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.
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
A new analysis of creative and media employment in the US shows a loss of 200,000 jobs since the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, addiction and delusions, Study finds
New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”
Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games
The detailed sourcing directly attacks Sony's legal claim that a reasonable person wouldn't expect to own their digital purchases on the PlayStation Store.
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”...
Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get throu…
TIL that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just published a report on what AI is doing to education
MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion for Infringing Haptics Patent in iPhone, Apple Watch
A jury awards Taction Technology damages over Apple's use of vibration-based tactile technology in its devices.
Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
Companies Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds: One-quarter of companies and a third of data broker…
One-quarter of companies and a third of data brokers failed to fulfill personal data requests under state privacy laws.
Quality Software
We lost something over the last 10 years. Cloud solves some of the problems, but heavy usage of cloud creates so much more problems that it solves it. And the cost of the Cloud with the DevOps in it can be saved with sm…
Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party d…
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!
Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back…
Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
Household data can convict, exonerate or mislead. That makes digital forensics indispensable and demands careful guardrails
AI Industry Needs to Earn $6 Trillion by 2031 to Justify Data Centres
To justify the investment, AI must do more than boost productivity; it will need to unlock new sources of growth and value.
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
Obsidian Entertainment Is Officially Moving Under Bethesda As It Works On Its New Fallout Game - Kotaku
The RPG powerhouse has been rehoused
Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse
Ninja Theory - developer of the Hellblade series - is shutting down as part of today's Xbox cuts. Its proposed buyers pulled out, resulting in the closure.
Happy Wheels is now available on Steam!
Choose your inadequately prepared racer, and disregard severe consequences in your desperate pursuit of short-lived victory.
Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups— including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers…
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
TIL about the new word "zuzai", meaning "uses zero artificial intelligence"
About the word zuzai, coined to denote things made or done without artificial intelligence.
Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line
According to various rumors, Xbox is planning another layoff round this week, and this time it'll touch Blizzard and Halo Studios.
Next major Halo game being developed by Activision, as Halo Studios all but closes as part of Microsoft's Xbox restructuring
Major changes for the Halo series as Microsoft gives the next major game to Activision to make.
Startup Claims Ocean Uranium Could Power Earth for 50,000 Years
Ocean uranium extraction startup Fluxnium raised $7M to commercialize DOE fiber technology, but costs still exceed market rates by more than 2x.
Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes
The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts: It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatb…
Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.
TIL that 1 petabyte (PB) is equal to 1 million gigabytes (GB) of storage.
Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.
Newsom Orders California to Explore AI ‘Kill Switch’ and New Safety Rules
Official website of the State of California
Australia claims it is a global pioneer in preventing online harm – should other countries follow suit?
As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller country
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threa…
The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.
Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science.
Xbox planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week | via Wario64
The Information: 'Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans. The Microsoft-owned firm also plans to consolidate …
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
Headsup! Chat control 1.0 is back once again!
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent …
Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear
Badges, Not Just Bans: The White House Press Ban Just Got Physical
The White House confiscated MS NOW press badges and blocked entry after Trump banned the network, CNN, and Politico. Here's how outlets across the spectrum
AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.
JPMorgan rolls out Claude changes: $2,000 spending limits and extra security
Internal Teams messages show that some engineers at the bank who use Claude have monthly spending limits.
Labor Market Outcomes for AI-Exposed College Majors: Graduating in AI Era Is Like Large Recession for Starting Pay
The most AI-exposed new college grads have initial employment declines of 5pp and earnings declines of 13%, partially driven by shifts to lower-paying sectors.
"Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet m…
Call of Duty company Activision are now in charge of Halo following Xbox cuts, with Halo Studios stripped and reduced to a support studio for existing games.
Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent t…
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley
This is a blog post version of the talk I delivered at Software Should Work 2026. Shoutouts to Isaac Van Doren for running such a delightful conference and nailing it first try, and for infecting us all with his charmin…
How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture
You can just prove things, apparently.
Most of France’s "Competing" PC Hardware Retailers Are the Same Company
LDLC Group owns LDLC.com, Materiel.net, TopAchat and Rue du Commerce. What that means for French GPU prices, measured against Germany over 6 months.
TotalEnergies partners with Mistral to develop AI models for oil and gas exploitation
Three-year contract worth an estimated €100 million