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You and the person standing next to you may now be shown different prices for the exact same product. It is called surveillance pricing. Companies use AI and the personal data they hold about you, your location, your habits, even your device, to guess the highest price you personally are willing to pay. It can affect everyday things like food, travel, and online shopping. And because it happens quietly and individually, most people never realize they are paying more than someone else for the same thing.

The amount of money now flowing into AI is hard to even picture. Nvidia is reportedly considering backing a single OpenAI data center project with a financing guarantee of up to 250 billion dollars. That is more than the entire yearly budget of many countries, aimed at building one company’s computing power.

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PlayStation players just called for a global PlayStation blackout from August 23 to 30.

Researchers in Hong Kong have built a new blood test, powered by AI, that can warn people about serious heart and circulation problems long before any symptoms appear. It works by scanning thousands of molecules in a single drop of blood and spotting the hidden patterns that show up before disease takes hold. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the world, and most people have no idea it is coming until something goes badly wrong. A test that can see it years in advance could quietly save millions of lives.

Someone said PlayStation Network is down because FC26 is crap

There are so many gamers here

PlayStation Network is down worldwide.

There is spyware that can take over your phone without you clicking anything at all. It is called Pegasus. Once inside, it can read your messages, listen to your calls, track your location, and switch on your camera and microphone. A leaked list of more than 50,000 phone numbers, investigated by 17 news organizations, included journalists, lawyers, activists, and politicians around the world.

There is a tick in the US that can make you allergic to red meat for years, sometimes for life. When the lone star tick bites you, it can inject a sugar molecule that your body then learns to attack. After that, eating beef, pork, or even dairy can trigger a dangerous allergic reaction, often hours later. Health officials estimate that up to 450,000 Americans may already have it, and cases are climbing fast.

Those fake package and toll texts flooding your phone are now being mass-produced by artificial intelligence. Google just sued a China-based scam network that used Google’s own AI, Gemini, to build more than 9,000 fake websites and over a million fraudulent links. In a single two-week stretch, the operation was tied to about 2.5 million scam messages sent to people’s phones.

Scientists have built brain implants that let paralyzed people turn their thoughts directly into words on a screen. The person does not move or speak. A chip reads the brain signals for the words they are trying to say, and a computer writes them out, sometimes almost in real time. It is a breakthrough for people who cannot talk, but it also raises a question we have never faced before: what happens when a machine can read what is in your mind.

China just did something almost unheard of. It ordered Meta to unwind a 2 billion dollar deal it had already completed, the purchase of a promising AI company. Even though the startup was based in Singapore, China ruled it was still Chinese technology and blocked it from leaving the country. Regulators even summoned the two founders to Beijing and barred them from leaving China while they reviewed the deal.

Tiny plastic particles are now in much of the world’s drinking water, and a new study found they may be doing something worse than just polluting it. The nanoplastics appear to help dangerous bacteria survive, by strengthening the protective slime these germs build inside pipes and water systems. In short, the plastic in our water could be making harmful bacteria harder to kill.

Meta is reportedly testing facial recognition technology built for police and military use. The same company that already holds billions of photos of people’s faces from Facebook and Instagram would be putting that power in the hands of governments. And once your face is in a system like this, unlike a password, you can never change it.

Some cities are now testing robot police officers that patrol public spaces on their own. They move through stations and streets, recording video and scanning everything around them, with no human directly controlling them. Supporters call it public safety. Critics call it surveillance that never gets tired and never looks away.

A new study found that adults who consume the most artificial sweeteners have faster declines in memory and thinking over time. The effect was strongest in people under 60 and in those with diabetes. These sweeteners are in thousands of “sugar free” and “diet” products that people buy specifically because they think they are the healthier choice.

The US military is the single largest institutional consumer of oil in the world. A study from Brown University found that if it were counted as a country, the US military would rank among the biggest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet, releasing more than entire nations like Sweden or Portugal. Most of it comes from moving and burning fuel for jets, ships, and vehicles across hundreds of bases worldwide. Yet military emissions are almost never included when countries report their climate impact.

A new survey shows that Americans’ trust in Big Tech is falling, even as AI becomes a bigger part of daily life. People are leaning on these tools more than ever, while trusting the companies behind them less than ever. It is a strange contradiction. The same people who say they are worried about how these companies use their data keep handing over more of it, because the tools have become almost impossible to avoid.