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241. CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for 'Tactical Targeting'
US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.
242. SCOTUS to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses
243. Software Factories and the Agentic Moment
StrongDM's field notes on non-interactive agentic development: specs + scenarios, validation harnesses, feedback loops, and the supporting components.
244. LLM "reasoning" continues to be deeply flawed
A new review underscores the breadth of the problem, and shows that close to a trillion dollars hasn’t changed that
245. Dave Farber has passed away
246. Camera that captures photos to cassette tape
A DIY camera that stores photos on audio cassette tapes using SSTV
247. The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.
248. A simpler way to remove explicit images from Search
There’s a new, simpler way for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search.
249. ClawHub
ClawHub — a fast skill registry for agents, with vector search.
250. Oxide Computer raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
251. Why "just prompt better" doesn't work
252. Bun v1.3.9
Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.
253. Quartz Crystals
254. Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo
255. Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding
AI dev tooling can do better than chat interfaces
256. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2504.12501: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
257. Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
258. Go 1.26 Release Notes
259. More Mac malware from Google search
Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek's disease?
260. Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”
261. Airspace closure followed spat over drone-related tests and balloon shoot-down
Pentagon officials had undertaken planning to use military technology near Fort Bliss, in El Paso, to practice downing drones.
262. Stop Generating, Start Thinking
263. MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks
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264. Can my SPARC server host a website?
The little corner of the internet owned by Darko!
265. Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney
266. Erythritol May Damage Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke
Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.
267. Obsidian Introduces Obsidian CLI
Obsidian CLI - Obsidian Help
268. Half of xAI's founders left the company
Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ever faced before.
269. ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height
270. Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?