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Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models [pdf]
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Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support
Valve has spoken about potential anti-cheat issues on the Steam Machine which uses SteamOS and is not compatible with certain anti-cheats
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys
Advocates are fighting against the $16.7bn global smart-toy market, decrying surveillance and a lack of regulation
Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices.
The LanguageTool extension will now be paid
Instantly check grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors with LanguageTool's AI-powered grammar checker. Enhance your writing in over 30 languages with ease.
New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that pro…
Self-Host Weekly #146: Survey Says
Survey results, cranberry sauce, government affairs, and open-source burnout
Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.
Monotype font licencing shake-down — Insanity Works
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Sub…
Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information
E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.
‘The new price of eggs.’ The political shocks of data centers and electric bills
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Netflix kills casting from phones
Cast isn’t gone, but it might not work.
MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down
MKBHD is shutting down the Panels app this week. Users will get automatic refunds, and there are plans to open-source the code. Read on!
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articl…
Self-hosted TinyPNG alternative with Docker (imgcompress
Self-hosted TinyPNG alternative to compress, convert, and resize images. Over 69+ Format are supported including (HEIC, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, EPS, ICO, WebP, GIF &...). Runs 100% locally u...
TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012
Loveholidays unveils huge Cyber Monday sale — with trips from just £19
Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
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TIL there's a green bean casserole flavoured soda drink.
SEATTLE — Jones Soda Co. takes the idea of a liquid diet to a new low. How does Green Bean Casserole Soda strike you? And how about an aggressively buttery-smelling Mashed Potato Soda? Even the creators of the fizzy con…
Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately this is quit…
RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components
Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’
Valve won’t subsidise Steam Machine’s price like console manufacturers…
Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is allegedly low on cash for new investments, after a multi-year spending s…
GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
I respect choice for the name of the game
A cozy garbage-cleaning simulator. Dig through the dump, find ultra-rare collectible cards, rescue tangled birds, and relax.
Raspberry pi lidarr docker container
I am diving into the world of self hosting by setting up a small server on my
raspberry pi4. I already have tailscale, pihole, and navidrome setup in
containers on my pi, I now want to add lidarr or some alternative to …
Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
Doing it yourself is way more cost effective.
TIL about Miki Endo who sacrificed her life giving warning broadcasts during the 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Miki Endo (遠藤 未希, Endō Miki; July 18, 1986, Japan – March 11, 2011, Minamisanriku, Japan) was an employee of the town of Minamisanriku's Crisis Management Department, tasked with broadcasting disaster advisories and…
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.
HubVanta AI
Access all the great AI video and image generation models in one place. Create stunning visuals with Midjourney, Flux AI, Sora 2, Veo 3, and more.
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
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The plot to kill Americans: Kennedy escalates attacks on vaccines
The Trump administration’s assault on vaccines and public health infrastructure represents nothing less than a plot to kill Americans through the deliberate spread of disease.
Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
How do you check if food is healthy?
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Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that the…
TIL that trolls working for the Russian Government helped divide the american feminist movement
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
Self hosting Signal server
Does anyone have any experience in successfully self-hosting Signal server using
docker? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Thanks all for your response. I gave up on
Signal and installing Matrix server instead.
Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
The iPhone versus Android battle has just taken a sudden twist as hackers attack smartphones.
Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs
How do an artist, a videographer, a musician and a copywriter feel about generative AI?
Smart Locker tai cac co so giao duc hien dai
SimpleTech chuyên cung cấp các mẫu tủ gửi đồ thông minh Smart Locker hiện đại, vận hành tự động, bảo mật cao, đây chính là giải pháp lưu trữ, giao nhận hàng tiện ích cho chung cư, văn phòng và doanh nghiệp thời đại số.
TIL that Larry Ellison's Oracle started as a CIA project
Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once.
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT's mental health team is bleeding talent and facing controversy
Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC
A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS.
Qwen Image Edit Camera Control - a Hugging Face Space by linoyts
Upload an image and adjust camera angles, movement, and lens settings to transform it. Get a new image as a result.
Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know
Those who use the popular platform are being urged to think very carefully about whether they want this setting enabled.