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Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710883 Points: 560 # Comments: 178

HTC's pricey Vive Eagle smart glasses are a credible alternative to Meta, but you'll still struggle to find a reason to buy a pair.

Windows September 2026 update brings many long-requested features, but also surfaces fresh bugs — new code crashing AMD, HP, and Lenovo systems and surfaces audio, Explorer, and Remote Desktop problems

Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.

General Motors is polishing up the software experience in its bestselling trucks in an effort to reduce the amount of dangerous tapping and swiping that's required to access the most-used controls. It's also giving Apple CarPlay and Android Auto spiffy new picture-in-picture displays - which is n...

As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.

Save nearly $600 on this CyberPowerPC gaming PC with a 9800X3D, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD.

The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze

Games optimization specialist OptiProjects (AKA OptiJeugos) has released a new port of Minecraft Legacy for the Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii consoles.

WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.

Apple is bundling in more services, including TV, with its cheaper iCloud+ subscriptions in certain regions.

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710253 Points: 146 # Comments: 116

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes.

Article URL: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710109 Points: 84 # Comments: 94

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When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in q...

A developer has built a 3D code visualizer.

Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. Her new novel, Exit Party, imagines two possible American futures—totalitarian state and post-civil-war chaos.

A new bipartisan effort in Congress to rein in automated license plate readers takes a page from the national drinking age: Comply, or risk losing federal highway funding.

Five alleged leaders of the Black Axe cybercrime syndicate, known for its involvement in global-scale cyber-enabled financial fraud, have been extradited to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges. [...]