Mozilla''s New CEO: It''s Time to Evolve Firefox into an AI Browser (www.pcmag.com)
FBI investigates founder accused of using VC money to pay for house and wedding (www.businessinsider.com)
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center (NCAR) in Colorado (www.usatoday.com)
Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025 (www.commentary.org)
GPT-5.2-high LMArena scores released, OpenAI falls from #6 to #13 (lmarena.ai)
ACM Digital Library started showing AI summaries of articles with abstracts (dl.acm.org)
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs (arxiv.org)
''Twitter never left:'' X sues Operation Bluebird for trademark infringement (www.theverge.com)
The Joy of Hex and Brouwer''s Fixed Point Theorem (2013) (vigoroushandwaving.wordpress.com)
New Ways to Corrupt LLMs (cacm.acm.org)
AI Browser Extensions Leave Fingerprints Everywhere (webdecoy.com)
Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, judge (techcrunch.com)
AI romance blooms as Japanese woman weds virtual partner of her dreams (www.reuters.com)
Tracking Renamed Files in Git (oleb.net)
FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison (www.businessinsider.com)
The Genius Effects of Old Movies [video] (www.youtube.com)
Apple TV''s new intro was done practical, not CGI or AI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Video: Lunar impact flash detected on the moon by Armagh Observatory (phys.org)
A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell (blog.ozeninc.com)
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The Best Open-Source Small Language Models (www.bentoml.com)
Deaf Crocodile Blu-Rays (deafcrocodile.com)
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The Bifurcation in the AI Market (tomtunguz.com)
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Optimizing Claude Code (mays.co)
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Adventures in the Land of Language Servers (speakerdeck.com)
FreeBSD Adopting a Port: Maomao (evilham.eu)
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Nothing headphone settings using WebSerial (nothing.community)
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Go 1.26rc1 Is Live (go.dev)
Video Calling App (nonflaky-nonfulminating-crystal.ngrok-free.dev)
OpenAI in Talks to Raise 10B, Adopt Amazon''s AI Chips (www.bloomberg.com)
You''re 25-35 years old? You''re running out of time (breatheless.substack.com)
It from Bit, Bit from It (www.symmetrybroken.com)
Photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Olympic venue (apnews.com)
GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection uncovers cryptomining campaign on AWS (aws.amazon.com)
Why Does AI Have to Be Held to a Higher Bar Than Humans (and Why It Matters)? (medium.com)
ByteDance Had Billion-Scale Vector Search Problem. It Solved with Hybrid Search (www.velodb.io)
The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down (www.theatlantic.com)
The perfect plastic? Plant-based saltwater degradable, zero microplastics (www.eurekalert.org)
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10 Years of AWS Well-Architected Framework: A Personal Reflection (ibrahimcesar.cloud)
OpenBB – Open Financial Terminal (github.com)
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California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing for Autopilot (www.cnbc.com)
Many high level domains hosting webstore blog website hacked (www.google.com)
Client-side PII redactor (WASM) to use ChatGPT safely (saferedact.vercel.app)
A universal law could explain how large trades change stock prices (phys.org)
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Montreal''s New Rail Line Is the Future – Macleans.ca (macleans.ca)
India launches DHRUV64, first 1.0 GHz 64-bit microprocessor designed in India (theprint.in)
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TinyTPU [video] (www.youtube.com)
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CS 4973: Introduction to Software Development Tooling – Northeastern Univ (2024) (bernsteinbear.com)
The Jagged AI Frontier Is a Data Frontier (huggingface.co)
Top six network security best practices to protect your business (proton.me)
AI promised a revolution. Companies are still waiting (www.reuters.com)
Uber and DoorDash Try to Halt NYC Law That Encourages Tipping (www.nytimes.com)
