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A new poll finds 93% of British adults believe in a right to private online conversations, and two-thirds distrust any government with the power to access encrypted chats. The findings land as the UK's Investigatory Powers Act clashes with tech industry encryption.
A Texas Tribune investigation reveals that a $1 auto insurance fee, passed to fight catalytic converter theft, has quietly funded thousands of AI-powered Flock license plate cameras—sparking a privacy backlash and a governor's pause.
LLMs fail on brownfield code because the codebase lacks a shared domain language. The fix: treat strategic decisions as human work, and let agents execute tactical changes guided by DDD principles and a workflow manifest.
SLEEPWALKER is a passive backdoor that hides in memory, waits for a single crafted packet, then executes programs written in a custom 23-instruction bytecode language. It's a reminder that network detection alone won't catch implants that sleep until triggered.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully assembled and slated to launch on a Falcon Heavy in August 2026. With a field of view 100x Hubble's, it's built to tackle dark energy, exoplanet census, and infrared surveys.
A sporadic crash in Go's netpoll on 32-bit ARM systems traced to a pointer aliasing bug in the runtime, fixed after years of reports.
The EU's new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is forcing small tabletop RPG publishers to stop shipping to EU countries, citing prohibitive fees and complex compliance requirements.
A deep dive into the shortcomings of traditional bezier editing and a new approach that works with curvature directly, promising more intuitive and stable curve manipulation.
htmx 4.0.0 is out after 8 months of work. The big internal shift is from XMLHttpRequest to fetch(), attribute inheritance is now opt-in, events are standardized, and history no longer relies on localStorage. Morphing swaps and the new <hx-partial> tag are the headline features.
Cloudflare launches BotBase for Operators, giving bot operators a dashboard home for submissions, status tracking, editing, and automated review.
Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model with 2.6% WER, smart disfluency cleanup, and function calling, available via Live and Interactions APIs.
The story of Suica is a masterclass in edge computing: a battery-free card that completes a full fare transaction in under 200ms by keeping everything local. Here's how Sony and JR East pulled it off—and almost didn't.