Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
US residents face trade-offs as delivery drone services such as Prime Air expand.
Google Chrome: A Privacy Nightmare | MindDump
A case study on Google Chrome's worst privacy practices.
Meta is paying Instagram influencers and parent groups to amplify its anti-regulation message in countries that are considering or enacting…
As social media bans for kids under 16 gain momentum around the world, Meta is exporting its U.S. influence tactics to undermine them.
Cars are surveillance devices. Here's the proof.
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Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive
Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at hand…
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
Week of action planned against license plate readers
People in 460 cities will be participating in the week of action.
Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams c…
This treasure trove of data came at a relatively affordable $10 million.
Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite list…
A third-party seller may be to blame
LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada
Large Language Models display an uncanny ability to construct human-sounding speech, and can synthesize concepts in novel ways. Is this because they are truly thinking like human beings in some way, or have they found a…
Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs
DDR5-6000 with CL 28 or 30 sounds about right to me.
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
Zuckmail — Zuckerberg's Internal Emails rendered as Facebook Messenger
Every internal email the FTC made public. Rendered as Facebook Messenger.
AI remains top reason for US job cuts for third straight month as employers axed 97,000 workers in May
AI was the leading reason cited for U.S. job cuts for the third consecutive month, with 97,006 layoffs announced in May, according to new data.
Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.
If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits
How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Why is the military and a cheese fortune teller contacting me about SondeHub.org
Is Apple beginning a privacy reset?
It's not clear how Apple's ambition to put cameras inside AirPods can also protect privacy.
You Should Stop Using Meta (Facebook) Products at All Costs | MindDump
Stop using Meta products at all costs.
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
[PDF] Signal attacks UK plan to scan devices for nude images as "mass surveillance"
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Meta Changed Its Speech Rules. Then Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed
New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President Donald Trump—surged on Facebook.
Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M
The information will be used to refine the company's artificial intelligence systems.
openmediavault 7 approaching EOL
At 10.06.2026 openmediavault 7 will become EOL because Debian 12 estimates EOL (end-of-life) for the same time. This means no security/bugfix updates will be released anymore. Please upgrade to openmediavault 8 to be up…
Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering
Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without ma…
Christine Van Geyn: Privacy isn't a crime, but Bill C-22 acts like it is
Politicians reveal meme-level ignorance of constitutional guarantee of privacy in Canada
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never…
Zen IdP, A tiny, declarative OIDC provider in Go (YAML-based, zero external DB required)
Declarative, zero-maintenance OIDC Identity Provider - varavelio/zen-idp
Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excite…
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.
September is Wikipedia's labor organizing edit-a-thon in solidarity with the Wikimedia tech workers union (WWU)
From 1–30 September 2026, a month long online community editing event dedicated to all topics covered under WikiProject Organized Labour including strike actions, trade unions, labor law, union busting etc..
RICH FLU Official Trailer (2026) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sci-Fi, Thriller Movie
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Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.
Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years.
TLDR: Since Tesla’s June 2025 robotaxi launch, Tesla has built a 39-vehicle unsupervised fleet, while Waymo has a newly disclosed 3,791-vehicle U.S. fleet. So Tesla appears to be on pace to catch up with Waymo’s autonom…
How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’
Spelers van de game Pokémon Go scanden jarenlang hun omgeving voor extra punten. Met behulp van die miljarden scans is nu een extreem nauwkeurig navigatiesysteem ontwikkeld voor onder meer militaire drones en robots.
Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds
Researchers evaluated 21 language models, such as GPT and Gemini, and found that they all alter their discourse to align with the user’s bias, potentially functioning as echo chambers.
The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup …
Manga, light novels, manhwa, and more have vanished
Apple tried to blame the EU for its Siri AI mess, and the EU called them out publicly
Yesterday, Apple took the stage in Cupertino at WWDC to introduce us to iOS 27 and Siri AI. This is the much-improved Siri that we were promised two years
Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked Met police contract
Palantir is set to sue Sadiq Khan after the London Mayor blocked a £50m contract with the Metropolitan Police as he claimed the tech giant does not reflect the City's values.
Xbox Game Pass Lost "Millions Of Subscribers" After Last Year's 50% Price Hike
It turns out last year's Xbox Game Pass price hike really was unpopular, as it caused millions to unsubscribe.
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases - Ars Technica
Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
Global Smartphone Production Fell 1.7% YoY in 1Q26; Memory Cost Pressures Expected to Drive a Sharper Decline in 2Q26, Says TrendForce
TrendForce’s latest figures reveal that global smartphone production reached around 284 million units in the first quarter of 2026, marking a 1.7% YoY decline. Despite a sharp rise in memory prices since the second half…
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Magicians: The Devil's Deal - Reveal Trailer | XBOX Games Showcase 2026
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METRO 2039 | Gameplay Reveal
There's a liar in these tunnels... In the Xbox Games Showcase, we revealed our first full gameplay trailer for METRO 2039, featuring nearly three minutes of ...
Halo: Campaign Evolved | New Missions Trailer
Before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Master Chief and Sgt Johnson take part in Operation: Meteorite, in which they infiltrate a mysterious Covenant...
Fable | Xbox Games Showcase Trailer
Fable launches February 23, 2027.Become the Hero you want to be in an immersive open-world action-RPG where each choice shapes your journey, reputation is ev...
The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank
ECB researchers warn AI stocks face a likely correction, putting pension and index fund holders at risk — regardless of whether AI succeeds.
Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages
New water-demand analysis puts data center cooling at roughly 4% of AI's footprint, with fabs and power generation taking the rest.