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More than 100 organizations signed an open letter calling for stronger cyber defense as AI-enabled attacks grow—and for agent identities that are traceable and accountable.
Inspired by openai.com · OpenAI
Walmart is adding tap-to-pay in U.S. stores after CurrentC, Walmart Pay, and years of refusing NFC—Apple Pay and Google Pay included, without killing QR checkout.
Inspired by corporate.walmart.com · Walmart
homeOS does not look like a Homebridge kill-switch so much as another HomeKit consumer. The real risk is what Apple does with HAP as Matter takes over—and Homebridge 2.0's dual transport is the insurance policy.
Reticulum is a transport-agnostic networking stack for communications that should keep working when the Internet does not—compelling because the transport is replaceable, while metadata, radio physics, and a missing independent spec still matter.
Inspired by reticulum.network
George Michaelson’s history of the Berkeley sockets interface—how 4.2BSD in 1983 treated a network connection like a file, made networked programs straightforward to write, and quietly became the standard path for TCP/IP software, including modern protocols that still send data through sockets.
Inspired by blog.apnic.net · George Michaelson
Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.
Inspired by daveverse.org · Dave Winer
How to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears the most: interoperate.
A format does not need to be new to create something new—rss.chat combines durable open pieces so people keep control of where they publish.
Inspired by daveverse.org · Dave Winer
