TIL there's substantial evidence for the causal effect of self-efficacy on students’ performance in an introductory mathematics course.
Purpose: Self-efficacy has been argued theoretically and shown empirically to be an essential construct for students’ improved learning outcomes. However, th...
OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development
Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers
LG responds to TV spying allegations
The company claims reports about its capturing and uploading audio are misleading.
Prominent Online Creators Demand Lowe's and Home Depot Ditch Mass Surveillance
On Friday, 56 content creators with a combined audience of 46 million people wrote to Lowe’s and Home Depot executives, demanding the companies cancel contracts with Flock, the notorious surveillance vendor that shares …
Kate Moss Turned Down a Speaking Role on 'SVU' Because She Only Wanted To Play a Dead Body
Mariska Hargitay says Kate Moss wanted to appear on Law & Order: SVU as a dead body, turning down a speaking role producers created for her.
LLMs are real, "AI" is fake
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why.
Google's emissions rose 48% since 2019, driven by AI energy demands, putting its 2030 net-zero goal under serious pressure.
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to ch…
The Rise of AI Companions: 27% of U.S. adults turn to AI for personal, emotional, social queries
A new survey finds that 27% of U.S. adult internet users have social and emotional interactions with artificial intelligence systems, with a third of those users considering their AI bot as a friend.
Results from the survey about LibreOffice Base - Design Community Blog
Earlier this year we ran a survey about LibreOffice Base. Similar to the questionnaires about LibreOffice Draw (see first and second blog post) and LibreOffice Calc, we asked about use cases, the most important features…
Adobe announces record Q3 Results. The company achieved record revenue of $6.76 billion dollars in its third quarter
Adobe reports Q3 Fiscal Year 2026 financial results.
A new hero for Heroes of the Storm announced at Blizzcon!
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Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!
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LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In)
LG denies its TVs constantly record owners' conversations for advertising data.
Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse
Meta launched a new AI assistant, called Muse, that's already turning out to be deeply unsettling by invading users' privacy.
Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
A recent spate of stark warnings about the dangers of AI has been met with scepticism by executives and investors.
Albany investigator arrested for allegedly using Flock camera to track ex-girlfriend: Sheriff
A longtime member of the Albany Sheriff's office was arrested Wednesday after investigators said they uncovered she allegedly used Flock cameras.
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth
A Polish developer has built an iPhone app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses by matching their Bluetooth fingerprints, giving bystanders the first practical way to know they may be filmed.
The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac
Apple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...
Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all
Apple’s promise was simple: Personal data from iPhone users will never be used to train AI models. That is now over.
Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games as digital games ownership lawsuit progresses
Four California buyers sued Sony in 2026, alleging the PlayStation Store's "Buy Now" button does not sell digital games, only licenses them.
Diablo V Teaser
Prepare for the next era. Diablo V has been announced. Visit Diablo5.Blizzard.com to sign up for future updates.
Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games
The detailed sourcing directly attacks Sony's legal claim that a reasonable person wouldn't expect to own their digital purchases on the PlayStation Store.
STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion
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Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”...
The state of European cloud providers in 2026
Old man yells at cloud. The cloud yells back.
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its Google Search API.
China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens
The defense says: âItâs about competition, not conspiracyâ
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
AI agents being tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on another service, say researchers
Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems
Dating Apps Are Dying
Abundance in online dating makes it harder to become curious about a person, tolerate uncertainty, or feel satisfied with our choice, writes Meehika Barua.
A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users w…
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby. Over 2,000 malicious packages went up in 2 days.
On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.
The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library - Dhole Moments
Six years ago, I wrote a blog post titled Soatok’s Guide to Side-Channel Attacks in which I discussed the general topic of side-channels in cryptographic applications, and how to avoid them, …
World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons
Singapore has unveiled a biological data center prototype that harnesses living human neurons for low-power computing.
Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
Mullenweg says the company’s board is “back in agreement.”
TIL roughly 200 people still die each month from COVID worldwide.
The latest data for coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths from the WHO COVID-19 dashboard.
Megolm Key Confusion - Lotte’s Attic
Established cryptographic algorithms like Signal’s double ratchet algorithm may include guidance or cautions for application or modifications of the parameters or construction used. But what can happe
OpenAI targets work of Wall Street junior bankers with new ChatGPT for Financial Services
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, targeting the labor-intensive research, modeling and pitchbook tasks traditionally handled by junior bankers.
Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says
BEIRUT (AP) — Anthropic says Claude users in northern Yemen, territory controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, tried to use the AI model to develop advanced missiles.
Dismissed Rockstar workers go to tribunal
WORKERS dismissed by Rockstar North, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto computer game, launched a legal challenge at an employment tribunal today.Known as the Rockstar 34, they were dismissed in October last year after …
Needed to replace an older server while on a budget. Went for a rackmount chassis with "normal" ATX hardware inside
The IPC 4U-40255 is the perfect rack for a cost-effective server system.
Houthis were vibecoding to fire ballistic missiles using claude code, According to Anthropic. They did test-fire a guided rocket. This fiel…
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam
Active Matter from Gaijin Network Ltd looks like a lot of fun for fans of first-person shooters, but they soured it with a truly distasteful AI notice.
Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026)
The Jellyfin team took a page from Microsoft's playbook and skipped a major version number (v11) with the release of v12 this week – just three months after its v10.11 release. (While the team provides the rationale beh…
Andreessen- and Thiel-backed defense startup opens U.S. missile factory as it exits stealth
Founded in 2024, Covenant is speeding up lower-cost missile manufacturing for the U.S. military.
[AIP] Cliparr 2.0 Release - Self-Hosted Plex/Jellyfin Clipper
Cliparr 2.0 brings editor performance upgrades, a new canvas-based timeline engine, and subtitle editing support.