Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state's entire police budget
States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.
Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support
It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.
60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast …
Only 25% of you will even try in the next year
Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
Layoffs are "not a savings-driven restructure," CFO says.
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
The push to keep open-source open in the era of age-gating.
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Modern internet is broken and no longer built for human beings. By 2026 the internet is filled with robots . One type of robots generates content and injects advertisements, another type ingests that content and emulate…
51 Ways to Spell the Image Giraffe: The Hidden Politics of Token Languages in Generative AI
Generative AI models don't operate on human languages – they speak in **tokens**. Tokens are computational fragments that deconstruct lan...
The funniest thing about the Trump arcade game is how good it is
Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell is all about chuckling through the horrors.
When Vibe Scammers Met Vibe Hackers: Pwning PhaaS with Their Own Weapons
What happens when AI-powered criminals meet AI-powered hunters? A technical arms race where both sides are vibing their way through explo...
‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge
Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors
Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies
AI Poop Analysis App Offers to Sell Database of Its Users
"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images."
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costs
SEATTLE – A consumer-protection lawsuit from Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman accuses Amazon.com of collecting funds from millions of its customers in response to since invalidated tariffs, passing the buck on risin…
U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100,000 users of popular car-tinkering app in emissions crackdown
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking personal data on potentially hundreds of thousands of drivers who downloaded EZ Lynk’s Auto Agent…
Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters "emergency management mode," daily losse…
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Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting
In April 2026, Canonical disclosed 44 CVEs in uutils, the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutil…
A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver's licenses open for anyone to see | TechCrunch
The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
Why allow "everyone" to have read write permission?
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California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games
Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill.
'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system
The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.
Rebooting stem cells builds aged muscles and assists injury recovery
Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, don’t work as well as we get older, but giving them an artificial boost could rejuvenate them
Digg Is Back Again, but With a New Format and Focus on AI
Using the 1,000 most influential voices in AI that also happen to be on X, Digg wants to be your source of AI news.
Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies
A breach of pirate etiquette has even pirates siding with a Subnautica 2 designer.
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I'm officially back from my brief hiatus (shout-out to those who missed me), and as promised, have sifted through two weeks' worth of content to make up for it.
'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers
Meta's forthcoming layoffs will reportedly eliminate about 10% of its workforce, even as Q1 profits hit $26.8 billion and AI spending rockets toward $145 billion this year alone.
Japanese authorities just dropped a Minecraft map based on actual submarine topographic data, and it lets you explore the seabed from Tokyo…
The Japan Coast Guard's Minecraft map based on official topographic data of the seas and ocean around Japan is available for free.
Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people…
Forza Horizon 5 peaked at 81,096 players back in 2021
In China, artificial intelligence isn’t the future. It’s already here
ABC News' Selina Wang is traveling with the president in China and takes a closer look at how artificial intelligence is being embraced by the government -- even mandating AI education in schools.
Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard
Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.
Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
While the summit appeared cordial, China remains a key adversary of the United States, given its advanced intelligence and espionage capabilities.
TIL that dwarf rats exist. They're said to rarely get tumors, and to have a longer lifespan than regular rats.
Details on the difference between standard and dwarf rats & how to identify them.
Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative
Two council members have retracted their approval votes after people raised concerns.
New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic
A digital billboard company now has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks. Thanks, I hate it.
The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
German intelligence offices snub US-owned Palantir software
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France, instead of US-based Palantir. Civil society has welcomed the move, but says more must be done.
Honda indefinitely suspends $15B EV plant in Ontario
Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario, as it pivots away from EVs and toward hybrids. The move comes as the automaker posted its first full-year loss ever to th…
The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (Update: Google responds)
Google is testing a 5GB free storage limit for new Gmail accounts unless users add a phone number to unlock the full 15GB.
Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs. With only 578 servers (compared to Pro…
‘It’s like stealing’: Palestinian family’s seized property listed on Booking.com
West Bank home described as âideal for outdoor gatheringsâ is among 41 listed rentals in illegal Israeli settlements
The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice
Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now yo…
Claude helps man recover $400,000 in BTC 11 years after he got high and forgot password
A Bitcoin holder has gone viral after claiming he recovered around $400,000 in BTC from a wallet that had been locked for more than a decade.
Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year
This chart shows the number of tech and startup employees laid off worldwide, by quarter.
Engineered proteins store digital files with 30 times density at one-tenth cost
Massive volumes of digital data are generated every day from AI training, big data analytics and smart devices. As conventional hard drives and cloud storage are increasingly constrained by high costs, limited capacity,…
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
Netflix Plans to Bring Ads to Even More Parts of Its Service
Podcasts and Netflix's recently introduced vertical video feed will start showing ads next year.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs
The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work adding ever more features to the DE and polishing the exper…