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.
Zatanna's Powers are INSANE | Solid jj
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Kim Dotcom interview: "Signal is compromised by a US government backdoor"
🚨 KIM DOTCOM: “SIGNAL IS NOT SECURE — ALL THE TOOLS ARE BEING WATCHED” This is a disturbing warning from Kim Dotcom in his interview with Tucker Carlson. Carlson asks a simple question: are any of the communications ap…
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...
Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
Expert says people face being filmed without their consent as $89 Anko smartglasses sell out in stores and online
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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A Riddler Without Riddles Works | Batman: Caped Crusader
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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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Operating System Level Age Verification Has Passed...
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Inkscape needs help. Developers are overwhelmed. If you know C++ and hate Adobe, come get involved.
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First trailer released for 'Primetime', biopic film based on 'To Catch a Predator', with Robert Pattinson cast as Chris Hansen
A24's 'Primetime' has unveiled a first trailer previewing Robert Pattinson's turn as 'To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen.
Discord moderation bot based on Shieldstral
Moderator bot for Discord that uses Shieldstral from Mistral AI - ArtemkaKun/miderator
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.
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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
Diktafon is a private, open-source voice memo app that transcribes and summarizes your recordings entirely on your device — organized like …
Diktafon is a private, open-source voice memo app that transcribes and summarizes your recordings entirely on your device — organized like cassette tapes. - jaromiru/diktafon
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.
Why The Cyclops Scene in The Odyssey Is So Terrifying
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SEC bought access to over a billion airline records to track travelers, no warrant required
Documents obtained by 404 Media through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the SEC subscribed to the Travel Intelligence Program, or TIP, operated by Airlines...
Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee is taking the time …
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
New Orleans is using AI to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers. What does this mean for crime and emergency response?
Tech volatility hits highest since dot-com bust next to S&P 500 | Fortune
Worries are rising that positioning in the Nasdaq 100 has become excessive.
A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night
Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.
[AIP] CookTrace v1.1.1: In-App Updates, Full i18n Sweep, Android App-ID Fix
Patch release. Server-connection banner no longer covers the phone's status bar on Android. Fixed Server-connection banner no longer covers the phone's notification bar. The red "server unreachabl...