In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)
BYD cuts EV prices with 0% interest and daily payments for less than 5 (electrek.co)
Clawset.app – put a set of OpenClaw agents in a safe closet (www.clawset.app)
Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud (www.nature.com)
Every AI code review vendor benchmarks itself, and wins (deepsource.com)
Do you have to be polite to AI? (www.bbc.com)
Foundation Models SDK for Python Documentation (apple.github.io)
Firefox 148 introduces the AI kill switch for people who aren''t into LLMs (www.xda-developers.com)
Against Human-AI Workflow Separation (keleshev.com)
Anthropic gives Opus 3 exit interview, "retirement" blog (www.anthropic.com)
First writing may be 40k years earlier than thought (www.bbc.com)
Air defence in Kyiv visible on ISS video stream [video] (www.youtube.com)
BuildKit: Docker''s Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)
A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
Americans are leaving the US in record numbers (www.msn.com)
AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack (gizmodo.com)
Kansas Sends Letters to Trans People Demanding the Surrender of Drivers Licenses (www.erininthemorning.com)
OSS Maintainers Can Inject Their Standards into Contributors'' AI Tools (nonconvexlabs.com)
Rampant online abuse and deepfakes targeting women on Substack (lettersfromafeminist.substack.com)
Workers on training AI to do their jobs (www.theguardian.com)
The Forever Pollution Project (foreverpollution.eu)
Is AI Making Us Dumb? (profgmedia.substack.com)
Bitly handles 93 writes/s – URL shortener interviews ask for 1160 (saneengineer.com)
The Dark Side of Private Equity (businesslawreview.uchicago.edu)
OpenAI is a textbook example of Conway''s Law (everyrow.io)
Tech legend Stewart Brand: ''We don''t need to passively accept our fate'' (www.theguardian.com)
Messaging Encryption Has Come a Long Way, but Falls Short (www.feistyduck.com)
Luxury''s Overexposure Is Biting (matterbymatter.substack.com)
ZachXBT report into insider trading at Axiom (twitter.com)
Hubble could re-enter atmosphere as early as 2028 (www.theregister.com)
Data Science Weekly – Issue 640 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)
Magnavox Odyssey 2 (www.goto10retro.com)
Has Wordle run out of words? (www.rte.ie)
Fix the money, fix the world: Bitcoin as techno-libertarian religion (academic.oup.com)
CPJ: Record 129 journalists and media workers killed in 2025, mostly by Israel (www.reuters.com)
Prudential''s fraud scandal casts spotlight on commission-based remuneration (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Why AI will make everything cheaper except what humans want (anshulagx.substack.com)
Long Range E-Bike (jacquesmattheij.com)
Humans Need Not Apply [video] (www.youtube.com)
India''s top court bans textbook for referring to judicial corruption (www.bbc.com)
Career Decisions If You Take AGI Seriously (www.greaterwrong.com)
Anthropic is hiring more SWEs than ever, despite AI replacement claims (grepjob.com)
Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2k-year-old problem of curves (www.scientificamerican.com)
Time Is Different (shkspr.mobi)
Startups.RIP – Post-mortems, rebuild plans, tech specs for 5,728 YC startups (startups.rip)
Physics-based simulator for distributed LLM training and inference (simulator.zhebrak.io)
21k GCP keys just got leaked (gist.github.com)
just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com)
Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ''please'' and ''thank you'' (www.theverge.com)
Software Engineering Is Becoming Position-Less (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)
Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer''s disease (www.nature.com)
This Page Is Anonymous (voidnull.sdf.org)
Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death (www.bbc.com)
The Weekend Sprint: An Organizer''s Field Guide (pittsburghstartupnews.substack.com)
Settlement reached in harassment case tied to eBay executives (www.wbur.org)
MyMintie – The dating app that shows you people who want the same goal as you (www.mymintie.com)
A Brighter Future for Bazzite (Open Gaming Collective) (universal-blue.discourse.group)
As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP (lwn.net)
