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Alarm raised over ‘privacy dilemma’ of facial recognition technology at Coles and Woolworths

Supermarkets say they are exploring ways to keep people safe, but experts claim the tech is ‘normalising surveillance’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Consumer privacy advocates have responded with alarm after Coles and Woolworths confirmed they were testing facial recognition technology that they could use in their Australian supermarkets to record shoppers’ personal…

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Alarm raised over ‘privacy dilemma’ of facial recognition technology at Coles and Woolworths

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Why Your Generated Tone Clicks, and How an Envelope Fixes It

If you have generated a pure tone in code and played it back, you may have noticed a small click at the start, the end, or both. The tone itself is clean, but the edges are not.

  • Click at tone start and end due to sudden volume jump
  • Envelope technique smooths volume transition
  • Attack and release regions shape sound timbre

·dev.to

First came self-driving cars. Now, Waymo veterans are building autonomous construction equipment.

Bedrock Robotics said its excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are working without human operators on three sites in Texas and Nevada.

  • Waymo veterans develop autonomous excavators for construction sites in Texas and Nevada.
  • Bedrock Robotics, founded in 2024, automates construction equipment with AI system.
  • Autonomous construction equipment aims to address labor shortages and safety concerns.

·businessinsider.com

The Day I Realized I Wasn't Building Apps

The Day I Realized I Wasn't Building Apps For years, I thought I was building apps. That's what I called them anyway. A scheduler. A job bot. A healthcare platform. An AI project. A content tool.

  • Ash Bhatti realized his projects were systems, not just apps.
  • He identified a common thread: reducing repetitive effort.
  • His work focuses on building systems to solve problems.

·dev.to

Why I left Warehouse out of our Fabric deployment scope

Why I left Warehouse out of our Fabric deployment scope published: true tags: microsoftfabric, datawarehouse, cicd, devops Our Fabric deployment pipeline handles sixteen item types.

  • Warehouse intentionally omitted from Microsoft Fabric deployment pipeline
  • DEFAULTITEMTYPES list excludes Warehouse to prevent schema reset risk
  • Exclusion highlighted in README under known limitations

·dev.to

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