Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games
Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill.
Brandolini's law - Wikipedia
Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease o…
Does TikTok's new Terms of Service track race, gender identity, and immigration status?
Users are concerned TikTok is collecting new kinds of personal data. It's more complicated.
Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...
Polaris: a Sunshine fork for Linux
Linux GameStream host for Nova and Moonlight-compatible clients - papi-ux/polaris
Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Z TriFold, a foldable phone comprised of three ultra-thin (~4mm) panels and two sets of hinges, that unfolds into a 10-inch tablet. When closed, it resembles a standard smartphone with a…
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.
‘Euro-Office’: OnlyOffice accuses of license violations
Ionos and Nextcloud are working on ‘Euro-Office’ and have forked OnlyOffice for it. The project sees this as a license violation.
Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."
Total War: Medieval 3 Announced, But It’s A long Way Off
Creative Assembly is developing Total War: Medieval 3 to celebrate its 25th anniversary, with a focus on historical authenticity and innovative gameplay using the new Warcore engine, anticipated fo…
Verizon cuts several hundred US workers months after slashing 13,000 jobs
Verizon cuts hundreds of jobs across the US, impacting less than 1% of its head count, as it continues to reduce costs beyond 2026.
'How To Get Started & Survive Stronghold Crusader's New Challenge' -GamerZakh
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Deutsche Welle(DW) to close roughly half of its X accounts by 2026 end due to budget cuts, rising platform costs(verification, analytics, m…
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 DW’s digital offerings.
Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker And Twitch
Although often tossed together into a singular ‘retro game’ aesthetic, the first game consoles that focused on 3D graphics like the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation featured very distin…
[Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothin…
Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — someti…
The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless
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Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know
Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!
How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas
China's OpenClaw use is soaring as tech giants hold meet-ups to help everyone add the artificial intelligence digital assistant to their devices.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.
Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update as Wube Software are moving on
The end of an era? Wube Software have announced that the upcoming Factorio 2.1 will be the last major update for the game.
Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production
Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company said in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday.
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, heâs no longer the outsider he once was
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player
I've spent the last year or so slowly replacing the everything-machine in my pocket with devices that do one thing and do it well. A BOOX e-reader for books. Retro handheld consoles for games. An automatic watch that te…
Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June
The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.
The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02]
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Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethe…
Photography student Tom Liggett sent film to 120,000 ft in a hot-air balloon, capturing images of cosmic radiation
'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential…
A former veteran Bethesda developer has cast doubt on the possibility of a Morrowind remaster in the same vein as the recently released Oblivion remaster, saying going back to play The Elder Scrolls 3 now, over 20 years…
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
VPN providers will need to obtain a license from the government to operate in Turkey.
Türkiye'de VPN servislerine yönelik radikal bir yasal düzenleme yolda. Lisans almayan uygulamaların erişimi tamamen engellenecek.
What the biggest viral videos of 2025 teach us about AI - BBC Bitesize
Animals on the porch, actors on the catwalk and footballers in the White House
Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs confirms that legislative work on mandating RSS channels' maintenance on government bodies is underway
Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs is working on legislation that could require all government bodies to provide RSS or Atom channels on their websites. If adopted, the regulation would place Poland among the first EU…
How Big Tech Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs
Until quite recently, many Big Tech firms opposed the militarization of AI, but that now seems like ancient history as they move to sign partnerships with arms companies. The prospect of lavish Pentagon funding for AI i…
The Netherlands consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not sufficient…
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) launches an investigation into online game platform Roblox in connection with possible risks that minors in the EU face on the platform.
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
India's telecom authority DoT mandates permanent SIM binding for messenger services. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal must comply within 90 days.
Claude AI down: Anthropic users hit with errors as chatbot goes offline
Claude, the Anthropic AI chatbot, has gone down in a major outage.
TikTok Deal Done And It’s 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 it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything
Engineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath.
'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Length…
Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had already been rebooted on…
Bogdan's Blog – LinkedIn Interview Scams
Fake jobs, real malware. Here's how scammers are baiting devs on LinkedIn.
TIL that contraception is illegal in Afghanistan
Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception
RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting
Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.
Three Decades Of ReactOS
Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clo…
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable - EFF
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file pub…
British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets
British soldiers will be able to make faster, better decisions on the battlefield through thousands of new radios, headsets and tablets.