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In the heart of the Midwest, a network of automated license plate readers once promised seamless coordination among law enforcement agencies. That promise has frayed. Cities across Wisconsin have walked away from their contracts with Flock Safety. The departures reveal a harsh truth. Shared surveillance systems depend on participation. Lose too many partners and the

Google just spent $10 million to acquire a massive cache of internal records from Spirit Airlines. The low-cost carrier ceased operations in May after years of financial strain and two Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. But its data lives on. And in the hands of one of the world’s largest technology companies, those decades of operational

Linux kernel developers have queued up a batch of targeted power management changes for version 7.3. The updates focus on Intel and AMD hardware. They promise modest gains in efficiency and better control for modern CPUs. Intel and AMD lead the charge on driver refinements. Rafael Wysocki, the power management subsystem maintainer at Intel, submitted

Mozilla pushed Firefox 154 to stable channels on August 17, 2026. The update arrives just before its official rollout on August 18. It brings targeted improvements that address privacy, daily usability and developer needs. And it does so without fanfare. The most noticeable addition sits in the address bar. Type “Manage AI” and Firefox opens

ByteDance engineers spotted a stubborn source of scheduling delays buried inside the Linux kernel’s SMP code. They fixed it. The changes, now headed for Linux 7.3, let the scheduler preempt threads waiting on remote IPI completion. The payoff? A 90 percent drop in P99 latency for high-priority tasks. Thomas Gleixner sent the pull request this

Researchers have shown that Rust code offloaded to GPUs via LLVM infrastructure can hold its own against finely tuned CUDA and HIP kernels. The work arrives at a moment when high-performance computing teams hunt for ways to curb memory bugs without giving up speed. And the numbers look promising. A paper released this week details

Software developers working with video pipelines have long accepted a tradeoff. Hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding flies. Its HEVC counterpart lags. Not anymore. Today, a targeted set of changes landed in FFmpeg. The Vulkan-based HEVC encoder now matches H.264 encode performance on supported GPUs. The gap that frustrated transcoding farms, cloud encoders, and desktop users for years

Bitcoin has shed more than 40 percent of its value from recent peaks. Public mining companies, meanwhile, have posted strong stock gains in the same stretch. The disconnect tells a story of survival, adaptation and the quiet unraveling of traditional bitcoin economics. Hashrate across the network has tumbled. Difficulty adjustments have turned negative multiple times,

Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984 with a promise that computers should work the way people do. Forty-two years later, OpenAI has taken that idea to an extreme few anticipated. Its new Computer History feature for ChatGPT logs clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS devices. The system turns those inputs into searchable