Google wants your phone to track your heart rate by simply looking at you
Your next heart-rate monitor may not be a smartwatch at all. Google's latest research hints at a surprisingly simple alternative.
Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds
A recent survey shows a dramatic swing against new data center construction.
Google DeepMind CEO says we don't have much time to prepare for the 'new human era'
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said AGI is just a few years a way and that humanity doesn't have much time to prepare for it.
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
A 29-year-old man has created magnetic cement, and his invention promises to revolutionize a construction sector that has not undergone a t…
A 29-year-old’s magnetic cement could end drilling walls, turning everyday surfaces into flexible, reusable storage systems
Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill - National | Globalnews.ca
Signal is among the most prominent platforms to make such a threat while speaking out against Bill C-22, while VPN providers have also threatened to leave or curtail services.
Seattle poised to ban new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium
Measure in Amazon and Microsoft’s backyard expected to succeed next week as backlash grows amid AI boom
GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy
The latest financial filings from the action camera giant cast doubt on GoPro’s ability to return to profitability within the next 12 months
Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
It has now been a quarter century since Penny Arcade proclaimed that "videogames suck now".
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
Researchers say social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard posed as Scottish and Irish citizens
Researchers say that social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posed as Scottish and Irish nationals in order to cultivate their following, before switching their narrative to spread…
A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.
'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until ne…
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.
FTC Seeks Comment on X Corp. Petition to Set Aside or Modify FTC Order Concerning Twitter
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a petition from X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, to set aside or modify its
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says
IO Interactive self-published 007 First Light, but don't expect that to happen with future releases.
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition will launch for Switch 2 on August 28, publisher Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware announced.
Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy
You can search for products that look like the fake images.
GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says
The analysts see a wide range of possibilities around xAI and find its "economic moat indeterminate."
Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.
Can E. coli run Doom? Yes, at 2.6 fpd (frames per day)
It would take nearly 600 years to finish playing this MIT student's iteration of the classic video game.
Amazon sued over Ring facial recognition feature
At the center of the lawsuit? Familiar Faces, a Ring doorbell feature that scans and identifies people at your door.
AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?
AI-related layoffs are in full swing as tech companies invest in artificial intelligence agents they say will take over tasks traditionally done by humans. But a major AI infrastructure and software company says the age…
Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownershi…
“The time has come to reclaim what was stolen from us,” says U.S. senator
Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S
The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.
Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW within…
Switzerland’s giant underground battery could reshape Europe’s power grid with 1.2 GW released in milliseconds.
He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
Phoenix R&D: Getting to Know the Architects of Critical Secure Group Communications Standards
Learn about Phoenix R&D's role in developing groundbreaking standards that transformed the global secure communications ecosystem, and explore their current work, including the development of Air, a next-generation secu…
September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers
Everyone's trying to get out of GTA 6's way
AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns
A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.
AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?
Kevin Maimann(external link) | CBC News | Posted: June 3, 2026 8:00 AM | Last Updated: 17 hours ago
New Tennessee law requires data centers to pay for their own electricity infrastructure
The law requires data centers with peak demands of at least 50 megawatts to pay for their own electricity infrastructure.
Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export c…
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Instagram accounts continue to be hacked as hackers claim Meta only removed a UI button
Meta AI loophole continues to allow hackers to hijack Instagram accounts. Reports claim Meta's fix failed to secure the backend.
PewDiePie just launched his answer to ChatGPT and it’s completely free
PewDiePie’s AI ambitions have finally become a reality after months of documenting his journey into building his own free AI platform.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says markets are in 'greed' mode as AI companies seek billions
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon's comments come as investors prepare for what will be one of the busiest periods for equity issuance in years.
Future AI weapons such as drones should have moral code, says former UK spy chief
Software could make ethically superior decisions to humans in high-pressure moments, claims ex-GCHQ head David Omand
Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
FitMyLLM — Independent benchmarks for self-hosted AI
Independent benchmarks for every model, GPU, and cloud provider. Measured, not estimated. 428 models, 1720 GPUs, multi-provider cloud comparisons.
AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study
A groundbreaking study led by Stanford Law School Professor Julian Nyarko reveals that law professors overwhelmingly prefer AI-generated answers to st
Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses
Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.
Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere
Newly uncovered evidence in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit has claimed Valve works aggressively behind the scenes to maintain its position.
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?
Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth - here's why
Canonical's pitch starts with snaps and security.