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California's 3D Printer Surveillance Bill Advances Despite EFF Warnings
The California State Assembly has passed AB 2047, a measure requiring 3D printers to run print-monitoring software aimed at blocking the already-illegal, rarely
DeepSeek Open-Sources DSpark, a Speculative-Decoding Stack for Faster Inference
DeepSeek has released DSpark, a speculative-decoding method that speeds up text generation by roughly 60–85% without touching the underlying model architecture
How the WWII US Army Mass-Produced Plastic Ocarinas as Soldier Morale Gear
During World War II, the US military didn't just ship weapons and rations to the front — it also handed out thousands of plastic ocarinas to keep troops enterta
John Gruber remembers Om Malik, the blogger who became tech journalism's elder statesman
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and venture investor, has died after a prolonged battle with heart failure. In this personal tribute, John Grube
Jolla revives its Sailfish Linux phone with a community-voted, privacy-first handset
Jolla is taking pre-orders for a new Linux phone shipping October 2026, pitched as a successor to its original 2013 device and built around Sailfish OS 5 rather
Meta Keeps Suing Its Own Whistleblower — Even for Sitting Silently Onstage
Sarah Wynn-Williams, former head of Facebook's international relations team, published a bestselling memoir, Careless People, detailing misconduct she says she
Mythos Hype Cools: AI Zero-Day Hunting Is Real, Costly, and Gated
Anthropic's Claude Mythos was pitched as a watershed for automated zero-day discovery and exploitation, and early access partners under the locked-down "Project
Nomograms: The Paper Calculators That PyNomo Brings Back to Life
A nomogram is a graphical calculator: a set of numbered scales laid out so that placing a straightedge across two known values reveals the third, solving an equ
OpenAI says U.S. government will vet who can access its latest model, GPT-5.6
OpenAI has said the U.S. government will screen users of its newest AI model, GPT-5.6, effectively giving Washington a say over who gets access. Further details
OpenRA Playtest Adds Random Map Generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000
The open-source engine that rebuilds classic Command & Conquer games on modern systems has shipped a new playtest, headlined by procedural map generation across
OpenTTD 16.0 Beta1 Ships With Reversing Trains and Open-Join Multiplayer
The first beta of OpenTTD 16, the open-source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, is out for community testing. Headline additions include trains that can drive
Satire: Seven AI Security Gates Wave Through Malware, Then Sign a Treaty With It
A fictional incident report skewers the rush to put AI in charge of software supply-chain security. A malicious fork of a popular compression library, foxhole-l