China just sent 51.3 Tb/s through hollow fiber without boosters
A Chinese company transmitted 51.3 Tb/s across 128 miles using air instead of glass fiber cores
Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foul
One of Kalshi’s most prominent traders tells WIRED he’s swearing off Spotify-related markets until the issue is resolved.
The US government could own part of OpenAI — and no, that probably doesn’t mean you get a check
The government owning part of OpenAI doesn't mean checks will follow
Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.
Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026
Long-term supply deals are quietly capping server DRAM prices.
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”
Good luck fighting those charges.
UK culture minister quits X over ‘abuse and misinformation’
UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport will also stop using social media platform.
Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsAppâs username rollout.
chaotic good party runs a heist
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Find teammates and co-op crews for Meccha Chameleon, Valorant, Minecraft, and hundreds more games. Dynamic matchmaking based on your exact playstyle — free, no sign-up needed.
Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta became embroiled in a major controversy after Wired found that it had discreetly included facial recognition tech in the software of its lineup of popular smart glasses.
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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI | TechCrunch
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage | TechCrunch
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders
Speedrunning Marathons for Charity
NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.53 released: statistics reorder + hide, bulk delete on Foods/Meals/Recipes, OFF serving sizes
Added Reorder + Hide Statistics Categories. You can now shape the Statistics page to your habits. Head to Settings → Statistics → Categories, drag any metric row to change the order it appears in ...
LiftTrace v1.0.0-rc.7 released: per-exercise sharing, CSV workout export, custom equipment
v1.0.0-rc.7 — 2026-07-05 Maintenance release. No user-facing feature changes since rc.6. Security Dependency Security Bumps. Multer 1.4.5-lts.1 → 2.2.0 (closes three high-severity CVEs on the LTS ...
CookTrace v1.0.0-rc.3 released: pantry variants + expiration tracking, shopping list aisles, AI label scanning
Third release candidate. Shopping list gets aisle grouping, drag reorder, hide-checked toggle, and per-row edit. Pantry items gain AI Scan Label for one-shot nutrition capture. Cook Mode reliably k...
Poll finds 90% in favour of social media age ban, while advocates urge action for online harms
A majority of Canadians say they would support instituting a minimum age to use social media.
Lisa Frankenstein (2024) is trans culture, i won't explain, go watch it
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0xmonti Android application for Proton Lumo.monti. Contribute to montinode/android-lumo development by creating an account on GitHub.
It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership
PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
Trump crypto token buyers are down $3.8 billion, Nansen data shows
The TRUMP token is down 96% from its peak, and 85% of secondary market wallets for WLFI are underwater, reflecting a broader downturn in the sector.
Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok
Tesla is capping employee AI spending at $200 per week from July 6 after engineers burned thousands in tokens weekly, joining Uber, Meta, and Walmart.
An Anti-License Manifesto
software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice. therefore, software licenses do not lead to justice.
The Ghost Gun Crackdown Is Quietly Threatening the Future of 3D Printing
As a longtime member of the 3D-printing community, I'm alarmed by new legislation targeting the digital files, platforms, and machines that create weapons. It raises a powerful question: Who decides what can be made?
Keeping Physical Gaming Alive (Why physical game releases still matter in an increasingly digital world)
Why physical game releases still matter in an increasingly digital world
How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country
"There has been community support for me that I humbly welcome."
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium
The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.
If you’re a button, you have one job
A blog about software craft and quality
‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work
A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime ministerâs favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about it
Data centers emitting more CO2 than thought: study
Data centers, whose expansion is being fueled dramatically by the artificial intelligence boom, have a far bigger carbon footprint than previously estimated, according to a new study. The sprawling, power-hungry sites, …
Micron to pour first fab foundation as Clay project races ahead of schedule
Micron Technology is highlighting major momentum at its Central New York semiconductor campus, announcing a key construction milestone next week.
TIL about the Dangerous Trend of Alcohol Injection to get high/drunk faster.
Alcohol injection, also known as intravenous (IV) alcohol, is a method of consuming alcohol by injecting it directly into the bloodstream. This method of
TIL About an Alcohol Enema which leads to faster intoxication.
An alcohol enema, also known colloquially as butt-chugging or boofing, is the act of introducing alcohol into the rectum and colon via the anus, i.e., as an enema. This method of alcohol consumption can be dangerous and…
Inside Chernobyl, a Fungus Has Been Quietly Feasting on Radiation
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but that doesn't mean every form of life finds the conditions inhospitable.
The TNG writers REALLY hated Alexander
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Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom — Billionaires’ wealth grew by 25% on average in the year ended in April, …
Billionaires’ wealth grew by 25% on average in the year ended in April, research from Swiss bank UBS finds
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
Supergirl (2026) in a Nutshell | Solid jj
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Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway proj…
Project faced several lawsuits despite initial approval
US residents angry at datacenters ‘being shoved down our throats’ are recalling officials
People across the country are pushing for moratoriums, and electeds who approve projects are being punished
‘It’s just his AI and my AI going back and forth’: The workplace phenomenon that’s undermining human relationships
AI isn’t the problem, says leadership expert Leena Rinne: It’s social connection and emotional intelligence instead.
Rural Americans say they're worried AI data centers will drain their wallets
A survey found rural Americans are mostly worried that new AI data centers will impact their bottom line. Some politicians are starting to hear them.
Mark Zuckerberg sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling
The Meta CEO is developing a social network betting market app—and wants help from Polymarket and Kalshi.
Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
Google informed Meta in March that it couldn't provide all the Gemini AI capacity that Meta was asking for, humiliating CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
I wore Meta AI glasses for a month — and even after struggling with privacy concerns, I'm still not convinced they're the future of wearabl…
My time with Meta's AI glasses was supposed to be a tech journo's dream — until it wasn't
Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16
Across major demographic and partisan groups, more Americans support than oppose banning those under 16 from using social media.
Inside death of Ladi Olubunmi, a TikTok moderator working for Teleperformance in Kenya
Olubunmi thought she had a life-changing new role. Experts say what we found may amount to labour trafficking