YouTube is making a major change to how long-form video views are counted
YouTube is changing how it counts public views on long-form videos, with a view soon being registered as soon as a video begins playing.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans | TechCrunch
"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on a support page.
The Amazon tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…
GTA 6 gameplay and map leaked ahead of Netflix Extended Look - Dexerto
Leaked GTA 6 gameplay showing Jason playing basketball, driving, and fighting has appeared online alongside new images revealing the game’s map.
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
llms.txt: What the 2026 Data Actually Shows
Adoption sits around 10% of domains, major AI crawlers rarely fetch it, and Google has said it won't support it. Here's why it's still worth twenty minutes — and what it isn't.
We De-FLOCK HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
A viral campaign is urging Americans to turn Halloween into “De-Flock America” night and target controversial surveillance cameras.
TIL 11/14 current feeder judges (those whose clerks most frequently go on to SCOTUS clerkships) were Republican appointees
In the United States, feeder judges are prominent judges in the American federal judiciary whose law clerks are frequently selected to become law clerks for the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.[1] Feeder judges are a…
East Tennessee commissioner says Flock CEO should be hanged
An East Tennessee county commissioner sparked controversy after suggesting during a public workshop that Flock CEO Garret Langley should be hanged for treason.
Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound
EPFL engineers have designed acoustic cavities that convert sound waves into thrust, propelling small robots and ultralight aerial vehicles without on-board actuators or electronics.
How weaving helped invent modern computing - and is shaping its future
Weaving is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, but its patterns helped inspire early computing. Today, textile makers are using conductive yarns and digital looms to invent new kinds of technology.
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why you’re getting emails about “Your Beauty and Electronics items”
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres.…
Camover Portland: Summer Games 2026!
via Rose City Counter-Info – Camover is here in Portland! For the months of July and August, we challenge you to join us in a game of revelry and destruction against the surveillance state! W…
Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
Aaron Rodgers Reportedly Funded NJ Police Surveillance Cameras
Aaron Rodgers allegedly funded $37,000 in license plate reader cameras for NJ police while publicly criticizing drone surveillance over his own property.
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
Fairphone 6+ is now official and coming to the US
Here are the upgrades compared to the Fairphone 6 and how much the new phone costs. Fairphone has today announced its latest smartphone, the Fairphone 6+....
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts s…
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
GPU and RAM prices have both risen ~19% across the EU over the past 1-2 months, verified with fixed-basket price tracking
EU-wide +19.2% over 30 days on a 176-model fixed basket. Germany +19.6%, France +18.1%. Data + methodology.
Is Apple beginning a privacy reset?
It's not clear how Apple's ambition to put cameras inside AirPods can also protect privacy.
i built a price tracker for EU PC hardware because I was tired of overpaying
Track GPU, CPU, RAM and SSD prices across 27 European stores. Updated every 6 hours.
Fingerprinting: The Hidden Trap on the Modern Web | MindDump
Explained various fingerprinting methods used in the modern web and what to do about it.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and cri…
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
The secret is humble UITextField.
Funding internet freedom together: results from our first participatory funding round | Tor Project
The Tor Project's first participatory funding campaign raised more than $200,000 for internet freedom projects and taught us valuable lessons about community support, project visibility, and sustaining internet freedom …
More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In Europe
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI,…
YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and w…
A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power
This website runs on a solar powered server located in Barcelona, and will go off-line during longer periods of bad weather. This page shows live data relating to power supply, power demand, and energy storage.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 2…
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in t…
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make
OpenAI's new "Computer History" for ChatGPT on macOS will record "everything" you do on your PC to fine-tune the AI model.
Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans
A viral phenomenon is sweeping Facebook, with AI-generated content boosting calls for Islamophobic violence in Dearborn, Michigan.
Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more....
GOG is known for delivering DRM-free games and maintaining older titles, but an update to a user-created spreadsheet shows just how many issues there are with the games it offers. Next time you shop for a game, you'll w…
Explaining Klingon Ridges
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty
AI content at volume is bankrupting professional trust
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots /// In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least …
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.
The LibreOffice Conference 2026 will take place in Pordenone, Italy, from September 10 – 12
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for LibreOffice Conference 2026
GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by ...
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
Movie that went viral for terrible animation becomes China box office hit
Niu Lai's confusing plot and laughable animation quality has won ironic fans on the internet.