Here's how to block Meta from using your Instagram pictures for its AI
Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI.
US Adults Are Throwing Away Over $250 a Year on Unused Subscriptions, CNET Finds
We're spending more on subscriptions than before, but we're losing even more.
You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went
You all donated en masse to have me use Windows 11 for a month, and so I did. What was it like for a long-time Linux user to go back and experience Windows as it exists now? Is it really as bad as we’ve collectively mad…
Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
Residents no longer have to shoulder the costs of developing the grid to accommodate these large power users.
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances
The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote.
Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.
What Happened to tea.xyz
On June 4th, tea.xyz launched what it had been promising since 2022: a cryptocurrency that pays open source maintainers. Within the first hour of official trading, the token fell 75% from its opening price. A week later…
MIT researcher proposes a way to detect nuclear weapons in space
MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian is proposing a way to determine if a satellite orbiting Earth contains a nuclear weapon. He describes his idea for a satellite-based sensor system that could orbit close by a suspect satel…
Researchers find a way to reliably spot AI writing
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on identifying surfac…
Ofcom fines porn site provider £630,000 over failed age checks
Ofcom has fined a slew of sites it says are failing to prevent children accessing their adult content.
Nekome: Nazi Hunter
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Reusable rockets could turn orbit into military supply chain
Ten minutes after liftoff, SpaceX cut its own live feed on the Starfall demonstration flight. No orbit confirmation, no payload description, no further commentary. It was the kind of silence usually reserved for nationa…
TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs...
[Video] Anti-Gencocide activists disrupted Amazon vice president and Chief Technology Officer speech at the UN AI for Good Summit. Calls o…
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Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit
DS president Kim Yong-Kwan told staff the unit's 2026 operating profit will top everything it has earned since Samsung entered the memory business.
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
The Federal Trade Commission, along with five states, secured an important settlement in an antitrust lawsuit against farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Company that will ensure farmers can en
Meta Buried Research Linking Instagram To Teen Harm While Facing $1.4 Trillion Penalty That Could Erase Its Entire Worth
Meta is accused of halting a study showing Facebook's negative mental health effects, as it faces a potential £1.05 trillion penalty from four US states over addictiveness claims.
Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared
Palworld passes 40 million players ahead of its July 10 exit from Early Access, with Pocketpair recapping two and a half years of updates.
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
Tech oligarchs helping DHS set up authoritarian surveillance state, report says
A new report lays out the ties between wealthy tech industry figures and the Trump administration’s rapidly advancing access to surveillance technology
Watching the internet fall on this guy is hilarious...
Are you tired of paying more for streaming services just to see all your favorite shows and movies disappear? Build your own Plex server, so you can stream your media library locally.
Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay
This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part will set out recommendations for companies and policymakers.Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes m…
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
Astra — free Jellyfin client for the new Vega OS Fire TV Sticks
Amazon's Vega OS broke Jellyfin access on new Fire TV Sticks. Astra fixes that — connect to your own server, watch your own library.
Kent hospital first to use AI to identify infections in patients
Staff in Canterbury say using the software frees up time to focus on caring for patients.
TIL about hedonic regression which decomposes the item being researched into its constituent characteristics
In economics, hedonic regression, also sometimes called hedonic demand theory, is a revealed preference method for estimating demand or value of a characteristic of a differentiated good. It decomposes the item being re…
Update: 136 workers have been laid off at id Software
The news comes with Xbox preparing to 'reset' its video game division by eliminating 3,200 roles.
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.
Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
Nearly one-third of corporate executives surveyed did not understand how their operating costs relate to AI deployment.
FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees
FCC to let ISPs stop listing all passthrough fees, give single "up to" price.
TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.
The heat generated by the small box of powerful computers is enough to heat the pool about 60% of the time.
A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.
Rising anger over widespread layoffs, disillusionment with Big Tech, and threats of mass displacement by AI have tech pros taking a good, hard look at unions.
Fair PlayStation : Sony is Facing a Lawsuit Seeking More Than €400 Million in Damages on Behalf of 1.7 Million Players Over The So-Called “…
Op maandag 29 juni 2026 vindt de eerste zitting plaats voor de rechtbank Midden-Nederland in de collectieve rechtszaak van Stichting Massaschade & Consument tegen Sony. De stichting daagde het bedrijf…
Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted during a town hall on Thursday that AI agents in particular weren't progressing as fast as he wanted
Sony's Disc-Free 2028 Plan Hands it Total Price Control, Dutch Group Warns in Exclusive Wccftech Statement as €400M Lawsuit Escalates
Sony’s end of PlayStation discs could hand it total price control, the Dutch group behind the €400M Fair PlayStation lawsuit tells Wcctech.
Accenture investigating breach after threat actor claims Azure DevOps data theft
Threat actor "888" claims 35GB of Accenture source code, SSH keys, and Azure tokens. A technical breakdown of the claim, the credentials, and what's actually verified
'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."
Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up
Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot after three years, only 1% use it weekly, and Microsoft raised prices regardless.
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”
Good luck fighting those charges.
A Modern Setup Guide for the PSP-2000 (Jailbreak, Plugins, and More)
Giving Sony's legendary handheld a second life with modern storage, custom firmware, and a fresh setup
[Drawn Out] Rockstar & Sony Think You're Stupid
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Linus Torvalds said "When people say 99% of their code is written by AI, I get angry".
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble
Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust.
Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one
The company proved that there's a demand for modular laptops, but it's not nearly enough
U.S. Government Accountability Office: Department of Energy Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
To clean up nuclear waste, the Department of Energy spends billions of taxpayer dollars on large projects, like waste treatment facilities. When...
Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release
About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many appli…
Meta says 4 states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial
Meta told a court that California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey seek $1.4 trillion in penalties before an August youth-safety trial.
Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach
Modern PC games make you install a ring-0 anti-cheat driver you can't audit.
Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and creat…
New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.
Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment
Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.