GPU and RAM prices have both risen ~19% across the EU over the past 1-2 months, verified with fixed-basket price tracking
EU-wide +19.2% over 30 days on a 176-model fixed basket. Germany +19.6%, France +18.1%. Data + methodology.
AI Deepfakes Cost Japanese Celebrities Up to ¥4.5 Billion as Copyright Concerns Grow
AI-generated deepfakes caused up to ¥4.5 billion in estimated copyright losses for Japanese celebrities, raising pressure for stronger legal protections.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and cri…
Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the ‘killer app’ for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. …
American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI
The head start that the US companies enjoyed in the AI race is quickly vanishing. Chinese competitors are now nipping at their heels, and it's causing a wave of anxiety in the American sector.
Social Media Are Flooded With AI Spam, Especially LinkedIn(Browsing data suggests)
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
The secret is humble UITextField.
More Renewables Lead To Lower Demand For Methane In Europe
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI,…
Digital Tribulations 22: Argentina’s Tech Workers Union After Milei and AI: an Interview with AGC
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here and the entire serie can be found here.
Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware
Connecting an LG monitor to Windows silently installs an app that shows McAfee ads and cannot be removed through the Microsoft Store.
Here's how to block Meta from using your Instagram pictures for its AI
Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI.
US-backed microreactor reaches criticality in major nuclear step
Antares reaches reactor criticality milestone, advancing plans for military microreactors by 2028
A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it
Jay Morris denies expertsâ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Metaâs Hyperion datacenter
YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.
School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and w…
US Adults Are Throwing Away Over $250 a Year on Unused Subscriptions, CNET Finds
We're spending more on subscriptions than before, but we're losing even more.
Canadian special forces Palantir deal reveals decay of Western ‘democracy’
The Canadian govt claimed Palantir is the only firm able to provide the tech — that's not enough reason to make more deals with the devil
LIPS Is An Open Source Sip-And-Puff Interface
Lots of us have– thanks to repetative stress injuries– developed mobility issues that we have to work around when using computers. Maybe it’s a trackball instead of a mouse, or a …
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he didn't expect this milestone until 2027.
Future of Guild Wars franchise.
Hear directly from our leadership team about our plans and how you can help shape what comes next in Guild Wars 2.
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 2…
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up so the camera in t…
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
DOGE whistleblower claims brakes were cut after post from Elon Musk
A US government agency worker who exposed alleged misuse of data by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) crashed his car after the brakes were cut, court documents show.
i built a price tracker for EU PC hardware because I was tired of overpaying
Track GPU, CPU, RAM and SSD prices across 27 European stores. Updated every 6 hours.
Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans
A viral phenomenon is sweeping Facebook, with AI-generated content boosting calls for Islamophobic violence in Dearborn, Michigan.
is smart launcher 6 privacy friendly?
A faster Android home screen with auto app sorting, widgets and smart search
The Insectothopter: The CIA's dragonfly spy drone from the 1970s
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
The AI boom is gobbling up power faster than ever
If all data centers permitted through 2025 come online, they will use more than all the electricity used by any one US state in 2024, except Texas.
Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses — Some of the footage was allegedly intended for socia…
Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee: Remastered Official Announce Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
The Wolf Among Us Season 2: Official Trailer
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI
"We will fund this AI investment by reallocating the budget from 2026 annual salary adjustments."
UN food agency discloses breach affecting 600,000 Gaza households
The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian organization, revealed over the weekend that its self-registration application (SRA) for Palestine was breached.
AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
AI found 21 FFmpeg zero-days, some 20 years old; Chrome 149 patched 429 bugs, including 100+ critical/high flaws.
Was the Starbucks Korea 'Tank Day' fiasco caused by AI?
When Starbucks Korea launched its “Tank Day” coffee promotion on May 18 — the day South Koreans commemorate the 1980 massacre of protestors in Gwan...
Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
MotoSync+ is a mobile app required to set up and troubleshoot Motorola WiFi routers. It suddenly stopped working, and no one knows why.
New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make
OpenAI's new "Computer History" for ChatGPT on macOS will record "everything" you do on your PC to fine-tune the AI model.
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
The US needs drones, not Trump-class battleships, Democrats argue
Lawmakers struck down a Democratic measure Thursday that would've scrapped $1 billion in defense funding to begin work on the Trump-class battleship.
Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure
A Fedora 43 and Dovecot 2.4 upgrade may have uncovered an old Microsoft Outlook behavior where SSL/TLS settings allegedly failed to properly encrypt POP3 email connections.
Helium Crisis Tightens Grip On Global Chip Supply Chain
Helium gas powering the world’s most advanced semiconductor processes is suddenly in short supply, threatening to slow down production of the chips driving the AI boom
AI slop is eating the world. Trust is the first casualty
AI content at volume is bankrupting professional trust
AI is making me paranoid about contributions
A<!---->I has gotten to a point where I can no longer tell to what extent I’m dealing with a human online, and it’s taking a toll on my mental health.
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots /// In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least …
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers criticize tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending amid slashing 30,000 corporate …
A group of Amazon employees spoke out against unfettered AI infrastructure expansion at a Seattle Land Use and Sustainability Committee hearing this week.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.