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EFF reports ICE is using Palantir’s ELITE tool, which ingests Medicaid data and other sources to map potential deportation targets, generate dossiers, and assign confidence scores to addresses. The system consolidates government data and raises privacy and civil-rights concerns about mass surveillance. EFF has sued to block Medicaid data use and challenged other data grabs, and urges public pressure and congressional action to curb this data-sharing and surveillance.
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Constellations is an authentic-relating game where a prompt is read, players identify the person the prompt fits best, and place a hand on that person’s shoulder (one person max), or abstain by hands behind the head. A facilitator supplies prompts, progressively edgier prompts reveal social dynamics, risk, deception, and reputational concerns. Negative prompts test offensiveness; participants may flatter, lie, or opt out, revealing boundaries. The game can be edgy, including impossible questions, with the facilitator overshooting edge to provoke truth-telling. Observing others’ risk handling shows insights into trust and life beyond the game.
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Netfence is a daemon that injects eBPF filters into VMs/containers and uses a central gRPC control plane to synchronize allow/deny rules. It attaches eBPF filters to network interfaces (TC) or cgroups, supports IPv4/IPv6, per-attachment DNS with domain allowlists/denylists, and metadata for VM/tenant mapping. A per-host daemon talks to the control plane via a bidirectional gRPC stream, exposing a local API for Attach/Detach/List to manage subscriptions. Traffic is blocked for unknown IPs until initial config is applied.
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FAA issued NOTAM 6/4375 creating a nationwide, moving drone no-fly zone around ICE and DHS assets and facilities. Drones are prohibited within 3,000 ft laterally and 1,000 ft vertically of DHS mobile convoys and facilities; the zone travels with the assets and has no public coordinates or real-time alerts. Violations can incur criminal/civil penalties or loss of FAA privileges; drones deemed security threats may be intercepted. Limited exceptions apply for coordinated national defense, homeland security, law enforcement, firefighting, search and rescue, or disaster response. Operators should coordinate with DHS/FAA; avoidance is difficult due to mobility.
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Uses PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for a Kafka-fed event pipeline. Failed events are stored in a dlq_events table with payload (JSONB), error details, status (PENDING/SUCCEEDED), and retry metadata (retry_count, retry_after). A ShedLock-backed scheduler runs every six hours to retry up to 50 events, up to 240 retries, using FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED to avoid duplicates across instances. Indexes optimize status, retry_after, event_type, and created_at. Benefits: improved visibility, auditability, controlled retries, and resilience while Kafka remains the ingestion backbone.
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AI writes 150,000 lines of vibe-coded Elixir at BoothIQ. The Good: Elixir is small and terse with immutability; Tidewave enables longer unassisted runs; frontend quality improves; Git worktrees let you build multiple features in parallel. The Bad: AI can’t organize architecture and tends to defensive, imperative code; you must enforce clean Elixir patterns. The Ugly: debugging OTP/async and Ecto Sandbox/test isolation confuses the AI. Bottom line: huge productivity gains, but require a coherent architecture and tighter development lifecycle control; it should only get better.
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Wine-Staging 11.1, an experimental patchset for Wine, adds ~254 patches rebased to the latest Wine state and VKD3D updates. It includes patches to enable recent Adobe Photoshop versions to install and run on Linux, notably MSXML3 and MSHTML fixes tied to Bug 47015. Upstream Wine hasn’t yet adopted these patches, but they’re in Wine-Staging for community testing with hopes they’ll be merged into a future 11.x release. Binaries are available on WineHQ.
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Posturr is a macOS app that uses the Vision framework to monitor posture via the camera and progressively blur the screen when you slouch, clearing when you sit up. It runs in the background, supports multiple displays, and processes video locally with no cloud data. Requires camera access; first launch may require Gatekeeper bypass since the app isn’t signed. Install from releases or build from source; includes a small file-based command interface for external control. MIT License; ~10 MB; open source.
