'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 …
Why are so many gamers just cattle? I want to believe it's manufactured, but I know some of y'all be payin a subscription to watch an adver…
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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.
A Riddler Without Riddles Works | Batman: Caped Crusader
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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…
Quake: Dawn of the Machine - Free Update
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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.
$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in …
Apple has the wafers ready to go. It's just waiting on DRAM like everyone else.
I think the internet is broken, and it's broken at it's core
The internet is ugly, benchmarks score the checklist but miss the brokenness, div-buttons, dead links, dead emails, and the pages AI will learn from.
Disney Earnings Buoyed By ‘Toy Story 5’, Theme Parks, Streaming Profit; Books $100M Tariff Refund
Disney’s Josh D’Amaro stepped out with upbeat numbers and some news in his first full quarter as CEO.
Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.
Investors want ‘real proof’ AI spending is paying off, new report suggests - National | Globalnews.ca
A new report from Fidelity suggests financial advisors are increasingly looking for evidence that AI investments are translating into strong financial results.
Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]
People have left the president’s personal social media site in droves.
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
EU AI Act Content Labelling: Fake Around and Find Out
A personal teardown of EU AI Act Article 50 labelling rules, C2PA metadata stripping, Penelope Cruz, ad parallels and digital trust in 2026
First trailer released for 'Primetime', biopic film based on 'To Catch a Predator', with Robert Pattinson cast as Chris Hansen
A24's 'Primetime' has unveiled a first trailer previewing Robert Pattinson's turn as 'To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen.
Scientists Sound Alarm on AI-Generated Biological Viruses Amid Unregulated Industry
"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not," a pair of researchers said.
AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany
An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
Amata Release Announcement Trailer!
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Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating /// Government introduces several measures, including moni…
Undervisningsministeren er klar med en strakspakke mod AI-snyd, der indeholder initiativer, som på den korte bane kan anvendes til at sætte ind over for uhensigtsmæssig brug af AI i gymnasiet.
Pages of Turnabout – Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Review
As a fan of courtroom dramas, I really couldn't let this one pass! The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is so wonderful and influential, and I have enough proof to state with absolute certainty that you should give …
Walmart accused of collecting customers' voiceprints
A group of Walmart customers say the supermarket retained their biometrics, running afoul of Illinois data privacy laws.
AI used to design brand new viruses not found in nature
Using AI, researchers have designed complete, functional bacteriophage genomes from scratch and tested them against bacteria that had evolved resistance to a natural bacteriophage. Their work marks a step toward generat…
OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communicat…
The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.
Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"
The Resident Evil maker counts most of its game sales as digital
WAGE SURVEILLIANCE IS HERE! (HOW DESPERATE ARE YOU?)
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