AI Assistants Are Leaking Your Conversations
A study conducted by researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute has revealed that ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Grok, and Perplexity AI use different types of trackers from Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies,…
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Trouble with Bluetooth "Fast Pair"
The closer computers get to our bodies and homes, the less control we seem to have over them. "Wearable" devices are sold as personal technology, but they rarely belong to the people who purchase them in any meaningful …
Nvidia launches ‘superchip’ putting AI power into laptops and PCs
Firm says its RTX Spark PC chip for Microsoft Windows will let AI agents replace the mouse and keyboard
BBC: “It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says”
The Facebook and Instagram owner, which denies wrongdoing, says the agreement builds on its "longstanding efforts to empower parents and support teens".
Meet Orexin, The Brain Chemical Behind Staying Motivated
Motivation (or a lack of it) shapes our lives in ways large and small every day: From changing careers to changing TV channels, we're guided by what motivates us and what we find rewarding.
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
A website for debloated open source alternatives
open-source replacements for bloated vendor software
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.
Beyond GPS: The Hidden Ways Your Phone Tracks You
How carriers, governments, and data brokers log your physical movements without your knowledge.
Just 2 new data centres will pump out more planet-heating carbon emissions than ExxonMobil
There is simply no world in which such massive new carbon emissions are compatible with a serious plan for reaching net zero by 2050.
An open-source, GPLv3 open-world RPG looking for contributors
Bazaar Initiative is an open source, open world role-playing game in a fantasy key, built by anyone who wants to make it. For PC. Free, forever, under GPLv3.
GitHub - lordgreg/rodeo: Rodeo - a terminal file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander, written in Rust
Rodeo - a terminal file manager inspired by Norton and Midnight Commander, written in Rust - lordgreg/rodeo
What makes a good smartphone camera? - cadence's weblog (personal blog)
There are lots of things that affect the quality of photographs. The biggest one is the skill of the photographer behind the camera.
AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
06 May 2026 by · Rant, AI at https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced work platform, on 30 September, 2026. Launched in 2005, the service connected workers with tasks such as data labelling and surveys, but faced declining investme…
Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China
Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon monoxide in Chinese c…
Critical Keycloak Vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) - CVE-2026-18963
A flaw was found in the reset-credentials flow of the keycloak-services component, which is the core engine for identity and access management in Red Hat Build of Keycloak. The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker t…
Millions of students' personal data stolen in major education breach
ShinyHunters claims it stole personal data from 275 million users on Instructure’s Canvas platform across schools and education providers.
Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player
I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable n…
The devout Muslim making a living from Islamophobic AI slop — A content creator in Pakistan is earning money from viral videos that stir up…
A content creator in Pakistan is earning money from viral videos that stir up hate in UK
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
Website with videos of sex abuse of drugged women, girls hosted in the Netherlands
The case of Gisèle Pelicot, whose husband drugged her and lent her unconscious body to dozens of men to rape her, made headlines worldwide. But it turns out that her case is not one horrifying incident. It’s a genre wit…
Verizon cuts several hundred US workers months after slashing 13,000 jobs
Verizon cuts hundreds of jobs across the US, impacting less than 1% of its head count, as it continues to reduce costs beyond 2026.
Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts
A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social med…
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
Can we build our own software based firewall ?
Learn what a firewall is, why it is important, how it works, and firewall best practices. Learn how a firewall can ensure the data is harmless and prevent data from being stolen or compromised.
Canvas hack strands university students during finals week
An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials â at a time when many are taking o…
New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest
Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism
The US designated Italy-based tech collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist entity, freezing assets and banning transactions over
All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars
Big Tech's 60 planned US data centers could emit 101.5 million tons of CO2 yearly — equal to 24 million gas-powered cars.
Why the global push to break free from Big Tech keeps falling short
In this excerpt from the book “The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud,” writer Cecilia Rikap examines how Europe, India, Brazil, and China are taking on big tech companies.
Meta takes Ofcom(UK media regulator) to court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates fees based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case…
Meta has launched a judicial review against Ofcom's calculation of fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act.
Announcing the new LibreOffice website! - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice’s website is the main source of information about the software (and project), and typically has 45,000 – 65,000 visitors every day. It is also the place to download the suite, of course, and make donations t…
Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states.
GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone
A small flaw in Android 16's networking stack let ordinary apps leak data outside the VPN tunnel, exposing real IP addresses
Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.
New orbital power grid targets 10x boost for space-based computing and data centers
A new orbital power grid could help space data centers access up to 10x more power on demand for computing.
Kash Patel claims AI has stopped school shootings: ‘I’m using it everywhere’
Patel says that he has ‘every major tech company in the world embedded in the FBI’
The Freshman Register
Social media is no longer social. What now? In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up. Harvard itself had planned to publish a col…
AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada
In a post on its website, Telus Digital announced a partnership with an “AI-powered speech enhancement” company to “soften accents.”
Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam | Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington …
Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company on August 24, 1996.
Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters
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Vanilla OS 3 Reunion is now available!
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers
The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a 'denial of service' attack on project mainta…
GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interview
GameStop made a takeover bid for eBay, offering $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal that values the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company…
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter r…
Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud.
FCC Commissioner Demands Close Scrutiny of 49.5% Foreign Investment in Paramount's Proposed Merger With Warner Bros.
Federal Communications commissioner Anna Gomez on Tuesday urged the agency to closely scrutinize foreign investment tied to Paramount Global’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
The best is over - Big Muddy
The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …