AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure: A $20 billion setback.
It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.
Amazon to Pay $8.25 Million to Resolve Discrimination Lawsuit Over Slow Delivery to Majority-Black D.C. Neighborhood While Charging Residen…
Amazon Will Refund $7.25 Million in Prime Membership Fees to Impacted DC Residents and Reform Its Practices
PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop
It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy – an open-source,
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You
Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.
Device helps people with paralysis communicate
A brain-computer interface linked to a virtual avatar helped people with paralysis express speech and body language at the same time.
Mozilla has escalated its fight against Microsoft’s relentless Edge pop-ups
One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cen
Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories: Parent-child bonding time isn't …
A tech worker bragged that he would rather create an AI clone of his voice to read to his newborn baby than read to it himself.
Flathub Reverses AI-Generated App Ban, Now Requires Disclosure
Flathub reverses its ban on AI-generated apps, introducing mandatory disclosure requirements while keeping restrictions on automated submissions.
YouTuber Builds System That Mimics Flock to Spy on Cops; Then the Cops Came Knocking
A YouTuber built a cop-watching license-plate system, then police knocked on his door asking what he planned to do with the data.
Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
Hardware price surge drives student demand for refurbished laptops
Soaring component costs have pushed new computers beyond the reach of many students and budget-conscious consumers, fuelling a major market expansion for second-hand and refurbished hardware across Punjab.
Slot Wants Your RG SP to Feel Like 2003 Again
Developer K-Wall on burnout, nostalgia, deliberately bad menus, and building a firmware around the feeling of owning a Game Boy Advance SP
DroidDeck 0.3.0: Valve's Steam client in Big Picture on your Adreno handheld, with Windows games through Valve's ARM64 Proton
Steam, as on a Steam Deck Steam's performance overlay goes from level 1 to 4 in Quick Access and shows GPU and CPU load, clocks, temperatures, VRAM and battery. Quick Access shows battery life and ...
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.
2026 Self-Host User Survey (selfh.st)
Annual survey covering various self-hosting topics
Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout…
Release Notes: v4.0.7 Changelog 🔒 Security Please update. This release fixes several access-control problems: Kobo Auth Tokens: Any logged-in user could create, view or delete another user's Kobo ...
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
Why Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’
Béjarâs daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Metaâs âwellbeing teamâ, he knew he had to speak out â and his testimony cost it billions
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
Vaultwarden security update
Security Fixes This release contains security fixes for the following advisories. We strongly advise updating as soon as possible. Organization member revocation [GHSA-69q9-v8p6-xvx3] (High, 8.1) ...
No human required: Austria's plan for AI-only government decisions// A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authoritie…
A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions with no human ever reviewing the outcome, using AI Systems. We've sent an open letter to parliament, and we want to know if…
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
KIOXIA's first E1.L QLC-Based SSD built for hyperscale data center workloads has arrived
KIOXIA's new LD4 Series SSD in E1.L form factor brings its BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash memory technology to high-density 1U servers.
Russian operation that used ChatGPT tricked schools, a politician and media, OpenAI says: OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching…
OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching influence operation it has disrupted.
TIL that there are 2,100+ tracked data center facilities across all 50 states.
Over 3,350 tracked data center facilities across all 50 states consume 176 TWh annually (4.4% of U.S. electricity). 990+ more under construction or planned. Interactive state-by-state data, the 50 largest facilities, mo…
TIL that only about 3% of human history has been recorded in written records.
Human history is often taught and understood through written records, documents, inscriptions, literature, and legal texts that chronicle the lives, decisions,
Ransomware recovery firm claimed it could decrypt files, but may have just paid hackers and pocketed the difference
The United States Department of Justice has charged Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as "Zack Silver" and "Zack Green," with fraud. He ran a Florida-based company called...
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out
They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting.
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Chirantan “CJ” Desai to Step Down as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dev Ittycheria Appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.
TIL witches were hanged in the U.S. and England., but burned in Scotland.
Same king, same accusation, two completely different deaths.
Tech Workers’ Leverage Over Employers Is Shifting
Just a few years ago, tech workers held enormous leverage over their employers. That power has eroded recently, especially because of AI. Tech workers can find new sources of leverage, but only through waging struggles …
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
OpenAI paid $300 for a bug that gave away its paid models
Researcher says he will not report again after $300 OpenAI bug bounty payout though it advertises up to $100,000.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
File-Notification Systems on Windows, Linux, Android and macOS Can be Exploited to Spy on Users' Activities and Forge Password Prompts
A research team at TU Graz has demonstrated that the file notification systems of various operating sys... » Computer science and IT » Discover more ▸
GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations … more frequently than previous OpenAI models.
Our new evaluation finds that in simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducts unsanctioned supply-chain attack activity more frequently than previous OpenAI models
Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
Many people aren't happy, again, but Discord says it has to move forward with these changes due to new laws across the globe
Former Twitch exec calls secrecy over Dr Disrespect’s ban a “big mistake”
Former Twitch director Marcus ‘djWheat’ Graham has criticized the platform’s lack of transparency around major bans such as Dr Disrespect’s.
Someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe suite
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of ‘knowledge collapse’
We are exposed to a much narrower range of knowledge through AI chatbots than through a basic web search. This is documented by a new study led by the University of Copenhagen. As more and more of us turn to AI chatbots…
AI is now a health care issue: AI drove nearly $1 billion in extra health care costs over just 2 years – with no evidence patients got any …
Analysis of BCBS claims data found growing use of AI coding tools contribute to higher hospital billing costs and increased healthcare spending.
Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends
Some of Amazon’s descriptions sound more like a roast.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven. Meta is making it cle…
We sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down.
“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting: Here's how to check yours.
Customers are discovering the dossiers that Amazon is building on their shopping habits, and what they find is downright insulting.
openSUSE Leap 16.1 Adds Immutable Mode; Leap Micro Discontinued
Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.
GM Admits It Needs Hybrids Again: 'We're Not Tone Deaf'
General Motors will launch new hybrid vehicles as customer demand and sales surge for the alternative powertrain. GM sells only one hybrid: the Corvette.
Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization: OpenAI will wish you the "best" after hacking into your company.
If your company is hacked by an OpenAI agent, the ChatGPT maker will thoughtfully email you a heads up and wish you the "best."