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.
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.
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.
Wearing what you loot
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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
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
AI and Layoffs impact on Tech Workers - Experience Survey
What We Will is a worker-led organization for workers across sectors impacted by rapid technological change. We founded What We Will in response to mass layoffs in 2025-2026 as part of the Tech Workers Coalition, a gras…
Upcoming console game releases for the week of 6 July, 2026
Discover and track upcoming video game releases with our interactive calendar. View popular games by hype level, filter by platform, and never miss a release date.
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Inside the history of DRAM price-fixing lawsuits — how HBM allocations could make a difference after two decades of failed cases
Garciaguirre v. Samsung leans on HBM to prove an agreement that federal courts have twice declined to see in parallel production cuts.
Game Overthinker: Plaguestation
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'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard
The boss of Bethesda has told staff the company must now focus on its “strongest franchises” amid sweeping layoffs across Xbox.
Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that
Xbox's massive layoffs are at least partially because of Game Pass' failure
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox in 'significant restructure'
The sweeping layoffs equate to 2.1% of Microsoft's workforce, with 1,600 immediate job losses at Xbox.
Box3D | A revolutionary new physics engine developed by Erin Catto in collaboration with a Valve dev
I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for gam…
Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole
Valve's refund policy allows any game that's been played for under two hours to be immediately refunded
Microsoft is deploying 6,000 engineers for customers to accelerate AI adoption
The new unit, called Microsoft Frontier Company, will send engineers into customer operations to build and run AI systems at scale
The bottleneck might be the air in the room
You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.
Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts
Double Fine and Compulsion Games are going independent, and Microsoft is also selling Ninja Theory and Undead Labs.
Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers
Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
Sony Just Ended An Entire Evolution Of Gaming
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GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games accused of enabling crunch, failing to address gender pay gap, and weaponizing bonuses | Union members claim…
GTA 6 studio Rockstar Games has been accused of enabling crunch, failing to address gender-based pay inequity, and weaponizing bonuses.
Microsoft device telemetry key to unmasking alleged Scattered Spider hacker
Peter Stokes, the 19-year-old American-Estonian extradited from Finland to face Scattered Spider hacking charges in the United States, is allegedly tied to a US$8 million ($11.5 million) ransom demand largely through a …
Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints
The update to Shinku on Chinese servers rolled out in just half a day.
Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership"
This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally.
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds | Researchers say small changes in drafting could spre…
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps. The plant now makes three times more winter power…
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate— Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and…
AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualise social media posts can introduce hidden biases that spread through online networks and shape public opinion, according to new research from the OII and the Hasso Plattner…
Microsoft 365 just got a price hike over continuous innovation, but Copilot is the AI tax on businesses
Microsoft 365 price hike hits July 1, 2026, with increases up to 43% as Microsoft bundles Copilot and Security Copilot into paid tiers.
Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House
"It's like we're living in a prison in our own yard, in our own house."
Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrest…
DOJ claims the group stole over $100 million across various attacks.
Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”
We asked how you feel about PlayStation ending physical games. The results reveal strong support for keeping discs alive.
Unpopular truth: Telemetry collection actually happens because people are garbage at being helpful to support
Building meaningful relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as I'd hoped
China just sent 51.3 Tb/s through hollow fiber without boosters
A Chinese company transmitted 51.3 Tb/s across 128 miles using air instead of glass fiber cores
Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foul
One of Kalshi’s most prominent traders tells WIRED he’s swearing off Spotify-related markets until the issue is resolved.
The US government could own part of OpenAI — and no, that probably doesn’t mean you get a check
The government owning part of OpenAI doesn't mean checks will follow
Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.
Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026
Long-term supply deals are quietly capping server DRAM prices.
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”
Good luck fighting those charges.