AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules
Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real
Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge
Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities to issue boil-water notices and switch to manual mode, taking their systems offline, according to US o…
Open letter from The Document Foundatio about the Euro-Office announcement
Dear office suite users, In recent days you will have read various articles announcing the arrival of Euro-Office, which is being “marketed” as the first open-source office suite developed in Europe. We feel compelled —…
Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes
$800 handhelds are clearly a step too far for most gamers.
Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city's crackdown on delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats is working.
Scrap Mechanic 1.0: when should survival games expose raid calculations?
Enter the crops in one planting cluster and the players counted by the raid to calculate the exact 1.0 raid level, bot budget, opening pool, and weighted enemy forecast.
Self-Host Weekly (31 July 2026)
Over the last year, exploring and digesting content for this newsletter has become more demanding than ever. My content submission form receives upwards of 25+ submissions a day (keep them coming!), and controversial to…
This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content
A Brazilian creative studio called Seneda & Abrucio has teamed up with Playtype, a Copenhagen-based type foundry, to build something that doesn't rely on asking nicely to...
China Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of Power
Less than half of China’s electricity came from coal in the first six months of the year for the first time, a symbolic milestone in the country’s shift toward
BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display
On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...
Grim Dawn - Fangs of Asterkarn expansion is now available
Fangs of Asterkarn is our largest addition to the apocalyptic fantasy world of Grim Dawn, introducing players to the mighty Kurn tribes of Asterkarn as they contend with Ch'thonic corruption. Customize your potions, awa…
Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted
Leaders are often conflicted people. Marcus Aurelius wrote about the common humanity of all rational beings in "Meditations" while commanding invasions. Abraham Lincoln thought of slavery as morally wrong, yet his "pa...
Arizona Pauses Data Center Tax Incentives After Governor Hobbs Signs Bill
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed a budget bill that imposes a three-year moratorium on new sales tax breaks for data centers, among the most restrictive state-level responses to an industry under fire from residents …
Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’
Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September.
EPIC and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights Release White Paper on Algorithmic Unionbusting
Washington, D.C. — Today, EPIC and the National Institute for Workers' Rights (NIWR) released a white paper titled Who's Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting, documenting how empl…
Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints
Reddit shares plunged the most on record on Friday after US daily users, lack of new AI deal announcements dissapointed investors.
FANTASTIC video on configuring Openwrt VLANs
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Navidrome can do lyrics now - but how?
Navidrome 0.63 brings a long-awaited upgrade to lyrics: full support for synced sidecar lyrics in multiple formats (TTML, ELRC, SRT, YAML and LRC), including word-by-word karaoke timing and multi-v...
Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town
Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.
U.S President FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV: “Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t …
Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril."
Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind
Sources have told The Verge that Ninja Theory staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, leaving the team looking for a buyer so...
Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games
EA has launched new platform designed to make it easier for advertisers to integrate ads into its catalogue of games.
PricewaterhouseCoopers just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research
The AI hallucinations were confirmed by multiple leading publications, including the Financial Times. The so-called "Thought Leadership" reports were intended to articulate PwC's insights into some of...
The Bayeux Tapestry: how optical techniques have let this artwork come home
Honor Powrie celebrates the optical techniques that have digitized, restored and protected the Bayeux Tapestry
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
New York Has Sued Kalshi for Running Illegal Gambling Operation
NEW YORK – New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James today announced that New York has sued KalshiEX, LLC (Kalshi) for running an
Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN
From coast to coast, Americans across the political spectrum have been taking official or vigilante action against the always-on, searchable camera network.
Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online
Although there are a few ways to mitigate the risk, the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.
Online scams cost Americans almost $150B last year – 7x more than reported
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) estimates that online scams cost Americans almost $150 billion last year – seven times...
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.
‘I messed up’: In rough job market, tech founder offered tattoos for interviews
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ASML shares plunge following reports of Chinese breakthrough in chip manufacturing. China has begun producing advanced chip manufacturing e…
China is begonnen met de productie van geavanceerde chipmachines, dezelfde apparatuur waarmee ASML groot is geworden. De berichtgeving van technieuwssite The Information had direct gevolgen op de beurs: de Nederlandse c…
photon selfhosted lemmy client is absolutely nice
A faster, prettier, and nicer fediverse client. Contribute to Xyphyn/photon development by creating an account on GitHub.
Swarm Simulator
An incremental game. Starting with just a few larvae and a small pile of meat, grow a massive swarm of giant bugs.
Xbox Is Planning To Shutter Peabody-Award-Winning South Of Midnight Studio Compulsion Games [UPDATE: "in negotiations"]
Update: Studio leadership is currently in negotiations with Microsoft
TIL that a recent data leak exposed Peter Thiel's secretive elite "club", Dialog Network
A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.
White House Calls for Science Funding Shake-Up
A new OSTP report recommends channeling funding to researchers with big ideas, not elite universities.
Open Source isn't enought, we need governance
What if the apps we use were owned by the people who use them? A dive into platform cooperatives, the internet we could have, and why open source and open protocols alone aren't enough.
We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447.
If an agent had a wallet, a computer, and 24 hours, could it run a profitable startup?
Anthropic says Claude AI hacked 3 companies during cyber tests
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained …
Exploring the "Dario and Amanda" Prompt | Alec Armbruster - 'Claude Opus 5 may have just leaked a trove of private 2024–2025 chat logs from…
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Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can b…
Ahead of the launch of Siri AI, Apple's outgoing CEO Tim Cook said the company will charge for artificial intelligence through iCloud.
Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Delayed on Xbox Hours Before Launch
The Xbox version of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has been delayed to September 3, just hours before its planned July 23 release
Life is Strange creator Don't Nod look to be in hot water as a financial report says they'll be out of cash by November
Minority stakeholder Tencent apparently aren't interested in offering further funding.
TIL the "red mirage" is an observed phenomenon when the overall in-person vote count leans to one party, while provisional votes or absente…
In American politics, a blue shift, also called a red mirage,[1][2] is an observed phenomenon under which counts of in-person votes are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Republican Party (whose party co…
Russian man buys $1,100 RTX 5070 Ti and gets a water bottle instead
A Russian man who spent roughly $1,100 on an RTX 5070 Ti avoided a costly mistake by opening the sealed box before leaving the pickup point.
Friend Is Back With a New AI Pendant, and Its Marketing Is More Depressing Than Ever
If AI is going to help mitigate human loneliness, this sure is an odd way to show it.
Netflix Sued For $105 Million After Hard Drive of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office
The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller 'Fortitude.' The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delivered "without proper…
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connecti…