Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.

Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - floodtide/dom-docx

I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope…

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

Frontier labs are locking the strongest models behind metered APIs and lobbying that open weights are a national-security problem. Licenses won't stop regulatory capture. The defense has to be architectural.

Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop - clawkwork/clawk

Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced…

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.

SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.

Decommissioned enterprise tesla GPUs are widely available and extremely cheap. In this post, I benchmark tesla GPUs to see if they are useful

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV - logseq/logseq

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.

For background on Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Act, see prior Signpost coverage: "Legal status of Wikimedia projects 'unclear' under potential European legislation" (Special report, February 4, 2023, analysis from when the Online Safety Act was still…