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.
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…
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.
‘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
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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.
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…
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.
Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity
'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store price…
A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.
"Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot - Robot Girl Gang
The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Amid a surge in AI content, many are placing extra value on art that's obviously made by a human. But can that last, asks Ros Atkins
Honda Wants to Put a Robotic Lab Assistant on Future Commercial Space Stations
Honda today announced efforts to develop a robotics solution for future commercial space stations that could reduce the time needed for astronauts to conduct experiments and laboratory operations in space.
The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward
New exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles.
How a Missing Headphone Jack Became the Monk GTR
Wild Lee of Venture Electronics and Russ from Retro Game Corps on old games, good sound, and the unlikely collaboration behind a $10 pair of earbuds
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Report: Cancelled Perfect Dark Project Over 2 Minutes of Gameplay Surfaces Showcasing New Zones and Combat
Cancelled project from the now-defunct The Initiative's Perfect Dar reboot gameplay has surfaced showcasing combat and more.
Anthropic will be ‘most ridiculous IPO’ of year, analyst says
Anthropic reportedly plans to list on the Nasdaq before Thanksgiving, and one bearish advisory firm suggests that investors sit this one out.
One Card to Rule Them All: How spruceOS Learned to Live Everywhere
spruceOS 4.5.0 adds new handhelds, offline RetroAchievements and another pile of features, but the more interesting story is how a little project that began on the Miyoo A30 became something you can carry from one handh…
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite pirac…
Transitioning from Adobe to a free alternative without an adjustment period sounds like a dream.
Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic”…
"Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6
Fairy Mount and Devolver Digital explain why they are releasing their titles against what could be the biggest game launch of all time, and analysts weigh in on
Chronicon - A super fun indie diablo-like just received a new DLC
Set sail for Plunders in this Space Pirate themed DLC. Find new Cursed items and Bless them for new powers, and craft the Ultimate weapon!
Qualcomm CEO says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by…
Cristiano Amon on the China vs. US AI sentiment, how AI is changing smartphones and wearables, Qualcomm’s data center strategy, and what 6G will unlock.
Fingerprints are the new cookies
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The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants: "These facilities could lock America into decades of …
Energy companies plan to increase the amount of gas-fired electrical capacity by as much as 44 percent by 2030 across the US.
XRP Bug Could Have Let Hackers Print Billions in Crypto Out of Thin Air
Crypto has dealt with multiple inflation bugs this year, one of the many signs that vulnerabilities found in industry projects are becoming more serious.
'Just canceled your order': Elon Musk trolled as he 'doxxes himself' with his full address
Elon Musk was mocked online on Sunday morning after he showed off an AI shopping assistant and appeared to reveal the address where he gets his mail.âI just asked Grok @Bot to research the most fun Lego Star Wars kits…
Russia’s Yandex says data centre in Vladimir shut down after drone attack
Third strike on Yandex facilities in a week comes as Russia and Ukraine escalate attacks on tech infrastructure.
LEGO Racers returns and is playable for free on PC now
LEGO Racers has returned, and it's completely free to play via a browser thanks to a passionate group of fans remastering the game for a wide release.
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Global experts warn that today’s decisions across health, finance, climate, defense and security sectors will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to preventable illness and early …