AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, study finds
Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors.
Spy device detectors fail users most reliant on them // This may potentially give a false sense of security to those most at risk such as d…
Consumer detectors sold to help people find hidden surveillance devices are often too difficult for typical users to interpret, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines | More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
TIL that in Massachusetts, white families have a median net wealth of $549,000. For black families, it is just $7,800
A detailed survey of family wealth in Massachusetts has found an estimated median family net wealth of $374,000 and higher median wealth among those with more education, homeowners, those 65 or older, rural residents, a…
Disruption without dividend? - How the digital divide and task differences split GenAI’s global impact
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PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI
: Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits
Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll
In a feature the dating app says is set to roll out in the U.S. later this spring, Tinder plans to access users' camera rolls to pick photos and determine what they're into.
Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images :: Xusheng Li
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered
US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
GTA 6 leaks: Rockstar's nightmare or just a blip?
Clips appearing to show the highly anticipated game have appeared online, but will they really hurt it?
The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"
The agency said it cannot ban personalized pricing under its current authority, but it will pursue enforcement action against companies that fail to meet its disclosure requirements.
World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's …
As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industr…
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June
The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.
Rogue AI agent incidents fuel push for tech transparency
A groundswell of interest in how America’s top AI companies train their models and how they try to prevent cybersecurity incidents has focused attention on the lack of AI regulation.
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak
A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels.
New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast
A way to stream audio around your entire house using inexpensive RaspberryPi computers and SnapCast
An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like.
Interviews with data workers in China and Australia reveal the precarious, exploitative conditions of this new branch of the gig economy.
Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
The Tasmanian Devil Speaking Normally
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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
TIL 11/14 current feeder judges (those whose clerks most frequently go on to SCOTUS clerkships) were Republican appointees
In the United States, feeder judges are prominent judges in the American federal judiciary whose law clerks are frequently selected to become law clerks for the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.[1] Feeder judges are a…
Meta Sheds Influencer Andrew Tate's Lawsuit Over Instagram Ban
Meta convinced a federal court to quash a lawsuit challenging its termination of six Instagram accounts run by self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan.
GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatte…
The publisher wants MachineGuid identifiers, login IPs, and OneDrive contents by September 4.
Eclipse SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility
Open source, microscopic and continuous multi-modal traffic simulation package
Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector
Comcast is promoting WiFi-based motion detection as a part of its new Xfinity Shield home protection platform, allowing routers and wireless devices to detect people moving through a home without cameras or motion senso…
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
While corporate oligarchs gather on their Yachts, the open source resistance is meeting in Pordenone, Italy from September 10–12 for the Li…
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for LibreOffice Conference 2026
The Open-Source Investigators Reconstructing the Middle East’s Wars
As journalists are shut out of conflict zones, investigators are using satellite imagery, social media and 3D modelling to document atrocities. But evidence alone cannot deliver accountability.
After Xbox and Windows, now GITHUB is in crisis, "failing me, every single day, and it is personal"
One of GitHub's most staple contributors announced they are abandoning ship due to constant outages. GitHub's COO responds, promising change, but is it all too little too late?
Rockstar reportedly furious by GTA 6 leaks and has no idea how it happened, but won’t change Netflix premiere date
Rockstar Games is reportedly furious over the latest wave of GTA 6 leaks, but it has no plans to change the date of the game’s Netflix premiere.
Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games
Sony's unsolicited EULA email tells PlayStation users their digital games are licensed, not owned, arriving just as the #PSBlackout boycott kicks off.
Funding internet freedom together: results from our first participatory funding round | Tor Project
The Tor Project's first participatory funding campaign raised more than $200,000 for internet freedom projects and taught us valuable lessons about community support, project visibility, and sustaining internet freedom …
I Just Want to Search
Learning to search was a key skill growing up as a teen in the 2000s. How to use accurate keywords, quotes, the entire lot of search operators. Google-fu was a hard earned skill (yes, I read a book) and helped me figure…
May This Balloon Banjo Resonate With You
Most instruments, with maybe the exception of pianos, have consumable parts. Guitars need string changes, bows need rosin, saxophones need reeds. [Co:Creation Lab]’s balloon banjo requires bo…
GTA 6 gameplay and map leaked ahead of Netflix Extended Look - Dexerto
Leaked GTA 6 gameplay showing Jason playing basketball, driving, and fighting has appeared online alongside new images revealing the game’s map.
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “ew…
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes
Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here.
Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe
A Dutch data regulatory authority said that Uber has to pay 824.9 million euros for violating the GDPR.
How The Mad Hatter Twists The Truth | Batman: Caped Crusader
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Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims
That origin story came directly from a former Samsung Electronics engineer surnamed Jeon, according to Maeil Business. The veteran employee spent almost three decades at Samsung before...
Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games
Chinese humanoid robots have set records including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
[AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer
🖨️ A self-hosted printing server webUI with multi-user support
A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch
It's $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.
U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants
The warning comes as cyber incidents target U.S. water systems in attacks cybersecurity experts suspect are linked to Iran.