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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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.
Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it?
# Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it? [Lemmy discussion.](https://feddit.org/post/33711225) The US-based nonprofit Privacy Guides recent…
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."
Why The Cyclops Scene in The Odyssey Is So Terrifying
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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.
10 Reasons To Greenlight Star Trek: United NOW
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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.
Battery Monitor for Android
Battery Monitor for Android. Contribute to tswistak/Battery-Monitor development by creating an account on GitHub.
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.
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation
The EU’s age verification project confirms hardware-bound attestation is mandatory, raising concerns over Linux, custom ROMs, and open-source access.
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...
Discord moderation bot based on Shieldstral
Moderator bot for Discord that uses Shieldstral from Mistral AI - ArtemkaKun/miderator
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.
Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
The shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while macOS saw only limited movement over the...
Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days
The game industry hardship fund bundle has raised over 100,000 dollars in short order, with ten days left to go.
Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker
Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most “politically incorrect” humor.
Alas, poor Romeo! Is digital tech killing romance?
The use of dating apps and pornography websites has grown rapidly in recent years, supporting what may develop into a form of addiction – while potentially […]
Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of pow…
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.
Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
I wrote a small server application to randomly generate "celebrity heads" characters from your jellyfin library
Generate random celebrity heads characters from your jellyfin library - SYNTHESISE/JellyfinHeads
TIL “ROOTS66,” a Japanese music festival open exclusively to musicians born in 1966—a year considered an “unlucky year”
TOKYO -- A live event gathering artists born in 1966 -- the year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese zodiac calendar, which occurs only once every 60 yea
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.
[wreith] SEGA SATURN: The Price of Victory
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