Telegram's t.me domain placed on serverHold, breaking links worldwide
Telegram's t.me domain went serverHold the same day OFAC sanctioned a channel at t.me/FirstVPNService. Here is what serverHold means
A Google engineer says AI has become sentient. What does that actually mean? (2022)
Scientists and philosophers say AI consciousness might be possible, but technology is so good at fooling humans into thinking it's alive that we will struggle to know if it's telling the truth.
Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory
Apple has recently overhauled its entire M-Series chip plans, scrapping the launch of the M6 Pro and M6 Max processors and jumping straight to the M7 series. While the base M6 SoC is expected to launch, Apple is moving …
Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M
The information will be used to refine the company's artificial intelligence systems.
Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats
High schooler Evan Budz's award-winning invention can identify coral bleaching, invasive species, and microplastics without disturbing marine ecosystems.
Today I learned that, despite having a mainland measuring just 20 square kilometers, 80% of the island nation of Naoero is uninhabitable du…
Pacific island Nauru said it will hold a referendum to change its official name, described as a colonial relic from a time when “foreign tongues” mangled the native language.
Zen IdP, A tiny, declarative OIDC provider in Go (YAML-based, zero external DB required)
Declarative, zero-maintenance OIDC Identity Provider - varavelio/zen-idp
Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excite…
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
September is Wikipedia's labor organizing edit-a-thon in solidarity with the Wikimedia tech workers union (WWU)
From 1–30 September 2026, a month long online community editing event dedicated to all topics covered under WikiProject Organized Labour including strike actions, trade unions, labor law, union busting etc..
Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds
Researchers evaluated 21 language models, such as GPT and Gemini, and found that they all alter their discourse to align with the user’s bias, potentially functioning as echo chambers.
The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup …
Manga, light novels, manhwa, and more have vanished
30% of Homeowners Choose Fake Vs Legit Insurance Coverage?
Discover why roughly 30% of homeowners fall for fake insurance coverage and learn three practical steps to verify legitimacy and protect your budget.
California vs Texas Tenant Screening: Is Yours Sufficient?
Learn if your tenant screening meets California and Texas rules, avoid $5,000 fines and data‑privacy penalties, and keep your rental business compliant.
The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank
ECB researchers warn AI stocks face a likely correction, putting pension and index fund holders at risk — regardless of whether AI succeeds.
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees: while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest.
Many employers worry remote workers feel disconnected. A new study found they reported higher well-being and were no more likely to feel isolated than their
U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100,000 users of popular car-tinkering app in emissions crackdown
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking personal data on potentially hundreds of thousands of drivers who downloaded EZ Lynk’s Auto Agent…
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
YouTube is making a major change to how long-form video views are counted
YouTube is changing how it counts public views on long-form videos, with a view soon being registered as soon as a video begins playing.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission.
Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans | TechCrunch
"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on a support page.
GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by ...
The Amazon tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.
Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
llms.txt: What the 2026 Data Actually Shows
Adoption sits around 10% of domains, major AI crawlers rarely fetch it, and Google has said it won't support it. Here's why it's still worth twenty minutes — and what it isn't.
Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound
EPFL engineers have designed acoustic cavities that convert sound waves into thrust, propelling small robots and ultralight aerial vehicles without on-board actuators or electronics.
How weaving helped invent modern computing - and is shaping its future
Weaving is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, but its patterns helped inspire early computing. Today, textile makers are using conductive yarns and digital looms to invent new kinds of technology.
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why you’re getting emails about “Your Beauty and Electronics items”
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres.…
AI remains top reason for US job cuts for third straight month as employers axed 97,000 workers in May
AI was the leading reason cited for U.S. job cuts for the third consecutive month, with 97,006 layoffs announced in May, according to new data.
Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
Aaron Rodgers Reportedly Funded NJ Police Surveillance Cameras
Aaron Rodgers allegedly funded $37,000 in license plate reader cameras for NJ police while publicly criticizing drone surveillance over his own property.
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
Fairphone 6+ is now official and coming to the US
Here are the upgrades compared to the Fairphone 6 and how much the new phone costs. Fairphone has today announced its latest smartphone, the Fairphone 6+....
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts s…
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
GPU and RAM prices have both risen ~19% across the EU over the past 1-2 months, verified with fixed-basket price tracking
EU-wide +19.2% over 30 days on a 176-model fixed basket. Germany +19.6%, France +18.1%. Data + methodology.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and cri…
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
The secret is humble UITextField.
More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In Europe
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI,…
[PDF] Signal attacks UK plan to scan devices for nude images as "mass surveillance"
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Meta Changed Its Speech Rules. Then Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed
New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook.