He was a perfect hire â until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative
He was a perfect hire â until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative.
Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification â facial recognition is jailing the wrongâŠ
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months behind bars after AI software misidentified her. She's at least the ninth American it's happened to.
âPokĂ©mon Goâ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories â equivalent to skipping a meal
AI models generate meal plans that get necessary calories and macronutrients wrong, posing potential health risks to teenagers trying to lose weight
VoidAuth Release v1.10.0 - Declared OIDC Clients and Passkey Management
What's Changed Features đ Unix Socket Connections for Postgres DB by @repomaa in #303 Environment Variable and Container Label Declared OIDC Clients by @MrNavaStar in #288 Passkey Management by @n...
Pokemon tree of life
To celebrate 30 years of catching âem all, discover the parallels between the Pokemon universe and our own.
The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games
Developers at GDC 2026 shared a common anxiety
Self-hosting a crypto portfolio tracker with exchange API integrations
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Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative
A self-hosted, open-source messaging platform with text, voice, and screen sharing. - Harmony-Messenger/Harmony-Frontend
AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure
AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scaleâand in which humans can lose control.
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything â even when it slows down work
Corporate employees said AmazonĂąÂÂs race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ĂąÂÂmore work for everyoneĂąÂÂ.
Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games
The flailing Ubisoft hopes to capitalize on its most successful franchise. A new job listing is seeking a developer to introduce live-service elements into Assassin's Creed games. Gamers can also expect more microtransaâŠ
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
: Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS
X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software âAu10tixâ
A wide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenâŠ
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
Portugalâs New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged âŹ110B in Suspicious Contracts
iscover how Portugalâs new transparency initiative, ObservatĂłrio de Integridade, is using open data to flag irregularities in public procurement. Learn how this database tool turns transparency into a proactive workflowâŠ
Iranâs 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.
"I Trained My Own AI... It beat ChatGPT" - PewDiePie
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
BYDâs 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.
Is Palantir Under Contract to Surveil the Federal Workforce?
Implementation of the White Houseâs return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like âemployee seat assignments.â
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: Youâre Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI says Americans shouldnât worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. Youâll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegsethâs).
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 yearâ Recently revised directive adds flash drives, smart watches to searcâŠ
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At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local mediaâ Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers aâŠ
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. â Today, Oregonâs U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesotaâs U.S. Senator AmâŠ
Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives
Seagateâs Mozaic 4+ platform delivers 44TB HAMR hard drives today, with a clear path to 100TB drives aimed at AI-scale data growth.
'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis
A giant loop of fiber â some 200km â that'd mean no need for RAM
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 âhelpersâ 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, whilâŠ
Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News
Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.
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 researâŠ
The remaining issue may be fixed within the month.
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.
AI Translations Are Adding âHallucinationsâ to Wikipedia Articles
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
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. Hereâs 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 â 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 workersâ 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 intensifyiâŠ
Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit?
NordVPN is one of the most popular VPNs, which makes the critiques over its privacy practices extra concerning. We investigate the most prominent accusations.
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 Vercelâs Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis