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AI Labs Outspend the Old Guard in Washington as Lobbying Hits Records

Fresh second-quarter disclosures show AI developers pouring unprecedented money into federal lobbying. OpenAI and Anthropic together reported roughly $3.2M for

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aitech-culture

Andrew Ng launches LearnVector to build one-to-one AI tutors, backed by $100M from Coursera

Andrew Ng — co-founder of Coursera and Google Brain, and founder of DeepLearning.AI — has started a new AI company called LearnVector, funded by a $100 million

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cybersecurityai

Anthropic's Claude cracks new attacks on post-quantum HAWK and reduced AES

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used a research build called Claude Mythos Preview to find genuine mathematical flaws in cryptographic algorithms, not just implem

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tech-culturepolicy

Apple Kills the iPhone Upgrade Program, Swaps It for a Lease Model

Apple is winding down its iPhone Upgrade Program, the annual-upgrade financing plan that bundled a device installment loan with AppleCare+. Existing members kee

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aitech-culture

Ed Zitron: Apple Rides Out the AI Bubble While Everyone Else Burns

Critic Ed Zitron argues the generative-AI buildout is economically unsound and headed for a costly unwind. His core claim: large language models break the softw

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privacypolicy

EU Citizens' Initiative Launches to Block Mandatory Digital ID and Age Checks

A registered European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) titled "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification" is collecting signatures to oppose EU

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open-sourcetech-culture

Half-Life Runs Again on Mac OS 9 via Xash3D PowerPC Port

A developer known as doctashay has brought Half-Life to Mac OS 9 by building on a fork of Xash3D FWGS, the open-source reimplementation of Valve's GoldSrc engin

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open-sourceai

Hubble: open-source markdown notes app built to be edited by humans and AI agents

Hubble is a self-hostable, open-source notetaking tool that stores everything as plain markdown files, positioned explicitly for a workflow shared between a per

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tech-cultureopen-source

Inside the Wonderfully Weird Toolchain of the Demo Scene

A tour through the software the Amiga demo scene built to make its art, most of it homegrown and none of it concerned with usability conventions. Because a 7 MH

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open-sourcetech-culture

Jailbroken Kindles get proxy and TUN modes for Tailscale via community code

Open-source developers have significantly expanded what Tailscale can do on jailbroken Kindles. Earlier community builds got a Kindle onto your tailnet and let

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Norvig's Antidote to '24-Hour' Programming Books: Give It Ten Years

Peter Norvig pushes back on the flood of "teach yourself X in 24 hours" books, arguing that mastery of programming—like chess, music, painting, or any serious c

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tech-culture

Off-topic: JMA earthquake report, not a tech or security story

This source is a Japan Meteorological Agency earthquake-detail page, not a technology or cybersecurity article. The only information present is the headline — a

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