathom v0.11.0: now on Android and Android TV (experimental), plus many more updates!
Fathom 0.11.0 brings the app to Android and Android TV, adds a YouTube Shorts viewer, Android Auto, and an Up Next prompt, and lets you manage and delete items in place. Note: Android TV support i...
Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web...
Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory price…
The price reversal is caused by the unbridled demand for HBM.
€2.99 or €3.49? Proton VPN's Pricing Test Exposed
An investigation into Proton VPN's pricing page found an A/B-test tag linked to two VPN Plus prices: €2.99 and €3.49 per month
Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really)
Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really).
Roblox Tanked $9 Billion In A Single Day After The Company Admitted It Was Directing Fewer Kids Toward Viral Games That ‘Emphasize Short-Te…
Wall Street seems unhappy about improvements to the Roblox recommendation algorithm
'This Is Unbelievably Scummy' - GTA 6 Fans Are Annoyed By Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game
Grand Theft Auto 6 fans aren't thrilled with Rockstar's decision to release the next look at the game through Netflix.
SEC bought access to over a billion airline records to track travelers, no warrant required
Documents obtained by 404 Media through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the SEC subscribed to the Travel Intelligence Program, or TIP, operated by Airlines...
Meta fined for $567 Mn for failing to protect minors on its platforms
A New Mexico judge has penalised the tech giant for creating a public nuisance and endangering children online. Meta confirmed it plans to appeal, insisting it works hard to protect young users across its platforms.
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
New Orleans is using AI to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers. What does this mean for crime and emergency response?
Tech volatility hits highest since dot-com bust next to S&P 500 | Fortune
Worries are rising that positioning in the Nasdaq 100 has become excessive.
A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night
Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
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'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's ext…
Grand Theft Auto 6 fans have called out Rockstar Games for "paywalling" the game's upcoming extended look.
2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out
A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows
Mass surveillance technology might be popular with police departments, but for the US public, it's becoming an increasingly difficult sell.
A Riddler Without Riddles Works | Batman: Caped Crusader
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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
DuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers / Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the anti-AI movement is channel…
Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the movement is becoming a proxy for anti-AI backlash.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is Mixed on Steam as players report poor PC performance, no Linux support, and countries without PSN unable to…
"This game is aggressively hostile to Linux players for absolutely no reason"
After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infra…
This move should prevent future electricity price increases.
The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN
Fifty years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. And experts think they finally have an issue that killed it.
America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed t…
Quake: Dawn of the Machine - Free Update
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YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto
YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.