Investigation reported more than 300 climate misinformation videos to YouTube and TikTok. Neither of them care to remove them
A joint investigation by Science Feedback and Fundación Maldita.es reported more than 300 climate misinformation videos in French and Spanish. YouTube never answered, and TikTok restricted only a small minority of them …
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
Banks including JPMorgan and MUFG are shopping AI data center debt tied to Oracle as credit default swaps spike and bond order books thin out.
We Told TikTok About 100 Accounts That Sell Drugs: They Did Nothing
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UK recruiters report record AI cheating in graduate job interviews
ISE’s Student Recruitment Report 2026 shows that graduate jobs have stabilised, but AI misconduct and record applications are disrupting recruitment.
Y Combinator “Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”.
The startup Outlit is deploying agents that constantly surveil B2B companies' customers and create detailed intelligence dossiers.
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
AI is now able to decompile games and software in a matter of days. That's scary... but kind of exciting.
The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have
Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.
Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat
Epic Games have announced their brand new Epic Games Launcher refresh has a Preview available, along with Native Linux support and Fortnite is coming to Linux.
Xbox announces what sounds like a generative AI-focused game-making department, Xbox Labs, while avoiding mentioning AI
Xbox Labs is Xbox's attempt to explore the recent rush of genAI-driven game ports and recompiles.
Nvidia donates $250m to UK for AI safety research
Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen
Saudi National Arrested for Installing Surreptitious Audio Recording Device at OpenAI
An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.
Microsoft’s Xandr fined €8.6M over Grindr user data exposure
In 2020, noyb has filed a complaint against the online advertising company Xandr for processing personal data from the dating app Grindr. This decision is a major blow to the online adtech industry.
Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise with self-hosted browser management
Institutions are recalculating who controls the technology they rely on. Mozilla has an independent option to offer. For years, organizations consolidated
Saudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters
Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents
The ‘Sophisticated’ Bug OpenAI Found in Its Conference Room Can Be Yours for $13.99
The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense is for tinkerers, not super-spies.
The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Res…
The extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to "severe negative outcomes" including psychological harm and suicide, a recent paper argues.
Federal Reserve Says AI Data Center Buildout Is Making Everything More Expensive: "I’m getting increasingly nervous that that’s just straig…
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee told Semafor that AI-tied inflation is "jumping out of its lane."
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy: Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced lawsui…
Character.AI, the AI unicorn that faced several lawsuits over the deaths of minors as well as significant revenue struggles, is bankrupt.
The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners: The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as…
The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as fundamental as reading and writing.
Sprout - a modern motherboard for old iPods
Sprout – a modern motherboard for old iPods.
God of War Laufey's $150 Collector Box Includes a Light-Up Faye Statue but no game
God of War Laufey is the next big game to get a collector box without the game itself.
Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
Legendary level designer Richard 'Levelord' Gray has died
Gray got his start with Duke Nukem 3D, before moving to co-found Ritual Entertainment.
Jacob Coxon’s Spy Warning Proves To Be Prescient: OpenAI’s Saudi Employee Arrested After Planting A Recording Device Wrapped Within Toilet …
Ex-Anthropic staffer Coxon had said he was 90% sure spies were inside OpenAI and Anthropic. Now an OpenAI employee faces federal charges.
Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
It can recognize up to six users with its camera.
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improv…
Anyone running Goatcounter? Hyper minimal analytics.
GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative…
‘BYD effect’: electric vehicle boom becomes unexpected tool to combat inflation
More and more Australian consumers are expected to âunplug themselves from the oil shockâ with at least five EVs priced around or below $30,000
Survey: Almost Half of Women in Tech Have Experienced Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Programs to ensure higher representation of women are also in decline, according to ISACA’s 2026 Tech Workplace and Culture survey report.
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.
Russia's Google Lost Three Data Centres in One Week. The Real Damage Isn't the Fire | Comuniq
Russia's Google Lost Three Data Centres in One Week. The Real Damage Isn't the Fire | Comuniq
GTA 6 Will Hit PC Just a Few Months After Consoles, According to a New Report
GTA 6 will launch on PC just a few months after consoles, according to a new report.
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM
Around 100 million US dollars in cryptocurrency have been stolen from users of certain hardware wallets because whoever can read the screen wins.
What Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?
The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
The pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using âsuperintelligenceâ wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity â and how our biggest challenge will be accepting weâre not the only intelligent beings
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots
Yandex's automated traffic fell by 94%, but that probably reflects widespread service outages rather than bot posting rates.
Flock Cameras Are Really Just the Start of Our Dystopian Surveillance Hell, Experts Warn: "Instead of having to go to a million different s…
The rising tide of all-encompassing police surveillance systems like Axon's Fusus make Flock Safety look like a privacy wonderland.
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media – but the truth is far more complicated
Bot traffic has really reduced in the wake of an attack on a Russian internet company – but it doesn’t tell the full story
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Haunted Chocolatier 'More of an Action RPG' Compared to Stardew Valley, ConcernedApe Says
Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, has discussed the difference between his all-conquering indie game Stardew Valley and his hotly anticipated follow-up, Haunted Chocolatier.
Fitbit Edge May Be the Sweet Spot for Smartwatch Noncommittals - CNET
Google's new $179 tracker sits between the screenless Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch 5, promising some of the best parts of both without fully committing to either.
French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown...
CHAPTER I: OUT OF THE BREACH | Hytale
Embark on a journey of adventure and creativity! Hytale combines the scope of a sandbox with the depth of a roleplaying game, immersing players in a procedurally generated world where teetering towers and deep dungeons …
Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity
Peppermint OS Expands Beyond Debian with Void Linux-Based PepVoid
Peppermint OS is testing PepVoid, a new Void Linux-based edition featuring Xorg and XLibre, with an official release potentially coming in November.