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EU Mandates In-Cabin Driver Attention Cameras in All New Cars From July 2026

From July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must ship with an Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) system under the bloc's General Safety

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GAO Warns DOE Rules Out Cheaper Nuclear Cleanup Options Too Early

The Government Accountability Office reports that the Department of Energy is dropping potentially lower-cost approaches to cleaning up its nuclear waste and co

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policytech-culture

Germany Recruits Skilled Workers, Then Loses Them to Bureaucracy and Language Barriers

Germany draws skilled migrants but struggles to keep them, according to research from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) presented in Berlin. Surveying

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aicybersecurity

GitLost: Prompt Injection in GitHub's Agentic Workflows Leaks Private Repos

Noma Labs found that GitHub's newly launched Agentic Workflows — which pair GitHub Actions with a Claude- or Copilot-backed AI agent that reads issues and calls

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Herdr: a tmux-style terminal multiplexer built to wrangle coding agents

Herdr is a single-binary terminal multiplexer aimed squarely at people running multiple AI coding agents at once. Like tmux or Zellij, it offers split panes, ta

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Hidden backdoor in Tenda router firmware grants unauthenticated admin access

Multiple versions of Tenda networking firmware ship with an undocumented authentication backdoor, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, that hands full administrative cont

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Knockoff: a local browser extension that filters Amazon's fake pseudo-brands

Knockoff is a free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that strips trademark-squat pseudo-brands—think ALL-CAPS gibberish names like SZHLUX or HORUSDY—out

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aiprivacy

Kokoro Runs High-Quality TTS Locally on CPU — Even a Decade-Old One

Kokoro is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that produces convincing, multilingual speech entirely on a CPU, keeping audio generation local and off t

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tech-culturedevops

'l' aims to be a drop-in runtime for the k and q languages

A new runtime called 'l' is positioning itself as a compatible replacement for the k4 and q languages long associated with kdb+ and time-series analytics. The p

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open-sourcetech-culture

LineageOS Publishes Live Dashboard of Anonymized Install Stats

LineageOS, the community-maintained open-source Android distribution, runs a public statistics dashboard at stats.lineageos.org. It aggregates anonymized check-

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Microsoft Guts idTech Engine Team at id Software in Sweeping Xbox Layoffs

Microsoft is reportedly eliminating most or all of the engineers working on idTech, the game engine developed at id Software that has powered decades of first-p

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open-sourcetech-culture

MIT Releases SICP Video Lectures from 1986 Under Creative Commons

MIT OpenCourseWare hosts the complete set of twenty video lectures for 6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, taught by Hal Abelson and Geral

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