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Flock's Billion-Dollar Surveillance Dream Hits Bipartisan Backlash
Flock Safety, a company now valued above $8 billion and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has built a nationwide automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) network of r
GNU Radio Goes Browser-Native: Full SDR Flowgraphs in WebAssembly
GNU Radio World brings the GNU Radio Companion experience to a browser tab, with the DSP engine and Qt GUI sinks compiled to WebAssembly. Users can assemble a s
Google Ads brands a clean Rust terminal app 'malware,' then stonewalls the dev
The developer of RACE — a native macOS terminal multiplexer written in Rust — ran his first Google Ads campaign, spent $500, and had the account suspended for '
GPT-6 Astra: strong on computer use and graphics, trained on a wall of Mac Minis
Sebastian Raschka's early hands-on take frames OpenAI's newly released GPT-6 Astra as the strongest model he has used, with an outsized lead in graphics-heavy w
How Read the Docs survived a 5.5M req/min adaptive DDoS attack
In late June 2026, Read the Docs weathered the largest DDoS attack in its history: a nearly ten-day assault that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute, roug
How Windows XP Randomly Picked Your First Account Avatar
A reader question prompted Raymond Chen to explain the mechanism behind Windows XP's assignment of a random profile picture when a new account was created. The
iPhone 18 Pro adds cryptographic photo provenance, variable-aperture camera, 2nm A20
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, leading with a 48MP main camera that gains true variable aperture — six laser-cut blades that shift across four
'Make the Button Blue': An Interactive Jab at AI Assistants and Scope Creep
Opusfived is a satirical, interactive comedy piece that skewers agentic AI coding assistants and their habit of doing far more than they were asked. The whole t
Mathematician demands OpenAI prove it didn't train on his private ChatGPT math
Andreas Thom, a group theorist at TU Dresden, has gone public with a pointed challenge to OpenAI: prove that his private ChatGPT conversations never fed the com
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI's Astra of passing off stolen proofs as breakthroughs
Mathematician Andreas Thom has publicly alleged that OpenAI trained its Astra model on private conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working through Grom
Microsoft makes Rust a Tier-1 language, wires it into the MSVC backend
Rust has reached Tier-1 engineering status at Microsoft, putting it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript as a first-class language for internal development. In pra
NASA's Mars Imaging Algorithm Is Now Decoding Ancient Rock Art
A color-enhancement algorithm built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to sharpen satellite and planetary imagery has found a second life in archaeology. The m