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EU Chief Backs a New Associate-Member Path for Canada
Ursula von der Leyen endorsed closer ties spanning technology, defence, energy and trade, though no EU associate-membership framework currently exists.
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Bangsamoro Election Produces Hung Parliament After Historic Regional Vote
No party reached the 41 seats needed to control the autonomous region's 80-member legislature, setting up coalition negotiations.
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A physically removed roadside camera stored logs indicating about 1.6 million images of roughly 50,200 vehicles across 21 days of recorded activity.
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DATAMIMIC Opens Deterministic Test-Data Tools to Coding Agents
The community edition gives developers a reproducible synthetic-data engine, command-line workflow and narrowly defined MCP integration for test environments.
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MartyPC Emulator Targets Cycle-Level Accuracy for Early IBM Computers
The Rust-based project recreates IBM PC, XT, PCjr and Tandy systems while giving retro developers detailed tools to inspect 8088 execution.
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Mistral Models Begin Powering Mozilla's Firefox Smart Window Beta
The partnership brings Mistral's multilingual models to Mozilla's AI browsing assistant in France and North America, with privacy and user choice as stated priorities.
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Apple Introduces Reference Image Mode for Verifiable iPhone Photography
The opt-in iPhone 18 Pro feature combines sensor signatures, bounded timestamps and private cloud processing to authenticate what a camera captured.
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Negativland Marks 46 Years of Culture Jamming With Internet Archive Performance
The experimental collective is bringing its collage-based live show to the Internet Archive while continuing a decades-long partnership preserving its radio work.
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Cloudflare Adds Control to Separate Search Indexing From AI Training
A new setting lets site owners state that mixed-use crawlers may index pages for search but may not use the material for model training.
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Cohn and Schneier Call for a Reckoning on Mass Surveillance
The civil-liberties advocates argue that surveillance systems built after September 11 have spread into routine policing and private infrastructure without adequate evidence of their value.
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Microsoft Retires Excel’s In-Cell COPILOT Function
Existing results remain cached, but recalculation now produces an error as Microsoft directs users to Excel’s separate Copilot interface.
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Jack Dorsey Argues Open AI Releases Should Remain the Default
The technology founder supports independent testing and narrow safety restrictions while warning that broad limits could entrench leading laboratories and governments.
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US Supreme Court Keeps Mail-Ballot Restrictions on Hold
The justices declined to let the Postal Service apply new requirements during the 2026 midterms, while leaving the underlying legal challenge unresolved.
