Sega Issues DMCA Takedowns to Scrub Persona 6 Images From the Internet, as Fans Expect Imminent Announcement
Images allegedly showing leaked Persona 6 characters and logos have been scrubbed from the internet via copyright claim, with Sega believed to be behind the takedowns.
NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.47 released: Foods quick-view, scheduled backups, diary drill-down
Added Tap a food on the Foods tab to open a quick-view sheet with the full Nutrition Facts label, brand, and barcode, plus Add to Diary and Edit buttons right on the sheet. Replaces the previous b...
Premier says no to massive AI data centre proposed for south of Winnipeg â Big AI centres offer little economic benefit while impacting peoâŚ
A large AI data centre pitched for a 141-hectare tract of farmland south of Winnipeg will not go ahead, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says.
Disguised Russian banking app surges to top three on the US App Store
Update: The app appears to have been removed two hours after our story was published. The third most popular free...
TIL the stop motion film industry is propped up by one rich kid
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
TIL: That in 2021 almost 50% of adult Canadians struggle with literacy
One in six adult Canadians falls short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests, making them functionally illiterate, and this could mean problems as a post-COVID-19 economic recovery ramps up.
Self-Host Weekly (5 June 2026)
42 million Plex users can't be wrong
"Nobody's making games for the retired people" â The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers
Games are overwhelmingly made by and marketed to younger generations, argue analysts, while the older demographic is being ignored
We spent $50 to measure Pearl's "AI mining" â 320K GPUs produce zero AI
Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain with high-profile AI industry endorsements, markets its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol as simultaneously securing the network and performing AI inference. We present the first systematiâŚ
YouTube hikes Premium subscription cost again while adding advanced video features
YouTube is raising the price of its Premium subscriptions by as much as $4, but the Google-owned platform is compensating with new video features.
Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch
In a blog post, Valve detailed its Verified programs for Steam Machine and Steam Frame, and insists both pieces of hardware are still coming this summer.
Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
âIt's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didnât read it for whateâŚ
Google wants your phone to track your heart rate by simply looking at you
Your next heart-rate monitor may not be a smartwatch at all. Google's latest research hints at a surprisingly simple alternative.
Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
VWâs sales and marketing boss reckons people will move to EVs organically, just as they did with ICE cars in the early 20th century
TIL one of the Unabomber's victims had a six-year correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.
David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist and writer. He was a professor of computer science at Yale University.[2]
In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban
Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds
A recent survey shows a dramatic swing against new data center construction.
Google DeepMind CEO says we don't have much time to prepare for the 'new human era'
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said AGI is just a few years a way and that humanity doesn't have much time to prepare for it.
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
A 29-year-old man has created magnetic cement, and his invention promises to revolutionize a construction sector that has not undergone a tâŚ
A 29-year-oldâs magnetic cement could end drilling walls, turning everyday surfaces into flexible, reusable storage systems
Deltaruneâs Tenna Brought To Life
For those who have never played the hit video games Undertale and Deltarune, the games are partially known for their interesting characters, many of which have eerie, surreal, and expressive designâŚ
Signal, DuckDuckGo among firms weighing Canada exit over lawful access bill - National | Globalnews.ca
Signal is among the most prominent platforms to make such a threat while speaking out against Bill C-22, while VPN providers have also threatened to leave or curtail services.
Seattle poised to ban new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium
Measure in Amazon and Microsoftâs backyard expected to succeed next week as backlash grows amid AI boom
GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy
The latest financial filings from the action camera giant cast doubt on GoProâs ability to return to profitability within the next 12 months
Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
It has now been a quarter century since Penny Arcade proclaimed that "videogames suck now".
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
Researchers say social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard posed as Scottish and Irish citizens
Researchers say that social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posed as Scottish and Irish nationals in order to cultivate their following, before switching their narrative to spreadâŚ
Hackers could use poisoned WhatsApp and Slack notifications to take over your Google Gemini â and make it work on their behalf
The attack relies on hidden prompts in a foreign language.
A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.
'Bots have now passed human traffic online,â Cloudflare boss laments â says agentic traffic wasnât expected to eclipse real people until neâŚ
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firmâs latest data.
FTC Seeks Comment on X Corp. Petition to Set Aside or Modify FTC Order Concerning Twitter
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a petition from X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, to set aside or modify its
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Googleâs CEO says 75% of the companyâs code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI theyâre using is overhyped.
007 First Light sequels will be 'done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,' Amazon exec says
IO Interactive self-published 007 First Light, but don't expect that to happen with future releases.
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
As it turns out, telling the worldâs workers to prepare for a dystopia rife with poverty and alienation isnât the smartest way to market your exciting new tech.
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition will launch for Switch 2 on August 28, publisher Bandai Namco and developer FromSoftware announced.
Palantir Systemsâ Potential for Enshittification Has Become an âUnacceptableâ Risk, UK Politicians Say
Plus dealing with Alex Karp doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Amazonâs search bar will invent AI-generated products you canât buy
You can search for products that look like the fake images.
GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services
SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says
The analysts see a wide range of possibilities around xAI and find its "economic moat indeterminate."
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.
Can E. coli run Doom? Yes, at 2.6 fpd (frames per day)
It would take nearly 600 years to finish playing this MIT student's iteration of the classic video game.
Amazon sued over Ring facial recognition feature
At the center of the lawsuit? Familiar Faces, a Ring doorbell feature that scans and identifies people at your door.
AI agents lag far behind human workers. Why are tech companies laying off the humans?
AI-related layoffs are in full swing as tech companies invest in artificial intelligence agents they say will take over tasks traditionally done by humans. But a major AI infrastructure and software company says the ageâŚ
Donât repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators
NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin
Microsoft Edge and Aloha caught sharing precise user location data with third parties
A new study from Surfshark reveals that many top mobile web browsers don't just track where you go online, they track exactly where you are in the real world.
AI Has Ruined the Job Market
Maybe flawed people were better than brute algorithms.
Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies â proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownershiâŚ
âThe time has come to reclaim what was stolen from us,â says U.S. senator
Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 â except the U.S
The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.
Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the worldâs most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW withinâŚ
Switzerlandâs giant underground battery could reshape Europeâs power grid with 1.2 GW released in milliseconds.