Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley Introduce the Ban Flock Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Privacy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the Ban Flock Act, legislation to put an end to the rise in AI-powered surveillance…
Nextcloud adds desktop app for Euro-Office productivity suite
Nextcloud wants to close the gap with Microsoft Office with the introduction of a new Euro-Office desktop client for Windows, macOS, and Linux — one of numerous updates to its Nextcloud Hub suite.
Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software?
The use of large language models (“LLMs”) has exploded in recent years, including in the generation of source code. But even as their usage gains popularit...
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973
A wormable vulnerability allowed anyone able to inject text in a build log on builds.sr.ht (or other instances) to take over accounts who viewed them
Trump Launched an America.[gov] “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won…
Trump's new government AI chatbot disagrees with him on an umber of topics, and says he did, in fact, lose the 2020 election.
Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%
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CIA Names Chinese AI, Chip Firms as Spy Targets
China Counter-Espionage Law risks for US companies spiked after CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis publicly named Chinese AI, semiconductor, and biotech firms as legitimate spy targets at a September 8 conference; Beijin…
Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet
The game will get its first playable demo during Tokyo Game Show 2026, at the Sega/Atlus booth.
Wild horse nine trailer - Chile, Malkovich, McDonagh
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Challenging the inevitability of AI – by debunking “rogue AI will kill us all” – notinevitable.ai
It might seem strange that while hype over “rogue” AI agents plays out daily in the media, this has not resulted in penalties for the companies that were not testing safely. Strange that it has not increased support for…
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
A jury found Facebook guilty of 43 million privacy violations, and Meta could owe billions
The New Mexico Department of Justice recently announced a landmark decision from the jury in the State of New Mexico v. Facebook, Inc. case. Meta's social network...
US Senators Introduces Bill to Stop the Government’s Use of Face Surveillance and Other Biometric Surveillance Tech
Bill Text (PDF) Washington (September 25, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the...
Another cost for software
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?
Concord. Complaint-driven, consensus-based forge
A complaint-driven, consensus-based forge. Contribute to 8ullyMaguire/concord development by creating an account on GitHub.
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers [who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization…
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value…
Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 g…
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Hubzilla 11.4 Docker Image
A multi-arch docker container for Hubzilla, based on Alpine Linux, Nginx, and Postgres/MariaDB - dhitchenor/hubzilla
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
George Lucas finally opens massive LA museum. What you'll find there
Here's what you can expect to see and do at the spacecraft-like museum opening Sept. 22.
Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster
Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement.
Plasma and electricity convert CO₂ into methanol, butane and other useful chemicals
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) can be harmful to the environment in large amounts but can be used in the production of fuels and other useful chemicals. Doing so isn't easy, though. Now, Yale researchers have developed a new way …
[spoilers] Zach Cregger Made A TRUE Resident Evil Movie
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"Reading the World": New Film Spotlights Paulo Freire's Radical Literacy Experiment in 1960s Brazil
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Hollywood after making a good video game adaptation | Man Carrying Thing
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Late Night Calls From Across Reality | Multiverse Loveline
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Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan
Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier.
The Anbernic RG DS Plus Is The Best DS Handheld Yet
Anbernic's second take on a dedicated Nintendo DS handheld refines almost everything I loved about the original, and somehow still manages to be incredibly affordable.
We Traced What Happens When You Open 11 Tech News Sites
WIRED sent audience-segment events to Pinterest. Four publishers sent Meta page views. RuntimeWire's homepage scan reached two outside domains.
PlayStation Blackout Had ‘No Significant Change At All’, Analyst Says
An analyst has revealed that the PlayStation Blackout movement from last month didn't show any significant changes.
DrivingBench: Can frontier LLM models drive a real car? We give them control of a Toyota Corolla’s steering, accelerator, and brakes, then …
A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.
What’s in a name? Naming things in OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap Blog
Whether you are from, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Springfield or Ea names are important. They help us identify where we are, where we are from and where we want to go to.
Disney Hit By Layoffs, A Couple Hundred Workers Cut
Disney has initiated layoffs under CEO Josh D'Amaro. The cuts impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR.
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo
Xbox says it's now "roughly three-quarters of the way" to completing its planned 3,200 job cuts.
Trying to get a restaurant reservation? Get ready to compete with AI agents
Some agents are causing problems that, while not exactly extinction-level events, demonstrate how much of the world remains unready for their widespread proliferation.
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
Data centre sizes and costs are doubling about every 12 to 16 months
Linkwarden 2.16 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new featu…
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Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
Court filings from the battle between GTA 6 studio Rockstar and fired workers have revealed how Rockstar accessed a Discord server set up by union organisers.
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They push the train in North Korea [ North Korean strength feats exposed by defector ]
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McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.
NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why
NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with
Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"
President Trump and the leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies have signed a set of voluntary safety standards, as calls mount for tighter guardrails on powerful AI technology.
McDonald's Is Using AI To Dynamically Price Its Burgers
McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust…
TIL During the Siege of Sarajevo, rich people paid to travel there and kill civilians
Sarajevo Safari is the name for an alleged war tourism phenomenon during the siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996) involving human hunting.[1] According to the reports, wealthy foreign nationals were enabled, for large monetary…
Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming
Finally, Discord is working on a 'Game Mode' to reduce CPU and GPU consumption while gaming, but it seems there's still a lot of work to be done.