▸ UK, EU, and a growing list of US states now require age verification for broad swaths of the web — not just porn, but social media, app stores, and an...
▸ The European Commission fined Temu €200M under the DSA after a mystery-shopper sweep found dangerous goods — baby toys, electronics — on the marketpla...
▸ Jake Orlowitz, a 12-year Wikimedia Foundation veteran, says WMF leadership is using textbook union-busting tactics against its own organizing staff.
▸ A founder spent 152 days and roughly €9,600 to register a GmbH in Germany and still cannot legally issue an invoice.
▸ Apple is raising MacBook and iPad prices by roughly 20% across major markets, the steepest hardware hike since the M-series transition.
▸ Science's investigation traces how a string of high-profile physics papers — including the LK-99 adjacent room-temperature superconductivity claims — ...
▸ Three repos with near-zero discoverable context — Tong89/smartNode, zhaoyue4810/pianke, tantara/openbrief — surged onto GitHub Trending with scores fr...
▸ The Vesuvius Challenge team has produced the first continuous readable text from a sealed Herculaneum scroll — no unrolling, no physical contact.
▸ Ford is rehiring 350 quality inspectors after an AI vision system missed defects its veteran inspectors had caught for years.
▸ IPVM documented multiple police chiefs using Flock's nationwide license-plate-reader network to track women they were personally involved with — not s...
▸ Anthropic told Reuters that Alibaba-linked accounts systematically extracted Claude capabilities through API behavior consistent with model distillati...
▸ A merchant's deep dive into Stripe disputes shows the platform routinely sides with cardholders even when shipping proof, IP match, and AVS all line u...
▸ Cloudflare's Turnstile CAPTCHA quietly began requiring WebGL, a known browser-fingerprinting surface, to issue a pass token.
▸ Canada is shifting its AEW&C aircraft order from US-built Boeing E-7 Wedgetail to Sweden's Saab GlobalEye, citing supplier-risk diversification.
▸ The Dutch government invoked its economic security review to block a US acquisition of a domestic digital supplier deemed critical to national infrast...
▸ hl2.slqnt.dev streams a ~2GB asset payload into a browser tab and renders 2004's Source engine at near-native frame rates — no install, no plugin, no ...
▸ hackernewstrends.com indexes ~18 years of Hacker News comments and exposes a Google-Trends-style mention-frequency graph for any term.
▸ Filippo Valsorda, ex-Go security lead and prolific OSS maintainer, says vulnerability reports no longer deserve special handling — they're now indisti...
▸ Anthropic published a statement confirming a US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for a specified party — the first publi...
▸ OpenAI's first custom silicon, codenamed Jalapeño, is an inference-only ASIC co-designed with Broadcom — not a training chip, and not a Nvidia replace...