Warner Bros. Discovery once again rejects Paramount offer in favor of Netflix (www.cnbc.com)
Lincos: A Language for Cosmic Intercourse (en.wikipedia.org)
Hi, JAX: An introduction to vanilla JAX for deep learning research (github.com)
Most successful information technology in history is the one we barely notice (bigthink.com)
U.S. Forces Seize Fleeing Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker in North Atlantic (www.twz.com)
Cert Expirations disables Logitech keyboard and mice apps (support.logi.com)
CES 2026: Dell XPS Returns (www.dell.com)
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs (arxiv.org)
I lost my library in a fire (www.theatlantic.com)
NFL Again Towers Over U.S. Media in 2025 – NFL had 83 top broadcasts (www.sportico.com)
Jobs ''At Risk from AI'' Were Declining Before ChatGPT Launched (www.unite.ai)
Bitcoin still hasn''t hit 100k when adjusted for inflation (www.coindesk.com)
Automotive industry expands open source collaboration (www.vda.de)
Open-source Teensy-compatible – what features do you want? (forum.pjrc.com)
Why California''s milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol (phys.org)
Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files (boingboing.net)
Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (2024) (boardgametextbook.com)
Gnome dev gives fans of Linux''s middle-click paste the middle finger (www.theregister.com)
Backdoors in VStarcam Cameras (palant.info)
What It Takes to Build an AI Agent (chatbotkit.com)
AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis (www.oblomovka.com)
Alpie Core: a 32B reasoning model trained and served at 4-bit (huggingface.co)
Implementing OPA: Comprehensive Overview and Practical Examples (2024) (permify.co)
Housing Tracker: Southern California home values drop in November (www.latimes.com)
Pgpm: A Package Manager for Modular PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org)
Grok Is Pushing AI ''Undressing'' Mainstream (www.wired.com)
AWS and Microsoft are selling more than cloud services (berthub.eu)
Diversity Vs Density: A data strategy comparison for fine-tuning VLMs (huggingface.co)
Lego Smart Brick (www.theverge.com)
A Company Came Up with a Different Approach: Fuel Without Petroleum (dailygalaxy.com)
xAI raises 20 billion to expand Grok AI models and enterprise tools (www.testingcatalog.com)
File over App Is a Philosophy (twitter.com)
Market Beliefs about Open vs. Closed AI (arxiv.org)
Can you review my online toolbox website? (omnvert.com)
A4 Paper Stories (susam.net)
New York Has 400 Miles of Scaffolding. Tokyo Has Nearly Zero (twitter.com)
Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001 (shkspr.mobi)
Progress made on AI-powered humanoid robots [video] (www.youtube.com)
New Gemini API (blog.google)
The 160k Mechanic Job That Ford Can''t Fill (www.wsj.com)
Bitcoin Core sees development uptick, reversing multi-year decline (www.theblock.co)
Timothée Chalamet Just Showed Us Why AI Music Licensing Will Fail (momentofcreation.substack.com)
Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016) (lbstanza.org)
Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2 (blog.yiningkarlli.com)
Logitech Mac Apps Fail After Expired Certificate on January 6 (x.com)
Diverse vertebrate species in mosquito blood meal (www.nature.com)
With SQLite, INSERT OR IGNORE Is Often Not What You Want (hoelz.ro)
The Money People Still Won''t Admit We''re in an AI Bubble–and They Never Will (www.inc.com)
The first new compass since 1936 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Redstone.dart, create mods in Dart or full GUIs using Flutter in Minecraft (xcancel.com)
The most popular Go dependency is (blog.thibaut-rousseau.com)
Research identify two psychological traits that predict conspiracy theory belief (www.psypost.org)
Continuous AI on Your Terminal (github.com)
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System (www.schmidtsciences.org)
History''s Attention Gap (kidopoly.com)
Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who spied for Soviet Union and Russia, dies aged 84 (www.theguardian.com)
AI ''Fatigue'' Leaves Investors Focused on S&P''s Other 493 Stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
