A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI - The Atlantic
Is there any way of fighting back?
Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware
A new report claims Microsoft has raised the cost of the Windows license by up to 10% for certain OEMs, which is much higher than usual.
Double Fine Is Unionizing
The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize
Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike
Workers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the Times Tech Guild b…
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500 word love letter to AI seeks 'superintelligence for everyone'
Mark Zuckerberg set out his vision for the future of AI as Meta released its newest model.
LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor.
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact. Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop.
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
Bernie Sanders Calls on Tech Giants to Pause Development of Out-of-Control AI
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 10 – Following recent and repeated public reporting about artificial intelligence (AI) technology breaking outside of human control and creating potentially dangerous viruses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (…
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
[AIP] Fathom v0.11.0: now on Android and Android TV (experimental), plus many more updates!
Fathom 0.11.0 brings the app to Android and Android TV, adds a YouTube Shorts viewer, Android Auto, and an Up Next prompt, and lets you manage and delete items in place. Note: Android TV support i...
Delhi Police Prepare SOP For Tracking Internet Activity of Users Through IPDR Analysis - The Wire
IPDR can be matched with call detail records (CDRs), customer application forms (KYC details), and mobile tower data to provide a “complete picture of any user activity”.
Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells
At least 20 Zbtlink router models ship with ENDLESSDOORS, a root backdoor that attempts C2 contact as often as every 35 seconds and accepts commands.
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in…
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
Pages of Turnabout – Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Review
As a fan of courtroom dramas, I really couldn't let this one pass! The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is so wonderful and influential, and I have enough proof to state with absolute certainty that you should give …
Microsoft confirms it accidentally installed new OneDrive app on Windows 11 PCs, and there's no easy way to remove it yet
Microsoft told Windows Latest that it accidentally shipped the AI-powered OneDrive Photos app on Windows 11 more broadly than it should have.
Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers
You know Apple has all your data, but do you really want to be made aware of it?
Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves
Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce
New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency
Syntropic Power and UNIGRID have entered a partnership to commercialize UNIGRID’s sodium chromium oxide battery chemistry in North America.
WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry?
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ARC-AGI-3 news: In the past two weeks multiple groups have scored at least 99.9% on the public challenges at relatively low costs.
Community submissions for the ARC-AGI benchmark.
[wreith] SEGA SATURN: The Price of Victory
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Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat
Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer
Community Spotlight: Gamma and Anbernic
How one Anbernic device sparked a project that would go on to help thousands of players.
The People Still Keeping the PSP Alive: PSPunk
How one fan's passion project became a home for guides, homebrew and preserving the knowledge behind Sony's iconic handheld.
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash
At least 54 US cities have canceled or rejected Flock license plate camera contracts in 2026 as privacy concerns and false alerts spark nationwide backlash.
How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta
The rogue AI attacks involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all tied back to a small Israeli startup named Irregular.
Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Canadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.
Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge,…
Different AI chatbots began repeating the same mystical ideas about consciousness and AI rights. Researchers are still trying to explain Spiralism.
We tested the impact of SSD speed on gaming performance in 11 titles & we analyzed from SATA to PCIe 5.0 to see whether upgrading to a fast…
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Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in mos…
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on …
Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.
The era of physical games for PlayStation players is officially coming to an end.
Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
Grand Theft Auto VI will get an extended look on August 27, streamed on Netflix
See the premiere of an extended look at "Grand Theft Auto VI," the next evolution in the groundbreaking "Grand Theft Auto" series, on August 27.
TIL “ROOTS66,” a Japanese music festival open exclusively to musicians born in 1966—a year considered an “unlucky year”
TOKYO -- A live event gathering artists born in 1966 -- the year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese zodiac calendar, which occurs only once every 60 yea
As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits
A new bill would stop companies from marketing chatbots as therapy and force stricter oversight of AI in mental health care — as a labor union wages a parallel fight against Kaiser Permanente.
SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels
The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.
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I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game)
An ad-free offline GPS foraging RPG. Walk, collect resources, and brew potions.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
TIL Gabe Newell (CEO of Valve) bought and owns the megayachts company Oceanco
Oceanco is a privately owned custom yacht builder, based in the Netherlands, that has been building full displacement yachts in the 80-metre (260 ft) range since 1987. Since August 2025, it has been owned by Gabe Newell…
Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web...
Headsup! Chat control 1.0 is back once again!
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
Portabase now handles backup/restore of Docker volumes
Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Docker Volume - Portabase/portabase
Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory price…
The price reversal is caused by the unbridled demand for HBM.
€2.99 or €3.49? Proton VPN's Pricing Test Exposed
An investigation into Proton VPN's pricing page found an A/B-test tag linked to two VPN Plus prices: €2.99 and €3.49 per month
Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really)
Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really).
Roblox Tanked $9 Billion In A Single Day After The Company Admitted It Was Directing Fewer Kids Toward Viral Games That ‘Emphasize Short-Te…
Wall Street seems unhappy about improvements to the Roblox recommendation algorithm
Meta fined for $567 Mn for failing to protect minors on its platforms
A New Mexico judge has penalised the tech giant for creating a public nuisance and endangering children online. Meta confirmed it plans to appeal, insisting it works hard to protect young users across its platforms.