Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
EU takes a big first step in weakening digital privacy and in empowering big tech
By approving the first Digital Omnibus on 16 June, the European Parliament has taken a worrying step towards weakening a decade of digital rights protections.
Federal Data Privacy Act
Spread the love“`html It’s official: the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a landmark piece of legislation that could fundamentally reshape how we interact with the digital world. On August 3rd, the House gave it…
Tech layoffs 2026: Nearly 153,000 jobs cut at Meta, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Robinhood and more
We're in the second quarter of the year and there's already been more than 150,000 layoffs across the tech industry — here's what we know.
Social media algorithms shape the beliefs people form /// Even small changes to content curation algorithms can shape what people come to b…
The content people see on social media is typically determined by an algorithm. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and TU Dresden have now demonstrated in a co…
Dozens of Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO's speech
Some students were protesting against the company's controversial work with the US government on artificial intelligence.
Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges
Legal victories have dampened the Trump admin’s efforts to halt wind and solar power.
Map Clustering is Not My Favorite
Friends, this post has been in the making for maybe, 20 years.
YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use
He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."
Wiki Workers United/Claims and responses
The WMF have repeatedly suggested they don't yet know whether most eligible employees support unionization.
MULDOON'S LOG - Volume Two - Jurassic Park Found Footage (VHS Analog Horror)
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Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year
Chinese memory giant CXMT has been expanding its capacity so rapidly that the company is now able to compete with one of the largest memory manufacturers in the world—Micron. According to analysis from Citrini Research …
Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people(20% of staff)
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Clou…
How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of mi...
New York is suing prediction market Kalshi, calling it an illegal gambling operation
In a statement, James said Kalshi violates New York's anti-gambling laws, which are designed to protect minors from betting and combat gambling addiction in adults. "No matter...
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send customer device IDs to AT&T
A former Apple engineer alleges he was fired after refusing AT&T requests for device identifiers without customer releases. Apple denies wrongdoing.
How the Voice of Shaggy Took a Stand Against Anti-Arab Racism
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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows
App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.
TIL the number of serial killers peaked in the US in the 1970's. In the 70's there were 300 known, 1980s 250 known.
Looking at the most-streamed movies or television shows on any given streaming service, it would be easy to assume that serial killers lurk behind every corner. The stories of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and the Boston St…
The Griffin, Ship of the Damned, Explained | Certifiably Ingame
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TIL the last convicted Salem witch, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., was officially exonerated in 2022, 329 years after she had been found guilty
Elizabeth Johnson Jr. has been officially exoneratedâthanks to a dogged band of middle schoolers
TIL there's actually a difference between coffin and casket. Coffins are tapered to the body (6 or 8 sides), usually with a separate lid, t…
A coffin or casket is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for burial, entombment or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
Hands on with the Retroid Pocket Nova; A custom OLED love letter to 4:3 gaming
A 4:3 OLED screen, sixth-generation console power and Retroid's most refined handheld design yet.
Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release: Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights nativ…
Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and the ability to carry out long-horizon agentic tasks.
Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independe…
An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit
Finally some good news from #Signal 🥳
Signal is working on a way to sign up without a phone number. The feature has not yet been officially confirmed, and it is not yet known whether it will be available to all users or in what form.
The CIA’s most ridiculous Cold War spy weapon was a Xerox photocopier
A disused bowling alley, a fire-prone photocopier, and a home-movie camera: inside the CIA's wild secret operation against the KGB.
‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ officially had the biggest domestic opening day OF ALL TIME with $168M.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day with a $360M opening has beat Avengers Endgame's all-time opening record at the domestic box office.
TIL World’s biggest beer, wine and spirits producers have collectively lost $830 billion in market value over just four years. Changing dri…
A global shift in drinking patterns has wiped out more than US$800 billion from the value of leading alcohol companies.
I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins.
$10,000. Two secret years of real market history. One button. You will probably lose to a couch.
The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games
Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
TIL At least 25 of the Snapple "Facts" are false, outdated, exaggerated or inconclusive
Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, based in Plano, Texas, United States. Snapple originated as an apple juice first produced in 1972 by Unadulterated Food Products, with the name Snapp…
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests / A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words …
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."
Morale within Meta's 6,500-staffer Applied AI team, which was created in March to support the Superintelligence Labs, is hitting rock bottom.
A $200 ChatGPT subscription could cost OpenAI $14,000 if you actually used it to its full potential
SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
Starmer says Britain will ban under-16s from using a range of social media apps
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube from early next year.
Microsoft's GitHub capacity crunch sends it to AWS
Microsoft is adding AWS capacity for GitHub after AI-driven usage strained the developer platform, exposing Azure constraints and the infrastructure cost of agentic coding.
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use.
Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Deal
The buy will combine Fox's sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel.
Just discovered that Qobuz published an AI charter. Thoughts?
Artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry at an unprecedented pace. Faced with the explosion of AI-generated content and the legitimate questions it raises, Qobuz has chosen transparency.
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including X, YouTube, TikTok
The UK has brought in a social media ban for under 16s that includes X, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Reddit.
Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a b…
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.
Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands
The U.S. has used tariffs and security rules to keep Chinese cars off dealer lots. Alphabet’s robotaxi company appears to be buying them by the boatload.
Indie Arcade Gallery Shooter - Nova Swarm (Steam)
Nova Swarm is a fast vertical shoot 'em up. Start with one ship, unlock the rest one by one, defeat bosses, and choose run-long upgrades that shape a different build each time. Chase ranked scores across a 30-ship roste…
China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era
The sweeping overhaul has affected over 30 per cent of China’s degree programmes, with arts and languages ditched in favour of tech-focused fields.
Bavarian Court Tells Gemini It Can’t Be A Real Boy Until It Tells The Truth
Does anyone like Google’s AI summaries? If so, they weren’t on the Judge’s bench in a specific Bavarian courtroom recently, where it was ruled that yes, Google is liable for the h…