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  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

    “There are Chinese components as well—we are totally open about it—but the key is that, as we compile the software ourselves and install it in Finland, we protect the integrity of the product,” Pienimäki says. What makes Sailfish OS unique over competitors like GrapheneOS and e/OS is that it’s not based on the Android Open read more

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    The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

  • This AI Agent Is Ready to Serve, Mid-Phone Call

    Deutsche Telekom, the German mobile provider that is also the majority stakeholder of T-Mobile in the US, is introducing an AI assistant into its phone line. The result of a partnership with the AI-audio company ElevenLabs, the feature is called Magenta AI Call Assistant. It will be available in Germany only, for now, and doesn’t read more

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    This AI Agent Is Ready to Serve, Mid-Phone Call

  • Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center | TechCrunch

    Stripe on Monday released a preview of a new feature that could help AI startups (and other companies) solve the problem of passing through the underlying costs of AI model usage to their customers. Stripe’s feature, however, goes even further than just passing through the costs of the tokens. It allows startups to charge a read more

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  • Engineering confidence to navigate uncertainty

    Flying on Mars — or any other world — is an extraordinary challenge. An autonomous spacecraft, operating millions of miles from pilots or engineers who could intervene on Earth, must be able to navigate unfamiliar and changing environments, avoid obstacles, land on uncertain terrain, and make decisions entirely on its own. Every maneuver depends on read more

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  • Instagram tracked growing usage while targeting teens, lawyers argue | TechCrunch

    Instagram tracked the time users spent on its app, with company executives flagging “milestones” that its app reached year after year. The app’s daily usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes per day in 2026, according to documentation revealed during CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in a state court case proceeding read more

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    Instagram tracked growing usage while targeting teens, lawyers argue | TechCrunch

  • A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch

    One of the chief problems with “luxury surveillance” devices, like smart glasses with baked-in video recording cameras, is that they often look indistinguishable from regular eyewear, meaning you might be recorded without knowing it. But now there is an app that can detect and alert you when someone nearby is wearing smart glasses, or potentially read more

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    A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch

  • Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Copyright Case on AI Art

    The US Supreme Court said on Monday that it will not hear a case over whether art by artificial intelligence can recieve copyright protection. The decision all but ends the years-long quest by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to have art crafted by his AI system “DABUS” recieve federal copyright protection. In a 2024 profile in read more

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    Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Copyright Case on AI Art

  • Tshepiso Moropa blends Setswana folklore in archival collages

    Using personal and archival images, Tshepiso Moropa cuts and splices delicate collages that consider the ever-evolving nature of the stories we tell. The self-taught artist draws on her background in psychology and linguistics as she plumbs African archives and oral histories, reinterpreting her findings through minimal, yet weighty compositions. Moropa often grounds her works within read more

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    Tshepiso Moropa blends Setswana folklore in archival collages

  • Missile Attacks Are Overwhelming the Gulf. Delivery Drivers Are Still on the Roads

    Uber’s delivery service pays for every pickup and drop-off as well as a per-mile rate, along with any tips given by customers. In some cities, drivers also get a per-minute rate. This means that refusing to take an order has a direct impact on earnings. The driver for Deliveroo added that he has not received read more

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    Missile Attacks Are Overwhelming the Gulf. Delivery Drivers Are Still on the Roads

  • Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco

    A selection of work from Italian artist and illustrator Costanza Starrabba aka Starrenco. Starrenco studied illustration at IED Rome before moving to Milan for her Master’s. While grounded in reality, Starrenco’s work offers a distortion or reinterpretation of select elements, colours and dynamics, resulting in slightly disorienting imaginary worlds. Her images reflect both intentional planning read more

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    Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco

  • The Lume digital art gallery at Indianapolis Museum closes

    In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh Alive” (2021), “Monet & Friends Alive” (2022-23), and “Dalí Alive” (2024-25). However, read more

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    The Lume digital art gallery at Indianapolis Museum closes

  • X adds Paid Partnership labels for creators

      Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re advertisements. The feature could help improve creators’ authenticity, so fans know when a product recommendation is an original sentiment, versus a paid sponsorship, while also complying with regulations that say read more

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  • Hacktivists claim Homeland Security hack, leak ICE data

    A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online. On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and more than 6,000 companies, including defense contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, and read more

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    Hacktivists claim Homeland Security hack, leak ICE data

  • Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death Sparks Revolt Among Kalshi Customers

    In the lead-up to the United States and Israel’s attack on Iran, prediction markets saw a frenzy of activity tied to the conflict. Speculators rushed to guess when the first missile strikes would begin and who might be impacted, placing trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars in total. There are already big winners—and some read more

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    Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death Sparks Revolt Among Kalshi Customers

  • Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran

      Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz—the narrow but vital oil trade route in the Middle East—has almost ground to a halt since the start of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. Tankers in the region have faced military strikes and a spike in GPS jamming attacks, a new analysis says. Since the read more

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    Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran

  • Anthropic's Claude reports widespread outage

      Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services. The outage seems to be affecting Claude.ai as well as Claude Code, though the company said the Claude API is working as intended. Most users experienced the error when attempting to log in, as in the screenshot below. read more

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    Anthropic's Claude reports widespread outage

  • Wool Creature Lab’s felted nudibranch art world

    Among the myriad delights of the marine world, nudibranchs count among some of the most adorable. There are around 3,000 known species of these often very colorful, textured, soft-bodied animals. Technically part of the mollusc family, they shed their shells as they grow older, so we sometimes refer to them as “sea slugs,” but the read more

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    Wool Creature Lab’s felted nudibranch art world

  • Cami Tellez launches new creator economy platform

      Cami Tellez is back. Tellez is the founder of the viral undergarments brand Parade, which at one point was seen as the Gen Z rival to Victoria’s Secret. Launched in 2019, when Tellez was just 21, the company went on to raise millions in funding and attract thousands of customers, but was sold in read more

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    Cami Tellez launches new creator economy platform

  • Fly’s Eye Dome’ sculpture collapses in Long Island blizzard

    The LongHouse Reserve is fundraising for the restoration of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic fiberglass sculptureFly’s Eye Dome(1976), which sustained damage during the blizzard that blanketed the East Coast on Sunday. According to the Long Island institution, the outdoor sculpture buckled under heavy snow and collapsed. “It’s devastating,” LongHouse directorCarrie Rebora BarratttoldArtnet News. “It’s our most iconic read more

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    Fly’s Eye Dome’ sculpture collapses in Long Island blizzard

  • Hackers and internet outages hit Iran amid US air strikes

      Early on Saturday, cities across Iran, including its capital Tehran, were rocked by a series of U.S. and Israel-led airstrikes that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, and top leadership. According to reports, the military campaign coincided with cyberattacks targeting the country, one of which flooded a popular phone app with notifications, read more

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    Hackers and internet outages hit Iran amid US air strikes