Researcher who found Zcash's bug adds Monero to his audit queue
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers
Pritzker, who is widely viewed as having 2028 White House aspirations, is tapping into an issue seen as important to voters.
Volumetric Display With Lasers And Bubbly Glass
There’s a type of dust-collector that’s been popular since the 1990s, where a cube of acrylic or glass is laser-etched in a three-dimensional pattern. Some people call them bubblegrams.…
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
Red Dead 2 Comparison Videos Are Lying to You
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal emails
By Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas, Holmes Lybrand, CNN
New York Stock Exchange builds tokenized securities platform to bring stocks and ETFs to 24x7 on-chain trading
The New York Stock Exchange is building a tokenized securities platform that could enable 24x7 trading, instant settlement, and fractional share access for stocks and ETFs.
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros, including game developers behind Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy
If approved, Netflix will own Rocksteady, TT Games…
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
Self hosting Signal server
Does anyone have any experience in successfully self-hosting Signal server using
docker? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Thanks all for your response. I gave up on
Signal and installing Matrix server instead.
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen
America’s Pedestrian Death Crisis: 77% Rise in a Decade Shows How Car Capitalism Kills Walkers
Subject-Avatar in Computerized Enunciative Spaces: Between Technical Standardizations and Practices of Resistance
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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.
Take This Data Center and Shove It -- Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more
Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more. Welcome to Virginia, ground zero for data center defiance.
Co-Founder of Controversial NSO Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport
Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.
The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the healt…
AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
TIL about Glanzbilder
For women of a certain age, Glanzbilder were a colorful collectors item in our childhood. Their history goes back to the late 1800s!
TIL there's an International Vinegar Museum
International Vinegar Museum Roslyn, SD The International Vinegar Museum is the world's first and only museum dedicated to the wonder that is vinegar. Learn how vinegar is made, who makes it and 101 uses for vinegar.
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…
Anthropic (Sorta) Calls for Pause on AI Development. You Should (Sorta) Take It Seriously
With its highly anticipated IPO around the corner, the company is balancing its long-held reputation as a leader in safety with the demands of its future shareholders.
Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel
The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals
Sony/Yoti reporting users to authorities for using GrapheneOS
I saw this on that site earlier today, thought it'd be worth a post. [...] Yoti automatically flags [...] any devices running GrapheneOS. These instances are automatically reported both to the authorities and our securi…
AIR SNES: designer makes sneakers that double as a retro console
Gustavo Bonzanini, a designer, has made a pair of custom Nike sneakers to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Japanese launch of the SNES. The sneakers match the console colors and even house a console that connects t…
Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI To Be 'Addictive'
The new 'AI personal assistant' Scout has apparently already hooked its own employees
I also filed the corners off my MacBook
I like my new-to-me MacBook because it enables me to create more stuff compared to my now almost 8 year old Thinkpad I had before, mainly due to battery and screen reasons. There is one thing about it that I cannot wrap…
Cardano social activity surges as ADA falls under 20 cents to four-year lows - Founder warned of a "wave of failures" in the ecosystem.
Santiment data show active addresses at a four-month high and social dominance near a 2026 peak after Charles Hoskinson warned of a "wave of failures" in the ecosystem.
You'll now be able to spot an AI-generated song on Spotify
Streaming giant Spotify has stopped short of expunging artificially generated music from its platform, but it is making it easier for listeners to work out that they are listening to tracks produced using AI.
TIL that uncontrolled dynamic pricing once valued a book 23 million dollars (+ 3.99 shipping)
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental bi…
Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI
US firm says it will convene policymakers for discussion of dangers, in post detailing progress of its Claude model
Let us filter AI slop, you cowards - Online platforms could prove whether AI labels work by giving us a filter option, but then they’d have…
Let’s put those AI labels to the test.
The Infosec Phrasebook
Spend enough time around security people and you pick up a second vocabulary. It has a faintly military air and a noticeable per-syllable markup on vendor invoices.
Inputs Of Interest: SafeType™ Vertical Keyboard With Mirrors Puts Pain In The Rear-View
Yep, this keyboard is another ebay special. I can’t stay away! This is a SafeType™ V801 from probably the early 2000s, although there is no date on it anywhere. I’m basing my guess on t…
North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location
A barely perceptible keystroke delay was the smoking gun that led to the uncovering of a malign imposter.
JavaScript - To Semicolon, Or Not To Semicolon;
“To Semicolon, Or Not To Semicolon” - Shakespeare or something
Punycode: The algorithm that lets you use unicode in domains - Ian Duncan
A deep dive into how Punycode works, and why I think it's so neat.
The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856.
The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City".
Kevin O’Leary says he will shrink his Utah AI data center project after political backlash / The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 4…
The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 40,000-acre project by roughly half in a letter sent Thursday to Utah’s Senate president.
ZaneOps is a great self hosted PaaS alternative to Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages
ZaneOps is a self-hosted, open source platform as a service for hosting static sites, web apps, databases, CRONS, Workers using docker swarm as the engine.
US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason for cuts …
AI overtook market and economic conditions as the leading reason companies cited for cutting jobs in May, according to the most recent report from Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar
Razer showed off its 3D "desk companion," Project AVA, at CES. The 3D hologram can perform tasks like scheduling and live translation.
CATL claims its lithium-air battery has energy density similar to gasoline
Battery manufacturer CATL is shifting its long-term development focus to lithium-air technology, with a theoretical energy density that rivals gasoline and promises over {{1,600 km}} of range.
Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US tech billionaire Peter Thiel from an event this weekend titled, ‘Armageddon and Antichrist? …
The Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US...
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.
Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?
A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. Nothing complicated, answers only one question: are the Claude-assisted releases unusually buggy?
GOG Summer Sale is here!
Summer Sale 2026 is here!
Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck
AI-Generated Ghost Player assistance would help out players who can’t progress in a game…