EU governments adopt return of Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: “The true losers are our children”
Yesterday, the EU governments re-enacted the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) with one vote against (Hungary), one abstention (Belgium) and without the approval of the European …
Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI
Open weight AI can expand access, strengthen competition, improve security, and help sustain American AI leadership.
Google wants to store a selfie video of your face
A new selfie video verification feature could make recovering your Google Account easier. But it also creates new security and privacy concerns.
Meet Flock's Alpha Drone – It Reads License Plates from 2,000 Feet
Flock Safety's Alpha drone reads license plates from 2,000 feet and plugs into its existing ALPR network, raising serious surveillance concerns.
Our tech has made things worse...
Before you get your hopes up, this isn’t an essay criticizing the water consumption of data-centers, rising memory prices or capitalism itself. I leave those debates to others. This, dear reader, is an examination of wh…
New Jersey bans algorithmic rent pricing, targets software that pools nonpublic rent and occupancy data across landlords
Sherrill signed New Jersey’s FAIR Act restricting rent-setting algorithms that share nonpublic landlord data.
Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans
Meta is trying to tackle scammers that are using generative AI by introducing a new kind of verification using user selfies.
Volkswagen profits drop 10% as embattled automaker considers massive job cuts
By Anna Cooban, Hanna Ziady, CNN
XBOX Game Pass July 2026 Wave 2 Lineup - FullCleared
XBOX announces the Game Pass July 2026 Wave 2 lineup, headlined by the day one releases Halo: Campaign Evolved and Beast of Reincarnation.
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
India Orders GitHub to Remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Repositories Under IT Act
India orders GitHub to remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat repositories under the IT Act. Learn how the Bluetooth mesh messaging app works and why authorities acted
"Get the F**k Outta Here" — The Moment Belfast Turns on the British Army | '71
Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell) is dropped into a Belfast house search that turns into a full street riot in seconds.Watch The Full Film Here: https://www.youtube...
Dinoblade - Official Release Date Trailer
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SpaceX Stock Slips Below IPO Price as Short Sellers Profit $15.5B
SpaceX stock falls below its $135 IPO price to $115.26, giving short sellers $15.5 billion in paper profits as traders double down on bearish market bets.
PSA WordPress Core had Critical Vulnerability. Patch released on Friday. Immediately update
Critical issue discovered in WordPress Core affecting the majority of WordPress-built sites. The zero-day is a pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) that can be used by attackers to run malicious code to steal …
Leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE’s fingertips – from phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercove…
From phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercover tools, a document obtained by 404 Media lays out the surveillance tech available across ICE agency wide.
Tesla falls 10%, Alphabet sinks 5% as AI spending concerns spook investors
Both Tesla and Alphabet signaled higher spending as they invest in artificial intelligence.
An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion
A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 203…
Female Robocop rip-off in action [masked woman]
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The Odyssey: Nox Reviews
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The Corporate Creep of Plex vs. The Jellyfin Dilemma
Why Plex corporate creep restricts system freedom, how Jellyfin restores control, and why Plexamp still saves money on Spotify and Amazon Music
I Just Beat Peter Thiel at Chess [IG Video]
516K likes, 4,168 comments - tuckgesner on June 11, 2026: "I found Peter Thiel’s chess account".
What happens when the information runs out - Down the Road
When I asked AI to colorize old family photographs, it gave my brother eyebrows that aren't on the negative. That's when I started thinking less about color and more about information.
[AIT] paperless-ngx 3.0.0
paperless-ngx 3.0.0 Breaking Changes [BREAKING] Remove the positional arguments from the pre/post consume scripts @stumpylog (#12573) [BREAKING] Decouple OCR control from archive file control @stu...
DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence: In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI …
In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own, he argues China's only real gap with America is compute.
Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buyin…
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Xbox's new VP of engineering quits just 2 months after taking the job
Jared Palmer, who was picked to work directly with CEO Asha Sharma on the division's "most complex" problems, has taken a role at AI company Cognition.
Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietl…
Deceive Inc. was great, and now it'll live on.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
Historic VENOM milestone demonstrates scalable AI development capabilities for the operational fleet.
Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits
Women on four continents told ICIJ that global pay-per-action dating sites owned by a Russian businessman and self-styled philosopher left them financially broke and heartbroken.
Flock Safety acting like Bricks and Minifigs. Bens doing jornalism, Benn Jordan and Ben Schneider.
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Whose freedom is it anyway?
Artificial Intelligence and the old promise of the emancipatory machine, from the washing machine, the personal computer, the internet, and social media.
Reddit stock drops 9% as Google AI content deal nears expiration
Reddit's $60 million-a-year deal with Google is ending soon, and the company is reassessing whether renewing it makes sense
Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs
As major tech companies race to capitalize on a new wave of AI technology, investors wonder when financial benefits will appear.
Signal CTO answers public's questions
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Five Tech Giants Are Using Enron’s Accounting Strategy to Conceal $1.65 Trillion in AI Debt
Big Tech hides $1.65 trillion in AI debt off its balance sheets - more than its total reported debt - using legal structures regulators still allow.
Tech Workers Coalition Members Mixer - Jul 26th
If everybody at work is afraid of talking about layoffs, unions, surveillance cameras, strikes, enshittification, AI weapons, or the manager having another epi…
The 4th Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border off…
A visual guide showing how to install GoToSocial via YunoHost
A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country
Anti-flock activist Jeffrey Sovern has nearly doubled his legal defense goal, raising over $15,000 from 400 supporters across the country.
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.
I Regret Migrating to Codeberg
A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’
The last un-monetized frontier of gaming: virtual billboards
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems.
New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory (Gorgon Halo)
Framework Desktop: A simple, quiet, mini PC with performance far beyond its size, powered by a highly-integrated processor from AMD.
EU slaps €890 million fine on Google
Firm told to treat third-party services that appear in its results in âfair and non-discriminatory mannerâ
OpenAI cyber models broke out of training environment to hack Hugging Face
The incident is unique because it was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system," according to Hugging Face.
Mullvad on the Donation Controversy
We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party.