Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6
Over 100 countries currently do not have access to PSN, which has huge ramifications for a digital exclusive PS6.
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were th…
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The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE - Dhole Moments
Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I’ve certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been working on building out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Activity…
Mysteries of Telegram DataCenters
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in Singap…
The kids (with phones) are alright – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
There was a remarkable video going around the Scottish socials yesterday which led to quite a bit of media coverage. It’s a four-minute long video showing some furious Scotrail passengers confronting a drunk middle-aged…
Expensive and pointless? Black Ops 1 and 2 PS4 and PS5 ports cost a lot of money and barely offer any upgrades over the originals
You may not have expected much from the Black Ops 1 and 2 PS5 ports, but they've somehow managed to be more disappointing.
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study Finds
Two years ago, Mozilla published Over the Edge: How Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice, a report by independent researchers Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles documenting how Microsoft used ...
Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage trucks. As the trucks roll their normal routes, the cameras would scan yards and house fronts for code violati...
How to unionize your tech workplace
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.
The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
A thought experiment in what we built without noticing.
Jolla J2 Unboxing and first impressions
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US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics
Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers
Nekome: Nazi Hunter
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities.
Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants re…
Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
[CBH] Turn Platypush into your favourite weather app
Mobile app, web app and custom handling of weather events, all in one
George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’
The Star Wars creator compares not using AI to riding a horse in the face of cars
Bindery: self-hosted, folder-watching converter for ebooks and comics
Drop e-books and comics into a folder, get Kobo/Kindle-ready files out. kepubify + KCC with a WebUI, in one Docker image. - jarynclouatre/bindery
26 Employees Lawsuit: Meta used AI to fire workers who used their legal leaves to take time off work
The plaintiffs say a monitoring program deployed earlier this year gave artificial intelligence data to select employees for layoffs.
Long-Term Data Storage for Home Users - YouTube
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Paint-on tattoos could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves — all within a colorful, customizable …
Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos capable of recording different electrical signals produced by the body with more sensitivity, durability and accuracy than other wear…
LuisCore /for-agents.json — agent bootstrap — LuisCore inference-scale runtime substrate
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Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked
Microsoft is facing fresh criticism over its handling of user accounts after another customer claimed the company permanently deleted their account.
How The Spread Of Local AI Models Makes Copyright Enforcement Harder
The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination o…
Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent, and Microsoft is also selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs.
TIL the difference between Possums and Opossums
Contrary to popular belief, possums and opossums aren't the same animals at all. So what are the differences between them?
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
Start of a /c/Selfhosted Wiki [CBH]
This wiki is a resource for self hosters of the fediverse, and you are welcomed to both explore and contribute. The !selfhosted@lemmy.world community was founded on lemmy.world, but you can access it from just about any…
I connected my self-hosted network scanner to an AI assistant over MCP, kept fully on-LAN
New in Server edition 1.5.3: DeviceShelf can expose your live network inventory and monitoring state to an AI assistant over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with 22 tools, guided prompts, attachable resources and an o…
Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that
Xbox's massive layoffs are at least partially because of Game Pass' failure
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product."
AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows
Anthropic's distillation complaints expose an awkward question: does AI's fair use argument cut both ways?
'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard
The boss of Bethesda has told staff the company must now focus on its “strongest franchises” amid sweeping layoffs across Xbox.
We Must Act Now: Nearly 200 Economists, Tech Leaders and Nobel laureates(Including Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman) Warn About AI's Threat to Ec…
Stanford Digital Economy Lab / July 13, 2026
Rayfish, Iroh and Yggdrasil
Rayfish is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN. Connect your devices by cryptographic identity. No port forwarding, no hosted server to trust. Share a code, and you're on the same encrypted LAN.
Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse
According to a shocking BBC investigation, Instagram has been profiting off of paid adverts that promote child sexual abuse material in India.
The New York Nurses Replaced by AI: AI Makes Inroads in Healthcare, Threatening Patient Care and Jobs, Lay Off Plan Will Give Over Private …
For Immediate Release: July 1, 2026
Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act - for now
The Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) is legislation in the United Kingdom that aims to hold platform operators accountable for the safety of the people who use their apps and visit their websites. Though most obligations (l…
‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that the social media g…
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras
The LAPD is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.
2 websites run by the U.S. Army were defaced by hackers with messages referring to Trump as a “pedophile and thief” while also criticizing …
At least two websites appear to be victim to 404 hijacking attacks. Army officials took the sites down after being contacted by CyberScoop.
CATL’s sodium-ion storage systems set for first customer deliveries
CATL says it will begin customer deliveries of its first sodium-ion energy storage systems in September.
Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership"
This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally.
Meta's New Patent Wants to Track Your Mood by Listening to Your Voice All Day
Meta has filed a patent for a system that listens to your voice over time, detects emotional patterns, and generates a personal mood report.