Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Laid off workers at Meta contractor Covalen to mount strike action following loss of 700 jobs
Trade union representing Covalen workers have demanded the end of a "two-tiered treatment" of outsourced tech workers
PlayStation boss says single-player games wonât come to PC going forward | VGC
PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst confirmed the news to staff this weekâŚ
Brockovich Data Center Reporting â U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States â built or being built. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case
Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
Pope Leo Calling for AI "Disarmament", Warns of its Risks(Including Fueling Warfare) in 42,300-Word Encyclical; Opaque Algorithms ControlleâŚ
Pope Leo XIV presents "Magnifica Humanitas" as the Churchâs response to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for AI to be ...
Mecha-Driven Sci-Fi JRPG STARBITES Is Out Now on PC and Consoles - Turn Based Lovers
STARBITES is now available in the West for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.
New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast
A way to stream audio around your entire house using inexpensive RaspberryPi computers and SnapCast
Splinter Cell designer says âone of the difficulties with modern stealth gamesâ is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much âharâŚ
Clint Hocking, the creative director of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory explains the issue of modern lighting in stealth games.
Warhorse Announces a Lord of the Rings RPG and a New Kingdom Come Adventure
Shortly after its parent company, Embracer Group, made an important announcement, Warhorse Studios revealed no fewer than two separate projects. The initialâÂÂŚ
Motorola phones are hijacking your Amazon app [Video]
A truly bizarre situation on Motorola phones has led to the software hijacking the Amazon app to inject an affiliate...
Built a free British social chat site â would love
The UK's free social chat site. Live chat rooms, posts, follows and more. Join thousands of British people online.
Deutsche Welle(DW) to close roughly half of its X accounts by 2026 end due to budget cuts, rising platform costs(verification, analytics, mâŚ
DW will close around half of its accounts on the social media platform X as part of its current budget reductions. The decision is linked to savings requirements and broader adjustments to DWâs digital offerings.
"Whoa what a wild reaction" - Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi reacts to backlash after praising an AI-generated FF6 remake trailer
Hironobu Sakaguchi explains he thinks gen-AI has potential as he defends his positive remarks about an AI-generated Final Fantasy 6 remake trailer.
'People Enjoy Surprises' â Valve Is Trying to Dismiss New York's Counter-Strike Loot Box Lawsuit
Valve has moved to dismiss the New York Attorney Generalâs lawsuit against the company, which claims loot boxes in its games such as Counter-Strike 2 promote illegal gambling and threaten to addict children.
AI collar claims it can translate your petâs sounds â and the internet has questions
A Chinese startup has unveiled an AI-powered collar that claims to translate animal sounds into human language, a concept that has inevitably sparked many questions.Priced at $149.99 (ĂÂŁ110) on its website, Hangzhou-basâŚ
'People will buy intelligence from us on a meter': ChatGPT's Sam Altman's AI vision worries critics
Sam Altman says people may someday âbuy intelligence on a meterâ like electricity or water and critics say the vision sounds more dystopian than innovative.
'I'm delighted to â be wrong': Sam Altman says AI won't lead to a 'jobs apocalypse' - but admits he was 'pretty wrong' on the social and ecoâŚ
OpenAI CEO says it was "roughly right" about predicting the effect of its tech.
âMalusâ: i'm so tired of this bs
I canât tell you how many times I have heard people predict the death of open source software over the years. Each time some new tech trend arrivesâcrypto, source available licensing, SaaSâpeâŚ
For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers
In most U.S. zip codes, electric vehicles are cost-competitive with their gas-powered counterparts, according to a new study. And regarding emissions benefits of EVs, individual driving patterns matter as much as regionâŚ
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them
Last.fm is now independent
Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The teaâŚ
More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR databases, law enforâŚ
TIL: the Welsh battle of Orewin Bridge may be almost entirely fictional
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LG TVsâ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVsâ AI problems
LG says itâll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots arenât going away.
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results âat an astonishing scaleâ
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Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
TikTok Deal Done And Itâs Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and itâs somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisâŚ
Fediverse is getting E2EE
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Inequality alone doesnât cause civil unrest â but internet access adds the crucial spark
Some regimes may be tempted to shut down the internet to maintain stability. But new research shows why reducing the wealth gap has become crucial for maintaining security.
AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
The Boring Internet - Essay by Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
Meta is restricting sexual health and queer accounts on Instagram
Instagram accounts linked to reproductive rights, sexual health and LGBTQIA+ groups have been disabled or restricted, organisations affected by the measures say.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts â Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets
The longtime Google employee was charged in New York for allegedly breaking insider trading laws.
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire worldâs white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize tâŚ
Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused other executives of wrongly justifying layoffs on AI â and telling them to cut it out.
TIL: About electric scissors
Electric scissors are handheld cutting tools that are powered by electricity. They are designed to make cutting tasks easier and more efficient, especially for people who have difficulty using traditional manual scissorâŚ
US Law Enforcement Warns of âAnti-Tech Extremismâ 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.
Phonopolis Review: Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designâs masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetiâŚ
Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Designâs masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetic in Phonopolis.
Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief âŚ
Asha Sharma's shake-up continues at Xbox as she brings more new people into key roles.
AI code increasingly leads to production failures
The rapid introduction of AI-generated code is increasingly leading to production failures, according to a survey.
Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible â No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
Oura launches Ring 5, worldâs smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO
Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bn
OpenMLS has undergone a security audit, funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency
OpenMLS, our implementation of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, has undergone a security audit. The audit is an important milestone for OpenMLS. In this post, we share the results and take the opportunity toâŚ
82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for âŚ
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