DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
A new update now in testing sets Edge to automatically appear at startup, and you are forced to opt-out if you don't want it.
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 scissor…
AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India
India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
Intuit Becomes S&P 500’s Worst Performer This Year / Shares of Intuit dropped 8.9% on Tuesday, adding to a 51% decline so far this year…
Analysts anticipate increased competition to disrupt the TurboTax owner.
The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours
Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold ou…
Palantir Systems’ Potential for Enshittification Has Become an ‘Unacceptable’ Risk, UK Politicians Say
Plus dealing with Alex Karp doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s 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 t…
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 — and telling them to cut it out.
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
Medical AI transcriber for Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors: auditor general
Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor gen…
Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” …
Former Nippon Ichi Software President Sohei Niikawa talks shares his opinions on the current state of Japan's game industry.
A cited, filterable database of mini-PCs / SFF boxes by measured idle power (not TDP), for picking a low-running-cost box to self-host on
A cited, date-stamped answer for every major SaaS vendor: will it sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA), and can you store PHI in it? Free lookup for digital-health teams.
Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in students
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Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says
Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash
What makes a good smartphone camera? - cadence's weblog (personal blog)
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
Gacha Game Apologizes For Giving Players Malware With Some Free Loot Boxes
'This incident has served as a serious wake-up call for our team,' said the developers of Duet Night Abyss
Starfish ROOM: DEFEND THE ROOMS available on Steam
In a world colonized by aliens, Kibo Wave has been chosen to fight various aliens, kill monsters, collect cards, and speedrun in seconds in an eternal loop in a 2D musou roguelite sci-fi queer game.
Castlevania: Belmont‘s Curse Gameplay & Commentary Trailer
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Capcom Lists Dead Rising as One of Its 'Leading Brands' That It's 'Nurturing' — but Does That Mean Dead Rising 5?
Capcom is planning for Dead Rising's future. In its latest earnings report, the Japanese games company said it plans to nuture a handful of franchises for growth, with one of them being Dead Rising.
Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations
First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales
The global memory shortage due to rapid AI data center expansion is hitting everyone, even the biggest tech companies in the world.
Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows
Stanford University report comes after two separate attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home
Horizon Hunters Gathering - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games
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The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore
Upgrading isn't all that it's made out to be.
DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More
DaVinci Resolve 21 is a photo editor now.
comcept shuts down
comcept, the company founded by Keiji Inafune in December 2010, was officially dissolved by a shareholders’ resolution on January 13, according to a notice published in today’s Japanese…
Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline
The annual report reveals a field hitting breakthrough capabilities while raising urgent questions about environmental costs, transparency, and who benefits from the technology.
Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…
New Steam update shows four Steam Machine models, though we still don't have a release date
Presumably that's for different specced models.
AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, study finds
Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors.
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites
PlayStation Studios removed PC references across most studio pages, adding credibility to the rumor that Sony may be changing its first-party PC release plans.
Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE
Your sovereign office. Euro-Office has 20 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can "effectively contribute to realising a creator's vision"
Sony and Bandai Namco have announced a "collaborative initiative" focused on AI and the latest technologies can aid game development.
China is going after fake expert influencers, and the FTC’s new five-year plan seems to lay the same groundwork
China issued new regulations banning people without proper credentials from offering any tips related to health, finance, or education online. The FTC just released a similar playbook.
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.
HAEX | Announcement Trailer
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Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal emails
By Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas, Holmes Lybrand, CNN
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
GrapheneOS Foundation Seeking Remote App Developer
Attached: 1 image Ever seen our AOSP based apps (Phone,Messages,Gallery...) & thought I could make a difference to bring them up? We're seeking a senior Android engineer to take ownership of the default app suite: https…
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on launchpad at Cape Canaveral— Homes shook in nearby Florida cities Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach…
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Until Dawn 2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
"Ready to die for likes? Join a team of ambitious ghost hunters as they chase their next viral hit on a remote island haunted by a woman's chilling story of ...
TIL one of the Unabomber's victims had a six-year correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.
David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist and writer. He was a professor of computer science at Yale University.[2]
Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck: Flipper One hacking multitool offers 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and Linux on ARM
With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be â it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 per…
China currently handles the majority of device testing for the U.S. market.