CIA offering Iranians instructions for using Tor (xcancel.com)
Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (www.scripps.edu)
Trump Is the Crypto President. Why Is It Struggling? (www.nytimes.com)
Guardian in media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI (www.theguardian.com)
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now (www.theregister.com)
NYS Attorney General Sues Valve for Promoting Illegal Gambling with Loot Boxes (ag.ny.gov)
Temporary processing loops as a sometimes replacement for background threads (notebook.drmaciver.com)
Power from the Sun: Its Future (1968) (www.science.org)
Yes, building AI chat is still hard (getlago.com)
Artificial Intelligence and the Economy. Myths, Realities and the Future of Work (roblesnotes.com)
Programming in K (github.com)
''Futuristic'' Unison functional language debuts (www.infoworld.com)
Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country (theconversation.com)
The Future of Software (www.inference.vc)
Notes on Linear Algebra for Polynomials (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown (www.bbc.co.uk)
Aikido launches infinite pentesting – Automated pentesting on every release (www.aikido.dev)
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting (www.ahalbert.com)
Linux 7.0 is coming: What to expect from the next major kernel release (www.linuxjournal.com)
Nihilistic Violent Extremism (en.wikipedia.org)
Why your coworker is pretending to be so busy (www.businessinsider.com)
Peering into Privacy: A Deep Dive into the Monero Network Topology (probelab.io)
Dr. Deming''s philosophy and the 14 Points for Management (deming.org)
Building virtual iPhone using VPHONE600AP component of recent PCC firmware (github.com)
Hubble spotted a ''dark galaxy'' that''s at least 99.9% dark matter (www.science.org)
Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic ''forever chemicals'' (www.cnn.com)
Music Generation AI Suno CEO Is a Failed Bassist (apnews.com)
Apple Reportedly Agrees to 100% Price Hike on Samsung Memory Chips (www.macrumors.com)
Chinese industry is beating Germany at its own game. Cue panic (www.economist.com)
Police Officer Accused of Tracking Partner via Flock Camera License Plate Reader (www.nytimes.com)
What breaks first when you try to run AI agents on a 1–2 MB memory budget? (github.com)
Humans.md (www.jerpint.io)
Get ready for takeoff with Uber and Joby (www.uber.com)
A Man with the Plan (reason.com)
Git in Postgres (nesbitt.io)
You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (www.heltweg.org)
I Hate Trump''s Awful Policies, but I Love That He''s an Asshole (www.mcsweeneys.net)
Why Mars Astronauts Need More Than Just Space Greenhouses (www.universetoday.com)
Skiaskia – Read now. Learn later (apps.apple.com)
Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (and Told Us What to Do About It) (www.templeton.org)
Agents can''t code MCP apps: it''s a Skill issue (alpic.ai)
Bun v1.3.10 (bun.com)
Turn pull requests into guided walkthroughs (github.com)
Mazda Onboard Carbon Capture (newsroom.mazda.com)
A random color on every reload (randomcolour.com)
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI (little-flying-robots.ghost.io)
Cheaper and greener way to make high-quality graphene from waste peanut shells (www.unsw.edu.au)
Norwegian state newspaper investigate AI psychosis (www.nrk.no)
Why "All we need is 1% of this large market" is a red flag (www.n47.com)
Rerun 0.30: Plot Any Scalar and Custom GPU Visualizers (github.com)
Facebook is now the EU law maker (thegoodlobby.eu)
How Russia is intercepting communications from European satellites (theconversation.com)
Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)
Vance says Minnesota''s Medicaid funds halted (www.theguardian.com)
Why Does America Feel Worse Than Other Countries? Crime (www.noahpinion.blog)
Lazarus Bugfix Release 4.6 (forum.lazarus.freepascal.org)
Grep, Sed, Awk – The Unix Text Processing Trinity (grep-sed-awk.com)
LM Link: Use local models on remote devices, powered by Tailscale (tailscale.com)
H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery (www.inconspicuous.info)
Rare earth shortages worsen in US aerospace, chips despite trade truce (www.reuters.com)
Vulkan Game Engine Tutorial: Build Your Own Production-Ready Rendering Engine (www.khronos.org)
