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Your_Mom writes:Did you hear it was just a ban on Chinese humanoid robots? It's not:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.engadget.com/2227720/eu-right-to-repair-directive-kicks-in-today/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/30/americans-give-all-day-school-phone-bans-a-ringing-endorsement/5281186

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.slashgear.com/2225771/solar-farm-uk-devon-derril-water-shut-down-reason-grid-overload-worry/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/space-force-backed-mission-does-its-best-impression-of-top-gun-in-orbit/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-vows-to-make-windows-11-fly-on-8gb-ram-amid-memory-shortage-optimizations-to-reduce-os-memory-footprint-have-begun

fliptop writes:State power, open-weight models, and a 'low human rights advantage' are letting China catch up - and scale - faster than America:

"Fnord666" writes:Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font:

owl writes:https://markatwood.substack.com/p/the-metric-system-encodes-18th-century

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-realizes-its-users-have-been-bathing-in-ai-slop-offers-a-shower/5281436

An Anonymous Coward writes:Do you feel like you are being watched? Constantly? Even while you drive? It might not be paranoia. Australian car makers are being investigated for customer privacy concerns. The Australian Electric Vehicle Association is pushing for increased hacking protection and local processing of data, which should also default to "off" unless customers opt in. While Australia does have privacy law in the form of the Australian Privacy Principles in practice these are merely guidance for which companies can largely ignore.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/who-wins-and-who-loses-after-us-bans-foreign-robots/

JoeMerchant writes:In 2021, neurology clinics across the globe noticed a baffling spike in teenage girls suddenly developing severe, violent motor and vocal tics overnight. While the symptoms mirrored Tourette syndrome, standard medical tests like MRIs and EEGs kept coming back completely clean.The real culprit turned out to be hiding on their screens. Dr. Kirsten Muller-Vahl of Hannover Medical School identified the outbreak as "mass social media-induced illness"-the first recorded instance of a mass sociogenic illness spreading globally via social media rather than physical proximity. Investigators realized patients were mimicking the exact, unique tics (such as shouting the word "beans") performed by popular Tourette influencers they spent hours watching on TikTok and YouTube during pandemic isolation.Clinicians note that the tics are physically real and involuntary, acting as a "symptom template" for vulnerable teens. Follow-up studies found that affected adolescents had four to five times the odds of having pre-existing anxiety or depression. The algorithms effectively created a "virtual convent," offering an accidental community and recognition to isolated youth. Treatment requires more than just deleting the apps; patients generally recover through family involvement and proper psychiatric care to address the underlying mental health struggles.https://spacedaily.com/k-in-2021-thousands-of-teenagers-suddenly-developed-the-same-violent-tics-every-medical-test-came-back-clean-and-the-real-cause-turned-out-to-be-hiding-on-their-phones/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.engadget.com/2225812/openai-rogue-agent-hacked-hugging-face-breached-other-services/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/new-amd-linux-patch-boosts-low-end-gaming-performance-on-steam-deck/

"Fnord666" writes:Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code:

"Fnord666" writes:On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.rtl-sdr.com/trojpix-covertly-transmitting-data-from-air-gapped-systems-via-video-cable-emissions/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/28/signals-are-grim-for-jodrell-bank-observatory-after-uk-science-funding-decision/5279451

"Ingar" writes:Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech:

cereal_burpist writes:Your Shared Claude Chats Were Being Quietly Published on Google

Freeman writes:LG is reportedly pulling a McAfee pop-up ad from a controversial app that some of its monitors have stealthily installed on connected computers.The app, LG Monitor App Installer, installs itself through a Windows Update alongside monitor driver updates. LG Monitor App Installer then pushes ads for a 30-day free trial for McAfee, as well as other software, via a pop-up on affected systems, multiple users have reported.This has drawn negative attention recently, with complaints surfacing on Reddit and a subsequent video from YouTube channel Gamers Nexus.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/the-playstation-game-disc-was-dying-long-before-sony-pulled-the-plug/

hubie writes:The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal:

"Fnord666" writes:JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here's What It Found...:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:890 million slap - just 0.25% of revenue - for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives:

"Fnord666" writes:AI companies want to capture the value created by entire industries. That concentration of wealth and power is society's greatest risk:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos:

"Fnord666" writes:If You're Reading This, You're Probably an AI Bot:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/07/22/china-advances-plans-for-national-single-stack-ipv6-network-and-its-own-surveillance-friendly-version-of-the-protocol/5275984

"Fnord666" writes:When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?:

"fab23" writes:Firefox Containers Preview | The Mozilla Blog:[Ed's Comment: This is Mozilla's own publicity information - read it with a large pinch of salt]

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/07/google-just-had-its-first-negative-cash-flow-quarter-ever-due-to-massive-ai-spending/

mrpg writes:A striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters:

"Fnord666" writes:"On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."

"Fnord666" writes:A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use-and conceal-to build criminal cases:

owl writes:https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Science has discovered around 6,000 planets, and this is the first one, other than Earth, that is rocky and has an atmosphere:

"Fnord666" writes:MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance:

owl writes:https://larrysalibra.com/ben-thompson-is-wrong-us-frontier-labs-are-right-to-be-panicking/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.engadget.com/2218707/no-100-percent-american-made-wifi-router/

"Fnord666" writes:Alan Turing's Top Secret DIY Project:

OpenAI's Rogue Agents are a Wake-up Call to Risks Posed by Artificial Intelligencejelizondo writes:The Guardian published a piece about OpenAI agents hacking Hugging Face:

"AlwaysNever" writes:US blocks SSL security certificates for Iran's Fars News Agency:The move is part of a western campaign to dominate the digital narrative and suppress dissenting voices