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Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS, a small but telling alignment between an AI platform and one of the most widely used frontend frameworks. What’s notable here isn’t a new feature drop or integration, but that a model-and-API product is investing directly in foundational UI tooling.

Iran has entered an IPv6 blackout, with major networks cutting off v6 reachability and forcing traffic back to IPv4. Under the hood, most consumers will still get online thanks to Happy Eyeballs and dual-stack fallbacks, but the change isn’t benign: IPv6-only endpoints go dark, latency can rise as failed

Shipmap.org is a browser-based, explorable map of global merchant traffic built by Kiln with the UCL Energy Institute, using 2012 AIS records to trace cargo, tanker, bulk, and gas carrier movements and estimate associated CO₂. Under the hood, it aggregates millions of vessel position reports into animated flows and

Project Patchouli is putting the guts of an electromagnetic resonance (EMR) drawing tablet on the workbench, open-sourcing the hardware stack that powers battery-free styluses. What’s notable here is the target: EMR digitizers have long lived behind NDAs and custom ASICs, making independent innovation and repair tough. An open reference

An Illinois state agency has disclosed a healthcare data breach affecting more than 600,000 patients, adding another large notch to a sector already under sustained pressure. What’s notable here isn’t just the number, but the type of data likely involved: protected health information mixes identifiers, contact details,

An Illinois state agency says a health-care data breach has affected more than 600,000 patients, a reminder that protected health information remains one of the most valuable-and vulnerable-targets in the ecosystem. Details on the intrusion vector and specific data elements weren’t disclosed in the initial notice, but the

Opus 4.5 doesn’t behave like the usual “chatty agent wrapped around a model.” What’s notable here is the shift away from performative planning and brittle tool calls toward a tighter, more actionable loop. The experience feels closer to a system than a sandbox: less meandering, clearer handoffs,

Vietnam has banned unskippable video ads for users in the country-a direct shot at forced-view pre-rolls and mid-rolls that have long subsidized streaming, social, and gaming apps. What’s notable here is the clarity: this targets the format itself, not just disclosures or placement. For global platforms, that means geofenced

GeoSpy’s pitch is straightforward: take a photo of a vehicle, get a likely location in about 30 seconds. What’s notable here isn’t the premise-visual geolocation has been an active space for years-but the latency and packaging. Sub-minute answers imply a well-tuned pipeline for candidate narrowing and retrieval

Joe Mancuso, the developer behind Masonite, has passed away. His work left a clear mark on Python web development: Masonite brought Laravel-like ergonomics to Python, centering an IoC container and service providers to wire apps together with clean conventions and a batteries-included DX. Under the hood, that architecture helped many