Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API
He thinks a cross-distro API standard can be a practical solution to tackle age verification.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs
The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work adding ever more features to the DE and polishing the exper…
The DMCA Lawyer Randall Newman looks forward to abusing Section 1201 of the DMCA for profit and sport
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear wea…
Today’s leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of …
People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers
A majority of Americans say they're against the local construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence.
Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant
Story has a happy ending of sorts, but should serve as a cautionary tale.
Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease
Update: Iron Galaxy has taken to social media to deny the speculation that it's working on a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, or anything Fallout-related. Whoops.
Why Are We Still Doing This? - Ed Zitron
Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5000 to 185,000 w…
Spotify Deleted 75 Million AI-Generated Tracks – and It’s Not Done Yet
Spotify removed 75 million AI-generated tracks to protect artist royalties, targeting spam bots while keeping legitimate AI music on the platform.
RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon
RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon
The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS - VulpineCitrus
In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.
New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border securi…
Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.
Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE
Your sovereign office. Euro-Office has 20 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite.
While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifyi…
Koei Tecmo is partnering with SpiralAI as it shows interest in creating "experiences that combine entertainment and AI" via chatbot-like LL…
Koei Tecmo and SpiralAI have jointly announced Geppetto2, a new LLM designed for entertainment and with conversational AI aspirations.
How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test
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Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI
The faculty voted Monday to require universal proctoring for all in-person examinations in response to mounting concerns over AI-assisted cheating and declining student reporting of Honor Code violations. The policy, wh…
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - IT Notes
How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.
Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action were successful
Earlier this month, a member of the US military was charged with insider trading after allegedly leveraging classified information to place a series of bets on Polymarket related to the US abduction of Venezuelan Presid…
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.
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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs
Firefox is in a really weird position right now. Given how browsers are rapidly adopting AI, people who'd rather not use those tools are being left in the dark. Their only savior was Firefox; that is, until the new CEO …
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'
: It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'
How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter
You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.
X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool
: Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions
Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld
Two years of work now sits on a shelf because AI needs the RAM more.
"How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard" - by Joel Hawksley
Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
Trump’s immigration data dragnet
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Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
Proton Age Verification online map
Learn about the spread of age verification laws across the world.
FYI for anyone running roundcube: vulnerabilities found
CISA flagged two Roundcube Webmail vulnerabilities as actively exploited in attacks and ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch them within three weeks.
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Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace
Pichai said apart from running a company, advances in AI could also help people evaluate medical treatment or decide whether to invest in a stock.
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a…
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people had personal and health information stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year.
Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub
Nintendo shut down the Eden switch emulator GitHub repository, but the project still has momentum even post-DMCA
Gucci criticised for 'AI slop' images ahead of major fashion show
Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists' live dates and social media presence.
DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media
As streaming continues to dominate the film and TV industry, many Gen Z movie watchers are opting out and choosing physical formats instead.
Stardew Valley 10-year Anniversary Video
Here's a special video for the Stardew Valley 10 year anniversary. I go over some old builds of the game w/ commentary, briefly go over the many updates, gi...
Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001
While looking down the back of the Internet for something or other, I stumbled across Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2001. It has been a quarter of a century since 2001 (!!) so that's a good excuse to look back at w…
Moltbook was peak AI theater
The viral social network for bots reveals more about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.
Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim
The lawsuit between Strike 3 Holdings and tech giant Meta over the alleged downloads of copyright-infringing videos is heating up.
Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies
After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of removing it as tradi…
North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says
Firm says AI tools are masking identities of false applicants, who then funnel wages from remote IT jobs to North Korea
Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns
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Facebook researchers previously proposed studying whether features were ‘addictive,’ documents show
Meta executives took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this month and testified that while use of the companyâs platforms could become problematic, it couldnât be considered addiction.