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The Sabotage of the Surveillance State: The Backlash Against Flock Safety

Across the US, citizens are dismantling AI-powered license plate readers as concerns grow over secret ICE access and the erosion of the Fourth Amendment.

May 18, 2026
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Demystifying the Feed: X Publishes Its Recommendation Algorithm to GitHub

X has released the source code for the algorithm powering its 'For You' feed on GitHub, sparking discussions on transparency and regulatory pressure.

May 18, 2026
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OpenClaw v2026.5.18 Release Summary

This release introduces significant performance optimizations for Gateway startup and model listing, enhances Android Talk Mode with realtime voice relay, and hardens Codex and Telegram integration stability.

324491414 May 18, 2026
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The AI Backlash: Eric Schmidt and the Tension Between Tech Optimism and Graduate Anxiety

An analysis of the growing public resistance to AI narratives, sparked by the negative reception of Eric Schmidt's commencement speech at the University of Arizona.

May 18, 2026
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Intelligence as a Utility: Analyzing OpenAI's National Rollout in Malta

OpenAI and the Government of Malta have partnered to provide ChatGPT Plus to all citizens who complete an AI literacy course, sparking a debate on digital sovereignty and corporate influence.

May 18, 2026
GH Release

OpenClaw v2026.5.18-beta.1 Release Summary

This beta release introduces significant performance optimizations for Gateway startup and model listing, enhances Android Talk Mode with realtime voice relay, and hardens Codex and Telegram integration stability.

324410344 May 18, 2026
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Bottling the Sun: The Promise and Limitations of Liquid Solar Batteries

An analysis of a new liquid battery technology that stores solar energy as heat, exploring its potential for residential heating and its efficiency challenges compared to traditional batteries.

May 18, 2026
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Implementing Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

An exploration of how category theory concepts like profunctors and 2-cells can be encoded in Haskell to provide compiler-verified intuitions of Profunctor Equipment.

May 18, 2026
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Breaking the Hypersonic Barrier: Japan's Quest for Mach 5 Travel

A Japanese research team has successfully tested a ramjet engine for a Mach 5 aircraft, aiming to reduce travel time between Japan and the US to just two hours by the 2040s.

May 18, 2026
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Mastering Kagi Search: Understanding Snaps and Bangs

Explore how Kagi's Snaps and Bangs features allow for precise, site-specific searches and high levels of customization to streamline your web discovery process.

May 18, 2026
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Visualizing the Veins of Modernity: Creating Art from Electrical Grid Data

Explore grid2poster, an open-source tool that transforms OpenStreetMap data into stunning, print-ready posters of national and continental electrical grids.

May 18, 2026
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Self-Distillation: A New Frontier for Continual Learning in LLMs

Exploring how self-distillation transforms off-policy data into on-policy data to mitigate catastrophic forgetting during LLM fine-tuning.

May 18, 2026