US’ first vertically integrated solar factory starts production to power 1.3M homes
Qcells begins solar cell production in Georgia at the US' only fully integrated solar manufacturing facility.
NYC Amazon Driver Fired Over Pro-Union TikToks
An Amazon driver from Queens posted frequent TikToks documenting her life on the job without incident — until she started speaking up in favor of a City Council bill that Amazon opposes.
The 14 steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone
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Gosuki v1.4.2: open-source, cloudless, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager
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Nintendo reportedly has “zero chance” against current Palworld after major lawsuit change it is now targeting older versions of the game in…
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have reportedly narrowed their Palworld lawsuit to older versions of the game.
Statcounter is now showing 10% Linux market share on desktops in North America
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in North America based on over 3 billion monthly page views.
Interview with a Sysadmin in 2026 [Corporate]
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White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access
Trump adviser David Sacks said restrictions aren’t connected to prior conflicts with AI company.
Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guara…
Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.
U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications?
Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean…
This year’s tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025
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Watch Your Kids: Inside a Children's Smartwatch
Join us as we hack at a popular children's smartwatch and expose the secrets of every fifth child in Norway, their parents, and millions ...
Firefox privacy project Arkenfox is EoL, potentially impacting Librewolf & Phoenix
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X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf
Texas forces Discord to implement UK-style age verification and safety rules
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a landmark Agreed Temporary Injunction (“TI”) against Discord that requires the tech company to give Texas children the same age-assurance and default safety protections it already pr…
Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028
Tomb Raider: Catalyst is indeed delayed to 2028, as many had suspected.
(Creating) Data that is too dirty for "AI"
when datasets are scaled up to the volume of (partial) internet, together with the idea that scale will average out the noise, large dat...
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Sh*t’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
Executives and employees alike are struggling with Metaâs chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.
Opensource AI Must Win
Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.
Class of AI Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled
According to a statement posted to its website on Friday, Anthropic was forced to “abruptly disable” two of its most prized frontier AI models in response to a highly restrictive U.S. government order. “We believe this …
Judge denies xAI effort to halt ban on tech that depicts people nude without permission
A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk…
The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months
Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
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Decades after it was lost, original 'Star Trek' USS Enterprise model found and restored
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More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class
According to Pew Research Center, 77% of US adults now support in-classroom phone bans for middle and high school students, marking the second consecutive year that support...
New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starti…
Iedere wasmachine, telefoon of televisie die je vanaf morgen in Europa koopt, moet beter repareerbaar zijn. Dan treedt namelijk de Europese Right to Repair Act in werking. Wat dat in de praktijk betekent, bespreken we m…
Playstation is currently down 7/24 (orig title: Is PlayStation Network Down Right Now? Players Report PSN Issues)
Is PlayStation Network down right now? Players are reporting PSN connection issues despite Sony saying all services are online.
Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? ...
Nintendo's Palworld Lawsuit Is Falling Apart
Nintendo's patent lawsuit against Palworld gets a preliminary end date, as well as some changes suggesting it's falling apart.
AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch
Quis renovatores renovat — who updates the updater?
Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women
The DOJ says the domains were used to publish digitally forged nude and sexual images and videos of women without their consent. According to the Justice Department,...
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux
MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls has an Open Beta available and sadly they seem to have blocked SteamOS / Linux from playing due to anti-cheat.
Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of 25-Year Sentence
An appeals court rejected former billionaire and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s claim that his trial was unfair.
Washington Post subscriber sues news outlet, accuses it of using ‘surveillance pricing’ to gouge readers
Court papers allege that The Post began ‘covertly harvesting’ readers’ data from after Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for it in 2013
WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.
CISA Releases Guidance Urging Water Treatment Facilities to Disconnect Equipment From the Internet
CISA released an urgent message warning water utilities to disconnect their logic controllers from the internet in the face of rising cyberattacks.
Stanford scientists regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in major breakthrough
A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for …
The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston Globe
Washington is loosening financial safeguards just as risks tied to artificial intelligence are mounting.
Reddit stock collapses 23% as AI eats away at user growth
Reddit delivered strong earnings, but the numbers beneath the surface tell a different story. Slowing logged-in user growth and AI-powered search could threaten the platform's long-term value.
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
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Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
AWS shares the small number, as anti-data center protests focus on water usage
Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse)
Why can’t you repair a 2024 car like a 1998 Honda? Explore the rise of software-defined vehicles, proprietary tools, sensor calibration requirements, and the...
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
Why Students Are Rejecting Silicon Valley's Vision Of The Future
Students are increasingly pushing back on Silicon Valley's AI agenda, raising concerns about jobs, human agency, and the future of work.
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
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Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses | The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues …
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware
DNA Study Reveals That Space Permanently Changes The Human Body
Space is a dangerous place to be, but thanks to a recent DNA study, we know that an extended visit can wreak long-term changes to your genome.
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."