Technology

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Silicone surfactants are specialized surface-active agents that combine silicone with hydrophilic (water-attracting) and hydrophobic (water-repelling) groups. Known for their superior spreading, wetting, and emulsifying properties, they are used in a wide range of industries including personal care, agriculture, coatings, and polyurethane foams. In cosmetics, they improve texture, spreadability, and moisture retention. In agriculture, they enhance the effectiveness of pesticide sprays by improving leaf coverage and penetration. Silicone surfactants also play a role in stabilizing emulsions and reducing surface tension in industrial applications. Their unique structure allows for performance benefits that traditional organic surfactants often cannot match.

404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250718041407/https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/

Imagine sending Google an encrypted question and getting back the exact results you wanted — without them having any way of knowing what your question was or what result they returned. The technique to do that is called Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).

Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd faces major fines and jail time for reviewing gaming handhelds that ship with preloaded ROMs.

Next week, on 22 and 23 July 2025, the High Court of Justice in London will hear the Wikimedia Foundation's legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the United Kingdom (UK)'s Online Safety Act (OSA).

Windows 11 24H2 has a bug where Event Viewer flags a critical Firewall error (Windows Firewall With Advanced Security 2042 None).

Replacement is the only option if you break a Pixel Watch, but that could change soon.

You can just say no. You don't have to do any of this crap.

Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan.

Netflix wants to “double” ad revenue this year.

Dictionary website isn’t offering refunds and is now only available with ads.

A talented developer has simulated a significant portion of Windows XP on the web, and you can access and you can play around with it using a simple link.

Dorsey's initial investment has gotten the new nonprofit "andOtherStuff" up and running, and he worked on some of its initial iOS apps.

Roblox will still monitor the conversations for ‘critical harm.’

A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

A chief economist at investment giant Apollo says the top ten AI stocks are more detached from reality than the tech titans of the 1990s were. His chart is a stark warning that history is about to repeat itself.

Amazon Prime subscribers are under attack — here’s what you need to know.

Archived version: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/07/17/amazon-warns-220-million-customers-of-prime-account-attacks/

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