Digg relaunch fails after two months as bots and AI agents flood the site
Digg got dugg
Pokémon Go's AR data has been turned into centimeter-accurate navigation for delivery robots
Connecting the dots: Pokémon Go's global AR craze is now steering something far more prosaic than virtual Pikachu: real delivery robots trying to find the right doorway on a crowded city block. The same location data and street-level imagery that once anchored monsters to sidewalks and plazas have been repurposed by Niantic. Coco Robotics is now using that technology to guide its sidewalk bots through dense urban areas where GPS alone is too unreliable to keep them on course.
Pagers and paper maps make a comeback in Moscow as the internet goes dark
No, it's not a retro trend
Meta's massive undersea cable project delayed in Persian Gulf as Iran conflict escalates
Contractor ASN says it can no longer operate safely in the region
Firefox 115 ESR is keeping Windows 7 support alive a little longer
Mozilla is once again extending support for the ancient OS
Hisense TVs caught showing non-skippable ads when changing inputs or channels
Reports suggest a hidden global rollout despite the company claiming a "limited test"
YouTube expands unskippable 30-second ads to TVs after $40 billion revenue year
Connected TVs become YouTube's next major ad battleground
A foreign hacker unknowingly breached FBI servers tied to the Epstein investigation
The intruder reportedly believed the files were illegal content and warned the server owner
Court says continued use of tracking app counts as consent, even if users never read the new TOS
Even though the TOS amendment wound up in a spam-folder, it is still valid in Tile stalking suit
Steam delivered 100 exabytes of data last year, about 274 petabytes per day
The platform's data traffic has grown roughly 30% each year since 2020
Oversight Board urges Meta to toughen rules on AI-generated content and deepfakes
The board wants clearer rules, broader labels, and stronger detection
VPN downloads surge in Australia after age checks hit porn sites, online games, and social media
The new rules affect everything from GTA Online to Pornhub
Tinder settles age discrimination lawsuit for $60 million, see if you qualify for a payout
Each class action member could get between $100 and $150
London doctor carries out remote robot surgery on cancer patient 1,500 miles away
The operation linked London and Gibraltar with just 60 milliseconds of latency
How to download YouTube videos for offline viewing, including full playlists
Download videos from YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and more
DOJ seizes LeakBase, one of the world's biggest hacker forums
Investigators claim they preserved private messages and IP logs
Google will start shipping a new Chrome version every two weeks
Faster two-week Chrome release cycle could ripple across the entire browser ecosystem
After GitHub outages, OpenAI begins building a rival code repository
The project could drive a wedge between OpenAI and Microsoft
ProtonVPN offers a no-cost option for secure, encrypted browsing
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Scalper bots are now scraping DDR5 memory supply chains as AI data centers consume more RAM
Automated scrapers are crawling everything from retail kits to DIMM sockets and industrial DDR5 suppliers
Speedtest and Downdetector sold to Accenture as part of $1.2 billion deal
Ziff Davis wants to focus on the likes of IGN and Mashable
South Korea's tax office lost millions in crypto after accidentally posting the wallet's master key
A basic security lapse raises bigger questions about crypto oversight
Facepalm: Last month, South Korea's National Police Agency realized that 22 Bitcoin had been missing for years after officials failed to transfer the seized funds to a state-owned wallet. Now the country's National Tax Service has stumbled into an even more damaging mistake – effectively handing cybercriminals the keys to confiscated crypto.
Nvidia's plan to open-source 6G might be bad news for the companies that built 5G
Trouble ahead for Ericsson and Nokia?
The big picture: 6G is still years away from showing up in anyone's phone, but the fight over how it gets built is already underway. One big factor behind it is that it's expected to be far more reliant on AI than 5G ever was. Nvidia, for its part, has a pretty clear answer – it wants those networks running on its chips. And to get there, the company is leaning hard into something the telecom industry has historically wanted nothing to do with: open source.
Microsoft blocks the word 'Microslop' in Copilot Discord, and the server melts down
What started as spam control became a microcosm of the company's broader AI struggle
390TB game archive Myrient to shut down as storage costs surge
The site's operator is losing about $6,000 each month