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...
Self-hosted analytics and the infrastructure cost of privacy
Iâve spent years preaching privacy, yet here I am installing a tracker. No, this isnât a sellout, I just self-hosted Rybbit. Here is the transparent breakdown.
Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Canadian officials are investigating how an innocent man spent 18 months in prison after police missed an underscore in his Skyrim username.
Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge,…
Different AI chatbots began repeating the same mystical ideas about consciousness and AI rights. Researchers are still trying to explain Spiralism.
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in mos…
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on …
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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.
As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits
A new bill would stop companies from marketing chatbots as therapy and force stricter oversight of AI in mental health care — as a labor union wages a parallel fight against Kaiser Permanente.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels
The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.
TIL that every year, the most powerful people in Michigan meet on an island for 3 days
The Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual Mackinac Policy Conference is a controversial fixture of Michigan politics. Each year politicians, lobbyists, business representatives and community leaders gather at the Grand Hote…
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
[AIP] Fathom v0.11.0: now on Android and Android TV (experimental), plus many more updates!
Fathom 0.11.0 brings the app to Android and Android TV, adds a YouTube Shorts viewer, Android Auto, and an Up Next prompt, and lets you manage and delete items in place. Note: Android TV support i...
Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web...
Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory price…
The price reversal is caused by the unbridled demand for HBM.
€2.99 or €3.49? Proton VPN's Pricing Test Exposed
An investigation into Proton VPN's pricing page found an A/B-test tag linked to two VPN Plus prices: €2.99 and €3.49 per month
Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really)
Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really).
SEC bought access to over a billion airline records to track travelers, no warrant required
Documents obtained by 404 Media through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the SEC subscribed to the Travel Intelligence Program, or TIP, operated by Airlines...
'This Is Unbelievably Scummy' - GTA 6 Fans Are Annoyed By Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game
Grand Theft Auto 6 fans aren't thrilled with Rockstar's decision to release the next look at the game through Netflix.
Roblox Tanked $9 Billion In A Single Day After The Company Admitted It Was Directing Fewer Kids Toward Viral Games That ‘Emphasize Short-Te…
Wall Street seems unhappy about improvements to the Roblox recommendation algorithm
Meta fined for $567 Mn for failing to protect minors on its platforms
A New Mexico judge has penalised the tech giant for creating a public nuisance and endangering children online. Meta confirmed it plans to appeal, insisting it works hard to protect young users across its platforms.
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
New Orleans is using AI to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers. What does this mean for crime and emergency response?
Tech volatility hits highest since dot-com bust next to S&P 500 | Fortune
Worries are rising that positioning in the Nasdaq 100 has become excessive.
A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night
Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
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'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's ext…
Grand Theft Auto 6 fans have called out Rockstar Games for "paywalling" the game's upcoming extended look.
2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out
A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows
Mass surveillance technology might be popular with police departments, but for the US public, it's becoming an increasingly difficult sell.
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers / Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the anti-AI movement is channel…
Data center bans in states like Florida reveal how the movement is becoming a proxy for anti-AI backlash.
DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
DuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable...
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is Mixed on Steam as players report poor PC performance, no Linux support, and countries without PSN unable to…
"This game is aggressively hostile to Linux players for absolutely no reason"
After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infra…
This move should prevent future electricity price increases.
The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN
Fifty years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. And experts think they finally have an issue that killed it.
America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed t…
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YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto
YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the larg…
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.
Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music
The company is going all in on AI features, including AI-generated songs, to turn free users to paid.
Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
Spectre is Back: CPU Mitigations Found to Be Ineffective
Modern processors are fast in part because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it's …
Sony appears to be putting labels on PS5 console boxes to warn people it's ending disc production
It doesn't seem like Sony is backing down on its decision to end production of physical media by 2028 any time soon.
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Mark Zuckerberg apologises for child sex abuse and deepfake content, errors in operating Meta platform.
The apologies are also conveyed by top Meta brass that meets Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in his Rail Bhavan office
GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking its users over Google Play checks
Revolut recently banned using GrapheneOS without any justification. They're falsely claiming to do be doing it for security reasons. In reality, they're enforcing licensing Google Play. Revolut doesn't enforce security …
Boeing 737 Max operators told to check fuselages for cracks
Inspections ordered by US regulator will affect about 470 aircraft, after reported problems in earlier models
Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too
Meta claimed that a recent test of its AI model allowed it to access the internet, an already intimately familiar narrative by this point.
New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay to Establish $567 Million Fund to Abate Harms to Youth
The court found Meta's platforms created a public nuisance by contributing to the youth mental health crisis and by facilitating child sexual exploitation.