GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.
Magneto Hates Red Skull
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Haunted Chocolatier 'More of an Action RPG' Compared to Stardew Valley, ConcernedApe Says
Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, has discussed the difference between his all-conquering indie game Stardew Valley and his hotly anticipated follow-up, Haunted Chocolatier.
Fitbit Edge May Be the Sweet Spot for Smartwatch Noncommittals - CNET
Google's new $179 tracker sits between the screenless Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch 5, promising some of the best parts of both without fully committing to either.
Guillermo del Toro looks back at Pan's Labyrinth and why it's still relevant today
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French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown...
CHAPTER I: OUT OF THE BREACH | Hytale
Embark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons …
Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity
Peppermint OS Expands Beyond Debian with Void Linux-Based PepVoid
Peppermint OS is testing PepVoid, a new Void Linux-based edition featuring Xorg and XLibre, with an official release potentially coming in November.
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of…
Forcing Pro VFX Artists to Use Only Free Software
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'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store price…
A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.
"Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot - Robot Girl Gang
The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"
Qualcomm CEO says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by…
Cristiano Amon on the China vs. US AI sentiment, how AI is changing smartphones and wearables, Qualcomm’s data center strategy, and what 6G will unlock.
Honda Wants to Put a Robotic Lab Assistant on Future Commercial Space Stations
Honda today announced efforts to develop a robotics solution for future commercial space stations that could reduce the time needed for astronauts to conduct experiments and laboratory operations in space.
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Amid a surge in AI content, many are placing extra value on art that's obviously made by a human. But can that last, asks Ros Atkins
Anthropic will be ‘most ridiculous IPO’ of year, analyst says
Anthropic reportedly plans to list on the Nasdaq before Thanksgiving, and one bearish advisory firm suggests that investors sit this one out.
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite pirac…
Transitioning from Adobe to a free alternative without an adjustment period sounds like a dream.
Amazon Drivers Are Now Photographing Your Home
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Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic”…
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Open source canva alternative
Open source canva alternative. Contribute to shaongitbd/doory development by creating an account on GitHub.
The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants: "These facilities could lock America into decades of …
Energy companies plan to increase the amount of gas-fired electrical capacity by as much as 44 percent by 2030 across the US.
Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%
Are consoles too expensive right now?
Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
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XRP Bug Could Have Let Hackers Print Billions in Crypto Out of Thin Air
Crypto has dealt with multiple inflation bugs this year, one of the many signs that vulnerabilities found in industry projects are becoming more serious.
'Just canceled your order': Elon Musk trolled as he 'doxxes himself' with his full address
Elon Musk was mocked online on Sunday morning after he showed off an AI shopping assistant and appeared to reveal the address where he gets his mail.âI just asked Grok @Bot to research the most fun Lego Star Wars kits…
Russia’s Yandex says data centre in Vladimir shut down after drone attack
Third strike on Yandex facilities in a week comes as Russia and Ukraine escalate attacks on tech infrastructure.
Wolfman's Got Nards!
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Still no Cringley obit on https://www.cringely.com/
Last week somebody rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents bossed around by a smarter one, and the whole thing cost about eight dollars — sandwich and a coffee. But the part that lit up my corner of t…
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Global experts warn that today’s decisions across health, finance, climate, defense and security sectors will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to preventable illness and early …
TIL that 302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, only 15 did.
Nearly half of LA's $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.
As PlayStation Pushes Ahead With Its Plan to Kill Physical Media, 35% of Marvel's Wolverine Sales Were on Disc
According to retail data, 35% of Marvel’s Wolverine sales were physical discs.
Tech Workers Have Long Resisted Unions. Will AI and Politics Change the Equation? | KQED
Silicon Valley’s white-collar workers have been largely detached from organized labor. Artificial intelligence and ICE are giving employees new reasons to unionize.
DERELIKT - Official Demo Trailer
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TIL: Rainbows are actually full circles
Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.
AI LLMs that see every letter: Most LLMs never see the individual letters of a word directly. A new method changes that by retrofitting exi…
Most AI language models never see the individual letters of a word directly. A new method changes that by retrofitting existing models at a fraction of the usual training cost.
2 Characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers: Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impe…
Why аррӏө.com, a Cyrillic lookalike of apple.com, still displays in Unicode in Chromium, and how its IDN checks, the .com registry, and webmail handle it.
Protecting Who? “Bring Your Own Power” Projects for AI Data Centers Would Wreak Havoc on Communities and the Environment, New Report Finds
The rapid expansion of “Bring Your Own Power” arrangements for AI data centers will lead to a massive gas buildout that poses serious risks to communities and the environment
The Document Foundation gets its own logo after 16 years - OMG! Ubuntu
The Document Foundation, the non-profit steering the development of LibreOffice, has unveiled a new logo. The change means that, for the first time since
Cloudflare Acquires Deno JavaScript Runtime, Core Development to End in 2027
Cloudflare acquires Deno, shifting its developers to Workers while the open-source JavaScript runtime faces an uncertain future.
Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
Let's Encrypt will reduce TLS certificate validity from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027, with a further reduction to 45 days planned for 2028.
Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subsc…
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Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again
Likely to offer new options with DDR4 support.
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Every figure in the AI chapter, with sample sizes.
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
TL;DR AWS Bedrock AgentCore is AWS’s managed platform for deploying and operating AI agents. It’s a one stop shop allowing developers to easily deploy their…