ICE Uses Facial-Recognition Technology via Mobile App to Rapidly Make Arrests
TL;DR A Wall Street Journal headline reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is employing facial-recognition technology to speed up…
Your smart TV is watching you — and no one seems to be stopping it
TL;DR Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued five major TV makers, accusing them of intensive and deceptive user surveillance…
Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open-banking startup Mono in rare exit
TL;DR Flutterwave has bought Mono in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million, bringing an open-banking provider…
Scientists Report a Spider Web Structure Unlike Any Seen Before
TL;DR The New York Times published an item titled "A spider web unlike any seen before," but the full text…
Researchers explore triggering self-NSFW filters in image models to deter edits
TL;DR A commenter reports experiments that nudge image-generation systems to mark uploaded images as NSFW, activating their own safety filters.…
Decorative Cryptography: How TCG_TPM2_HMAC Inverts the Chain of Trust
TL;DR A Linux kernel feature, TCG_TPM2_HMAC, was designed to add HMACs and encryption to TPM bus traffic to detect interposer…
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review — Trends, Deals and Tech Shifts
TL;DR PostgreSQL continued to dominate database activity in 2025, with its v18 release and a string of high-profile acquisitions and…
Motorola reportedly readies a book-style Razr Fold to rival Galaxy Z Fold
TL;DR Leaked internal Lenovo slides shared by leaker Evan Blass suggest Motorola will release a book-style Razr Fold — its…
Researchers Describe a Spider Web Unlike Any Previously Documented in 2025
TL;DR The New York Times ran a science piece headlined about a spider web described as unlike any seen before.…
NeXTSTEP 3.3 Ported to HP PA-RISC Workstations (712–755) in 1994
TL;DR NeXTSTEP 3.3 was released with an official port to a select set of 32-bit HP 9000 PA-RISC workstations in…