Mark Zuckerberg's Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down.
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people(20% of staff)
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Clou…
The 14 steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
Personal website of Shubham Naik
Statcounter is now showing 10% Linux market share on desktops in North America
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in North America based on over 3 billion monthly page views.
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests / A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words …
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."
Morale within Meta's 6,500-staffer Applied AI team, which was created in March to support the Superintelligence Labs, is hitting rock bottom.
A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential
SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
Starmer says Britain will ban under-16s from using a range of social media apps
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube from early next year.
Microsoft's GitHub capacity crunch sends it to AWS
Microsoft is adding AWS capacity for GitHub after AI-driven usage strained the developer platform, exposing Azure constraints and the infrastructure cost of agentic coding.
Just discovered that Qobuz published an AI charter. Thoughts?
Artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry at an unprecedented pace. Faced with the explosion of AI-generated content and the legitimate questions it raises, Qobuz has chosen transparency.
Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Deal
The buy will combine Fox's sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel.
Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guara…
Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.
U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications?
Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean…
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Texas forces Discord to implement UK-style age verification and safety rules
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a landmark Agreed Temporary Injunction (“TI”) against Discord that requires the tech company to give Texas children the same age-assurance and default safety protections it already pr…
Judge denies xAI effort to halt ban on tech that depicts people nude without permission
A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk…
Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028
Tomb Raider: Catalyst is indeed delayed to 2028, as many had suspected.
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including X, YouTube, TikTok
The UK has brought in a social media ban for under 16s that includes X, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Reddit.
Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a b…
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.
China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era
The sweeping overhaul has affected over 30 per cent of China’s degree programmes, with arts and languages ditched in favour of tech-focused fields.
Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be A Real Boy Until It Tells The Truth
Does anyone like Google’s AI summaries? If so, they weren’t on the Judge’s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled that yes, Google is liable for the h…
Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? ...
More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class
According to Pew Research Center, 77% of US adults now support in-classroom phone bans for middle and high school students, marking the second consecutive year that support...
New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starti…
Iedere wasmachine, telefoon of televisie die je vanaf morgen in Europa koopt, moet beter repareerbaar zijn. Dan treedt namelijk de Europese Right to Repair Act in werking. Wat dat in de praktijk betekent, bespreken we m…
Playstation is currently down 7/24 (orig title: Is PlayStation Network Down Right Now? Players Report PSN Issues)
Is PlayStation Network down right now? Players are reporting PSN connection issues despite Sony saying all services are online.
Are You Just a .md File? The SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner
Find out if your SaaS can be replaced by a Claude Skill. The SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner.
Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls has an Open Beta available and sadly they seem to have blocked SteamOS / Linux from playing due to anti-cheat.
Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed an…
CISA Releases Guidance Urging Water Treatment Facilities to Disconnect Equipment From the Internet
CISA released an urgent message warning water utilities to disconnect their logic controllers from the internet in the face of rising cyberattacks.
The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston Globe
Washington is loosening financial safeguards just as risks tied to artificial intelligence are mounting.
Reddit stock collapses 23% as AI eats away at user growth
Reddit delivered strong earnings, but the numbers beneath the surface tell a different story. Slowing logged-in user growth and AI-powered search could threaten the platform's long-term value.
Emily Blunt refused Steven Spielberg's offer to use AI for her alien voice in 'Disclosure Day'
Emily Blunt said she experimented with the alien language she uses in Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" in her bathroom.
21 zero-day issues were found in FFmpeg
depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concr…
Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows
New Outlook takes 10 seconds to show an email after clicking a Windows 11 notification. Outlook Classic does it instantly. Here's why.
He Helped Make America’s B-2 Stealth Bomber Nearly Invisible. Prosecutors Say He Then Handed Its Secrets to China
He helped make America's B-2 stealth bomber nearly invisible. Then prosecutors say he handed its secrets to China. Read the stunning story of Noshir...
AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price
When algorithms and recommendation engines set guest expectations, the brand gets the blame when reality falls short.
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
As UK ban for under-16s is confirmed, experience of Australian parents of similar restrictions has been mixed
Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal
Fox Corp. is making a dramatic move to expand its streaming footprint, unveiling with plans to buy Roku in a deal that values the streaming platform at $22 billion.
Starmer to unveil social media ban for under-16s
The UK will follow Australia’s example in raising the minimum age for sites including TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards
A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla's distracted-driving controls.
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Social media platforms to be blocked from offering services to under-16s, marking a line in the sand and setting a new normal for future generations.
BYD Secretly Develops Humanoid Robot Codename 'Yao-Shun-Yu' as Auto Giants Race Into Embodied AI
BYD Secretly Develops Humanoid Robot Codename 'Yao-Shun-Yu' as Auto Giants Race Into Embodied AI BYD, China's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, has confirmed it is secretly developing humanoid robots under a projec…
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key