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Institutions running digital-asset operations on the Bitcoin L2 BOB can now use Cryptio for audit-ready accounting and reconciliation.
Three-week, fully funded program for builders under 25 runs in Goa this fall, with LongJourney as fellowship partner.
EFF joins BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas
Staff attorneys and technologists ran sessions and a booth presence across all three August security conferences, including farewell talks by outgoing ED Cindy Cohn.
EFF joins call urging FTC to withdraw AI "accuracy suppression" policy proposal
EFF, Public Knowledge, and Fight for the Future warned the proposal would pressure AI developers to suppress lawful speech.
EFF warns about PatronScan ID databases at LGBTQ+ bars
Reports of face-scanning ID systems in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood prompt EFF analysis of how PatronScan's bar-patron databases may violate California's ID privacy law.
Internet Archive joined 18 groups urging veto of NY "Stealth Crawler" bill
The letter to Governor Hochul argues the anti-crawler bill would let publishers unmask and chill archivists, researchers, and journalists' automated tools.
Internet Archive Canada launched a $5,000 AI Builders Fellowship
The six-week fellowship, with BC + AI, funds a builder to turn IAC's 22.1M-page Government Publications archive into a new open-source tool.
Teen author bypasses traditional publishers to release book freely on Internet Archive
16-year-old Simone O. Elias released her second book, *Porcelain Rage*, openly on archive.org on July 24, citing open-access values and the Archive's role in public utility.
Edge City opens applications for Edge City India popup village
Volunteer and attendee applications are now rolling for a three-week popup in Mandrem, North Goa, running Oct 11–Nov 1, 2026.
ARIA opens input on new Ubiquitous Particle Profiling programme thesis
The proposed programme, in ARIA's Adaptive Machines opportunity space, targets low-cost real-time sensors to identify airborne particle size, shape, and origin.
ARIA consolidates funding strategy into seven new opportunity spaces
New CEO Kathleen Fisher unveiled a restructured research roadmap spanning AI, biology, climate, robotics, and neurotech ahead of a new Programme Director cohort.
ARIA published its 2026 Corporate Plan, "Activating the ecosystem"
The plan details how ARIA's opportunity spaces and Activation Partner programmes have matured and outlines the pathways it is building toward real-world deployment of funded research.
MacPaw and Liquid AI partner on on-device Mac AI stack
The multi-year collaboration pairs Liquid Foundation Models with MacPaw's Elix and Mnemos tech, starting with the Eney assistant.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B for on-device agentic tasks
The 2.6B-parameter open-weight model targets phones, laptops, and robots, running fully offline for tool-calling and multi-step agent workflows.
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M
Two new open-weight bidirectional encoders built on the LFM2 hybrid architecture, optimized for long-context workloads on CPU-only hardware with up to 3.7× faster inference than ModernBERT-base at 8,192 tokens.
Bluesky CEO says platform is working to shed progressive-only reputation
Toni Schneider told The Verge the app is courting sports, finance, and entertainment voices while keeping pluggable moderation tools for existing users.
Bluesky's Attie AI assistant launches Quests, expanding into open social research tool
The Quests feature lets users ask open-ended questions about trends, breaking news, and influential accounts across Bluesky and all AT Protocol apps in the broader "Atmosphere" — not just Bluesky itself.
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