I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldnât Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. Youâd expect the same answer each time. Itâs the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you wonât get the samâŚ
Copy Fail â CVE-2026-31431
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE â no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch
Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1% and 3% of the total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
principles
Contemporary permaculture is founded on three core ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics serve as a guiding compass for its design principles, co-creating a holistic framework for regenerative liâŚ
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google â Terence Edenâs Blog
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been wriâŚ
Self-hosting Upgrade: planning my first 3-node cluster for deployment in a data center
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Russiaâs crackdown on VPNs reaches new heights as internet restrictions intensify
Itâs been a bad week for digital freedoms in Russia
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 17 hours
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Flying Car Laws EXPLAINED on Road with SkySurfer Aircraft đ Flying Drone Vehicle
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AI âaccent maskingâ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada
In a post on its website, Telus Digital announced a partnership with an âAI-powered speech enhancementâ company to âsoften accents.â
Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is 'simply impossible'
Valery Fadeev, head of Russia's Human Rights Council, concedes that blocking circumvention tools would devastate businesses and banks
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations â spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Verified by Spotify: New No AI badgeâ it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof lâŚ
Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, itâs more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is providâŚ
TIL the original Mad Max owes its unique style to the leftover cameras that McQueen's movie The Getaway left in Australia and no one wanted
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Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators
It takes most college students at least four years to earn a bachelorâs degree. Christie Williams finished in three months.
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything
Engineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath.
Major Tech company urges universal national service
The company has won major Pentagon contracts, including work on Project Maven, an AIâdriven targeting and surveillance program.
Star Trek Online | The 16th Anniversary Enterprise Starship Bundle
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Dario Amodei spent last year warning of an AI white-collar bloodbath. Now he's changing the narrative
The Anthropic CEO is sounding more open to the idea that Jevons Paradoxânew technology creating more demand and more jobsâis possible with AI.
Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of todayâs AI boom: âYou can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.â
GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims * TorrentFreak
GitHub has published its 2025 transparency report, revealing record levels of DMCA takedown activity across two separate metrics.
Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps â with little evidence they work and few regulations.
Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
Tech bros kill FOSS as a joke (and also receive money from corporations for it, also as a joke)
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Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
iPhone 16 and iPhone 15 Pro owners could get some cash.
[Redacted] The Safehouse - Announcement Trailer
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Japanâs biggest âghost developerâ known for working for Atlus and Square Enix sees significant growth in console sector following shift awaâŚ
Tose recently announced its financial results for the second quarter of th current fiscal year, reporting significant growth in sales.
The Smallest Enterprise Homelab
Disclaimer: This blog was written without the help of LLMs (although that should be obvious) or any kind of financial incentive. I bought all the hardware myself, donât have stocks in any of these companies and donât usâŚ
âStop Killing Gamesâ Got Its EU Parliament Hearing
Progress may be slow, but itâs still progress. While Iâve been talking about the importance of video game preservation as a function of our own overall cultural preservation, very few pâŚ
In Asia, the global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
One month into the war in Iran, a growing shortage of crude oil is threatening to morph into something worse: a shortage of nearly everything.
Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.
Shipworms can sink a boat. Northeastern researchers explain digestive process
Known as the clam that has sunk a thousand ships, shipworms are strange lookingâand strange actingâanimals.
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds â backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's ClauâŚ
PocketOS founder blames âCursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6â plus Railwayâs infrastructure for data disaster.
Atlassian Will Collect Jira and Confluence Data by Default to Train AI Models
Atlassian is enabling AI training data collection by default for Free, Standard, and Premium customers from August 17, with no opt-out for metadata on lower tiers.
Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon
Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
TIL James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, founded an amateur cricket team called the Allahakbarries
Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven heâŚ
Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
RAM prices are forcing companies to choose between higher prices and worse specs. Some have decided on doing both.
Chinaâs âland aircraft carrierâ charges flying drone with microwave beam
While the technology is still at an early stage, it may one day allow drones to fly indefinitely.
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. â 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some othâŚ
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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s&box - launch trailer
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BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
Iâm pleased to say that the project has now fully migrated management of all repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. The main BookStack project repository now lives here:
Noriyoshi Ohba x Rieko Kodama (2001) - shmuplations.com
Originally featured in the Sega Consumer History book, this interview with Noriyoshi Ohba and Rieko Kodama is a nostalgic look back at their careers.
Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft
Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
The Year Ahead for Battlefield 6 | 2026 Roadmap
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Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI
It gave the leader of a nonprofit involved with it "a very grimy feeling."
Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they've been buying freely for years.
How I Won a Championship That Doesnât Exist Or How I Learned To Poison The LLM Supply Chain
Poisoning the LLM knowledge supply chain with a fake Wikipedia edit and a single domain registration