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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

This book excerpt details how AT&T technician Mark Klein blew the whistle on the NSA's secret Room 641A surveillance program, revealing mass internet surveillance infrastructure. The disclosure expose...

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Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

Rivian now allows vehicle owners to disable all internet connectivity and data collection, addressing privacy concerns. This feature provides users with greater control over their vehicle's data shari...

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CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer

A security vulnerability dubbed 'CopyFail' was not properly disclosed to Gentoo Linux developers, raising concerns about responsible disclosure practices. The issue gained significant attention with 2...

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Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

Spain's parliament is taking action against LaLiga's practice of mass IP blocking used to combat piracy, following public and political backlash. The move highlights growing concerns over privacy and ...

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Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Belgium has reversed its nuclear power phase-out policy, deciding to keep nuclear plants operational rather than decommission them. This significant energy policy shift reflects concerns about energy ...

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Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

Mozilla has formally opposed Google's proposed Prompt API for web browsers, arguing it creates privacy and security risks by allowing websites to display native-looking prompts that could deceive user...

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The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer

The article argues against treating LLMs as junior engineers in professional software development, highlighting the risks of using AI-generated code without proper testing and review in production env...

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GCC 16 Release Series: Changes, New Features, and Fixes

GCC 16 introduces significant improvements including enhanced link-time optimization, better speculative devirtualization, and advanced vectorization capabilities for uncounted loops and early breaks....

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ECH Is Done, But Can We Make It Work?

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) has completed its technical specification after eight years of development, aiming to enhance TLS privacy by encrypting handshake metadata. However, widespread deployment ...

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Breaking ten years of C API compatibility in Futhark

Futhark, a high-performance functional array programming language, is breaking its decade-old C and Python API compatibility to address a long-standing design flaw. This change affects how compiled li...

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Posits: tapered precision real numbers (2018)

Posits are a novel real number representation format introduced as an alternative to IEEE floating-point, offering variable-length exponent and fraction parts for improved precision and dynamic range....

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Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models

Elon Musk testified that xAI trained its Grok model using OpenAI's models, highlighting the controversial practice of model distillation. This raises questions about intellectual property and competit...

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Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

Meta terminated its contract with data annotation firm Sama after workers reported viewing explicit footage from Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, including intimate and private moments. The termination aff...

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Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids

Researchers from Columbia and Harvard are attempting to reduce the standard genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids by engineering a ribosome component that functions without isoleucine. This experimen...

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Blue Origin certainly has ambitious launch targets for New Glenn

Blue Origin's job posting reveals ambitious production targets for its New Glenn rocket, aiming to ramp up from 12 to 60 upper stages annually by 2028 and 100 by 2029. The company is developing a more...

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Beijing bans drone sales even as rest of world buys Chinese drones

Beijing has implemented a comprehensive citywide ban on drone sales, rentals, and storage of components, effective May 1, representing a preventive approach to control unauthorized drone activity. Thi...

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In motorsport, there's nowhere to hide as AI becomes new CFD tool

AI is emerging as a new computational tool in motorsport to optimize aerodynamic design, replacing or augmenting traditional CFD simulations and wind tunnel testing. This shift allows for faster itera...

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More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off

A new report reveals that over half of high-stakes 'long shot' bets on military actions through Polymarket prediction markets are successful, suggesting potential insider trading of classified informa...

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The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice

Google's integration of Gemini AI across its ecosystem raises privacy concerns due to opaque data usage policies and dark patterns that make opting out difficult. The company claims it doesn't train A...

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Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road

Congress has temporarily extended Section 702 of FISA for 45 days to allow more time for reform negotiations, but the renewal did not include a warrant requirement. The bill also contained an unrelate...

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The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

The Zig programming language project maintains a strict ban on all LLM-generated contributions including issues, pull requests, and comments. This policy has led to notable consequences, including Bun...

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Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

IBM has released Granite 4.1, an 8 billion parameter model that achieves performance comparable to 32 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts models through architectural optimizations. This represents s...

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You can beat the binary search

Daniel Lemire explores optimization techniques that can outperform traditional binary search algorithms in certain scenarios. The article discusses practical approaches to improve search performance t...

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Techniques for better software testing

Antithesis outlines key techniques to enhance software testing, emphasizing the use of randomness and property-based testing to uncover unpredictable bugs. The methods can be applied manually or via t...

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A guide to building Gleam apps for web, desktop, and mobile

This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to build a full-stack task management application called Doable using the Gleam programming language. The tutorial covers creating a JSON HTTP API compiled to...

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Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter

The article argues for stricter Clippy lint configurations in Rust to catch bugs that the compiler misses, using a real-world example of a UTF-8 string slicing panic that halted a production email sys...

