Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people(20% of staff)
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Clou…
Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support
Half a dozen companies have come out in support of the Chip Security Act, which would require location-tracking mechanisms for America’s most advanced computing chips.
Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver's licenses and passports
A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over 3 million people in Texas.
Quartermaster - a native iOS app to control your *arr stack (beta, looking for testers)
A native iOS controller for eleven self-hosted services — Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin and more. No accounts, no backend; your library never leaves your servers.
Retro pirate gets two-year suspended jail sentence for being stuck in the past, burning and selling remix CDs of famous artists — four-year…
Legal machinations take time, with trading standards first becoming aware of this East Yorkshire CD pirate back in 2018.
Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, u…
All are expected to debut in the next 12 months.
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report bears that out.
Just 16% of Americans think AI will benefit society, despite chatbot use climbing to 49% of US adults
The Pew Research Center found that 49% of US adults now use chatbots, up from 33% two years ago. This includes roughly one in four who use...
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge …
Steve Ballmer once mocked Chrome as a “rounding error.” The browser now rules the web while Microsoft Edge fights for scraps.
TIL Non Smokers can get Emphysema to.
Emphysema is commonly linked to smoking, but non-smokers can develop it too. Learn the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for emphysema.
This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability
According to Microsoft, users who have installed the KB5095051 update might encounter a strange Recycle Bin bug that replaces the names of deleted files with internal Recycle...
Code.org Has Become CodeAI
Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with CodeAI’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.
Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure, blames 'abusive conduct' from Broadcom
Tesco confirms plans to migrate 40,000 servers from VMware
TIL there is a European comic theorized to have inspired D.B. Cooper
Dan Cooper (also known as Les Aventures de Dan Cooper) is a Franco-Belgian comics series about a fictional Canadian military flying ace and astronaut.
SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in race for an edge over Anthropic and OpenAI
SpaceX will move forward with its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Cursor as Elon Musk’s space exploration and AI company seeks a competitive edge against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI after its …
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
San Francisco police suspend Flock camera network access following 'improper queries'
Yesterday, the San Francisco Police Department announced that they’re restricting outside access to data from Flock license plate reader cameras.
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.
Faceless creators are becoming collateral damage in YouTube’s AI cleanup
As YouTube cracks down on low-quality AI content, faceless creators who built real audiences without showing their face are now struggling to stay monetized.
A Loss To The World - Legendary Doom Wolfenstein 3D Composer Bobby Prince Has Passed Away
He was 81 years of age
There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center on Wheels)
Your car has more code than a fighter jet and over 100 computers hiding beneath the hood. From the Jeep hack that exposed automotive...
Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand
This document provides information about data collection, camera permissions, and accessibility for hand gesture verification.
TIL that the oldest aircraft still in use in the United States military was built in 1957.
57-1419 is the tail number of an individual Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker. It is currently the oldest aircraft in active United States military service.[1] As of 2013, 57-1419 had 22,300 flight hours.[2]
TIL during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Usain Bolt ate almost nothing but chicken McNuggets. He went on to win 3 gold medals and set 3 world …
Usain Bolt estimated he ate 1,000 McDonald's chicken nuggets during the Beijing Olympics -- or 100 per day over 10 days at the Athletes' Village.
TIL that medical consensus classifies Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI, including concussion) as a progressive, lifelong chronic disease rather …
The first aim of the workshop was to describe the evidence for characterizing traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a chronic condition. Presentations and discussions over three sessions explored epidemiological data on the i…
TIL Muscular Christianity was a Victorian doctrine which suggested that participation in sport could contribute to the development of Chris…
Muscular Christianity is a term applied to a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century. It is an approach to life and social outreach which emphasizes the benefits of sport and other physical…
SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors
Elon Musk’s rocket firm pulled back from a rally that pushed its market value ahead of Amazon and Microsoft.
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Japan's Semiconductor Gas Production Collapses To Zero After China Cuts Off Tungsten, Leaving TSMC, SK Hynix And Samsung Exposed
China has stopped exporting a critical gas to Japan, leading to severe shortages of semiconductors that affect TSMC, SK Hynix & Samsung.
To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple's M1 processor, where it revea…
Vulnerability Disclosure: Stealing Emails via Firefox’s AI Features
Imagine the following: You visit a webpage with a lot of text you don’t want to read and ask your AI assistant for a summary. A few moments later, the AI assistant has extracted one of your emails and sent it to an atta…
The Onion’s rebooted InfoWars is coming July 2nd / In the midst of a prolonged fight in court, the satire news site is officially relaunchi…
InfoWars has been in ownership limbo for more than a year
Apple CEO Tim Cook warns AI-driven price increases are unavoidable
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Transparent Data Tiering on Linux: Why I chose fanotify over FUSE for HuskHoard
HuskHoard is an automated, transparent data-tiering engine for Linux. It keeps your NVMe drives fast by silently archiving cold data to LTO tape, spinning drives, or cloud — while every file stays fully visible to your …
'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply drie…
But developers of SSD controllers still benefit from the situation.
Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
Studies show that getting the minerals to make an EV battery is bad for the environment, but driving a gas-powered car is far worse.
Article by IO+ about alternatives to Outlook and Gmail
Protect your data from espionage and comply with the NIS2 Directive. Discover eight secure, European alternatives to American email services
Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer
Cooling costs have increased 40 percent since 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
"I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore."
Meta CTO reports employee morale is near historic lows, prompting leadership to propose boosting workplace snack budgets
The internal report first circulated via Polymarket.
MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says
MIT's researches found that EVs save 40%–60% of emissions compared to gas cars, with that going up to 90% in urban driving.
‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm – Krebs on Security
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. Th…
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
Bernie Sanders Introduces Legislation to Create $7 Trillion AI Sovereign Wealth Fund
This Bill Would Give the American People, Not Oligarchs, Control Over the Future of AI WASHINGTON, June 18 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act to give the public a 50…
UK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concerns— Richard Hermer’s department understood to be first in governm…
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
MIT Researchers: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
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EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption attempting to neuter SKG.
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EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption attempting to neuter SKG.
The European Commission has rejected a petition bearing 1,294,188 verified signatures to propose legislation against making end-of-life premium games permanently unplayable.
After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap's stock takes a dive
Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.