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A ‘Freaked Out’ US Food Industry Is Hitting Back at MAHA — With Social Media Influencers
Big Ag fights back against Make America Healthy Again. Inside the Center for Food Integrity's paid influencer campaign to rebuild trust in the industry.
Being mean to AI could get you banned as Anthropic introduces new rules against abusing Claude
Anthropic's first changes to its usage policy in over a year include new restrictions on abusive behavior. The updated policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel...
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours—Now Its Biggest Russian Site Is Damaged
Yandex said a drone strike hit its data center in Kaluga.
Self-Host Weekly (9 October 2026)
The Princess and the (Photo)Pea
When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who can…
U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green card labor program in foreign worker crackdown
Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cited "multiple active federal investigations" around the two companies' involvement in the program Thursday.
The new Darth Vader: how tech executives became the film villains of our age
Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release
OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected
Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before
Trump says anyone who does not call AI ‘super intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’
US President Donald Trump has warned that all those who do not refer to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as “Super Intelligence” or SI will be considered an enemy of the state. “The White House considers anyone that uses th…
YouTuber Builds System That Mimics Flock to Spy on Cops; Then the Cops Came Knocking
When officers showed up at a YouTuber’s door asking what he planned to do with the data he had collected, he reportedly offered a pointed response: that is the same question citizens ask when police do the same thing to…
Anthropic is launching a 'presidential engagement' effort to advise candidates on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election
“We want every serious candidate and elected official, in both parties, to understand the technology and the case for governing it well.”
OpenAI withdraws 3 preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems
Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors. On Oct. 6, Open…
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure: A $20 billion setback.
It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.
Car Park Capital now available in Early Access
The car industry needs you to design and build the greatest car parks that simple town life hasn't seen before. Introduce the need for car commuting and turn neighborhoods into car parks! Use propaganda to convince peop…
Amazon to Pay $8.25 Million to Resolve Discrimination Lawsuit Over Slow Delivery to Majority-Black D.C. Neighborhood While Charging Residen…
Amazon Will Refund $7.25 Million in Prime Membership Fees to Impacted DC Residents and Reform Its Practices
How a Missing Headphone Jack Became the Monk GTR
Wild Lee of Venture Electronics and Russ from Retro Game Corps on old games, good sound, and the unlikely collaboration behind a $10 pair of earbuds
PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop
It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy – an open-source,
OpenTubeX – Privacy-first YouTube client
OpenTubeX is a privacy-first YouTube client. Encrypted sync, SponsorBlock, no tracking.
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You
Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.
Device helps people with paralysis communicate
A brain-computer interface linked to a virtual avatar helped people with paralysis express speech and body language at the same time.
Mozilla has escalated its fight against Microsoft’s relentless Edge pop-ups
One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cen
Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories: Parent-child bonding time isn't …
A tech worker bragged that he would rather create an AI clone of his voice to read to his newborn baby than read to it himself.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
Release v3.3.0 · immich-app/immich
v3.3.0 NoteWe're collecting feedback related to people sharing in this discussion: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/32196 Welcome to Immich v3.3.0! This release includes people sha...
Flathub Reverses AI-Generated App Ban, Now Requires Disclosure
Flathub reverses its ban on AI-generated apps, introducing mandatory disclosure requirements while keeping restrictions on automated submissions.
YouTuber Builds System That Mimics Flock to Spy on Cops; Then the Cops Came Knocking
A YouTuber built a cop-watching license-plate system, then police knocked on his door asking what he planned to do with the data.
Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
I Developed GAME STREAMING for the DSi
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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
Microsoft Releases LiteBox 0.1, a Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft releases LiteBox 0.1, an open-source Library OS written in Rust, designed to isolate applications and reduce security risks.
Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter
Discord's privacy woes continue as hackers of a third-party security tool make off with 1 million user email addresses.
The newest Star Wars game, Galactic Racer, is published by a small, lesser-known indie company
Star Wars: Galactic Racer publisher Secret Mode explains why supporting the game's niche genre is so important in today's industry.
Demon Bluff | Coming November 2026
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Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
Why Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’
Béjarâs daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Metaâs âwellbeing teamâ, he knew he had to speak out â and his testimony cost it billions
The Triple-i Initiative October 2026
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Machinarium 2 | Announcement Trailer
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With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well
GTA is mainstream now, but the fiery activist who raged against violent videogames in the early 2000s has not softened.
Former Twitch exec calls secrecy over Dr Disrespect’s ban a “big mistake”
Former Twitch director Marcus ‘djWheat’ Graham has criticized the platform’s lack of transparency around major bans such as Dr Disrespect’s.
As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business
Xbox XP will handle non-gaming activities related to film, television, merchandise, and other licensing partnerships.
No human required: Austria's plan for AI-only government decisions// A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authoritie…
A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions with no human ever reviewing the outcome, using AI Systems. We've sent an open letter to parliament, and we want to know if…
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe suite
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
Daggerfall Online
An open-source reimplementation of a classic 1996 RPG, running from your own copy of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. Works on desktop or phone with no install, or as a downloadable app.
Phantom Blade Zero PlayStation 5 Pulled From Playasia Listings, as Retailer Says No Physical Edition Is Coming
Phantom Blade Zero may be digital-only at launch on PlayStation 5 following Playasia customer support confirmation
Russian operation that used ChatGPT tricked schools, a politician and media, OpenAI says: OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching…
OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching influence operation it has disrupted.
KIOXIA's first E1.L QLC-Based SSD built for hyperscale data center workloads has arrived
KIOXIA's new LD4 Series SSD in E1.L form factor brings its BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash memory technology to high-density 1U servers.
Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out
They will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting.