Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to…
Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS.
Please Stop Making Terrible GIFs
Most people convert videos to GIFs wrong. Here's how to do it right with FFmpeg and custom palettes.
How I Uncovered a 1200-Site Crypto Scam Network
A little frustration with spam led me down a rabbit hole and exposed a massive, centrally managed scam operation.
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.
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Spotlighting the people, connections, and stories behind your music – Spotify for Artists
Expanded Song Credits, SongDNA, About the song
[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articl…
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.
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The House recently passed the KIDS Act, a disjointed internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or participate in online co…
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."
Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints
The update to Shinku on Chinese servers rolled out in just half a day.
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.
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.
Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease
Sam Altman and his husband have reportedly invested in a gene-editing startup which aims to eliminate hereditary diseases
Most people in France would sell their data for under €40/month
A survey by France's data protection authority reveals that 65% of French are open to selling access to their personal data for €40/month.
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.
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Everything you wanted to know about using Cloudflare Zero Trust Argo tunnels for your personal network
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…
3d earth within 15cm, but not fir studying, you'll never guess why for.....
Vantor, the American Earth-observation company formerly known as Maxar, is now rebuilding chosen stretches of the planet as three-dimensional models and
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.
Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it
AI-generated singers, children, and even virtual lovers are providing seniors with comfort and companionship.
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.”
New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient
The ThinkPad T14 series is among the most well known and liked business laptop series. It is not a premium series, but it delivers a well-rounded combination of quality and features. With the lastest Intel Lunar Lake CP…
The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype
It's been many years since printing from a PC involved little more than buying a printer and some ink, then purchasing extra cartridges when needed. Today, the...
Iowa accuses Temu of collecting private consumer data.
Iowa says Temu and its Chinese-owned parent company open consumers up to spying by the Chinese government.
All smart TVs—from LG, Samsung, TCL, and other brands—collect personal data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit surveillance.
TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.
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…
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.
Self-Host Weekly #145: Agentic
Knitted socks, dad jokes, database backups, and breaking Docker releases
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…
When the Dystopian Movie feels utopian, you know you're in Hell
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Bank of England handed powers to regulate key tech firms including Amazon and Google
Government has designated four major global cloud services and technology providers as Critical Third Parties (CTPs).
State Senator Pockets Massive Real Estate Fee From a $30M Data Center Land Sale, Then Introduces Bill to Fast-Track Development
PA Sen. Greg Rothman says while he did make money on the 2025 sale, he had nothing to do with the actual data center deal.
AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system wil…
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.
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
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…
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