DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs

Jane Goodall, Famed Primatologist and Conservationist, Dies At 91

How about no...Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

EA’s Saudi Deal Fallout: Junk Credit Ratings, Risky AI Bets, And Developer Fears

AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood causes outrage in Hollywood

Republicans can pass this with no Democrats participating, but we get further proof they can't govern -- Why the US government has shut down and what happens now

Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans

Um...no! ...ChatGPT Adds 'Instant Checkout' To Shop Directly In Chat

🧅🫥 Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals theonion.com/trump-a...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Buyers of RadioShack Accused of Running $112 Million Ponzi Scheme

Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1

🙄 Microsoft Launches 'Vibe Working' in Excel and Word

Grifty mcGrifty...Pfizer to offer cheaper drugs via Trump's website

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow Shows Encouraging VR Stealth

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 released www.osnews.com/story...

"no more superficial individual expression"

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

TREAT YO SELF = “I stress-eat six Milano cookies before every performance review”

This is the main reason the ADL originally existed, and now they’re giving it up entirely because it made some right-wingers upset. They are no longer pretending to be anything other than a pro-Israel advocacy group. And they are prioritizing Israelis above American Jews.

There we are.

I really want OpenAI to put out those Altman-grade vanity metrics about the “thousands of hours” of video generated by Sora 2 so that I can immediately take it to the Azure pricing for Sora and estimate what they’ve burned. I bet they lose like a billion dollars in the year just from this app

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

U.S. citizen arrested twice at Alabama construction site with no probable cause

We knew both man and dog... Had just seen them before the weekend too...RIP. -- Man critical, dog dead after being struck by a vehicle in North Haven

Oregon National Guard Leader Laments Portland Deployment

🧅🤣Like SecUnits, they are smooth both underneath and apparently in their face lol 🤣 - ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

🧐 Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

Donald Trump Declares War On Portland Because Of A Few Anti-ICE Protests

Why burnout is a growing problem in cybersecurity

Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: ‘They Look Completely Dead’

Ewwww....Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million

2025 Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with GenAI

Jordan Mechner's favorite version of Prince of Persia

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

Swiss voters narrowly approve plan for electronic ID cards

Tile’s lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking

All AI Use Case Claims Need Verification - Period.

Tim Berners-Lee Urges New Open-Source Interoperable Data Standard, Protections from AI

These XR glasses with a 200-inch screen effectively replaced my triple monitor setup

What Schools Stand to Lose in the Battle Over the Next Federal Education Budget

A “MAGA Dentist” is getting review-bombed on Yelp after joking about treating non-Trump patients differently

The Quest 3’s ‘Hyperscapes’ Are Impressive, Weird, and Doomed to Be Under-Appreciated

Project 2025 calls for the criminalization of all forms of contraception, including condoms and the pill. Just a reminder.

Trump officials ask Supreme Court to uphold ban on birthright citizenship

After DOGE came through and took a wrecking ball to the Institute of Education Sciences, there are a few green shoots returning. But the future of the agency is very much in limbo.

Never played MTG...but this might get me to try it out.. ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Is Boldly Going to ‘Star Trek’ Next Year

RIP EA...Videogame Giant Electronic Arts Nears Roughly $50 Billion Deal to Go Private