The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re 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 it’s 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
Hollywood’s Top Execs Got a 51% Pay Hike in 2025 as Layoffs Erased 17,000 Jobs
As the pay gap between media executives and their employees remains massive, one Los Angeles nonprofit is pushing for an "Overpaid CEO" tax
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.
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
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 Ward’s 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 — 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, world’s 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 revolutio…
Can we have the day off?
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s 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 t…
The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi
An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the “Eloi” 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 OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad
“I 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, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure got a job at dad’s company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don’t 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.
The pressure
I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food …
Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200
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Discarr: open-source disc rip → Sonarr/Radarr import pipeline [Node.js, GPL-3.0]
Disc scanning and HEVC encoding queue for Sonarr/Radarr
Last.fm is now independent
Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The tea…
US law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred grows
The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused other executives of wrongly justifying layoffs on AI — and telling them to cut it out.
Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US
Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US • 1TB OLED $649 -> $949 • 512GB OLED $549 -> $789 still out of stock store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
AI errno(2) values
errno(2) values for the AI age
A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
OpenMLS has undergone a security audit, funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency
OpenMLS, our implementation of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, has undergone a security audit. The audit is an important milestone for OpenMLS. In this post, we share the results and take the opportunity to…
New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes
A new Halo Campaign Evolved report claims the remake relied heavily on outsourcing and includes major mission and gameplay changes.
Homelander Glazers TRIGGERED By His Death In The Boys Finale (And It's Hilarious)
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Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been renamed to Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams | RPG Site
Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been renamed and development reshuffled as revealed in the Stream.
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action…
"I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]"
Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud" - Gingerlime
Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Str…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT
CD PROJEKT RED today announced that a third expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling role-playing games of all time, is coming next year. Songs of the
More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR databases, law enfor…
The VFX Shift That Saved Star Trek: The Next Generation | TREK WORLD
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How to Make Money with AI Generated Hate Content Online (Even losers can do it!) (Satire article)
Are you not where you want to be in life? The right-wing media and algorithmically driven content shown on your social media feed is eating away your precious time. Your mind is occupied by thoughts about the things med…
It seems Bun were completely rewritten in Rust via LLM code generation and it's planned to replace original version
Blog post with details coming soon. It passes Bun's pre-existing test suite on all platforms (and fixes several memory leaks and flaky tests), the binary size shrinks by 3 MB - 8 MB, the benchm...
TIL: After 1989 one of the first acts of the still existing GDR Volkskammer was to issue an apology to Israel and Jewish people for holocau…
Expressing "sorrow and shame" Thursday, East Germany for the first time shared blame for the Holocaust and begged forgiveness from Israel and "all the Jews of the world." The historic apology...