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Automattic board sidelines Matt Mullenweg, installs CFO as interim CEO

Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave against his wishes, elevating CFO Mark Davies to interim chief executive. Mullenweg b

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Border Patrol's Secret Predictive Units Mine Americans' Finances to Trigger Traffic Stops

A 404 Media investigation reports that Customs and Border Protection operates undisclosed predictive-policing units that ingest Americans' financial activity al

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tech-cultureopen-source

Browser Demo Slows Light to a Walking Pace So You Can See Relativity

A new interactive WebGL demo by Dmitry Brant reimagines a virtual park where the speed of light is just 5 km/h — roughly a brisk walk. Because light is capped a

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Cognition's SWE-2 nears frontier coding models at a fraction of the cost

Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has released SWE-2, its strongest coding model yet. It scores 50.0% on the FrontierCode 1.1 Main benchmark

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aitech-culture

DeepSeek Debuts V4.1-Flash, a Compact Multimodal Model on a New Architecture

DeepSeek has announced V4.1-Flash, positioned as the smallest entry in a new model architecture family and its first to ship with native visual understanding ra

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Desert Ant Labs bets on tiny on-device models over cloud LLM API calls

A European startup called Desert Ant Labs has launched with 18 small, task-specific models (12 stable, six in beta) for audio, vision, and text that run entirel

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Flock's Billion-Dollar Surveillance Dream Hits Bipartisan Backlash

Flock Safety, a company now valued above $8 billion and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has built a nationwide automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) network of r

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open-sourcetech-culture

GNU Radio Goes Browser-Native: Full SDR Flowgraphs in WebAssembly

GNU Radio World brings the GNU Radio Companion experience to a browser tab, with the DSP engine and Qt GUI sinks compiled to WebAssembly. Users can assemble a s

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Google Ads brands a clean Rust terminal app 'malware,' then stonewalls the dev

The developer of RACE — a native macOS terminal multiplexer written in Rust — ran his first Google Ads campaign, spent $500, and had the account suspended for '

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aitech-culture

GPT-6 Astra: strong on computer use and graphics, trained on a wall of Mac Minis

Sebastian Raschka's early hands-on take frames OpenAI's newly released GPT-6 Astra as the strongest model he has used, with an outsized lead in graphics-heavy w

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How Read the Docs survived a 5.5M req/min adaptive DDoS attack

In late June 2026, Read the Docs weathered the largest DDoS attack in its history: a nearly ten-day assault that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute, roug

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How Windows XP Randomly Picked Your First Account Avatar

A reader question prompted Raymond Chen to explain the mechanism behind Windows XP's assignment of a random profile picture when a new account was created. The

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