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.
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the larg…
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.
Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music
The company is going all in on AI features, including AI-generated songs, to turn free users to paid.
Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
Spectre is Back: CPU Mitigations Found to Be Ineffective
Modern processors are fast in part because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it's …
Sony appears to be putting labels on PS5 console boxes to warn people it's ending disc production
It doesn't seem like Sony is backing down on its decision to end production of physical media by 2028 any time soon.
Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)
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Mark Zuckerberg apologises for child sex abuse and deepfake content, errors in operating Meta platform.
The apologies are also conveyed by top Meta brass that meets Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in his Rail Bhavan office
GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking its users over Google Play checks
Revolut recently banned using GrapheneOS without any justification. They're falsely claiming to do be doing it for security reasons. In reality, they're enforcing licensing Google Play. Revolut doesn't enforce security …
Boeing 737 Max operators told to check fuselages for cracks
Inspections ordered by US regulator will affect about 470 aircraft, after reported problems in earlier models
Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too
Meta claimed that a recent test of its AI model allowed it to access the internet, an already intimately familiar narrative by this point.
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay to Establish $567 Million Fund to Abate Harms to Youth
The court found Meta's platforms created a public nuisance by contributing to the youth mental health crisis and by facilitating child sexual exploitation.
$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in …
Apple has the wafers ready to go. It's just waiting on DRAM like everyone else.
I think the internet is broken, and it's broken at it's core
The internet is ugly, benchmarks score the checklist but miss the brokenness, div-buttons, dead links, dead emails, and the pages AI will learn from.
Disney Earnings Buoyed By ‘Toy Story 5’, Theme Parks, Streaming Profit; Books $100M Tariff Refund
Disney’s Josh D’Amaro stepped out with upbeat numbers and some news in his first full quarter as CEO.
Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.
Investors want ‘real proof’ AI spending is paying off, new report suggests - National | Globalnews.ca
A new report from Fidelity suggests financial advisors are increasingly looking for evidence that AI investments are translating into strong financial results.
Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]
People have left the president’s personal social media site in droves.
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
EU AI Act Content Labelling: Fake Around and Find Out
A personal teardown of EU AI Act Article 50 labelling rules, C2PA metadata stripping, Penelope Cruz, ad parallels and digital trust in 2026
First trailer released for 'Primetime', biopic film based on 'To Catch a Predator', with Robert Pattinson cast as Chris Hansen
A24's 'Primetime' has unveiled a first trailer previewing Robert Pattinson's turn as 'To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen.
AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany
An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
Scientists Sound Alarm on AI-Generated Biological Viruses Amid Unregulated Industry
"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not," a pair of researchers said.
Amata Release Announcement Trailer!
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Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating /// Government introduces several measures, including moni…
Undervisningsministeren er klar med en strakspakke mod AI-snyd, der indeholder initiativer, som på den korte bane kan anvendes til at sætte ind over for uhensigtsmæssig brug af AI i gymnasiet.
Pages of Turnabout – Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Review
As a fan of courtroom dramas, I really couldn't let this one pass! The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is so wonderful and influential, and I have enough proof to state with absolute certainty that you should give …
Walmart accused of collecting customers' voiceprints
A group of Walmart customers say the supermarket retained their biometrics, running afoul of Illinois data privacy laws.
AI used to design brand new viruses not found in nature
Using AI, researchers have designed complete, functional bacteriophage genomes from scratch and tested them against bacteria that had evolved resistance to a natural bacteriophage. Their work marks a step toward generat…
OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communicat…
The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.
Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"
The Resident Evil maker counts most of its game sales as digital
WAGE SURVEILLIANCE IS HERE! (HOW DESPERATE ARE YOU?)
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Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it?
# Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it? [Lemmy discussion.](https://feddit.org/post/33711225) The US-based nonprofit Privacy Guides recent…
Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night
Winona's 8 Flock Safety license plate cameras were stolen and poles cut overnight, leaving a $24,000 gap and no suspects.
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Nashville's Metro Council authorized eminent domain proceedings for property near the Nashville Zoo. Vanderbilt Innovation neighborhood plan advanced.
Romance chatbot taken offline after TBIJ investigation: Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and en…
Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and encrypted’ chats, has been shut down
Grand Theft Auto VI will get an extended look on August 27, streamed on Netflix
See the premiere of an extended look at "Grand Theft Auto VI," the next evolution in the groundbreaking "Grand Theft Auto" series, on August 27.
Nobody Asked for AI
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
Hands On with the Anbernic RG SP; The Game Boy Advance SP Reimagined
Anbernic finally delivers the Game Boy Advance SP that nostalgia always imagined.
David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated
Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-…
DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever
"0/10... Useless for perverts."
Why The Cyclops Scene in The Odyssey Is So Terrifying
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
"You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.": Mexican Lawmakers Drag Sony to Antitrust Court Over All-Digital PlayStation
Mexican lawmakers file an antitrust complaint against Sony over plans to end physical PlayStation discs by 2028, warning of monopoly pricing and no game ownership.
Trump’s FTC Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”
As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.