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DPaint-js is a web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint, with a focus on retro Amiga file formats. It can read and write Amiga icon files, as well as IFF ILBM images (HAM and 24-bit). It runs entirely in the browser, with no dependencies, and can work offline. Written in plain ES6 JavaScript, it offers layers, selections, transformations, effects, and extensive dithering/color reduction, plus reading/writing Amiga Disk Files (ADF). It also includes an embedded Amiga emulator for preview. It’s MIT-licensed, alpha, with a build option (Parcel) and invites contributions.
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SageCompass is an augmented AI decision framework that acts as a virtual consultant to determine whether a business idea actually needs AI before building it. It applies consistent, numbers-based evaluation across four stages: Problem framing, Goals & KPIs, Feasibility, and Decision synthesis, with defined agent roles for each step. The repo includes documentation, a Gradio UI, LangGraph backend, and Drupal integration scaffolding, plus setup guidance and tooling. Tech requirements include Python 3 (>=3.13), uv, and ddev. License: Apache-2.0.
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PLECS Spice integrates SPICE device-level simulation into PLECS 5.0, enabling hybrid circuits with both standard PLECS and SPICE nets. This unifies system- and device-level validation in one tool, avoiding duplicate models. It includes a flexible netlist parser for various SPICE dialects, optimized compact device models, an MNA-based formulation, and a mixed-formulation solver with self-starting one-step methods for hybrid circuits. Engineers can toggle between ideal and detailed models in the same schematic. Demonstrated with a dual-active-bridge and ZVS analysis, showing how device parasitics reveal switching losses and the importance of dead-time. Concludes with a top-down, unified workflow.
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DOOMBuds lets you play DOOM on Pinebuds Pro earbuds over the internet, via a long queue and an MJPEG stream once you reach the front. The project has four parts: a DOOM port on the earbuds, a serial bridge, a web server that handles the queue and forwards keypresses, and a static page. Constraints: UART ~2.4 Mbps; DOOM framebuffer is 320x200 (~96 KB). MJPEG avoids heavy encoding; ~18 fps in practice. CPU 300 MHz, RAM about 1 MB usable, flash 4 MB; uses Squashware 1.7 MB wad. Repositories: DOOMBuds and DOOMBUDS-JS.
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Two senior Health Ministry officials told TIME that as many as 30,000 Iranians were killed in protests on Jan. 8–9, vastly higher than the regime’s 3,117 toll announced Jan. 21. Hospital records tallied about 30,304 deaths by Jan. 9, excluding those in military hospitals or unreachable areas. HRANA had 5,459 confirmed deaths and 17,031 under investigation. The government said protests occurred in around 4,000 locations. Experts warn the real number is likely higher; TIME also profiles victims like Sahba Rashtian, a 23-year-old from Isfahan.
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ANN v3 on turbopuffer scales to 100B vectors (1024D, 2B per dim; ~200TiB) with 200ms p99 latency and >1k QPS. Architecture: stateless query tier over object storage with a cache and a memory-hierarchy-aware layout. Core ideas: hierarchical clustering (SPFresh-based) to prune the search space, and binary quantization (RaBitQ) to compress vectors 16–32x with reranking to preserve recall. Upper levels reside in DRAM/L3; full-precision vectors on SSD. RaBitQ boosts arithmetic intensity, often making the system compute-bound; AVX-512 optimizations help. For larger scales, data is distributed across shards to scale further.
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While working retail in 1992, the author cleared Sony Data Discman DD-1EX players—originally $500, marked to ~1%—and bought one with discs. The device resembled a heavy, compact laptop with a QWERTY keyboard and a searchable library of mini-CD electronic books. It could not save data, a limitation of the era. Some discs included emulators letting the books run inside the Discman, and one could rip the CDs to run content like encyclopedias, a career guide, translator, wellness, wine guide, and crossword dictionary. They note Sony/EA takedowns over Dragon's Lair and consider archiving offline.
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