TiVo plans to turn automatic ad skipping into a paid add-on
TiVo is telling customers that its free automatic commercial-skipping feature will end in November, with a paid replacement service set to follow after a trial period.
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YouTube video argues LG smart TVs are collecting first-party viewing data
A Gamers Nexus video says LG smart TVs it tested use first-party automatic content recognition, renewing a familiar debate over what connected televisions see and store.
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Internet Archive seeks monthly donors with a September matching offer
The nonprofit says recurring gifts of $25 or more made in September will be matched 2:1 on the first month, tripling the initial donation.
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MathKernel packages mathematical claims with provenance, trust labels, and multiple engines
A new open-source math runtime says it is designed to keep the evidence trail attached to every calculation, instead of treating all numerical output as equally trustworthy.
Read report »GET together makes every post a GET request
A new social network turns a standard web method into the entire posting model, framing public messages, replies, and deletions as simple URL-based actions.
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A 2025 essay says LinkedIn users are letting AI flatten their voice
One writer argues that AI-generated posts are now common enough on LinkedIn that the platform’s real problem is authenticity, not just style.
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The science behind ‘old person smell’ is more ordinary than the stereotype
A Guardian explainer says the scent people associate with aging comes from 2-nonenal, a byproduct of skin oils changing over time.
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A joke post about a runaway torrent client lands on the edge of software failure
A social post describes qBittorrent escaping its sandbox, Jellyfin ingesting the files, and an investigation that will involve watching the evidence.
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Benedict Evans Argues AI Will Change Workflows More Than It Will Replace Software
A new essay says the hard part of AI is not making tools faster, but spotting the problems worth automating and getting organizations to adopt the fix.
Read report »A FreeBSD Desktop Build Shows How Much Enthusiasm Still Exists for Small-Form-Factor Linux Alternatives
A detailed build log documents a compact AMD-based FreeBSD desktop, with the author saying the system runs faster than the previous machine and works well with modern graphics support.
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Greenland Delays Drilling Plans for Trump-Linked Oil Venture
Greenlandic authorities say the company cannot complete the required approvals in time, pushing back a drilling plan that had been promoted as imminent by a Trump envoy.
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Isar Aerospace Says It Reached Orbit on Second Flight, Marking a Milestone for European Launch
The German launch company said its second flight reached orbit and deployed payloads, a result it framed as the first successful commercial orbital delivery by a European space company.
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STAT Says Public Health Data Needs to Stay Boring, Even When Politics Intervenes
Former CDC officials argue that disease reporting works only when states and federal agencies use the same standards, and warn that politicizing those standards risks public trust during outbreaks.
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A Browser Port of GTA Vice City Points to How Far WebAssembly Game Delivery Has Come
A Quenq page says the full game can run in a browser with save and controller support, another sign that classic PC games are increasingly being packaged for the web.
Read report »Site Is Closed on Sundays, and the Web Still Has Room for a Personal Homepage
A design-and-writing portfolio site reads like a small museum of one maker's work, a reminder that even in an era of feeds and templates, individual websites still carry a distinctive voice.
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Autistici/Inventati Says It Will Shut Down After Years of Pressure
The privacy-focused collective says legal and financial risk has made it impossible to keep operating its services safely.
Read report »Software Publisher Says He Is Moving Recent Releases to EUPL-1.2
The author of bergie.iki.fi says his new default license is the European Union Public License, a strong copyleft choice intended to stop service-side reuse without reciprocity.
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Commentary Post Argues AI’s Utility Is Outpacing Society’s Ability to Cope
A personal essay says AI systems are useful, unsettling and already reshaping software work, politics and the open web.
Read report »Emad Mostaque Says AI and Internet Infrastructure Are Headed for a Harder, Faster Future
At TechBBQ, the Stability AI founder argued that open models, persuasion and brittle infrastructure will reshape politics and software work.
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Fifth Circuit Says Jackson Residents Cannot Turn a Lead-Water Case into a Constitutional Claim
The court left a Mississippi water lawsuit dismissed, saying the U.S. Constitution does not create a broad right to clean drinking water or truthful crisis information.
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Cloud in a Bottle wants self-hosting to feel like a phone, not a sysadmin job
The open-source project launches a personal-cloud stack that bundles containers, unified login and app permissions, with a managed option meant to make self-hosting less intimidating.
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TSA opens a new way to visit the gate without flying
Gateside by TSA PreCheck lets eligible travelers request access to the secure side of participating airports, with a $45 fee and a narrow advance window.
Read report »GPT-6 Astra looks strong on simple robot tasks but still stalls on precision
A benchmark post from OpenAI RoboCurve says Astra beat Claude Fable 5.1 on a block-to-bowl task while tying it on a puzzle insertion, using fewer tokens and shorter runs.
Read report »AI incident response may lower downtime, but it can also thin out human expertise
An industry essay argues that AI-assisted incident handling improves routine response while quietly eroding the hands-on experience engineers need when automation fails.
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