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.
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.
TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children’s privacy
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws.
Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety
Former Meta safety engineer Arturo Béjar testified that his concerns about child safety fell on deaf ears.
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
Dutch regulator fines Uber $966m for automating driver suspensions
European regulators have imposed billions in penalties on US technology companies due to privacy, competition and digital market rules
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero: researchers got Claude Opus 5 to achieve a 100% score on the i…
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads
'Impeccable safety record'? Tesla Robotaxi filmed driving straight through traffic posts
Microsoft built a dedicated app that forces Bing everywhere on Windows 11, including Chrome, Firefox, and Brave
Microsoft built MicrosoftSettings.exe, an app that installs a Bing extension across Chrome and Edge, then redirects you to Microsoft Rewards.
Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky
Flock is selling "Drone as First Responder" tech, in the form of drones that are equipped with cameras that can read license plates.
China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux
The specialized Chinese version of Windows was already scheduled for retirement in February 2027, but now its end-of-life date has been moved up.
Remotely unlocking electric scooters
How subdomain recon, WordPress user enumeration, and a brute force led to admin access and remotely unlocking scooters.
The Tasmanian Devil Speaking Normally
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole
A grand jury made the exceedingly rare decision to decline federal charges against an Ohio man accused of tearing down a Flock ALPR.
What it looks like to live next to a sprawling data center
See how towering data centers transform neighborhoods and landscapes.
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.
How The Mad Hatter Twists The Truth | Batman: Caped Crusader
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GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners - Generalist AI
GEN-1.5 can in-context learn a new task from as little as 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data — or adapt with 1 to 10 gradient steps on minutes of data. These capabilities emerge from pretraining on large-scale physic…
Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner
Apple's CVE-2026-65400 Screen Sharing flaw is under active exploitation on internet-exposed Macs to install a Monero miner.
Fooling Flock: The Car Wrap That Blinds Plate Cameras
Flock cameras have earned their moment in the crosshairs, and it isn't hard to see why. License plate-reading cameras were sold on the premise of sharper law enforcement, but the rollout has produced misuse, false flags…
UK cinemas look at banning Meta smart glasses over piracy fears
Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits of AI-enabled technology
Meta's $1.4 Trillion Reckoning: Can Infinite Scroll Be Illegal? - Gadget Review
Meta youth addiction trial seeks up to $1.4 trillion in penalties as 29 state AGs target infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmic design aimed at minors.
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta A…
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute
Researchers have demonstrated a quantum computation that appears to exceed the practical capabilities of leading classical simulation methods while also addressing a longstanding problem: how to verify the result.
Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50%
Delta CEO Ed Bastian says artificial intelligence could increase profits 50%. The airline’s plans point toward fewer office jobs, automated decisions and different fares for individual passengers.
Ukraine says more than 70 AI-enabled systems are striking battlefield targets as it seeks computer vision across all frontline drones
Ukraine’s Defence Forces are already using more than 70 systems powered by artificial intelligence and computer vision to strike battlefield targets, according to the Ministry of Defence.
littleFedi - a new light-weight fediverse server
A small ActivityPub server written in Go. One binary, no runtime, no external services.
Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review
Honey lost 7 million users after affiliate theft allegations triggered network bans and a creator lawsuit that survived PayPal's motion to dismiss.
Self-Host Weekly (21 August 2026)
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Eclipse SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility
Open source, microscopic and continuous multi-modal traffic simulation package
The first chatbot · ELIZA (1966)
A Critical Code Studies reading of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 chatbot, built on the original source recovered from the MIT archive.
EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with wha…
"It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society"
Exposing The Grift: The Odyssey
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Kingdom Rising — Build, Raid, Rule
Build your kingdom, train an army and raid rivals in Kingdom Rising — a polished, premium fantasy strategy game.
Lane Departure Microscope
How a 7-inch digital microscope turned out to be running car dashcam firmware, complete with spoken lane-departure warnings and no speaker to play them.
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea
[AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer
🖨️ A self-hosted printing server webUI with multi-user support
Roblox tries to dismiss wrongful death lawsuit by arguing that a player gave up her right to sue when she was 8 years old
Roblox wants a wrongful death lawsuit to go to arbitration because of a clause in the terms and conditions - agreed upon by an eight-year-old.
Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus
Agencies tout very high success rates, but some experts compare it to “crime control theatre”
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because I need some chill
Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch
The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a...
HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in San Diego
"The emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum," Vader said during the meeting.
Their cities dropped Flock surveillance cameras. They’re still being watched
Despite policy victories over Flock, Americans are finding themselves under similar monitoring by a new company â or unable to remove the original cameras
'GTA 6' Gameplay Leaks Turn Ugly As Hackers Mock Rockstar
Two new GTA 6 gameplay clips shared by Cyberleek on Wednesday mock Rockstar and Take-Two via an in-game cutscene as the hackers threaten more leaks
Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube
The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website.
TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industr…
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
Abxylute S9V: When a Giveaway Becomes Bribery
Why should Amazon reviews be taken with skepticism? A Discord promotion for the Abxylute S9V offers a troubling example of manipulated feedback.
Google Chrome: The Ultimate Weapon of Google Monopoly
A case study on Google Chrome's worst privacy practices.