Activision posts video showing Call of Duty cheat seller getting served at his home
Activision says it has disrupted more than 375 cheat reseller operations and served over 80 legal demands
Cloudflare freed up 100TB of RAM behind its 1.1.1.1 DNS without adding a single server
Five Rust code changes cut typical DNS cache entries from 953 bytes to 420 bytes
Developer auctions off sticker space on a MacBook he hasn't even bought yet, and it worked
The auction has already attracted more than €7,000 in bids
X says China used hundreds of bot accounts to amplify fears about AI data centers that many Americans already share
Does China really need to bother?
An iPhone 17 Pro gets dropped from 100,000 feet and survives
The publicity stunt has earned RhinoShield a Guinness world record
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after more than 20 years
The original crowdsourcing platform will soon be history
Zuckerberg's bold plan to replace Meta employees with AI has imploded
Meta explored 60% team cuts in two waves before staff revolt forced a retreat
A hot potato: Meta set out to reorganize much of its workforce around AI at the beginning of this year, betting that agents could help the company move faster while reducing the need for larger teams. The company went ahead with 10% workforce cuts in May but ultimately dropped plans for a broader round of layoffs after its AI workplace "overhaul" ran into employee resistance and technical problems.
Nvidia is reportedly buying the popular open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Hugging Face rejected a $500 million Nvidia investment less than a year ago
Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion to end trial over Instagram, Facebook child addiction claims
Two-hour daily caps, forced "pauses," and a midnight lockout are coming to teen accounts. Skeptics say it doesn't go far enough
Winners & losers: Meta has agreed to pay as much as $18 billion and overhaul how minors use Instagram and Facebook, settling a lawsuit that accused the company of designing its platforms to addict children. Court filings and a Meta blog post confirmed the deal this morning. The agreement ends a trial that began August 18 in Oakland, and was expected to run through early October. It also means Mark Zuckerberg won't have to take the stand as planned. Instagram head Adam Mosseri had already testified before the settlement landed.
Interpol's latest crackdown targeted the global network behind West African cyber-scams
The eight-month operation led to 58 arrests and identified 263 suspects across 22 countries
Intel re-enters Amazon's top-10 best-selling CPUs after over a year, but AMD still dominates
High DDR5 prices are driving buyers toward Intel's DDR4-compatible CPUs
The takeaway: AMD's domination in the desktop CPU market has been so remarkable that all 10 top-selling processors on Amazon throughout 2025 were from Team Red. Now, though, two Intel processors have secured a spot on the top-10 list for the first time in over a year.
AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device
A Bluetooth glitch exposed AliExpress's hidden audio fingerprinting
A hot potato: As cookies become a less reliable way to track people online, AliExpress may be showing how far companies will go to fill that gap. Researchers found code on the site's homepage that ran silent audio processes in the browser. Tied to Alibaba's security systems, the scripts tap a device's own audio hardware to generate a signal and measure the tiny, device-specific ways it comes back – producing something close to a fingerprint that doesn't need a single cookie to work. It's the kind of tracking a user would likely never notice.
People have clicked the "Seems like AI slop" button on LinkedIn over a million times already
The tool has been active for less than a month, alongside AI-detection classifiers
Bilibili wants to be YouTube's rival everywhere, not just in China
China's biggest video platform is coming for YouTube's international creators
Walmart will finally accept Apple Pay and Google Pay starting August 24
The retailer is finally giving up its decade-long fight against Apple Pay
Sony's Horizon live service spinoff could be dead by December
Is the industry finally rejecting the overinflated live service business model?
YouTube may be paying creators millions not to post on Netflix
Sean Evans, Alan Chikin Chow, and Nick DiGiovanni are among prominent creators in negotiations with YouTube
The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"
Businesses must disclose if they use consumer data to set individual prices
G.Skill starts paying buyers $20 to $25 from $2.4 million settlement over misleading RAM speeds
The company also agreed to warn that advertised speeds require overclocking or BIOS adjustments
This enthusiast has been torturing 351 microSD cards for years, and some brands are winning
Endurance test finds PNY, Kingston, Delkin among top performers
Comcast is turning your WiFi router into a basic home security system, for free
WiFi Motion brings home motion sensing to millions of existing Xfinity gateways
Amazon to bring 30-minute drone delivery to 500 US locations by the end of 2026
Prime Air is finally scaling up after 13 years of false starts, crashes, and FAA investigations
Looking ahead: Of the many sci-fi tropes we've seen over the years, few are as close to becoming real as skies full of delivery drones, and Amazon is leading the way. The retail giant has announced that it plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to 500 cities and towns in the United States by the end of 2026, bringing under-30-minute deliveries to tens of millions of people in the country.
Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users
The company could face $193 billion in penalties as states put its social media design on trial
GitHub is down again, and this time it's hitting almost everything
The outage follows a lengthy Actions disruption last week that GitHub called "unacceptable"