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Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs

Apple's Q2 2026 earnings revealed unexpected Mac revenue growth of $8.4B, beating forecasts by $400M, driven partly by AI workload demand. CEO Tim Cook noted record new Mac customers and sold-out Mac ...

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Salesforce is crowdsourcing its AI roadmap — with customers

Salesforce is adopting a customer-driven approach to its AI development by crowdsourcing its product roadmap from enterprise clients. The company believes that if one customer encounters a specific pr...

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Uber taps Hertz to clean, charge, and fix its Lucid Motors robotaxis

Uber has partnered with Hertz to create a new affiliate called Oro Mobility that will handle cleaning, charging, and maintenance for its Lucid Motors robotaxi fleet. This represents a strategic move t...

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X announces a rebuilt ad platform powered by AI

X (formerly Twitter) has launched a rebuilt AI-powered advertising platform to attract advertisers and boost revenue growth. The new system features modern retrieval and ranking capabilities for bette...

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Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week

Meta's business AI tools are now handling 10 million conversations per week, up from 1 million at the start of 2026, representing significant growth as the company expands its beta program globally. T...

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Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial

Elon Musk faced significant challenges during his testimony in the OpenAI trial, making seven notable stumbles that could jeopardize his case. These included conceding points against his lawyer's obje...

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RFK Jr. appeals ruling that wiped out his vaccine advisory panel

RFK Jr. is appealing a federal court ruling that blocked his controversial changes to the CDC's vaccine advisory panel, which included appointing anti-vaccine allies and reducing childhood vaccine rec...

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Microsoft has open-sourced the earliest known version of DOS, predating even the MS-DOS branding, including the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and utilities like CHKDSK. This release provides historical insight i...

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Microsoft’s Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs

Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, providing a full-screen gaming interface similar to Steam's Big Picture Mode. The feature, initially launched with Asus ROG Ally devices, aims...

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All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman

The Musk v. Altman trial has revealed key evidence from OpenAI's early days, including emails and documents showing Elon Musk's significant role in drafting the mission and structure. Nvidia CEO Jense...

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XTEINK Under Fire After Decision to Block Custom Software Now

XTEINK faces backlash after reportedly blocking the installation of custom software on its e-readers, citing concerns over user issues with third-party firmware. The decision has drawn criticism from ...

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I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

A developer shares their experience building a Game Boy emulator using F#, a functional programming language. The project demonstrates how F#'s features can be applied to emulator development and prov...

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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

A developer has created BidProwl, a search engine that aggregates listings from 28 different US government auction websites into a single interface. The tool aims to simplify the process of finding go...

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A text editor as a user interface

The article explores using text editors as lightweight user interfaces for command-line tools, leveraging the $EDITOR environment variable to avoid building custom TUIs. It provides examples like cron...

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CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design

CSS Zen Garden is a classic web design project that demonstrates the power of CSS by allowing multiple visual styles to be applied to the same HTML structure. It remains an educational resource for sh...

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Amber-Lang 0.6.0 - New release, check what's new

Amber-Lang has released version 0.6.0 with significant improvements including multi-shell support (Bash, Zsh, Ksh), recursive functions, union types, and public variables for better modularity. The re...

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Printing Zig Structs

The article demonstrates a technique for printing Zig structs directly using format strings with field names, eliminating the need to manually order arguments. This approach provides a more structured...

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EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting

Faraday Future, an EV startup with ongoing financial struggles, paid $7.5 million to a company linked to its founder Jia Yueting while under SEC investigation. The SEC probe, which lasted four years, ...

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TikTok’s new ‘Campus Hub’ features college group chats and feeds

TikTok has launched a new 'Campus Hub' feature offering college group chats and personalized feeds to help students stay connected with their campus communities. The tool aims to maintain engagement d...

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Roblox’s daily users continue to drop as age-checks slow growth

Roblox's daily active users declined to 132 million in Q1 2026, partly due to new age-verification features that slowed user acquisition. Despite the drop in users, the company's revenue grew to $1.4 ...

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Rivian’s revenue is up as R2 production kicks into gear

Rivian reported strong Q1 2026 results with 10,365 vehicles sold, representing a 20% year-over-year increase, as the company begins production of its crucial R2 electric vehicle. The company produced ...

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Quoting Andrew Kelley

Zig creator Andrew Kelley shares insights on detecting LLM-assisted code contributions, noting that human errors differ fundamentally from AI hallucinations and that agentic coding leaves a recognizab...

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We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps

Simon Willison proposes using RSS feeds to share and distribute 'vibe-coded' apps, drawing parallels between shipping micro-apps and posting blog content. He implemented an Atom feed for his tools pag...