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BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.

Claude just asked if I was breaking for the day. At 10:53AM. Why did it ask me that? Now I can't stop thinking about that. The answer is no. I have a few more hours before I stop.

An unusual new-to-me animal: the aardwolf. It’s a hyena but it eats insects like an aardvark. The cubs are incredibly cute.

We’ve been busy over at Scanfully in the past couple of months, so I thought I’d be good to cover what we’ve added in the last four major releases. All of the features are built from the idea that a WordPress site can look fine while important things are failing in the background. For instance, […]

The post Four Big Upgrades That Make Scanfully More Useful appeared first on Remkus de Vries.

Jason Rezaian spent years reporting from Iran before being imprisoned by the regime. He says internet access is key to transforming the country—if only the US government would do something about it.

Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.”

I need and easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said verbally, but it's short and self-contained, about the length of an untitled blog post, like the one you're reading now. Example.

Ultimately your job as a developer is to turn your creation over to users to figure out. Listen to see if patterns emerge. Even better give the users the tools they need to build apps out of our apps, together. This is how humans build layers of tech.

On Mastodon: "twitter-like systems are much simpler than you would think looking at this space, bluesky etc. and there doesn't need to be any lock-in, you can do a fair job with just RSS, rssCloud, OPML, web sockets, and a web browser UI. all parts replaceable."

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifca Humanitas, is a learned, wise, eloquent, and useful document that is only partly about artificial intelligence. Its lessons should be helpful to many modern institutions — including my own, journalism. For those expecting the Pontiff to declare holy war on AI and Silicon Valley, they will be disappointed. Those who wish to […]

The post Pope Leo and human intelligence appeared first on BuzzMachine.

Knicks fans travel well, especially when there is a series sweep on offer. The Philadelphia 76ers' home arena was bursting with belligerent New Yorkers during Game 4 of the second round, and that augured grim possibilities for the Cleveland Cavaliers headed into what would b...

1. Do you have a mobile phone? Can you act like you have received an important call? A. I have the latest iPhone, and I studied at the Cours Florent in Paris for three years, under the tutelage of the great Cédric Blanc. I have trained my entire life for this moment. B. Yes,...

Google’s latest Fitbit strips away the screen without sacrificing features, delivering the most approachable and affordable wearable yet.

Kin Lane, API industry analyst and co-founder of Naftiko, believes that the bill for AI is coming soon. It’s arriving

The post Taming the agentic influx: a blueprint for AI business observability appeared first on The New Stack.

Much of the conversation around AI coding is still centered on how fast machines can produce code. But code volume

The post How the AC/DC framework helps teams govern AI coding agents appeared first on The New Stack.

There’s a new front in the war over the safety of chemicals used to make nonstick pans.

The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.

There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.

Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate.