U.S. Government Officials In Talks To Acquire Shares In AI giants
An agreement to give the U.S. government equity stakes in AI companies could have seismic consequences.
Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build an…
These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.
New IronWorm malware hits 36 packages in npm supply-chain attack
A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm.
TIL that the United States was selling raw materials to Nazi Germany in the middle of the battle of kursk in 1943
First published on February 11, 2021. Among the Nazis’ first actions after taking power was to dismantle the German trade unions and labour power. By March 1933 the first concentration camp was ere…
Amazon to introduce ads to Prime bundled music benefit and drop offline downloads on July 2; HD, Ultra HD, and Spatial Audio will require a…
On June 2, 2026, Amazon notified Prime members by email that, effective July 2, 2026, the music benefit bundled with a Prime subscription will begin carrying advertisements...
NSA is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos to commit Cyber Attacks
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TIL Paul Reiser who played Burke in Aliens was so hated that his sister hit him during the films premiere and his mother approved
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The Stargate Cancellation Shows the Corporatization of IP | Jessie Gender
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My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland – Insane Rambles About Technology
This is an article quite some time in the making. I’ve written 3 or 4 drafts of it over the last 4 months, looking for just the right thing to say. After I wrote the initial draft of this one, it sat in the drafts for a…
NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.47 released: Foods quick-view, scheduled backups, diary drill-down
Added Tap a food on the Foods tab to open a quick-view sheet with the full Nutrition Facts label, brand, and barcode, plus Add to Diary and Edit buttons right on the sheet. Replaces the previous b...
Premier says no to massive AI data centre proposed for south of Winnipeg — Big AI centres offer little economic benefit while impacting peo…
A large AI data centre pitched for a 141-hectare tract of farmland south of Winnipeg will not go ahead, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says.
TIL: That in 2021 almost 50% of adult Canadians struggle with literacy
One in six adult Canadians falls short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests, making them functionally illiterate, and this could mean problems as a post-COVID-19 economic recovery ramps up.
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42 million Plex users can't be wrong
"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers
Games are overwhelmingly made by and marketed to younger generations, argue analysts, while the older demographic is being ignored
We spent $50 to measure Pearl's "AI mining" – 320K GPUs produce zero AI
Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain with high-profile AI industry endorsements, markets its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol as simultaneously securing the network and performing AI inference. We present the first systemati…
Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch
In a blog post, Valve detailed its Verified programs for Steam Machine and Steam Frame, and insists both pieces of hardware are still coming this summer.
Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, accompanied by an EU Open Source Strategy
The Commission is proposing the European Technological Sovereignty Package, marking a change in Europe's approach to its tech ecosystems.
Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whate…
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
RoboCop was never the plan | Phil0bot
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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
New York's 3D printer law is NOT gun control; it's just.... control.
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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…