ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.
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Wireless MIDI Controller Has Lots Of Knobs
We live in a golden age for MIDI controllers. [rheslip]’s contribution to the milieu is a twisty take on the format, in that it’s covered in...
Read moreThe state of homelab tech (2026)
Techno Tim joins Adam to dive deep into the state of homelab’ing in 2026. Hardware is scarce and expensive due to the AI gold rush, but...
Read morePoland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state hackers, in an attempt to disrupt electricity delivery...
Read morePort of Context: The open source code mode
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become a well-adopted standard for connecting large language model (LLM)-based AI agents with external data and tools. As a...
Read moreDid Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?
Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual...
Read moreMicroSD Express cards and Anker’s travel adapter rule the deal roost this week
Welcome to the weekend, friends! We’re still in a bit of a deals lull before the Presidents Day and V-Day sales begin, the bulk of which...
Read moreReviewing Tweezers for Microsoldering and SMD Work
Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together...
Read moreLLMs create a new blind spot in observability
Teams that have run Software as a Service (SaaS) products know the routine: An alert goes off, and everyone scrambles to the observability stack first. Metrics,...
Read moreGmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken
Some Gmail users have noticed that promotional emails that normally go to their own siloed tab have started flooding their inbox. Reports have been hitting the...
Read moreCachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland
The Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is out with its first new ISO release of 2026. This Linux distribution continues to be quite popular with Linux...
Read moreDAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System
There’s yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source file-system…
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