Australia's 'Payphone Tag' Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure
Payphone Tag is a new game (sport?) being played in Australia that uses the country's kinda-defunct public phone network and turns it into a geospatial game where you can claim whole regions of territory as your own, pr…
OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43
Leo Radvinsky became a billionaire after investing in the site, known for its pornographic content.
Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement
The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a âsolved world.â
Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support
Valve has spoken about potential anti-cheat issues on the Steam Machine which uses SteamOS and is not compatible with certain anti-cheats
Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups
The site networks connections between known DSA members and outside organizations, presented as a research tool.
2K lays off staff working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos, while hinting at "new direction and focus"
Studio head has "never been more confident in the future of our game" but needed to "scale back our team to better align with where we are in development"
Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys
Advocates are fighting against the $16.7bn global smart-toy market, decrying surveillance and a lack of regulation
AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water …
County's soft touch is attributed to the data center being 'our largest customer, and we have to be partners.'
New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that pro…
When Escalator Breaks, It Turns Stairs
We need resilient systems that fall back to sanity when broken / discriminating. And not whatever.
Monotype font licencing shake-down — Insanity Works
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Sub…
'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
French prosecutors escalate probe of Elon Musk and X to criminal investigation
France is investigating whether Elon Musk and his social media app X were complicit in spreading harmful AI deepfakes.
‘The new price of eggs.’ The political shocks of data centers and electric bills
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Netflix kills casting from phones
Cast isn’t gone, but it might not work.
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter | The lawsuit claims the shooter carried out his attack using instructions a…
The lawsuit claims the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.
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Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’
Valve won’t subsidise Steam Machine’s price like console manufacturers…
Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is allegedly low on cash for new investments, after a multi-year spending s…
Not a Security Issue (How to avoid bad AI bug reports)
How curl’s disclosure policy filtered an AI scanner’s findings at source
GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
I respect choice for the name of the game
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How to block unwanted outbound traffic from your containers
A story about a crypto-miner, a sketchy API wrapper, and the creation of Dockerwall: a zero-trust outbound firewall for Docker.
TIL about Miki Endo who sacrificed her life giving warning broadcasts during the 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Miki Endo (遠藤 未希, Endō Miki; July 18, 1986, Japan – March 11, 2011, Minamisanriku, Japan) was an employee of the town of Minamisanriku's Crisis Management Department, tasked with broadcasting disaster advisories and…
Sorry, iPhone 17 Users: You Don’t Qualify for Apple’s $250 Million Siri Lawsuit Settlement
Apple still denies wrongdoing.
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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
Doing it yourself is way more cost effective.
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“Cannot be explained” – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers
A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected double-protection mechanism that…
DXC Technology workers begin rolling strikes over underpayment
Technology workers will begin 24 rolling strikes until May 12.
Former IT contractor convicted for wiping 96 US government databases
A federal jury has convicted a Virginia man for his role in a retaliatory cyberattack that wiped dozens of US government databases.
TIL that trolls working for the Russian Government helped divide the american feminist movement
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals
A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals …
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Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?
Google says Android-powered laptops are coming in 2026. Will they actually matter, though?
Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the extent and depth of pervasive and multifacet…
Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9
European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
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.
FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem
This move could kill burner phones if it goes forward.
Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC
A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS.
DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)
There are plenty of lovely e-readers out on the market that come with an nice big e-paper display. There aren’t nearly as many that come with two. [Martin den Hoed] developed the Diptyx e-rea…
AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not …
Data centers emit sounds from the humming of cooling systems, rumbling of diesel generators, and whirring of fans, which can be heard for hundreds…
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Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.
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Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview
David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, has been known to say some pretty outlandish things, but his recent interview with the New York Times might have ended up being a carpet bombing of poorly considered answers, as he tri…