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Flow – A Programmer''s Text Editor (flow-control.dev)
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Get Food with Your Colleagues (lcmchris.github.io)
Canada launches its own quantum research program (betakit.com)
Trump''s Crypto Corruption Explained (www.youtube.com)
New MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations (www.thetimes.com)
An Interview with a YouTube Writer Behind 500M Views (www.humaninvariant.com)
Time Team Map of Episodes (2021) (deparkes.co.uk)
X updates terms, countersues to lay claim to the ''Twitter'' trademark (techcrunch.com)
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The Longest Suicide Note in American History (www.theatlantic.com)
Prototypes Are the New PRDs (www.figma.com)
Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy (www.theverge.com)
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Commodore 64 Ultimate Review (www.ign.com)
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Quantum Energy Teleportation Achieved Using W-State Entanglement (quantumzeitgeist.com)
Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage (www.windowslatest.com)
An open letter to Mozilla''s new CEO: Firefox doesn''t need AI (old.reddit.com)
The Savage Empathy of the Mosh Pit (www.theatlantic.com)
Consumer goods firms cut CEO tenures short in push for growth (www.reuters.com)
Luigi Pirandello''s Broken Men (www.thenation.com)
Needle Inspector – Inspect any Three.js project [video] (www.youtube.com)
Taiwan''s Receipt Lottery: The Genius Tax Trick on Desperation (www.pablomusumeci.com)
Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content (academic.oup.com)
More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol (www.lansingstatejournal.com)
Oracle''s 248 Billion Rent is Another Al ''Bombshell'' (www.bloomberg.com)
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Moving Cloudflare out of the critical path (duggan.ie)
LLMs Excel at Easy Verification Problems (wiki.roshangeorge.dev)
Efficient Dockerfile templating for complex build scenarios (gagor.pro)
Instacart''s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill (www.consumerreports.org)
Welcome to the New Project Zero Blog (projectzero.google)
The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin (www.asimov.press)
US Threatens to Retaliate Against EU Firms over Digital Tax (www.bloomberg.com)
I had a private chat with an LLM (depew.substack.com)
Netflix Taps Snoop Dogg for Christmas Day NFL Halftime Show (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Trump Overtime Tax Break More a Political Tagline Than Tax Relief (news.bloombergtax.com)
Role of anthropogenic climate change in wildfire smoke concentrations in the US (www.pnas.org)
Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language (dafny.org)
Google Fi Web Calls (fi.google.com)
Launching ChinaRxiv, an automated translation pipeline of all Chinese preprints (twitter.com)
Nicholas Deak (en.wikipedia.org)
Creators Coalition on AI (www.creatorscoalitionai.com)
Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade (phys.org)
Microplastic exposure is associated with epigenomic effects in model organism (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent (arstechnica.com)
The Disappointing Truth About Wi-Fi 7: Multi-Link Operation Isn''t Here Yet (www.rtings.com)
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)
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UK to rejoin EU''s Erasmus student exchange programme (www.theguardian.com)
TRELLIS.2: state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B) (github.com)
Programming on the Subway (www.scd31.com)
Breach at South Korea''s Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult (www.wsj.com)
Wall Street banks prepare for round-the-clock stock trading, reluctantly (www.reuters.com)
Director of MIT''s Plasma and Fusion Center, Dies at 47 (news.mit.edu)
No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla''s Next Chapter (www.waterfox.com)
Climate change has made the United States poorer (www.pnas.org)
Global Lawmakers Smell a Blueprint in Australia''s Online Digital ID Law (reclaimthenet.org)
Frontiers – ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder (www.frontiersin.org)
Repressive Desublimation (en.wikipedia.org)