UK university degree no longer ''passport to social mobility'', says King''s VC (www.theguardian.com)
C-from-scratch: Learn to build safety-critical systems in C (github.com)
Germany Discovers Lithium Deposit (dailygalaxy.com)
CPU Counters on Apple Silicon (blog.bugsiki.dev)
Building a speech-to-Markdown app with three coding agents (www.apptornado.com)
RAG That Works (thehyperplane.substack.com)
Product Description Generator (sellygenie.com)
Aviation emissions could be halved without cutting journeys (www.theguardian.com)
Shame Surrounding Spreadsheets (rubenerd.com)
Reflex FRP – a Haskell-based ecosystem for building user interfaces and web apps (reflex-frp.org)
Vercel CEO''s Grok 4 vs. GPT 5.2 chess match runs all night (still on) (v0-chess-match.vercel.app)
Ikigai (en.wikipedia.org)
Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com (addons.mozilla.org)
China seeks to enhance ties with Ireland to boost relations with EU (www.reuters.com)
Hetzner: Measuring the performance of the new gen server types (old.reddit.com)
Digg.com (Relaunch) (digg.com)
OpenAI down 20% of AI Web Traffic in last 12 months (twitter.com)
Ralph Wiggum went from ''The Simpsons'' to the biggest name in AI (venturebeat.com)
China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers, sources say (www.reuters.com)
How CU Boulder''s student news site got taken over by AI slop (www.denverpost.com)
Valve Should Buy Discord (Before the IPO) (www.garbagecollected.dev)
The mineral riches hiding under Greenland''s ice (www.bbc.com)
Robot vacuum maker Roborock shows off stair-climbing model with legs (www.thestar.com.my)
Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors (www.wired.com)
Teenager died of overdose ''after ChatGPT coached him on drug-taking'' (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Changes to Android Open Source Project (source.android.com)
Snake Oil by Bruce Schneider (February 15, 1999) (www.schneier.com)
Universal Consciousness as Foundational Field (pubs.aip.org)
One Pizza Team (www.avraam.dev)
Promoting AI Agents (world.hey.com)
Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins says AI is useless for solving math (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
No one is invading Greenland anytime soon (www.youtube.com)
Netflix Ruined Korean Dramas Forever [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why one small American town won''t stop stoning its residents to death (archiveofourown.org)
Necrosecurity, Immunosupremacy, and Survivorship in the Imagination of Covid-19 (www.degruyterbrill.com)
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) (dl.acm.org)
How 150 Minutes over Caracas Rewrote the Physics of Global Power (substack.com)
What is index overhead on writes? (www.depesz.com)
A Couple 3D AABB Tricks (gpfault.net)
Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming (alextardif.com)
I built a marketing operating system instead of another AI tool (www.google.com)
Nineteen Septillion Addresses – Setting Up an ASN and Getting an IPv6 Allocation (alastairbarber.com)
Modern C Programming (open-access course) (federico-busato.github.io)
Climbing the mountain: or, venturing into PL theory (techne98.com)
The Q, K, V Matrices (arpitbhayani.me)
Quaject (en.wikipedia.org)
This Month in Redox – December 2025 (www.redox-os.org)
The Stock Market Is Doing Something It''s Only Done Twice Since 1871 (www.aol.com)
Coding Essentials for Astronomers (tingyuansen.github.io)
Greenland Will Be American (isitpropaganda.substack.com)
Remember this video next time you''re arguing with someone on the internet (twitter.com)
Reverse Engineering Zed''s AI Coding Assistant with Mitmproxy (dzlab.github.io)
Hacker Dressed as Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage (www.pcmag.com)
An Electronic Ising Machine (arxiv.org)
How to Install Cosmic Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (linuxiac.com)
XARA9 – Complete AI Framework running on consumer hardware (xara9.com)
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Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries (lareviewofbooks.org)
Unified Local Observability for AI Coding Assistants (ai-observer.dev)
State of GPU Hardware (End of Year 2025) (asawicki.info)
Why Devs Need DevOps (ravestar.dev)
