Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
SpaceX IPO explained: Why Elon Musk's $1.75 trillion company could soon appear in popular index funds
Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for what could become the largest public listing in history, with a target valuation exceeding $1.75 trillion. While investors may focus on the IPO itself, the bigger development could be…
Plausible critical RCE < 3.2.1
Security related update This patch release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the following versions of Plausible Community Edition (image: ghcr.io/plausible/community-edition): Tags: v3.2 v3...
Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
Financial stakes of the AI race rise as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are slated to go public this year
PewDiePie releases Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor killer, Odysseous (FOSS)
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CO₂ scrubbing microbes discovered in underground laboratory
You might not know it, but the hot water and rocks deep within Earth are teeming with undiscovered life. Dr. Tanvi Govil is one of the biologists studying this new frontier of microbial life that thrives in extreme plac…
Tech titans mostly silent after Pope Leo’s warning about risks of AI
The AI boom’s highest-profile executives didn’t immediately weigh in on the pope’s lengthy encyclical, though some tech industry leaders signaled support for his overarching message.
Sweden urges parents to restrict phone use around children
People also encouraged to make parts of home phone-free after research showed impact of adult screen use on children
Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra with an NVIDIA RTX Spark chip and 128GB unified memory to challenge Apple MacBook Pro dominance.
Meta launches subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
Star Citizen's single-player component is in the 'closing stages' of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadron…
Cloud Imperium Games is getting "imminently closer to launch."
Oscar-winning 'Star Wars' editor Marcia Lucas dies at 80
Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of the original 1977 “Star Wars,” has died at age 80. A lawyer for her family says she passed away Wednesday from metastatic cancer in Rancho Mirage, California.
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?
Feedback notes the proliferation of AI company logos, and agrees with one blogger's claim that many bear a striking resemblance to a certain anatomical feature
Odysseus - Your own AI workspace, running on your hardware
Odysseus — a self-hosted AI workspace: chat, agents, tools, model serving, email, research, and more. Your models, your hardware, your data.
Pain of Command [WIP #3] Sopranos: The Next Generation (Star Trek Sopranos Mashup Edit)
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The Luna Deadline: industry problem, not just Luna
Amazon Lunaâs changes prove that digital ownership is fragile. Why buy means borrow in 2026 and how to protect your games, movies, and save data now.
A Robot Hand That Taught Itself to Play Piano Could Change the Future of Machines
USC researchers built a robotic hand that hears a melody once and plays it back after just two minutes of self-taught practice on a keyboard. They say the implications go far beyond music.
Microsoft converts Office 2019 for Mac perpetual licenses to read-only versions
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...
Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9
The first release of Euro-Office will be made available for all users on June 9, also integrated into Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring
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Tech blogger Franklin Fausti (Josh Hutcherson) is set for a once-in-a-lifetime interview with Anton Burrell (Morgan Freeman), a visionary tech guru at his ne...
Spider-Man is Broke as SH*T | Solid jj
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
Mercedes-Benz may be shut out of U.S. market under bill aimed at Chinese automaker ownership
Mercedes-Benz's largest individual shareholder is BAIC, a Chinese state-owned automaker. Sources told CNBC that exemptions in the legislation would not apply.
Google won't rest until Gemini is everywhere in your home
The company is making it easier for manufacturers to make more Gemini-powered smart devices.
Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?
If you asked most people to name a defining feature of AI-generated writing, they’d probably say the em-dash — like this. Language models use em-dashes so much that real humans who like em-dashes have stopped using them…
We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research
Many scientific discoveries used to be made by amateurs. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was a composer and an organist. Antoine Lavoisier, who laid the foundation for modern chemistry, was a politician.
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
Several days ago, DeepSeek released a new OCR paper. OCR, or “optical character recognition”, is the process of converting an image of text - say, a scanned page of a book - into actual text content. Better OCR is obvio…
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
How your dependencies became Bernies
GitHub Actions is the weakest link
Anne Robinson would like a word with .github/workflows
The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source
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Browser tool that offers surfers way to implement privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from regulat…
A web-browser tool that offers surfers a one-click way to implement their privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from state regulators and aggrieved consumers over the selling and s…
Why Blade Runner Is A Masterpiece
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The Boys alternate ending
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Wie SSD-Zugriffszeiten zum digitalen Fingerabdruck werden
IT-Forscher haben mit „FROST“ einen Seitenkanalangriff demonstriert, bei dem Browser über SSD-Zugriffszeiten Informationen über das Nutzerverhalten ausspähen.
Ronny Chieng's 'Fuck AI' Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates
"Daily Show" star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails.
Good Luck Opting Out: Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Google, X, Uber, OpenAI, Tinder and 30 other companies make it almost impossible for users to co…
EPIC’s report Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes by Justin Sherman, EPIC Scholar in Residence, and Caroline Kraczon, EPIC Counsel, investigates whether the consumer opt-out processes…
'Autopsy Of A Failed Vintage Carbon Resistor' - Hackaday
Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging can attest to. …
The largest study of AI use by undergrads is in, revealing disparities in access — and in cheating
Researchers found that how student use, and misuse, AI varies by subject and by socioeconomics.
Crystal Project II - Announcement Trailer
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YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
YouTube said it will start automatically detecting "photorealistic" AI videos and slapping them with a more noticeable label.
Microsoft Threatens Researcher Over Bug Reports, Triggers Cybersecurity Uproar
Microsoft says it will coordinate 'as needed with law enforcement' after a disgruntled researcher exposed Windows bugs without proper coordination.
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
Dat is volgens Aerdts (Economische Zaken) "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".
Life Is Strange (Original Game)
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We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees
A new report claims AI is getting too expensive for big companies
US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
Some leaders like Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon and Box’s Aaron Levie have been saying all along that there won’t be a white-collar wipeout.