The End of Debugging (www.oreilly.com)
Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Interior-flat cylindrical nacelle warp bubbles: comparison with Alcubierre model (iopscience.iop.org)
Meta''s SAM bot isolates voices and instruments from audio clips (www.theregister.com)
MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies (www.bbc.com)
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Hindsight: Agent Memory That Works Like Human Memory (vectorize.io)
Academic Doping – Are Cognitive Enhancers Real? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Warner Bros to rebuff 108B Paramount hostile offer (www.ft.com)
Databricks is Raising 4B Series L at 134B Valuation (www.databricks.com)
A centennial look back at Edward Gorey''s macabre art and guarded life (www.washingtonpost.com)
My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (joelhooks.com)
Marathon Running Not Linked to Lasting Cardiac Damage (www.medscape.com)
On Complicated: The translation choice I have been asked about a gazillion times (emily613.substack.com)
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Reverse-Engineering the RK3588 NPU: Hacking Limits to Run Vision Transformers (amohan.dev)
TruffleHog now detects public-key JWTs and verifies them for liveness (trufflesecurity.com)
Sway-displays: interactive output setup with profiles ( zero-copy mirroring) (github.com)
Neuromodulatory control of energy reserves in dopaminergic neurons (www.pnas.org)
Chicago95: Windows 95 for Linux (github.com)
Letta Code (www.letta.com)
The Interactive Fiction Database – Reviews (ifdb.org)
Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale (tailscale.com)
Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream (martin.kleppmann.com)
Naming is hard: Google''s PubSubHubbub (pubsubhubbub.appspot.com)
MIT [nuclear science] professor shot and killed in his Brookline home (www.boston.com)
Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch (www.theverge.com)
LG TVs Get Unremovable Microsoft Copilot App (gizmodo.com)
Most US Teens Use YouTube and TikTok Daily–Some ''Almost Constantly,'' Survey Says (www.nytimes.com)
George Osborne Joins OpenAI (www.bbc.co.uk)
React2Shell Side Quest: Tracking Down Malicious MeshCentral Nodes (www.labs.greynoise.io)
Mark Carney criticised for using British spellings in Canadian documents (www.theguardian.com)
AI will replace you at your job if you let it (read.technically.dev)
Multiples with No Large Digits (www.johndcook.com)
Packaging Perl and Shell for NixOS Deployment (entropicthoughts.com)
Captain Power: A video game, but not a videogame (retrogamesuperhyper.com)
The Osborne Computer Corporation (www.abortretry.fail)
Ty: A fast Python type checker and LSP (astral.sh)
Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt (www.tomshardware.com)
America''s collapsing consumption is the world''s disenshittification opportunity (pluralistic.net)
Appeal from United Federation of Dictators, Despots, Evil Emperors and Tyrants (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
MIT prof Nuno F. G. Loureiro fatally shot in his home (www.cbsnews.com)
25,600 GB of storage ruined by 10 year old oblivious to global NAND crisis (www.tomshardware.com)
Google Sans Code Font (github.com)
Our New Sam Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing (about.fb.com)
The Day Feynman Realized Students Knew Nothing [video] (www.youtube.com)
Devolver''s focus on "small, creative, unique, risk-taking titles" paid off (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Computer Graphics from Scratch (gabrielgambetta.com)
Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy protection (www.bicycleretailer.com)
EU moves to ease 2035 ban on internal combustion cars (apnews.com)
Why mistletoe is thriving, even as its traditional orchards are lost (theconversation.com)
Using GitLab CI/CD with a GitHub Repository (docs.gitlab.com)
Feeding the Machine (www.theverge.com)
Drug Discovery in the U.S. vs. China (www.statnews.com)
From bigger models to better intelligence:what NeurIPS25 tells us about progress (lambda.ai)
Offline Is Always Better (josebriones.substack.com)
YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies (www.bloomberg.com)
The Worst Thing About the RAM Shortage That Nobody''s Talking About (gizmodo.com)
Netflix Is Buying Nostalgia (12gramsofcarbon.com)
