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61.		From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
		74 points by andsoitis 83 days ago \| 65 comments
62.		First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (electrek.co)
		68 points by m463 83 days ago \| 122 comments
63.		Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video] (youtube.com)
		50 points by areoform 81 days ago \| 66 comments
64.		DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)
		130 points by HotGarbage 80 days ago \| 18 comments
65.		Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter (theverge.com)
		50 points by Brajeshwar 81 days ago \| 13 comments
66.		White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com)
		102 points by jbegley 80 days ago \| 108 comments
67.		Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing (ipvm.com)
		54 points by jhonovich 80 days ago
68.		Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers (heise.de)
		61 points by hmokiguess 80 days ago \| 11 comments
69.		Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum (github.com/stacklok)
		10 points by mooreds 82 days ago \| 7 comments
70.		Welcome to Gas City (steve-yegge.medium.com)
		33 points by teruakohatu 80 days ago \| 55 comments
71.		Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)
		52 points by ColinWright 80 days ago \| 12 comments
72.		Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption (9to5mac.com)
		45 points by latchkey 80 days ago \| 5 comments
73.		[flagged] Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline (geeksandgamers.com)
		34 points by bilsbie 80 days ago \| 60 comments
74.		'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims (nature.com)
		47 points by anigbrowl 80 days ago \| 60 comments
75.		Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI (theregister.com)
		46 points by Bender 80 days ago \| 44 comments
76.		United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark (cnn.com)
		33 points by blendergeek 81 days ago \| 11 comments
77.		Supercollider (supercollider.github.io)
		40 points by andyjohnson0 81 days ago \| 3 comments
78.		Mommy, Are the Inspirational Stories on LinkedIn Real? (mcsweeneys.net)
		40 points by jyounker 81 days ago
79.		Game Boy Advance Dev: Link Cable Networking (mattgreer.dev)
		29 points by birdculture 80 days ago
80.		[flagged] Midori, the first browser to offer a VPN with Mesh technology (astian.org)
		11 points by ponchale 81 days ago \| 13 comments
81.		Every American interacting with chatbot would need to upload a government ID (reclaimthenet.org)
		39 points by g42gregory 81 days ago \| 9 comments
82.		Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author? (github.com/notepad-plus-plus)
		30 points by jethronethro 81 days ago \| 2 comments
83.		Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels (bbc.com)
		22 points by mr_toad 81 days ago \| 1 comment
84.		[flagged] What do we lose when AI does our work? (rickyyean.com)
		18 points by rickyyean 80 days ago \| 10 comments
85.		Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A dha (bleepingcomputer.com)
		16 points by BitPirate 81 days ago
86.		Germany's far-left war on infrastructure (politico.eu)
		19 points by Tomte 80 days ago \| 7 comments
87.		Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection (sciencedaily.com)
		19 points by loh 81 days ago \| 15 comments
88.		Hallucination Is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (2025) (arxiv.org)
		14 points by drob518 81 days ago \| 11 comments
89.		CATL says sodium batteries are mainstream-ready, signs 60 GWh deal (electrek.co)
		18 points by epistasis 80 days ago \| 8 comments
90.		OpenAI Finalizes $10B Joint Venture with PE Firms to Deploy AI (bloomberg.com)
		18 points by nathanh 81 days ago \| 2 comments
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