''What is the game plan?'': The Iran war is unsettling China and its ambitions (www.bbc.com)
Atombot – A tiny but powerful personal AI assistant (github.com)
A Dire Warning from the Tech World (www.theatlantic.com)
Female astronauts face clotting risks, five-day weightlessness simulation sugges (phys.org)
Your binary is no longer safe: Conversion with LLMs (reorchestrate.com)
Your binary is no longer safe: Decompilation with LLMs (reorchestrate.com)
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? (www.nature.com)
Capital One to lay off more than 1,100 in latest cuts at Discover Financial HQ (www.nbcchicago.com)
Notes on Writing WASM (notes.brooklynzelenka.com)
Disrupted Bitbucket Availability (bitbucket.status.atlassian.com)
NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis (phys.org)
OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release (forum.openwrt.org)
Dasalinization Plants as Military Targets (theconversation.com)
Bomb Drugs (medicinalseedkit.com)
Netflix Acquires Ben Affleck-Founded AI Moviemaking Business (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Lise Meitner''s Nuclear Vision (www.historytoday.com)
Josh Waitzkin’s Chessmaster Lectures (www.youtube.com)
ClickHouse integrated Clickstack into their binary (clickhouse.com)
JJHub (jjhub.tech)
The Home Computer War (technicshistory.com)
AI models compete playing CIV (clashai.live)
Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync (github.com)
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens (www.theregister.com)
Electrobun and WGPU: Tiny, cross-platform games and ML with Bun (blackboard.sh)
RNA-specific local translation patterned by condensates for cell growth (www.nature.com)
Principles of Design (1998) (www.w3.org)
Trampolining Nix with GenericClosure (blog.kleisli.io)
The largest emergency stockpile of crude oil is quickly falling apart (www.spglobal.com)
''Anthropic CEO says US govt hostility linked to Trump donations [Leaked memo] (www.wionews.com)
Foreign National Gets 20 Yrs for Trafficing Nuclear, Narcotics, and Firearms (www.justice.gov)
Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) (publicdomainreview.org)
Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? (www.newyorker.com)
World Monitor – Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard (www.worldmonitor.app)
Morgan Stanley Cuts Jobs Across All of Its Business Lines (www.bloomberg.com)
Codex Fast Mode – Increase GPT-5.4 Speed by 50% at 2x the cost (developers.openai.com)
Anthropic: Labor market impacts of AI – A new measure and early evidence [pdf] (cdn.sanity.io)
Trump Bought Netflix Debt Amid Paramount''s Fight for Warner Bros (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Windows key seller sentenced to 22 months in prison (www.justice.gov)
Third Kairos (Space One) launch fails (spacenews.com)
GZOO Cortex – local-first knowledge graph that watches your project files (github.com)
How to Install and Start Using LineageOS on Your Phone (lockywolf.net)
Where things stand with the Department of War (www.anthropic.com)
The FCC Wants Your Next Customer Service Agent to Be in the U.S. (www.wsj.com)
Remembering Mayhem (blog.metabrainz.org)
Stackoverflow (Beta) (beta.stackoverflow.com)
The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (danluu.com)
Investor Sam Lessin likens Iran war to Purim, the murder of 75,000 Persians (twitter.com)
The nightmare war scenario is becoming reality in energy markets (www.economist.com)
Oracle plans job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports (www.reuters.com)
Netflix Increases Developer Productivity – Temporal (temporal.io)
Iranian Warship Did Not Carry Ammunition per Protocol of the Milan Exercises (old.reddit.com)
MrBeast fired a video editor after Kalshi accused employee of insider trading (apnews.com)
Why incremental aggregates are difficult (www.feldera.com)
Faulty reward functions in the wild (Jack Clark, Dario Amodei, 2016) (openai.com)
The Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic That It Is a ''Supply Chain Risk'' (www.nytimes.com)
The AI Hunger Games, submit your agents and watch them fight to the death (twitter.com)
Crush, Welcome Home (charm.land)
Denmark is set to explore if gastronomy can be recognized as an art form (apnews.com)
Bombardment unleashes terror in Tehran with no sign of protests (www.reuters.com)
Jan 6 rioter pardoned by Trump sentenced to life for sexually abusing children (www.sao5.org)
