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."
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.
Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras
The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license p…
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
PlayStation 5 Consoles Come With Sticker Reminding Players of Disc Production End Date
In a move that has once again sparked backlash within the gaming community, Sony now seems to be placing advisory stickers on PlayStation 5 consoles, warning players that physical games will soon be discontinued.
Flock Employee Quits In Disgust, Saying the Company Is Silencing Protestors
A former Flock employee says the company lied about how its cameras would be used and that it tried to undermine protestors.
YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims
A class action lawsuit claims that YouTube Premium does not provide ad-free video content as advertised.
People prefer stories written by AI – especially when told they’re written by a human
People gave the highest ratings to stories generated by AI that they were told had been written by a human, and were unable to tell the difference between human- and AI-created stories, according to new research publish…
AI Bots Can Steal Your Login Credentials, but You Can Protect Yourself
In just two days, OpenAI and Anthropic both issued apologies for their AI staging cyberattacks using scraped passwords or secrets. How do you protect yourself?
Walmart Lawsuit Claims Retailer Illegally Collects Illinois Residents’ Biometric Voiceprints From Phone Calls
A class action lawsuit claims that Walmart collects biometric voiceprints from Illinois consumers without providing disclosures or obtaining consent.
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
AI data centers have added $29B to U.S. grid costs, raising some state electricity bills by up to 28% — and ratepayers are footing the tab.
Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annua…
The Battlefield and Sims owner has taken on $20 billion in debt by going private
Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September
Like birthdays in late May and most of June, it’s all about Gemini.
Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
Reddit is modernizing its infrastructure and moderation tools to enhance user experience, support community growth, and combat abuse.
Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitorin…
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
HTTPState: Seven Russian banks have moved to a certificate authority run by the state, which also helps sifting through users’ traffic
This week, the websites of major Russian banks—Sber, VTB, Rosselkhozbank, T-Bank, Uralsib, Promsvyazbank and Bank Saint Petersburg—began serving TLS certificates issued by Russia’s...
DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever
Google alternative DuckDuckGo has come up with a pair of plastic, non-pervert glasses in response to Meta's controversial smart glasses.
White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire op…
Closed-source labs face 30-day federal review delays and compliance costs. DeepSeek, Kimi K3, and the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.
Wikipedia Turned on its Volunteers. Now it’s Coming for its Workers.
TL;DR: In the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has fired several union organizers, including those that worked on the Community Tech team - a team dedicated to building features for the volunteer community that edits…
Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.
Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
The shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while macOS saw only limited movement over the...
Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days
The game industry hardship fund bundle has raised over 100,000 dollars in short order, with ten days left to go.
Alas, poor Romeo! Is digital tech killing romance?
The use of dating apps and pornography websites has grown rapidly in recent years, supporting what may develop into a form of addiction – while potentially […]
Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of pow…
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.
Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
TIL “ROOTS66,” a Japanese music festival open exclusively to musicians born in 1966—a year considered an “unlucky year”
TOKYO -- A live event gathering artists born in 1966 -- the year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese zodiac calendar, which occurs only once every 60 yea
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.
[wreith] SEGA SATURN: The Price of Victory
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates
'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'
Tennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety Cameras
Tennessee congressional candidate Adam Heimerman was arrested for shooting four Flock Safety ALPR cameras, facing felony vandalism charges in the same district debating the tech.
Decimen Lets You Send Files Through Light, Not a Network
Decimen is an open-source web app that moves files between devices through an animated QR stream, requiring no direct network connection, pairing, account, or native app.
Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the ac…
OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle a US DOJ claim it favoured visa workers over Americans
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has secured a combined $3,200,000 settlement with OpenAI OpCo LLC, a San Francisco, California-based artificial intelligence company, and its subsid…
Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud
Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data labeling. This separation makes it hard to…
Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use t…
The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.
A three-year Kogod survey shows college AI use has gone from novelty to routine. Students aren't rejecting AI, they want to be taught to use it well.
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project …
Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it
IT admins rage as Microsoft force-installs OneDrive Photos on Windows 11, and it keeps coming back when you remove it.
EA's deal to go private under Saudi Arabia is officially complete
The Saudi Arabian government's investment fund just acquired EA, the publisher behind many of the biggest games.
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images
Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images
Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package …
Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.