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A newly surfaced book excerpt is drawing fresh attention to one of the most significant surveillance revelations in American history. Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, describes how he quietly documented the existence of Room six forty one A — a secret NSA facility inside an AT&T switching center in San Francisco — and brought that evidence to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The story is a reminder that the architecture of mass surveillance wasn't built in secret government labs. It was wired into the commercial internet, by ordinary workers, one fiber splice at a time.
Shifting gears, Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to cars running Google built-in, replacing the existing Google Assistant on vehicle infotainment systems. The pitch is more natural conversation and vehicle-specific information on demand. It's a meaningful real-world test for Gemini, moving it out of the phone and into an environment where distraction and reliability carry real stakes.
And if you've been noticing your SSD health declining a little faster than expected, the pirate RPG Windrose may be partly to blame. Players reported up to thirty megabytes per second of constant disk activity during normal gameplay — a significant and unnecessary burden on drive lifespan. A patch is now in progress to address it.
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