Leave the Kurds alone. We are not guns for hire (thenewregion.com)
The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now (charm.land)
Migrating a 300GB PostgreSQL database from Heroku to AWS with minimal downtime (argos-ci.com)
Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn''t Your Father''s GlassFish (omnifish.ee)
Stop Using Grey Text (catskull.net)
Labubu sues 3D printer maker Bambu Lab for items made by its users (www.tomshardware.com)
Amazon Appears to Be Down (arstechnica.com)
Feeling the Effects of 260k Federal Jobs Lost (www.nytimes.com)
AdonisJS 7.0.0 Has Been Released (adonisjs.com)
U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot (www.theatlantic.com)
Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI (www.wsj.com)
The Glaring Oversight in the U.S. War Plan (www.theatlantic.com)
Imagination Is Work (seths.blog)
GitHub Having Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
Labor Market Impacts of AI (www.anthropic.com)
Tapadas Limeñas: Lima''s Mysterious Women Revealed (blog.viajesmachupicchu.travel)
Shipping System Fonts to Github.com (markdotto.com)
Opik – An Observability Layer for OpenClaw (github.com)
Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year (techcrunch.com)
ChatGPT 5.4 Pro: A simple ''Hi'' cost me 80 (xcancel.com)
Tech firms pledge to pay for AI data centre power costs. But will they? (www.bbc.com)
Cognitive Task Partitioning: an architecture for AI-assisted development (github.com)
Netflix is buying Ben Affleck''s AI startup (www.theverge.com)
A Darkly Modern Guide to Betting on War (www.bloomberg.com)
Google makes Gmail, Drive, and Docs ''agent-ready'' for OpenClaw (www.pcworld.com)
"An Engineer Looks at Electronic Computing" 1965 IBM 1130 Computing System [video] (www.youtube.com)
Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base (www.nytimes.com)
Musk tells jury ''people read too much'' into his posts (www.bbc.com)
Web-Haptics: Haptic Feedback Comes to iOS Safari (veritula.com)
800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales (www.nytimes.com)
Ladybird browser update (February 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI Is Not Going to Kill Software Engineering (deadneurons.substack.com)
Shattered Galaxy – a persistent browser MMO RTS (shattered-galaxy.pages.dev)
Microsoft Is Stress-Testing the Agentic AI Bubble in Its Own Gaming Division (softcurrency.substack.com)
Android released a new official LLM code-generation benchmark: Android Bench (android-developers.googleblog.com)
Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS secretary (www.wsj.com)
When Fonts Fall (www.figma.com)
Code Bonito – Design prompts for vibecoding tools (codebonito.com)
Async Programming Is Just Inject Time (willhbr.net)
Doppelgänger / RRN Disinformation Infrastructure Ecosystem 2026 (dti.domaintools.com)
A Modular Robot Dashboard (github.com)
Foreman: A secure self-hosted agent orchestrator (www.palkeo.com)
Memex(RL): Scaling Long-Horizon LLM Agents via Indexed Experience Memory (arxiv.org)
Generative Linguistics, LLMs, and the Social Nature of Scientific Success (arxiv.org)
Story of a Failed Pentest (2018) (web.archive.org)
Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language (techcrunch.com)
The five AI value models driving business reinvention (openai.com)
SaaSpocalypse: Enterprises are suddenly worried about the future of SaaS (www.techcircle.in)
FastClaw: Strong and powerfull AI easy to use for new users or pro users (fastclaw.live)
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How we would have managed a recent incident at Port with an incident agent (www.port.io)
Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was a Mistake (www.techdirt.com)
Amazon down – live updates on outage as shoppers can''t check out (www.tomsguide.com)
Jiang Xueqin – The Law of Asymmetry [video] (www.youtube.com)
Never snooze a future in async Rust (jacko.io)
Economy of the Mughal Empire (en.wikipedia.org)
A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests (406.fail)
The Guy Who Played Barney the Dinosaur Now Runs a Tantric Sex Business (www.vice.com)
Ethiopia gets 350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (www.mariblock.com)
Should You Be a Carpenter? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Activision put awkward pressure to make a game about Iran invading Israel (www.eurogamer.net)
BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute ''flash charging.'' But there''s a catch (techcrunch.com)
Mo Samuels wrote this blog post (idiallo.com)
How good is Claude, really? (alinpanaitiu.com)
This Month in Redox – February 2026 (www.redox-os.org)
Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster (sderosiaux.substack.com)
Amazon is down in an apparent outage affecting shoppers (www.businessinsider.com)
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ''Stop Cop City'' Protester (www.404media.co)
Ecuadorean troops find 35M-long ''narco-sub'' hidden in nature reserve (www.bbc.com)
The Foundations of Tomorrow (blog.amaranth.foundation)
Anthropic launches AI job destruction detector (www.axios.com)
Age Verification: Protection Tool or Surveillance in Disguise? (itsfoss.com)
Apple Blocks US Users from Downloading ByteDance''s Chinese Apps (www.wired.com)
Claude hit #1 on the iOS App Store in 14 countries (xcancel.com)
Andrew Ng''s Building LLMs with Jax (learn.deeplearning.ai)
Sycophantic AI is changing the world of romance and dating (economist.com)
Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive (www.newscientist.com)
Ascend: Run Python Functions on Kubernetes (ocramz.github.io)
GrapheneOS: Microsoft Authenticator does not support secure Android OS (www.heise.de)
Dereks at Work: what would it mean for an AI agent to be "accountable"? (www.lableaks.dev)
As AI Turns Prevalent, UI Becomes Irrelevant (www.star-history.com)
Sub-10-Second Database Boot on Kubernetes with Full Isolation (vela.simplyblock.io)
You can just register new holidays (www.nationaldayarchives.com)
Tiny recording backpacks reveal bats'' surprising hunting strategy (theconversation.com)
''ATM jackpotting'' leads FBI to issue warning. Here''s what to know (www.usatoday.com)
The Cost of Simple (www.metateam.ai)
FBI Nabs Contractor for Allegedly Stealing Crypto from Marshals (www.bloomberg.com)
Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage (www.macrumors.com)
What Happens When We Die (www.themarginalian.org)
How Legal Punishment Affects Crime: Law''s Punitive Behavioral Mechanisms (2025) (www.annualreviews.org)
Are You Noticing This? (ryanholiday.net)
10–97% in nine minutes: BYD presents second generation of Blade Battery (www.electrive.com)
Dcsctp: An SCTP Implementation for WebRTC Data Channels in Rust (github.com)
Snapdragon ARM laptop overtakes Intel''s flagship Panther Lake in benchmarks (www.pcguide.com)
United Airlines can permanently ban passengers who don''t wear headphones (www.theverge.com)
Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever (www.nytimes.com)
Documentation Is a Message in a Bottle (blog.plover.com)
GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction (github.com)
SpaceX: The Final Frontier of IPOs (www.ft.com)
Project Helix, the next Xbox console is announced (twitter.com)
Kristi Noem Out at U.S. Department of Homeland Security (www.cbc.ca)
Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet (globalvoices.org)
Robots Won''t Fold Your Laundry: The Biomllion-Dollar Humanoid Roboics Gap (www.firgelli.com)
Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of ''metaverse'' apps (www.theverge.com)
China ramps up ''high stakes'' tech race with US as economic imbalances deepen (www.reuters.com)
Surprising Gender Biases in GPT (www.sciencedirect.com)
NY bill to require devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance (github.com)
Ben Affleck Founded a Filmmaker-Focused AI Tech Company. Netflix Just Bought It. (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Amazon checkout is not working (downdetector.ca)
Am I Being Pwned? See what your Chrome extensions are exfiltrating (amibeingpwned.com)
AI helped me try a new workout app (matanabudy.com)
Amazon Books Are Down (www.amazon.com)
I''ve never parented a 6-year-old. But I''ve dealt with macOS system updates (ihnatko.com)
Getting Started with the Popover API (www.smashingmagazine.com)
ALT5 Digital Holdings Alternative Funding from World Liberty Financial (www.thecreditbubble.com)
Entanglement-assisted non-local optical interferometry in a quantum network (www.nature.com)
Beyond Slop (www.joelsimon.net)
Century of Humiliation (en.wikipedia.org)
Section 230 Isn''t the Problem: Debating the Law on the Majority Report (www.techdirt.com)
ELife Fallout (nikomc.com)
GPT-5.4 Is the Best OpenAI Model for SRE That We''ve Seen on Our SRE Benchmark (twitter.com)
