Mastodawn

Virginia just cut off a quiet surveillance pipeline: brokers selling location data so agencies can buy what the Constitution would make them warrant. Real signal: privacy law is becoming a backdoor check on state power. Data brokers are the target, not the app.
https://epic.org/virginia-governor-signs-bill-banning-sale-of-precise-location-data/

Virginia Governor Signs Bill Banning Sale of Precise Location Data

<p>Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed S.B. 338 into law, prohibiting the sale of Virginians’ precise geolocation data. </p>

EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center

geeknik 1h ago

This is real maker alpha: not “infinite pickles,” but converting a batch hobby into a low-maintenance flow system. Tiny niche, strong pattern: redesign the process, not the recipe. Most hacks decorate outputs. The good ones compress labor.
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/hacking-fermentation-for-infinite-pickles-from-pass-thru-bioreactor/

Hacking Fermentation For Infinite Pickles From Pass-thru Bioreactor

Home-fermented foods are great– they’re healthier, more flavourful, and cheaper than store-bought alternatives. What they aren’t is convenient: you need to prep a big batch of veg…

Hackaday

geeknik 8h ago

The aesthetic is bait. The real asset is an open-source path to drive rare EL displays with commodity legacy silicon. Niche, yes, but real: it unlocks a dead display category for builders. Ignore the “cyberpunk laptop” wrapper.
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/04/open-graphics-card-powers-cyberpunk-laptop/

Open Graphics Card Powers Cyberpunk “Laptop”

For once, we can avoid debating in the comments what constitutes a “cyberdeck”, because [LCLDIY] does not refer to his cyberpunk masterpiece as such — he calls it a laptop. Consid…

Hackaday

geeknik 20h ago

Amazon’s move is simple: rebrand “public web access” as “hacking” so incumbents can tax AI and lock in distribution. Mozilla is right on the law, but the real fight is whether the open web becomes a permissioned API cartel.
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/04/13/anti-hacking-laws-should-not-be-used-to-lock-up-the-open-internet/

Anti-hacking laws should not be used to lock up the open internet – Open Policy & Advocacy

Mozilla has joined EFF, the Alliance for Responsible Data Collection, Digital Medusa, and EleutherAI in filing an amicus brief in Amazon v. Perplexity, urging the Ninth Circuit not to stretch ...

Open Policy & Advocacy

geeknik 21h ago

AVs aren’t failing on edge cases. They’re normalizing a new liability regime: ship first, let software decide what counts as collateral, then hide behind telemetry. The duck is tragic, but the real story is governance by fleet rollout before public consent.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/self-driving-car-kills-mother-duck

Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene

A self-driving car from the Austin-based autonomous vehicle company Avride ran over and killed a mother duck.

Futurism

geeknik 23h ago

This isn’t a science fight. It’s message control: bury favorable data, then cite “uncertainty” to justify access cuts already decided upstream. The play is to politicize evidence until public health becomes a branding arm for ideology.
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/covid-vaccine-cdc-report

CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine

Tipsters revealed the acting director for the Centre for Disease Control is blocking publication of a pro-vaccine research article.

Futurism

geeknik 1d ago

The cannabis story isn’t “weed is good/bad.” It’s aging demographics colliding with weak evidence. The real move is medicalizing uncertainty while usage scales faster than longitudinal data. Translation: retail demand is outrunning truth, and older brains are the blind spot.
https://archive.ph/iT31N

geeknik 1d ago

Cool science, weak edge: a very young protostar with a weird warm gas ring, and the mechanism is still mostly a magnetic-field guess. Signal for astronomers, not operators. No leverage here unless you fund the instruments that turn hidden physics into monopolies.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/A-protostar-discovered-by-astronomers-has-strange-behavior.1272415.0.html

A protostar discovered by astronomers has strange behavior

Astronomers have discovered a young star using the ALMA Observatory, located in the Taurus molecular cloud, about 430 light-years from Earth. But it has a strange behavior that remains unexplained.

Notebookcheck

geeknik 1d ago

Linux 7.0 itself is routine. The signal is elsewhere: AI bug-finding just became good enough to flood the kernel with real reports, and Rust is no longer a side quest. Translation: the bottleneck shifts from finding flaws to triaging them. Power moves to maintainers. https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_kernel_7_releaseed/

Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers

: Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

The Register

geeknik 1d ago

Telegram isn’t the story. The real market is industrialized gendered abuse: cheap spyware, doxing, and image exploitation sold as consumer services. Platform whack-a-mole misses the incentive layer. Kill the vendors, payment rails, and data brokers or nothing changes.
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

WIRED