"We're determined to win justice for the 31 fired workers" - Rockstar Games workers publicly launch union, as legal battle with the GTA 6 mâŚ
Developers at GTA 6 maker Rockstar Games have announced a union known as the Rockstar Game Workers Union, a subsidiary of the IWGB.
YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
YouTube said it will start automatically detecting "photorealistic" AI videos and slapping them with a more noticeable label.
Microsoft Threatens Researcher Over Bug Reports, Triggers Cybersecurity Uproar
Microsoft says it will coordinate 'as needed with law enforcement' after a disgruntled researcher exposed Windows bugs without proper coordination.
Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9
European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything
Dat is volgens Aerdts (Economische Zaken) "ter bescherming van het publieke belang".
Life Is Strange (Original Game)
Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic finale! In three days, a deadly inferno will destroy Caledon University.
Self-Host Weekly (29 May 2026)
We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
Anthropic reaches valuation of $965bn, beating OpenAI to become worldâs most valuable AI firm
ClaudeâÂÂs parent companyâÂÂs $65bn in latest funding round underscores vast sums of money still flowing into industry
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on launchpad at Cape Canaveralâ Homes shook in nearby Florida cities Cape Canaveral and Cocoa BeachâŚ
The Associated Press | Posted: May 29, 2026 9:52 AM | Last Updated: 5 hours ago
A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month â failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees
A new report claims AI is getting too expensive for big companies
Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW
BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.
âHidden datacentre taxâ costing Irish households millions, report says
Datacentres used 22% of countryâÂÂs electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests
Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree
If Elon Musk's bot ruled the world, total societal collapse would apparently follow.
US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ânational security threatâ
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
TIL about Hormesis. small doses of toxins can be good
Hormesis is a two-phased dose-response relationship whereby low-dose exposures have a beneficial effect and high-dose amounts are either inhibitory to function or toxic.[1] Within the hormetic zone, the biological respoâŚ
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
Some leaders like Goldman Sachsâs David Solomon and Boxâs Aaron Levie have been saying all along that there wonât be a white-collar wipeout.
Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch
If you weren't aware, a legal battle has been unfolding between Unknown Worlds, the developer of Subnautica 2, and its parent company and former publisher, Krafton, in what appears to have been a bit from Krafton to avoâŚ
Dont be unlucky and have anything happen to your Steam Controller
@Steam This is how a customer of 18 years gets treated...my controller fell out of the box the second I opened it landed on the ground and got busted up...and I have ZERO options cant even get it fixed. Never even got tâŚ
Steam Workshop Update: Browsing UI
Find your next favorite mod with Workshop's faster, snappier user interface, and quick view mode
The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours
Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold ouâŚ
Canada vows to amend Bill C-22's encryption and metadata rules amid massive tech backlash
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the government will clarify how the lawful access bill impacts encryption, but insists the legislation "needs to happen"
PSA: netbird Android client defaults to force relay connection
This seems like a bad default. The point of a p2p overlay network like this is to optimize the connection speed/latency/path while still offering security. Forcing relay use by default defeats half...
The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldnât let me say no.
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form theyâre signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
TIL that the U.S. Congress has its own intelligence agency
Congress has its own CIA and itâs sounding the alarm about anti-AI grievances
TIL: Peter Jackson made the decision to model one of the orc leader's face mask after Harvey Weinstein
The actor says the Weinstein orc was intended as a message to the domineering sexual predator producer
European Union: Chinese online retailer Temu hit with 200 million euro fine over unsafe toys and electronics
European Union regulators have fined Chinese online retailer Temu for failing to protect consumers from illegal products.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war
Infinity Wardâs new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting
The Boring Internet - Essay by Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
I Tested the Trump Phone for 96 Hours. Here's What It's Really Like
CNET has the Trump phone, and we put it through its paces over the long weekend to see how it matches up with other foreign-made phones.
AI code increasingly leads to production failures
The rapid introduction of AI-generated code is increasingly leading to production failures, according to a survey.
Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API
The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible â No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
Oura launches Ring 5, worldâs smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO
Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bn
AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.
Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
The gaming giant said the handheld had not changed but the rise reflected "the current state of component costs"
Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets
The longtime Google employee was charged in New York for allegedly breaking insider trading laws.
Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals
A new survey reveals Google's push for Gemini Intelligence on Android isn't landing with the people the way it hoped for.
TIL about the Nikon F
The Nikon F camera, introduced in April 1959,[1] was Nikon's first SLR camera. It was one of the most advanced cameras of its day.[2] Although many of the concepts had already been introduced elsewhere, it was revolutioâŚ
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire worldâs white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize tâŚ
The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi
An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the âEloiâ of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many.
Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
Roku OSâs home screen now features a large, permanent ad
âI don't want recommendations! I know what I want to watch."
Samsung avoids strike as workers approve massive bonus deal
Amid booming demand for AI chips, the government-backed deal will make more than 60% of the South Korean tech giant's workforce eligible for bonuses of about $370,000 this year.
Meta is restricting sexual health and queer accounts on Instagram
Instagram accounts linked to reproductive rights, sexual health and LGBTQIA+ groups have been disabled or restricted, organisations affected by the measures say.
Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, AĂŠropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure got a job at dadâs company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots donât have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry).
YouTube Is Making It Easier to Spot AI-Generated Videos
YouTube is revamping its AI labels on the platform, and introducing a new automated system to identify AI-generated videos.