California tried to protect students’ data. Tech companies found loopholes
A legislative battle is under way over gaps that allow companies to collect and sell students’ personal information. Students in a classroom in Sacramento on May...
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eCryptfs Sees Renewed Patch Activity With Linux 7.0
We haven’t heard much about eCryptfs in recent years for that stackable in-tree Linux file-system providing per-directory encryption support. The FSCRYPT framework has shown its strong...
Read moreHave we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating...
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[Oliver Pett] loves creating automata; pieces of art whose physicality and motion come together to deliver something unique. [Oliver] also has a mission, and that mission...
Read moreSouvenirs From the 2026 Winter Olympics Are Being Resold for Big Bucks Online
From pins to mascots to Swatch watches, memorabilia from the Milano Cortina Games is showing up on sites like eBay and Vinted.
Read moreBest Budget Monitors: I Found 3 Impressive Screens Under $200 (2026)
You might assume all monitors under $200 are terrible. But after trying some out, I found a few that defy expectations.
Read more6 Best Phones With Headphone Jacks (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Headphone jacks are endangered, but they’re not gone. Here are our favorite smartphones that still let you plug and play.
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Since Generative AI is currently the most popular topic, I wanted to get my hands dirty and learn something new. I was learning about the Model...
Read moreMajor government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could...
Read moreollama 0.17 Released With Improved OpenClaw Onboarding
The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Linux is out with...
Read morePassword Managers Share a Hidden Weakness
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Read moreLinux 7.0 Lands More AMDGPU Fixes For Old Radeon Hardware
Following last week’s main set of DRM kernel graphics driver feature updates for Linux 7.0, merged on Friday to Linux 7.0 Git was the first round...
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