We created a fake holiday home listing on 10 Downing Street, were able to make a test payment and publish a fake 10/10 review through booki…
The scam-ridden platform failed to block a phony listing of the most famous address in the country
Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were…
"There were two months where I was working something like at least 12 hours every day."
3 sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by pe…
TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Donald Trump. The local jury refused to indict him. He was immediatly relea…
A jury declined to indict a father who allegedly fatally shot his daughter in the chest following an argument about President Donald Trump.
Apple Maps follows Google, changes name of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'
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TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Trump. The jury refused to prosecute him. The man was released.
A jury declined to indict a father who allegedly fatally shot his daughter in the chest following an argument about President Donald Trump.
Uber is laying off 10% of staff
The message below was shared with Uber employees today.
charmbracelet/vhs a cli tool installs Chrome in the background without permission - is this still Open Source?
I just installed vhs through my package manager. And when I run the application I was shocked, as it downloads an executable from the web without disclosing it would. I think it is very important t...
Self-custodial wallet that you never knew exists
Your all-in-one crypto wallet with chat, calls, marketplace, and DeFi. Send, swap, stake, and trade securely.
Open source Peer-to-peer Huggingface with a Social Layer
Find, discuss and download AI models, peer to peer. No company owns it, hosts it, or can shut it down.
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that tr…
Architecture of Disappearance: The Kill Cloud’s Dispersal of Violence and the Erosion of Sovereignty
“Seemingly non-violent technical acts we were trained to do came to a head when we started hearing battle managers coordinating airstrikes from within the Operations Modules. Radios and servers patched into distant ends…
Snickers reveals digital candy bar you can ‘feed’ to ChatGPT when it gives bad answers
Snickers is taking its long-running “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” slogan into the AI era with a digital candy bar designed specifically for chatbots.
John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'
Apple has a new CEO, and Lake Ontario has a new name, apparently.
The AT Protocol Harkens An Old Web Ethos
Out with the new and in with the old.
The ChatGPT desktop app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong …
Your smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study finds
A study found that fitness trackers overestimate calories burned, and accuracy worsens as body fat increases.
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Description Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting...
"Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy
Failbetter, New Blood and other game developers on the importance of honing your visual (and technical) literacy if you want to effectively fight against genAI.
An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond
Pizza restaurants: Why pizza-making robots are not cutting it
A string of failures has sapped confidence that robots will take over production at pizza restaurants.
In Coyote vs. Acme, the Coyote Rages Against Modernity | The Backdrop
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Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6
PlayStation believes "reasonable consumers would not be misled" by its current disclosures
Quebec updates government websites to remove ‘Lake America’ from some maps
Google had implemented Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario.
Florida bans Flock cameras and other license plate readers from state highways
The state said it was ordering cameras removed from the right-of-way of state highways “to preserve Floridians’ sovereignty and quality of life.”
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Flock Enables Law Enforcement Personnel to Misuse Vehicle Location Info for Surveillance, Stalking
A class action lawsuit alleges that Flock’s nationwide network of license plate cameras allows law enforcement to stalk and surveil individuals for personal purposes.
Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neither the public nor …
Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS
Fairphone Gen 6 Plus launches with Murena's privacy-focused /e/OS, bringing current-gen sustainability and more to consumers.
Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting ps…
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff
Uncertainty around the TTRPG's performance is to blame.
Destroy adds economy
A browser extension that clicks on every blocked ad to fight advertising surveillance.
Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
Avoiding software without AI code is getting very difficult.
Capcom Spotlight Set for September 16 Ahead of TGS 2026
Capcom Spotlight streams September 16 ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2026, with Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, Pragmata, and more on display.
Konami Press Start Showcase Set for September 3
Konami is the latest publisher to stake out September 3, announcing a Konami Press Start showcase for that Thursday at 8:00 AM Pacific (11:00 AM Eastern). The stream promises the latest information on upcoming titles, .…
The Picardos - (Sopranos Star Trek Mashup Edit)
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Replacing Cloudflare Tunnel with a Selfhosted Towonel Tunnel
Moving my public ingress off Cloudflare Tunnel to a selfhosted towonel tunnel, and rebuilding the WAF and bot protection that came with it.
Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin
Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.
Advanced AI threatens the world’s financial system, The head of the world’s financial stability watchdog warned
In his letter to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, Andrew Bailey, warns that markets remain vulnerable to a potential disorderly correction and cautions on the risks posed by frontier…
FTC and 22 state attorneys general sue Amazon for overcharging advertisers on its platform
Today, 22 states joined the Federal Trade Commission in filing suit against Amazon, alleging that the company engaged in deceptive and unfair practices that secretly inflated prices in its online s
Google TV Streamer gets $50 price increase
Google has quietly raised the price of the Google TV Streamer to $149.99.
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell · Bit Nebula
It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The …
OpenTS is a new open-source reconstruction of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a true classic - one I remember excitedly reading magazine previews about and it continues to live on.
Micron Taiwan Strike Vote Possible in Sept. as ~80% Union Back Action Over Bonus Gap With Samsung, SK hynix
Surging memory prices are lifting profits at Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, while also fueling demands for higher employee payouts. According to Comme...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC devs faced “diametrically opposed” feedback from players in the West and Japan
Opinions are most polarized when it comes to mechanics that introduce friction.
Some US cities begin rewarding careful drivers with fewer red lights by giving early greens to those driving under or at the speed limit
Two cities have found a relatively novel way to reduce high-speed crashes by rewarding law-abiding drivers rather than just punishing the lead-footed ones.
Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups
The site networks connections between known DSA members and outside organizations, presented as a research tool.
Reacting to your Assumptions About Game Development... | Alanah Pearce
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OpenAI’s ad business shows blistering growth, hits $1 billion annualized revenue run rate
OpenAI's move to serve ads in ChatGPT earlier this year drew ridicule from its chief rival, Anthropic, in the form of a Super Bowl commercial.