Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
The explosive popularity of prediction markets, spearheaded by Polymarket and Kalshi, has shocked experts, who are warning of a surge in gambling addiction. The platforms have massively lowered the barriers to entry for…
Janeway Belongs In Prison, Part One: Equinox
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Gemini in Chrome can now see exactly what you’re looking at on screen
Google is rolling out a new "Select from screen" tool for Gemini in Chrome, while Gemini 3.5 Flash gains built-in computer-use capabilities.
SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for jobs in the space economy hasn’t
The SpaceX IPO euphoria is over, but the bullish trend in space economy jobs remains in place within a labor market where many other sectors have slowed hiring.
The UK Just Said No to Google's AI News Grab. Who's Next?
The UK has shown intervention is possible, writes Foxglove co-executive director Martha Dark. Now other regulators must act, she says.
New hollow-core fiber test pushes internet speeds to 1.2Tb/s
Chinese researchers achieved a new milestone in fiber-optic technology, achieving ultra-fast data transmission over long distances without signal repeaters.
Adobe is sponsoring the Sundance Film Festival. Emerging filmmakers can win a one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud
Ignite Lab Will Kick Off a Year of Opportunities for Emerging Filmmakers Ages 18 to 25 Marking the Program’s 10th Year PARK CITY, UTAH, June 20, 2025 — The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the 10 emerging fi…
Oracle sues Wisconsin utility regulators over financial requirements for data centers
Tech giant Oracle is suing the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin over financial requirements that regulators approved to protect ratepayers as developers build a $15 billion data center campus to expand its AI init…
How three words created the greatest comedy | InCinematic
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Adobe to Acquire Topaz Labs
Adobe announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, an AI company specializing in industry-leading video and image enhancement models.
PSA: Next version of FreshRSS will have a breaking change for users with feeds in local network (think RSS-Bridge or RSSHub) to improve sec…
💥 Breaking change in #FreshRSS for those of you with feeds on your local network such as RSS-Bridge or RSSHub: for improving security (SSRF), local addresses must be added to your allowed list. There are a Web UI and a…
Internal Combustion Engines Are More Advanced Than EVs
EVs may be the future, but internal combustion engines are a mechanical masterpiece. From turbocharging brilliance to extreme precision, ICE still outshines e...
TIL about Elvira Notari, Italy's First Female Director and Erased by Fascism
The archive of Elvira Notari was destroyed by the Fascist government. A century later, we still havenât broken free from cinematic machismo.
Tempus v4.20.0 android subsonic client release
What's Changed feat: improve Continuous Play by @MaFo-28 in #721 Release Type sections on artist page rework by @haunders in #756 fix: handle aggressive memory killing to restore album fragment by...
Redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites
Anthropic and OpenAI waged a $27 million proxy war in a Manhattan congressional race. The winner told them both to get lost.
Micah Lasher won the most expensive AI election yet—then used his victory speech to reject both companies and promise to regulate them anyway.
[AI] Minimal expenses splitting software
Free expense-splitting software.
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.
AI made you faster. But you’re not more productive; you’re outsourcing the slow part to everyone else
Waterloo City Hall abandons X. Says the platform is 'not a welcoming space'
City hall has posted 27,600 times since 2011 on the social media platform formerly called Twitter. Posts will end July 6.
F-Droid and the Future of Open-Source Android; An Interview with DocWolle
Talking open-source software, Android's future, AI, and the philosophy behind a prolific F-Droid developer
AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them
"If these companies want quality data, then they should offer quality contracts."
TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.
SCOTUS Decision: Birthright Citizenship
A must watch! Edward Snowden Reveals How They Spy on You. "2016 conversation."
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Anyone use Clevis + Tang to protect data on their home server?
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Grok is more important than clean air, DOJ says
An unprecedented legal filing claims that regulating Elon Musk's xAI could kill us.
TIL that a skyscraper called the Millennium Tower in San Francisco is sinking and tilting
Millennium Tower Lean: When Foundation Design Becomes a Legal Fault Line The Millennium Tower in San Francisco has sunk over 18 inches and leans nearly 29 inches due to reliance on friction piles in soft clay instead of…
A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
How Reddit accidentally leaked its spamurai system.
Russian security services broke into opposition activist Andrei Pivovarov’s iPhone using Israeli Cellebrite system, Citizen Lab reports
In 2021, Russian security officers gained access to the iPhone of opposition politician and civil society activist Andrei Pivovarov, the former director of…
I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaura…
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI | CNN
A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.
Scalpers are already selling the Steam Machine for over $3000 on eBay despite Valve's efforts
Even with the lottery system, scalpers are listing Steam Machine reservations on eBay for up to $3,500, with one already sold at $2,800.
New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets
DirtyClone, tracked as CVE-2026-43503, lets local users gain root by corrupting file-backed memory through cloned network packets.
Streaming Ads Are About to Get Quieter | A California law will go into effect on July 1, 2026 prohibiting streaming platforms from airing a…
A California law will go into effect next week prohibiting streaming platforms from airing ads louder than the content they accompany.
Microsoft Is Giving Windows 10 Users Another Year of Security Updates.
Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) were supposed to end in October, but Microsoft now says the program will end on Oct. 12, 2027.
Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal
Lenovo predicts that even if supply meets demand, there will be a "new normal" for RAM prices in the 2030s.
Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address
Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info.
Australia’s under-16 social media restrictions has led to little to no reductions in social media use
Longer term evaluation needed, but current age verification checks are “suboptimal” and being bypassed by many under 16s, warn researchers There is little evidence that Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act has led t…
Scientists found a cannabis compound that relieves pain without the high
Compounds responsible for the aroma of cannabis and many other plants may offer a surprising new way to relieve chronic pain. Researchers found that several cannabis-derived terpenes significantly reduced pain in mouse …
Digital Sovereign Ghost: Why and How I Moved to Tinybird Local
Stop sending reader telemetry to the cloud. Here is how I moved my Ghost analytics backend to a local Docker-based stack.
This is Not Science Fiction. It’s Not Premature: Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones
This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little time. In the absence …
Humans behave better when they’re being watched
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
DuckDuckGo's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month
DuckDuckGo's AI is claiming, incorrectly, that president Donald Trump passed away from rabies after being bitten by JD Vance.
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, t…
Epic’s Tim Sweeney Keeps Inventing Solutions To Problems That Are Already Solved
Quick, someone tell him what Discord is
League of Legends Classic | Announcement Trailer
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I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies me
The historian behind Lords of Finance has a warning for Silicon Valley: He's seen these numbers before — and they didn't end well.
We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, …
Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare
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Polestar Banned from Selling New Cars in the US Starting in 2027
Federal connected-vehicle rules targeting Chinese technology will block future Polestar models unless regulations change.