YouTube hikes Premium subscription cost again while adding advanced video features
YouTube is raising the price of its Premium subscriptions by as much as $4, but the Google-owned platform is compensating with new video features.
Next Dragon Quest and more to be announced this month
Big Dragon Quest news is on the way including the announcement of the series’ next game. That’s according to Yuji Horii, the series’ creator. During a KosoKoso podcast, which is now private, Horii said that a live strea…
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
PCOS Is Officially Renamed, After Decades of Misinformation
First, it was named after two men.
BBC: “It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says”
The Facebook and Instagram owner, which denies wrongdoing, says the agreement builds on its "longstanding efforts to empower parents and support teens".
Meet Orexin, The Brain Chemical Behind Staying Motivated
Motivation (or a lack of it) shapes our lives in ways large and small every day: From changing careers to changing TV channels, we're guided by what motivates us and what we find rewarding.
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can "effectively contribute to realising a creator's vision"
Sony and Bandai Namco have announced a "collaborative initiative" focused on AI and the latest technologies can aid game development.
‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers
The cybersecurity threat experts feared for years just happened and "the world might actually be more dangerous."
Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says
Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash
Just 2 new data centres will pump out more planet-heating carbon emissions than ExxonMobil
There is simply no world in which such massive new carbon emissions are compatible with a serious plan for reaching net zero by 2050.
Pixel Airport Tycoon, a top down airport management and construction game, with extensive airport operations gameplay, released on Steam
Build your own airport from the ground up! Construct terminals, runways, and refueling stations, manage baggage handling and catering, research new technologies, and expand your grounds. Become the most successful airpo…
Meta is facing another lawsuit over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
The lawsuit claims Meta is not doing enough to protect senior citizens and other vulnerable groups.
Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced work platform, on 30 September, 2026. Launched in 2005, the service connected workers with tasks such as data labelling and surveys, but faced declining investme…
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area
Medical AI transcriber for Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors: auditor general
Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor gen…
Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China
Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon monoxide in Chinese c…
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
Replacing Tailscale with a 2-VPS WireGuard setup (No port forwarding)
I replaced Tailscale with a self-hosted WireGuard setup using two VPSes to securely expose home lab services without port forwarding or SaaS.
Critical Keycloak Vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) - CVE-2026-18963
A flaw was found in the reset-credentials flow of the keycloak-services component, which is the core engine for identity and access management in Red Hat Build of Keycloak. The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker t…
Don't Hijack My Mouse Pointer
With vibe-coding, more and more websites I am visiting are changing my mouse pointer
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram ‘addictive design’ hooking kids
"We are investigating platforms that allow children to go down "rabbit holes" of harmful content," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.
New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest
Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism
The US designated Italy-based tech collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist entity, freezing assets and banning transactions over
All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars
Big Tech's 60 planned US data centers could emit 101.5 million tons of CO2 yearly — equal to 24 million gas-powered cars.
AI coders are carrying half-open laptops
Techies are walking with their laptops open to keep their agents running. They told Business Insider their stories, from offices to school halls.
Why the global push to break free from Big Tech keeps falling short
In this excerpt from the book “The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud,” writer Cecilia Rikap examines how Europe, India, Brazil, and China are taking on big tech companies.
Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states.
ChatGPT's New Safety Feature Could Alert 'Trusted Contact' to Risk of Self-Harm | A designated contact may be notified if a chat discussion…
A designated contact may be notified if a chat discussion indicates a possible safety concern.
Sony's new wearable air conditioner runs even cooler
And it should be more comfortable, too.
Hackers use DNS poisoning on hotel Wi‑Fi to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
Traveling employees are being silently redirected to fake Microsoft 365 login pages via poisoned hotel Wi-Fi — with tradecraft echoing Russia's APT28.
New orbital power grid targets 10x boost for space-based computing and data centers
A new orbital power grid could help space data centers access up to 10x more power on demand for computing.
Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.
Fixing Dynamic Resolution Switching in Docker-steam-headless
How I made Sunshine and Moonlight automatically adapt a headless Docker X11 display to different client resolutions.
The Freshman Register
Social media is no longer social. What now? In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up. Harvard itself had planned to publish a col…
Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam | Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington …
Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company on August 24, 1996.
The Sinking City 2 — Official Gameplay Reveal
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters
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AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers
The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a 'denial of service' attack on project mainta…
Ryan Cohen Says He ‘Isn’t Passionate’ About GameStop As He Makes Desperate Bid For eBay
Failing to convince eBay leadership on other stakes, the GameStop CEO leverages his emotional investment
ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter r…
Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud.
Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’
Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
Iran mulls taking full control of all 7 undersea internet cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
The undersea cables carry a large share of global data traffic between Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. Tehran proposes to impose a toll for submarine cables that provide internet communications. Iran also wants all manageme…
Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead
Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit red…
World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
Beware Of Zombie Credit Cards That Work After Expiration
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have uncovered a critical security flaw in contactless payment processing that allows expired credit cards to be reanimated and used for fraudulent purchases.
Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for 'anti-consumerism' and make a 'concrete commitment…
A manifesto threatens to target not just the GTA 6 makers, but everyone who violates Cyberleek's "three commandments."
