Valve releases open designs for Steam Machine e-ink display
The MIT-licensed ‘Inkterface’ project documents how users and accessory makers can build a front-mounted status screen.
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F-Droid attacks Google’s Android developer-verification plan
The open-source app repository says mandatory central registration would give Google excessive control over software distributed outside Play.
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PeerTube offers federated, open-source alternative for online video
The ActivityPub platform lets independent hosts interoperate while using browser-based peer-to-peer delivery to share streaming load.
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Report says Spain limits Palantir contracts at state-controlled groups
A reported directive would halt future deals at SEPI-linked companies, while an existing €16.5 million defense contract approaches expiry.
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Virginia prohibition on geolocation-data sales takes effect
The amendment to the state consumer privacy law bars exchanges of location data for money from July 1, 2026.
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Godot Moves to Reject AI-Authored Code Contributions
The open-source game engine plans stricter contribution rules requiring accountable human authorship and disclosure of limited AI assistance.
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Synthetic cell completes growth, DNA copying and division cycle
A preprint describes a membrane-bound system assembled from laboratory components that performs several cellular functions but remains dependent on external supplies.
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Essay argues that winning disputes can undermine useful conversation
A software engineer’s personal reflection favors requested advice, collaborative comparison and building evidence over attempts to defeat an opponent.
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Sony says new PlayStation games will go disc-free in 2028
Physical production will stop for titles released from January 2028, while earlier disc releases remain unaffected under the announced policy.
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Sony warns 551 purchased StudioCanal titles will leave PlayStation libraries
A licensing change is set to remove previously bought films and television programs on September 1, according to a notice reproduced online.
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Developer finds hidden classification markers in Claude Code prompts
A reverse-engineering report said Claude Code 2.1.196 could encode information about custom API hosts and two timezones through tiny changes to an apostrophe and date separators.
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 across all subscription plans
The company prices its new model at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens while emphasizing agentic work and safety changes.
Read report »Waag challenges Big Tech checks in European identity wallets
The digital-rights organization says reliance on Google and Apple attestation could exclude alternative mobile systems from public services.
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Ford recalls more than 741,000 US vehicles over transmission park-system risk
Certain Ford and Lincoln models from the 2018–2021 model years require a software update and inspection after regulators warned that transmission damage could allow unintended movement while parked.
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Repeated resume tests expose unstable scores in open-source hiring agent
An engineer’s 100-run experiment found that an AI resume evaluator could move the same applicant above or below a hiring cutoff without any change to the resume.
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Pragmatic Engineer says false copyright claim removed Pollen investigation from Google
Writer Gergely Orosz says he appealed after Google delisted his 2022 article under a complaint alleging it copied an unrelated 1998 New York Post story.
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Qwen3.6 27B test points to practical local coding on high-memory computers
A Quesma developer reported useful one-shot coding results and about 30 tokens per second on a 128GB MacBook, while stressing the model’s heavy hardware demands.
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Fossil stored for 40 years identified as Antarctica’s earliest-found dinosaur bone
A vertebra collected on James Ross Island in 1985 has been recognized as a titanosaur tail bone, revising the history of dinosaur discovery on the continent.
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Press-freedom advocates challenge 30-year sentence tied to transporting political zines
An Intercept commentary says Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s punishment risks treating possession and movement of political literature as evidence of extremist conspiracy.
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Privacy campaign relaunches ahead of disputed EU chat-scanning talks
Former MEP Patrick Breyer says parallel negotiations over temporary and permanent rules could revive scanning mandates, as his campaign urges citizens to contact EU officials.
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GLM 5.2 tops Claude Code in Semgrep’s narrow access-control benchmark
The open-weight model reached 39% F1 in an IDOR detection test against Claude Code’s 32%, but remained behind Semgrep’s purpose-built security pipeline.
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EFF warns KIDS Act could push platforms toward broad age checks
The digital-rights group says a US legislative package ties duties to users’ ages in ways that may pressure services to collect IDs, estimate age or limit lawful speech.
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Exploitarium repository publishes unreported vulnerability proofs of concept
An anonymous GitHub maintainer has consolidated dozens of exploit demonstrations while saying the findings were unreported at publication and warning readers against malicious use.
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Satirical ‘CVE-2026-LGTM’ report skewers automated security review
Andrew Nesbitt’s fictional incident chronicle imagines AI agents repeatedly trusting hostile instructions, exhausting context and amplifying a software supply-chain breach.
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