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• Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades

• Why people Pirate?

  How to prevent pirating? ign.com/…/battlefield-6-player-with-over-400-hour…

• South Korean stock market at three-month low as AI sell-off intensifies

  Goldman’s strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population margin called reuters.com/…/korean-stock-volatility-comes-ameri…

• A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

• AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

  cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/27795833 In a study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, 1,682 adults were asked to read one of six short stories, three of which were written by humans and three by ChatGPT. Each AI story had a similar theme to one of the human-authored works. The team told participants whether their story was written by a human or AI, but this information was not always correct. The researchers then asked participants to rate how absorbing and engaging...

• AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

  Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale. ISBNdb notes that “print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination”. “Millions of the most valuable books have never been digitised. They exist only in physical form, scattered across l...

• Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints

• FCC approves giant space mirror as astronomers warn of risks to the night sky

• Goodnight Punpun creator Inio Asano says the manga scene’s attitude towards AI is one of the reasons he put Mujina Into the Deep on hiatus - AUTOMATON WEST

  Manga artist Inio Asano, the creator of Goodnight Punpun and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, recently appeared as a guest on WEEKLY OCHIAI, a talk show hosted by Japanese media artist Yoichi Ochiai. In the interview, published partly on YouTube (the full version can be watched via the News Picks platform), Asano talked about the “Unreal Engine” technique for creating his manga, and touched on why he put Mujina Into the Deep on hiatus, as well as the use of generative AI in the manga scen...

• 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6

  121 countries are unable to make PSN accounts, which means that they are unable to use the PlayStation Store. In a digital-exclusive future—which looks likely for the PS6 after Sony announced plans to cease production of game discs in 2028—that means everyone in those countries will be locked out from purchasing titles on the platform.

• Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door

  tradingview.com/…/cointelegraph:9e6975706094b:0-e…

• New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI | TechCrunch

• Piracy website utoon is offline

  Utoon had partnered with ResetScans and an admin from ResetScans called Devmax had access to the money for both Utoon and Reset. He shutdown ResetScans and locked Utoon admins out of Utoon and took the money for both sites and ran. They currently don’t have access to the site so they are trying to find the money to pay the staff and regain access to the the site. Sources: discord.gg/rksBtqWrg www.reddit.com/r/…/what_happened_to_utoon/

• BlackVue's dashcams broadcast users' live location and footage to public

• FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.

  Free checker: socradar.io/free-tools/fortibleed

• Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] | Hacker News

• Silicon Valley's AI elite are shelling out as much as $6,000/hour for 'nerdy escorts' who can talk tech and crypto

  Paying an escort to spend time with you certainly doesn’t come with the same sacrifices as an organic relationship. And, unlike chatbots, “nerdy escorts” are real people who can provide human perspectives on things like AI, crypto and economics instead of just echoing back a tech worker’s thoughts on such subjects.

• Korea Hosts International Task Force Meeting to Combat Global Piracy

  South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) convened an international enforcement meeting on June 9 in Seoul to strengthen global cooperation against copyright infringement targeting K-content. The “2026 International Copyright Protection Enforcement Conference,” held at Lotte Hotel Seoul, brought together law enforcement agencies from five countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the Netherlands — along with Interpol, the U.S. Homeland Security Investiga...

• Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court

• UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images

  Do they actually know how the technology works? They will have to scan everything inbound and outbound connections, basically managed devices. Apple and Google have been given a three-month ultimatum to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images on their smartphones, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday.

• UN food agency discloses breach affecting 600,000 Gaza households

• Italian television channel does DLSS 5 haters a favor by broadcasting footage from reveal trailer, then copyright striking Nvidia's own YouTube channel

  Copyright law at its finest.

• aMule 3.0.0 The 'alive again' version - Major aMule release in 5 years

• Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

• Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

  Nvidia opened Taipei’s enormous Computex trade show on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chipmaker unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it dubbed a “superchip,” and named a who’s who list of PC makers that will soon deliver AI PCs powered by it.

• Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS

• Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

• Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

• Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

  Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

• Cloudflare layoffs: After firing 20% staff, CEO Matthew Prince explains in op-ed on how to decide which employees AI should replace