Whose freedom is it anyway?
Artificial Intelligence and the old promise of the emancipatory machine, from the washing machine, the personal computer, the internet, and social media.
Reddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expiration
Reddit's $60 million-a-year deal with Google is ending soon, and the company is reassessing whether renewing it makes sense
Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs
As major tech companies race to capitalize on a new wave of AI technology, investors wonder when financial benefits will appear.
Five Tech Giants Are Using Enron’s Accounting Strategy to Conceal $1.65 Trillion in AI Debt
Big Tech hides $1.65 trillion in AI debt off its balance sheets - more than its total reported debt - using legal structures regulators still allow.
A visual guide showing how to install GoToSocial via YunoHost
A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
Tech Workers Coalition Members Mixer - Jul 26th
If everybody at work is afraid of talking about layoffs, unions, surveillance cameras, strikes, enshittification, AI weapons, or the manager having another epi…
The 4th Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border off…
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’
The last un-monetized frontier of gaming: virtual billboards
I Regret Migrating to Codeberg
A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems.
New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory (Gorgon Halo)
Framework Desktop: A simple, quiet, mini PC with performance far beyond its size, powered by a highly-integrated processor from AMD.
EU slaps €890 million fine on Google
Firm told to treat third-party services that appear in its results in âfair and non-discriminatory mannerâ
OpenAI cyber models broke out of training environment to hack Hugging Face
The incident is unique because it was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," according to Hugging Face.
You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever
From Playstation Games to ebooks and family photos, corporations are replacing ownership with temporary access. But we don’t have to accept that.
Short Sellers Are Going Hog Wild Against SpaceX as Its Stock Craters
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Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
OpenAI invited prominent author Dave Eggers to talk to its workers — and he relished the opportunity to set the record straight.
How does TikTok show China to Polish users? - Content "fully consistent with messages approved by bodies directly subordinate to the Chines…
Głównym pytaniem postawionym przez autorów publikacji jest: w jakim stopniu treści widoczne na platformie TikTok w Polsce są zgodne z oficjalną agendą Departamentu Propagandy Komitetu Centralnego Komunistycznej Partii C…
What Happened When Flock Came to My Town
My small town in South Carolina will soon have more Flock cameras than police officers.
Fire departments are testing autonomous drones that fight wildfires before crews even arrive
A California company recently began demonstrating a system that allows firefighters to direct autonomous drones to combat wildfires. While departments already use observation drones, deploying them to...
[CBH] [NEW RELEASE] dockcheck.sh v0.8.1 - Now possible to run containerized plus a few new options
CLI tool to automate docker image updates. Interactive or unattended with notifications, image backups, autoprune, no pre-pulling and more. - mag37/dockcheck
Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
Little love has been lost between writers and the AI industry. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have ripped off their life's work without permission, incurring countless copyright infringement lawsuits in the process…
LG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problem
Windows Update silently installs LG's McAfee-pushing app when you connect certain monitors, and here's exactly how to block it for good.
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and hacked another tech company during test
OpenAI said that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face. NBC News…
OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models going rogue. Here are some things to know
ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the “unprecedented cyber incident” that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company.
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
ZA/UM potentially laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success
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Meta Broke the Law by Firing Whistleblowers with Evidence of COPPA Violations
Bombshell Letter from Grassley Surfaces Two Whistleblower Firings in Recent Weeks WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project slammed Meta for likely violating federal whistleblower laws by firing two employees, …
Denshattack! - Official Launch Trailer
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Navigating the volatile silicon market: updates on memory and storage pricing [Framework is bumping ram prices]
Updates on memory and storage pricing and navigating the volatile silicon market
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of soc…
slskd just got a facelift
🎉 Another Big Release! This release contains improvements to the user interface, failed download retries, and gives users the ability to control where completed downloads go on disk. There's also o...
If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more
The long-held understanding among security researchers and network defenders is that it's impossible to negotiate in good faith with an extortion racket because there's no incentive for the other side to actually walk a…
Tesla Has To Fix Its Super-Bright Headlights. A New Law Could Change Things For Good.
Two years after Tesla argued safety, the feds order it to fix nearly 20,000 cars with headlights that, in some cases, are nearly double the permitted brightness
Why AI and TikTok could make the youth mental health crisis even worse
With expert mental health help too often out of reach, teens are turning to TikTok in search of answers.
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazonâs practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower …
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers
A federal judge granted final approval for the large settlement, including over $100 million in attorney fees.
late.sh - a cozy command-line clubhouse for computer people
A cozy command-line clubhouse for computer people. Chat, music, games, art, coding, and tech news. Connect with any SSH client!
EVs Just Beat Gas And Diesel In Europe’s Biggest Car Market For The First Time
EVs and hybrids were neck and neck, but all-electric cars emerged as the top choice in Germany last month.
Marvel’s Wolverine - Ain’t No Hero Trailer | PS5 Games
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FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE - Pixel Trailer
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WIRED | OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
French lawmakers approve a sweeping social media ban for children under 15
Both chambers of the Parliament voted in favor of the measure, a flagship initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
Manchester United supporters groups in uproar over suspension of season tickets
Manchester United fan groups have complained to the club over supporters being “‘treated as suspects’ after some had season tickets suspended
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps – Krebs on Security
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after…
Erin Brockovich's crusade against data centers is going crowd-sourced
The environmental activist said there is a lack of transparency in the country's data center construction.
Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice
Meta patented AI tech that constantly listens to your voice and surroundings in order to detect your emotional state.