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Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
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New AI system paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints, by eliminating drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences…
A team of EPFL researchers has taken a major step towards resolving the problem of drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. Their breakthrough paves the …
ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it
ReFS for me, but not for thee!
Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users
Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.
007 First Light - Story Trailer | PS5 Games
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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn
Turns out llms also have “artificial hive mind”, top AI models all say very similar sounding things, do you think that we can use this to d…
Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable meth…
Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June
The VR version of Meta's Horizon Worlds platform is shutting down on June 15 as the company focuses its attention on its mobile app.
Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup
Anna's Archive has lost yet another domain name as legal pressure on the shadow library continues to mount.
North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says
Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North Korea
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
: By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it
This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials
A proof-of-concept prototype ahead of a more svelte custom PCB, LuckyBor's microcontroller-powered featurephone can call, text, and snap.
Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store
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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidating
More than just an emulation of the iconic home computer, the Commodore 64 Ultimate is a fantastic project for fans of that era. It’ll take some practice and memory recall from a bygone time, but it’s worth pursuing with…
I Spent a Year Replacing My Subscriptions by Self Hosting. Here’s How.
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Socialist Co-Ops Against Silicon Valley Empires
Co-ops are often dismissed as attempts to create islands of socialism. But building democratically controlled tech infrastructure can be part of a wider movement for working-class power.
Untitled John Wick Game - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
Created in collaboration between Saber, Lionsgate, and franchise director Chad Stahelski, the new “Untitled John Wick Game” will feature an original script s...
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights.
FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing
Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl@chaos.social (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed.…
Mozilla is launching a free built-in VPN on Firefox 149 — but with some conditions
Firefox's new built-in VPN is currently limited to four countries and 50GB of monthly data
Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,
Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
Segundo a Google, a ideia de substituir ferramentas por software de código aberto não contribuiria para o crescimento económico na Europa
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews
Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can’t log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error…
Ford Admits Its Current EVs Aren't Software Defined—And They're Worse for It
Ford's current EVs have a mess of control modules from different suppliers, slowing updates. Its next-gen EVs won't have that problem.
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours
Jimmy Ba left the company one day after the departure of Tony Wu, another cofounder at Elon Musk's AI company.
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Viral cheeseburgers, microslop, and a new place to run DOOM
SK chairman warns global memory shortage may last through 2030
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said the global memory chip shortage is likely to continue for several more years, potentially lasting through 2030....
‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center
The tech giant’s latest project pairs massive renewable energy capacity with a 100-hour battery to support data center operations.
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances. But in reality, m…
New Backyard Baseball game announced, coming July 2026
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Interesting Westworld style game with a Next Fest demo
Sister Lace is a first-person narrative survival game set in an elite academic campus where each student lives alongside a Sister, a humanoid robot designed to assist them. One night, a mysterious virus turns those mean…
TIL pediatricians are being used as a great source of antibodies.
Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative tr…
TIL Ronald Reagan was deeply influnced by SciFi when implementing policy. He reportedly initiated cybersecurity changes within the DoD afte…
From hacking legislation to missile defense.
When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series' goofy puz…
In an alternate timeline, Resident Evil could've become a lot more serious.
PUBG publisher Krafton creates new Chief AI Officer executive role as it continues its ‘AI First’ strategy
Krafton’s head of AI has been promoted to the new role and to “further enhance its game AI R&D framework”…
"Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s*…
Digital game distribution and preservation platform GOG is asking players for support going into the future as it expands its efforts.
"We don't use it, we have no interest in it" Romeo is a Dead Man's Suda 51 dismisses AI development tools, says AI images and videos "feel …
Suda 51 speaks on why he didn't use Generative AI in Romeo is a Dead Man.
Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI
Musk can't convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.
AWS intruder pulled off AI-assisted cloud break-in in 8 mins
UPDATED: LLMs automated most phases of the attack
Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine
A massive security failure by the U.S. Department of Justice has exposed active passwords for Jeffrey Epstein’s personal accounts.
About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPP
You want to have encrypted, self-hosted and free software chat? Which standard should you use?
Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch
Several LinkedIn posts from now former Highguard developers confirmed the news, which comes ahead of the game's first post-launch update.
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…