Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action
In a letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Sanders writes that almost every day brings a new story about how these companies are losing...
San Francisco company offers cleaning service using humanoid robots
A robotics startup has begun offering humanoid home cleaning services for $30 an hour to selected applicants in San Francisco.
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2
New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras
What just happened? Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project is testing whether computer-generated patterns can interfere with software used to identify people, vehicles, and other objects on surveillance cameras. The pr…
Inside Swiff: An Interview with NaviVani on Bringing Flash Games Back to Android
From childhood memories to the RG Rotate, the developer behind Swiff explains why the lost games of the early web still matter.
Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you creat…
A trick to break the walls of hidden partitions.
How Claude marks AI-generated content: (1) watermarks embedded in text, and (2) signed provenance metadata attached to files.
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re plannin…
YouTube announces monetization changes that make it harder for new creators to make money
We’re making important changes to help the YouTube Partner Program remain the leader in the creator economy.
Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers'
The AI boom has turned the standard profit margin model on its head, according to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok—and it’s making the industry’s growth unsustainable.
TIL There's a Secret Netflix for Billionaires
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More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6
In a new interview, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said that more people are buying the $100 edition of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6)
Quebec apple grower using anti-hail cannon to protect crops from icy weather
Anti-hail cannons aren't a new invention for farming, having originated in Europe but are now manufactured in various countries such as New Zealand and Germany.
Humanising LLM Outputs is Dumb
The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting for AI tools is usually X, viral GitHub repositories and Hacker News. One of these tells Iâve been seeing a lot lately is skills like I have ADHD…
Two Decades of Cheaper Memory Vanished in One Brutal Year
Memory prices are surging up to 95% as AI dominates chip supply — analysts warn costs won't normalize until 2028, so buy RAM and SSDs now.
Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads
Windows 11 Weather app consumes up to 1.6GB of RAM and displays third-party ads — roughly five times heavier than macOS's equivalent.
After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi …
Germany's strict laws surrounding depictions of Nazis meant the game had to be altered, giving it an arguably more interesting story as a result.
India moves to rein in consumer 5G network slicing
India has proposed safeguards for 5G network slicing services to protect regular users' experience.
A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI - The Atlantic
Is there any way of fighting back?
Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.
Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents — and a guillotine — pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.
Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware
A new report claims Microsoft has raised the cost of the Windows license by up to 10% for certain OEMs, which is much higher than usual.
Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike
Workers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the Times Tech Guild b…
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500 word love letter to AI seeks 'superintelligence for everyone'
Mark Zuckerberg set out his vision for the future of AI as Meta released its newest model.
LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor.
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact. Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop.
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
Terraria's biggest mod, Calamity, is shutting down after 10 years over what the makers call a "troubled past" and "irrecoverably tainted re…
"Most of us want to simply move on…"
Bernie Sanders Calls on Tech Giants to Pause Development of Out-of-Control AI
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 10 – Following recent and repeated public reporting about artificial intelligence (AI) technology breaking outside of human control and creating potentially dangerous viruses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (…
ANOMALITH and CRYMELIGHT's limited-time demos extended as devs work on improvements
Furyu extends ANOMALITH and CRYMELIGHT's limited-time demos due to high player demand.
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understan…
"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Is No Longer Playable On Switch
We'll be playing all our games through the Cloud in three years, apparently. Not sure how excited I am about that based on this ongoing trend.
Valve emailed about a cyberattack against their shipping partner CEVA Logistics in Europe
If you ordered hardware from Valve in Europe recently, some of your details may have unfortunately been leaked.
[Chad Nobark] The New Vegas Ending According To The Fallout TV Show
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Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially…
Quake 4: Awakening was in development at Ritual Entertainment before being scrapped.
Delhi Police Prepare SOP For Tracking Internet Activity of Users Through IPDR Analysis - The Wire
IPDR can be matched with call detail records (CDRs), customer application forms (KYC details), and mobile tower data to provide a “complete picture of any user activity”.
Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat
Small cruise ship rescued skiff in south-east Alaska even though Meta billionaire’s $300m megayacht was closer
Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells
At least 20 Zbtlink router models ship with ENDLESSDOORS, a root backdoor that attempts C2 contact as often as every 35 seconds and accepts commands.
[AIT] Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife
Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife. Multi-model local AI inference, runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi. - tphakala/birdnet-go
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in…
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
Microsoft confirms it accidentally installed new OneDrive app on Windows 11 PCs, and there's no easy way to remove it yet
Microsoft told Windows Latest that it accidentally shipped the AI-powered OneDrive Photos app on Windows 11 more broadly than it should have.
Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers
You know Apple has all your data, but do you really want to be made aware of it?
Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves
Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce
ARC-AGI-3 news: In the past two weeks multiple groups have scored at least 99.9% on the public challenges at relatively low costs.
Community submissions for the ARC-AGI benchmark.
New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency
Syntropic Power and UNIGRID have entered a partnership to commercialize UNIGRID’s sodium chromium oxide battery chemistry in North America.
How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta
The rogue AI attacks involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all tied back to a small Israeli startup named Irregular.
'They Fundamentally Don't Understand Art' — Doom Dev Blasts Xbox After Microsoft 'Gutted' id Software With Layoffs
After layoffs ripped through Doom developer id Software in July, lead services programmer Chris Hays has taken aim at Xbox: "They fundamentally don't understand art."
TP-Link router owners update now - 15 flaws patched. omada especially
Omada platform was found to be vulnerable in several ways
US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash
At least 54 US cities have canceled or rejected Flock license plate camera contracts in 2026 as privacy concerns and false alerts spark nationwide backlash.
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...