Archive for the 'Technology' Category
New Zealand: Biometric Payment Terminals
July 31st, 2026“like, wow”. Via: Radio New Zealand: Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card. EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out new Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that will allow people to pay with their faces or palms – without cards. The new tech can […]
GDID – Microsoft’s Secret Windows Tracker That Can’t Be Turned Off
July 31st, 2026Via: Rob Braxman Tech:
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
July 28th, 2026Via: Reclaim the Net: The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password. Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of […]
AI Companies Are Setting Money on Fire
July 28th, 2026MABA: Make Americans Bagholders Again Via: Gamers Nexus:
They Don’t Want You To Read
July 28th, 2026Via: Corbett Report: Related: The End of Reading Is Here AI Companies Buying, Ingesting and Destroying Physical Books by the Millions
AI Companies Buying, Ingesting and Destroying Physical Books by the Millions
July 26th, 2026Via: Futurism: To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, and as Anthropic was forced to pay a $1.5 […]
NY High School to Use Humanoid Robot Teacher
July 26th, 2026Update: School District Has Paused Plan to Place Humanoid Robot in High School Classroom — Via: New York Post: A rural upstate New York school district will be one of the first in the nation to bring a humanoid robot into the classroom. The Salamanca City Central School District, located on Seneca Nation territory, will […]
OpenAI’s Accidental Cyberattack Against Hugging Face Is Science Fiction that Happened
July 23rd, 2026I read a not-very-good AI apocalypse book called, DELIO. Phase One by RR Haywood a few weeks ago. All of the characters are so annoying that I was rooting for the AI to wipe them out so I didn’t have to keep eye rolling to their incessant whining and nonsense. haha The way that the […]
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-Controlled F-16
July 23rd, 2026Via: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet, recently modified to serve as an autonomous flying testbed, is undergoing in-air testing using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to autonomously control flight. This milestone advances state of the art technological infrastructure designed to enable rapid, scalable combat AI development across the […]
Tour of The Boring Company Tunnels and Facilities in Las Vegas
July 22nd, 2026Via: Farzad:
