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How some independent tech reporters are using AI, which they say allows them to do more reporting and recreate newsroom resources like editors and fact-checkers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

Bunch of kinda criticisms of Wolf 3D in this piece here, but also some interesting insights on playing one handed by using the mouse with sensitivity turned up fully (and of course using a map). I'm so used to keyboard, but thinking now, when I played it on a Mac in the 90s, I may have messed with using a mouse for it some.

JavaScript’s `using` variable declaration is *almost* ready for primetime.
✅ Now available in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Node 24, Deno
❌ Not yet in Safari 🥹
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
https://www.wired.com/story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-nsa-spying/

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026

OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem
OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.

from my link log —
Git as a tamperproof file archive using chained RFC3161 timestamps.
https://medium.com/swlh/git-as-cryptographically-tamperproof-file-archive-using-chained-rfc3161-timestamps-ad15836b883

⭐ Starred a repository

ruvnet/wifi-densepose
Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers
github.com/ruvnet/wifi-densepose

GitHub - ruvnet/wifi-densepose: Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers
Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers - GitHub - ruvnet/wifi-densepose: Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers

from my link log —
Bitwise conversion of doubles using only floating-point multiplication and addition.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/bitwise-conversion-of-doubles-using-only-floating-point-multi…

Bitwise conversion of doubles using only floating-point multiplication and addition
In the words of Tom Lehrer, “this is completely pointless, but may prove useful to some of you some day, perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances.” The problem is as follows: …