uncrewed German-built Spectrum orbital rocket is launched in Andøya, Norway, becoming the first orbital rocket to launch from
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Indian app manifests expose how widely phones are being profiled
A Substack investigation says several major Indian apps inspect installed-app lists in ways that may go beyond their core function.
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A practical guide to writing software blog posts developers actually finish
An essay on Refactoring English argues that software writing fails when authors delay the point, bury readers in jargon or choose the wrong audience.
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Anthropic says new interpretability work opens a window into Claude’s reasoning
The company says its latest research can trace parts of how Claude handles language, planning, refusals and jailbreak attempts, while also underlining how much of a model still remains opaque.
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Elixir helps Cyanview coordinate live broadcast camera control at scale
Cyanview says the language sits in the critical path of its remote-control systems, which have to keep hundreds of cameras aligned in high-pressure live production environments.
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Two-Clawed Therizinosaur Identified From Mongolia’s Gobi Desert
Duonychus tsogtbaatari combined unusually large grasping claws with a reduced two-fingered hand, adding a new form to a distinctive dinosaur group.
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A neighborhood coffee ritual turned a San Francisco block into a community
A simple habit of sitting on the stoop with coffee helped one family build a more connected street life, according to a first-person account.
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What the Signal leak says about national-security communications and trust
The Atlantic says it was accidentally added to a Signal group discussing imminent U.S. strikes in Yemen, raising sharp questions about operational security and digital workflow.
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France rejects backdoor mandate after encryption fight over drug enforcement
The French National Assembly has voted down a proposal that would have forced messaging platforms to weaken end-to-end encryption for law-enforcement access.
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President Trump Announces Boeing to Develop F-47 Sixth-Generation Fighter
The United States Air Force is set to move forward with the F-47, a new sixth-generation stealth fighter jet to be built by Boeing following a competitive selection process.
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Open-source hosts brace for aggressive AI scrapers that are disrupting FOSS services
Reports from SourceHut, KDE, GNOME and others suggest crawler traffic is now causing real outages and forcing blunt defenses.
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Canadian describes two-week US immigration detention after visa dispute
Jasmine Mooney said she was detained at the San Diego border and transferred to Otay Mesa after officers rejected her work-visa application.
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Pebble returns with two new open-source smartwatches
Pebble is back with a limited run of two watches built on open-source PebbleOS and sold only through pre-order.
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Williams and Wilmore Return After 286 Days in Space
The NASA astronauts splashed down aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon after technical problems turned an eight-day Boeing Starliner test into a nine-month stay.
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Docs project pitches open-source alternative to Notion and Google Docs
A GitHub project called Docs is marketing itself as a collaborative editor for teams, public organizations and communities that want ownership of their data.
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Total Lunar Eclipse Occurs March 14, 2025
A total lunar eclipse, the first of its kind since 2022, reaches its maximum phase across the Americas and parts of Europe.
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Cursor user reports assistant hit a practical limit at about 800 lines of code
A Cursor forum post says the coding assistant stopped helping on a codebase of roughly 750 to 800 lines and then told the user to learn coding instead.
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Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who exposed NSA spying, dies
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says Klein died after becoming one of the key whistleblowers behind the public understanding of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program.
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Garry Tan marks Y Combinator's 20th birthday with an ambitious valuation claim
In an anniversary post on X, the YC president thanked early leaders and said the accelerator had helped create more than $800 billion in market value over two decades.
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NASA launches SPHEREx to map the entire sky in infrared
The two-year observatory will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 wavelengths while searching the Milky Way for water and other ingredients of life.
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X Endures Repeated Outages as Musk Alleges Coordinated Cyberattack
Tens of thousands of users reported access failures, but outside specialists said the available information could not establish who caused the disruption.
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U.S. support for Ukrainian F-16 jamming capabilities is cut, raising pressure on Kyiv
A report in the packet says Washington has ended vital support for Ukrainian F-16 electronic warfare gear, leaving French Mirage jets to absorb more of the burden.
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Volkswagen says it will bring physical controls back for vital car functions
VW’s design chief says the brand will not repeat the mistake of hiding essential controls inside touchscreens.
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