OpenPBR: Novel Features and Implementation Details (arxiv.org)
A bit of glass and freedom is all you need (lemire.me)
Google Dorking (dorksearch.pro)
Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run (stackoverflow.blog)
Take a Moment, and Read (twitter.com)
Larry Page officially moving out of California ahead of proposed billionaire tax (www.businessinsider.com)
Trump steals 50M barrels of oil from Venezuela (asiaviewnews.com)
How GitLab uses Postgres and ClickHouse to power their data stack? (clickhouse.com)
Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GLM-4.6 (llm-stats.com)
Getting my first 100 users with 0: what worked (amplift.ai)
Siemens and Nvidia Expand Partnership to Build the Industrial AI OS (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Scientists Think They''ve Discovered How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision (www.popularmechanics.com)
FDA to limit regulation of health and fitness wearables (www.reuters.com)
Proposal: Extract the Parser of TypeScript Native into a Standalone Go Module (github.com)
(US) Homeland Security uses Hiroshi Nagai''s artwork without permission (twitter.com)
''Yamagata is ramen'': Japan''s city of noodle fiends revels in ''capital'' status (www.theguardian.com)
Jupiter''s moon Europa lacks undersea activity needed for life, study suggests (phys.org)
Canada''s Immigration Dept shelves visa program for entrepreneurs, citing misuse (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress (www.newsweek.com)
Venezuela ''turning over'' oil to US in move that could cut supply to China (www.theguardian.com)
Trump gets Greenland in 4 easy steps (www.politico.eu)
The ''Growler'' Signal-Jamming Jet That Helped Capture Nicolás Maduro (www.wsj.com)
VLang 0.5 Released (github.com)
Featherbase (www.featherbase.info)
PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code (docs.base14.io)
A Tutorial on Safe Anytime-Valid Inference [pdf] (www.alexander-ly.com)
AIVO Standard Methodology Note: Correction and Assurance Ledger (zenodo.org)
Investing Mastery with Nick Sleep: Nomad''s Costco Investment (quartr.com)
Most Shorted Stocks of 2025 (oncow.com)
FreeBSD and Poudriere in High Security Environments (vermaden.wordpress.com)
Japanese Washi Paper (paper.gatech.edu)
2025 Buy-Side Quant Job Advice (byfire.substack.com)
What Social Science Knows About the Value of Diversity (www.theatlantic.com)
Lego''s ''SMART brick'' is designed for interactive play without screens (www.designboom.com)
Benchmarking Postgres for FTS with TOASTed JSONBs and GINs Against Elasticsearch (github.com)
Micro Victory Army (microvictoryarmy.com)
We need to seize the means of robot production (boingboing.net)
Innovation Cycles in an Age of AI (www.apifirst.tech)
Coral reef fish recovery could boost sustainable seafood servings by up to 50% (phys.org)
Why the Sudden Emergence of Sodium-Ion Batteries? (cleantechnica.com)
Gemini''s 3 line execution mode (olshansky.info)
Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV (arstechnica.com)
A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V (riseproject.dev)
A game engine based on dynamic SDFs [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Untold Story of Charlie Munger''s Final Years (www.msn.com)
Logitech Options not working on macOS due to expired cert (old.reddit.com)
"We have stratum zero at home" (ewpratten.com)
Travel Is Not Education (fi-le.net)
Native NVMe Support in Windows Server 2025 (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields [video] (www.youtube.com)
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A Child in the State of Nature (lareviewofbooks.org)
Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II''s Memory Limitations (www.youtube.com)
In Memoriam: All the tech that died in 2025 (mashable.com)
It doesn''t take two to think. It takes ITERATION to think (twitter.com)
PCBWay introduces transparent PCBs [video] (www.youtube.com)
Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Someone tried to hack into my SendGrid account (moth.monster)
Chat platform Discord files confidentially for US IPO (www.reuters.com)
Why write unit tests? (2024) (henko.net)
