Nasdaq, S&P 500 drop 1% after China’s latest AI breakthrough rattles tech stocks
By John Towfighi, Chris Isidore, CNN
pvectl - a command-line companion for Proxmox
A command-line companion for Proxmox. Contribute to davegallant/pvectl development by creating an account on GitHub.
Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.
WordPress Core flaw 'wp2shell' prompts emergency security updates
A critical WordPress core vulnerability dubbed wp2shell allows unauthenticated remote code execution on default installs. Update to 7.0.2 for patch
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read
A real-world horror story about contracts, control, and the dark side of managed open source.
About 300 Netflix Titles Used Generative AI This Year, Company Reveals
Roughly 300 Netflix programs across the streamer's library have used generative AI across their production process this year, the company revealed.
SpaceX Stock Plummets Below IPO Price as $1 Trillion Vanishes
SpaceX shares crashed below the $135 IPO price, wiping out $1 trillion since June. A scrubbed Starship launch and upcoming investor lockups triggered the selloff.
Deleting Systems You Don't Understand
When I was a kid, my father bought a family home computer and placed it in the living room for all to see. When guests came to our house, they would stop by the computer and admire its marvel without
TIL Ancient Roman farm women made wine, oil and profits. Historians dismissed them as 'housekeepers'
Female farm managers are hidden in plain sight in ancient Roman texts, mentioned in laws, literature and grave inscriptions across five centuries. Modern historians have generally assumed they were housekeepers, in char…
Mixfont creator develops anti-AI Decoy Font to mask text using optical illusion
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
[AIP] Wardnet: An open-source (GPL-3) network privacy gateway: per-device VPN routing, DNS ad-blocking, and firewall-enforced zones, all se…
Wardnet is a self-hosted network privacy gateway. Per-device VPN routing, network-wide DNS ad blocking, and firewall-enforced zones, on hardware you own. No cloud, GPL-3.0.
Change your server's alert rules from the couch
Every DeviceShelf release on one page — newest first. Expand a version for the full notes.
TIL that 3/4 of bee species make silk
While the world drowns in plastic, researchers are on the hunt for practical materials that are lightweight, tough, and biodegradable. In recent years, scientists have increasingly turned to the natural world for inspir…
Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason
Flock says its AI-powered surveillance cameras need humans in the loop to input target license plates correctly and verify its alerts.
Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO
The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes incl...
Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveils Kimi model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropic
It's the latest AI model from China to close the performance gap with leading U.S. AI labs.
Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes
"Even a single grain of rice can tip the scales."
Camera Chase Vehicle
You stumble on a weird robot chassis in an industrial warehouse. Its adorable, enormous and will likely be scrapped.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Making sure you're not a bot!
TL;DR: is your refrigerator running malware? If so, you better catch it!
‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’
Climate action group Extinction Rebellion attacks Microsoft data centre construction site, amid growing worker opposition to AI facilities in the Netherlands.
LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking
Anyone who owns an LG smart TV must inform all guests and family members that they are being monitored – this is required by LG’s current terms of use. Meanwhile, LG monitors install potential malware and surveillance s…
Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions
A tiny Linux-powered Hi-Fi player with physical controls, a whale on its back, Tetris inside, and far more personality than I expected.
When algorithms go to war
Tech giants, the arms industry and the weaponisation of AI.
Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
Made With GameMaker 2026
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Mamdani Targets AI 'Housefishing' With Mandatory Rental Listing Disclosures
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani launches a tenant protection plan forcing rental sites to disclose AI-altered listings and cracking down on negligent landlords.
Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.
Agent 64: Spies Never Die - Release Date Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it an…
Mateo Covic said his 'rage game' is actually doing quite well on Steam, and its refund rate is normal—but that wasn't his point.
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
Exposed: The Alleged Crypto Entrepreneur Who Owns The Popular Forum LeakedBB Where ‘Leaked’ Nudes of Women are being posted and traded
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.
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Jabsz Studios creates immersive PC & mobile games and web services — game development, art, audio, and web solutions from India.
China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listings
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms | TechCrunch
The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting Microsoft datacenter project
Datacenters: De actiegroep heeft ballonnen met chemicaliën gegooid om de fundering van de hyperscale voor Microsoft te beschadigen en de bouw te vertragen. De actie is harder dan normaal, erkent de groep. „Maar het is n…
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.
OnePlus will stop selling new products in Europe and North America
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
Co-Founder of Controversial NSO Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport
Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.
The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the healt…
The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike
I also filed the corners off my MacBook
I like my new-to-me MacBook because it enables me to create more stuff compared to my now almost 8 year old Thinkpad I had before, mainly due to battery and screen reasons. There is one thing about it that I cannot wrap…
You'll now be able to spot an AI-generated song on Spotify
Streaming giant Spotify has stopped short of expunging artificially generated music from its platform, but it is making it easier for listeners to work out that they are listening to tracks produced using AI.
TIL that uncontrolled dynamic pricing once valued a book 23 million dollars (+ 3.99 shipping)
A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental bi…
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.
OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical mani…