Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's…
The evolution sim that was never meant to be.
What's With All These 'Fly Brain Simulations'? The Viral Jokes And Memes About A Fruit Fly's Brain Being Mapped Explained
The complete brain map of an adult male fruit fly became an unexpected source of memes after developers began connecting the openly available neural data to video games, trading bots and virtual envir...
Florida woman goes to Crunch Fitness. Then she notices a man in Meta glasses: ‘This is my protection’
'It was ... a big altercation for no reason.' The post Florida woman goes to Crunch Fitness. Then she notices a man in Meta glasses: ‘This is my protectio
Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA - Small Things Retro
I've spent the last month adding features and improving performance in z486_MiSTer, mostly working through games from the first half of the 1990s. Looking a few years ahead brought me to another change I wanted to explo…
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Printable brain-inspired chips that compute at lightning speed and vanish in minutes
In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have built a flexible and ultra-fast artificial synapse printed entirely from room-temperature liquid inks that dissolves on demand in six minutes. The …
Secret documents show German police don't need to break the encryption of chat apps, they have been systematically adding their own device …
Behörden überwachen regelmäßig Messenger-Kommunikation in WhatsApp, Telegram und Signal – ganz ohne Staatstrojaner. Das geht aus einem Dokument des Zollkriminalamts hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Ein Professor für IT-…
Critics Slam Tesla's Gamification Of FSD As Driver Hits 25,000-Mile Streak
A driver just surpassed 25,000 miles while operating on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, but some critics argue that the gamification is dangerous.
A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS s…
TikTok's parental controls fail to protect children from suicide, self harm and eating disorder content
*** Trigger warning: this article contains references to suicide, self harm and eating disorders. If you are affected by any of these issues, ways of accessing
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut done…
How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer
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Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, rai…
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understan…
"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it
Bernie Sanders and Mark Takano want AI productivity gains to help deliver a 32-hour workweek without cuts to workers’ weekly pay or benefits.
Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.
Research: The whole Reddit has become more negative over time. Also, the longer the community exists, the more negative it get — and the lo…
Beyond the algorithm, online negativity takes on a life of its own. Here’s why.
The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
There are loads of options for getting new music into your ears if you're fed up with Spotify.
Flock Safety privacy changes: retention cut to seven days
Flock Safety privacy changes cut data retention from 30 days to seven and make search audits compulsory, after dozens of police abuse cases.
Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started
Twitch announced on its official X channel that it has added a setting that allows users to opt out of having their channel content used to train...
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide
Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic commission for Europe has warned, raising co…
“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribut…
US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.
How my e-reader lost its stripes
I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for …
PayPal Honey Under Fire: Affiliate Tracking Lawsuit Moves Forward
PayPal Honey faces a federal lawsuit over alleged affiliate tracking and commission diversion. Here's what the court ruled and what happens next
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions
A DRAMATIC increase in US coal consumption was “by far the biggest contributor” to the overall increase in global CO2 emissions last year, a report has revealed.
Inside Swiff: An Interview with NaviVani on Bringing Flash Games Back to Android
From childhood memories to the RG Rotate, the developer behind Swiff explains why the lost games of the early web still matter.
Trump Claims the Only "AI Guardrail" Needed Is Himself
The president characterized people warning of AI’s potential harms as “treasonous” and “traitors.”…
'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming
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Software Freedom Day - Montclair
Website for the New Jersey Software Freedom Day Event.
I love base-building in Subnautica
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Saros - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games
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killer instinct 2013 sequel cancelled
Xbox might announce a surprise sequel at GamesCom, but insider Shpeshal Nick quashed rumors of a new Killer Instinct, stating it was canceled after years of speculation.
US military confirms it has deployed weapons in space
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed Sept. 14 the Space Force has "space control weapons" on orbit today, a Pentagon first.
Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox
Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.
How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random…
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse has allowed police…
South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time
South Korea has rolled out an app that allows stalking victims to see the live location of their alleged stalker if they begin moving nearby.
EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with…
Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.
Open letter from The Document Foundatio about the Euro-Office announcement
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled —…
President Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards
The US president's comments come after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC an AI "kill switch" may need to be mandatory.
TIL roughly 200 people still die each month from COVID worldwide.
The latest data for coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths from the WHO COVID-19 dashboard.
In Israel, a rabbinical judge can force couples into divorce if the wife dresses indecently
Israeli rabbis are to clamp down on the growing number of devout Jewish women wearing the burka by declaring the garment an item of sexual deviancy.
'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam
'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.'
Someone built a visualization of what 1 million tokens actually looks like
A visual essay on machine memory: one million WebGL tokens and the 2020-2026 race from 2,048-token context windows to ten million.
TIL Vim uses hjkl keys for cursor movement because they doubled as arrows keys on Bill Joy's original keyboard.
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the…