Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you…

GraphHopper is used for many use cases and various companies around the globe have integrated it to provide outdoor trip planning for their customers. They all rely on precise elevation data: be it for displaying purposes, statistics regarding the incline…

Changing from part numbers had benefits for Intel, but it took time

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A donation banner is not an attack to users The announcement that LibreOffice 26.8 will feature a donation banner in the Start Centre has prompted a flood of responses, ranging from positive from many FOSS supporters, who understand the need for funding,…

A few months ago I was tasked with creating an internal tool for the company's engineers: a Chat that used a local LLM. Nothing extraordinary so far.

Use LLMs to robustly extract web data. Contribute to lightfeed/extractor development by creating an account on GitHub.

The partial government shutdown has led to record-long airport wait times, with some waits in line approaching nearly 5 hours.

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European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

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The outcome Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court is potentially precedent-setting for thousands of other pending lawsuits nationwide and could reshape how tech companies are held accountable for children's harm caused by their products.

The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically…

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There has been a surge of attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages across the occupied territory since the start of the Iran war.

Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter

How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens

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Plus, the White House threatens more attacks if Iran refuses a deal, and driving the wrong car to work here can get you a ticket