18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
NGINX Rift CVE-2026-42945 scores 9.2 after 18 years, enabling unauthenticated RCE or DoS via crafted HTTP requests.
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth
A source has revealed that the Lord of the Rings MMORPG was cancelled after the New World team was transferred over mere weeks before the layoffs.
AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.
Data centers could account for up to 9% of Texas water use by 2040, UT Austin report finds
The report comes as Texas sees a boom in data center construction, driven largely by the rise of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand
‘Monster Wolf’ was originally designed to protect cropland from deer, boars and bears
Walmart cuts 1,000 roles to simplify operations, Reuters reports
Under new CEO John Furner and a reshaped leadership team, the retailer is doubling down on a tech-focused strategy.
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five
Data center drained 30 million gallons of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals
Georgia residents recently learned that a massive data center used nearly 30 million gallons of water without proper billing.
Capcom Lists Dead Rising as One of Its 'Leading Brands' That It's 'Nurturing' — but Does That Mean Dead Rising 5?
Capcom is planning for Dead Rising's future. In its latest earnings report, the Japanese games company said it plans to nuture a handful of franchises for growth, with one of them being Dead Rising.
Recognition of open-source work as voluntary work
Recognition of open-source work as voluntary work in Germany
Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them
In an era when AI can write code, software engineers are desperately holding onto the very skills that once made them valuable to employers.
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco
Reducing memory requirements to control costs in a new wave of kit
Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
Meta workers revolt against mouse tracking technology — flyers ask if they want to work at 'the Employee Data Extraction Factory'
Meta workers are seriously unhappy about mouse tracking software
AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds
A Gartner study found that while 80% of companies surveyed reported workforce reductions, there was no correlation to higher ROI.
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
Today I learned that, despite having a mainland measuring just 20 square kilometers, 80% of the island nation of Naoero is uninhabitable du…
Pacific island Nauru said it will hold a referendum to change its official name, described as a colonial relic from a time when “foreign tongues” mangled the native language.
Something Strange Happens When You Follow How Piracy Actually Works (In The Entertainment Industry)
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‘It’s here’: Google issues dire warning after catching hackers using AI to break into computers
The cybersecurity threat experts feared for years just happened and "the world might actually be more dangerous."
Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says
Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists
Young adults are more likely than older Americans to believe that AI will create economic gains that benefit everyone, but they are also more likely to worry that AI will replace jobs they depend upon
The Talos Principle 3 | Announcement Trailer
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eBay rejects GameStop’s $56B offer: “Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive”
eBay board doubts GameStop's ability to buy and operate the much larger firm.
Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is 'simply impossible'
Valery Fadeev, head of Russia's Human Rights Council, concedes that blocking circumvention tools would devastate businesses and banks
How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe — Monokai
On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think
Meta is facing another lawsuit over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
The lawsuit claims Meta is not doing enough to protect senior citizens and other vulnerable groups.
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies
Reports claim that Saros' early sales have been below expectations for a PS5 exclusive, especially considering its relatively high budget.
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area
Saros | Fully Ramblomatic
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Kickstarter bans all NSFW content from the website
Back in 2019 we covered the censorship that was hurting the sex toy industry. One of the offenders was Kickstarter, which later changed its ways and became more welcoming. But it seems like the company has regressed. “S…
Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an app…
Also, it's a twofer with the GreenPlasma zero-day local privilege escalation.
Medical AI transcriber for Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors: auditor general
Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor gen…
As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help
Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been …
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.
Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling
Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.
AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
AI researcher Yoshua Bengio claims AI could persuade or manipulate humans to achieve its own goals.
Microsoft is still faking Google's homepage on Bing 1.5 years after backlash, even as it pays $1 million for users
Microsoft is still spoofing Google’s homepage in Bing on Edge, despite backlash, while users grow increasingly frustrated with Google Search.
Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car
Politicians say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition.
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic secures large investment as director Casey Hudson rejects use of gen-AI, saying "I'm just really unimpr…
KOTOR spiritual successor Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic gathers funds as director talks studio size, game length, and gen-AI.
Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn…
Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI
The Google Threat Intelligence Group said its proactive measures stopped a “mass exploitation event.”
Musk, Cook and other prominent US executives invited to join Trump on trip to China
Prominent U.S. executives from Big Tech and Wall Street to agriculture and aerospace joined President Donald Trump on his trip to China.
Don't Hijack My Mouse Pointer
With vibe-coding, more and more websites I am visiting are changing my mouse pointer
The future of Obsidian plugins - Obsidian
Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.