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• Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

  Lobsters.

• Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns

  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company’s refusal to loosen its safety standards. The threat came on Tuesday during a meeting between Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting who were not authorized to speak publicly. While both sides agreed Hegseth vowed to punish Anthropic for not bending to the administration’s demands, accou...

• Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they worked hard for it(including waiting 24 hours)

  Lobsters; Hacker News.

• Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

  A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

• Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.

• Elon Musk to Owe Estimated $2.1 Billion After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before 2022 Buyout

  A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that he did not “scheme” to mislead investors.

• US, EU move toward landmark biometric data sharing deal that give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to fingerprint and other biometric records held by EU member states

• A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

• Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.

• Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions is increasing— Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission

  Full Report(76 Pages PDF).

• Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

• Raspberry Pi gets eye-watering price rises, new 3GB RAM model

• Time has not been kind to VHS: As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking?

• Voters Increasingly Use AI as Political Advisor. A New Study Shows the the Risks.

• Reddit removed r/all "Entry points and links to r/all being removed starting today"

  As part of ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented. All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular. Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.

• Reddit adds labeling for non-human accounts, weighs personhood verification methods— Billions of bots no boon for messy human messaging platform

• Inside the PIC64-HPSC: the SiFive powered RISC-V SoC that NASA intends to fly on every future mission

  The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most technically complex instruments humanity has ever built. It sits at the L2 Lagrange point, roughly 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, and peers into the universe in infrared light with a precision previously impossible. The onboard computer running all of this is a BAE Systems RAD750, a radiation-hardened processor based on the PowerPC 750 architecture. It has a maximum clock speed of 200 MHz. It is, for all practical purposes, a chip designed at...

• Meta Secretly Behind $1B Ohio Data Center Facing Community Pushback

  A mysterious data center company has drawn the ire of local residents in Ohio. They voice concerns about the impact on their water supply, noise pollution, and rising energy costs — and criticize the secrecy around the 600-acre project. The shadowy developer, a Delaware-registered LLC, appears to be a front for one of the largest tech companies on earth: Meta.

• Google releases Gemma 4 open models

  Hacker News.

• Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI— Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solving

• Wikinews to be shut down

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• Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality

  Batteries have become much cheaper, making energy storage far more affordable.

• PineTime Pro Introduction

  Lobsters.

• AI and bots have officially taken over the internet

  Press Release.

• Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit

  Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

• I Decompiled the White House's New App— The app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

  Social Media - Lobsters; - Hacker News; - Reddit. What Is This App? It’s a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called “forty-five-press” according to the Expo config.

• Post #948691

  🥺 Will you at least mention me as the source? Or will you do as me and steal without linking to the source?

• The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine— Leonid Radvinsky’s widow left with power on what happens to the business that made her husband billionaire

  Yekaterina Chudnovsky, online biographies say, is a mother-of-four who “enjoys spending time with her family and teaching them the importance of giving back and helping others”. They add that Ukrainian-born Chudnovsky, known as Katie, finds sanctuary in walks on the beach. In interviews, Chudnovsky has spoken warmly about her commitment to philanthropy, her dedication to support cancer research and her work as a lawyer for an unnamed global technology firm. Pornography is never mentioned. No...

• AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice— Not only are AIs far more agreeable than humans when advising on interpersonal matters, but users also prefer the sycophantic models.

  Research. Hacker News.

• The open web isn't dying. We're killing it

  The open web isn't dying. We're killing it