New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites
New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.
Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
It's a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April, we found out that nearly half of the data centers that were supposed to open this year had been cancelled or significant…
Nintendo will pay a $40 million fine for faulty Joy-Cons
French authorities have fined Nintendo around $40m over faulty Joy-Cons.
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Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents
Microsoft will prevent Office 2019 for Mac owners from editing their documents from July 13, a restriction the company is attributing to the productivity suite's expiring digital certificate. The Office 2019 apps affect…
Congress Is Trying to Permanently Integrate U.S. and Israeli Defense Tech
A controversial proposal to entwine U.S. and Israeli tech in AI and autonomous systems closely resembles a pro-Israel bill that died earlier this year.
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses
Cameras in spectacles have lawmakers and regulators alarmed of surveillance risks.
Best Online Food Ordering System for Restaurants in 2026
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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years
After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.
TIL they are currently testing a needleless SARS/COVID vaccine that was developed by AI.
Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. The vaccine generated immune responses against multiple coronaviru…
Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical spectrometer that delivers laboratory-grade precision in a …
Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst
Last year, I bought an Nvidia GPU for self-hosting AI tools. I'm not a gamer, and I would've never bought this thing if it weren't for AI. I simply don't want to rely on big tech for tools that I would share my personal…
The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and Explorer
The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid Of The Start Menu And Explorer ... Microsoft's efforts to convince people to switch to Windows 11 continues to be
Nuclear Throne Update 100 is out - adds new playable character, 60+fps, custom difficulty modes, 4 player coop, and more!
It took a while, but Nuclear Throne Update 100 is out now! (and 50% off on Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/242680/Nuclear_Throne/
4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced
Plex was once the go-to media server, but growing restrictions and paywalls are pushing users away. Here's why you should consider switching.
Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training
Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model
Nvidia CEO: Society needs new 'new social norms' in the age of AI. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI.
Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to sur…
Capcom president and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto talks about one of the company's biggest organizational changes.
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Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
One of the most fascinating sequences in Atari’s arcade manufacturing process in the early 80s, was the application of the fabulous artwork that adorned all of its cabinets from the golden ag…
Google, Apple, & Meta shared data from 3.5+M user accounts with US authorities over past decade through routine requests alone, a 770% incr…
Proton research shows how government access to Big Tech data is reshaping parenting and putting children’s privacy at risk.
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to iden…
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Consumer Federation of America Sues Meta for Failing to Protect Users from Scam Advertisements
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA), on behalf of itself and a proposed class of D.C. Facebook users, has filed a class action complaint and jury trial demand against Meta Platforms, Inc (Meta) for failing to prote…
Police in US state of Nevada can now track cellphones without a warrant
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “reg…
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
Canadian special forces Palantir deal reveals decay of Western ‘democracy’
The Canadian govt claimed Palantir is the only firm able to provide the tech — that's not enough reason to make more deals with the devil
Asia tech stocks extend sell-off with SoftBank down over 7% as investors sour on AI-linked names
The tech stock sell-off accelerates in Asia. Tech stocks fell in Europe but rebounded later on Monday.
Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server
Engineer Bogdan Ionescu repurposed a discarded vape into a web server, showing how e-waste holds hidden potential far beyond its nicotine lifespan.
Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC
Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Search toggle that disables Bing, MSN, and Microsoft Store results, ending years of forced web results.
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Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the ‘killer app’ for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. …
A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it
Jay Morris denies expertsâ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Metaâs Hyperion datacenter
SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune
SpaceX's valuation will set the bar for what the must achieve going forward to reward investors.
Fear, greed, and Claude: Meet the day traders vibe coding AI bots to beat the market
More day traders are vibe-coding their own AI trading agents in their quest to beat the market.
Was the Starbucks Korea 'Tank Day' fiasco caused by AI?
When Starbucks Korea launched its “Tank Day” coffee promotion on May 18 — the day South Koreans commemorate the 1980 massacre of protestors in Gwan...
Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
Anthropic wants to keep AI away from repressive regimes. But what about its part-owner, the repressive dictatorship of Abu Dhabi?
Future of Guild Wars franchise.
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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, link…
The Wolf Among Us Season 2: Official Trailer
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UN food agency discloses breach affecting 600,000 Gaza households
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian organization, revealed over the weekend that its self-registration application (SRA) for Palestine was breached.
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
US-backed microreactor reaches criticality in major nuclear step
Antares reaches reactor criticality milestone, advancing plans for military microreactors by 2028
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."
Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses — Some of the footage was allegedly intended for socia…
Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.
Thiel’s Vision Blooms in Argentina
Peter Thiel relocates to Argentina as Javier Milei unveils legislation to make it a lawless paradise for AI billionaires and their machines.
TIL it takes roughly 600 to 800 grapes to make a standard bottle of wine
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CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI
"We will fund this AI investment by reallocating the budget from 2026 annual salary adjustments."
Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
MotoSync+ is a mobile app required to set up and troubleshoot Motorola WiFi routers. It suddenly stopped working, and no one knows why.