Flock AI audit tool flags suspicious police searches as misuse cases mount in Georgia
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Erin Brockovich Launches Public Registry to Track Data Center Complaints
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launches a crowd-sourced map as thousands of residents report hidden data center projects near their homes.
‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations
In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern
OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1
OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more.
Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute
REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — July 21, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Mistral on Tuesday announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises and regulated industries adopt front…
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Apple Plans to Defeat RAM Prices by Letting You Lease a Mac
Instead of buying your next expensive iPhone, why not just never own it at all?
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table
Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence
Flock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every Guardrail— Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls…
Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation.
Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M To Replace CEOs With AI
Skyfall AI, from the team behind Microsoft's $160 million Maluuba acquisition, will buy a SaaS company and let AI run it as CEO.
Billionaires ditching California still face tax threat — Tech entrepreneurs and investors trying to dodge proposed 5% levy may not be in th…
Sergey Brin and other absurdly wealthy people who’ve fled the state could be subject to “intrusive” residency audits.
America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren't as great as they seem
Cities trade tax breaks for a fraction of the jobs data centers promise. That's because construction crews that build them move on within months
Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI
CENTCOM, which oversees the war in Iran, has had its civilian harm reduction team slashed from 10 to just one.
SpaceX Stock Plummets to Record Low Near $120 After Seven-Day Slump
SpaceX stock drops 47% from its post-IPO high after a series of launch aborts, sending a chill through the broader tech and AI market ahead of August earnings.
TIL that Captain Moroni is a heroic figure in the Book of Mormon. Utah politician Mike Lee compared Donald Trump to Captain Moroni
Americans may have called President Donald Trump just about everything possible this year, good and bad. But standing by his side at an Arizona rally on Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee called him something new to urge Latter-d…
AI homework tools cut exam scores by 20%, study of 26,000 Chinese students finds
Researchers in Sweden and Hong Kong say students may experience a deceptive sense of fluency – AI makes tasks feel effortless.
📺 How I Tricked Big Tech’s AI Pricing Algorithms to Save $8,793
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Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be
A new hypervisor-based bypass method, demonstrated extensively within the Linux gaming community using Proton and Wine, has emerged
Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it
Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign
âBillionaires could fund cures for cancer â so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
Hugging Face: We Used AI to Catch the First Confirmed AI Agent Breach of a Major AI Platform
The company says the attack was carried out end to end by an autonomous AI-agent system.
Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism
A new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard.
Google Maps said a hike would take 5 hours. B.C. rescuers pointed out how wrong that was
Hikers recently rescued from an extremely challenging trail in B.C. had planned their trip using Google Maps, prompting a warning about the perils of relying on that platform in the backcountry.
Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than impose an outright ba…
TIL the word "fnord," from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gives characters subconscious feelings of unease and confusion, thus preventing ration…
Fnord (/fnɔːrd/) is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia. It entered into popular culture after appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) of novel…
Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders
Speedrunning Marathons for Charity
Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll
A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment.
Google erasing immigrants’ accounts of experiences in ICE facilities /// Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about…
Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about who controls public records of immigrant detention
Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge
Data Center Opponents Stage 142 Protests Across 42 States
Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held 142 protests across 42 states Saturday, the first nationwide protest against data center growth.
No Shark is Safe: Millions of Shark Vacuums are Vulnerable to RCE
Millions of Shark vacuums are currently vulnerable to remote code execution. This critical vulnerability leaves hackable cameras with wheels inside the homes of Shark vacuum owners. The vulnerability is trivially exploi…
TIL almost half the states in the US ban buying alcohol on christmas
The holiday season might be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also undeniably one of the busiest. Between dashing from store to store to scoop up gifts to attending party after party, the hustle and bustle i…
id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for"
id Software has posted a brief statement on social media, insisting, "We still have the crew we need to build the games."
Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is moving 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway for digital sovereignty, keeping sensitive data shielded from US extraterritorial law.
Professor X's Final Solution | Solid jj
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Hands-On With the TRIMUI Brick Pro: A Better Handheld, but Not a Faster One
TRIMUI's latest vertical handheld keeps the same processor but adds a larger display, Hall effect thumbsticks and a refined design.
European Commission fines AliExpress €550 Million for the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform.
Today, the European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for breaching its obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterf…
AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists
Autonomous AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face. Strict US Safety Guardrails Forced them to Use a Chinese LLM to Catch It—Expensive, Proprietary US…
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site
France's main gambling sector regulator said on Friday it had instructed the country's internet service providers to block access to the Polymarket website, one of a number of online prediction…
Ente.io now publish how much money they make and how many users they have
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
Ukraine confirms it will produce 10 million drones in 2026, rising to 20 million, as it signs a massive $1.1 billion 'drone deal' with the …
Ukraine reveals massive drone production leap after securing a billion-dollar European deal to reshape modern warfare capabilities worldwide
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Ethics as the Architecture of Power: China Proposes a New Global Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence
The new Action Plan on International AI Ethical Governance, unveiled in Shanghai during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, extends far
How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? /// Less than 2% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically …
Data centers consume around 1.5% of global electricity, but demand is very geographically concentrated.
CookTrace v1.0.0: Semver Adoption, Email Overhaul, Mobile Sync Date Fix [AIP]
Retiring -rc.N and moving to strict semver. Docker images now publish under multiple tags so you can pin :1.0, :1, or :latest depending on how aggressively you want updates. Also delivers a real Se...
Briar is in maintenance mode - Briar
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to fi…