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Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines
twitter.com
DHS Invokes Immigration Enforcement to Justify Gathering Americans' DNA
reason.com

J.D. Tuccille - A proposed rule change would allow the government to routinely gather people's biometric data without a warrant.

London–Calcutta Bus Service
en.wikipedia.org
"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)
stanfordlawreview.org
Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues
cbsnews.com
Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
help.kagi.com
MCP is a fad
tombedor.dev

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Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies
surveillancewatch.io

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
theguardian.com

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

What happened to WebAssembly
emnudge.dev
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
lwn.net

The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]
courses.csail.mit.edu
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success
economist.com
The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
github.com/anomalyco

Description As of a few moments ago, usage of claude max stopped with the following error: I did try to reconnect, but got the same error. Plugins No response OpenCode version 1.1.8 Steps to reprod...

Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
news.ycombinator.com
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Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?
lagomor.ph

↳ Pony Express Rider, oil painting possibly by Lloyd Branson (1853-1925) In March 1860, William H. Russell established the Overland Express Route, colloquially called the Pony Express, to carry express mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and California; an area with no colonialist settlements between. Russell failed repeatedly to get funding from the Senate Post Office for the project, as most considered year-round tr

Why I left iNaturalist
kueda.net

Ken-ichi Ueda - After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue working on natural history software, support me on Patreon.

Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018)
bbc.com

The app was removed from Apple's store after images showing child sexual abuse were discovered.

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
wired.com

Caroline Haskins - Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
eff.org

Cooper Quintin - A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
github.com/embassy-rs

Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async. Contribute to embassy-rs/embassy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Monero Replaced Bitcoin on the Internet's Underground
darknetbible.info
Let's call a murder a murder
daringfireball.net

Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.

Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production
audioxpress.com

Flint, the Singapore-based company that developed sustainable, cellulose-based, biodegradable, PFAS-free batteries, announced that its technology has entered production and will be available to select strategic partners. Paper batteries are a promising lower-carbon alternative that will benefit most consumer electronics applications. Following the transition from lab-scale development to manufactured cells ready for

Iran Protest Map
pouyaii.github.io
Landline phones cut in parts of Iran, eyewitnesses say
iranintl.com
Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)
web.archive.org

Richard D. James and Tatsuya Takahashi discuss their collaboration on the Monologue, microtuning, geometry and dreams.

SQL Studio
sql.studio

Modern, fast, and easy to use SQL Client. Enjoy a new era of SQL.

Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development
localvideoapp.com
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A new way to connect with the world

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order
bleepingcomputer.com

The State of Texas obtained a short-lived, temporary restraining order (TRO) against Samsung that prohibited the South Korean company from collecting audio and visual data about what Texas consumers are watching on their TVs.

Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools
keranews.org

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday finalized a tentative opinion issued in September that no longer requires soon-to-be lawyers to attend a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The power to approve those law schools now rests with the state's highest civil court.

Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)
finance.yahoo.com

It has been well established that the Apple cofounder Steve Jobs often acted like a jerk. The new anecdotes add color to the many stories of how Jobs was mean or rude to employees and business partners. The net effect is that Jobs looks like a truly terrible person.

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
github.com/samuel-vitorino

A lightweight text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning - samuel-vitorino/sopro

X faces global investigations for deepfake porn of women and minors
boingboing.net

Ellsworth Toohey - X faces investigations in EU, India, France after Grok AI generated explicit deepfakes including images of minors.

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
mihaileric.com
Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs
marble.onl
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
twitter.com
Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline
news.ycombinator.com
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
joshuawise.com
Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
news.ycombinator.com
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The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal to Record Videos of ICE
reason.com

C.J. Ciaramella - "Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973
sigma-star.at

This blog post shows how to fix a buffer overflow in the su progam of UNIX v4

Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
github.com/richhickson
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Contribute to richhickson/claudecodeusage development by creating an account on GitHub.

IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
promptarmor.com

IBM's AI coding agent 'Bob' has been found vulnerable to downloading and executing malware without human approval through command validation bypasses exploited using indirect prompt injection.

Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
sfstandard.com

“I must apologize to — absolutely nobody”: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley.

Supernova Remnant Video from NASA's Chandra Is Decades in Making
nasa.gov

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades.

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin
nvidianews.nvidia.com

NVIDIA today kickstarted the next generation of AI with the launch of the NVIDIA Rubin platform, comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer.

Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023
epoch.ai

Luke Emberson - Since 2023, every model at the frontier of AI capabilities, as measured by the Epoch Capabilities Index, has been developed in the United States. Over that same period, Chinese models have trailed US capabilities by an average of seven months, with a minimum gap of four months and a maximum gap of 14.

China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW
switchgear-magazine.com

The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8 million kilowatts of renewable energy from Inner Mongolia to Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei by 2027.

Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized
ign.com

Ubisoft has shut down its Halifax Studio, just one month after 61 of its 71 workers voted to unionize.

Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting
pbs.org

An unidentified ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in the head on Wednesday while she was in her car in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis.

ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods
404media.co

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

The Waymo Ojai Will Soon Offer Autonomous Rides Around the U.S.
caranddriver.com

Waymo is gearing up to start adding its new self-driving van, built by Chinese automaker Zeekr, to its fleet of robotaxis in the United States.

Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space
arxiv.org

Large Language Models (LLMs) apply uniform computation to all tokens, despite language exhibiting highly non-uniform information density. This token-uniform regime wastes capacity on locally predictable spans while under-allocating computation to semantically critical transitions. We propose $\textbf{Dynamic Large Concept Models (DLCM)}$, a hierarchical language modeling framework that learns semantic boundaries from

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
sakana.ai

Sakana AI - Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs

Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
radar.cloudflare.com
An Honest Review of Go (2025)
benraz.dev
Our Changing Planet, as Seen from Space
e360.yale.edu
AI coding assistants are getting worse?
spectrum.ieee.org

One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?

Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage
tomshardware.com

Old becomes gold in Akihabara Electric Town.

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
arstechnica.com

Stevie Bonifield - Bose speakers un-bricked

Show HN: A Daily Bible Game
bibdle.com
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Gmail is entering the Gemini Era
blog.google

Learn more about the next era of Gmail, now using Gemini 3 and Personal Intelligence.

Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency
github.com/jeremicna
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DeepDream for video with temporal consistency. Features RAFT optical flow estimation and occlusion masking to prevent ghosting. A PyTorch implementation. - jeremicna/deepdream-video-pytorch

How did TVs get so cheap?
construction-physics.com

Brian Potter - You’ve probably seen this famous graph that breaks out various categories of inflation, showing labor-intensive services getting more expensive during the 21st century and manufactured goods getting less expensive.

The Jeff Dean Facts
github.com/LRitzdorf

A consolidated list of the Jeff Dean Facts! Contribute to LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts development by creating an account on GitHub.

How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation – and Blinded Us All
autoblog.com
German president says US is destroying world order
reuters.com
Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland
lbc.co.uk

Frankie Elliott - The European nation's rules of engagement requires soldiers to “immediately” counter-attack invading forces without awaiting orders

Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows
theguardian.com

Mayor says ICE claims incident was self-defense are not true, and tells agency to ‘get the fuck out of Minneapolis’

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
blog.cloudflare.com

There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.

AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds
emjreviews.com

Niamh Holmes - Standalone MRI caught most breast cancer cases missed by AI, highlighting a key safety net for dense breasts. Find out more.

Covid-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain
news.griffith.edu.au

Emma O'Connor - COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
patchouli.readthedocs.io
Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping (2025)
blog.google

We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.

Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes
tus.ac.jp

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant viruses that may have driven the evolution of co...

Go.sum is not a lockfile
words.filippo.io
Open Infrastructure Map
openinframap.org

Open map of the world's electricity, telecoms, oil, and gas infrastructure, using data from OpenStreetMap.

Show HN: IceRaidsNearMe – Real-time, crowdsourced map of immigration enforcement
iceraidsnearme.com
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ICE Watch Community - Report and track ICE activity in your community. Anonymous reporting, real-time maps, and know your rights resources.

Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card
jpmorganchase.com
Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
pebblebed.com
U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies
whitehouse.gov

WITHDRAWING FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the withdrawal of the United

Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C
github.com/kstenerud

Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C. Contribute to kstenerud/Musashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)
github.com/cnvogelg

Various tools for using AmigaOS programs on other platforms - cnvogelg/amitools

Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans
blog.adafruit.com
Play Aardwolf MUD
aardwolf.com
Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card
apple.com

Today, Apple and Chase announced that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, with an expected transition in approximately 24 months.

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
eff.org

Cooper Quintin - We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an irresistible tool for anti-democratic forces.

Minneapolis Mayor Blasts Kristi Noem's BS ICE Shoots Kills Woman in Minnesota
thedailypoliticususa.com

Sarah Jones & Jason Easley - Kristi Noem accused a woman who was shot in the face while driving away from ICE agents of domestic terrorism, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called out her BS.

2026 Predictions Scorecard
rodneybrooks.com
My first paper: A practical implementation of Rubiks cube based passkeys
ieeexplore.ieee.org

We present a novel authentication system that transforms a Rubik's cube into a physical key for digital authentication. By reading the cube's specific arrangement among 43 quintillion possible configurations, our system generates FIDO2-compatible credentials on-demand. Unlike traditional security tokens that store credentials, the cube itself becomes part of the key with its physical state forming a deterministic see

ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis
reuters.com
So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024)
experimental-history.com

Adam Mastroianni - What I found in the mire

SSDs, power loss protection and fsync latency
smalldatum.blogspot.com

This has results to measure the impact of calling fsync (or fdatasync) per-write for files opened with O_DIRECT. My goal is to document the ...

Claude Code CLI was broken
github.com/anthropics

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
tailscale.com

View changes to the Tailscale client and service.

US immigration officer fatally shoots woman, 37, in Minneapolis, officials say
bbc.com

Local officials accuse immigration agents of "recklessly using power", as federal authorities say the officer fired shots in self-defence.

Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
vibeandscribe.xyz
Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE
nbcnews.com

The Department of Homeland Security said it was a "vehicle ramming related" incident.

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