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ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

ScyllaDB, an open source columnar database, recently added vector search capabilities underpinned by USearch, an open source clustering and vector

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NEW YORK — In the days before the Westminster Dog Show, I could not stop saying the phrase, "33 Pomeranians." There’s a pleasing rhythm to the phrase—better spelled out as thirty-three Pomeranians—that lends itself to any multitude of cadences. Excitedly: thirty-three Pomera...

Asked what enterprises aren’t ready for as AI advances, Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace offers a prediction — and before doing

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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex model is the company’s most capable agentic coding model yet. However, unlike previous Codex models, it focuses

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These swoon-worthy deals on WIRED-tested date night boxes, sex toys, and other gadgets will make your Valentine's Day extra sweet.

What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.” Will I still be able to enjoy the Bad...

A recent report found that carbon emissions caused by the Milano Cortina Olympics could lead to the loss of 5.5 square kilometers of snowpack and millions of metric tons of glacial ice.

Alana Casanova-Burgess, host of the podcast La Brega, talks about the new season of La Brega, which spotlights Puerto Rico's champions, and what they teach us about Puerto Ricans and the diaspora.

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Julia Loktev's acclaimed documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends,’ follows young Russian journalists in the months before and after Putin's invasion of Ukraine — and the impossible choices they face when dissent means prison or exile. 

Also, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead revisits a two-night set Miles Davis did in Chicago in 1965.


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The new book The Wall Dancers explores the uneasy relationship between Chinese internet users and a government that is always watching.

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Anthropic launched Opus 4.6 on Thursday, an update to its flagship Opus model that delivers major improvements over its predecessor—and

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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Late afternoon football is ...

Not sure I’ve ever seen Sam Altman as upset as in this long Twitter / X post:

Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that.

I get his frustration because OpenAI is trying to avoid what is shown in Anthropic’s ads. But again, the problem is perception. Anthropic is making an argument that ads will have a corrupting influence on ChatGPT. Whether that happens or not almost doesn’t matter.

Heather Ann Thompson, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy and her latest, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2026) argues that the roots of white rage and violence can be traced back to the Reagan Era and, specifically, the Bernie Goetz shootings of four Black teenagers on a NYC subway in 1984.

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Jatan Mehta on exploring where to host his fediverse presence, from Mastodon to Ghost to Micro.blog. Whenever I read something like this, it reaffirms our decision to take a quieter approach to the social web. Less counting, less noise.

Logan Land blogging about IndiePub, in the same spirit as IndieWeb and POSSE but expanding to self-published books and other things too:

Now we’re facing something new, with the rise of AI-generated content, these platforms are becoming saturated with noise. Human authenticity is at a premium.

‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’