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A quote from Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy is making the rounds again, and it hits differently in twenty twenty five. Back at the turn of the millennium, McNealy told reporters point blank that users had zero privacy and should simply get over it. At the time it sounded brash. Today it reads like a blueprint.
Shifting to tools built for the AI era, a new project called Almanac is drawing attention from developers on Hacker News. The idea is straightforward but genuinely useful — upload your files and the system builds and maintains a wiki automatically, keeping it current without manual upkeep. Its creator designed it specifically to work with AI agents as the primary interface, which tells you something about where team workflows are heading.
And on the hardware side, a small programmable pocket device called Kode Dot is catching the eye of makers and security researchers alike. It's a compact, hackable gadget aimed at pentesters and tinkerers who want a flexible tool they can carry anywhere. Early interest on Hacker News suggests there's a real appetite for physical, programmable hardware in an increasingly software-defined world.
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