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Category: Technology News
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The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump
Hacker Community this week: The Trump administration forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models via export controls, citing; and iFixit, in partnership with U.S.
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Pluralistic: Google’s new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote
Hacker Community this week: Google has introduced a new remote attestation scheme called reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification, which uses an app; and The Chaos Computer Club is issuing an open call for designers to shape the visual identity of…
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Wednesday: Mr. X VFX supervisor Mark O. Hammond
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Mr. X VFX supervisor Mark O. Hammond details the studio’s work on Season 2 of Netflix’s *Wednesday*, focusing on; and MTI Film has acquired Mango NewEdit, a Burbank-based dailies and Avid editorial…
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Digital Signals, Digital Product Passports Explained Prepare Compliance, and more.
Digital Signals this week: The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regime, beginning enforcement in 2026, will treat data as a border control; and The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulation, enacted under the 2024 Ecodesign for…
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AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and Coats Digital, a provider of manufacturing software for the apparel industry…
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Fashion Signals, Fashion PLM Blog Tech Packs Costing Production Supply, and more.
Fashion Signals this week: The fashion industry’s AI adoption is bifurcating between proven commerce applications and experimental design; and Kobolabs.
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A High-Vacuum Controller for an Eventual Electron Microscope
Hacker Community this week: Chris Doble has open-sourced a high-vacuum controller as the first step toward building his own scanning electron; and A guide from Hackaday details how to repurpose an old FDM 3D printer, specifically an…
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An AI overhaul at Macy’s is fueling the 168-year-old retailer’s turnaround
FashionTech this week: Macy’s AI-powered ‘Ask Macy’s’ shopping assistant, launched in March 2026, is driving a measurable turnaround; and Cartesian, an MIT spinout, uses machine learning on existing RFID reader data to map inventory…
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VOLUMETRIC HUMANS CONTINUE TO EVOLVE
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Volumetric human capture is advancing beyond proxy-level previs into production-grade photoreal doubles, driven by; and Reallusion’s AI Studio Storytellers series debuts with Space Rocks, a sci-fi short…
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In NetChoice V. Murrill, The Copia Institute Asks The Fifth Circuit Not To Keep Ignoring The First Amendment
Hacker Community this week: The Copia Institute, Techdirt’s think tank, has filed an amicus brief in NetChoice v; and iFixit’s guide to assembling a soldering kit frames the choice between a premium, feature-rich cordless station and.