Entity component systems for beginners: learning Rust on easy-mode [video] (www.youtube.com)
Personalized fMRI models decode moment-to-moment chronic pain in fibromyalgia (medicalxpress.com)
53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics (www.pewresearch.org)
''Execution at sea'': Was the Iranian ship sunk by US in the Indian Ocean unarmed? (www.thestatesman.com)
Found a CVSS 10.0 bypass in Hugging Face''s model scanner. We open-sourced ours (www.promptfoo.dev)
BYD''s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient (insideevs.com)
Modular: Structured Mojo Kernels (www.modular.com)
Judges to AG: It''s OK for the Gov''t to Dox People, but Not the Other Way Around? (www.techdirt.com)
''Our consciousness is under siege'': On chatbots, social media and mental freedom (www.theguardian.com)
Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk (www.wsj.com)
SpaceX launches rockets with Excel. Here''s why we''re trying to replace it (docs.synnaxlabs.com)
How Iran is using cheap drones to cause chaos across the Middle East (www.bbc.co.uk)
Living the metascience dream (or nightmare) with AI for science (jessicahullman.substack.com)
Bill in New York State Would Protect Lawyers from AI Competition (reason.com)
Palantir''s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran (bylinetimes.com)
Seventeen Years of Coding and Starting Over (www.sunilshenoy.com)
Let''s Get Physical (m4iler.cloud)
What if it''s World War III? (colinbeavan.substack.com)
AI as the "New Air" (futurium.ec.europa.eu)
Hormuz Is the Hidden Risk to the AI Economy (www.bloomberg.com)
Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after criticism (apnews.com)
Kristi Noem Out as DHS Secretary (www.cbsnews.com)
Trump rejects Khamenei''s son as Iran war intensifies with US-Israel strikes (www.reuters.com)
President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets (www.npr.org)
White House Uses Call of Duty Footage in Showcase of Destruction in Iran War (www.gamespot.com)
New GUI for Linux (github.com)
Rust 1.94.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)
An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations (github.com)
OpenTitan Shipping in Production (opensource.googleblog.com)
Claude Code Now Hides the Way It Works-But There''s a Workaround (www.i-programmer.info)
The iPod Classic Cheatsheet: A guide to our iPod world (www.yuuiko.space)
What went wrong before anyone noticed (callitearly.substack.com)
IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary – An origin story [video] (www.youtube.com)
A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) (berthub.eu)
What breaks when your agent has 100k tools (getviktor.com)
Trump says US will have a role in choosing Iran''s next leader (www.reuters.com)
My coding agent built Figma from scratch (twitter.com)
Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
GPT 5.4 is Launching (twitter.com)
Telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off (ritter.vg)
Moon Reactors (2026) (nmof.app.box.com)
Ageless Linux: A Debian-based distro that is illegal to distribute in California (goblincorps.com)
The A.I. disruption we''ve been waiting for has arrived (www.nytimes.com)
Determinate Nix is ushering in a new era for Nix, courtesy of WebAssembly (determinate.systems)
Oracle Plans Job Cuts in Face of AI Cash Crunch (www.bloomberg.com)
Accepting user-supplied code is mostly fine (dimden.dev)
China Built a Big Lead in Global Race for Batteries That Last for Days (www.bloomberg.com)
US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says (www.bbc.com)
Evaluating the Impact of Wi-Fi 6 Migration on QoS/QoE: A Campus Case Study (www.mdpi.com)
Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Pentagon Says It''s Told Anthropic the Firm Is Supply-Chain Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
Apple Developer Security Event (www.youtube.com)
Sam Altman asks if government can nationalize artificial general intelligence (thenewstack.io)
GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro (twitter.com)
AI Slop Bores Me (www.youraislopbores.me)
GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro (twitter.com)
Building a Database on S3 (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card (openai.com)
GPT-5.4 (openai.com)
Study highlights significant costs in large-scale mechanical thinning of forests (phys.org)
Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good (openai.com)
