Being Followed By A Drone While Driving? Here's Why It May Be Tracking Your Car.
Flock Safety has signed agreements with several cities to deploy an automated drone system that can (and will) follow cars on the road.
PSN Single-Letter Username Glitch: What Actually Broke
A PSN glitch let users claim single-letter usernames blocked since 2006. Here's the validation failure behind it and what Sony will likely do next
The rise of "dopamine sites": fake food delivery and shopping apps that satisfy cravings without spending a cent
Young people, particularly in South Korea, have begun visiting so-called "dopamine sites" for the same reason people doomscroll on phones. The trend might be the latest expression...
Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal, its largest ever
Under the terms announced Monday morning, Fox Corporation will pay $160 per share, split as $96 in cash and the remainder in Fox Class A common stock....
"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.
Volunteers needed to test Ireland's new 'digital wallet' app for accessing public services
EU will require all member states to have digital profiles of citizens with birth certs and IDs
A Worthy Alternative to Discord!? [Matrix] (Techsplainations)
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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.
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 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 …
Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietl…
Deceive Inc. was great, and now it'll live on.
OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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I remixed Claude's new buddy into "buddymon"
Claude Code plugin — collectible creatures discovered through coding - CircuitForgeLLC/buddymon
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.
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations, researchers say
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
Doctor Xælong, or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love AI
or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love AI
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.
A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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
Star Trek but the Computer is Australian
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King Of The Hill season 15 is scheduled to release on July 20 2026
Hulu's 'King of the Hill' revival sets its Season 15 premiere date.
TIL about the "Apocalypse Early Warning System"
Local dashboard for monitoring tracked-aircraft concurrent-activity anomaly signals.
Anyone remember . . . Tetris?
A simple tetris clone for android. Contribute to tpcstld/Jetris development by creating an account on GitHub.
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?
Major VPN provider says it could leave Canada over lawful access bill
OTTAWA — Virtual private network service NordVPN warned on Friday it could pull out of Canada over the federal government’s proposed lawful access bill. NordVPN said in a social media post it is reviewing the bill and w…
Rumor: Voice actor page leaks Xenoblade game for 2026
A new voice actor leak has allegedly outed a Xenoblade game for 2026, and it could be the return of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
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…
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…
new Boots Riley film trailer 'I Love Boosters' in theaters May 22
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
Tech oligarchs helping DHS set up authoritarian surveillance state, report says
A new report lays out the ties between wealthy tech industry figures and the Trump administration’s rapidly advancing access to surveillance technology
Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay
This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part will set out recommendations for companies and policymakers.Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes m…
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…
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 …
Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe
'I cannot sign drivers, which means I cannot ship updates for WireGuard for Windows,' the creator of the VPN protocol says. On X, a Microsoft rep says he's working to get accounts unblocked.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
Historic VENOM milestone demonstrates scalable AI development capabilities for the operational fleet.
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…
Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia’s military
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
Meta discontinues end-to-end encryption on Instagram
The company says the feature wasn't popular with users.
The Sopranos Accidentally Documented Tech's Most Radical Transformation
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How Microsoft stores and shares your encryption keys
Microsoft gives U.S. authorities BitLocker keys, making local encryption useless if your device is seized at the border.
The False Promise of App Store Age Verification
An analysis of the unconstitutional App Store Accountability Act and its impact on age verification and parental controls.
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
Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits
Women on four continents told ICIJ that global pay-per-action dating sites owned by a Russian businessman and self-styled philosopher left them financially broke and heartbroken.
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…
How to Make Money with AI Generated Hate Content Online (Even losers can do it!) (Satire article)
Are you not where you want to be in life? The right-wing media and algorithmically driven content shown on your social media feed is eating away your precious time. Your mind is occupied by thoughts about the things med…