Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work

ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?

OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question

I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPod

Roku and TCL are being sued for allegedly bricking smart TVs with bad updates

GLP-1s and hair loss: Study finds a new link

After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design

Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

U.S President administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms | Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

UK Google DeepMind employees vote to unionize over its AI defense deals

Hyundai Reportedly Demanding ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Boston Dynamics Robots ASAP

Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?

A hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn them

Notepad++ Creator Don Ho Calls Out "Fake" MacOS App Over Trademark Violation

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

Half of teenage girls in Japan consult AI about their problems; less than 30% of men in any age group do

A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory

Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names

A suspected YouTube interface bug  spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loop

Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’

DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts

Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player

Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout

FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 percent of US-bound devices

Productivity gains from AI are appearing in many of the same fields where entry-level employment is starting to decline

My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up

NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum chamber, reaching power levels of up to 120 kilowatts—the highest achieved in U.S. tests of an electric propulsion system

German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns

Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand

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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows

ESP32 Hosts SolarPunk Message Board

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index

San Jose passenger claims a Waymo drove off with his luggage at the airport | A man says the Waymo he rode to San Jose Mineta Airport drove away with his luggage in the trunk

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

Ask Jeeves just shut down after 29 years, and nobody noticed

SpaceX sued for alleged home damage in South Texas— The lawsuit filed by 80 plaintiffs Thursday accuse Elon Musk's company of gross negligence and trespassing for loud blasts from 11 rocket tests.

A DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Government’s ID Platform

A giant pit in Switzerland will soon house the world's most powerful redox flow battery

Welcome to Dunwoody's Virtual Human Zoo: Flock claimed explicit permission to view cameras where children play. Dunwoody says no such permission exists.