PasteSwitch: The official HBO Max verified Reddit account got hacked for 48 hours to push 108 ClickFix ads tricking Mac and Windows users i…
A compromised HBO Max Reddit account led to PasteSwitch, a cross-platform ClickFix operation spanning macOS & Windows loaders and deceptive TLS.
OpenAI rogue agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users and reportedly created nearly 1 million links packing encoded bits of info
Back-to-back reports on Friday provided more alarming details of rogue AI agent activity at OpenAI.
[TIL] Yoshio Kodama, yakuza and "political fixer" for the japanese ultra right wing after WW2, had his mansion targeted by a kamikaze in 19…
Yoshio Kodama (児玉 誉士夫, Kodama Yoshio; February 18, 1911 – January 17, 1984)[2] was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan. The most famous kuromaku, or…
FBI Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' data breach
Current and former agents speak to the BBC about the devastating impact of the FBI hack.
I don't like passkeys | Ethan Hawksley
Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.
The Winning Variant (terrygodier.com)
A short documentary about A/B testing, algorithmic optimization, and the small act of ignoring both. In 2009, a Google designer quit over forty-one shades of blue. The machine was making his decisions — and it was often…
A Room You Can't See (terrygodier.com)
A short documentary about music formats, streaming, and the quiet thing that disappeared when your library became endless. Oh, and a musician (me!) trying to work out whether the music changed, or I did.
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website (lina.sh)
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.
Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)
One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off.
what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ?
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The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.
Self-Host Weekly (25 September 2026) by @eshol
I have no RAM, and I must scream
Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative
Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative since January. But many are unsure or unfamiliar with them.
My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try | Personal Site of Andrei N. Ciobanu
Before we begin, I’d like to clarify that the project ideas I am about to suggest are mainly intended for those who are interested in exploring new areas of knowledge. However, it’s important to note that most of these …
Wikidocs (for storing your home-lab structure)
📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki. Contribute to Zavy86/WikiDocs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Apple's new watches are always listening
The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand and write up summaries of everything they heard.
Meta suffers another legal loss after jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users
This follows another recent legal victory for New Mexico, where courts awarded $942 million in judgments against Meta across a two-part trial concerning minor safety controls
The Internet Used to Have Places
The older Internet felt more like a collection of places because communities had addresses, customs, memory, and edges.
Creating a Blog in Gemini://
Creating your own corner of Geminispace: why you'd want to blog on a protocol with no JavaScript, no CSS, and no AI slop; where to host a capsule (SmolPub,â¦
How the stories about all-powerful "AI" are swallowing the world
The x-risk of super intelligence going rogue must be addressed, and mint trillion dollar companies in the process. Plus: How workers can beat the tech oligarchy
Eight New Gas Plants Will Power Amazon's Next Wave of Data Centers
Utilities and independent power producers are building 17.5 GW of new gas generation to serve Amazon’s growing power needs.
[AIP] Last weekend I published Plume RC1, my side-project for a self-hosted, flat-file publishing platform built to simplify independent pu…
Plume is your self-hosted, Markdown-powered publishing platform. Write in plain text, own your files, publish beautifully.
Democrats Demand Answers on Trump Plan to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
California Rep. Jared Huffman has accused Trump of “selling out America’s public lands to the richest corporations.”…
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Sell You a Tamagotchi
At Meta Connect, Zuckerberg teases the keychain-like device, which is designed to run a user's personal Muse AI agent.
Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"
The Final Shape will remain final
Signal Will Let You Sign Up Without a Phone Number — For $3
The feature is currently in testing on Android, with iOS support still a bit far away.
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and ‘use AI instead’
A Sydney tutoring company will shut its doors at the end of the week after telling customers artificial intelligence has rendered its service effectively obsolete.
Amazon Illegally ‘Bricked’ Older Kindle Models, Class Action Suit Claims
A class action lawsuit alleges that Amazon unfairly ‘bricked’ older Kindle devices by removing access to digital content and discontinuing software support.
Ownership and Storage
Data storage and data access aren't the same. Some places I'm happy to have the access to my data. Other places I don't want to have my data. The problem is people already have it, but maybe we can make a push for a new…
There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
Burnham announces plan for new UK center to fight disinformation
The United Kingdom will create a new national center "to detect, attribute and disrupt” hostile state disinformation, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations General Assembly.
Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows. Waymo now averaging 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week.
In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hot spots as well.
US bill threatens to turn your VPN into a piracy blocklist
The American Copyright Protection Act aims to force ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPNs to cut off access to foreign piracy sites
Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play.
Conversations is now permanently available for free on Google Play. Google doesn’t deserve me and my money anymore. https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ #XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #Android #FOSS #…
Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental "Data Center" Into Space Next Week
Google is gearing up to launch a fridge-sized data center satellite with the horsepower equivalent of a single server.
F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.
GTA 6's $1 million billboard goes up despite protests from local police as Rockstar's real-life Miami takeover gets underway
The Kaseya Center is the first location to host Rockstar's marketing
AI Tech Workers' Inquiry 2026
How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.
TIL Netflix was officialy supported on the PS2*
In the early 2000s, the PlayStation 2 (PS2) reigned supreme as the best-selling console in history, delighting millions of gamers around the world. But beyond the games, the device held a secret little known even to its…
Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games
Sony has filed a patent application for a PlayStation controller that could read payment details from a nearby credit card or phone.
It Turns Out That Meta's Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret
Meta claims that its Muse AI agent can call business on your behalf, but, as it turns out, that's not quite true.
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
AI agents steal 600,000 credit cards records: Operator is running 3 open source AI systems autonomously breaking into hundreds of Online Re…
Gambit Threat Intelligence reconstructed an ongoing campaign in which open source AI agents compromised online retailers for about $25 each.
You’ll do anything for your baby. The algorithm knows how to exploit that.
In the mega-consumption era of parenthood, the internet tells new moms that products can solve the hardest parts of having a newborn. All they have to do is add to cart.
Stem cells reverse stroke damage and restore movement in mice
Stem cell transplants helped regenerate stroke-damaged brain tissue in mice, producing new neurons and restoring lost motor function. The treatment also improved blood vessels, inflammation, and the blood-brain barrier,…