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A field guide to spotting Seattle's hidden surveillance infrastructure
A 2020 community workshop turned walking tour maps the layers of "smart city" surveillance woven into downtown Seattle, from ubiquitous cameras to Amazon Go sto
Adafruit Pauses Blog After Flux.ai Legal Threat Over Security Disclosure
Adafruit disclosed receiving a demand letter on May 22, 2026 from Fenwick & West partner Jonathan Lenzner, representing PCB design firm Flux.ai. The letter pres
Anthropic Expands Project Glasswing to 150 New Critical Infrastructure Partners
Anthropic is scaling Project Glasswing, its program that grants vetted organizations access to the Claude Mythos Preview model for vulnerability scanning, from
Apple Rejected My Dictation App for Misusing the Accessibility API
An indie developer with a repetitive strain injury built WhisperPad, a Mac menu-bar app that locally transcribes speech via Whisper and injects the text whereve
Browser Vendors' 'Attribution Level 1' Is an Ad-Tracking Cartel in Disguise
Meta, Google, Apple, and Mozilla are jointly drafting Attribution Level 1, a built-in browser API that records ad impressions and correlates them with purchases
DuckDuckGo ships browser extensions to lock in AI-free search as traffic surges
DuckDuckGo released Chrome and Firefox extensions that set noai.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine, stripping out AI-generated answers, chat prompts, a
Elixir 1.20 ships gradual set-theoretic types, catches bugs without annotations
Elixir 1.20 marks the first development milestone of a multi-year effort to bolt a sound, gradual, set-theoretic type system onto the language. The release perf
Ellison pitches AI-powered total surveillance as a civic virtue
At an Oracle analyst Q&A in September 2024, co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison sketched a near-future in which networks of street, vehicle, doorbell, and body-wor
Fidonet at INET '92: How a Hobbyist Store-and-Forward Net Reached a Million Users
Randy Bush's 1993 paper documents Fidonet, the volunteer-run store-and-forward network that by the early 1990s linked more than 20,000 BBS nodes and an estimate
Getting DeepSeek-V4-Flash Running on AMD's MI300X: A Worklog
AMD's MI300X offers 192GB of HBM3 and roughly half the list price of NVIDIA's H100, but software gaps keep it underused — especially on newer models. Doubleword
Gmail's Pushy AI Features Drove a 16-Year User to Fastmail
A long-time Gmail user describes leaving the service after Google's generative AI features became impossible to ignore. Unsolicited message summaries appear abo
HP revives the HP-16C, the programmer's calculator from 1982
HP has reissued the HP-16C, a calculator originally released in 1982 and aimed squarely at programmers and computer scientists. The device handles arithmetic an