Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
Corporate employees said Amazonâs race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and âmore work for everyoneâ.
Etrange Overlord Demo Now Available Ahead Of March Launch
NIS America and partners release a free Etrange Overlord demo covering the first hours of the action RPG ahead of its March 26, 2026 launch.
Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US
Uber expands Women Preferences for women riders and drivers across the United States.
New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level
The bill's child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.
Last Year In SBCs (single board computers)
While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from 8 different companie…
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
: Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS
Israel's high-tech investment boom is fuelled by genocide
Brutal technology field-tested on Palestinians has helped to propel the state's economy to the top of global performance charts
Portugal’s New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged €110B in Suspicious Contracts
iscover how Portugal’s new transparency initiative, Observatório de Integridade, is using open data to flag irregularities in public procurement. Learn how this database tool turns transparency into a proactive workflow…
Iran’s internet blackout extends into second week: NetBlocks
Iran's government cut internet connectivity shortly after start of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Feb. 28.
U.S. startup nails flight test of a drone built for hypersonic speeds
If tests succeed, engineers will gradually expand the flight envelope before the Mk 2.2 prototype attempts supersonic flight.
Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you
Microsoft has published new patents that discuss an Xbox system to let human or AI helpers temporarily take over gameplay for players.
BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient
The battery can add a staggering amount of range in under 10 minutes. Here's just how quick it is, and how it compares to the best Western designs.
Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled
New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the crosshairs, say privacy experts.
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. You’ll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegseth’s).
AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector
Many companies ship AI chatbots as thin wrappers around commercial LLM APIs with zero cost controls. What if a tool behaved like an overly engaged, perfectly valid user - and just burned through their budget?
U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year— Recently revised directive adds flash drives, smart watches to searc…
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At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers a…
Laura Fraser(external link) | CBC Radio | Posted: March 8, 2026 8:00 AM | Last Updated: 11 hours ago
Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.
Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile
A senior manager at the Associated Press enthused about AI to rank and file journalists, who were not amused.
LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats
The Document Foundation criticizes the EU Commission for exclusively using Microsoft's XLSX format in the Cyber Resilience Act consultation.
ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI
This is the biggest release I've ever done on the server. It's 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support. The code was written by ...
Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets
Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Am…
Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you
Microsoft filed patents for an Xbox help system that could summon human or AI “helpers” to take over tough parts.
Popular self-hosting services worth running
The best self-hosted apps do three things well: they solve a real daily problem, they are easy enough to deploy and maintain, and they deliver a clear advantage over the cloud alternative. Some are broad platforms, whil…
A man trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad gained audio and video into 7K homes. Now DJI awards $30K for resear…
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Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases
Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.
Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative
I replaced my Samsung S24 with a Fairphone 6 running /e/OS and used it as my daily work phone. Here's whether a de-Googled smartphone holds up for professional use.
New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice
A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why.
Government pressure on Anthropic raises a core question: can Washington punish an AI company for refusing to redesign its systems for the Pentagon?
Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant
Story has a happy ending of sorts, but should serve as a cautionary tale.
AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite.
While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifyi…
Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld
Two years of work now sits on a shelf because AI needs the RAM more.
"How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard" - by Joel Hawksley
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a…
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people had personal and health information stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year.
Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub
Nintendo shut down the Eden switch emulator GitHub repository, but the project still has momentum even post-DMCA
North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says
Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North Korea
Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials
A proof-of-concept prototype ahead of a more svelte custom PCB, LuckyBor's microcontroller-powered featurephone can call, text, and snap.
Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,
Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
Musk can't convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.
Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience
: Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in
Your Artificial Intelligence (AI) questions answered
A Teesside academic answers your questions, including how to spot AI and how to use it sustainably.
NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel
Microarchitecture analysts have examined NVIDIA's GB10 'Superchip' and determined that its CPU cores are capable of going toe-to-toe with Intel and AMD.
TIL that Rudyard Kipling (writer of the jungle book) wrote a poem called "IF". A few lines of this poem are highlighted in the entrance of …
By Emilio Sánchez Vicario, CEO and Founder at Academia Sánchez-Casal.
We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened
We published a Windows 12 article that did not meet PCWorld's editorial standards. We're sorry. Here's how we'll get better.
System76 on Age Verification Laws
Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.
Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds.
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