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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

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open-sourcetech-culture

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

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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 '

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aitech-culture

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

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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

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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

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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

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'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

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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

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aitech-culture

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

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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

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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

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