Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, …
Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
The iPhone versus Android battle has just taken a sudden twist as hackers attack smartphones.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic secures large investment as director Casey Hudson rejects use of gen-AI, saying "I'm just really unimpr…
KOTOR spiritual successor Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic gathers funds as director talks studio size, game length, and gen-AI.
AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?
Digital clones of porn performers are on the rise. Is it a moneymaking dream or a dystopian nightmare?
I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. It’s the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you won’t get the sam…
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
X has placed new daily post limits on unverified accounts
Free X users consistently keep hitting rate limits now, because of the new 50 original posts per day restriction.
PineTime Pro Introduction
How is your day/night going RSS readers? In this blog post we go in depth on the new PineTime Pro hardware and share some pre-production information from JF.
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT's mental health team is bleeding talent and facing controversy
Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Goo…
The same products are showing up as 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to traditional search, a study found.
OpenTS is a new open-source reconstruction of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a true classic - one I remember excitedly reading magazine previews about and it continues to live on.
Roblox must face Iowa consumer fraud claims
Iowa Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General news releases.
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 17 hours
Welcome to Canonical and Ubuntu Status! View active incident progress, historical component status, and subscribe to email and RSS notifications for components and incidents on the move.
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
TIL the original Mad Max owes its unique style to the leftover cameras that McQueen's movie The Getaway left in Australia and no one wanted
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Verified by Spotify: New No AI badge— it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof l…
Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, it’s more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is provid…
Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
The Web Design Museum released 44 classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser.
The Web Design Museum released 44 classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser. Play them here: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post
Two posts explaining the campaign, both from earlier this year, were deleted after redditors took notice.
Tesla falls out of China's EV top 10 as BYD surges
For drivers, switching to an EV can also bring meaningful savings.
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
The Smallest Enterprise Homelab
Disclaimer: This blog was written without the help of LLMs (although that should be obvious) or any kind of financial incentive. I bought all the hardware myself, don’t have stocks in any of these companies and don’t us…
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Clau…
PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
'Agentic AI' is current industry buzzword - but what does it mean and should we be cautious?
One of the inventors of Siri, the original AI agent, wants you to "handle with care" when it comes to artificial intelligence. But are we becoming too cautious around AI in Europe and risking our future?
The creator of Fortnite has laid off more than 1,000 staff – despite billions in revenue
Huge cuts announced this week show that truly no developer working in games is safe from corporate whims
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. — 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some oth…
Shipworms can sink a boat. Northeastern researchers explain digestive process
Known as the clam that has sunk a thousand ships, shipworms are strange looking—and strange acting—animals.
Peter Thiel is leading investment in an ocean data center powered by waves—and the startup is reportedly worth $1 billion
“Extra-terrestrial solutions are no longer science fiction,” Thiel said.
JP Morgan says Nvidia is gearing up to sell entire AI servers instead of just AI GPUs and components
Higher supply chain consolidation under Nvidia?
BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
I’m pleased to say that the project has now fully migrated management of all repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. The main BookStack project repository now lives here:
s&box - launch trailer
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World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries
Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. …
Kenya tells Microsoft that $1 billion AI data center would gulp half the country’s electricity
Kenya has reportedly raised concerns over Microsoft’s planned $1 billion AI data center, warning that the project could consume a massive chunk of the country’s electricity supply.
Foes of AI Surveillance Get Wins in Wisconsin. But They Fear They’re Playing Whack-A-Mole.
The sheriff in Wisconsin’s capital county will stop using dozens of AI surveillance cameras posted up across Madison and surrounding towns, after the Dane County Board of Supervisors pulled funding... Read More
'The PS5 is only in the middle of [it's lifespan],' says Sony CFO
Sony CFO Lin Tao says the PlayStation 5 still has plenty of life left in it.
How I Won a Championship That Doesn’t Exist Or How I Learned To Poison The LLM Supply Chain
Poisoning the LLM knowledge supply chain with a fake Wikipedia edit and a single domain registration
Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
DayOtter v0.4.0 - open-source, self-hostable Calendly alternative with a built-in scheduling assistant
The AI-native, open-source scheduling platform. Otter books meetings, protects your focus, and clears the back-and-forth — confirm-first. Self-host it all under AGPLv3. - Dayotter/dayotter
Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technologyâs impact
Elon Musk Explains Why the SpaceX Board Must Be Powerless to Fire Him
He needs to "make sure SpaceX stays focused on making life multiplanetary." It should sound familiar by now.
Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declar…
WIRED TOKYO 2007 developer Daikichi_EMP has announced a resolution of his IP violation predicament on Steam.
To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
The Video Game FAQ Archive has come a long way.
Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a h…
Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch…
Garrett Wang’s Most Embarrassing Moment on the Voyager Set
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This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
WIRED rebuilt Flockâs latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officerâs browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
GPT-6 Astra reaches and surpasses human-level performance on ARC-AGI-3 with a memory harness, but still at 1000x the cost - ARC Prize Found…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reaches state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3
Samsung confirms it isn't ending SATA SSD production
A Samsung Electronics spokesperson has confirmed that reports about the brand ending SATA SSD production are false.
Hackers could use poisoned WhatsApp and Slack notifications to take over your Google Gemini – and make it work on their behalf
The attack relies on hidden prompts in a foreign language.
Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos
Another new way to encourage you to post.