Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings
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El Paso City Council Moves to Reject ICE Detention Facility
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James Van Der Beek, Dawson’s Creek Star, Dead at 48
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Suspect in Canada shooting is identified as an 18-year-old with history of police visits to her home
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Soldiers will get 'freedom dollars' to spend at the Army's new dining halls
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Claude Code is being dumbed down?
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Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
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Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
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Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
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Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
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WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System
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GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
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NetNewsWire Turns 23
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GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding
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GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
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Apple Creator Studio Usage Restrictions
– Andrew Cunningham, writing for Ars Technica at the end of January: Apple also outlines a number of usage restrictions for the
generative AI features that rely on external services. Apple says
that, “at a minimum,” users will be able to generate 50 i…
arstechnica.com
[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: Ship Third-Party Integrations Without Rebuilding OAuth
– Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesfo…
workos.com
OpenAI’s Codex
– Simon Willison: OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I’ve had a few days of preview access — it’s a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, …
simonwillison.net
Xcode 26.3 ‘Unlocks the Power of Agentic Coding’
– Apple Newsroom: Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps using coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. With agentic coding, Xcode can work with greater autonomy towa…
www.apple.com
Apple Reports Record-Breaking Revenue and Profit for Q1 FY26
– Apple Newsroom, yesterday: “Today, Apple is proud to report a remarkable, record-breaking
quarter, with revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent from a year
ago and well above our expectations,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
“iPhone had its best-ever …
www.apple.com
Hi! We're 404 Media's Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox. AMA (us) about the tech ICE is using, Flock and the state of surveillance in the US on Feb. 4, 12 pm ET
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Treasury Secretary Bessent warns Coinbase is blocking major legislation
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Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
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theverge.com
US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act. US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law.
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arstechnica.com
A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
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technologyreview.com