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Apple Rejected My Dictation App for Misusing the Accessibility API

An indie developer with a repetitive strain injury built WhisperPad, a Mac menu-bar app that locally transcribes speech via Whisper and injects the text whereve

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privacytech-culture

Browser Vendors' 'Attribution Level 1' Is an Ad-Tracking Cartel in Disguise

Meta, Google, Apple, and Mozilla are jointly drafting Attribution Level 1, a built-in browser API that records ad impressions and correlates them with purchases

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DuckDuckGo ships browser extensions to lock in AI-free search as traffic surges

DuckDuckGo released Chrome and Firefox extensions that set noai.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine, stripping out AI-generated answers, chat prompts, a

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open-sourcedevops

Elixir 1.20 ships gradual set-theoretic types, catches bugs without annotations

Elixir 1.20 marks the first development milestone of a multi-year effort to bolt a sound, gradual, set-theoretic type system onto the language. The release perf

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privacyai

Ellison pitches AI-powered total surveillance as a civic virtue

At an Oracle analyst Q&A in September 2024, co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison sketched a near-future in which networks of street, vehicle, doorbell, and body-wor

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tech-cultureopen-source

Fidonet at INET '92: How a Hobbyist Store-and-Forward Net Reached a Million Users

Randy Bush's 1993 paper documents Fidonet, the volunteer-run store-and-forward network that by the early 1990s linked more than 20,000 BBS nodes and an estimate

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aiopen-source

Getting DeepSeek-V4-Flash Running on AMD's MI300X: A Worklog

AMD's MI300X offers 192GB of HBM3 and roughly half the list price of NVIDIA's H100, but software gaps keep it underused — especially on newer models. Doubleword

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aitech-culture

Gmail's Pushy AI Features Drove a 16-Year User to Fastmail

A long-time Gmail user describes leaving the service after Google's generative AI features became impossible to ignore. Unsolicited message summaries appear abo

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tech-culturedevops

HP revives the HP-16C, the programmer's calculator from 1982

HP has reissued the HP-16C, a calculator originally released in 1982 and aimed squarely at programmers and computer scientists. The device handles arithmetic an

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Inside BYD: CT scans reveal the engineering behind a vertically integrated EV maker

Lumafield's industrial CT scans dissect four BYD components — a Blade-chemistry LFP prismatic battery cell, the Tang SUV's driver-door switch panel, the Type 2

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open-sourcetech-culture

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Drop X11 Session, Ending a 15-Year Wayland Transition

KDE has removed the X11 session from Plasma's development branch, making Plasma 6.8 — due in roughly five months — the first release that boots only into Waylan

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Living legends of code are still online — go email them

A 46elks blog post argues that today's programmers occupy a rare historical moment: many of the field's foundational figures are still active and reachable. The

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