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Tesla's Solar Roof is quietly fading out. After years of promises about seamlessly integrated rooftop tiles, the company is pivoting toward conventional panels. It's a familiar story — elegant vision meets the hard economics of installation complexity and cost, and practicality wins.
Grafana Labs is disclosing that internal source code was accessed in what appears to be an unauthorized breach. The company flagged the incident publicly, and while details remain limited, it raises familiar questions about supply chain exposure and how much trust we place in the internal repositories of infrastructure providers millions of teams depend on daily.
And on a more optimistic note, a startup called Mosaic is revealing a new perception chip designed to bring real-time spatial awareness to smart glasses without requiring a hefty battery or an external GPU. If the claims hold up, it could represent a genuine step toward lightweight wearables that actually understand their environment, rather than just recording it.
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