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Connected Vehicle Rule bars Polestar from the U.S. — but clears Geely sibling Volvo

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security has denied Polestar the authorization it needs to keep selling cars in the U.S. starting with model ye

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aipolicy

Data Centers Become an Election-Loser as Voters Punish Officials Who Backed Them

Opposition to AI-driven data center projects is hardening into a decisive voting issue in U.S. local and state races. In Utah, State Senate President J. Stuart

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tech-cultureopen-source

Decomp Academy teaches PowerPC reverse engineering by grading your C against a 2001 compiler

Decomp Academy is an interactive course that teaches the craft of matching decompilation — reconstructing C source that compiles, instruction for instruction, i

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aiopen-source

DIY two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster runs big LLMs over RDMA at 5µs latency

A community toolbox documents how to lash two Framework Desktop boards—each built on AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo" APU with 128GB of unified memory—into a si

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privacypolicy

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

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aitech-culture

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

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tech-culturedevops

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

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privacycybersecurity

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

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aitech-culture

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

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tech-culturepolicy

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

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tech-cultureprivacy

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

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aiprivacy

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

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