Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’
Empirical analysis of Global Privacy Control compliance across popular websites accessed from California. Independent research by webXray.
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.
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…
"Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio
Peak has "had sooo many updates tho!"
Borderlands 4's New $30 Expansion Pack Isn't Winning Over Fans
Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned includes a new playable character and region to explore, but is that enough to bring back lapsed players?
TikTok Alternative "Loops" is now on Google Play
Loops is officially live on the Google Play Store. To everyone on Android who's been waiting, thank you for sticking around. You've been asking for this since day one, sideloading builds, poking me in replies, reminding…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Ever give your photo ID to a cannabis club in Spain?
Electronic Arts Announces Plans to Cram Far More Advertising Into Its Games / EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA …
EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA Sports titles
The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books
They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.
Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in…
Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.
OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past
In the new NBC News Decision Desk poll, a plurality of young Americans said they’d choose to live in the past if they had the option.
TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large n…
The colonial government's trade in opium devastated Indian farmers, new research shows.
‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director
Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright
Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
Mozilla is experimenting with Brave's adblock engine, here's how to turn it on.
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
Restricting Fable and Mythos has the same unintended consequence of harming defense while doing nothing to impede attackers. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience.
"Every great search must come to an end": Ask.com shutdown, ending ask Jeeves.
As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.
My Quest to be the Scrobble King
Tired of streaming services dictating my music discovery, I resurrected an old internet relic to reclaim my listening experience.
Dutch government secures deal with European cloud platform STACKIT - Digital Government
STACKIT is a European platform that Dutch government organisations can use under pre-agreed conditions, boosting digital autonomy.
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market - Jeff Geerling
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not …
Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply
A new government ad campaign is trying to persuade gamers to apply for air safety roles.
Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018
Not the best timing due to the RAMpocalypse, but there are leaner distros like Lubuntu available if you need them.
Voiden - an Offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown
Redefining how developers work with APIs. One Git-native, composable workspace. Offline-first. Markdown-powered. Developer-loved.
TIL Antarctica has its own accent.
Antarctic English is a variety of the English language spoken by people living on the continent of Antarctica and within the subantarctic islands.[1]: vii Spoken primarily by scientists and workers in the Antarctic tour…
Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.
To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
I’ve been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. So I pulled the system card, a whoppingly inefficient 244-page document that devotes just seven pages to the claim that the …
Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”
Tinder is rolling out a new way for users to prove they’re real as AI-generated profiles continue to flood dating apps.
I remixed Claude's new buddy into "buddymon"
Claude Code plugin — collectible creatures discovered through coding - CircuitForgeLLC/buddymon
Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release
About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many appli…
TIL about the "Apocalypse Early Warning System"
Local dashboard for monitoring tracked-aircraft concurrent-activity anomaly signals.
Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March
Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients
Staff in Canterbury say using the software frees up time to focus on caring for patients.
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
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.
The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen | Sid's Blog
Yesterday, a slew of Instagram accounts, including some high profile ones like the Obama White House account, seemingly got hacked.
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them
Bernie Sanders: AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs, they want to replace the working class. We must fight back.
By: Sen. Sanders; Fox News AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs, the reality is that they want to replace workers Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most transformational technology in the history of …
Asus tells reviewers one Zenbook A16 price, then immediately hikes it
Asus told reviewers that its Zenbook A16 laptop, one of the first with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite inside it, would be $1,599. A day after the launch, it raised the price. Is that fair, even in the age of shortages?
France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working
Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and cybersecurity experts all lined up to expla…
Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.
A new incident response report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN) identifies a coordinated network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels targeting Albertan audiences with nearly 40 million views, expl…
A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data
A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data â including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics â from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute th…
Meta blocks dozens of Queer and pro-abortion accounts on Instagram for second time in six months
Instagram has suspended more than 100 LGBTQIA+ accounts worldwide in recent weeks, including an estimated 5 to 10 Dutch accounts — among them prominent queer organizations and nightclubs in Amsterdam — for the second ti…
Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger
Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows…
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action…
"I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]"
Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud" - Gingerlime
Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Str…