A cybersecurity campaign targeted professionals around the Black Hat and Def Con conferences by impersonating a writer from a major crypto news site. According to researchers at Huntress, the attacker
SignalTrace is a new surveillance technology from security company Leonardo that builds on license plate reader systems like Flock, but goes further by using Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi signals from devices i
Apple has filed its proposed commission structure for purchases made through external links in iOS apps, following a court order in its long-running legal fight with Epic Games. In a filing in the U.S
Google is ending support for automatic syncing between Google Drive desktop backups and Google Photos on August 10, 2026. After that date, users who want photos backed up to Google Photos will need to
This is a timed auction for Napster DRL: Drone Racing & Broadcast Equipment, held at 107 Westside Ave., Jersey City, New Jersey 07305, United States. The auction is scheduled to start on Aug. 11, 2026
The article examines the growing but unsettled debate over whether AI systems, especially “large reasoning models” (LRMs), truly reason or merely appear to do so. Recent years have produced striking s
Security researchers have exposed a serious sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Cowork for Mac, called **ShareRoot**. Claude Cowork is designed to run in a virtual machine and only acce
GrapheneOS, an ultra-secure Android variant, is defending its encryption and data-protection features after an Atlanta environmental activist allegedly used a built-in “duress password” to wipe his ph
GrapheneOS is designed to strongly resist data extraction by combining Android’s built-in security features with the most secure hardware currently available for Android devices. At present, only Goog
OpenAI has launched its first branded hardware product, the $230 Codex Micro, amid ongoing speculation about more ambitious devices, including a personalized smart speaker. The Codex Micro is a limite
RL Post-Training on Macs
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Jul 16
The post describes a multi-turn reinforcement learning run of LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an 8.3B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, using 14 consumer Macs distributed across four countries for rollout generation
A report from the Financial Times says Iran exploited long-known weaknesses in global telecom infrastructure to help locate U.S. military personnel in the Middle East before and during the early stage
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
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Jul 15
The article is a detailed rewatch-and-research of the computers and software shown in *Jurassic Park*, focusing on the film’s surprisingly rich use of early-1990s technology. The author notes the firs
Bonsai 27B is a new multimodal flagship model based on Qwen3.6 27B, and it is presented as the first model in its capability class to run on a phone. The release extends Bonsai’s low-bit compression a
WhatCable is a macOS menu bar app designed to reveal what USB-C cables can actually do. It explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English, helping users i
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Jul 7
CVE-2025-43300 is a high-risk Apple vulnerability involving an out-of-bounds write caused by insufficient bounds checking. The flaw can be triggered by processing a malicious image file, potentially l
Wearable neurotechnology is emerging as the next major consumer tech category, moving beyond fitness trackers and smartwatches to devices that read brain activity through EEG sensors. These products a
The article argues that Google’s planned CAPTCHA changes could create a “two-tier internet” by making access to websites dependent on possession of an “approved” device. Google’s reCAPTCHA, already wi
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Jun 15
Panthalassa, a Portland startup backed by major Silicon Valley investors, is developing floating data centers that sit at sea, generate their own power from wave energy, and use cold seawater for cool
Sentinel Net App - App Store
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Sentinel Net is a free iPhone news app by Arc Light Technologies that focuses on community safety and public-safety reporting. It lets users submit tips, report hazards, suspicious activity, and missi
Sentinel Net App - App Store
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Jun 11
Sentinel Net is a free iPhone news app by Arc Light Technologies that focuses on community safety and public-safety reporting. It lets users submit tips, report hazards, suspicious activity, and missi
The document argues that **“intelligence per watt” (IPW)** is a unified way to measure whether **local AI inference** is truly viable under power constraints. Instead of evaluating models by raw capab
Filtr is a new privacy tool for Apple devices that blocks ads and tracking across iPhones, iPads, and Macs, not just in browsers. Built by the developer behind the Safari ad blocker Wipr, Filtr uses A
California lawmakers are moving to exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s controversial Digital Age Assurance Act after months of backlash from open-source and privacy advocates. A new amend
Program Data Settings for Your Device
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May 25
AT&T’s support guide explains how to restore mobile internet access by programming the correct APN (access point name) settings on a device. The APN connects a carrier’s cellular network to the intern
WendyOS is an open-source, Apache 2.0 operating system and toolchain designed for “physical AI” and edge robotics development. It supports NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi, and headless Mac targets, with t
Local AI Needs to be the Norm · unix.foo
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May 13
The article argues that local AI should become the default for software features that can run on-device, rather than relying on cloud-hosted models like OpenAI or Anthropic. The author says cloud AI a
TSMC is preparing to install equipment in its Fab 21 phase 2 facility in Arizona as early as the third quarter of 2026, according to a Nikkei report citing sources familiar with the plan. If the sched
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
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May 10
Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API ar
The bottleneck was never the code
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May 6
The article argues that coding agents are not mainly changing software by making individual developers faster, but by shifting the real bottleneck from writing code to coordinating what code should be
Microsoft recovered a lost Windows Phone handset that was running an early prototype of its future “Blue” software update. The device surfaced after a Reddit user, Jeremiah Wong, bought a Lumia 920 on
Meta says Facebook and Instagram are deploying AI-based age detection tools to identify users who may be under 13 and remove them from the platforms. The system analyzes photos and videos for cues suc
The content is a brief promotional and headline-style excerpt from The Information rather than a full article. Its main news item is a report that 600 Google employees have asked CEO Sundar Pichai to
DeepSeek Privacy Policy
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Apr 24
DeepSeek’s Privacy Policy, updated Feb. 10, 2026, explains how the company collects, uses, and shares personal data across its apps, websites, software, and related chatbot services. DeepSeek, Ltd., b
Apple has released a software update for iPhones and iPads that fixes a privacy bug allowing law enforcement to recover deleted or disappearing chat messages from messaging apps. The issue involved no
SimpleX Privacy Policy
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Apr 20
Darkbloom, an Eigen Labs research preview, is a decentralized AI inference network designed to run on idle Apple Silicon Macs. It aims to connect over 100 million underused Apple machines directly to
A recent report says the FBI was able to recover deleted-looking Signal data from an iPhone during an investigation linked to attacks on a U.S. ICE detention facility in Texas. Although Signal had bee
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Apr 13
In a recent trial, the FBI successfully extracted deleted Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, revealing how push notifications can store sensitive data even after an app is removed. The case in
Project Glasswing is a new initiative launched by major tech companies, including Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft, aimed at enhancing the security of critical software in light of advanced
The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier
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Apr 7
In "The Last Quiet Thing," Terry Godier contrasts two types of watches to illustrate the broader shift in our relationship with technology. The first, a Casio F-91W, is a simple, affordable timepiece
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Apr 6
Using an external graphics processor (eGPU) with a Thunderbolt 3-equipped Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later enhances graphics performance for applications like professional software, 3D g
Apple has recently approved drivers that enable AMD and Nvidia external GPUs (eGPUs) to function on Apple silicon devices, specifically for AI applications rather than gaming. This development, announ
Apple has recently approved drivers that enable AMD and Nvidia external GPUs (eGPUs) to function on Apple silicon devices, specifically for AI applications rather than gaming. This development, announ
A recent WIRED investigation has unveiled a series of cybersecurity incidents, beginning with the unauthorized release of the source code for Anthropic's Claude Code, which hackers have exploited by e
On March 30, hackers compromised a lead maintainer's npm account for the popular Axios library, releasing two malicious versions that included a hidden dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, designed to i