CHARLOTTE — Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte resident, spent months incarcerated in Florida and North Carolina after being misidentified by artificial intelligence facial recognition technology for a vehicle theft he did...
I took part in a hackathon in Vilnius the other weekend (courtesy of Basedcollective) during the pink soup festival. I brought along an old rotary phone and our two-man team spent the next 48 hours sticking our fingers...
The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant position...
A few months ago I read about Anthropic's experiment of releasing a swarm of agents to write a functioning C compiler and it made me wonder about the feasibility of using that same approach to accomplish something I've...
A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of...
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can prepare before the upgrade. v12...
2026-06-09 We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, the first release in the v3.24 stable series. Highlights GRUB 2.14 LLVM 22 Rust 1.96 GNOME 50 Go 1.26 KDE Plasma 6.6 Qt 6.11 Sway 1.12 nginx 1.30...
TL;DR On a default Ubuntu Server install, the first user account is silently placed in the lxd group, and lxd -group membership is root-equivalent by design. From 24.04 onward LXD isn’t even pre-installed, yet the...
Twenty years ago, a few weeks into my job at Google, I wrote a post about 20% time. 1 For anyone who never ran into it: 20% time was Google’s policy of letting engineers spend a day a week, a fifth of their time, on a...
Μake us preferred on Google Greece’s new artificial intelligence-powered traffic camera system has faced significant criticism during its pilot operation, with experts reporting that 90% to 95% of recorded violations...
DEVOPS Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps Research by AppSec biz Checkmarx finds that 70 percent of developers believe AI-generated code has more...
Apple announced something at WWDC26 that sounds genuinely useful and slightly terrifying at the same time. In iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, the Passwords app will be able to use Apple Intelligence and Safari to...
from the that's-not-what-ai-is-for dept In the last three months I’ve had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What’s been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It...
Nango is a code-first platform for building product API integrations. Customers connect their apps to Salesforce, Google Calendar, Slack, and a few hundred other APIs. Much of the code behind those integrations is...
Test-case reducers are less well known than they should be, and those who are aware of them donât always realise the variety of ways we can use â perhaps even abuse! â them. In this post, Iâm going to explore...
The research roots of finding “optimal routing” networks trace back to the late 1970s. Mathematicians defined special kinds of networks called “expanders“. These are graphs with strong connectivity properties...
07 Jun 2026 This post is a high-level explainer for my Master’s thesis, which involves designing hardware architectures for ultrafast inference and online learning using the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) architecture...
GPT-2 is a direct scale-up of GPT-1, with more parameters and trained on more data. However, it was deemed too dangerous to release by OpenAI: Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are...
“Obviously the wrong car” Cop seemingly ignored Flock camera timestamp to justify arrests. A San Diego police department is facing a lawsuit after jailing a man for a month based on a Flock camera alert that cops...
I had early access to the first Mythos-class AI model being released to the public, Claude 5 Fable. Much of the discussion of Mythos has centered on its impact on software security, but I tested it on everything except...
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Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class 1 model that we’ve made safe for general use. Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available. It is state-of-the-art on nearly...
Signal insists that plans to compel tech companies to scan devices for nude images of children announced by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at London Tech Week "will not keep children safe." "It endangers us...
The New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act has been passed by the state legislature and is heading to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for signature. The legislation, which was created by State...
???? Hey there, it’s Elizabeth from SigNoz! This newsletter is a n honest attempt to talk about all things - observability, OpenTelemetry, open-source and the engineering in between! We at SigNoz are a bunch of...
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As I wrote about previously, I've been working on splitting Biff up into a bunch of separate libraries and changing various things along the way. I've completed a rough draft of all twelve libraries and am now going...
The location of SN 2023vbw (magenta circle) in the outskirts of its dwarf host galaxy (green circle). Credit: arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16487 Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that artificial intelligence is going to lead to unprecedented productivity gains which could result in cheaper food, housing, and two income households deciding that they no longer...
Disclaimer: I'm just a random person on the internet and this article is my personal opinion. This article was written without AI. The first time I heard from Rutger Bregman was due to his remarks at Davos about taxing...
Tuesday 09 June 2026 10:14 am Updated: Tuesday 09 June 2026 11:35 am Palantir is planning on suing Khan after he blocked the £50m deal Palantir is set to sue Sadiq Khan after the London Mayor blocked a £50m contract...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones—a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase—which would...
Years ago I wrote about correcting covariate shift by reweighting your data. Your features come from the wrong distribution \(q\), you care about a target \(p\), so you weight every observation by \(\betai =...
Solar arrays and agriculture are strategically combined in the emerging science of agrivoltaics, focusing on farmer income, sustainable land use, and energy independence. Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack...
I recently talked to Sal Kimmich on the podcast. The topic centered around solutions to many of our existing systemic problems, Sal has an impressive understanding of the current problems as well as how to fix those...
A deep dive into the sync layer that makes Plain feel fast and collaborative. The browser holds a live replica of the slice of Postgres it's looking at, and edits documents as CRDTs. Two sync engines, one principle:...