Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
Tech oligarchs helping DHS set up authoritarian surveillance state, report says
A new report lays out the ties between wealthy tech industry figures and the Trump administration’s rapidly advancing access to surveillance technology
Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay
This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part will set out recommendations for companies and policymakers.Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes m…
‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate …
A group of Amazon employees spoke out against unfettered AI infrastructure expansion at a Seattle Land Use and Sustainability Committee hearing this week.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
NASA orders International Space Station astronauts to shelter, prepare for evacuation due to air leak
A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS) prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of …
McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash
'God no,' one declared in a video demonstration of the update.
What to do when tokens run out - by Alain Di Chiappari
If in the '80s we fought to squeeze a program into a few kilobytes, we now have to squeeze the most useful LLM work into the tokens we can afford. You ready?
Google To Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Massive AI Compute Power
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for access to ~110,000 NVIDIA GPUs under a new multiyear deal.
'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs
Jim Covello has been Wall Street's most consistent voice of AI doubt. Two years on, he asks:"when does the short term become the long term?"
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release
About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many appli…
Researcher who found Zcash's bug adds Monero to his audit queue
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers
Pritzker, who is widely viewed as having 2028 White House aspirations, is tapping into an issue seen as important to voters.
Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds
Are we really surprised at that?
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients
Staff in Canterbury say using the software frees up time to focus on caring for patients.
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
Subject-Avatar in Computerized Enunciative Spaces: Between Technical Standardizations and Practices of Resistance
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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.
Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
Nearly one-third of corporate executives surveyed did not understand how their operating costs relate to AI deployment.
FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees
FCC to let ISPs stop listing all passthrough fees, give single "up to" price.
A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.
Rising anger over widespread layoffs, disillusionment with Big Tech, and threats of mass displacement by AI have tech pros taking a good, hard look at unions.
Fair PlayStation : Sony is Facing a Lawsuit Seeking More Than €400 Million in Damages on Behalf of 1.7 Million Players Over The So-Called “…
Op maandag 29 juni 2026 vindt de eerste zitting plaats voor de rechtbank Midden-Nederland in de collectieve rechtszaak van Stichting Massaschade & Consument tegen Sony. De stichting daagde het bedrijf…
France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids
France generates two-thirds of its electricity from nuclear power, making it the country’s dominant power source.
Take This Data Center and Shove It -- Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more
Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more. Welcome to Virginia, ground zero for data center defiance.
Anthropic (Sorta) Calls for Pause on AI Development. You Should (Sorta) Take It Seriously
With its highly anticipated IPO around the corner, the company is balancing its long-held reputation as a leader in safety with the demands of its future shareholders.
Sony/Yoti reporting users to authorities for using GrapheneOS
I saw this on that site earlier today, thought it'd be worth a post. [...] Yoti automatically flags [...] any devices running GrapheneOS. These instances are automatically reported both to the authorities and our securi…
Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power – even if they don’t have solar panels
Labor announces âsolar sharerâ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia
Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI To Be 'Addictive'
The new 'AI personal assistant' Scout has apparently already hooked its own employees
Cardano social activity surges as ADA falls under 20 cents to four-year lows - Founder warned of a "wave of failures" in the ecosystem.
Santiment data show active addresses at a four-month high and social dominance near a 2026 peak after Charles Hoskinson warned of a "wave of failures" in the ecosystem.
Oblivion Remastered Switch 2 sold out on release date, showing appeal of physical games
Digital may be the only option for Switch 2 owners who haven’t purchased Oblivion Remastered. On its release date, The Elder Scrolls game is out of stock at popular retailers. Collectors rejoiced after learning that Bet…
Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI
US firm says it will convene policymakers for discussion of dangers, in post detailing progress of its Claude model
Let us filter AI slop, you cowards - Online platforms could prove whether AI labels work by giving us a filter option, but then they’d have…
Let’s put those AI labels to the test.
The Infosec Phrasebook
Spend enough time around security people and you pick up a second vocabulary. It has a faintly military air and a noticeable per-syllable markup on vendor invoices.
Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
JavaScript - To Semicolon, Or Not To Semicolon;
“To Semicolon, Or Not To Semicolon” - Shakespeare or something
Punycode: The algorithm that lets you use unicode in domains - Ian Duncan
A deep dive into how Punycode works, and why I think it's so neat.
The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856.
The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City".
Kevin O’Leary says he will shrink his Utah AI data center project after political backlash / The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 4…
The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 40,000-acre project by roughly half in a letter sent Thursday to Utah’s Senate president.
US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason for cuts …
AI overtook market and economic conditions as the leading reason companies cited for cutting jobs in May, according to the most recent report from Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
CATL claims its lithium-air battery has energy density similar to gasoline
Battery manufacturer CATL is shifting its long-term development focus to lithium-air technology, with a theoretical energy density that rivals gasoline and promises over {{1,600 km}} of range.
Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US tech billionaire Peter Thiel from an event this weekend titled, ‘Armageddon and Antichrist? …
The Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US...
Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley remains adamant that it's just one big misunderstanding, arguing that "we're not Big Brother."
Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?
A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. Nothing complicated, answers only one question: are the Claude-assisted releases unusually buggy?
The CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back | CNN Business
Former Better Home & Finance CEO Vishal Garg says he was just about to deliver on the companyâs unlikely turnaround.
"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
VS Code credited Copilot for human work after a default change that bypassed user settings.
Steam’s Controversial Refund Decision Could Set a Dangerous Precedent
Could Steam refund policies change in the future?
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Is No Longer Playable On Switch
We'll be playing all our games through the Cloud in three years, apparently. Not sure how excited I am about that based on this ongoing trend.