The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers. ( theintercept.com )
A little-known database logs hundreds of millions of wire transfers sent to or from Mexico, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots ( www.wired.com )
Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence models and software, announced today that it has acquired Pollen Robotics, the French startup behind the bug-eyed, two-armed, humanoid robot called Reachy 2. Hugging Face plans to sell the robot and will also allow developers to download, modify, and suggest...
Ericsson Tunisia workers win landmark deal in union-led victory for labor rights – The North Africa Post ( northafricapost.com )
Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support ( hackaday.com )
International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT. ( hechingerreport.org )
Study of writing quality analyzed more than 1 million student submissions at a large public university
Trump threatens new tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them ( www.bbc.com )
cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/28912...
China is designing a silent supersonic airplane to win the next era of commercial flight ( www.fastcompany.com )
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said: Ride-sharing company says incident was not part of audio recording pilot it’s testing in some U.S. cities. ( www.cbc.ca )
Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month....
Privacy is ‘the most valuable right of all’, says Signal’s president. ( www.weforum.org )
Research from the World Economic Forum shows it’s becoming easier for citizens to be monitored, allowing governments, technology companies and threat actors to “reach deeper into people’s lives”....
On the history of Valve and Linux: Valve and Linux have a symbiotic relationship today, but they go way back, and their story is a long and interesting one. ( thelibre.news )
DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China. ( restofworld.org )
DeepSeek has rapidly accelerated AI adoption throughout Chinese society....
Mistakes and cool things to do with arena allocators ( zylinski.se )
Meta to start training its AI models on public content in the EU ( techcrunch.com )
Google, antitrust enforcement and the future of European digital sovereignty. ( theconversation.com )
No, it’s not OK to delete that new inetpub folder ( www.malwarebytes.com )
A newly created inetpub folder turns out to be part of a Microsoft update against a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-21204
Hertz Says Hackers Stole License Numbers, Credit Card Data ( www.bloomberg.com )
Hertz is alerting customers to a data breach involving driver’s license numbers and other personal information, following a hack in its supply chain.
New Free Tools to Track Corporate Misconduct Around the World ( gijn.org )
Support dips for U.S. government and tech companies restricting false or violent online content. ( www.pewresearch.org )
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry. ( www.wheresyoured.at )
Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan ( www.cbr.com )
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