AI companies should release environmental impact, commit to clean energy, says UN chief
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon, water and land used to power their systems.
AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate
Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the planet’s natural resourc…
Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’
“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”
This free tool is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers — as fears grow around 'intrusive' new devices that could track you…
Automatic license plate readers are getting worryingly smart, so drivers and privacy advocates are fighting back with a free tool called DeFlock.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says new multiplayer games are failing because players have no reason to leave their friend groups, touts Unreal Engin…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently talked to South Korean outlet Inven Global about how UE6 will indirectly help new multiplayer games attract players.
Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to tackle bot traffic without CAPTCHAs
Cloudflare says it's developing the protocol with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify, with the group planning to submit it for standardization.
California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices
Firms including BP and 7-Eleven accused of coordinating prices to ‘wring more money from pockets of consumers’
Big Tech is a thief and a liar, says New York Times publisher — ‘Hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that a…
A.G. Sulzberger urges the media to unite and fight back.
15 Most Recognized Cybersecurity Certifications to Get in 2026 (All Levels)
Cybersecurity has moved from a specialized IT function to a core business priority across every industry. Organizations are facing constant..
DeFi Theater: Why Polymarket's Incentives Don't Reward the Truth
How Polymarket's resolution system punishes voters who defy the crowd, not those who are wrong.
Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI
The cuts are part of a wider trend among tech firms as they spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI.
Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049
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Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real
New system is latest fight between website owners and automated bots that try and attack them
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.
Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs
Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.
Windscribe VPN CEO warns your favourite Facebook quizzes are actually stealing your bank details
Don't let a "stripper name" quiz hand hackers the keys to your financial accounts
AWS Container Security: Best Practices & Solutions in 2026
Discover AWS container security best practices for ECS, EKS, and Fargate workloads to enhance your cloud security.
Agent Auth: A lawyer’s day in court
Explore the complexities of agent authentication in AI systems through a courtroom analogy.
PdfDing v1.9.0 - Share collections with the public, bulk actions, MFA and more | survey
Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved
"Give the data to a university, have it independently verified by a qualified researcher, and then let’s talk."
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.
Sam Altman's Orb startup investigated financial misconduct allegations
Tools for Humanity hired two law firms to investigate alleged financial irregularities and bribery of foreign officials, sources say.
Former Unreal Engine 'lead evangelist' Sjoerd De Jong leaves Epic Games, says the industry is reaching a 'pivotal' moment that he must 'com…
"After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games and Unreal Engine I have decided to move on."
Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins
Google is working on a new feature called “Audio Memory” for Pixel phones that will “keep track of what you hear throughout your day.”
A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
Careful, you'll hurt its feelings.
Airbnb opposes Sydney’s call to restrict short-term rentals — But people “rely on it to pay for their mortgages and artificially inflate th…
The global short-term accommodation platform suggests that many Sydneysiders rely on Airbnb to help pay their mortgage and alleviate other costs.
BlackVue's dashcams broadcast users' live location and footage to public
It may be a good idea to double check your dashcam settings.
Kansas City Pushes Ahead With Facial Recognition on Buses
Images captured by onboard cameras will be cross-referenced against facial scans if there is an active alert from police, including databases of banned riders or missing persons.
AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model
Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time
This didn't matter much, but with the current SSD prices, it does again
A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
An operational NAND gate in Age of Empires II, built with the game's scenario editor. This one can also be built within the game in a two-player setup but it's a lot easier (so to speak) to just script it.
Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract
Records from the IJF’s Open By Default database reveal the government made over a dozen amendments to a contract with Palantir Canada to provide services to an elite unit of the military
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
Meta's chief technical officer recently admitted that workplace morale is "probably one of the worst it's ever been."
Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast
Windows 11 build 26300.8697 hides a toggle to remove Bing from Search. We tested it hands-on: faster results, cleaner UI, local files first.
Is Big Tech Facing Its “Big Tobacco Moment”? - Tech giants including Meta, Google, and Apple are facing increasing popular resentment and l…
Tech giants including Meta, Google, and Apple are facing increasing popular resentment and losing more and more major court battles. Yet their profits and power look about as secure as ever.
Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
Who thinks AI is a good thing? Not that many people, it turns out.
Man with severe paralysis regains his 'voice' with brain-computer interface
UC Davis researchers have developed a faster brain-computer interface that can instantaneously translate brain activity into voice as a person tries to speak.
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
Morale is "probably one of the worst it's ever been."
Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing
Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.
Data from ‘half a million hours of Ukraine conflict drone footage’ now available to train AI
Full-motion video data is increasingly relevant as drone technology reshapes modern warfare, the CEO of Enabled Intelligence said.
'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
As the delivery vehicles increasing take to US streets, bans and protest groups are springing up.
Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for certain capabilities beginning July 8, 2026
Being responsible with powerful technology starts with knowing who is using it. Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations.
Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency
Yann LeCun says xAI is "kind of a failure" – and the whole AI industry might be headed for a reset
LeCun, who previously served as Meta's chief AI scientist, didn't mince words. "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly, because the founding team has" departed, he said,...
ChatGPT told me it uses an instant-read thermometer and I had questions
I asked ChatGPT for help grilling a tomahawk steak. The advice was fine, but one sentence stopped me in my tracks. The AI casually claimed it uses the same thermometer I do. Naturally, I had questions.
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world
The $5 trillion tech CEO warns the future won’t be powered by tech bros—but rather the blue-collar workers.
Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids
The proposal comes as lawmakers and courts increasingly scrutinize how social media platforms are designed and used by minors. Features such as infinite scrolling, activity notifications, and...
Singaporean brothers build modern, unbreakable encryption
Discover how Singaporean brothers are using unsolvable maths equations to create next-generation, quantum-resistant encryption. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.