just remembered about the dream i had where they had merged github and imdb into one and kept the imdb branding

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

it's enjoyable. i'm enjoying it www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."

Fantastic ad placement in the NYT. 👨‍🍳💋

Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.

Down detector is down because it can't verify that I'm human because Cloudflare is down

Cloudflare is down, in yet another example of why 5 companies should not control the internet.

go to the cloud they said itll be fine they said https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China." latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

They did not. No one coulda not predicted. bsky.app/profile/anic...

"this is not about compensation" says the man who made sure he had a guaranteed sale price for his twitter shares when he pledged them to musk's twitter takeover

Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name. Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.

lol holy shit

It’s not about the AWS outage; it’s about the contracts we made along the way.

This is the opening of the Grokipedia entry on George Floyd. I think we can all agree that Floyd did not become well known around the world because of his "lengthy criminal record." Opening the entry this way is seemingly an attempt to manufacture consent for his killing.

lol holy shit

It’s not about the AWS outage; it’s about the contracts we made along the way.

I bought a new TV, there were 4 buttons across 2 seperate pages to disable advertisements. And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.

0 days since last AWS internet outage

I bought a new TV, there were 4 buttons across 2 seperate pages to disable advertisements. And they’ve replaced the Mute button with a dedicated “AI” button, which opens a glorified picture settings.

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Salesforce pitched ICE on tripling its staff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner. Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist." www.wired.com/story/owning...

What the fuck is this hell?

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you want to know how they use HiveAI, here’s the code -

I did read this out loud for our audio section, I regret to report

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

U.S. Senator blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans. techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/t...

"UK Home Office issued a new order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time focused on UK users" www.ft.com/content/d101...

U.S. Senator blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans. techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/t...

im doing my part dot meme

"UK Home Office issued a new order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time focused on UK users" www.ft.com/content/d101...

“The report, published by the government on Monday, said photo-based age estimation products were broadly accurate, fast and privacy-respecting” did the NSA write that report, lmao? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

it is laughable how fucking useless the Online Safety Act is. a credit card can't act as ""Highly Effective Age Assurance"" because in this case - Steam - kids have parents just put their credit card onto their Steam account to buy stuff on their behalf *all the time*. man what

A big round of applause to Ars. I really want to see what the submission was to Defcon that got accepted, because this was bad.

NEW: Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts & coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out by 9/28 (it's a pop-up window that will give you the choice). It’s also extending its data retention to 5 years. www.theverge.com/anthropic/76...

time for the biggest class-action lawsuit in american history

what kind of society do we live in where we don't support those of us who want to see our Gladiator II popcorn bucket colosseums come to life

“You are a genius doctor who gives the world's best medical advice.”

NEW: A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction to Media Matters in its case against the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing that the FTC investigation violated the group's free speech rights www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.