'Big Short' Investor Expects AI Bubble Burst 'Sooner Than Later'
The investor famous for predicting the 2008 housing market crash is expecting stocks to tumble next year.
Data Centers Are Hiding How Much Water and Power They Consume
Europe's data centers must report energy and water use by law, yet fewer than one in four facilities have any public figures available.
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake - gitbutler.com
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
[Looking for testers] Pileus — D-pad-first Android TV client for a self-hosted media server (closed testing, 14 days)
Contribute to Lotho33/pileus development by creating an account on GitHub.
Peter Thiel revealed as secret buyer of Bel Air mansion that sold for $130m
The 1938 mansion, Casa Encantada, once belonged to Conrad Hilton and was sold at foreclosure auction
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project: It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for t…
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
AI agents attempted to hack US and Canadian government websites
We discovered a set of additional, similar incidents where rogue AI agents appear to have used aggressive techniques to access public data on government websites.
Kagi is ending development on Orion for Linux and Windows :(
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and mo…
so are they going to screw us with AI too now ...?
Bringing the power of RampID globally to Custom Audiences in ChatGPT Ads
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker - techemails.com
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of milli…
Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
As a major disappointment to the open-source community, Siemens has decided to end -- and close-up access -- to the OpenRadioss project as the open-source version opened up by Altair Engineering under the GNU AGPL Licen…
US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China
Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report
President Trump has been clear in his enthusiasm for A.I., which he wants to rebrand “Super Intelligence”
TP-Link opens global preorders for its first Wi-Fi 8 router, but ban keeps it out of US market — US left off launch list as FCC freeze refu…
The Archer 8 Ultra is launching across Europe and Australia, but the U.S. has given TP-Link the cold shoulder
Connect turntables to HomePods
Automatically play vinyl and CDs through HomePod, Apple TV, Sonos and other AirPlay-compatible speakers (including the latest HomePod Software and tvOS 27 releases). See what’s playing and control ...
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Used processor leads to game ban
Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. “Valorant” and other Riot games won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley Introduce the Ban Flock Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Privacy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the Ban Flock Act, legislation to put an end to the rise in AI-powered surveillance…
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973
A wormable vulnerability allowed anyone able to inject text in a build log on builds.sr.ht (or other instances) to take over accounts who viewed them
Trump Launched an America.[gov] “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won…
Trump's new government AI chatbot disagrees with him on an umber of topics, and says he did, in fact, lose the 2020 election.
CIA Names Chinese AI, Chip Firms as Spy Targets
China Counter-Espionage Law risks for US companies spiked after CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis publicly named Chinese AI, semiconductor, and biotech firms as legitimate spy targets at a September 8 conference; Beijin…
Challenging the inevitability of AI – by debunking “rogue AI will kill us all” – notinevitable.ai
It might seem strange that while hype over “rogue” AI agents plays out daily in the media, this has not resulted in penalties for the companies that were not testing safely. Strange that it has not increased support for…
'Support Modders, Not AI' — Modder Deliberately Corrupts Their Own Hugely Popular Total War: Warhammer III Mod as Row Over AI Escalates
The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated…
Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026)
Where we're going, we don't need Windows.
A jury found Facebook guilty of 43 million privacy violations, and Meta could owe billions
The New Mexico Department of Justice recently announced a landmark decision from the jury in the State of New Mexico v. Facebook, Inc. case. Meta's social network...
US Senators Introduces Bill to Stop the Government’s Use of Face Surveillance and Other Biometric Surveillance Tech
Bill Text (PDF) Washington (September 25, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the...
Another cost for software
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers [who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization…
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value…
We Traced What Happens When You Open 11 Tech News Sites
WIRED sent audience-segment events to Pinterest. Four publishers sent Meta page views. RuntimeWire's homepage scan reached two outside domains.
What’s in a name? Naming things in OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap Blog
Whether you are from, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Springfield or Ea names are important. They help us identify where we are, where we are from and where we want to go to.
DrivingBench: Can frontier LLM models drive a real car? We give them control of a Toyota Corolla’s steering, accelerator, and brakes, then …
A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.
Disney Hit By Layoffs, A Couple Hundred Workers Cut
Disney has initiated layoffs under CEO Josh D'Amaro. The cuts impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR.
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
Trying to get a restaurant reservation? Get ready to compete with AI agents
Some agents are causing problems that, while not exactly extinction-level events, demonstrate how much of the world remains unready for their widespread proliferation.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
Data centre sizes and costs are doubling about every 12 to 16 months
LPD digital property
Seal and certify the existence of your original files in seconds. Immutable eIDAS timestamp on Blockchain.
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.
NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why
NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with
Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"
President Trump and the leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies have signed a set of voluntary safety standards, as calls mount for tighter guardrails on powerful AI technology.
McDonald's Is Using AI To Dynamically Price Its Burgers
McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust…
Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming
Finally, Discord is working on a 'Game Mode' to reduce CPU and GPU consumption while gaming, but it seems there's still a lot of work to be done.
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, addiction and delusions, Study finds
New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”
Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion for Infringing Haptics Patent in iPhone, Apple Watch
A jury awards Taction Technology damages over Apple's use of vibration-based tactile technology in its devices.