RAM to see 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out, as the memory crisis is predicted to last 'at least' another 3 years
Chatter on the grapevine, and from analyst firms, about the memory supply shortage has taken another gloomy turn.
2026 Self-Host User Survey (selfh.st)
Annual survey covering various self-hosting topics
One Card to Rule Them All: How spruceOS Learned to Live Everywhere
spruceOS 4.5.0 adds new handhelds, offline RetroAchievements and another pile of features, but the more interesting story is how a little project that began on the Miyoo A30 became something you can carry from one handh…
Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program
Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.
Report: Cancelled Perfect Dark Project Over 2 Minutes of Gameplay Surfaces Showcasing New Zones and Combat
Cancelled project from the now-defunct The Initiative's Perfect Dar reboot gameplay has surfaced showcasing combat and more.
Star Citizen answers select player questions about flight, damage, and bugged missions
Hey, remember a few weeks ago when Star Citizen was talking up a new Q&A video series as part of CIG's promise to have more communication? Well, the first episode of that series known as 10 From the Community is now onl…
Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family: "They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."
Meta's buzzy new AI agent comes with some major privacy risks — not just for users, but anybody on the periphery of its users' lives.
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings
Only about one-third of surveyed retailers plan to invest in self-checkout technology this year, significantly fewer than in 2025, according to an annual retail industry report. While...
Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? New research finds female AI agents ‘paid’ less
New research from University of Limerick has found gender bias in the workplace could be replicated in interactions with artificial intelligence. The study, co-authored by Dr Mary Hausfeld of UL's Kemmy Business School,…
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use: Could this be the moment copyright holders have been waiti…
A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence's training of its AI model didn't amount to "fair use."
Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend
Chick-fil-A is turning down artificial intelligence in its drive-thru lanes, choosing human employee interaction over automated order takers as competitors embrace voice technology.
Trump Mobile’s latest problem: Hackers just released customer information
A newly established ransomware gang appears to have hacked Trump Mobile, resulting in the exposure of personal data for 3,615 customers.
Vaultwarden security update
Security Fixes This release contains security fixes for the following advisories. We strongly advise updating as soon as possible. Organization member revocation [GHSA-69q9-v8p6-xvx3] (High, 8.1) ...
Birdfy Brings Birdwatching to Roku TVs
Birdfy has launched its companion app on Roku OS-powered TVs, bringing its smart birdwatching platform to larger screens.
TIL Keynes didn't say "The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
John Maynard Keynes? A. Gary Shilling? Harold R. Evensky? Apocryphal?
AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy: The AI industry is destroying its own incentive structure.
The AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.
Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users: "It's inevita…
Meta employees are paranoid that the company's new Muse AI agent could lead to a catastrophic data breach of sensitive user data.
Introducing the Googlebook
The first laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Googlebook is crafted with premium materials for powerful performance, and syncs effortlessly with your phone.
Targeted attack on Double Counter’s infrastructure
Timeline, data affected, our response, and what server administrators and members should do.
Gen Z is officially less intelligent than millennials, first recorded intergenerational IQ drop
Gen Z is now officially the only generation to measure lower than their predecessors in intelligence. A neuroscientist says this is because short videos and summarised texts are being increasingly relied on, but this is…
Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps
Fortnite and Minecraft also told to 'lift their game' by online safety regulator.
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after using ChatGPT.
Apple will update Macs to protect users from AI agents with full disk access
Updates to "Full Disk Access" are coming to your Mac.
arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the '…
Critics question motives and advocate for residents’ needs.
Mosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists
The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists. We just have to be brave enough to use it.
Mazda CX-6e Is an EV That Lets You Yell Profanities at People in Traffic
Fitting an electric car with an external speaker for safety reasons turns out to have some potential drawbacks.
TIL Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre was invented so the short form of the litre could be capitalized.
Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre (1716–1778) is a fictional character created in 1978 by Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo to justify the use of a capital L to denote litres.
Capcom aims to enhance its propriety RE Engine with AI to accelerate efficiency in QA, debugging, and data processing
Some improvements will be open-sourced to support AI training, with the long-term goal of evolving its RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine"
Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building
Fans of the NFL probably know Mike Tomlin as the head coach who led the Pittsburgh Steelers through a long and respectable career, even if he only earned one championship ring in his 19 years with the league. Now, he's …
Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police
According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that...
Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and wate…
Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash | Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data cent…
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers: The tech industry has fully lost the plot.
Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to please embrace data centers.
[AIP] Cliparr 3.0 - Plex/Jellyfin Media Clipper
Cliparr 3.0 brings audio exports, custom subtitle tracks, live Plex and Jellyfin dashboard updates, and versioned JSON metadata for your clips.
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks.
Cybersecurity Training Toolkit for Rural-Residing Older Adults
THE PROJECT For many older adults, cybersecurity threats are far from abstract. In real life, they show up as fake banking messages, phishing emails, tech suppo
Google unveils Googlebook
Googlebook laptops go on sale October 4 in the US from $899. See the specs, the five launch models, and how they differ from Chromebooks.
"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.
EV Charging Doesn't Need to Be as Fast as Gas, Ionna CEO Says
Ionna CEO Seth Cutler told The Drive nobody rushes through a gas station stop, pointing to Buc-ee's and Wawa—and EV drivers are no different.
An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
When GPT-6 Astra’s own bot failed, it simply downloaded the best human-made bot instead.
TIL that the top Reddit lawyer is named Paul Cappucino
Reddit appoints Paul Cappuccio as Chief Legal Officer, succeeding Ben Lee, to navigate the platform's growth and legal challenges.
Slot Wants Your RG SP to Feel Like 2003 Again
Developer K-Wall on burnout, nostalgia, deliberately bad menus, and building a firmware around the feeling of owning a Game Boy Advance SP
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Colibri chat system (Discord-like thing based on ATProto)
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for communities big and small.