There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center on Wheels)
Your car has more code than a fighter jet and over 100 computers hiding beneath the hood. From the Jeep hack that exposed automotive...
TIL during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Usain Bolt ate almost nothing but chicken McNuggets. He went on to win 3 gold medals and set 3 world …
Usain Bolt estimated he ate 1,000 McDonald's chicken nuggets during the Beijing Olympics -- or 100 per day over 10 days at the Athletes' Village.
TIL Muscular Christianity was a Victorian doctrine which suggested that participation in sport could contribute to the development of Chris…
Muscular Christianity is a term applied to a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century. It is an approach to life and social outreach which emphasizes the benefits of sport and other physical…
Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand
This document provides information about data collection, camera permissions, and accessibility for hand gesture verification.
Wikipedia Turned on its Volunteers. Now it’s Coming for its Workers.
TL;DR: In the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has fired several union organizers, including those that worked on the Community Tech team - a team dedicated to building features for the volunteer community that edits…
TIL that medical consensus classifies Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI, including concussion) as a progressive, lifelong chronic disease rather …
The first aim of the workshop was to describe the evidence for characterizing traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a chronic condition. Presentations and discussions over three sessions explored epidemiological data on the i…
SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors
Elon Musk’s rocket firm pulled back from a rally that pushed its market value ahead of Amazon and Microsoft.
The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins
Get your balls, pucks, Scrabble boards and packs of cards away from me â all I want is space to be together, ideally with a coffee or a glass of wine, says writer Emily Watkins
Japan's Semiconductor Gas Production Collapses To Zero After China Cuts Off Tungsten, Leaving TSMC, SK Hynix And Samsung Exposed
China has stopped exporting a critical gas to Japan, leading to severe shortages of semiconductors that affect TSMC, SK Hynix & Samsung.
To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple's M1 processor, where it revea…
TIL that the oldest aircraft still in use in the United States military was built in 1957.
57-1419 is the tail number of an individual Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker. It is currently the oldest aircraft in active United States military service.[1] As of 2013, 57-1419 had 22,300 flight hours.[2]
Vulnerability Disclosure: Stealing Emails via Firefox’s AI Features
Imagine the following: You visit a webpage with a lot of text you don’t want to read and ask your AI assistant for a summary. A few moments later, the AI assistant has extracted one of your emails and sent it to an atta…
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Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the ac…
OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle a US DOJ claim it favoured visa workers over Americans
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has secured a combined $3,200,000 settlement with OpenAI OpCo LLC, a San Francisco, California-based artificial intelligence company, and its subsid…
Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud
Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data labeling. This separation makes it hard to…
Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use t…
Apple CEO Tim Cook warns AI-driven price increases are unavoidable
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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply drie…
But developers of SSD controllers still benefit from the situation.
Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
Studies show that getting the minerals to make an EV battery is bad for the environment, but driving a gas-powered car is far worse.
The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.
A three-year Kogod survey shows college AI use has gone from novelty to routine. Students aren't rejecting AI, they want to be taught to use it well.
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project …
Article by IO+ about alternatives to Outlook and Gmail
Protect your data from espionage and comply with the NIS2 Directive. Discover eight secure, European alternatives to American email services
TIL that full automation of subway systems is illegal in the United States
An outdated federal law blocks transit modernization
Enterprise Was Supposed to Be Completely Different—Here's Why They Changed It | TREK WORLD
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Americans to be hit with record-high electricity bills this summer
Cooling costs have increased 40 percent since 2020
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
"I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore."
Meta CTO reports employee morale is near historic lows, prompting leadership to propose boosting workplace snack budgets
The internal report first circulated via Polymarket.
MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says
MIT's researches found that EVs save 40%–60% of emissions compared to gas cars, with that going up to 90% in urban driving.
‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm – Krebs on Security
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. Th…
Changing the Chip Industry: How Public Investment Has Grown Open Silicon
The first in a five-part series on how public funding of open source contributes to digital autonomy.
The Onion’s rebooted InfoWars is coming July 2nd / In the midst of a prolonged fight in court, the satire news site is officially relaunchi…
InfoWars has been in ownership limbo for more than a year
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
TIL while most ocean plastic comes from rivers, the majority of the waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is from fishing waste
STUDY IN ‘SCIENTIFIC REPORTS’ INDICATES 75% TO 86% OF GPGP PLASTIC ATTRIBUTABLE TO OFFSHORE FISHING AND AQUACULTURE ACTIVITIES
Bernie Sanders Introduces Legislation to Create $7 Trillion AI Sovereign Wealth Fund
This Bill Would Give the American People, Not Oligarchs, Control Over the Future of AI WASHINGTON, June 18 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act to give the public a 50…
Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it
IT admins rage as Microsoft force-installs OneDrive Photos on Windows 11, and it keeps coming back when you remove it.
FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications
Jeremy Busby & Isabella Lucia Maitino Truthout/TheAppeal Congress is grappling with the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial program th…
UK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concerns— Richard Hermer’s department understood to be first in governm…
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
MIT Researchers: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
Rep. Thomas Massie Announces Federal Bill to Defund Flock Surveillance Cameras - Don't Flock
25 July 2026. Representative Thomas Massie announced that he will introduce a federal bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock-style automated license plate reader
Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images
Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images
After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap's stock takes a dive
Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.
Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package …
Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.
Firejail network filters
Firejail is a security sandbox tool designed to enhance the security of applications by isolating them in a sandbox environment. It is a free and open-source software available for Linux-based operating systems. Firejai…
Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp Money
A new breed of online scam is exploiting the trust between OnlyFans creators and their followers, using AI to impersonate the very people fans think they’re supporting. Fans think they’…
Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real
Aging Facebook users are drooling over AI-generated thirst traps, clearly with no idea that they aren't real.
‘Apple is getting this wrong,’ says OpenAI — startup blasts iPhone maker over lawsuit alleging it stole confidential information through ex…
The two companies are getting ready to slug it out in court.
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctori…