It''s harder to read code than to write it (www.coderabbit.ai)
A secure cloud vault and usage-tracking service for all your LLM providers (blog.mozilla.ai)
Games That Pushed the Limits of the Sony PlayStation (racketboy.com)
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Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They''re Disabled? (reason.com)
Vibecession: More Than You Wanted to Know (www.astralcodexten.com)
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer [video] (www.youtube.com)
Travelers wear pajamas to airports in protest of government request (www.washingtonpost.com)
Russia blocks Apple''s FaceTime in mounting push against foreign tech platforms (www.reuters.com)
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PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners (github.com)
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AWS Graviton 5 (www.aboutamazon.com)
Ising-Conway Entropy Game (ICEg) (arxiv.org)
An AI toy meant for kids was happy to chat about sexual fetishes (www.cbc.ca)
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AI Takes over Boring Code: Is Software Engineering Losing Its Soul? (www.interviewquery.com)
Economic Nihilism (www.palladiummag.com)
ASRock adds DDR4 slots on DDR5 H610M COMBO motherboard (videocardz.com)
POTUS wants Asia''s ''cute'' kei cars to be made and sold in US (www.bloomberg.com)
Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes'' images (www.nature.com)
Claude Code Plugin Marketplaces (code.claude.com)
The Constraints That Create Autonomy (www.davidpoll.com)
Ehtml (e-html.org)
Linguistic Sightseeing: The Germanic Languages, Part I (collisteru.substack.com)
Workplace hierarchies are gravity wells (notleo.com)
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Anthropic Interviewer: What 1,250 professionals told us about working with AI (www.anthropic.com)
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VK_EXT_present_timing: the Journey to State-of-the-Art Frame Pacing in Vulkan (www.khronos.org)
The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf] (dspace.mit.edu)
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One-Third of US Families Earn over 150k (marginalrevolution.com)
TrueMeter: AI Energy Agent That Optimizes Utility Bills (truemeter.com)
Multivox: Volumetric Display (github.com)
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The End of the Train-Test Split (folio.benguzovsky.com)
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Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T and the MGs, dies aged 84 (www.theguardian.com)
KiTTY Terminal Graphics Protocol (sw.kovidgoyal.net)
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (en.wikipedia.org)
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Journal retracts landmark glyphosate paper after 25 years (blog.maryannedemasi.com)
Autism should not be treated as a single condition (www.economist.com)
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Like Ruby on Rails, but for Rust (loco.rs)
The Gap for LLMs Isn''t Benchmarks – It''s Everyday Value (github.com)
We suffered MongooseJS so you don''t have to (prosopo.io)
U.S. Institute of Peace renamed for Trump after his admin dismantled the agency (www.nbcnews.com)
Country faces water crisis visible from space as taps risk running dry (www.cnn.com)
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Teaching an LLM to Write Assembly: GBNF-Constrained Generation for a Custom CPU (www.jamesdrandall.com)
Making generative AI sustainable with NVFP4 (www.weyl.ai)
Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget (www.reuters.com)
Influence of Control Strategy on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Energy Consumption (www.mdpi.com)
Boot STM32MP135 over UART with Python (embd.cc)
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GPT 5.1 research thinks it''s 2024 so ignoring search results mentioning 2025 (twitter.com)
The Depopulation Trade: An Unruly Thesis (blog.unrulycap.com)
China''s chip champions miss their DRAM cue (www.reuters.com)
FDEs were why I invested in Palantir in 2022 (and sold it all in 2024) (ossa-ma.github.io)
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com)
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Rust: Proof of Concept, Not Replacement (files.neoon.com)
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Proton Launches Proton Sheets (proton.me)
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Chat Control Twist: Commissioner Sides with Parliament over Governments (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Deep generative classification of blood cell morphology (www.nature.com)
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Experimental vaccine prevents deadly allergic reactions in mice (www.nature.com)
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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas (arstechnica.com)
Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available (www.proxmox.com)
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Music Streaming Unwrapped, 2025 (pivic.blog)
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The State of Node-RED''s User Experience in 2025 (nodered.org)
Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data (www.france24.com)
AI Data Centers Can Tell Us Something About Credit Market Weakness (www.bloomberg.com)
China has invented a new way to do innovation (www.noahpinion.blog)
Macron warned US could ''betray'' Ukraine in leaked leaders'' call (www.politico.eu)
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Sam Altman Has Explored Deal to Build Competitor to Elon Musk''s SpaceX (www.wsj.com)
Meta''s Wearables Device Access Toolkit: Dev Preview Available Now (developers.meta.com)
An Abstract Arsenal: Future Tokens in Claude Skills (jordanmrubin.substack.com)
Warning to lawyers helping LiP who submitted AI-generated authorities (www.lawgazette.co.uk)
Coupongogo: Remote-Controlled Crypto Stealer Targeting Developers on GitHub (www.rastersec.com)
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Open-Source Demos for Understanding Multi-Agent Collaboration (openagents.org)
RFdiffusion3 Now Available (www.ipd.uw.edu)
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Emily Bache on Ward Cunningham''s Fearless Refactoring (kerrick.blog)
Zuck Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts (www.bloomberg.com)
A German court may have just shattered one of the Biden era''s biggest lies (thehill.com)
New York Times Sues Pentagon over First Amendment Rights (www.nytimes.com)
Operando interlayer expansion of curved graphene for dense supercapacitors (www.nature.com)
Redis''s Homegrown JSON Parser (github.com)
Easy Trap (stackdiver.com)
SVG Filters – Clickjacking 2.0 (lyra.horse)
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual [pdf] (media.defense.gov)
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Proton Sheets Launches as Encrypted Alternative to Google Sheets (www.macrumors.com)
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Linux 6.19 Fixes a Thundering Herd Problem for Big NUMA Servers (www.phoronix.com)
Microsoft open sources text-to-speech model VibeVoice‑Realtime‑0.5B (huggingface.co)
A Historic Flip in Child Malnutrition (twitter.com)
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Elastic makes strategic investment in Siren (www.businesswire.com)
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100 Years of Quantum Physics: Rise of the Matrix (1925) (galileo-unbound.blog)
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Human hair grows through ''pulling'' not pushing, study shows (phys.org)
Functional Quadtrees (lbjgruppen.com)
David Gentile not required to pay 15.5M in restitution after Trump commutation (www.politico.com)
Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Game Tests If People Know How Much Porn Characters Have on the Internet (kotaku.com)
Parametric Shape Optimization of Rocket Fins with Ansys SpaceClaim and PyAnsys (si-tesseract.discourse.group)
VectorChord 1.0: Vector Search on Postgres, 100x Faster Indexing than pgvector (blog.vectorchord.ai)
Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business (proton.me)
BMAD-Method: Breakthrough Method for Agile AI Driven Development (github.com)
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A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks (epoch.ai)
Where most people trust others and where they don''t around the world (www.pewresearch.org)
The Gem Fellowship – grant partnership with gem.coop (gem.coop)
Mars Has Its Own Clock and It Runs Faster Than Earth''s (www.discovermagazine.com)
AI slope keeps a man in jail (www.nytimes.com)
PCILeech: Direct Memory Access via PCIe FPGA (github.com)
Enthusiast modder creates the smallest-ever PlayStation using genuine chips (www.tomshardware.com)
Data Science Weekly – Issue 628 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)
C Enum Class and Error Codes, Part 3 (mropert.github.io)
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Big Tech are the new Soviets – We''re in a planned economy now (unherd.com)
Bond investors warned US Treasury over picking Kevin Hassett as Fed chair (www.ft.com)
TidesDB vs. RocksDB (tidesdb.com)
Imo.im – Instant Messenger (imo.im)
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ConcoLLMic: Agentic Concolic Execution (concollmic.github.io)
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SereneDB Secures 2.1M to Challenge the Status Quo of Search and Analytics (www.serenedb.com)
Deeplearning.ai launched course on building coding agents with tool execution (learn.deeplearning.ai)
OpenAI to acquire Neptune, a startup that helps with AI model training (www.cnbc.com)
Wooden skyscrapers point the way to more sustainable cities (www.nature.com)
18,000 Reasons It''s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America (www.nytimes.com)
Multiplying with a constant (xania.org)
Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years (www.topspeed.com)
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself (www.nytimes.com)
XY Problem (xyproblem.info)
OSS Challenge 2026 – Start Your Career in Bitcoin Open Source Software (bosschallenge.xyz)
Turing Awardees Republished Key Methods Whose Creators They Failed to Credit (people.idsia.ch)
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"A Disaster Waiting to Happen" (www.techradar.com)
More than half of new articles on the Internet are being written by AI (www.tucsonsentinel.com)
Meta Is Killing Messenger Desktop Apps PWAs Are Finally Taking Over? (www.cnet.com)
I Ignore the Spotlight as a Staff Engineer (lalitm.com)
Brave vs. Firefox – Brave (brave.com)
How A Man Convicted of Running a Latin American Narco State Landed a Pardon (www.wsj.com)
Einstein Would Be Rejected Today:Why We Need a Cognitive Paradigm Nuclear Fusion (medium.com)
Google insider profited 1M in a single day betting on the Google search markets (twitter.com)
NextJS Security Vulnerability (nextjs.org)
30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" (web.archive.org)
Tracker AI – A Veterinary LLM Trained on 300k Clinical Cases (www.trackerai.ai)
Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents (www.leoniemonigatti.com)
AI Image Generation – Kirkify.live (kirkify.live)
Amazon Nova (aws.amazon.com)
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How confessions can keep language models honest (openai.com)
WordPress Playground: 2025 Year in Review (make.wordpress.org)
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Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop (kextcache.com)
Automate Claude Code (github.com)
PGlite – Embeddable Postgres (pglite.dev)
Flock cameras are also computers – and perfectly hackable (neuburger.substack.com)
Porn company fined 1M over inadequate age checks (UK) (www.bbc.co.uk)
We created API-Bench to test how well LLMs execute against APIs (superglue.ai)
NRC Completes Safety Review of TerraPower Natrium [pdf] (www.nrc.gov)
Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On (git.sr.ht)
Tom Cruise''s case for embodied knowledge (www.metropolitanreview.org)
Jetpack Compose now matches Views performance in scroll benchmarks (android-developers.googleblog.com)
Euro zone business activity expands at fastest pace in 30 months in November (www.reuters.com)
Greed is Destroying the World [video] (www.youtube.com)
Red, green, refactor: writing perfect Go with TDD (bitfieldconsulting.com)
India''s government plans to launch zero-commission rideshare platform (www.theregister.com)
Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)
Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (old.reddit.com)
Programming Peaked (functional.computer)
How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI acquired AI training monitor Neptune (neptune.ai)
Australia says world will follow social media ban as Meta starts blocking teens (www.reuters.com)
Livestream: MEPs Question Commissioner Brunner on Chat Control (multimedia.europarl.europa.eu)
People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to A.I. Chatbots (www.nytimes.com)
Software Developers Are a Dying Breed (x.com)
AI bubble a "key downside risk" to U.S. economy, OECD warns (www.axios.com)
The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time? (www.theguardian.com)
PostHog watches user sessions with multi-modal LLMs (in 5 not-so-easy steps) (posthog.com)
Why CachyOS? (wiki.cachyos.org)
OASIS approves Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 standard (www.oasis-open.org)
Bot based election interference in Romania (youth.europa.eu)
Stateless cluster local OCI registry mirror (spegel.dev)
Good news: JavaScript is 30yo today Sad news: its own name doesn''t belong to it (javascript.tm)
Google''s Agentic AI wipes user''s HDD (www.tomshardware.com)
''Chemtrails'' Conspiracy Theory Dogging the Battle Against Drought (www.wsj.com)
Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs (arxiv.org)
Ghostty Cursor Shaders (github.com)
The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021) (www.cyberark.com)
Russian astronaut kicked out of the U.S. for stealing proprietary SpaceX designs (behindtheblack.com)
GPT-5-Thinking using Grokipedia as a source (www.reddit.com)
OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI (venturebeat.com)
The Making of Fizzy, Told by Git (www.zolkos.com)
SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 Released (swi-prolog.discourse.group)
Pentagon Investigator Faults Hegseth for Improper Use of Signal (www.nytimes.com)
100-year-old pi formula given by India''s Ramanujan hides an universe (www.indiatoday.in)
Windows Secure Boot certificates expiring in 2026 (support.microsoft.com)
Build your own ChatGPT from scratch in C (github.com)
AWS partners with Nvidia to use NVLink in AI chips (techoreon.com)
Dartmouth Announces AI Partnership with Anthropic and AWS (home.dartmouth.edu)
Advent of Code Quantum Edition: Day 1 (aqora.io)
Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel About a Real-Life Nightmare (www.bloomberg.com)
A Cosmic Offense: Elias Canetti''s contest against death (www.commonwealmagazine.org)
Super-Flat ASTs (jhwlr.io)
Finding "Just Fine" (joeblu.com)
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year (www.wsj.com)
Foreign-dlopen: call dlopen from static programs (github.com)
Volt a Terminal-native HTTP client that''s also an insanely fast load tester (github.com)
We Launched Zo Computer (0thernet.substack.com)
Hostile states may target Ireland during EU presidency (www.irishexaminer.com)
Multics Relational Data Store (MRDS) (www.mcjones.org)
BookWyrm, a Federated Goodreads Alternative (bookwyrm.social)
Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001) (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Zero-Setup Java Build Tooling via Mill Bootstrap Scripts (mill-build.org)
Trees – J Wiki (code.jsoftware.com)
Google''s Android for desktops and laptops is called "Aluminium – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182/CVE-2025-66478) (react2shell.com)
China planted so many trees it''s changed the country''s water distribution (www.livescience.com)
Google has released Android 16 QPR2''s source code (www.androidauthority.com)
Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s (uncloud.run)
Lego ZX Spectrum – Tribute to Sir Clive Sinclair (beta.ideas.lego.com)
Mirror_bridge – C reflection for generating Python/JS/Lua bindings (chico.dev)
Why our AI future may look less like Skynet and more like Olympus (awesomeworld.substack.com)
Faith (en.wikipedia.org)
AI agent achieves Rank 1 across major CTFs – a defining moment for cybersecurity (arxiv.org)
Should CSS Be Constraints? (pavpanchekha.com)
AI Agents and Agentic Commerce: Strategic Insights for Business Leaders (lightrains.com)
Bad Dye Job (daringfireball.net)
AI coaching tool for Engineering Managers (www.managercommit.dev)
Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy (www.nature.com)
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (www.nature.com)
San Francisco''s Homeless Crackdown – It''s Sorta Working [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI Might Not Harm Us in the Way You Think (nautil.us)
Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it''s as expensive as gold (www.tomshardware.com)
Russia Bans Roblox (www.bbc.com)
Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yes (theconversation.com)
I Think I Found Something Weird About Physical Constants (quantummarmelade.substack.com)
From stadiums to cyberspace: How the metaverse will redefine sports fandom (phys.org)
Static analysis to prevent Zip Bombs and architectural bottlenecks (codeprot.com)
High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by ultrasonic extraction (www.nature.com)
Hopefully Soon" Is Killing Your Dreams (mindthenerd.com)
Alma Telescope engineering logs show spectral normalization is deleting outliers (zenodo.org)
Why is Anthropic saying "software engineering is done"? (www.augmentedswe.com)
Rare earths startup Vulcan Elements scores 600M US federal government deal (www.ft.com)
Nano Banana Pro – AI Image Editor with Perfect Text Rendering and 4K (nanobanana.org)
New homes in London were delayed by ''energy-hungry'' data centres (www.bbc.com)
Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600 (fortran-lang.discourse.group)