With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well
GTA is mainstream now, but the fiery activist who raged against violent videogames in the early 2000s has not softened.
As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business
Xbox XP will handle non-gaming activities related to film, television, merchandise, and other licensing partnerships.
Fans Issue GTA 6 Spoiler Warnings as 'Cyberleek' Returns With New 24-Minute Gameplay Video
GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek has returned to publish a 24-minute gameplay video that has left fans scrambling to issue spoiler warnings across the internet.
Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knoc…
ReSkate makes Skate playable offline, and enables custom servers and maps. It's been an instant hit.
P.T. Native PC Port 1.0 Is Out Now With DLSS 4.5, Frame Generation, Ray Tracing, Mods, And More
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Microsoft’s Xandr fined €8.6M over Grindr user data exposure
In 2020, noyb has filed a complaint against the online advertising company Xandr for processing personal data from the dating app Grindr. This decision is a major blow to the online adtech industry.
Saudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters
Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents
The ‘Sophisticated’ Bug OpenAI Found in Its Conference Room Can Be Yours for $13.99
The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense is for tinkerers, not super-spies.
The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Res…
The extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to "severe negative outcomes" including psychological harm and suicide, a recent paper argues.
The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners: The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as…
The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as fundamental as reading and writing.
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy: Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced lawsui…
Character.AI, the AI unicorn that faced several lawsuits over the deaths of minors as well as significant revenue struggles, is bankrupt.
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
We Told TikTok About 100 Accounts That Sell Drugs: They Did Nothing
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UK recruiters report record AI cheating in graduate job interviews
ISE’s Student Recruitment Report 2026 shows that graduate jobs have stabilised, but AI misconduct and record applications are disrupting recruitment.
Federal Reserve Says AI Data Center Buildout Is Making Everything More Expensive: "I’m getting increasingly nervous that that’s just straig…
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee told Semafor that AI-tied inflation is "jumping out of its lane."
Sprout - a modern motherboard for old iPods
Sprout – a modern motherboard for old iPods.
Cloudflare Acquires Deno JavaScript Runtime, Core Development to End in 2027
Cloudflare acquires Deno, shifting its developers to Workers while the open-source JavaScript runtime faces an uncertain future.
Daggerfall Online
An open-source reimplementation of a classic 1996 RPG, running from your own copy of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. Works on desktop or phone with no install, or as a downloadable app.
Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
Jacob Coxon’s Spy Warning Proves To Be Prescient: OpenAI’s Saudi Employee Arrested After Planting A Recording Device Wrapped Within Toilet …
Ex-Anthropic staffer Coxon had said he was 90% sure spies were inside OpenAI and Anthropic. Now an OpenAI employee faces federal charges.
Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps
Fortnite and Minecraft also told to 'lift their game' by online safety regulator.
Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon vibes
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
TIL that 302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, only 15 did.
Nearly half of LA's $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.
TIL: Rainbows are actually full circles
Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.
TIL about Jantelagen, Janteloven, or the Law of Jante -- or, why Scandinavians don't like to stand out
Swedes prize equality, dislike boasting and often prefer to blend in. The century-old idea of Jantelagen helps explain why – and offers visitors a key to decoding Swedish culture.
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improv…
‘BYD effect’: electric vehicle boom becomes unexpected tool to combat inflation
More and more Australian consumers are expected to âunplug themselves from the oil shockâ with at least five EVs priced around or below $30,000
Survey: Almost Half of Women in Tech Have Experienced Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Programs to ensure higher representation of women are also in decline, according to ISACA’s 2026 Tech Workplace and Culture survey report.
Russia's Google Lost Three Data Centres in One Week. The Real Damage Isn't the Fire | Comuniq
Russia's Google Lost Three Data Centres in One Week. The Real Damage Isn't the Fire | Comuniq
What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?
The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM
Around 100 million US dollars in cryptocurrency have been stolen from users of certain hardware wallets because whoever can read the screen wins.
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
The pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using âsuperintelligenceâ wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity â and how our biggest challenge will be accepting weâre not the only intelligent beings
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots
Yandex's automated traffic fell by 94%, but that probably reflects widespread service outages rather than bot posting rates.
Flock Cameras Are Really Just the Start of Our Dystopian Surveillance Hell, Experts Warn: "Instead of having to go to a million different s…
The rising tide of all-encompassing police surveillance systems like Axon's Fusus make Flock Safety look like a privacy wonderland.
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
The Triple-i Initiative October 2026
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Disney Villain Pals Hades and Jafar 😈
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GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.
People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media – but the truth is far more complicated
Bot traffic has really reduced in the wake of an attack on a Russian internet company – but it doesn’t tell the full story
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Fitbit Edge May Be the Sweet Spot for Smartwatch Noncommittals - CNET
Google's new $179 tracker sits between the screenless Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch 5, promising some of the best parts of both without fully committing to either.
Why Your Brain Rejects Modern Dinosaurs
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Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit?
America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.
French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown...
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of…
Amber Folio: an AGPL-3.0 emulator built for SSI's Gold Box RPGs
A low-level emulator for the SSI Gold Box games. Contribute to amberfolio/amberfolio development by creating an account on GitHub.
Peppermint OS Expands Beyond Debian with Void Linux-Based PepVoid
Peppermint OS is testing PepVoid, a new Void Linux-based edition featuring Xorg and XLibre, with an official release potentially coming in November.