Deltarune’s Tenna Brought To Life
For those who have never played the hit video games Undertale and Deltarune, the games are partially known for their interesting characters, many of which have eerie, surreal, and expressive design…
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
As it turns out, telling the world’s workers to prepare for a dystopia rife with poverty and alienation isn’t the smartest way to market your exciting new tech.
Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators
NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin
Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground— New declaration argues the technology jeopardizes the field’s values and culture
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
‘Utter disregard for the risk to human life’: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety
Attorney General James Uthmeier Files First-in-the-Nation State-Led Lawsuit Against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for Deceptive Practices and Harms to Floridians My Florida Legal
MacBook Neo Outsold Every Other Mac in Its Q1 2026 Debut Quarter
Apple shipped 1.1 million MacBook Neo units in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC, making it one of the strongest Mac debut performances in recent memory (via TechCrunch). The figure is particularly strikin…
No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel
Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything
Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
Abusing an unauthenticated Bluetooth protocol to turn a PC speaker into a Rubber Ducky.
Researchers say Google AI Mode changes recommendations based on your emails — and it risks creating a giant confirmation-bias machine
Google’s AI search may be secretly shaping answers using your private data
Strava just killed its free API, will require a subscription if you want to build on top of it
At Strava, we care deeply about developers, and the health of the developer ecosystem. There are now 241,000 Strava API developers, up from 185,000 last year. At its best, the Strava API allows users to utilize their fa…
We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance
AkademikerPension calls SpaceX "grossly overvalued" at $1.8T and cites "catastrophic governance." Fund joins US pension giants in flagging Musk's 85% voting control.
Why Video Games Cost So Much To Make - Jason Schreier
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The pressure
I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food …
Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US
Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US • 1TB OLED $649 -> $949 • 512GB OLED $549 -> $789 still out of stock store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
FOSS Contra Big Tech
Taking on Big Tech is a phrase we hear ad nauseam in politics nowadays, but rarely with specificity. To “take on” is deliberately vague verbiage: it gestures to the existence of a conflict between the interests of “tech…
Towonel: Open Source drop-in Cloudflare Tunnel alternative
Cloudflare Tunnel decrypts everything. Towonel doesn't.
'People Enjoy Surprises' — Valve Is Trying to Dismiss New York's Counter-Strike Loot Box Lawsuit
Valve has moved to dismiss the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against the company, which claims loot boxes in its games such as Counter-Strike 2 promote illegal gambling and threaten to addict children.
Game Balance Isn't Real
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Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it
New research reveals how Americans are thinking about artificial intelligence.
Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people…
Forza Horizon 5 peaked at 81,096 players back in 2021
The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit
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Honda indefinitely suspends $15B EV plant in Ontario
Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario, as it pivots away from EVs and toward hybrids. The move comes as the automaker posted its first full-year loss ever to th…
Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles
Polyarc, a studio founded by ex-Bungie developers that's made a name for itself with two stellar VR games in its Moss series, is bringing both games to PC and consoles – no VR headset needed – in the form of Moss: The F…
Nuclear Power Plants Far More Popular Than AI Data Centers For Local Areas
Seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed.
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing intimate user data with Google and Meta without consent.
Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge supp…
Right-to-repair feud gets aggressive.
Data centers could account for up to 9% of Texas water use by 2040, UT Austin report finds
The report comes as Texas sees a boom in data center construction, driven largely by the rise of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — Monokai
On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think
Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an app…
Also, it's a twofer with the GreenPlasma zero-day local privilege escalation.
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.
AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.
Microsoft is still faking Google's homepage on Bing 1.5 years after backlash, even as it pays $1 million for users
Microsoft is still spoofing Google’s homepage in Bing on Edge, despite backlash, while users grow increasingly frustrated with Google Search.
TIL about Epstein's surveillance dealings
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AI chatbots could be making you stupider
As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.
Oregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needs
Newly approved rules aim to ensure that smaller ratepayers don't wind up footing the bill for power grid upgrades that are primary needed to serve big new users.
Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada has joined SNK | VGC
The former Bandai Namco GM has formed a new studio in Tokyo with the King of Fighters firm…
Sega has canceled development of its ‘super game’, as it pivots away from live service games | VGC
The ambitious project was set to receive millions in investment…
Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says
“We would need to switch off half the country for the data center to be powered."
The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does
You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber and watch…
‘A consistent pattern of lying’: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman
The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAIâs fractious corporate past than previously documented
While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration …
A Cambridge startup is betting on plastic crystals to transform refrigeration by replacing gases with solid materials that change temperature under pressure, in a technology still under development and initially aimed a…
Software bloat (2026)
What is software bloat? Throughout my life, and the decades before, I have heard over and over again about the advances in computer hardware. I have studied how computers execute instructions, designed simple ones in RT…
Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
Streaming your own media shouldn’t come with a subscription. Here’s why Plex users are frustrated — and why Jellyfin might be a better bet.
Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.
McDermitt Caldera in Oregon is attracting attention for what could be one of the largest lithium deposits ever identified in the U.S.
Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe a leaner operating model will allow us t…
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Furores are fermenting in the forums
Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices
The phone is dying. Cristiano Amon knows what's replacing it—he just won't tell you yet.
AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not …
Data centers are hurting the ears of the people living around them.