A Pensacola Fishing Charter Hauled a Large Military Drone Out of the Gulf
Pensacola fishing charter pulls a large military-style drone from the Gulf near Eglin Air Force Base; model and origin remain unconfirmed.
Polymarket Bug Reportedly Let Identity Thieves Into Existing Accounts
The flaw apparently exposed accounts, and the cards and bank links attached to them.
TIL about View-Verse, another competitor to YouTube
View-Verse is a video platform to watch, upload, and subscribe to channels from creators worldwide.
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them.
Australia's government is considering a first of its kind ban on smart glasses by prohibiting them in government workplaces.
Teaching A Robot Hand To Walk
Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween. Designed by researchers from ETH Zurich…
Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes
The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ordinary websites you …
DraftKings Allegedly Used AI to Target Bonus Bets at Customers Expected to Lose the Most
DraftKings used a machine-learning model to target gamblers most likely to lose, while a risk-detection effort was reportedly shelved.
Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC
“You can’t go wrong,” says the Russian president squinting at the screen to check that he didn’t go wrong, before thanking the computer.
Companies Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds: One-quarter of companies and a third of data broker…
One-quarter of companies and a third of data brokers failed to fulfill personal data requests under state privacy laws.
Flock Lawsuit Calls Out Alleged Law Enforcement Misuse of Nationwide License Plate-Reading Camera Network
Flock faces a class action lawsuit over the alleged misuse of its license plate-reading camera network by certain members of law enforcement nationwide.
Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get throu…
A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)
"For safety, don't click suspicious links"
Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
Household data can convict, exonerate or mislead. That makes digital forensics indispensable and demands careful guardrails
‘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…
Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights
The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, itâs looked back on with misty-eyed reverence
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear
The SkyNomad—with heated floors, a projector, a pop-up roof, a fridge, swiveling seats, and over 1,000 miles of range—is a “luxury” ride that undercuts Range Rovers by tens of thousands of dollars.
Badges, Not Just Bans: The White House Press Ban Just Got Physical
The White House confiscated MS NOW press badges and blocked entry after Trump banned the network, CNN, and Politico. Here's how outlets across the spectrum
Startup Claims Ocean Uranium Could Power Earth for 50,000 Years
Ocean uranium extraction startup Fluxnium raised $7M to commercialize DOE fiber technology, but costs still exceed market rates by more than 2x.
Newsom Orders California to Explore AI ‘Kill Switch’ and New Safety Rules
Official website of the State of California
Australia claims it is a global pioneer in preventing online harm – should other countries follow suit?
As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller country
Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threa…
The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.
Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science.
DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input
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Quality Software
We lost something over the last 10 years. Cloud solves some of the problems, but heavy usage of cloud creates so much more problems that it solves it. And the cost of the Cloud with the DevOps in it can be saved with sm…
Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent …
Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear
AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
JPMorgan rolls out Claude changes: $2,000 spending limits and extra security
Internal Teams messages show that some engineers at the bank who use Claude have monthly spending limits.
Slingshot Speeders | Quick Tutorial | The First Orbital Racing Game
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Labor Market Outcomes for AI-Exposed College Majors: Graduating in AI Era Is Like Large Recession for Starting Pay
The most AI-exposed new college grads have initial employment declines of 5pp and earnings declines of 13%, partially driven by shifts to lower-paying sectors.
Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent t…
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026
Despite the harsh criticism, Sony's new Wolverine game may have sold tremendously well, achieving nearly 2 million sales in just a few days' time.
Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley
This is a blog post version of the talk I delivered at Software Should Work 2026. Shoutouts to Isaac Van Doren for running such a delightful conference and nailing it first try, and for infecting us all with his charmin…
How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture
You can just prove things, apparently.
Most of France’s "Competing" PC Hardware Retailers Are the Same Company
LDLC Group owns LDLC.com, Materiel.net, TopAchat and Rue du Commerce. What that means for French GPU prices, measured against Germany over 6 months.
TotalEnergies partners with Mistral to develop AI models for oil and gas exploitation
Three-year contract worth an estimated €100 million
Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you…
There are some questionable stages in the mutant maelstrom
Self-Host Weekly (18 September 2026) by @eshol
Two apps, a dev, and a pizza place
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
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
Tens of millions of Russians have been forced to install a new app called Max on their phones
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to âbackdoorâ on their device
Who gets the kidney? AI chatbots do not make the same moral choices humans do
Researchers in the College of Information Sciences and Technology found that AI models approach high-stakes ethical decisions differently than humans do and show little of the uncertainty people may express when faced w…
Plasma and electricity convert CO₂ into methanol, butane and other useful chemicals
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) can be harmful to the environment in large amounts but can be used in the production of fuels and other useful chemicals. Doing so isn't easy, though. Now, Yale researchers have developed a new way …
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
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 …
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit
A grassroots live tour by YouTuber Louis Rossmann highlights growing resistance to companies that keep people from controlling their devices.