I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
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Modders get leaked DLSS 5 running in Control — early Blackwell test drops RTX 5070 Ti from 71 to 35 FPS at 4K
DLSS 5 has apparently leaked, originating from inside a new game.
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SK hynix breaks ground on the first HBM plant in the US, bringing key AI component production to the States — says production starts in 2029
SK hynix breaks ground on HBM assembly plant in the U.S. that will form a connection between DRAM wafers produced in South Korea and their consumers...
Read moreOld IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3
The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to...
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Spanish union calls for ongoing strike action at Ubisoft Mobile Barcelona
'The strike was communicated to the company in early August; however, the workers' representatives are still awaiting a response.'
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Critical cPanel Flaw Could Let One Hosting Customer Take Root Control of a Whole Server
cPanel has released patches for a security flaw affecting domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM), which could allow code execution...
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Nvidia DLSS 5's AI yassification filter reportedly escapes containment ahead of release, thanks to modders digging files out of NBA 2K27
Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering tech, AKA the AI filter which was widely criticised upon reveal earlier this year for creepily yassifying a bunch of game...
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Indiana power provider proposes $59 million rate cut for state, says data centers and other large customers are driving increased revenue — move could potentially save residential users $100 annually
I&M, which serves part of Indiana, says that it plans to cut electricity prices for the state, resulting in savings of about $59 million for residential...
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A better model for silicon: quantifying chip carbon with Columbia and Cornell
MicroGreen and ACT were built to enable engineers to quantify the embodied carbon of their hardware. The post A better model for silicon: quantifying chip carbon...
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There Are So Many Conspiracy Theories About Dolly Parton and Vaccines
Influential right-wing conspiracy theorists and MAGA-aligned pundits are falsely claiming that the Covid vaccine killed Dolly Parton, the vaccination advocate and philanthropist.
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Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision
Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely...
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(PR) NVIDIA GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026
NVIDIA's Gamescom announcements are revealing what's next for GeForce NOW, with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games...
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