The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos
Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed s…
Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents
:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that theyâre heating up their surroundings, according to new research. Itâs an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predi…
OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral
: Deal helps company build out its Codex team
Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they worked hard for it(including waiting 24 hours)
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
FTC Takes Action Against Match and OkCupid for Deceiving Users by Sharing Personal Data with Third Party
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against OkCupid and its affiliate Match Group Americas over allegations OkCupid deceived users of its dating app by sharing their personal information,
Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid
Exclusive: Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills
New Social Web Working Group at W3C
Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…
Quantum pioneers win Turing Award for encryption breakthrough
It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.
Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This
Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building trust rails for machines: agent identity, intent verification, API-native content delivery.
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
Digital Tribulations 6: A Radical Hacker-Fanonian Critique of Digital Colonialism
The introduction to this series of interviews can be read here. Interview with Deivison FaustinoAt the presentation of the MTST’ book in São Paulo, I met Deivison Faustino, a figure who im
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period
Later this year, Google is introducing new developer verification. For power users, Android will offer an option to disable verification...
Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge
Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them
Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome
A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.
Crimson Desert Critic Reviews
Crimson Desert has been reviewed by 50 critics and currently has a 'Strong' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
The YouTuber doesn't seem fazed by Apple's threats.
CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage
: Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again
Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models
A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.
AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations
Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations.
Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.
Data centers are consuming more kilowatts than ever, but the price they pay for that electricity has risen only a little.
AI Police Reports: Year In Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writi…
South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
The South Korean artificial sun, which goes by the name KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research), has made an important scientific discovery concerning nuclear fusion by being able to sustain plasma in hi…
TIL that orgasm via masturbation or sex can provide relief for sinus pressure and nasal congestion.
Medical news is full of stories about promising new treatments for challenging conditions, or for additional health benefits of routine behaviours and habits. Who doesn’t want to feel good about drinking coffee or eatin…
Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
Mapping Google's Unmappable City
How filmmaker Chris Parr put North Oaks, Minnesota on the map.
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH - PC Version Launch Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation
Although Windows has had awareness of the NVMe storage media protocol since Windows 8.1, it turns out that the stock Microsoft driver for NVMe devices, disk.sys, offers suboptimal performance. This driver dates back to …
The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professi…
Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century.
Made With GameMaker 2026
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Lazarus Group’s IT Workers Scheme Hacker Group Caught Live On Camera
Lazarus Groupâs Famous Chollima unit has been caught âlive on cameraâ running its remote IT worker scheme, after researchers funneled its operatives into fake laptops that were actually longârunning sandbox envi…
Announcing Timeship v0.1.0: Self-hosted ZFS snapshot browser for TrueNAS
Self-hosted ZFS snapshot file browser. Contribute to SmilyOrg/timeship development by creating an account on GitHub.
Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group?
The first open-source DDoS protection system. Contribute to AltraMayor/gatekeeper development by creating an account on GitHub.
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors
I wrote last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a CGM) on my arm 24/7 to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague, Karen …
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the Linux kernel's Rust code.
TIL it takes roughly 600 to 800 grapes to make a standard bottle of wine
FUN FACT!! Did you know that it takes 600-800 grapes to make a bottle of wine? Wine grapes can vary … Read More
Fedware: 13 Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban
The White House app ships with a sanctioned Chinese tracking SDK, the FBI app serves ads, and FEMA wants 28 permissions to show you weather alerts.
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.
Movie Duels [Star Wars: Jedi Academy mod] Update No. 7 Released
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investiga…
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives
Seagate’s Mozaic 4+ platform delivers 44TB HAMR hard drives today, with a clear path to 100TB drives aimed at AI-scale data growth.
Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers
: But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says
Mamdani Targets AI 'Housefishing' With Mandatory Rental Listing Disclosures
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani launches a tenant protection plan forcing rental sites to disclose AI-altered listings and cracking down on negligent landlords.
Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.
Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake
Spotify vs. Anna's Archive
Working Notes
Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)
But then I cut out the middle man—me."