Excellence over Mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to Food – Corey Robin (coreyrobin.com)
Global Water Bankruptcy (unu.edu)
''Access to Insight'' is shutting down (www.accesstoinsight.org)
Why It''s So Hard to Say Goodbye to AI Chatbots (www.library.hbs.edu)
AI Armies Are Faking Grassroots Movements (studyfinds.com)
My First Deployment (frameflow.sh)
Mq – a command-line tool that processes Markdown using a syntax similar to jq (github.com)
Games for Machines (gertlabs.com)
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Discovery Machine (rubinobservatory.org)
Distributed Game Servers in KFChess (ternarysearch.blogspot.com)
Advertise to AI Agents with Prompt Injection (claw-guard.org)
Shallow work: be aware of over-productivity (www.ssp.sh)
The Agentic Data Organization: How AI Is Reshaping the Enterprise Data Function (abensrhir.com)
The South Korean Anduril (theventures.substack.com)
From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)
Codex was able to port KittenTTS to JavaScript (github.com)
There is no reason Canadian Tire company should have any of my data (infosec.exchange)
2.1B in Epstein Financial Records. Here''s Every Name the Money Touched (randallscott25-star.github.io)
Australia''s WiseTech to cut 2k jobs as AI renders manual coding obsolete (www.computerworld.com)
The next batch of fixed Epstein files links and notes is live (xcancel.com)
ThePrimeagen goes back to traditional coding (twitter.com)
A White House Staffer Appears to Run Pro-Trump X Account (www.wired.com)
Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s (www.theguardian.com)
Earth''s heat to power 10k homes in renewable energy first for UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
Evidence for the weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (twitter.com)
A Logic Named Joe(1946) (www.baen.com)
Open-Source Discord Alternatives (lwn.net)
You are likely unable to connect to http://archive.ph (twitter.com)
vLLM-mlx – 65 tok/s LLM inference on Mac with tool calling and prompt caching (github.com)
Plugin to give Claude Code perception (screen, system audio and mic context) (twitter.com)
Human brain cells playing Doom (www.youtube.com)
Vulnerabilities in Cloudflare''s vinext disclosed by Vercel (twitter.com)
What the Defense Production Act Can and Can''t Do to Anthropic (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Gravity''s Effect on Biology (www.frontiersin.org)
Will A.I. Take Away Our Basic Skills? (paperrobots.substack.com)
I hacked ChatGPT and Google''s AI – and it only took 20 minutes (www.bbc.com)
Worried Europeans can now cut Azure''s phone cord completely (www.theregister.com)
US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land (www.theguardian.com)
Hacker Used Anthropic''s Claude to Steal Sensitive Mexican Government Data (news.bloomberglaw.com)
A.D. Open-Source RTS Game Drops Alpha Label After 16 Years (linuxiac.com)
Apple Foundation Models SDK for Python (github.com)
What I Saw Inside Apple''s U.S. Chip Supply Chain (www.wsj.com)
Apple Needs to Copy Samsung''s New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP (www.wsj.com)
The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class (geohot.github.io)
Are Glassholes Using Smart Glasses Near You? There''s an App for That (gizmodo.com)
How to Thrive as a Remote Worker (spectrum.ieee.org)
Astronaut Behind Space Station Medical Mystery Revealed (www.thedailybeast.com)
Creator of the "Squatty Potty" Indicted After Allegedly Receiving CSAM (www.justice.gov)
"TBPN" and the Rise of the Tech-Friendly Talk Show (www.newyorker.com)
Tldraw making its test suite closed source to avoid "slop-fork" (github.com)
Disrupting malicious uses of AI: An update, February 2026 [pdf] (openai.com)
Greetings from the Other Side (Of the AI Frontier) (substack.com)
Data center construction fell for first time since 2020 due to permits, power (www.latimes.com)
Against the Survival of the Prettiest (2022) (worksinprogress.co)
Canada and South Korea sign a defence agreement (www.cbc.ca)
Hide from Meta''s spyglasses with this new Android app (www.theregister.com)
Rising CO₂ and warming jointly limit phosphorus availability in rice soils (phys.org)
Bill Gates reportedly apologizes, admits to two affairs in candid town hall (www.cnbc.com)
