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IP Crawl maps thousands of unsecured webcams left exposed on the public internet

IP Crawl is a continuously updated directory that surfaces internet-connected cameras reachable without authentication, cataloging them by city and internet pro

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aitech-culture

Knowing vs. living: why Good Will Hunting is the rebuttal to AI slop

Marketer Jay Acunzo builds an essay around the Boston park-bench monologue from Good Will Hunting, where Robin Williams's character tells the prodigy Will that

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tech-culturepolicy

Marfa Public Radio's Fundraising Pitch: A Sleep Podcast of Its Own Red Tape

West Texas station Marfa Public Radio is leaning into the tedium of running a 24/7 broadcast operation with a fall membership-drive stunt: a sleep podcast in wh

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tech-cultureprivacy

Meta surveilled 'Careless People' author for a year to enforce gag order, suit alleges

Sarah Wynn-Williams, who ran global public policy at Facebook from 2011 until she was fired in 2017, has sued Meta in federal court in Northern California, aski

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aiprivacy

OpenAI Codex still lacks a .codexignore to keep secrets out of the model

A still-open feature request (#2847) asks OpenAI's Codex agent to support an explicit mechanism for marking files and paths the tool must never read or transmit

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tech-cultureopen-source

The Pudding mines 5,000 digitized NYPL menus from the Gilded Age

The Pudding has built an interactive visual essay around roughly 5,000 restaurant menus from the New York Public Library's Frank E. Buttolph collection, coverin

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open-sourcetech-culture

Town Square: an open-source widget that shows live visitors as stick figures

A developer has open-sourced Town Square, a lightweight widget that drops a small interactive strip at the bottom of any web page. Each current visitor appears

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tech-cultureopen-source

A Field Guide to Not Losing Money in Code: Patterns for Fintech Engineering

A new open community handbook lays out the engineering patterns that keep money systems trustworthy, organized around three rules: don't invent data, don't lose

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aiopen-source

AI Tackles the 'Dark Art' of RF Chip Design, Beating Human-Made Circuits

Radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs)—the chips that let phones, satellites, and radar send and receive signals—have resisted the kind of automated synthe

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vulnerabilityai

Anonymous account mass-drops AI-fuzzed 0-days for libssh2, FFmpeg, c-ares and more

An anonymous GitHub user has consolidated a dozen standalone proof-of-concept repositories into a single archive of vulnerability research, publishing exploits

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cloudai

AWS Lambda adds MicroVMs: Firecracker-isolated, stateful sandboxes for untrusted code

AWS has launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless primitive aimed at applications that must run code they didn't write — AI coding assistants, interactive note

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tech-culturepolicy

BBC switches off Long Wave, ending the era of its oldest broadcast service

The BBC is retiring Long Wave radio, the transmission technology behind its longest-running service and once the main way it reached the whole country. Radio 4'

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