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.
America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First…
PJM Interconnection now requires new data centers over 50 MW to supply their own power or face first-priority grid curtailment starting June 2027.
One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives
Carmakers keep loading new cars with driver aids, but a surprising share of owners never turn the fanciest ones on
Their cities dropped Flock surveillance cameras. They’re still being watched
Despite policy victories over Flock, Americans are finding themselves under similar monitoring by a new company â or unable to remove the original cameras
Google Chrome: The Ultimate Weapon of Google Monopoly
A case study on Google Chrome's worst privacy practices.
Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM.
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.
‘They’re thinking about the likes’: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland
Social media platforms face public ire after fatal crash involving teenagers filming themselves driving on wrong side
VSeeBox: reverse engineered
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Texas A&M physics prof writes: In ten years, light diffused by satellites will erase the the stars for the vast majority of humans. Save th…
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The defense revolving-door, Silicon Valley edition
An eye-opening glimpse at the links between two congressional committees and more than 100 defense contractors, consultants, and lobbyists.
Exposing The Grift: The Odyssey
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The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a personalized price; Proposed enforcement policy would force companies to tell consu…
FTC says companies have to disclose personalized pricing and surveillance pricing
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
A Coddy Developer Survey revealed that AI coding is leading to a new kind of burnout.
Walmart is finally adding Tap to Pay
Beginning Aug. 24, we will be adding Tap to Pay to our payment options at select Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations, with plans to roll it out to all U.S. stores and clubs by the end of 2026 and to fuel stations by…
Babylon5 TV Show reveals Politicians Playbook
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East Tennessee commissioner says Flock CEO should be hanged
An East Tennessee county commissioner sparked controversy after suggesting during a public workshop that Flock CEO Garret Langley should be hanged for treason.
What a great excuse to have complete access to all your pictures
Britain will become the first country in the world where it is impossible for children to take, share or view naked pictures on their devices.
Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT Answers as Search Citations Drop 86%
ChatGPT is citing Reddit far less: reddit.com's share of ChatGPT Search citations collapsed from about 4% to about 0.5% on August 14, 2026. Daily data for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode from July 7 to …
Kraken limiting Monero. Prelude to total delisting IMO
Kraken will be limiting #Monero #XMR deposits and withdrawals:
'Hoard and Destroy'? Advocates Demand Federal Probe of Book-Burning by AI Giants
"AI companies are engineering a future where only the wealthiest incumbents can build high-quality AI models and operate as the sole holders of humanity's written works."
Uber Fined Nearly €825 Million Euros($966M Dollars) for Automated Driver Blocking
Uber fined nearly €825 million by Dutch data protection authority for automated driver blocking.
Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
Heat pollution from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area…
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.
TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children’s privacy
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws.
Quiet Changes in Bitwarden
The password manager swapped its CEO, rewrote its core values, and briefly pulled "Always Free" from its pricing page.
GIMP is gearing up for a massive upgrade
Development Update, August 2026
Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety
Former Meta safety engineer Arturo Béjar testified that his concerns about child safety fell on deaf ears.
The LibreOffice Conference 2026 will take place in Pordenone, Italy, from September 10 – 12
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for LibreOffice Conference 2026
We De-FLOCK HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
A viral campaign is urging Americans to turn Halloween into “De-Flock America” night and target controversial surveillance cameras.
T'pol time travels for the first time
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Dutch regulator fines Uber $966m for automating driver suspensions
European regulators have imposed billions in penalties on US technology companies due to privacy, competition and digital market rules
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero: researchers got Claude Opus 5 to achieve a 100% score on the i…
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads
'Impeccable safety record'? Tesla Robotaxi filmed driving straight through traffic posts
Microsoft built a dedicated app that forces Bing everywhere on Windows 11, including Chrome, Firefox, and Brave
Microsoft built MicrosoftSettings.exe, an app that installs a Bing extension across Chrome and Edge, then redirects you to Microsoft Rewards.
Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky
Flock is selling "Drone as First Responder" tech, in the form of drones that are equipped with cameras that can read license plates.
China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux
The specialized Chinese version of Windows was already scheduled for retirement in February 2027, but now its end-of-life date has been moved up.
Remotely unlocking electric scooters
How subdomain recon, WordPress user enumeration, and a brute force led to admin access and remotely unlocking scooters.
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole
A grand jury made the exceedingly rare decision to decline federal charges against an Ohio man accused of tearing down a Flock ALPR.
We're Making an Open Source American Kei Truck
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South Korea court orders Samsung union strike to not impact chip volume
Court orders union to maintain normal production during any strike; Samsung shares jump 6.7%. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
What it looks like to live next to a sprawling data center
See how towering data centers transform neighborhoods and landscapes.
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.
Portabase now handles backup/restore of Docker volumes
Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Docker Volume - Portabase/portabase
The U.S. Still Doesn't Have an Answer to China's EV Dominance
President Trump's visit to China highlights a key tension for American decision makers: how to manage China’s growing prowess in sectors like the auto industry.
GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners - Generalist AI
GEN-1.5 can in-context learn a new task from as little as 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data — or adapt with 1 to 10 gradient steps on minutes of data. These capabilities emerge from pretraining on large-scale physic…
Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner
Apple's CVE-2026-65400 Screen Sharing flaw is under active exploitation on internet-exposed Macs to install a Monero miner.
Fooling Flock: The Car Wrap That Blinds Plate Cameras
Flock cameras have earned their moment in the crosshairs, and it isn't hard to see why. License plate-reading cameras were sold on the premise of sharper law enforcement, but the rollout has produced misuse, false flags…
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta A…
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.