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.
Mass data collection is increasingly being used to find & identify individuals
Data capitalism has meant in the past decade that it is now common for people’s data to be used, often without their knowledge or consent, for advertising and for influencing elections.
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way
Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
TIL about featherbedding
Featherbedding is the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers.[1] The te…
The Many Adventures Of Homer DuBois
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Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs
Google's web browser has been "silently" installing an AI model on users' devices without asking for consent.
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
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It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—A…
Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to acc…
Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC
A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS.
I don't know if my (software development) job will still exist in ten years
In 2021, being a good software engineer felt great. The world was full of software, with more companies arriving every year who needed to employ engineers to write their code and run their systems. I knew I was good at …
Today's gossipdle
Solve the daily gossip mystery! A logic grid puzzle game inspired by Einstein riddles.
Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.
Round-the-clock renewables: New report says clean energy now challenges fossil fuels on price
The cost of battery storage has dropped more than 90 per cent since 2010, bringing the cost of renewable energy down with it.
DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)
There are plenty of lovely e-readers out on the market that come with an nice big e-paper display. There aren’t nearly as many that come with two. [Martin den Hoed] developed the Diptyx e-rea…
Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview
David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, has been known to say some pretty outlandish things, but his recent interview with the New York Times might have ended up being a carpet bombing of poorly considered answers, as he tri…
IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran…
If data is the new oil, we will be down two oils.
Australia's 'Payphone Tag' Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure
Payphone Tag is a new game (sport?) being played in Australia that uses the country's kinda-defunct public phone network and turns it into a geospatial game where you can claim whole regions of territory as your own, pr…
Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement
The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a âsolved world.â
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
Following Doom & Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D Is The Latest Classic FPS To Get A Voxel Transformation
Update: Here are some comparison shots
2K lays off staff working on free-to-play shooter Project Ethos, while hinting at "new direction and focus"
Studio head has "never been more confident in the future of our game" but needed to "scale back our team to better align with where we are in development"
Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to levera…
AI is now more lucrative than Bitcoin, especially if you have the infrastructure in place.
AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water …
County's soft touch is attributed to the data center being 'our largest customer, and we have to be partners.'
AudioMass is a full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool
Free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool - pkalogiros/AudioMass
Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy advocates 72-hour work weeks despite overwhelming evidence.
Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail.
GrapheneOS not supporting Pixel 11s?
We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly h…
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition Switch 1/2 Review - Big Downgrades vs PS3/PS4
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When Escalator Breaks, It Turns Stairs
We need resilient systems that fall back to sanity when broken / discriminating. And not whatever.
Inside Amazon: Who pays the price?
Online retailer Amazon has been repeatedly criticized for its business practices. The US company puts pressure on retailers and exerts influence on pricing policies, thus fueling cut-throat competition.
'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I …
Should i change or keep my 2D "city" building game's title?
French prosecutors escalate probe of Elon Musk and X to criminal investigation
France is investigating whether Elon Musk and his social media app X were complicit in spreading harmful AI deepfakes.
Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers
The maker of modular, repairable laptops says it's had to de-list separate memory purchases in order to keep supply for its pre-build customers, too.
Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard
Microsoft is working with the Internet Archive's Jason Scott.
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life
ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on thi…
Every Type Of Phaser Explained | Trek Explained
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Hackers are trying to steal Signal users' backups in new wave of widespread attacks
A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing past messages.
The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access
That is not a dystopian fantasy, but a real possibility raised by a case the Supreme Court will hear on Monday.
Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica
Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter | The lawsuit claims the shooter carried out his attack using instructions a…
The lawsuit claims the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.
‘Buffet Infinity,’ A Surreal Horror Film Told Entirely Through Commercials, Is a Must-Watch for Midnight Movie Fans
Horror movie 'Buffet Infinity' is made up of surreal commercials that seem to be beamed in from another planet.
Robotnik Switches To Linux Mint
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If The Matrix was directed by Park Chan-wook
Edit of The Matrix (1999) theatrical trailer using clips from Park Chan-wook's Thirst (2009)
Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now
The problem is unsettling. The proposed solutions? Also unsettling.
GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.
How does iodéOS (iodé-tech) work?
If you are really curious about where your data is going, who is spying on you, and wish to stop it then iodéOS is a great place to start.
Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)
TL;DR: Mozilla is killing localization on Support Mozilla, overwriting articles written by humans with machine generated translations. Although Mozilla knows that their AI doesn’t localize or adhere to style guides, Moz…