Tech news for Gen Zs
Trump admin yeeted or halted enforcement against 165 corps including big tech after they spent $1.2B on clout, no cap.
White House made a loyalty scorecard rating 553 companies on their hype for the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” with Uber, Meta, Tesla, and others as GOAT partners.
This whole move is sus, killing agency independence and letting Trump flex hardcore power over probes, big yikes.
MassDOT finna yeet 11 homes in Bourne’s Round Hill via eminent domain to build the new Sagamore Bridge.
This fire $2.4B project is the GOAT public works flex in MA but lowkey mid for the tightknit hood.
Locals are shook and asking “where we gonna go?” as their dream homes get caught in 4K.
Proton is yeeting its infrastructure from Switzerland to Germany and Norway cause the proposed Swiss snooping laws are sus and mess with privacy.
Lumo, Proton’s privacy-first AI chatbot, is the first to bounce to Germany flexing next-level drip.
VPN homies like NymVPN are also plotting to ghost Switzerland if these cap-heavy rules land periodt.
On Linux the socket benchmark is mid at ~0.02s, but on OpenBSD it’s straight bussin’ at ~0.002s.
They had to yeet ulimit up to avoid the file-descriptor ick before slaying the test no cap.
The timing hack is sus without the precise timer; peep the linked thread for the full tea.
LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of exploiting users through vendor lock-in by using complex proprietary formats and has released a free guide to migrate to the open ODF standard.
The migration guide outlines five steps: learn ODF’s advantages, inventory documents, plan the workflow, convert and back up files, and enforce ODF as the default format.
LibreOffice warns that proprietary formats threaten privacy, long-term access, and data ownership, and claims other office suites also hinder user switching.
Woz sued YouTube in 2020 over a sus bitcoin scam vid using his face, but Section 230 kept his case on ice for 5 years, no cap.
YouTube says they’re on top of abuse with report tools, but Woz’s wife got ghosted after flagging the fraud vid multiple times.
On his 75th, Woz still flexes on Apple with small speech paychecks and will clapback on any cheugy moves, periodt.
It’s a Deno-powered MCP server hooking into JMAP with jmap-jam, cookin’ email ops no cap.
Flexes on search, fetch, move, mark, and delete emails with pagination and Zod, bussin’ fr.
Fully JMAP RFC-compliant with TypeScript typing and fire error handling, main character energy.
Iceland will drop a £1 credit on your Bonus Card for tipping off shoplifters, no cap.
They say shoplifting racks up a £20M bill annually, making it sus for prices and wages.
Shoppers just alert staff with the 411, no direct beef with thieves, vibe check.
A 16-year-old hacker reverse-engineered Motorola’s Halo 3C smoke and vape detector to take full control of its microphone and features, turning it into a live audio eavesdropping bug and enabling fake alerts.
Critical flaws allowed unrestricted password brute-forcing and exposed cryptographic keys in firmware updates, making it trivial for attackers to hijack the device and install malicious code.
Motorola released a firmware patch, but researchers warn that integrating microphones into IoT safety devices inherently risks normalizing invasive surveillance without proper trust or transparency.
No cap, EasyPost is dropping a scam PSA—only trust their official channels or risk getting caught in 4K.
They’re cooking the future of shipping with same-day delivery goals and eco-friendly vibes.
Their squad flexes with CI/CD deploys, microservices drip, transparent decisions, and a blameless culture.