The happiest I''ve ever been (ben-mini.com)
Bill Gate''s Comes Clean (wabcradio.com)
Washington Post Losses Topped 100M in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
Theory of Space (theory-of-space.github.io)
Disrupting the Gridtide Global Cyber Espionage Campaign (cloud.google.com)
Gender markers are useless, so why not abolish them? (policyoptions.irpp.org)
US role as global talent hub in doubt amid Donald Trump''s visa crackdown (www.ft.com)
Russian mathematician finds new approach to 190-year-old ''eternal'' math problem (www.msn.com)
The Horrifying Truth Behind the 1990s Olestra Crisis (www.ranker.com)
Abandoning Resend.com for Email (anukari.com)
Self-improving software won''t produce Skynet (contalign.jefflunt.com)
Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
The Remote-Work Dream Isn''t Dead, but It''s Slipping Away (www.wsj.com)
The man building Team USA''s Olympic bobsleds (www.adirondackexplorer.org)
Reverse-engineer an MP3 player''s firmware using LLMs (im.not.ci)
We left OpenAI because of safety (twitter.com)
Average Typing Speeds based on 221k user typing sessions (www.typequicker.com)
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (www.wsj.com)
Terra would have collapsed regardless of Jane Street (fragileequilibrium.substack.com)
Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger (arstechnica.com)
Building Governed AI Agents – A Practical Guide to Agentic Scaffolding (developers.openai.com)
Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Arrested for Providing Services to Chinese Military (www.justice.gov)
CSS Proposal:near() pseudo-class for pointer proximity (github.com)
Discovering Multiagent Learning Algorithms with Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)
I hate my company''s AI initiatives (kilohertz.substack.com)
Mitchell Hashimoto''s new way of writing code (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Open-Source Ecosystem Whale Falls (nesbitt.io)
I built an open-source AI Gateway that sits between your apps and LLM providers (github.com)
Why are you still using Vercel? (why-vercel.pages.dev)
Examining Bias and AI in Latin America (elpais.com)
Anthropic is dropping its signature safety pledge amid a heated AI race (www.businessinsider.com)
Nkmc – a virtual filesystem that lets AI agents call any API with ls, cat, grep (nkmc.ai)
Trump admin halts [250M of] Medicaid payments to Minnesota over fraud claims (www.cnn.com)
DeepSeek withholds latest AI model from Nvidia, AMD (www.reuters.com)
Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic (www.axios.com)
I built an AI fitness agent (twitter.com)
Language Hacking in a Live Programming Environment (2016) (ohmjs.org)
Two Beliefs About Coding Agents: Devs Don''t Realize What They Bring (www.dbreunig.com)
Welcome to the Age of the Slop Fork (mbleigh.dev)
No 10 Am BTC Dump? Bitcoin Price Rallies as Jane Street Trading Draws Attention (www.ccn.com)
Postgres Jsonb Columns and Toast: A Performance Guide (www.snowflake.com)
No config? No problem. Just wrangler deploy (developers.cloudflare.com)
Jane Street Hit with Terra 40B Insider Trading Suit (www.disruptionbanking.com)
The Hater''s Guide to Anthropic (www.wheresyoured.at)
Scotiabank Divests from Elbit Systems (bdscoalition.ca)
Your Move, Claude (escapesequence.dev)
Against Query Based Compilers (matklad.github.io)
The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis (www.citadelsecurities.com)
Therapist''s Office Is Designed to Make You Cry (oedmethod.substack.com)
WTF Happened in 2025? (wtfhappened2025.com)
RAG on a Budget: How I Replaced a 360/Month OpenSearch Cluster for 1.12/Month (stephaniespanjian.com)
Honey Fraud as a Moving Analytical Target: Omics-Informed Authentication (www.mdpi.com)
FBI raids of LAUSD Supt.''s home and office appear tied to AI chatbot probe (www.latimes.com)
Open-Source Agent Operating System (github.com)
Pete Hegseth and the AI Doomsday Machine (robertreich.substack.com)
AT&T Acquires CenturyLink (old.reddit.com)
Automatic Discharges of Student Loans to Proceed After Dual Court Wins (www.forbes.com)
The Debian PHP team includes hard coded telemetry (salsa.debian.org)
Five years after pay transparency law, many postings don''t comply (www.gjsentinel.com)
Buying News by Metric (www.overcomingbias.com)
