[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...
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows
Mass surveillance technology might be popular with police departments, but for the US public, it's becoming an increasingly difficult sell.
2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out
A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
DuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers / Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the anti-AI movement is channel…
Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the movement is becoming a proxy for anti-AI backlash.
After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infra…
This move should prevent future electricity price increases.
The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN
Fifty years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. And experts think they finally have an issue that killed it.
America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed t…
YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto
YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
Meta is one of the companies alleged to have received ultra-private health data on users of the popular apps Hims and Hers.
Fun Minecraft-esque chemistry game
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything fr…
If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it
California has deployed a new service that allows you to ask data brokers in the state to stop selling your personal information.
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the larg…
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.
Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music
The company is going all in on AI features, including AI-generated songs, to turn free users to paid.
Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
10 Reasons To Greenlight Star Trek: United NOW
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Send files between two devices using nothing but a screen and a camera
Contribute to bashalarmistalt/decimen-optical-transfer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Spectre is Back: CPU Mitigations Found to Be Ineffective
Modern processors are fast in part because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it's …
Mark Zuckerberg apologises for child sex abuse and deepfake content, errors in operating Meta platform.
The apologies are also conveyed by top Meta brass that meets Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in his Rail Bhavan office
GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking its users over Google Play checks
Revolut recently banned using GrapheneOS without any justification. They're falsely claiming to do be doing it for security reasons. In reality, they're enforcing licensing Google Play. Revolut doesn't enforce security …
Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker
Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most “politically incorrect” humor.
Boeing 737 Max operators told to check fuselages for cracks
Inspections ordered by US regulator will affect about 470 aircraft, after reported problems in earlier models
Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too
Meta claimed that a recent test of its AI model allowed it to access the internet, an already intimately familiar narrative by this point.
Captain Pike and the Beep Chair Paradox | Steve Shives
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Released Lanemu P2P VPN 0.14.1 - Open-source alternative to Hamachi/Zerotier/Radmin/etc.
Fixed issues in the RUDP library: memory leaks when using shutdownHook, deadlocks, handling of corrupted UDP packets, and many other issues that were identified during testing....
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay to Establish $567 Million Fund to Abate Harms to Youth
The court found Meta's platforms created a public nuisance by contributing to the youth mental health crisis and by facilitating child sexual exploitation.
$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in …
Apple has the wafers ready to go. It's just waiting on DRAM like everyone else.
I think the internet is broken, and it's broken at it's core
The internet is ugly, benchmarks score the checklist but miss the brokenness, div-buttons, dead links, dead emails, and the pages AI will learn from.
Disney Earnings Buoyed By ‘Toy Story 5’, Theme Parks, Streaming Profit; Books $100M Tariff Refund
Disney’s Josh D’Amaro stepped out with upbeat numbers and some news in his first full quarter as CEO.
Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.
Investors want ‘real proof’ AI spending is paying off, new report suggests - National | Globalnews.ca
A new report from Fidelity suggests financial advisors are increasingly looking for evidence that AI investments are translating into strong financial results.
Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]
People have left the president’s personal social media site in droves.
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
Just found out tracking pixels have a 3-5x 60 days ROI
Tracking pixels undercount conversions 20-40% due to ad blockers and Safari ITP. Learn how pixels work, when they fail, and server-side alternatives for 2026.
EU AI Act Content Labelling: Fake Around and Find Out
A personal teardown of EU AI Act Article 50 labelling rules, C2PA metadata stripping, Penelope Cruz, ad parallels and digital trust in 2026
AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany
An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
Scientists Sound Alarm on AI-Generated Biological Viruses Amid Unregulated Industry
"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not," a pair of researchers said.
Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating /// Government introduces several measures, including moni…
Undervisningsministeren er klar med en strakspakke mod AI-snyd, der indeholder initiativer, som på den korte bane kan anvendes til at sætte ind over for uhensigtsmæssig brug af AI i gymnasiet.
Walmart accused of collecting customers' voiceprints
A group of Walmart customers say the supermarket retained their biometrics, running afoul of Illinois data privacy laws.
AI used to design brand new viruses not found in nature
Using AI, researchers have designed complete, functional bacteriophage genomes from scratch and tested them against bacteria that had evolved resistance to a natural bacteriophage. Their work marks a step toward generat…
OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communicat…
The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night
Winona's 8 Flock Safety license plate cameras were stolen and poles cut overnight, leaving a $24,000 gap and no suspects.
Amata Release Announcement Trailer!
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Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Nashville's Metro Council authorized eminent domain proceedings for property near the Nashville Zoo. Vanderbilt Innovation neighborhood plan advanced.
Romance chatbot taken offline after TBIJ investigation: Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and en…
Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and encrypted’ chats, has been shut down
Nobody Asked for AI
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated
Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-…