The Guardian view on Trump''s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it''s not the whol (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization (www.theguardian.com)
GitHub Compiled (githubcompiled.com)
Russia sends submarine to escort tanker the US tried to seize off Venezuela (www.reuters.com)
Logitech Options Cert Expired (www.reddit.com)
Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (jasoneckert.github.io)
Rockstar still hasn''t offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 developers (www.pcgamer.com)
Lost ''Star Trek'' Episodes from the Unproduced ''Phase II'' Series (www.womansworld.com)
Ba (github.com)
It''s a Great Time to Be a Software Engineer (bitbytebit.substack.com)
Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission (www.modernretail.co)
Clifm 1.27 Is Out (github.com)
Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ''invade'' Venezuela (www.ft.com)
Clone Any Sass (github.com)
Why does the Android Gmail app have no app-level lock? a security flaw (issuetracker.google.com)
DiskImage: A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis (github.com)
Programming is not coding: The cognitive cost of LLM generation (github.com)
White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot''s 5th Anniversary (www.nytimes.com)
Cory Doctorow calls for abandoning anticircumvention appeasement laws globally (pluralistic.net)
How do graphics drivers work? (timur.hu)
InfiniTime 1.16 "Starfruit" (github.com)
The Mac Malware of 2025 (Objective-See) (objective-see.org)
New California law requires a working fridge in all apartments (calmatters.org)
Frankenstyle is a build-less Tailwind CSS alternative (franken.style)
The data center rebellion is here, and it''s reshaping the political landscape (www.washingtonpost.com)
A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI (techcrunch.com)
Logitech Apple Developer Certificate has expired; (old.reddit.com)
The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84 (www.washingtonpost.com)
Beautiful Terminal Calendar (github.com)
Why Most Websites Don''t Need Cookie Consent Banners (block81.com)
Many schools no longer assign full novels but excerpts on school-issued laptops (www.theguardian.com)
Sam Altman to Elon Musk on Recruiting from Tesla (twitter.com)
PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases (backalleycoder.com)
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC (arstechnica.com)
The paradox of failed resolutions (jillianhess.substack.com)
The modern peril of the availability heuristic (www.behavioraleconomics.com)
We Recreated Steve Jobs''s 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It (blog.adafruit.com)
Microsoft wants to resurrect Three Mile Island. It will never happen (thehill.com)
Cursor''s Context Engineering Practice (cursor.com)
Website with a DMCA Takedown (priyatham.in)
XAI announces it has raised 20B (www.theguardian.com)
Revolutionary generator transforms Chinese factories into power plants (kdwalmsley.substack.com)
A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction (www.nature.com)
Refreshing the Brain''s Immune Cells Could Treat a Host of Diseases (singularityhub.com)
The Start – Introduction, Mini Market Ticker (substack.com)
Knowledge curation (not search) is the AI big data problem (www.daft.ai)
A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures (azmr.uk)
Coding Adventure: Analyzing Audio [video] (www.youtube.com)
Startup develops inflatable fall-protection pants to prevent hip fractures (www.ctvnews.ca)
Debian Gets Its Own PPA-Like System as Debusine Repositories Launch (linuxiac.com)
Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
SQL Server SSMS scroll indicator 2.5x harder to grab (developercommunity.microsoft.com)
A Map of Us (amapof.us)
LiveVue v1.0 (livevue.skalecki.dev)
AI automation paradox: More work, not less (www.theregister.com)
Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is (hecate.pink)
Ofcom asks X about reports its Grok AI makes sexualised images of children (www.bbc.co.uk)
TIL: Gabriel, Jibril, and Cebrail Are the Same Name (ahmeto.com)
Scratchpad – A Throwaway Notepad for Developers (scratchpad.starlightjen.com)
API Clients: Bruno betrays, Yaak yaks (royathan.com)
Trump threatens to cancel midterms–realized he''ll be ''impeached'' if GOP defeated (www.the-express.com)
