AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
[AIP] Wardnet: An open-source (GPL-3) network privacy gateway: per-device VPN routing, DNS ad-blocking, and firewall-enforced zones, all se…
Wardnet is a self-hosted network privacy gateway. Per-device VPN routing, network-wide DNS ad blocking, and firewall-enforced zones, on hardware you own. No cloud, GPL-3.0.
Change your server's alert rules from the couch
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Nasdaq, S&P 500 drop 1% after China’s latest AI breakthrough rattles tech stocks
By John Towfighi, Chris Isidore, CNN
Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.
WordPress Core flaw 'wp2shell' prompts emergency security updates
A critical WordPress core vulnerability dubbed wp2shell allows unauthenticated remote code execution on default installs. Update to 7.0.2 for patch
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read
A real-world horror story about contracts, control, and the dark side of managed open source.
About 300 Netflix Titles Used Generative AI This Year, Company Reveals
Roughly 300 Netflix programs across the streamer's library have used generative AI across their production process this year, the company revealed.
Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes
"Even a single grain of rice can tip the scales."
SpaceX Stock Plummets Below IPO Price as $1 Trillion Vanishes
SpaceX shares crashed below the $135 IPO price, wiping out $1 trillion since June. A scrubbed Starship launch and upcoming investor lockups triggered the selloff.
TIL the word "fnord," from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gives characters subconscious feelings of unease and confusion, thus preventing ration…
Fnord (/fnɔːrd/) is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia. It entered into popular culture after appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) of novel…
Deleting Systems You Don't Understand
When I was a kid, my father bought a family home computer and placed it in the living room for all to see. When guests came to our house, they would stop by the computer and admire its marvel without
Steam Input is an Embarrassing Disaster
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Mixfont creator develops anti-AI Decoy Font to mask text using optical illusion
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Making sure you're not a bot!
TL;DR: is your refrigerator running malware? If so, you better catch it!
best soundtrack song ever
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Flock Says Its Cameras Worked 'Correctly' When Police Tracked and Ambushed Me for No Reason
Flock says its AI-powered surveillance cameras need humans in the loop to input target license plates correctly and verify its alerts.
Pain of Command [WIP #4] Sopranos: The Next Generation (Star Trek Sopranos Mashup Edit)
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Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO
The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options
Moroccan whistleblower reveals how Rabat used Israel's Pegasus spyware for surveillance
Testimony from intelligence insider and leaked records show extensive use of spyware against dissidents and foreign officials
ZA/UM potentially laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success
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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
<blockquote><br /><strong><em>Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes incl...
Briar is in maintenance mode - Briar
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to fi…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveils Kimi model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropic
It's the latest AI model from China to close the performance gap with leading U.S. AI labs.
Camera Chase Vehicle
You stumble on a weird robot chassis in an industrial warehouse. Its adorable, enormous and will likely be scrapped.
Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietl…
Deceive Inc. was great, and now it'll live on.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
No Shark is Safe: Millions of Shark Vacuums are Vulnerable to RCE
Millions of Shark vacuums are currently vulnerable to remote code execution. This critical vulnerability leaves hackable cameras with wheels inside the homes of Shark vacuum owners. The vulnerability is trivially exploi…
LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking
Anyone who owns an LG smart TV must inform all guests and family members that they are being monitored – this is required by LG’s current terms of use. Meanwhile, LG monitors install potential malware and surveillance s…
Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions
A tiny Linux-powered Hi-Fi player with physical controls, a whale on its back, Tetris inside, and far more personality than I expected.
When algorithms go to war
Tech giants, the arms industry and the weaponisation of AI.
Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
Mamdani Targets AI 'Housefishing' With Mandatory Rental Listing Disclosures
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani launches a tenant protection plan forcing rental sites to disclose AI-altered listings and cracking down on negligent landlords.
Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.
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TIL almost half the states in the US ban buying alcohol on christmas
The holiday season might be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also undeniably one of the busiest. Between dashing from store to store to scoop up gifts to attending party after party, the hustle and bustle i…
Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign
âBillionaires could fund cures for cancer â so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’
The last un-monetized frontier of gaming: virtual billboards
‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’
Climate action group Extinction Rebellion attacks Microsoft data centre construction site, amid growing worker opposition to AI facilities in the Netherlands.
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting Microsoft datacenter project
Datacenters: De actiegroep heeft ballonnen met chemicaliën gegooid om de fundering van de hyperscale voor Microsoft te beschadigen en de bouw te vertragen. De actie is harder dan normaal, erkent de groep. „Maar het is n…
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
Exposed: The Alleged Crypto Entrepreneur Who Owns The Popular Forum LeakedBB Where ‘Leaked’ Nudes of Women are being posted and traded
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.
China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."
Marvel’s Wolverine - Ain’t No Hero Trailer | PS5 Games
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MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls | Open Beta Trailer
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Ente.io now publish how much money they make and how many users they have
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listings
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms | TechCrunch
The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.
47 requests, zero answers — How Proton VPN keeps saying no to data demands
Every order sought to unmask a user behind a server IP and a timestamp, and Proton VPN says it holds no such data to give