Leaked EU papers revive dispute over private-message scanning
Council documents reported by Heise describe a proposed search-plan mechanism as EU institutions approach negotiations on child-abuse rules.
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Roboflow tests put GPT-6 Astra ahead on vision tasks
Roboflow says OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra led its evaluations for object detection, counting and visual reasoning, while showing clear trade-offs in segmentation.
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SpaceX’s Starship reaches orbit on its 14th full-scale flight
The uncrewed vehicle achieved a long-sought orbital milestone despite an early engine shutdown, beginning a planned multi-orbit test from Texas.
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Developer challenges claims that AI has ‘solved’ coding
A software engineer argues that cheaper code generation does not remove the costs of testing, maintenance, reliability, security and accountability.
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Teacher’s assault account renews focus on violence in schools
A special-education teacher argues that attacks and threats are being treated as an expected workplace hazard rather than an urgent safety problem.
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PaperMono project turns an e-paper display into a shared shopping list
The open-source build pairs fridge-mounted hardware with a phone interface and local server, while its creator stresses that it remains a personal project.
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Tabular foundation models challenge tuned XGBoost in 14-dataset test
An independent benchmark found that pretrained table models offered strong out-of-the-box results, while also exposing limits around wide datasets and prediction cost.
Read report »Cloud AI workflow builds interactive 3D portfolio through dozens of parallel sessions
Developer Felix Rieseberg says he redesigned his website with Claude-managed cloud sessions, Blender scripts and phone-based review rather than a local coding workflow.
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SpaceX schedules Starship’s first orbital attempt for Flight 14
The mission plan calls for six Earth orbits, deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites and a Pacific splashdown nearly 10 hours after launch.
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Developer argues AI coding shifts engineering work toward verification
A new essay says coding agents remove some implementation friction while making testing, judgment and responsibility more important.
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Minecraft simulation finds a world where the Ender Dragon eventually falls without a player
A seed search and statistical simulation produced an estimated 1.975-billion-year path to victory through mob attacks and environmental interactions.
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Developer builds schema language to cut JSON payload size
A new experimental serializer combines variable-length headers, typed fields and generated codecs, with its creator reporting reductions of roughly 80% on tested payloads.
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Microsoft leaves Copilot+ label off new Surface hardware
A Surface executive says the latest machines still meet the former technical threshold, even as Microsoft moves away from the two-year-old PC badge.
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Early Nvidia adviser says old option paperwork left millions of shares out of reach
A former technical adviser says a vesting discrepancy discovered decades later could not be pursued because the potential claim was time-barred.
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postmarketOS adopts Nura name after community selection process
The mobile operating-system project says the shorter name will be easier to pronounce, protect and carry beyond its hacker-community roots.
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A decade-old bike light returns to service after a battery repair
A hands-on repair account shows how a failed rechargeable light was opened, diagnosed and revived with a replacement cell.
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Rust examples revive the case for parsing data into stronger types
A programming essay applies the 'parse, don't validate' pattern to Rust, arguing that types can preserve invariants and simplify downstream code.
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Ten tiny programs trace one developer's path through computing
A front-end developer's retrospective uses memorable snippets to connect early programming, low-level machines, web experiments and debugging habits.
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Researchers map a Cascadia plate breaking apart beneath the seafloor
Seismic images off Vancouver Island suggest a subduction system is ending in stages as sections of an oceanic plate separate.
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Study finds text watermarking can alter AI agent tool calls
Lasso Research says generation-time watermarking produced measurable changes in tool-call accuracy and refusal behavior across its controlled tests.
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Apple Cards’ elaborate print operation revisited 15 years after launch
A new account from a former production partner describes the demanding physical infrastructure behind Apple’s short-lived Cards app.
Read report »Microsoft and PC makers pull back from Copilot+ branding while keeping AI specifications
New Surface systems retain the hardware capabilities associated with Copilot+ PCs, but Microsoft is no longer using the label in their product names.
Read report »Malicious Google ads used browser lock screens to push tech-support scams
A campaign observed across hundreds of publisher sites imitated device infections on Windows and Mac systems and urged victims to call bogus support numbers.
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Dead rat found in Bowden prompts Alberta control-team investigation
The discovery does not by itself end Alberta's rat-free designation, which means the province has no established resident population rather than no occasional incursions.
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