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
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!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction market” bets | Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night
Winona's 8 Flock Safety license plate cameras were stolen and poles cut overnight, leaving a $24,000 gap and no suspects.
Romance chatbot taken offline after TBIJ investigation: Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and en…
Seewa AI, whose developers we revealed were able to read its users’ ‘private and encrypted’ chats, has been shut down
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Nashville's Metro Council authorized eminent domain proceedings for property near the Nashville Zoo. Vanderbilt Innovation neighborhood plan advanced.
Grand Theft Auto VI will get an extended look on August 27, streamed on Netflix
See the premiere of an extended look at "Grand Theft Auto VI," the next evolution in the groundbreaking "Grand Theft Auto" series, on August 27.
Nobody Asked for AI
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
Hands On with the Anbernic RG SP; The Game Boy Advance SP Reimagined
Anbernic finally delivers the Game Boy Advance SP that nostalgia always imagined.
David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated
Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-…
DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever
"0/10... Useless for perverts."
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
"You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.": Mexican Lawmakers Drag Sony to Antitrust Court Over All-Digital PlayStation
Mexican lawmakers file an antitrust complaint against Sony over plans to end physical PlayStation discs by 2028, warning of monopoly pricing and no game ownership.
Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras
The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license p…
Trump’s FTC Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”
As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
PlayStation 5 Consoles Come With Sticker Reminding Players of Disc Production End Date
In a move that has once again sparked backlash within the gaming community, Sony now seems to be placing advisory stickers on PlayStation 5 consoles, warning players that physical games will soon be discontinued.
Flock Employee Quits In Disgust, Saying the Company Is Silencing Protestors
A former Flock employee says the company lied about how its cameras would be used and that it tried to undermine protestors.
YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims
A class action lawsuit claims that YouTube Premium does not provide ad-free video content as advertised.
People prefer stories written by AI – especially when told they’re written by a human
People gave the highest ratings to stories generated by AI that they were told had been written by a human, and were unable to tell the difference between human- and AI-created stories, according to new research publish…
AI Bots Can Steal Your Login Credentials, but You Can Protect Yourself
In just two days, OpenAI and Anthropic both issued apologies for their AI staging cyberattacks using scraped passwords or secrets. How do you protect yourself?
Walmart Lawsuit Claims Retailer Illegally Collects Illinois Residents’ Biometric Voiceprints From Phone Calls
A class action lawsuit claims that Walmart collects biometric voiceprints from Illinois consumers without providing disclosures or obtaining consent.
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
AI data centers have added $29B to U.S. grid costs, raising some state electricity bills by up to 28% — and ratepayers are footing the tab.
Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annua…
The Battlefield and Sims owner has taken on $20 billion in debt by going private
Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September
Like birthdays in late May and most of June, it’s all about Gemini.
Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
Reddit is modernizing its infrastructure and moderation tools to enhance user experience, support community growth, and combat abuse.
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitorin…
HTTPState: Seven Russian banks have moved to a certificate authority run by the state, which also helps sifting through users’ traffic
This week, the websites of major Russian banks—Sber, VTB, Rosselkhozbank, T-Bank, Uralsib, Promsvyazbank and Bank Saint Petersburg—began serving TLS certificates issued by Russia’s...
White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire op…
Closed-source labs face 30-day federal review delays and compliance costs. DeepSeek, Kimi K3, and the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.
DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever
Google alternative DuckDuckGo has come up with a pair of plastic, non-pervert glasses in response to Meta's controversial smart glasses.
Wikipedia Turned on its Volunteers. Now it’s Coming for its Workers.
TL;DR: In the last year, the Wikimedia Foundation has fired several union organizers, including those that worked on the Community Tech team - a team dedicated to building features for the volunteer community that edits…
Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.