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Category: Technology News
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Pluralistic: Trump’s fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic newsletter analyzes the political-economic bind facing the Trump administration: while; and A detailed teardown of a camera recovered from a downed Iranian Shahed-136 drone in…
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Roundup: VFX Tools & Talks, VES publishes on-set data guide, and more.
Industry Workflows, Guides, and Events this week: The Visual Effects Society has published the On-Set VFX Data Collection and Usage Guide, a standardized playbook for; and SIGGRAPH 2026’s initial Production Sessions lineup features…
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Roundup: Behind-the-Scenes VFX Breakdowns, RISE Fallout Destroys LA Politely, and more.
Behind-the-Scenes VFX Breakdowns this week: RISE VFX delivered 244 shots for Fallout Season 2, facing a significant scale increase over Season 1 with the same; and This matters for Visual Effects and CGI because it gives a concrete…
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Roundup: VFX Software Updates, InstaMAT and InstaLOD Go Native on Linux, and more.
New Software Releases and Updates this week: Abstract has released native Linux previews of its material authoring software InstaMAT and geometry optimization; and Abstract has released native Linux support for its InstaLOD and InstaMAT…
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Roundup: Fashion’s digital thread, RFID tags win sustainability award, and more.
Fashion and beauty industry updates this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, which embeds wash-resistant RFID tags at raw material or early assembly stages; and Louis Vuitton has appointed Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu as a brand…
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Roundup: Retail leadership and brand strategies, Target shuffles merchandising leadership, and
Retail leadership and brand strategies this week: Target has restructured its merchandising leadership, promoting three internal veterans to SVP roles; and Southeastern Asset Management, a major shareholder with over 4% of Mattel’s stock…
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Roundup: Supply chain innovations and, Is Amazon Supply Chain, and more.
Supply chain innovations and disruptions this week: Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) is now available to any business, not just marketplace sellers, bundling; and Procter & Gamble is now in full-scale rollout of its Supply Chain 3.
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Year in Review: OONI in 2025
Hacker Community this week: This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: OONI Probe is a free and open; and This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track…
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“TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database
Hacker Community this week: This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Two years ago, Microsoft; and This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Your…
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Roundup: Capital, Netflix Inc ‘ 600m Acquisition InterPositive, and more.
Capital, Mergers, And Market Moves this week: This matters for Film and TV Development because it gives a concrete current signal to track: ## Overview of the; and This matters for Visual Effects and CGI because it gives a concrete…