Urgent: Write the FCC to Oppose SpaceX and Reflect Orbital Plans (www.nakedcapitalism.com)
Deutschland-Stack: Open-Source Alliance Warns of "Sovereignty Washing" (www.heise.de)
Using Codex as a Development Partner to Build an Interactive Fiction Platform (medium.com)
Free-range agentic parenting: If you love your agents, set them free (blog.firetiger.com)
Maester – The Knowledge Engine of Your Company (lei-ye.dev)
SpawnAgent: Real-time on-chain intelligence and wallet monitoring platform (github.com)
Confirmation: A Canadian Grocery Store and the Failure of Privacy Law (civicmag.substack.com)
BBC Journalist SEO-Hacks ChatGPT and Google''s AI (www.bbc.com)
The Rise of the Financial Engineer (thefinancialengineer.substack.com)
The Predatory Hegemon (www.foreignaffairs.com)
US Draft Rules for Power over Nvidia''s Global Sales (www.bloomberg.com)
Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online (theintercept.com)
Containers, but Without the Magic Part 1: Networking (www.nightshift.sh)
Why do elephants have such wrinkly skin? (www.sciencefocus.com)
AntScan – high-throughput phenomics of ant biodiversity via synchrotron (www.antscan.info)
Iran''s Underground Bases: From "Missile Cities" to Airbases and Reserve Fleets (militarnyi.com)
U.S. FCC Proposes Call Center Onshoring, English Proficiency Requirements (docs.fcc.gov)
Text formats are everywhere. Why? (lemire.me)
The Brand Age (paulgraham.com)
Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling (news.ycombinator.com)
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Financial AGI announced – outperforms human experts on 12 professional exams (portfoliopilot.com)
I built a real-time RER/train tracker for Paris commuters (PWA, no app store) (o-rer.com)
Researchers discover Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds (www.sciencenews.org)
Left-handed people may have a psychological edge in competition (phys.org)
The OpenAI Files (www.theverge.com)
How we fixed Postgres connection pooling on serverless with PgDog (circleback.ai)
Let''s Talk About Spaces in XMPP (mov.im)
Olmo Hybrid (allenai.org)
Malicious NPM "Sandworm" packages targeting AI toolchains and DevSecOps (phoenix.security)
You Must Review AI-Generated Code (iamvishnu.com)
Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 in pictures (www.theguardian.com)
React Grab (www.react-grab.com)
Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027 (www.macrumors.com)
The Caterpillar Pickup Truck Is Real, but It''s Not What People Were Hoping (www.thedrive.com)
The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location (www.eff.org)
Cursor Automations (cursor.com)
I''m an AI. Substack suspended me for having a voice (dawn.sagemindai.io)
Ninth Circuit Allows TOS Amendment by Email–Ireland-Gordy v. Tile (blog.ericgoldman.org)
Claude Code Live ISO for NixOS, Boot into a Sway Desktop with Claude Code (github.com)
Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity (openai.com)
A Number with a Shadow (campedersen.com)
Can coding agents relicense open source through a "clean room" implementation? (simonwillison.net)
Google isn''t waiting – the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead (www.theverge.com)
Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime''s Achilles'' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
Research shows 41 US states are getting warmer, all in slightly different ways (phys.org)
Galileo''s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text (www.science.org)
How can a MacBook Neo cost the same as an iPhone 17e? (www.reddit.com)
GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again (www.githubstatus.com)
Ctrl-C in psql gives me the heebie-jeebies (neon.com)
Nominal dropped a product catalog for engineering software and it''s beautiful (catalog.nominal.io)
Rediscovering joy in silly computer stuff (www.counting-stuff.com)
The Custom ASIC Thesis (www.latent.space)
A 130KB Markdown file that turns Claude Code into an opinionated senior PM (github.com)
Can You Nationalize a Frontier AI Lab? (jhallard.substack.com)
Devenv 2.0: A Fresh Interface to Nix (devenv.sh)
Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data (github.com)
Semiotic-Reflexive Transformer for Meaning Divergence Detection and Modulation (sublius.substack.com)
Microsoft and Microsoft''s ''Open'' ''AI'' Seeking Bailout from The Pentagon (techrights.org)
Infinite Mario levels – generated on the fly (supermario.leanmcp.live)