Software
Flock’s Trust Problem Deepens After Public Reversals Over ALPR Claims
An ACLU account says Flock Safety has repeatedly given inaccurate or misleading answers about its license-plate readers, data access, and privacy controls — including in a Wisconsin city council meeting that approved and then reversed a contract in one day.
Cursor’s agent swarms point to a new cost curve for AI software work
Cursor says its latest swarm system outperformed an earlier version on a Rust rewrite of SQLite, while using different planner-worker mixes to sharply reduce cost and coordination overhead.
Larry Ellison once struggled to keep the lights on while building software. Now he owns most of a Hawaiian island
The Oracle co-founder’s early days involved payment trouble, investor rejection and a CIA code name that became a company brand. Decades later, he bought nearly all of Lānaʻi and tied it to a renewable-energy vision.
AI tools are turning up mathematical counterexamples faster than humans can check them
A mathematician’s account describes Lean-based autoformalization systems finding and verifying counterexamples in real time, from geometry to algebraic geometry.
How one MikroTik router became the center of a home lab network
A home-lab build log shows how a MikroTik L009UiGS-RM can handle WAN setup, Wi‑Fi control, PoE, and bufferbloat mitigation in a single small router.
Orion Browser by Kagi puts privacy, extensions, and platform coverage in one browser
Kagi’s Orion browser positions itself as a privacy-first alternative built around WebKit speed, broad extension support, and native apps across macOS, iOS, Linux, and Windows.
This Itanium emulator can boot Windows Server 2003 and XP 64-bit
A newly released IA-64 emulator from Yufeng Gao, with help from gdwnldsKSC, can already start Windows for Itanium — though performance is slow and other operating systems do not boot yet.
Moonshine turns a PC into a Linux game-streaming host for Moonlight clients
The open source project focuses on isolated streaming sessions, headless operation, and GPU-accelerated encoding for users already on the Moonlight ecosystem.
Hardcore IndieWeb argues for a simpler, cheaper way to publish your own site
A new IndieWeb guide makes the case for keeping your content on your own drive, publishing static HTML directly, and running a personal website for about a penny a day.
Trump’s declassification push puts election systems back in the spotlight
A Free Republic post says newly declassified intelligence documents and a Trump speech could speed up the fight over election reform, but the source material is a commentary post and does not independently verify the claims it describes.