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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
$30 billion company want's you to pay $5 for using your own camera as a webcam
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Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.
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DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency’s sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code…
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Google is winning on every AI front
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point
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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.
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Nvidia won, we all lost
Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, marketing is becoming increasingly deceptive, GPUs are missing processing…
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Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.
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More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, *to get users to believe that it’s private*.
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I am rich and have no idea what to do
Life has been a haze this last year. After selling my company, I find myself in the totally un-relatable position of never having to work again. Everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way. I don’t have the same base desires driving me to make money or gain status. I have infinite freedom, yet I…
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Kagi News
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
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JavaScript Trademark Update
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app
Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You have TWO DAYS LEFT to pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter , which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
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GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
Hey everyone, GOG Team here.
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Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
Opening the EU market to vehicles certified under US standards would weaken the protections that save lives in Europe, say more than 80 civil society organisations and the administrations of Amsterdam…
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Hyperspace
My interest in file systems started when I discovered how type and creator codes 1 and resource forks contributed to the fantastic user interface on my original Macintosh in 1984. In the late 1990s, when it looked like Apple might buy Be Inc. to solve its operating system problems, the Be File System was the part I…
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America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opp
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Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 is an upgrade over Opus 4 in agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
We discoverd a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allows users to access files without getting detected or appearing in the audit log.
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Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB…
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10 Years of Let's Encrypt
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is…
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Claude Skills
Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand.
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$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
On April 9, 2025, someone risked $2.5 million on SPY call options—and walked away with $70+ million in under an hour. The trade was placed at 1:01 pm. At 1:30 pm, Trump announced tariff pauses. The market exploded upward. These options that cost 85 cents were suddenly worth more than $25.
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Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.
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Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
We're excited to announce our support of two independent, open source projects: Ladybird, an ambitious project to build a completely independent browser from the ground up, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.
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I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
As I’ve shared with family, friends and our team since late last year, I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research. The plan has been to wind up after we finished the pipeline of ideas we were working on. And as of the last Ponzi cases we just completed and are sharing with regulators, that day is today.
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What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
A long rant about Apple's design choices.