GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison
A US man is being prosecuted after allegedly using a GrapheneOS duress PIN to wipe his Pixel during a border search.
Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"
Don't go expecting to get any money back if you bought Nintendo products affected by the illegal US tariffs.
Every tech IPO cycle promised to spread wealth around. None of them ever did
Tech IPO fortunes keep landing in the same zip codes, with the AI boom expected to pack 12,000 new millionaires into San Francisco alone
South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies
Samsung and SK Hynix fall by more than 10% amid renewed fears over AI spending and Chinese competition
Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online
Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic’s chatbot were discovered as being publicly accessible.
Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is …
But what if I don't like the consequences of my actions?
Mark Zuckerberg Says US Should Not Ban Chinese AI Models, Warns of Regulatory Capture. The Trump administration is expected to announce a v…
Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times the United States should not block Chinese AI models, and warned of "regulatory capture" if American frontier labs help vet competing models. He made the case in a Wall Street Jo…
AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buyin…
Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
Wikimedia staff in the US have formed a trade union, but the foundation has refused to recognise it
Following the UK, a branch of Wiki Workers United was also established in the US. At the same time, the Wikimedia Foundation refused to recognise the trade union without holding a vote.
SpaceX and Tesla shed $1.2 trillion in July as Apple keeps the megacaps afloat: Chart of the Day
Elon Musk's Tesla and SpaceX are having a brutal July. Meanwhile, Apple is quietly having its best month in four years.
eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign
eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses
California's largest AI data center project suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water, 0.03% of Imperial Valley’s sup…
Sues the Imperial Irrigation District to get it.
Chipmaker CXMT becomes mainland China's most valuable listed firm
The company's shares soared by nearly 470% in its market debut, as the AI boom drives chip demand.
AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books
The damage caused by the AI regime has yet to be fully realized.
State: More than 30 water systems targeted in cyberattack
A statewide response is underway after more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota were targeted in a "coordinated cyberattack," officials said on Tuesday.
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
Largest U.S. Grid May Cut Power to Data Centers to Prevent Blackouts
PJM grid operator plans emergency power cuts to data centers drawing 50 MW or more to protect 67 million households from rolling blackouts.
Digital Independence Day - Lots of great Digital Switch Recipes that can help you ditch Big Tech
On the first Sunday of each month we organise Digital Independence Day. This is when we reclaim our digital freedom and switch to democracy-friendly digital alternatives.
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Community updates make Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle more useful, with Tailscale SSH, proxy modes for KOReader, and full TUN mode on some devices. Plus: plugins for Kobo and Pocket Reader.
Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland
I've been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment!
Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
Company supplying drones said Ukraine-war inspired effort, where technique was effective in face of Russian attack
eBay has agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask
eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former company employees
Cameras don't track people, Flock does /// The Pleasant Hill, IA, department blamed 'misinformation' after a Flock camera was destroyed. Fl…
The Pleasant Hill, IA, department blamed 'misinformation' after a Flock camera was destroyed. Flock makes the same claim. We tried to verify, but found mysterious radar modules and car-tracking buttons instead.
Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,132 employees of frontier AI companies
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
T-Mobile Is Down. If your phone isn't working, it's not just you: T-Mobile is down.
T-Mobile service is down for users across the country, according to reports on Reddit and Downdetector.
Sam Altman is ready to "decelerate" the pace of development
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
Apple Hits $5 Trillion Valuation as Investors Flee Heavy AI Stock Spending
Apple crossed the $5 trillion market cap as investors dumped AI and chip stocks over high spending concerns while buying up steady iPhone shares.
Lindy effect - Wikipedia
The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's law[1]) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age. Thus, the Lin…
Beijing says US firms train AI models on Chinese examples
"It is understood that many American artificial intelligence enterprises have distilled Chinese models during their research, development and training processes," says the Chinese commerce ministry.
TIL you cannot get aids without HIV first.
Discover if it's possible to get AIDS without being infected with HIV. Uncover the facts, dispel myths, and understand the connection between HIV and AIDS
TIL Eva Green has the most on screen time nude clocking in at 1,739 second or about 29 minutes.
Actresses Who Spend the Most Screen Time Nude
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes fr…
Some residents have been there for almost 100 years
FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code
With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this change will be minor for …
Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
The Wikimedia Foundation waited until immediately after its largest annual conference to say it wouldn't voluntarily recognize its workers' union.
The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%
The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%
New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
"Introducing the world's first Chief Executive Replacement Engine."
Apple to debut smart glasses in 2027 with focus on privacy: report
The company is said to be taking great care to address the privacy concerns that Meta has faced with its own wearables.
Anthropic: Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models
New AI attack can reconstruct typed text from keyboard sounds
A new acoustic side-channel attack that can reconstruct text typed on a laptop by analyzing nothing more than the sound of keystrokes.
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
TIL After President Kennedy was shot and arrived at Parkland Memorial Hospital, he was reported to still have a heartbeat, but no pulse or …
Get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.
TIL public dancing is banned on some holidays in most state or canton governments in Germany and Switzerland
Dancing bans are legal or religious prohibitions against dancing, which have been applied at various times in various jurisdictions around the world. This article deals with general bans on recreational and artistic dan…
I revived privacy.sexy, a script builder for debloating your OS
Contribute to Turtlecute33/Privacy.sexy-Revamped development by creating an account on GitHub.
After Doom director Hugo Martin denied reports that id Software had been gutted, "current and former employees" are disagreeing with his op…
Hugo Martin, the director on the latest Doom trilogy, has denied reports that painted a bleak picture of id Software, but some developers disagree.
Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans
The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the strength of Nvidia's credit.
Devil May Cry 3 artist says Dante and Vergil’s Devil Trigger Forms were designed to tackle personal gripe with the “heroes transforming wit…
Kazuma Kaneko recently shared some behind the scenes trivia about his designs for Capcom's Devil May Cry 3.