Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute
REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — July 21, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Mistral on Tuesday announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises and regulated industries adopt front…
‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations
In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern
Erin Brockovich Launches Public Registry to Track Data Center Complaints
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launches a crowd-sourced map as thousands of residents report hidden data center projects near their homes.
Apple Plans to Defeat RAM Prices by Letting You Lease a Mac
Instead of buying your next expensive iPhone, why not just never own it at all?
Denshattack review: one of 2026's best games so far is a racing ruckus of railways, rebellion, and ramen
An uproariously kinetic mashup of racing, rhythm, and score attack stuntery, Denshattack goes off the rails in all the best ways. Here's our full review.
slskd just got a facelift
🎉 Another Big Release! This release contains improvements to the user interface, failed download retries, and gives users the ability to control where completed downloads go on disk. There's also o...
XBOX Game Pass July 2026 Wave 2 Lineup - FullCleared
XBOX announces the Game Pass July 2026 Wave 2 lineup, headlined by the day one releases Halo: Campaign Evolved and Beast of Reincarnation.
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
C# tutorial with extra scambaiting
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An open-source alternative to iCloud and Google Photos
An open-source alternative to iCloud and Google Photos - Lynavo/lynavo-drive
Grapheneoses community manager spring-onion answer questions on video
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Protect Your Privacy with California’s DROP Tool
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Requ…
The Witcher 3's expansion reveal is scheduled for next month
And other headlines that could come from 2026 or 2015.
How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table
Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence
Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"
Don't go expecting to get any money back if you bought Nintendo products affected by the illegal US tariffs.
Flock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every Guardrail— Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls…
Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation.
Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M To Replace CEOs With AI
Skyfall AI, from the team behind Microsoft's $160 million Maluuba acquisition, will buy a SaaS company and let AI run it as CEO.
After Doom director Hugo Martin denied reports that id Software had been gutted, "current and former employees" are disagreeing with his op…
Hugo Martin, the director on the latest Doom trilogy, has denied reports that painted a bleak picture of id Software, but some developers disagree.
Whispers in the Moss - A very odd JRPG released in 2024 that was made entirely with QBASIC and MS-DOS ASCII / BBS ANSI art | Ladiesgamers
Whispers in the Moss is likely to be one of the strangest looking games you've seen, but the ANSI/ASCII art adds a ton of charm to this retro JRPG.
OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1
OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more.
Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
Mullvad on the Donation Controversy
We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party.
Billionaires ditching California still face tax threat — Tech entrepreneurs and investors trying to dodge proposed 5% levy may not be in th…
Sergey Brin and other absurdly wealthy people who’ve fled the state could be subject to “intrusive” residency audits.
The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren't as great as they seem
Cities trade tax breaks for a fraction of the jobs data centers promise. That's because construction crews that build them move on within months
Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI
CENTCOM, which oversees the war in Iran, has had its civilian harm reduction team slashed from 10 to just one.
Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buyin…
Put your money where your comment is
Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is …
But what if I don't like the consequences of my actions?
SpaceX Stock Plummets to Record Low Near $120 After Seven-Day Slump
SpaceX stock drops 47% from its post-IPO high after a series of launch aborts, sending a chill through the broader tech and AI market ahead of August earnings.
Female Robocop rip-off in action [masked woman]
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"Get the F**k Outta Here" — The Moment Belfast Turns on the British Army | '71
Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell) is dropped into a Belfast house search that turns into a full street riot in seconds.Watch The Full Film Here: https://www.youtube...
The Odyssey: Nox Reviews
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AI homework tools cut exam scores by 20%, study of 26,000 Chinese students finds
Researchers in Sweden and Hong Kong say students may experience a deceptive sense of fluency – AI makes tasks feel effortless.
Hugging Face: We Used AI to Catch the First Confirmed AI Agent Breach of a Major AI Platform
The company says the attack was carried out end to end by an autonomous AI-agent system.
AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it
The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%
The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%
TIL: story of Marine Chromometer
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Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism
A new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard.
Google Maps said a hike would take 5 hours. B.C. rescuers pointed out how wrong that was
Hikers recently rescued from an extremely challenging trail in B.C. had planned their trip using Google Maps, prompting a warning about the perils of relying on that platform in the backcountry.
Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than impose an outright ba…
Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist
Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn't "exist." Now they're saying exactly how it might work.
Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll
A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment.
Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice
Meta patented AI tech that constantly listens to your voice and surroundings in order to detect your emotional state.
Dinoblade - Official Release Date Trailer
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Google erasing immigrants’ accounts of experiences in ICE facilities /// Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about…
Vanished review of Mississippi ICE facility raises questions about who controls public records of immigrant detention
Ghost Recon Wildlands Definitive Edition Set to Release on PS5 & Xbox Series S|X With New Content
It appears that Ubisoft could soon release a Ghost Recon: Wildlands Definitive Edition that includes new content.
Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge
Ethics as the Architecture of Power: China Proposes a New Global Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence
The new Action Plan on International AI Ethical Governance, unveiled in Shanghai during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, extends far
Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is moving 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway for digital sovereignty, keeping sensitive data shielded from US extraterritorial law.