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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were…
Jasontucker turned Jasontucker’s security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Jasontucker turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now Jasontucker’s wife and Jasontucker can track every bird species…
Playa Phone
A working phone booth on a dusty street corner at Burning Man.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Apple's unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI…
Signalandsilence think the military commissary’s freezers were hacked
The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional colour grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative…
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
In this post, Embracethered explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution…
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
Creepy Crawlies
You've probably heard People complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now People actually have some hard numbers People can put up to…
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple’s Virtualization.framework
Run a virtual iPhone on an Apple Silicon Mac. Contribute to Lakr233/vphone-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.
Damn fine tiny cafe
Sandyuraz love them miniatures. It started off with Rolife series, where the first hit had come from a [[https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini-libra...
Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy Anil time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
Text Generation model with 753B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.
“It works better in the app”
The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or…
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. Blog has filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the…