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EU Pushes Chat Control via Backroom Deals as Activists Relaunch Opposition Site
Digital rights campaigner and former MEP Patrick Breyer is warning of a coordinated two-front effort by EU institutions to revive message-scanning mandates this
Ford rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI quality systems backfired
Ford has walked back an aggressive push to replace human expertise with automated quality control, rehiring more than 350 senior engineers—internally nicknamed
How communism, Ctrl+S, and Windows conspired to eat Poland's Ś on Medium
A Medium user reported a bug that made no sense: writing in Polish, every character typed fine except Ś, which simply vanished — and only on Medium. The cause t
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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