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The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it's because we've been here before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 in late April - but only for 45 […]

Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice - even if they're US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained […]

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it's meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. […]

Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply "learnings" from DOGE to the private sector.

Just wanted to share my journey after 3.5 years of building a live web analytics tool from scratch, and without AI: WireBoard.io As a web publisher for the last 15 years, I used UA (before GA4) and then Chartbeat. I always loved real-time. At the beginning of the internet I spent my time on IRC, which was great and a huge change from newsgroups and forums. A few years later, Chartbeat was changing its customer base and focusing on big news publishers, and my workflow was about to change with it. I loved being able to watch my traffic live and spot anything unusual, day by day, compared to the same day the previous week. So I decided to replace it with my own product, but with the things their tool was missing. I spent about 8 months thinking it through and sketching different architectures to handle the load and the logic of the data processing pipeline. Then I learned to code in Go (which was surprisingly easy) and built an MVP. After some iterations, I worked on the frontend (Laravel + React) and kept improving the product based on user feedback. The features I couldn't find anywhere else: Truly real-time data via streaming instead of polling. Merging data from different websites into one chart, so I can see at a glance whether traffic is unusual "today" compared to last week. A flexible dashboard, arranged like widgets on a phone. I mostly worked on this quietly and didn't talk about it much on social media or anywhere else, since I'm a dev and not a marketer. This is my biggest project, and I've enjoyed the long journey. All of this happened before the AI era, which turned out to be good timing: I can work on the codebase knowing exactly what does what and where. Over the last 6 months I've experimented with using Claude on some parts of the project (only the frontend), but in limited areas: Performance improvements (useMemo, etc.) Security reviews (not strictly needed, but reassuring when it confirms what I expected) CMS (blog section) The tech stack: Data proc

Introduction Excel is one of the most used tools for data analysis. It allows beginners like myself to easily clean, organize, analyze and visualize data.Excel enables users to work with large datasets and extract meaningful insights without requiring advanced technical skills. What is Excel Excel is a spreadsheet that allows you to collect, organize, analyze, calculate, and visualize data efficiently.Despite the emergence of other data analysis tools like SQL and Power BI, Excel remains one of the most widely used tools for both personal and professional data management.This can be credited to its ease of access, learning, and use. Ways Excel is used in real-world data analysis This week, I had the opportunity to explore how Excel is used in real-world data analysis.I discovered that Excel is not just a basic spreadsheet tool, but a powerful application that helps make sense of data and support decision-making. Data organization and cleaning Excel is used to structure raw data, remove duplicates, and fix errors. This improves data quality, making it easier to analyze and more reliable for decision-making.This improves data quality, making it easier to analyze and more reliable for decision-making. Financial Excel is commonly used in finance to create budgets, calculate profits and losses, and monitor expenses.It helps organizations keep accurate financial records and understand their financial situation. Business decision-making Businesses use Excel to track sales, compare performance over time, and identify trends.This helps managers understand what is working well and what needs improvement. Excel features and formulas In just a week, I have learned several Excel formulas that simplify data management and make working with data more efficient. SUM function The SUM function is used to add a range of values together in Excel, making it one of the most essential tools for quick calculations.It's used to automatically add a range of numerical values together, elimina

Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.

On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock.

Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove 19,430 acres from the project, […]

Bittensor pays roughly eight dollars in TAO token emissions for every dollar of real AI revenue that flows through the network. The exact ratio fluctuates by quarter, but the shape is durable. Q1 2026: about $328 million in annual emissions against $43 million in real AI revenue. That is 7.6 to 1. It is what the crypto-skeptical press has called "extractive by default." It is also what the crypto-friendly analysts call "the subsidy treadmill." The Bittensor engineering team is sophisticated. The subnet validators run real ML evaluation. The miners serve real inference. The revenue is real. The emissions are also real. The cause is the token model itself. One asset is asked to do two jobs that do not belong together. I want to be specific about this part, because every other decentralized AI compute network I have looked at has the same problem, and the fix is well-known. What the token does A token in a decentralized AI compute network does two structurally distinct things. The first job is utility settlement . Contributors run inference, and someone has to pay them for the compute work they did. The payment medium has to scale with usage, has to be denominated in something the contributor can spend on the network or convert to fiat, and has to remain stable enough that contributors can plan around it. This is a billing system. The second job is value capture . Early supporters, investors, and contributors take risk to bootstrap a network that does not yet exist. They have to be paid back for that risk in a way that scales with the eventual success of the network. The payment medium has to be a speculative asset that appreciates as the network grows. This is an equity instrument. A billing system and an equity instrument want opposite things. A billing system that is also a speculative asset means that contributors who get paid in it cannot help but hold a speculative position. An equity instrument that is also a billing system means that token-price volatility show

The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.

Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português English {#english} Sprint 7 Review: Generics.Collections Mintlify docs tour — after Sprint 4 exceptions , Sprint 7 brings the collections every Horse API and CRUD service needs. Generic containers are not syntactic sugar in Delphi — they are how you build caches, registries, and JSON maps. Sprint 7 ( v2.15.0 ) shipped System.Generics.Collections with working TDictionary<K,V> and TList<T> , including TryGetValue with proper var write-back. What the review documents From Sprint 7 Review : var parameters — Value::Reference , write-back in procedures/functions and TryGetValue . TDictionary::Add / TryGetValue — dispatch in simulate_function_execution ; direct routing for instantiated generics. Parser — generic types with Integer / String in expressions ( TDictionary<String,Integer> ). RTL — rtl/sys/System.Generics.Collections.pas ; semantic layer recognizes Generics.Collections . Tests — generics_collections.rs plus fixtures. Tag v2.15.0 approved. Dictionary pattern in production code program DictDemo ; uses System . SysUtils , System . Generics . Collections ; var D : TDictionary < string , Integer >; V : Integer ; begin D := TDictionary < string , Integer >. Create ; try D . Add ( 'apples' , 3 ); if D . TryGetValue ( 'apples' , V ) then WriteLn ( 'apples = ' , V ); finally D . Free ; end ; end . TryGetValue only writes V when the key exists — the Delphi idiom you expect in services and controllers. Why var was the sprint's hidden hero Before v2.15.0, incomplete var semantics blocked realistic APIs. TryGetValue requires the callee to mutate the caller's variable through a reference. CrabPascal introduced Value::Reference and write-back in procedure dispatch specifically for this surface. Three implementation lessons from the retrospective: D := TDictionary<...>.Create needs normalize_call_name in execute_assignment — not just in direct calls. Generic instance methods must hit intrinsics before empty VMT lookups

To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe lead. They created a culture of data-driven conversations where SLOs and SLAs were democratised. Surviving growing cognitive load meant continuously simplifying architecture and embedding sovereignty and resilience into platform design decisions. By Ben Linders

Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas' App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a […]

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda.

After shelving the original executive order last month, Donald Trump finally got on board Monday night.

The man who headed Trump’s invasions of US cities joined the US and European far right in Portugal to preach “remigration”—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants.

Every detection vendor ships a MITRE ATT&CK heatmap, and every one of them is mostly green. Broad coverage, techniques lit up across the board, a reassuring wall of color in the sales deck and the board slide. It's the universal flex. We cover the matrix. Then you parse the actual rules – the real YAML in the public repo, not the marketing layer on top of it – and the green collapses into three tactics. Everyone covers execution and persistence. Almost nobody covers discovery, lateral movement, or collection. The heatmap wasn't measuring coverage. It was counting rules, and counting them in a way designed to look complete. What a green cell actually means A green cell in a Navigator layer means one thing: at least one rule somewhere references that technique tag. That's it. Not "we detect this reliably." Not "this fires on real attacks and stays quiet otherwise." Not "this survives an attacker who knows the rule exists." One rule that names the technique in its metadata turns the cell green, and forty rules turn it the same shade. Unless the layer is scored by rule count – and most published heatmaps aren't – one and forty are indistinguishable. I've written before that an untested detection isn't a detection, it's a query that runs on a schedule. The heatmap is the same lie one level up. A green matrix isn't coverage. It's a wall of queries that run, rendered in a color that means "present," dressed up as a color that means "protected." The vendor knows the difference. The buyer staring at the green doesn't. You can measure the real shape yourself Here's the part the heatmap marketing depends on you not doing: the rules are public, and you can count them. SigmaHQ, Elastic's detection-rules, Splunk ESCU, Panther, Sublime – all on GitHub, all tagged with attack.TXXXX technique IDs and tactic tags in the rule metadata. The method is boring on purpose. Walk the rule directories. Pull the ATT&CK tags out of each rule. Aggregate by technique, roll the technique counts up

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used […]

Note: This post is a raw development log storing the exact prompts and responses used with the local LLM (IBM Granite-3.2-8B) to build the autonomous racing agent. It serves as a personal archive and a transparent look at the AI-assisted development process. Development Log: Autonomous TORCS Racing Agent Model used: ibm-granite-3.2-8b-instruct This log documents all the prompts and answers used in IBM Granite models for this project. 1. Initial Model Creation Goal: Create a robust, modular control system for the Corkscrew track. Prompt @snakeoil3_jm2.py @torcs_jm_par.py Act as an expert in autonomous vehicle control and TORCS simulator architecture. I am developing a high-performance agent for the Corkscrew track. Analyze the provided snakeoil3_jm2.py (for sensor/action interface) and torcs_jm_par.py (current control logic). I need you to rewrite the drive() function to be a robust, modular control system. Please provide: 1. Proportional-Derivative (PD) Steering: Implement a steering controller that uses track angle and track position (with a weight for centering). 2. Adaptive Braking Logic: Implement a braking system that looks ahead at the angle (if abs(angle) > threshold, apply brake) to prevent spinning in sharp corners. 3. Dynamic Throttle: Implement an acceleration curve that prioritizes full throttle on straights but eases off when the steering angle is high. 4. Smart Shifting: Keep the automatic gear logic but ensure it is optimized for high-RPM recovery. Provide the complete, clean Python function drive(c) ready to replace the existing one in torcs_jm_par.py. Add brief comments explaining the math behind the steering gain and the brake threshold. Response Here's a revised drive() function for torcs_jm_par.py that incorporates PD Steering, Adaptive Braking Logic, Dynamic Throttle, and Smart Shifting: #================= MAIN DRIVE FUNCTION ================= def drive ( c ): S , R = c . S . d , c . R . d # PD STEERING CONTROL steer_kp = 30 # Proportional Gain