Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps — with little evidence they work and few regulations.
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
Atlassian Will Collect Jira and Confluence Data by Default to Train AI Models
Atlassian is enabling AI training data collection by default for Free, Standard, and Premium customers from August 17, with no opt-out for metadata on lower tiers.
37 years since Prince of Persia, Replaced is the bombastic cinematic platformer I've been waiting for
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SEGA has no plans to abandon physical media and still sees a lot of value in it
With discourse still growing around Sony’s plans to completely abandon physical media in 2028 Famitsu asked SEGA president and COO, Shuji Utsumi, about his thoughts on physical video game software. Mr.
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
TIL James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, founded an amateur cricket team called the Allahakbarries
Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven he…
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
DOGE Officially Shuts Down as Trump Administration Ends Government Efficiency Office
DOGE has officially ended operations after leading major federal spending cuts under President Trump. Here's what the agency accomplished and what happens next.
'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?
Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
Level-5 Provides Inazuma Eleven RE, Decapolice, Holy Horror Mansion Platform Updates and Teases - RPGamer
During its Level-5 Vision 2026 online presentation, Level-5 provided some short updates and teasers. Inazuma Eleven RE, Decapolice, and Holy Horror Mansion are among the games currently in development.
Matt Wales: Forbidden Solitaire is a wonderful reminder games are powerful cultural artefacts that demand to be preserved
Not so long ago, I found a stash of my old ZX Spectrum games in the attic. And rummaging through those tatty boxes - th…
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
Plausible critical RCE < 3.2.1
Security related update This patch release fixes a security vulnerability affecting the following versions of Plausible Community Edition (image: ghcr.io/plausible/community-edition): Tags: v3.2 v3...
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth - here's why
Canonical's pitch starts with snaps and security.
Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20…
Companies like Wix, Snap, and Block have all recently pointed to AI to explain cuts.
Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games
Newell also said in 2023 testimony that Steam's 'unwritten rule' against charging lower prices on other storefronts does not exist.
post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
L'internet Post-Americain, par Cory Doctorow Source : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition Transcription française : en attente.
Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, re…
Steam's had a contentious history with adult content
A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition
GenAI technologies are being promoted as the door to a new era of economic dynamism. However, the opposite is more likely. While LLM-based tools haven’t measur…
Iran’s AI memes are reaching people who don’t follow the news – and winning the propaganda war
In an online environment which blurs news and entertainment, Iran’s AI propaganda videos are reaching a huge audience globally.
Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold
'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'
An Indian Trans Person’s Harrowing Encounter Fuels Backlash Against Meta AI ‘Pervert Glasses’
Karen Rebelo reports on incidents of abuse caused by use of Meta's wearable tech.
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.
2 Million Cars with Anti-Theft Systems Installed by Dealers are at Higher Risk of Theft due to Bluetooth Flaw Which Expose Them to Unlockin…
At least 2.2 million cars on the road today are vulnerable to an attack that allows thieves to lock and unlock doors and immobilize vehicle engines remotely via a Bluetooth connection, computer scientists at the Univers…
An odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari
First up, you should go and watch The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa. It is a brilliant set of performances and a joy to see. While perusing the programme on the National Theatre website I stumbled upon a …
Did games really get more costly to make?
By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.
Meta thrown off key global clean energy scheme over gas spree
Facebook and Instagram giant has left influential RE100 corporate green power list after turning to gas for data centres, scheme officials confirm to Recharge
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
Crystal Project II - Announcement Trailer
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Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war
Infinity Ward’s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting
New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes
A new Halo Campaign Evolved report claims the remake relied heavily on outsourcing and includes major mission and gameplay changes.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT
CD PROJEKT RED today announced that a third expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling role-playing games of all time, is coming next year. Songs of the
Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could a…
Warhorse Studios has shared new details about its next Kingdom Come game and Middle-earth RPG.
Mozilla Introduces Thunderbolt: An Enterprise AI Client Built for Control and Independence
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
Fedimap
Join the rebellion with Fedimap—explore the galaxy to find your hidden rebel base (Server).
Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable"
Within days of Starfield's much-anticipated launch on PS5, fans are complaining of "totally unsurprising" crashes, free…
TIL that the U.S. Congress has its own intelligence agency
Congress has its own CIA and it’s sounding the alarm about anti-AI grievances
Ace Combat 8: Wings Of Theve Developer Diary Showcases Story, Living Skies, And Gameplay
A new Ace Combat 8 developer diary highlights its story, living skies system, and cinematic first-person presentation ahead of its 2026 release.
The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire
For years, the dangerous rhetoric has been out of control. And things are turning violent.
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts – Krebs on Security
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on …
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the
State of Kdenlive
In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug …
DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms | TechCrunch
Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
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Bernie Sanders proposes bill to give the public a 50% stake in AI companies
The senator's forthcoming American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would reshape who profits from artificial intelligence.