/r/technology
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Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees
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State Senator Pockets Massive Real Estate Fee From a $30M Data Center Land Sale, Then Introduces Bill to Fast-Track Development
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Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal
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DOGE officially shuts down
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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices / Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and also targets ‘junk fees’
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People are ditching smartphones for old phones, 'dumb phones,’ landlines
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Data shows physical PlayStation games can be up to 90% cheaper than their digital versions
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Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
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PlayStation ‘No Disc, No Buy’ Boycott Immediately Splinters In The Face Of Black Ops Ports
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Steam now has 50% more users than PlayStation, and Sony's own decisions might be pushing more players there
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Tech bros puzzled by why AI hasn’t “massively disrupted” books yet — The answer, as some pointed out in r/singularity, has to do with LLMs’ lack of an ability to concentrate
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People on X Are Getting Fooled by the Dumbest AI Slop We’ve Ever Seen
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Microsoft's emissions just jumped 25% because AI datacenters are exploding in size, and dropping renewable credits finally exposed how much power the company is burning to fuel its AI ambitions
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FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn
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Meta removes feature that let users generate AI images from public Instagram posts
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Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages
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Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets
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EA Removes College Football 27 Microtransactions After Player Boycott
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Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta — “These features fuel the user’s urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into ‘autopilot mode’”
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Big Tech Doubled Its Debt to $350 Billion. The AI Bill Is Coming Due.
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Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
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US software development job postings on Indeed have grown by ~15% since the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, while overall job postings fell by 7% (Guillermo Gallacher/Indeed Hiring Lab)
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How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas (New York Times)
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SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle (Bloomberg)
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An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)
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Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap (Bloomberg)
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OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that "extends human will and judgment" (Thinking Machines Lab)
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SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030 (Reuters)
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Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
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In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says "we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
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CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
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Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
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A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)