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Thirty years is a long time to stay quiet. The man often called the original NSA whistleblower is finally speaking out, offering a rare retrospective on mass surveillance, institutional secrecy, and what it cost him personally. His account lands at a moment when those debates feel anything but settled.
Shifting gears to something quieter but meaningful to a dedicated community — LMMS, the open source music production software, has pushed out its first alpha release in five years. Version one point three is still in early testing, but for musicians who relied on this free tool and wondered if development had simply stopped, it's a signal that the project is very much alive.
And over on Roku, the company is now offering free programming generated by artificial intelligence creators — essentially giving AI-produced content its own channel. It's an interesting experiment in whether audiences will actually choose to watch it when given the option, or scroll right past it in favor of something made by human hands.
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