OpenAI pays $3.2M to settle a US DOJ claim it favoured visa workers over Americans
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it has secured a combined $3,200,000 settlement with OpenAI OpCo LLC, a San Francisco, California-based artificial intelligence company, and its subsid…
Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the ac…
Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use t…
Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
Expert says people face being filmed without their consent as $89 Anko smartglasses sell out in stores and online
The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.
A three-year Kogod survey shows college AI use has gone from novelty to routine. Students aren't rejecting AI, they want to be taught to use it well.
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project …
Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it
IT admins rage as Microsoft force-installs OneDrive Photos on Windows 11, and it keeps coming back when you remove it.
EA's deal to go private under Saudi Arabia is officially complete
The Saudi Arabian government's investment fund just acquired EA, the publisher behind many of the biggest games.
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images
Russian court denies copyright protection for AI-prompted images
Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package …
Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.
Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp Money
A new breed of online scam is exploiting the trust between OnlyFans creators and their followers, using AI to impersonate the very people fans think they’re supporting. Fans think they’…
Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real
Aging Facebook users are drooling over AI-generated thirst traps, clearly with no idea that they aren't real.
‘Apple is getting this wrong,’ says OpenAI — startup blasts iPhone maker over lawsuit alleging it stole confidential information through ex…
The two companies are getting ready to slug it out in court.
[AIP] CookTrace v1.1.1: In-App Updates, Full i18n Sweep, Android App-ID Fix
Patch release. Server-connection banner no longer covers the phone's status bar on Android. Fixed Server-connection banner no longer covers the phone's notification bar. The red "server unreachabl...
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctori…
TIL Gabe Newell (CEO of Valve) bought and owns the megayachts company Oceanco
Oceanco is a privately owned custom yacht builder, based in the Netherlands, that has been building full displacement yachts in the 80-metre (260 ft) range since 1987. Since August 2025, it has been owned by Gabe Newell…
Community Spotlight: Gamma and Anbernic
How one Anbernic device sparked a project that would go on to help thousands of players.
Federal Data Privacy Act
Spread the love“`html It’s official: the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a landmark piece of legislation that could fundamentally reshape how we interact with the digital world. On August 3rd, the House gave it…
Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers
New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.
Microsoft warns hackers are targeting hotel Wi-Fi networks: What to know
Microsoft issued a warning travelers across the world, saying Russian hackers have targeted Wi-Fi networks at hotels, conference centers, and other hospitality venues.
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too un…
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
If Star Wars Had a $10 Budget - The Falcon
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You Bought The Car. Why Are You Still Paying For Subscriptions?
Automakers are turning cars into app stores, charging monthly fees for software, connected services, and even features already installed at the factory.
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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.
Snapchat's AI flagged a private message sent to 3 people and alerted the FBI in under an hour, leading to a student teacher's arrest.
Wiki Workers United/Claims and responses
The WMF have repeatedly suggested they don't yet know whether most eligible employees support unionization.
BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never would
The promotion began on July 27, 2026, and is scheduled to run through August 10 across more than 70 markets. On supported vehicles, starting the car brings...
End of an era: T-Mobile finally closes the door on 2G for good
3G's long gone, and 4G's days are numbered, but up until today, T-Mobile was still offering 2G cellular service.
He Hacked Flock Cameras. What He Found Was Worse Than Expected
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Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving
Its autonomous test fleet in Houston were 24/7 "rolling hazards," he warned.
WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry?
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Social media algorithms shape the beliefs people form /// Even small changes to content curation algorithms can shape what people come to b…
The content people see on social media is typically determined by an algorithm. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and TU Dresden have now demonstrated in a co…
Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers
No, Linux desktop market share has not crossed 10% in North America, and Windows is not suddenly losing millions of users. 2026 is not the year of Linux, for those who care. If anything, it’s the year the internet died,…
YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use
He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."
Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year
Chinese memory giant CXMT has been expanding its capacity so rapidly that the company is now able to compete with one of the largest memory manufacturers in the world—Micron. According to analysis from Citrini Research …
How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of mi...
New York is suing prediction market Kalshi, calling it an illegal gambling operation
In a statement, James said Kalshi violates New York's anti-gambling laws, which are designed to protect minors from betting and combat gambling addiction in adults. "No matter...
MULDOON'S LOG - Volume Two - Jurassic Park Found Footage (VHS Analog Horror)
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Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release: Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights nativ…
Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and the ability to carry out long-horizon agentic tasks.
Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independe…
An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send customer device IDs to AT&T
A former Apple engineer alleges he was fired after refusing AT&T requests for device identifiers without customer releases. Apple denies wrongdoing.
Finally some good news from #Signal 🥳
Signal is working on a way to sign up without a phone number. The feature has not yet been officially confirmed, and it is not yet known whether it will be available to all users or in what form.
The CIA’s most ridiculous Cold War spy weapon was a Xerox photocopier
A disused bowling alley, a fire-prone photocopier, and a home-movie camera: inside the CIA's wild secret operation against the KGB.
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands
The U.S. has used tariffs and security rules to keep Chinese cars off dealer lots. Alphabet’s robotaxi company appears to be buying them by the boatload.
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use.
Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
How the Voice of Shaggy Took a Stand Against Anti-Arab Racism
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