Aggressive US Marketers are Bringing Police Surveillance Tools to the Masses

"License plate readers are rapidly reshaping private security in American neighborhoods," reports the Washington Post, as aggressi...

Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature from its upcoming .NET 6 release, after a publ...

Egyptian Security Forces Detain Humanoid Robot, Suspecting Espionage

The Guardian reports: She has been described as "a vision of the future" who is every bit as good as other abstract artists today,...

$28B Startup Says Companies Were Refusing Their Free Open-Source Code as 'Not Enterprise-Ready'

"Ali Ghodsi was happily researching AI at Berkeley when he helped invent a revolutionary bit of code — and he wanted to give it away fo...

Clubhouse will soon let you pin links to the top of rooms

Image: Clubhouse Clubhouse is making it possible for people to share outside links and monetize their work on the platform. Today at The ...

Astronomers Find Nascent Exploding Star, 'Rosetta Stone' of All Supernovas

"A star located 60 million light years away went supernova last year, and astronomers managed to capture all stages of the stellar expl...

Can Windows 11 Run on a 2006-Era Pentium 4 Chip?

"Microsoft has been mainly telling consumers that Windows 11 is meant for newer PCs," reports PC Magazine. "However, an inter...