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.
Ghost Recon Wildlands Definitive Edition Set to Release on PS5 & Xbox Series S|X With New Content
It appears that Ubisoft could soon release a Ghost Recon: Wildlands Definitive Edition that includes new content.
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.
OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company.
Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’
Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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26 Meta employees accuse Mark Zuckerberg of using AI to target 8,000 layoffs against workers on medical, parental or family leave
They went on parental and medical leave, then watched AI‑fed dashboards mark their output down, the lawsuit claims.
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased-Amy v. Apple
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which a…
After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case
TikTok recently settled its portion of the case with the plaintiff ahead of a jury trial that starts next week in Los Angeles. YouTube has also reached a deal, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant.
Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt
A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.
Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials
A drug already safe for humans reduces disease-linked early features of Alzheimerâs in a lab model of the disease, say neuroscientists.
Where Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go? AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.
Schools are suing social media giants, seeking cash and redesigned apps
School districts, including LAUSD, are suing Meta, Google and TikTok, demanding they fund student mental health services and overhaul addictive designs.
Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist
Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn't "exist." Now they're saying exactly how it might work.
‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations
In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern
Erin Brockovich Launches Public Registry to Track Data Center Complaints
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launches a crowd-sourced map as thousands of residents report hidden data center projects near their homes.
OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1
OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more.
Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute
REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — July 21, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Mistral on Tuesday announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises and regulated industries adopt front…
Apple Plans to Defeat RAM Prices by Letting You Lease a Mac
Instead of buying your next expensive iPhone, why not just never own it at all?
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table
Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence
Flock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every Guardrail— Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls…
Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation.
Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M To Replace CEOs With AI
Skyfall AI, from the team behind Microsoft's $160 million Maluuba acquisition, will buy a SaaS company and let AI run it as CEO.
Billionaires ditching California still face tax threat — Tech entrepreneurs and investors trying to dodge proposed 5% levy may not be in th…
Sergey Brin and other absurdly wealthy people who’ve fled the state could be subject to “intrusive” residency audits.
America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren't as great as they seem
Cities trade tax breaks for a fraction of the jobs data centers promise. That's because construction crews that build them move on within months
Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI
CENTCOM, which oversees the war in Iran, has had its civilian harm reduction team slashed from 10 to just one.
SpaceX Stock Plummets to Record Low Near $120 After Seven-Day Slump
SpaceX stock drops 47% from its post-IPO high after a series of launch aborts, sending a chill through the broader tech and AI market ahead of August earnings.
TIL that Captain Moroni is a heroic figure in the Book of Mormon. Utah politician Mike Lee compared Donald Trump to Captain Moroni
Americans may have called President Donald Trump just about everything possible this year, good and bad. But standing by his side at an Arizona rally on Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee called him something new to urge Latter-d…
AI homework tools cut exam scores by 20%, study of 26,000 Chinese students finds
Researchers in Sweden and Hong Kong say students may experience a deceptive sense of fluency – AI makes tasks feel effortless.
Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be
A new hypervisor-based bypass method, demonstrated extensively within the Linux gaming community using Proton and Wine, has emerged
Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it
Hugging Face: We Used AI to Catch the First Confirmed AI Agent Breach of a Major AI Platform
The company says the attack was carried out end to end by an autonomous AI-agent system.
Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism
A new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard.
Google Maps said a hike would take 5 hours. B.C. rescuers pointed out how wrong that was
Hikers recently rescued from an extremely challenging trail in B.C. had planned their trip using Google Maps, prompting a warning about the perils of relying on that platform in the backcountry.
Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than impose an outright ba…
TIL the word "fnord," from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gives characters subconscious feelings of unease and confusion, thus preventing ration…
Fnord (/fnɔːrd/) is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia. It entered into popular culture after appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) of novel…
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders
Speedrunning Marathons for Charity
Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll
A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment.
Google erasing immigrants’ accounts of experiences in ICE facilities /// Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about…
Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about who controls public records of immigrant detention
Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge
Data Center Opponents Stage 142 Protests Across 42 States
Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held 142 protests across 42 states Saturday, the first nationwide protest against data center growth.
TIL almost half the states in the US ban buying alcohol on christmas
The holiday season might be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also undeniably one of the busiest. Between dashing from store to store to scoop up gifts to attending party after party, the hustle and bustle i…
id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for"
id Software has posted a brief statement on social media, insisting, "We still have the crew we need to build the games."
Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is moving 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway for digital sovereignty, keeping sensitive data shielded from US extraterritorial law.
Hands-On With the TRIMUI Brick Pro: A Better Handheld, but Not a Faster One
TRIMUI's latest vertical handheld keeps the same processor but adds a larger display, Hall effect thumbsticks and a refined design.
European Commission fines AliExpress €550 Million for the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform.
Today, the European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for breaching its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterf…
AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists
Autonomous AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face. Strict US Safety Guardrails Forced them to Use a Chinese LLM to Catch It—Expensive, Proprietary US…
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site
France's main gambling sector regulator said on Friday it had instructed the country's internet service providers to block access to the Polymarket website, one of a number of online prediction…