Why Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’
Béjarâs daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Metaâs âwellbeing teamâ, he knew he had to speak out â and his testimony cost it billions
The Triple-i Initiative October 2026
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Former Twitch exec calls secrecy over Dr Disrespect’s ban a “big mistake”
Former Twitch director Marcus ‘djWheat’ Graham has criticized the platform’s lack of transparency around major bans such as Dr Disrespect’s.
No human required: Austria's plan for AI-only government decisions// A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authoritie…
A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions with no human ever reviewing the outcome, using AI Systems. We've sent an open letter to parliament, and we want to know if…
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe suite
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
Phantom Blade Zero PlayStation 5 Pulled From Playasia Listings, as Retailer Says No Physical Edition Is Coming
Phantom Blade Zero may be digital-only at launch on PlayStation 5 following Playasia customer support confirmation
Russian operation that used ChatGPT tricked schools, a politician and media, OpenAI says: OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching…
OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching influence operation it has disrupted.
KIOXIA's first E1.L QLC-Based SSD built for hyperscale data center workloads has arrived
KIOXIA's new LD4 Series SSD in E1.L form factor brings its BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash memory technology to high-density 1U servers.
Ransomware recovery firm claimed it could decrypt files, but may have just paid hackers and pocketed the difference
The United States Department of Justice has charged Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as "Zack Silver" and "Zack Green," with fraud. He ran a Florida-based company called...
Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out
They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting.
Eichmann could do nothing but repeat orders. He had nothing but theory and could not speak outside of it because he did no thinking. MAGA a…
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN
The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
Tech Workers’ Leverage Over Employers Is Shifting
Just a few years ago, tech workers held enormous leverage over their employers. That power has eroded recently, especially because of AI. Tech workers can find new sources of leverage, but only through waging struggles …
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
OpenAI paid $300 for a bug that gave away its paid models
Researcher says he will not report again after $300 OpenAI bug bounty payout though it advertises up to $100,000.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven. Meta is making it cle…
We sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down.
Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends
Some of Amazon’s descriptions sound more like a roast.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting: Here's how to check yours.
Customers are discovering the dossiers that Amazon is building on their shopping habits, and what they find is downright insulting.
GM Admits It Needs Hybrids Again: 'We're Not Tone Deaf'
General Motors will launch new hybrid vehicles as customer demand and sales surge for the alternative powertrain. GM sells only one hybrid: the Corvette.
Hardware price surge drives student demand for refurbished laptops
Soaring component costs have pushed new computers beyond the reach of many students and budget-conscious consumers, fuelling a major market expansion for second-hand and refurbished hardware across Punjab.
US man arrested as second suspect in Canada mass school shooting planned with ChatGPT
Justice department detained James Codey Bryant and allege he offered ‘technical advice’ to primary suspect
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back
Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over
The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear
AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.
ChatGPT keeps signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
Oracle Health Hack Exposes Data of Nearly 20M People
Patient names, Social Security numbers, doctors and diagnoses might have been breached in the cyberattack.
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
âThereâs a perception of mobster behaviorâ from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
OpenAI’s “ChatGPT for Teens” Is an “Unsafe” Mess: "It is incumbent for OpenAI to earn the trust of parents and to show them, not just tell …
A new Common Sense Media report found that guardrails said to be included in OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" aren't working as promised.
Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation Over ‘Anticompetitive’ Merchant Credit Card Transaction Fees
A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees.
RAM to see 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out, as the memory crisis is predicted to last 'at least' another 3 years
Chatter on the grapevine, and from analyst firms, about the memory supply shortage has taken another gloomy turn.
halqe: A simple and minimalistic webring software(written in Rust)
halqe is a small and simple webring software. The development cost is partially funded by Bitcoin Cash community through this crowdfunding campaign.
Squid (Simplifying Quantitive Imaging Development and Deployment) microscopes
configurable low-cost microscope
2026 Self-Host User Survey (selfh.st)
Annual survey covering various self-hosting topics
One Card to Rule Them All: How spruceOS Learned to Live Everywhere
spruceOS 4.5.0 adds new handhelds, offline RetroAchievements and another pile of features, but the more interesting story is how a little project that began on the Miyoo A30 became something you can carry from one handh…
Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program
Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.
Report: Cancelled Perfect Dark Project Over 2 Minutes of Gameplay Surfaces Showcasing New Zones and Combat
Cancelled project from the now-defunct The Initiative's Perfect Dar reboot gameplay has surfaced showcasing combat and more.
Star Citizen answers select player questions about flight, damage, and bugged missions
Hey, remember a few weeks ago when Star Citizen was talking up a new Q&A video series as part of CIG's promise to have more communication? Well, the first episode of that series known as 10 From the Community is now onl…
Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family: "They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."
Meta's buzzy new AI agent comes with some major privacy risks — not just for users, but anybody on the periphery of its users' lives.
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Obscura VPN 'We View Consumer Data as Toxic Waste' | itsfoss
Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough.
LibreSSL 4.3.3 Released with OCSP Authorization Bypass Fix
LibreSSL 4.3.3 addresses an OCSP responder authorization bypass, several DTLS issues, and improves portability across macOS and Windows.
Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings
Only about one-third of surveyed retailers plan to invest in self-checkout technology this year, significantly fewer than in 2025, according to an annual retail industry report. While...
Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? New research finds female AI agents ‘paid’ less
New research from University of Limerick has found gender bias in the workplace could be replicated in interactions with artificial intelligence. The study, co-authored by Dr Mary Hausfeld of UL's Kemmy Business School,…
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use: Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiti…
A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence's training of its AI model didn't amount to "fair use."
Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend
Chick-fil-A is turning down artificial intelligence in its drive-thru lanes, choosing human employee interaction over automated order takers as competitors embrace voice technology.