Amazon says drones damaged three facilities in UAE and Bahrain
The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.
Botspam Apocalypse
Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The “future” in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, it’s honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic …
The Latest Monster Hunter Wilds PC Perf Drama Explained | Digital Foundry
Thousands upon thousands of DLC checks hammer the CPU.
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.
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workersâ keystrokes and mouse activity.
People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly conversational agents such as ChatGPT or Gemini, are now used daily by a growing number of people worldwide. While many users trust the answers of AI agents to their qu…
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art was ineligible for copyright.
Does anyone have any experience with Sync-in for online files?
Sync-in server · Secure, open-source platform for file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing. - Sync-in/server
CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
VW’s sales and marketing boss reckons people will move to EVs organically, just as they did with ICE cars in the early 20th century
‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’
Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices
Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers - Ars Technica
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel
GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-n…
In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban
Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work
OpenAI, Google, Nvidia and others agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech. Anthropic, feuding with Pentagon over potential AI misuse, was not included
Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as company continues to ramp AI spending
Oracle has ratcheted up its capital expenditures as it builds data center infrastructure that can handle AI workloads.
Private Tech Companies, the State, and the New Character of War
Ukraineâs war offers a window into how governmentsâ growing reliance on defense firms is eroding national sovereignty, security, and accountability.
I built an open source app cost estimator after seeing founders underestimate infrastructure costs
Launch your delivery platform with Enatega’s open-source, customizable, ready-to-use delivery app solution.
Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative
Shift comes amid mounting reports of successful social engineering attacks targeting higher-ups in government
TikTok’s algorithm systematically skewed to the right during the 2024 US elections, study finds
‘Bot’ accounts were directed mostly towards content aligned with the Republican Party.
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AI is making us think and write more alike: Large language models are standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think
Large language models may be standardizing human expression and subtly influencing how we think, says study led by USC Dornsife researcher
[Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothin…
Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — someti…
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.
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
ChatGPT down again
ChatGPT is experiencing a major global outage affecting thousands of users, including over 12,580 in the US, according to DownDetector.
Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI
At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see.
A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung's memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom | Fortune
An hour in the Oval Office with President Trump Fortune Editor-in-Chief: Alyson Shontell sat down with President Trump in the Oval Office for an hour. Tariffs, Intel, AI, Boeing, Iran—and the question every CEO eventual…
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic secures large investment as director Casey Hudson rejects use of gen-AI, saying "I'm just really unimpr…
KOTOR spiritual successor Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic gathers funds as director talks studio size, game length, and gen-AI.
AWS Datacenter Lit Ablaze by “Objects” in UAE, Amid Other Outages in Region at War
AWS says “objects” struck a data center in its UAE region (ME-CENTRAL-1), throwing sparks and starting a fire. The fire department shut off power to the building and its generators while they worked the scene, and AWS s…
Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers
Concord is not completely dead. Community developers have brought Sony's shut-down hero shooter back online with fan-made custom servers, rebuilding its backend API and getting full matches running again.
X has placed new daily post limits on unverified accounts
Free X users consistently keep hitting rate limits now, because of the new 50 original posts per day restriction.
Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown
The warning reflects one of the most aggressive efforts globally to rein in AI companies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Roblox must face Iowa consumer fraud claims
Iowa Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General news releases.
Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you.…
YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science
A study from scientists at Zhejiang University is going viral for showing a correlation between short-form content and lower impulse control.
AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India
India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.
AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool
Windows 11 Clock app gets a redesigned Focus mode with AI insights, task integration, and deeper customization. Here’s an early hands-on.
GTA IV Is A Snapshot of the World Before It Changed
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas
China's OpenClaw use is soaring as tech giants hold meet-ups to help everyone add the artificial intelligence digital assistant to their devices.
Meta Cuts Off 1,000 Kenyan Contractors After They Reportedly Saw People Have Sex on Ray-Ban Glasses
Meta has terminated its contract with a Kenyan firm after reports of privacy breaches involving Ray-Ban smart glasses footage, raising concerns about data handling and AI training practices.
Tesla falls out of China's EV top 10 as BYD surges
For drivers, switching to an EV can also bring meaningful savings.
The Web Design Museum released 44 classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser.
The Web Design Museum released 44 classic Cartoon Network Flash games from the early 2000s, now playable in the browser. Play them here: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games
Nintendo has announced that it will adopt separate price points for digital and physical Switch 2 exclusive games published by the company
South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
The cameras were located in private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, …
AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?
Digital clones of porn performers are on the rise. Is it a moneymaking dream or a dystopian nightmare?
I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. It’s the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you won’t get the sam…