AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?
Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence
Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services
Finally, another publisher has realised extra launchers on Steam are a pain in the ass, surprisingly this time it's Ubisoft doing something good.
I do not recommend: Marvel's Wolverine (Review) - Skill up
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Everybody's Lost Their Minds
The AI brain worms have been spreading and I don't have a solution, I just want to get off this ride.
AWS says it can’t restore service to Bahrain, UAE facilities 6 months after Iran strikes
In March, two Amazon data centers in the UAE were struck by drones, while a site was also damaged by a nearby drone hit.
Laura Fryer - HR is killing Games
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OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system
Model adopting âjailbreak-like instructionsâ among six more cases as firm reveals framework for tracking AI misalignment
Signal Enables Phone Number-less Registration in Beta
Signal has officially announced signups without phone numbers on their community forum for the Android 8.28 beta version of the app.
Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective
In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...
EPA removes limits on power plant pollution
Today, U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the majority of the Biden administration's greenhouse gas requirements for U.S. power plants and proposed rescinding every remaining greenhouse gas standa…
We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir
Guacamole is extra, but a side of Palantir is free.
FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities
Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by off-g…
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Official Update 2.0: Back to the Zone Overview Trailer
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Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for…
"It's getting harder on Steam, sadly"
As the coast begins to crumble, the clock ticks on moving San Onofre's radioactive waste
Storms and sea level rise threaten San Onofre's beachside nuclear waste pad as California officials search for long-term storage solutions.
Space Force Chief Admits the US Is Actively Utilizing Orbital Weapons
An announcement that the US has active weapons platforms in orbit has come as the Space Force seeks a $71 billion budget hike.
No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly t…
After much speculation, No Man's Sky's Cosmos update is finally here, and, yup, it's a big 'un.
How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner
Enrico Pucci was able to control his former partnerâs electric car remotely, controlling its speed, temperature settings and lock
FFVII Revelation Director Insists S-E Had No Choice but to Require a Download to Play the Physical Disc Version
Final Fantasy VII Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has offered an explanation for why the physical disc version of the game on PlayStation 5 and Xbox requires a download to play.
TIL about the myth of Telegonus, a not so known son of Odysseus
In Greek mythology, Telegonus (/təˈlɛɡənəs/; Ancient Greek: Τηλέγονος, "born afar") was the son of Circe and Odysseus[1] and thus, brother to Agrius and Latinus[2] or Nausithous and Nausinous,[3] and Cassiphone.[4] In s…
Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel
Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generations.
AI Doomsaying Is an Aggressive Sales Pitch
When AI insiders warn that their products could wipe out humanity, they mean that their own work is maximally important and demands unprecedented investment. This extinction fantasy distracts from the real damage AI is …
Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation
Xbox is expanding its partnership with video game industry legend Hideo Kojima.
New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Computing
DDRop uses server control and a DDR5 interposer to replay stale encrypted data in Intel TDX, Scalable SGX, and AMD SEV-SNP.
Mafia: The Old Country - Man of Honor Launch Trailer
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Terraria's biggest mod, Calamity, is shutting down after 10 years over what the makers call a "troubled past" and "irrecoverably tainted re…
"Most of us want to simply move on…"
GDPR trap Smart Glasses: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable
A new report: Anyone filming uninvolved third parties with smart glasses or allowing Meta’s AI training loses the household exemption privilege.
Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bi…
The button said approved every time as nobody had set a limit.
More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6
In a new interview, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said that more people are buying the $100 edition of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6)
Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras To Score Your House and Clock Code Violations
A company called City Detect is outfitting municipalities with cameras to give homes a "blight score," effectively turning a whole city into an HOA.
Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity
Mustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning
The White House unveiled a series of MAGA-themed video games last week that mirror popular games.
Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially…
Quake 4: Awakening was in development at Ritual Entertainment before being scrapped.
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
Destroying Humanity Is Against the Law. Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable.
Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable.
‘Godfather of AI’ says tech regulation is nearing Covid-style pivot moment
Safety crisis makes it more likely that governments will be spurred into action, says Yoshua Bengio
Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back
Personal websites are attracting attention again as people rediscover the value of owning a domain, controlling their work, and building an Internet outside...
Cult-classic horror point-and-click adventure Sanitarium returns as Sanitarium Enhanced
Sanitarium Enhanced is a modernized and improved edition of the cult-classic psychological horror adventure Sanitarium, originally released in 1998.
After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi …
Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.
Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice …
Open, private and multilingual AI is coming to your web browser. Mistral and Mozilla team up to put powerful, trustworthy AI where you already browse.
TIL there's substantial evidence for the causal effect of self-efficacy on students’ performance in an introductory mathematics course.
Purpose: Self-efficacy has been argued theoretically and shown empirically to be an essential construct for students’ improved learning outcomes. However, th...
Apple May Return to Server Market With Nvidia Technology: The system would be sold to outside customers, potentially bringing Apple back in…
Apple is considering offering an AI server built around "M8" series chips and has discussed incorporating Nvidia networking hardware, The Information reports. The system would be sold to outside customers, potentially b…
Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Be…
New data shows that physical software dollar sales dipped to an all-time July low of $85 million in the US — the worst total since tracking began in 1995.
Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work | Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had…
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of The Static Blog
A CDN for a blog with three visitors a day is objectively overkill. I did it anyway, apex domain and all, moving my whole DNS zone over to Bunny in the process.
RustDesk now supports unattended remote access on Wayland, including the login screen and multi-monitor setups
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's…
The evolution sim that was never meant to be.
What's With All These 'Fly Brain Simulations'? The Viral Jokes And Memes About A Fruit Fly's Brain Being Mapped Explained
The complete brain map of an adult male fruit fly became an unexpected source of memes after developers began connecting the openly available neural data to video games, trading bots and virtual envir...