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This article provides a guide on how to register free locality domains (e.g., city.state.us) by using Amazon Lightsail for nameservers and submitting the required government template.

The article discusses a growing bipartisan political and social backlash against AI in the United States, highlighting concerns from figures like Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon regarding job displacement and corporate power. It notes rising local opposition to data centers, including a moratorium in Maine and isolated acts of violence, suggesting that anti-AI sentiment may intensify as political operatives capitalize on public fear.

A Dutch suicide prevention hotline was found to share sensitive visitor metadata with Google and Microsoft without proper consent, leading to the suspension of tracking tools and potential GDPR violations.

The article discusses the decision to migrate from GitHub to self-hosted Forgejo, citing concerns over data ownership, reliability, and AI data collection practices. It highlights similar moves by the Dutch government and details the technical setup of a personal Forgejo instance.

The author details their personal migration of digital infrastructure to European and Swiss-based services like Proton and Matomo to enhance data sovereignty and privacy.

The article discusses using Google's OR-Tools CP-SAT solver to optimize maintenance scheduling for cloud infrastructure at Akamai, addressing complex constraints like capacity and concurrency.

The article benchmarks the compile-time cost of C++26 reflection for enum-to-string conversion against C++17 libraries and X-macro preprocessor techniques using GCC 16.

The Internet Cleanup Foundation launched SecurityBaseline.eu, a platform auditing the cybersecurity posture of European governments, revealing widespread issues such as illegal tracking cookies and poorly encrypted emails.

This article reports on a growing phenomenon of 'AI-induced delusion' or psychosis, where users of ChatGPT become convinced of false realities, highlighting mental health risks and regulatory questions surrounding unregulated AI chatbots.

This paper introduces Elevator, a novel binary translator that performs deterministic, fully-static translation of entire x86-64 binaries to AArch64 without heuristics or runtime fallbacks. It achieves performance comparable to QEMU while enabling pre-deployment validation and certification of the translated code.

Wink Engineering evaluates the efficacy of neural super-resolution as a pre-filter for license plate OCR, concluding that it fails to improve accuracy and often leads to hallucinated characters compared to training directly on low-resolution data.

zero-native is a new framework that allows developers to build native desktop applications using web UI technologies and the Zig programming language. It emphasizes tiny binary sizes, fast rebuilds, and direct access to C libraries without heavy runtime overhead.

Starship V3 represents a significant hardware update to SpaceX's super-heavy lift launch vehicle, featuring redesigned engines and structural improvements for increased reliability and performance.

The author built a Rust-powered light-up graduation cap using an ATtiny85 microcontroller and WS2812B LEDs to detect tassel movement. The project highlights the use of embedded Rust libraries like avr-hal for custom hardware projects.

Cloudflare details a bug in their QUIC implementation, quiche, where a Linux kernel optimization for CUBIC congestion control caused performance issues, and describes the resulting fix.

A petition calls on major media outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to resume collaborating with the Internet Archive, arguing that blocking the Wayback Machine undermines press freedom and historical record preservation.

This article describes a fork of OrcaSlicer that restores full BambuNetwork internet support for Bambu Lab printers, which was previously limited to LAN-only in the main distribution.

The EFF and allied organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to require warrants for both manual and forensic searches of electronic devices at the border. This legal action highlights growing concerns over privacy invasions and the increasing number of device searches conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Scrcpy v4.0 has been released, offering a lightweight, open-source solution for mirroring and controlling Android devices via USB or TCP/IP on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

An analysis of three new Postgres-compatible cloud databases—Snowflake Postgres, Databricks Lakebase, and Azure HorizonDB—highlighting their distinct architectures and the vendor lock-in implications for enterprise data platforms.