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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a twenty-five million dollar contract to Bi2 Technologies for iris-scanning surveillance technology. The deal raises immediate questions about the scale of biometric data collection on individuals in federal custody, and what oversight, if any, governs how that data is stored and shared long term.
Shifting to a debate that keeps resurfacing in developer circles, a post making the rounds today argues that supply chain attacks — the kind that have rattled the software industry for years — could be neutralized simply by committing vendor directories directly into version control. No automated dependency installs, no surprise package hijacks. Critics will say it trades one set of problems for another, but the frustration behind the idea is real.
And on the more experimental end of the spectrum, a demoscene writeup is drawing attention for something almost absurd in its elegance — a fully realized audiovisual experience packed into just sixteen bytes of executable code. Sixteen. It is a reminder that constraint has always been one of the most powerful creative forces in computing, and that some engineers still treat that as a sport worth playing.
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