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
SWIFT and SWIFT assesments in 2025
A SWIFT assessment - an independent review of the security of companies' SWIFT infrastructure and systems - is designed to ensure that systems are protected against potential security threats and vulnerabilities. The ne…
Elden Ring Nightreign The Forsaken Hollows - Gameplay Reveal Trailer
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0700-PPSA25380_00-ERSL000000000000ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN The Forsaken Hollows will be available on December 4th ...
Elden Ring's most comprehensive and faithful fan-made overhaul launches its biggest update yet, with full multiplayer
Elden Ring Reforged 2.0 overhauls the tremendously popular mod with a wealth of new weapons, spells, bosses, and full online support.
LumenTale: Memories of Trey | Explore the region of Talea
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EnshittifAIcation
Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for …
TIL there's a hotel room designed to look like Goodnight Moon
Since its initial publication in 1947, the picture book Goodnight Moon written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd has enchanted and haunted generations of readers.Could you sleep in such a room? Even…
TIL About Gene Wu, an American Politician, Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, was born in Guangzhou (广州), China, th…
Eugene Yuanzhi Wu (Chinese: 吳元之; pinyin: Wú Yuánzhī) is an American lawyer and politician who is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, serving since 2013. Since January 2025, he has served as cha…
TIL our complex society gave rise to increased hypothetical and abstract thinking
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Today I learned that the CIA and Buckingham Palace carried out a coup against the Australian government in 1975
Today is the 50th anniversary of the C.I.A./Buckingham Palace coup against Australia's government on Nov. 11, 1975. As part of our 30th anniversary commemoration, we republish this article by the late John Pilger. By Jo…
Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne · Daniel May
On agent-coded cold outreach, the alumni t-shirt scam, the Elias Thorne convergence, and what gets visible when no one does the work.
What are your thoughts on cal.com changing to cal.diy?
Discover Cal.diy, the 100% MIT-licensed community fork of Cal.com. Designed for self-hosters, it removes enterprise code for a pure open-source experience.
GitHub - damontecres/Wholphin: An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin
An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin. Contribute to damontecres/Wholphin development by creating an account on GitHub.
Memory Price Surge Squeezes Game Console Margins; 2026 Shipment Forecast Revised Downward
TrendForce’s latest report states that rising memory prices have significantly increased BOM costs in consumer electronics, leading brands to hike retail prices and dampening market demand. After reducing its 2026 shipm…
TIL about Hormesis. small doses of toxins can be good
Hormesis is a two-phased dose-response relationship whereby low-dose exposures have a beneficial effect and high-dose amounts are either inhibitory to function or toxic.[1] Within the hormetic zone, the biological respo…
Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Some time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story…
French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
French protestors says Windows 10's ESU will only leave users in the lurch, potentially rendering millions of PCs obsolete as they upgrade to Windows 11.
Remote Code Execution in Forgejo?
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry
Hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding the AI industry. Economist Gerald Epstein says this bubble could burst.
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution. - Xint
Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Security, Vulnerabili…
It’s not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans
What about the EU’s own complicity in funding the market for spyware, even when we recognise the harms it inflicts?
First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS
AI-assisted security research is producing exploits at a frightening rate.
Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!
You don’t look a day over 30 lives.
DOJ reportedly demands Apple and Google identify over 100,000 users of car app
According to a new report from Forbes, the Department of Justice is demanding Apple, Amazon, and Google hand over “identities,...
Digital ID in the UK: The Government Says It Is Voluntary, But Your Employer Might Not Give You a Choice
The UK's new Digital Access to Services Bill promises a free, voluntary digital ID. But right-to-work checks are a 'priority use case,' and 19 million Britons face digital exclusion.
Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images
Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced âany naked underage imagesâ
Florida bans Flock cameras and other license plate readers from state highways
The state said it was ordering cameras removed from the right-of-way of state highways “to preserve Floridians’ sovereignty and quality of life.”
The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton
You almost definitely do not need a Death Stranding themed exoskeleton, and yet here it is anyway.
Wild New Inflatable Wind Turbine (1.2 MW Output)
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Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III
The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – and ending…
Palantir Systems’ Potential for Enshittification Has Become an ‘Unacceptable’ Risk, UK Politicians Say
Plus dealing with Alex Karp doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Open source died in March. It just doesn't know it yet.
Five supply chain attacks in 12 days exposed a broken trust model. Learn why scanning and hardening fail, and why trusting the source is the only fix.
Microsoft rejects critical Azure vulnerability report, no CVE issued
A security researcher claims Microsoft quietly fixed an Azure Backup for AKS vulnerability after rejecting his report, and without issuing a CVE. Microsoft disputes the claim, telling BleepingComputer the behavior was e…
OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts
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UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system
The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.
Call of Duty was never the right fit for Game Pass | Opinion
Believing CoD fans want a subscription option - or Game Pass subscribers would swallow price hikes to play COD - betrayed a misunderstanding of both audiences
Why Do All Governments Work the Same Way? -CGP Grey (Youtube)
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It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
The other investors have tiny stakes, and the PIF has stakes in them.
A warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna, also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Ins…
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
Apple can't force app makers to get consent twice to track user data, Italian regulator says.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-app-privacy-concerns-1788881
The Trump administration's new app demands extensive hardware permissions, raising privacy concerns and sparking calls for deletion.
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the company, a court document showed as Altman f…
OpenAI chief Sam Altman holds over $2 billion in companies that have business deals with OpenAI amid legal and regulatory scrutiny.
Google Signs Pentagon AI Deal Despite Employee Backlash
The agreement reportedly allows the U.S. military to use Google’s AI models for classified work including 'any lawful government purpose.'
Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
The Pebble Index 01 isn’t quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things.
Total War: MEDIEVAL III - Announce Trailer
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Mysteria Ecclesiae Released [GOG]
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Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release
In what looks like an accidental unencrypted upload, Playground Games has inadvertently leaked the entire Forza Horizon 6 build on Steam.
Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. Heâs just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter
Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore
Interview: Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away