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I think this type of photography is the perfect solution to what to do with your camera on a rainy day

December 9, 2025
You might think that still life photography requires a large space to operate in and a huge assortment of photography lighting kits, but if you’re a photography beginner or simply want to kill time on a rainy day, you can capture still life photography from the comfort of your own home using window light exclusively. In fact, drab days can work very well, with soft diffused light flooding…
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The ticket bot cometh: cities are ticketing drivers that AI says are bad [update]

December 9, 2025
In a high-tech move that we can all get behind and isn’t dystopian at all, the City of Barcelona is feeding camera data from its city buses into an advanced AI, but they swear they’re not using the footage to to issue tickets to bad drivers. Yet. UPDATE 06DEC2025: the ticket bot cometh to Chicago. Last month, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) contracted with Hayden AI to equip six of its…
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DefenseNews

The disarming of Hezbollah tests fragile government in Lebanon

December 9, 2025
BEIRUT — One year after Lebanon and Israel signed a ceasefire agreement to end hostilities that had spilled over from Gaza, the Lebanese government is walking a tightrope between disarming Hezbollah and containing local resentment over continued Israeli strikes aimed at increasing pressure on the group, according to officials and analysts. “The agreement is vague and open to interpretation,”…
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ComputersNews

AI video descriptions are coming to Blink security cameras

December 9, 2025
AI is already crafting natural-language summaries of what Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest cameras are seeing, and now the AI-generated descriptions are coming to Blink cameras, too. Slated to begin rolling out today in beta to U.S. users, Blink Video Descriptions will…
ComputersNews

16 new features coming in Windows 11’s huge December update

December 9, 2025
On Tuesday the 9th, Microsoft will release December’s monthly patch for Windows 11. The last Patch Tuesday in 2025 will be huge, because according to Windows Central, there will be no fewer than 16 new features included in the update (though given the nature of Windows 11…
ComputersNews

I was afraid to install a smart lock. Now I wish I’d done it sooner

December 9, 2025
As a mom to six kids in rural Nebraska, it’s been hard for me to accept that the world is changing. Except for a few years in Omaha, I’ve lived in small rural communities almost all my life. It’s actually not uncommon in my community to leave your car—or home—unlocked and to know all your neighbors by name. But things are different from the way they used to be. We’ve had some close…
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