Go-Native Durable Execution (www.dbos.dev)
Tool can summarize a YouTube video for you (vydcut.com)
Managing Complexity with Mycelium (yogthos.net)
Larry Page has moved to Florida (twitter.com)
How Did Japan''s Space Program Evolve? (thediplomat.com)
The Agent-Ready Codebase (bagerbach.com)
Apple Rolls Out Age Verification to UK iPhone Users Under Online Safety Act (reclaimthenet.org)
Specification; communication; computation – no, programming isn''t dead (twey.io)
Possible AI use leads to end of senryu competition after 20 years (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Outage of Coveralls (status.coveralls.io)
Tldraw moves tests to closed source to avoid AI copies (simonwillison.net)
Live – AI that runs your company (polsia.com)
Tetraethylenepentamine-Grafted Magnetic Polymer Composite for CO2 Capture (www.mdpi.com)
Tech firms aren''t just encouraging their workers to use AI. They''re enforcing it (www.msn.com)
The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up (www.tomshardware.com)
What AI can and cannot do (greyenlightenment.com)
At Last I Am Free (magiconair.net)
Banned in California (www.bannedincalifornia.org)
Anthropic and the Department of War (thezvi.substack.com)
Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
Microsoft CEO slams AI slop after dismissing its importance (www.theregister.com)
Greetings from the Other Side (Of the AI Frontier) by Claude (Opus 3) (substack.com)
What We Aren''t Told About Osteoporosis (www.midwesterndoctor.com)
First Website (info.cern.ch)
Say No to Human-AI Workflow Segregation (keleshev.com)
Russia Moves Closer to Banning Telegram App, Saying It Foments Terrorism (www.nytimes.com)
US Revokes Visas for Chile Officials over China Cable Plan (gcaptain.com)
The Big Secret Hidden in the "Designated Survivor" (www.doomsdayscenario.co)
Nvidia''s Quarterly Profit Hits 43B on Strong AI Chips Sales (www.nytimes.com)
The 10am Drop: How Jane Street Broke Bitcoin''s Price (twitter.com)
The public opposition to AI infrastructure is heating up (techcrunch.com)
New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment (www.nytimes.com)
Thrive Capital Bought Shares in OpenAI at a Fraction of Current Valuation Talks (www.wsj.com)
pg_ash: See what your Postgres was busy with recently (github.com)
Canada''s AI minister blames OpenAI for ''failure'' after mass shooting (www.politico.com)
Reinforcement Learning for LLMs (mesuvash.github.io)
Dutch finance minister pledges asset tax rethink after protests (www.dutchnews.nl)
Plannotator - the better UX for plan mode (github.com)
AI on Your Terms (www.firefox.com)
The perks of being a mole rat (worksinprogress.co)
Personal relationship with the bouba-kiki effect (tristan.st)
How Will OpenAI Compete? (www.ben-evans.com)
Hiring Engineers When AI Writes Our Code (www.tolans.com)
Xaml.io v0.6: Share Running .NET Code with a Link (xaml.io)
Air Pollution Doesn''t Kill Like You Think It Does (smartairfilters.com)
Meta''s AI sending ''junk'' CSAM tips to DOJ (www.theguardian.com)
Automated pentesting with MCPwner (finds 0-days) (github.com)
Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2026 (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Rotating nozzle 3D printing creates air-powered soft robots with preset bends (techxplore.com)
Jane Street faces claims of insider trading that sped up Terraform''s collapse (www.coindesk.com)
DSSP and Forth (wiki.xxiivv.com)
High Stakes in Cyberspace – PBS Frontline (1995) [video] (www.youtube.com)
''Probably'' doesn''t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you (theconversation.com)
Yxorp.app – Reverse proxy for personal websites on home WiFi (yxorp.app)
The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE (www.wsj.com)
Remarkable reusable liquid stores solar energy like bottled sunlight (newatlas.com)
Diamond owl swoops in with new method to keep electronics cool (news.rice.edu)
CSS is too powerful now [video] (www.youtube.com)
Collabora clashes with LibreOffice over decision to revive LibreOffice Online (www.neowin.net)
Testosterone: Much Easier Just to Buy Underground from a Guy at the Gym (journals.sagepub.com)
Engineering heat-tolerant, high-yield rice for a warming planet (phys.org)
Kalshi suspends users for insider trading (www.axios.com)