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Meta Pulls Instagram Users' Own Photos Into Meta Glasses Ads
Meta is reportedly using photos that people uploaded to Instagram as creative material in advertisements promoting its Meta smart glasses. The claim, surfacing
Nearly a million passports and IDs left on the open web by age-check platform
Close to one million passport scans and photo IDs from several European countries sat on public web servers with no password, encryption, or access controls, re
Nonprofit pitches .self, a free TLD built from scratch for self-hosting
The Human-Centered Computing Foundation (HCCF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is campaigning for a new top-level domain called .self, aimed squarely at people who want
Ornith-1.0: MIT-licensed coding agents that learn their own scaffolds via RL
DeepReinforce AI has released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source models tuned for agentic coding. The lineup spans four sizes — 9B dense, 31B dense, 35B MoE, a
Postgres 19 Beta: Built-in REPACK, Smarter Autovacuum, and SQL Graph Queries
The Postgres 19 beta spreads its improvements across operational quality-of-life rather than a single marquee feature. The headline for production operators is
Researchers reverse-engineer Apple's Neural Engine, exposing an undocumented direct path
A new arXiv paper delivers the most detailed public account yet of the Apple Neural Engine (ANE), the fixed-function matrix accelerator baked into Apple silicon
Rogue Amoeba to Apple: Let Mac App Icons Have Shapes Again
macOS 26 (Tahoe) forced every app icon — Apple's own and third-party alike — into a single prescribed squircle, shrinking any non-conforming icon into an ugly g
South Korea bets $1T on memory fabs, AI data centers, and humanoid robots
South Korea's government and its largest tech firms are pledging $1 trillion toward a set of megaprojects aimed at securing the country's lead in AI infrastruct
The 1841 Classic on Manias That Still Explains Every Tech Bubble
Charles Mackay's "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," now free on Project Gutenberg, is one of the earliest works on crowd ps
The Case for Amber Dark-Sky Lighting Over Blue-Rich White LEDs
Saving Our Stars makes a case for "dark-sky" outdoor lighting — fixtures that are fully shielded so light points down rather than out and up, use amber or low-c
Virginia County With 37 Data Centers Tells Staff to Turn Off the Lights
Henrico County, Virginia—home to 37 data centers with 17 more planned, some on former Civil War battlefields—is facing a 24.9% electricity rate hike on July 1 t
Algorithm likely erased two of Max Planck's 1940s papers from a journal
Two papers published by Nobel laureate Max Planck in the 1940s have quietly vanished from the journal Naturwissenschaften (now The Science of Nature). Rather th