According to recent research, usage of the generative AI at work has doubled since 2023, yet 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment. What gives? The team at Harvard Business Review say that "employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that […]

Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation. @axios reports: "As the federal government fully embraces AI and looks unlikely to pass significant tech policy regulation any time soon, busy state houses are tech companies' biggest problem." https://flip.it/OLSFc3 #meta #ai […]

Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday that its production lines, shut down after a cyberattack in August, will remain at a halt until at least Oct. 1. @abc reports: https://flip.it/wMfyrq #cybersecurity #jaguar #tech #technology #business

AI needs massive amounts of computing power to run its large language models. Data centers need massive amounts of electricity. Put it all together and it’s fair to ask: Is AI throwing our climate under the bus? Listen in as editors and reporters at Inside Climate News discuss the prospects for […]

Earlier this summer, Tesla started testing its autonomous cars on the streets of Austin. According to crash reports, the automaker experienced three crashes on the first day. @arstechnica reports on this, plus what happened when two Tesla owners attempted to drive coast to coast using the […]

Google faces antitrust déjà vu as U.S. seeks to break up its digital advertising business. @AssociatedPress reports: "The trial will revolve around the harmful conduct that resulted in U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema declaring parts of Google’s digital advertising technology to be an […]

Anyone not wearing smart glasses will someday be at a “cognitive disadvantage,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. All those brainy ideas will come at a hefty social price, though. Read more from @WIRED: https://flip.it/02yQH- #tech #techwear #smartglasses #technology

Tech giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly tell H-1B workers to stay in the U.S. after the White House announced a $100K fee for applications. Read more from @Techcrunch: https://flip.it/DGoy8M #tech #google #amazon #microsoft #h1bvisas #trump

U.S. President Trump has signed an executive order adding a $100,000 application fee for the H-1B visa, which is used to hire skilled foreign workers. Tech companies are the main beneficiaries of the program, with Amazon receiving the most last year. "We're going to be able to keep people in our […]

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure […]

Trump and Xi are set to discuss the TikTok deal and future of US-China relations. @abc reports: "Trump, who has credited the app with helping him win another term, has extended a deadline several times for the app to be spun off from its Chinese parent company ByteDance." […]

Trump and Starmer sign U.S.-U.K. tech deal on AI, nuclear power. @abc reports: "Starmer said the deal involves investments from multiple science and technology companies, totaling $204 billion across the Atlantic, creating 15,000 jobs in the next decade." https://flip.it/XKbI1s #trump […]

Good morning! If you’re on mastodon.social (or another server running nightly builds) you can begin quoting posts in your posts (quooting?) starting today. Remember, you control whether you can be quoted, and call always retract your post from a specific quote. And you can quote me on that!

Nvidia to invest $5 billion in Intel, working together on AI infrastructure and PCs. @AssociatedPress has the details: https://flip.it/W-ArGa #nvidia #intel #ai #artificialintelligence #tech #technology

Some of the workers most affected by AI have been artists, illustrators and graphic designers. For his AI Killed My Job series, @brianmerchant spoke with some of them about ridiculous costume designs, whether comics might be at least temporarily immune to the technology, and cleaning up the […]

"Consumer Reports is calling on Microsoft to extend the October 14th deadline that will cut off free security updates for Windows 10 computers." @verge reports: "Data suggests that around 46.2 percent of people around the world still use Windows 10 as of August 2025, while around 200 to 400 […]

Social media has us in its grip and won’t let go. The Charlie Kirk killing is a case study, says @AssociatedPress. "Utah’s governor, Republican Spencer Cox, believes 'cancer' isn’t a strong enough word to describe social media." https://flip.it/FQurXX #socialmedia #charliekirk #tech […]

Video platform Vimeo will be acquired by mobile app developer Bending Spoons in a cash deal valued at $1.38 billion, @Techcrunch's Aisha Malik reports. https://flip.it/S7kN7P #tech #technology #business #vimeo

Republican lawmakers in Michigan are seeking to completely ban pornography, ASMR, depictions of transgender people, and VPNs. House Bill 4938 would prohibit distribution of material in Michigan that "corrupts the public morals." Platform operators that "knowingly distribute" banned content would […]

YouTube Live gets a major update, introduces dual-format streaming, minigames, and more. @Techcrunch reports: "This includes letting creators play mini-games to entertain viewers, broadcasting simultaneously in both horizontal and vertical formats, AI-powered highlights, reacting to live events […]

What to know after the U.S. says it has reached framework deal with China to keep TikTok in operation. @AssociatedPress reports: "Oracle Corp. has been floated as a likely buyer for the platform." https://flip.it/9ylHx- #tiktok #technology #socialmedia #china #tech

Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources say. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions […]

If you’re thinking of downloading images from the internet to use for your desktop background, think again. Artificial-intelligence agents — touted as AI's next wave — could be vulnerable to malicious code hidden in innocent-looking images on your computer screen. @LiveScience has more […]

Vibe coding can be “a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch ideas.” But dealing with AI-generated code? “Worse than babysitting.” @Techcrunch gets into it: https://flip.it/XoMJW_ #tech #ai #coding #vibecoding #artificialintelligence

