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Atacama Mine Yields Ultra-Pure Crystals With Potential Quantum Applications

An explorer reports recovering exceptionally pure crystalline specimens from an abandoned mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, a region whose extreme aridity and min

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aitech-culture

Benedict Evans' Spring 2026 deck: AI is past hype, now grinding through deployment

Benedict Evans returns with his annual macro slide deck, this time framing AI as having cleared the novelty phase and entered the messier work of integration. T

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open-sourcetech-culture

Bitwarden's Quiet Pivot: New PE-Style CEO, Vanishing 'Always Free' Promise

Bitwarden has undergone a series of unannounced changes that suggest a strategic shift toward an acquisition exit. Longtime CEO Michael Crandell quietly moved t

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privacytech-culture

Click (2016): a browser experiment that narrates your every move

Click is a 2016 interactive web project at clickclickclick.click that turns ordinary browser telemetry into an unsettling running commentary. As a visitor click

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aicybersecurity

Cloudflare puts Anthropic's Mythos Preview to work hunting bugs in its own code

Cloudflare tested Anthropic's security-focused Mythos Preview model against more than fifty of its own repositories under Project Glasswing, and reports a meani

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cybersecuritytech-culture

Computer security pioneer Peter Neumann dies at SRI

Peter Neumann, the longtime SRI International researcher whose work shaped the field of computer security and trustworthy systems, has died. According to a mess

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aidevops

Cursor's Composer 2.5 leans on targeted RL feedback and synthetic tasks

Cursor has shipped Composer 2.5, an upgrade to its in-editor coding agent built on Moonshot's open-source Kimi K2.5 checkpoint. The release focuses less on raw

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aitech-culture

Eric Schmidt's AI pitch booed by University of Arizona graduates

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drew sustained boos during a University of Arizona commencement speech when he framed artificial intelligence as the next great t

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privacypolicy

FBI Seeks Nationwide License Plate Reader Access, Procurement Docs Show

Procurement records reviewed by 404 Media reveal the FBI is pursuing a contract for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPR) data. Such access

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open-sourcetech-culture

Files.md: A minimalist, local-first Markdown alternative to Obsidian

Files.md is an open-source personal knowledge management tool built around plain Markdown files stored locally, pitched as a deliberately stripped-down alternat

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policytech-culture

FTC hits Shutterstock with $35M penalty over dark-pattern subscription traps

Shutterstock has agreed to pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it ran its subscription business on deceptive terms for years. The agency found the st

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open-sourcetech-culture

Haiku OS boots on Apple M1 Macs, with rough edges

Haiku, the BeOS-inspired open-source operating system, has reached a milestone on Apple Silicon: it now boots to the desktop on an M1 MacBook Air, running bare

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