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
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The Insectothopter: The CIA's dragonfly spy drone from the 1970s
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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.
Eve Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
"If we improve the code and we can all benefit from it, it's good for everyone," says Fenris's Ben Hunter, as he talks security, LLM coding, and help from Godot
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".
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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.
Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett and Gary Lockwood in The Lieutenant (1964)
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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.
Dinosaurs of the Wild West | Official Kickstarter Trailer (4K)
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ASCILINE: A high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine. Streams binary-encoded frames via WebSockets for ultra-low latency, 3…
A high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine. Streams binary-encoded frames via WebSockets for ultra-low latency, 30 FPS playback using HTML5 Canvas and requestAnimationFrame. - Yusuf...
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? 💻🔪
Try to spot who liked hacking away at corpses rather than computers
Blood of the Dawnwalker is much more than its Witcher 3 inspirations (Hands-On Impressions)
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Illinois Drops the Hammer on AI Companies. Pritzker isn't playing.
On Monday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act into law, giving the Midwest state arguably the strictest set of regulations yet designed to protect its citizenry from the…
How to Setup Authelia in Docker with SWAG Reverse Proxy (2026)
Stop exposing unsecured apps. Learn how to deploy Authelia in Docker with a KeyDB backend and SWAG to enforce centralized Multi-Factor Authentication.
Why Vandal Savage Had To Win To Be Defeated | Justice League
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FBI, Google Take Down NetNut Proxy Network Used by Cyber Threat Actors
The NetNut proxy network and the ‘Popa’ botnet are known to have infected devices with variants of Mirai DDoS botnets
Doctor Who Argues AI Art in 1979
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India orders Meta to remove paid ads promoting child sexual abuse
The order comes days after the BBC published an investigation about the platform showing such ads to users.
Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in state lawsuits over social media addiction
Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.
Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria
Meta's AI data center campus in Wyoming is in trouble after local officials linked the facility's wastewater to a deadly pathogen.
Microsoft cuts 4,800 Jobs( 2.1% of their global workforce)
Amy Coleman, EVP and Chief People Officer, shared the following communication with employees today. When I stepped into this role, I promised to communicate more openly with you and share the “why” behind our decisions.…
Meta Operated a Secret Program That Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Children and Teenagers While Having Disturbing Conversati…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors to pose as children and teenagers while asking chatbots like ChatGPT about suicide and even cannibalism.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Proposes to Weaken Radiation Protections, Putting Workers and Communities at Risk
The NRC proposed a rule weakening radiation protection standards for workers, the public and the environment