In the first 8 months since Donald Trump returned to the White House, around 350,000 deportations have been carried out by immigration agents. @Techcrunch tells us about the facial-recognition tech powering the crackdown: https://flip.it/SiXXDc #tech #immigration #facialrecognition #trump #ice

Good news in the fight against cybercrime. Apple announced a new feature called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) for its latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices that’s designed to help stop memory corruption bugs. These bugs are some of the most common vulnerabilities exploited by spyware […]

AI startup founders tout a winning formula — No booze, no sleep, no fun. From @WSJ: "To reach the dream of creating a trillion-dollar company, the 20-somethings flocking to San Francisco give up everything but their laptops." Gift link: https://flip.it/sOXgu7 #ai #artificialintelligence #tech […]

"Former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material." […]

Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science-fiction gadget: The universal translator. CNBC reports: "Translation is emerging as a key battleground in the technology industry as AI gets good enough to translate languages as quickly as people speak." https://flip.it/kNaAKi #language […]

⚠️ Warning: Web 2.0 cliche ahead ⚠️ New from me on @TheNewStack: the "Agentic Web” is a work-in-progress at both the @w3c level and in projects such as MCP-UI, NLWeb and WebMCP. That said, some very large companies — including @cloudflare & Shopify — are already using these technologies in […]

Social media users have turned to chatbots for updates on the murder of U.S. right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and have found contradictory and inaccurate responses. A day after 31-year-old Kirk's death, the X account of Perplexity said that he was still alive. The X account of Grok said that […]

Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedom. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/0xu5tn #nepal #internet #socialmedia #freedom #technology

Graphic video of Charlie Kirk shooting was everywhere online, showing how media gatekeeper role has changed in the U.S. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/SCBp6_ #charliekirk #internet #socialmedia #media #journalism #tech

"The (human) host will get less smiley, less engaging, and so on. The virtual human is very standardized in terms of attitude." @jasonkoebler on the advancement of salesperson avatars in China […]

The "Star Trek" technology that came to real life. @popsci has a cool video from the ESA: https://flip.it/1nUOda #startrek #tech #technology #space

In a world that faces unprecedented challenges, from a resurgence in global fascism to the fast-developing storm of the climate crisis, we need more technologists to focus on doing good work. Here's how to take the leap. https://werd.io/using-technology-skills-for-positive-change/

Are you a moderator on the Fediverse? A server operator? If so, you should definitely fill out the IFTAS Moderator Needs Assessment: https://about.iftas.org/moderator-needs-assessment/

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show. @AssociatedPress investigation unveils depth of involvement from companies like Microsoft, IBM, Dell and CIsco. https://flip.it/DSS9xo #china #siliconvalley #surveillance #tech #technology […]

“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said Jeanine Wright, CEO of Inception Point AI, which produces 3,000 podcast episodes a week, for one hour and up to $1 each, and has seen 10 million […]

Reports of the Anthropic/author lawsuit being settled may have been premature. U.S. District Judge William Alsup says he believes the proposed $1.5B deal is full of pitfalls, and has scheduled another hearing, which will take place on Sept. 25. If he's not satisfied, the case will go to trial in […]

Apple just held its big iPhone 17 event. Here's @TechRadar's @Flipboard Storyboard about everything they launched, including how the new phones compare to Google and Samsung products, what to know about the AirPods Pro 3, and whether it's worth upgrading your Apple Watch […]

Will Apple’s new iPhones cost more? Here’s what to expect from today’s unveiling. From @AssociatedPress: https://flip.it/.J45Po #apple #iphone #tech #technology #smartphone

Poor old Tesla's having a terrible time of it. Its global sales are down 10% globally in 2025 — as much as 40% in Europe — and while it's maintaining sales in the U.S., that's not expected to last, and its domestic market share is just 38%. Here's more from Electrek. https://flip.it/YwnmXi […]

Is Google speaking out of both sides of its mouth? In May, CEO Sundar Pichai said that web publishing is not dying and VP of search Nick Fox said that the web is thriving, but in a court document filed by Google on Friday, lawyers wrote "the open web is already in rapid decline." What gives? For […]

The global vinyl record market has been growing at a rate of around 7 percent a year, but the records themselves are getting smaller. Case in point: A four-inch-sized format called Tiny Vinyl. Each disc is about the size of the label on an LP or -7-inch single, will hold to short songs, and […]

AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/gdqOOI #ai #artificialintelligence #tech #technology

@Techcrunch asks: How can a chatbot be so wrong — and sound so confident in its wrongness? The answer might be found in the incentives LLMs have: https://flip.it/0Xtfya #tech #ai #aihalluciations #technology #artificialintelligence

Want to keep students from staring at their phones during class? More schools across the U.S. are banning phones from the classroom, and a school district in New Jersey found a way to lock them up (The phones, not the students). Read more from @CBSNews: https://flip.it/z2i31x #tech #school […]

Another day, another hot mic oopsie. This time it's the turn of Mark Zuckerberg, who, at a dinner with tech leaders and Donald Trump, announced plans to invest at least $600 billion in the U.S. in the next three years. Shortly after, he was caught muttering to Trump: "sorry, I wasn't ready …I […]

Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that […]