AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered
TIL about Benner's Cycle - a predictive pattern created by an Ohian farmer in 1872 that tried to predict economic boom and bust cycles betw…
Benner's cycle describes a theorized economic phenomenon named after Ohioan farmer Samuel Benner, who in 1872 produced a chart that references historical market cycles between 1780–1872 and uses them to make predictions…
Beyond GPS: The Hidden Ways Your Phone Tracks You
How carriers, governments, and data brokers log your physical movements without your knowledge.
US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
Perochialjoe Let's Play: Back to Saturn X E1 (Brutal Doom)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
An open-source, GPLv3 open-world RPG looking for contributors
Bazaar Initiative is an open source, open world role-playing game in a fantasy key, built by anyone who wants to make it. For PC. Free, forever, under GPLv3.
Vanilla OS 3 Reunion is now available!
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
GTA 6 leaks: Rockstar's nightmare or just a blip?
Clips appearing to show the highly anticipated game have appeared online, but will they really hurt it?
The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"
The agency said it cannot ban personalized pricing under its current authority, but it will pursue enforcement action against companies that fail to meet its disclosure requirements.
GitHub - lordgreg/rodeo: Rodeo - a terminal file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander, written in Rust
Rodeo - a terminal file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander, written in Rust - lordgreg/rodeo
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's …
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
Rogue AI agent incidents fuel push for tech transparency
A groundswell of interest in how America’s top AI companies train their models and how they try to prevent cybersecurity incidents has focused attention on the lack of AI regulation.
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like.
Interviews with data workers in China and Australia reveal the precarious, exploitative conditions of this new branch of the gig economy.
Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak
A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels.
A website for debloated open source alternatives
open-source replacements for bloated vendor software
Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatte…
The publisher wants MachineGuid identifiers, login IPs, and OneDrive contents by September 4.
Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector
Comcast is promoting WiFi-based motion detection as a part of its new Xfinity Shield home protection platform, allowing routers and wireless devices to detect people moving through a home without cameras or motion senso…
‘Appalling’: Mark Ruffalo denies antisemitism charge from Paramount Skydance over merger criticism
The actor fired back at Paramount’s response to his criticisms of the company’s planned merger with rival Warner Bros.
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
The Open-Source Investigators Reconstructing the Middle East’s Wars
As journalists are shut out of conflict zones, investigators are using satellite imagery, social media and 3D modelling to document atrocities. But evidence alone cannot deliver accountability.
Rockstar reportedly furious by GTA 6 leaks and has no idea how it happened, but won’t change Netflix premiere date
Rockstar Games is reportedly furious over the latest wave of GTA 6 leaks, but it has no plans to change the date of the game’s Netflix premiere.
Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games
Sony's unsolicited EULA email tells PlayStation users their digital games are licensed, not owned, arriving just as the #PSBlackout boycott kicks off.
I Just Want to Search
Learning to search was a key skill growing up as a teen in the 2000s. How to use accurate keywords, quotes, the entire lot of search operators. Google-fu was a hard earned skill (yes, I read a book) and helped me figure…
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “ew…
Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe
A Dutch data regulatory authority said that Uber has to pay 824.9 million euros for violating the GDPR.
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes
Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here.
Continuwuity v26.8.1 is released with remote server health tracking! [CBH]
_Continuwuity is a community-driven Matrix chat server, designed to be efficient and easy to run_ > Experts aren't real it's all just a tgirl in a hoodie on a thinkpad Boo! Surprise release! It's a good one, too - we've…
Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims
That origin story came directly from a former Samsung Electronics engineer surnamed Jeon, according to Maeil Business. The veteran employee spent almost three decades at Samsung before...
Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games
Chinese humanoid robots have set records including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
TikTok agrees to $400m settlement to resolve US children’s privacy litigation
The DoJ sued TikTok and its former parent company in August 2024 for allegedly failing to protect childrenâs privacy and collecting their information
U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants
The warning comes as cyber incidents target U.S. water systems in attacks cybersecurity experts suspect are linked to Iran.
America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First…
PJM Interconnection now requires new data centers over 50 MW to supply their own power or face first-priority grid curtailment starting June 2027.
One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives
Carmakers keep loading new cars with driver aids, but a surprising share of owners never turn the fanciest ones on
Disney celebrates blockbuster 2026 by kicking employees' spouses off healthcare plans
Disney celebrates blockbuster 2026 by kicking employees' spouses off healthcare plans
TIL that in Massachusetts, white families have a median net wealth of $549,000. For black families, it is just $7,800
A detailed survey of family wealth in Massachusetts has found an estimated median family net wealth of $374,000 and higher median wealth among those with more education, homeowners, those 65 or older, rural residents, a…
Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM.
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.
‘They’re thinking about the likes’: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland
Social media platforms face public ire after fatal crash involving teenagers filming themselves driving on wrong side
Kingdom Rising
Build your kingdom, train an army and raid rivals in Kingdom Rising — a polished, premium fantasy strategy game.
Nextcloud earns ANSSI CSPN and BSI IT-Grundschutz certifications - Nextcloud
Nextcloud recently earned two European security certifications and a reference DPIA. Learn more about what this means for enterprise customers.
Texas A&M physics prof writes: In ten years, light diffused by satellites will erase the the stars for the vast majority of humans. Save th…
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The defense revolving-door, Silicon Valley edition
An eye-opening glimpse at the links between two congressional committees and more than 100 defense contractors, consultants, and lobbyists.
The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a personalized price; Proposed enforcement policy would force companies to tell consu…
FTC says companies have to disclose personalized pricing and surveillance pricing
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
A Coddy Developer Survey revealed that AI coding is leading to a new kind of burnout.
Walmart is finally adding Tap to Pay
Beginning Aug. 24, we will be adding Tap to Pay to our payment options at select Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations, with plans to roll it out to all U.S. stores and clubs by the end of 2026 and to fuel stations by…
Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT Answers as Search Citations Drop 86%
ChatGPT is citing Reddit far less: reddit.com's share of ChatGPT Search citations collapsed from about 4% to about 0.5% on August 14, 2026. Daily data for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode from July 7 to …
'Hoard and Destroy'? Advocates Demand Federal Probe of Book-Burning by AI Giants
"AI companies are engineering a future where only the wealthiest incumbents can build high-quality AI models and operate as the sole holders of humanity's written works."
Uber Fined Nearly €825 Million Euros($966M Dollars) for Automated Driver Blocking
Uber fined nearly €825 million by Dutch data protection authority for automated driver blocking.