AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess
A single threat actor used Claude and ChatGPT to compromise nine Mexican government agencies and steal hundreds of millions of citizen reco…
A single threat actor compromised nine Mexican government agencies and stole hundreds of millions of citizen records.
AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.
Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder …
A new beginner's guide to AI PCs published in Microsoft's learning center does a poor job of explaining the reality of AI PCs.
Frame-Gen to 30fps? Lego Batman's "Bizarre" PC Specs Sheet Is a Case Study in How Not To Market a Game
"It's a bad decision and kind of funny."
"Every great search must come to an end": Ask.com shutdown, ending ask Jeeves.
As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.
Residents in communities across the U.S. are taking a radical step to oppose the AI building boom.
TIL about Epstein's surveillance dealings
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft
Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
Nuclear Power Plants Far More Popular Than AI Data Centers For Local Areas
Seven in 10 Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their local area, including 48% strongly opposed.
How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — Monokai
On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. — 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some oth…
Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial; Ordered to pay $3 Million
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Fully programmable microrobots operate at cellular scale using nanowatt power
New cell-scale robots can sense their environment, compute decisions, and move independently without magnetic or ultrasonic control systems.
Roblox is pulling a DLSS 5, offering yet another example of a tool mistaking itself for an artist
Roblox makes a new version of the AI slop pitch we've seen time and again: replacing the creative process instead of making it easier.
French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push
2026 is set to be l’année de Linux.
UK Google DeepMind employees vote to unionize over its AI defense deals
Staff at DeepMind's UK offices have voted to unionize days after the Pentagon confirmed it would work with Google on classified operations.
Bit Sets: An introduction to bit manipulation
Learn about bitwise operators and bit manipulation by implementing a BitSet class in JavaScript.
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.
Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles
Polyarc, a studio founded by ex-Bungie developers that's made a name for itself with two stellar VR games in its Moss series, is bringing both games to PC and consoles – no VR headset needed – in the form of Moss: The F…
Developers Accuse Gunzilla Games of Not Paying Salaries For Months
Both current and former employees of Gunzilla Games have spoken out on LinkedIn, alleging that the company has failed to pay salaries.
Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename
I noticed that Notepad on my production PC was auto-updated, and it no longer has any reference to Copilot, but AI integration is not gone.
Guilty Gear v2.00 Patch Notes
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Double Fine Is Unionizing
The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize
'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars
New sodium battery technology creates an internal barrier that helps prevent battery fires
More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds
A study has found that more than half of Gen Z cancels and renews streaming subscriptions based on the availability of one TV series or film.
America’s Largest Public Hospital System Says AI Could Replace Radiologists
NYC hospital chief proposes AI-only cancer screening to cut costs, but radiologists warn of patient safety risks as regulatory battles loom.
How Wildlife Traffickers Are Using Coded Language to Sell Protected Animals On Facebook
Coded language used in thousands of Facebook ads has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade the platform’s bans for years
Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018
Not the best timing due to the RAMpocalypse, but there are leaner distros like Lubuntu available if you need them.
Borderlands 4's New $30 Expansion Pack Isn't Winning Over Fans
Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned includes a new playable character and region to explore, but is that enough to bring back lapsed players?
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they publi…
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.
Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an app…
Also, it's a twofer with the GreenPlasma zero-day local privilege escalation.
Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
Over a dozen companies have suffered data theft attacks after a SaaS integration provider was breached and authentication tokens stolen.
Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is 'simply impossible'
Valery Fadeev, head of Russia's Human Rights Council, concedes that blocking circumvention tools would devastate businesses and banks
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
Double Dragon And River City Creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto Has Passed Away
The mind behind two legendary beat 'em up franchises was 64.
Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.
The creator of Claude Code spoke with Business Insider at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Microsoft is still faking Google's homepage on Bing 1.5 years after backlash, even as it pays $1 million for users
Microsoft is still spoofing Google’s homepage in Bing on Edge, despite backlash, while users grow increasingly frustrated with Google Search.
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
Called it months ago.
Apple's iconic tower is gone, succeeded by the Mac Studio.
Street Fighter 6’s Latest DLC Ending Is Upsetting Fans Because Alex Marries His Sister-Cousin
Alex's arrival saw the game break its all-time peak player count on Steam
TIL there's a fungi that looks like a bird's nest.
Fungus that looks like a bird's nest
An odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari
First up, you should go and watch The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa. It is a brilliant set of performances and a joy to see. While perusing the programme on the National Theatre website I stumbled upon a …
Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up
Microsoft is currently in an ongoing battle to improve Windows 11 for idle use and gaming to compete with SteamOS, and it has a big plan for it.
A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.
Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.
McDermitt Caldera in Oregon is attracting attention for what could be one of the largest lithium deposits ever identified in the U.S.
Google DeepMind to open its first AI campus in the world in Seoul
Google DeepMind will open its first-ever AI campus in Seoul after Demis Hassabis signed an MOU with South Koreaâs Science Ministry on Monday.