JavaScript Analyzer – Burp Suite Extension (github.com)
AI begins prescribing medications in Utah (www.politico.com)
Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space (www.scientificamerican.com)
The 5 stages of the ''Enshittification'' of Academic Publishing (theconversation.com)
The 1k Neuron Challenge (www.thetransmitter.org)
''Whata Bod'': An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Boring Reason We Don''t Have 7 Rideshares (abio.substack.com)
A Response to France''s Best-Selling Covid Skeptic (www.integritytalk.blog)
Discord to File Confidentially for IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft Bob: Microsoft''s biggest flop of the 1990s (dfarq.homeip.net)
A congressman wants to criminalize insider trading on prediction markets (www.axios.com)
Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf] (csef.it)
Vulnerability in Ruby that has existed since 2002 (nastystereo.com)
Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Software Too Cheap to Meter (secondthoughts.ai)
01.06.2021 (www.whitehouse.gov)
Prosody 13.0.3 released – An XMPP/Jabber server written in Lua (blog.prosody.im)
Cloud: Row in Bavaria over billion-euro Microsoft contract without tender (www.heise.de)
Mail Censorship in World War II (medium.com)
Chat of the Future Initiative – XMPP – The universal messaging standard (xmpp.org)
European leaders rally behind Greenland in face of renewed US threat (www.reuters.com)
Trump Floats Cancelling 2026 Elections, Then Insists He Won''t (time.com)
Is the Fate of the West Being Sealed for Good in Greenland? (colliert.substack.com)
Reinforcement learning without human annotations (twitter.com)
Magnetic control of lithium enables a safe, explosion-free ''dream battery'' (techxplore.com)
AI Propaganda factories with language models (arxiv.org)
Marcus Weighs in (Mostly) for LeCun (garymarcus.substack.com)
Founder of spyware maker pleads guilty (techcrunch.com)
Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026): Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod.nasa.gov)
Nvidia''s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level (arstechnica.com)
Coxeter and Dynkin Diagrams (arxiv.org)
GPT 5.2 helps solve Erdős problem #728 (www.erdosproblems.com)
Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants (metacpan.org)
High-Performance GPU Cuckoo Filter (github.com)
A connection between capability-based security and lambda calculus (killerstorm.github.io)
Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios (conbini.kikkia.dev)
Code is a liability (not an asset) (pluralistic.net)
Client and Lawyer Both Responsible for Attorney Fees in AI Hallucination Case (reason.com)
Cybersecurity Bill: ORG calls on MPs to reduce UK reliance on US tech companies (www.openrightsgroup.org)
Are we tired of social media once and for all? On the downfall of social media (www.danielbrendel.com)
What is the Base Services Charge, and how will it change my bill? (www.pge.com)
LG''s housekeeper robot designed to automate your daily chores (newatlas.com)
US discussing options to get Greenland, incl use of military, says White House (www.bbc.co.uk)
Over 200K law firms threatened by Vincent AI phishing flaw (www.scworld.com)
Chinese auto giant Geely to announce entry into US EV market within 2-3 years (electrek.co)
500k tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released (www.anildash.com)
Quant interview and mental math practice (quantercise.com)
The Great Depression: Elevator Pitch (scottsumner.substack.com)
Breakthroughs Rare and Decreasing (splittinginfinity.substack.com)
L.A. fire cleanups reports describe repeated violations (www.latimes.com)
Oncotarget becomes the target of a DDoS attack (anandamide.substack.com)
Stellar Catalog: Discover the nearby universe (www.stellarcatalog.com)
CATL EV batteries significantly outperform rivals in degradation, tests show (electrek.co)
1972 Great Daylight Fireball (en.wikipedia.org)
CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD''s Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)
Tesla''s full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath (electrek.co)
Losing Things Less Often (excamera.substack.com)