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Gen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ drop
Gen Z is now officially the only generation to measure lower than their predecessors in intelligence. A neuroscientist says this is because short videos and summarised texts are being increasingly relied on, but this is…
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
Reddit imposes new restrictions on Old Reddit - Engadget
The Old Reddit is dying; the new Reddit struggles to avoid scraping.
Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
A spokesman for the Alaska Department of Public Safety said this is the first time he has seen AI be the cause of a hunting violation.
British workers spend nearly £1bn of their own money on GenAI for work, research finds
British workers are spending close to £1 billion a year from their own pockets on generative AI (GenAI) tools they use for work, according to major new research from Deloitte UK.
‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable
The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon â with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its de…
[AIP] Portabase v1.29 - database configuration from the dashboard, MongoDB SRV support and file availability checks
Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Docker Volume - Portabase/portabase
Introducing the Googlebook
The first laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Googlebook is crafted with premium materials for powerful performance, and syncs effortlessly with your phone.
Apple will update Macs to protect users from AI agents with full disk access
Updates to "Full Disk Access" are coming to your Mac.
arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the '…
Critics question motives and advocate for residents’ needs.
Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists
The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists. We just have to be brave enough to use it.
Mazda CX-6e Is an EV That Lets You Yell Profanities at People in Traffic
Fitting an electric car with an external speaker for safety reasons turns out to have some potential drawbacks.
Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police
According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that...
Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and wate…
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash | Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data cent…
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers: The tech industry has fully lost the plot.
Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to please embrace data centers.
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks.
Cybersecurity Training Toolkit for Rural-Residing Older Adults
THE PROJECT For many older adults, cybersecurity threats are far from abstract. In real life, they show up as fake banking messages, phishing emails, tech suppo
Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital
The Xbox One's pitch for an all-digital, always-online future went down in flames so its disc-to-digital initiative could be born from the ashes
Google unveils Googlebook
Googlebook laptops go on sale October 4 in the US from $899. See the specs, the five launch models, and how they differ from Chromebooks.
"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.
EV Charging Doesn't Need to Be as Fast as Gas, Ionna CEO Says
Ionna CEO Seth Cutler told The Drive nobody rushes through a gas station stop, pointing to Buc-ee's and Wawa—and EV drivers are no different.
GTA 6 soundtrack reveal revives digital release debate
Fred Again, PinkPantheress and Travis Scott provide new music for the blockbuster - but not all fans are happy.
An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
When GPT-6 Astra’s own bot failed, it simply downloaded the best human-made bot instead.
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Inside Azahar: Interviewing the Duo Keeping the 3DS Alive Through Emulation
OpenSauce and PabloMK7 on building Azahar, preserving the 3DS, and the new wave of dual-screen handhelds
Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program
Insights into the current status of NASA's SR-71 #844, what it will take to fly it again, and what the agency may be looking to do with it.
Colibri chat system (Discord-like thing based on ATProto)
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for communities big and small.
Connect turntables to HomePods
Automatically play vinyl and CDs through HomePod, Apple TV, Sonos and other AirPlay-compatible speakers (including the latest HomePod Software and tvOS 27 releases). See what’s playing and control ...
A 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs 50% more than it did at launch
Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of
Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026)
Where we're going, we don't need Windows.
How I Reverse-Engineered one of the biggest GSM Operator's application - isayeter.com
How I found a critical bug in one of the biggest GSM Operator's application that allowed logging into any user account without a password.
EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
For the 100th time: it's going to keep getting worse. AMD's Q4 price hike hasn't even landed yet. Buy your graphics card NOW.
3 months of daily price tracking across 27 EU retailers. NVIDIA +41.3%, AMD +28.3% — and AMD’s reported 10% Q4 hike hasn’t started rolling out yet.
Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
Eats Intel's entry Panther Lake CPUs for breakfast too.
King signs collective bargaining agreement with Swedish unions
'This is an important step for King, the gaming industry and for the Swedish model.'
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents
[AIP] PiMaps: offline-first, self-hosted maps with local search, routing and optional Kiwix (off-line Wikipedia) integration
Offline-first, self-hosted maps with local search, routing and optional Kiwix (off-line Wikipedia) integration. - BobbyLLM/pimaps
News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as “Journalism” Is a Deep Moral Disgrace: Prediction markets like Polymarket and K…
CBS threw caution — and its own journalistic integrity — to the wind by signing a partnership with prediction market Kalshi for the elections.
New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in pen…
The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional: it’s one of the first times a federal judge…
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
ICE Is Reportedly Putting ICE Observers, Protesters in a Palantir Database
A new lawsuit alleges DHS agents drove by observers' and protestors' homes to intimidate them and added their names to Homeland Security's investigations system, according to Wired.
Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
TIL that the top Reddit lawyer is named Paul Cappucino
Reddit appoints Paul Cappuccio as Chief Legal Officer, succeeding Ben Lee, to navigate the platform's growth and legal challenges.
Slingshot Speeders | Quick Tutorial | The First Orbital Racing Game
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