🧬 Uncle Sam Expands Biometric Surveillance to Include DNA and Iris Scans
A striking example of how national security priorities can clash with privacy rights—this policy underscores the growing reach of biometric and AI surveillance in government systems.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed a rule vastly expanding its biometric data collection for immigration-related cases. The plan would allow collection of DNA, voice prints, and iris scans from both immigrants and U.S. citizens associated with their applications. While DHS frames the move as enhancing identity verification, critics warn of surveillance overreach, privacy erosion, and the dangers of AI-driven misuse of sensitive biological data.
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✈️ UPS Cargo Plane Catches Fire During Takeoff Near Louisville
An unfolding aviation incident that underscores both the technical complexity of flight safety and the value of real-time reporting from aviation enthusiasts.
A UPS MD-11 cargo aircraft departing Louisville on November 4th, 2025, caught fire during takeoff. The Aviation Herald entry documents community discussions and updates as details emerge, with speculation focusing on possible causes and eyewitness reports.
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🦀 Rust’s SocketAddrV6 Fails Roundtrip Serialization
A sharp, hands-on debugging story that bridges low-level network design, historical RFC insights, and practical lessons for developers working with serialization in systems code.
This post explores a subtle serialization bug in Rust’s `SocketAddrV6`, where the `flowinfo` field is excluded from JSON output, causing mismatches on deserialization. Using property-based testing, the author investigates the issue’s roots in IPv6’s historical design and highlights how Rust’s networking abstractions reflect legacy socket structures.
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🧠 A Concise Guide to Modern Compiler Backends and Targets
A well-balanced introduction to compiler backend design—valuable for both researchers and developers interested in how languages interface with modern runtime and hardware architectures.
Abhinav Sarkar’s survey provides a clear overview of compiler backend architectures and target systems. It covers LLVM, GCC, and Cranelift, discusses transpilation to C or JavaScript, and explores virtual machine targets such as the JVM, CLR, and WebAssembly. It also examines PyPy and GraalVM meta-tracing frameworks and experimental compilation targets used for research and education.
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