Chinese State Media Calls US a ‘Surveillance Empire’ Over Trackers In Chips Summary Reuters reported that US authorities secretly placed location-tracking devices inside targeted shipments of advanced chips to detect…
Wine 10.13 Released Summary Wine 10.13 has been released after a one-month break. The update introduces a Windows Gaming Input configuration tab for the Joystick Control Panel, adds ECDSA_P521 and…
‘Yubin Archive’ Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Illegal Study Materials Group Canceled For 330K Members Summary South Korean authorities have arrested the operator of “Yubin Archive”, a Telegram-based pirate library that…
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach Summary The story reports that Sam Altman’s brain–computer interface venture (referred to in coverage as Merge Labs) is exploring a…
New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech Content summary Neuroscientists have demonstrated a brain-computer interface (BCI) that decodes “inner speech” — the words a person thinks rather…
Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Summary Proton is relocating much of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland in response to proposed Swiss surveillance laws…
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary A Columbia University team, partly funded by DARPA, demonstrated small tubular robots that extend shafts to move and…
Exposure To Some Common PFAS Changes Gene Activity, New Study Finds Summary New research indicates that exposure to certain common PFAS (so-called “forever chemicals”) changes gene activity — in other…
Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down Summary Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distribution geared at sysadmins and system rescue tasks, is shutting down. The project has published a final Rolling 3.0…
VP.NET Publishes SGX Enclave Code: Zero-Trust Privacy You Can Actually Verify Summary VP.NET has published the source code for its Intel SGX enclave on GitHub (https://github.com/vpdotnet/vpnetd-sgx), allowing anyone to build…