Hacking group says it''s extorting Pornhub after stealing users'' viewing data (techcrunch.com)
Lessons from building a content scanner for multiple social platforms (keywordspal.com)
Open Source: Inside 2025''s 4 Biggest Trends (thenewstack.io)
GitHub Store is a cross‑platform "Play Store" for GitHub releases (github.com)
Codex Is Down (status.openai.com)
Letta Code: a memory-first coding agent (github.com)
The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show (www.scientificamerican.com)
Bitwarden / KeePass Diff (codeberg.org)
From Experiment to Backbone: Adopting Rust in Production (blog.kraken.com)
Will Creative Work Survive A.I.? (www.nytimes.com)
Bot invasion increases with Google scraping the way, Cloudflare says (www.theregister.com)
AI-Triggered Delusional Ideation as Folie a Deux Technologique (arxiv.org)
No Graphics API (www.sebastianaaltonen.com)
''It''s surreal'': How US sanctions lock ICC judges out of daily life (www.irishtimes.com)
Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card (www.theregister.com)
In-the-Wild Exploitation of Fresh Fortinet Flaws Begins (www.securityweek.com)
China Is Now an Outdoors Nation (www.bloomberg.com)
The future of intelligence – Demis Hassabis [video] (www.youtube.com)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don''t have to ''follow any laws'' (fortune.com)
SDPD captain helped secure a surveillance deal. Now he works for flock (www.sandiegouniontribune.com)
I''ve been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016) (www.snellman.net)
AI Chatbots and the Loneliness Crisis (www.bmj.com)
The Genius of the Most Efficient Heat Pump [video] (www.youtube.com)
XSysInfo is a comprehensive system information utility designed for AmigaOS (github.com)
MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home (www.nytimes.com)
Taiwan bans popular Chinese social media app amid growing number of fraud cases (www.cnn.com)
Bitbucket cleanup of free unused workspaces: what you need to know (community.atlassian.com)
Pctx-Py – Code Mode for Python Tools and MCP (portofcontext.com)
Investors Using Same Tool as ''The Big Short'' Guys to Hedge Against an AI Bubble (gizmodo.com)
The Resistors Were Teenage Hackers and Computer Pioneers (spectrum.ieee.org)
I vibe coded a Rust based TUI speech-to-text app for Omarchy (www.youtube.com)
CC, a new AI productivity agent that connects your Gmail, Calendar and Drive (labs.google)
We replaced WebRTC with WebSockets for real-time video streaming (blog.helix.ml)
MiMo-V2-Flash (mimo.xiaomi.com)
Red Hat to Acquire Chatterbox Labs (www.redhat.com)
Plans as Data – Typed Functional Programming for Robotic Orchestration (buildmonumental.substack.com)
New Pricing of self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners explained (cirrus-runners.app)
Pete Hegseth to slash 4-star generals in Pentagon shake-up (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Too Fast to Think: The Hidden Fatigue of AI Vibe Coding (www.tabulamag.com)
Red Hat Acquires Another AI Company (www.phoronix.com)
Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (ai.meta.com)
Controlling costs with new GitHub Actions pricing changes (www.warpbuild.com)
Freedom Fries (en.wikipedia.org)
Strong Public Support to Restrict Social Media for Children in Germany (www.afterbabel.com)
The 140k Question (thezvi.substack.com)
The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself (hatchet.run)
Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla''s Cameras Aren''t Enough (www.thedrive.com)
The "A" in "AI" Stands for Amnesia (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Microsoft Updates Windows ''To Stop Users from Downloading Google Chrome'' (www.forbes.com)
EIB and STMicroelectronics announce 1B agreement for EU chip manufacturing (www.eib.org)
Simular Agent S hits 72.6% success on 369 real computer tasks (human: 72.36%) (os-world.github.io)
OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT''s Model Router System for Most Users (www.wired.com)
Arduino UNO Q bridges high-performance computing with real-time control (www.arduino.cc)
Measuring AI''s capability to accelerate biological research in the wet lab (openai.com)
Piecemeal Formal Verification: Cloudflare, Java Exceptions, and Rust Mutexes (gavinhoward.com)
GPT Image 1.5 (platform.openai.com)
Ruby and Its Neighbors: Perl (noelrappin.com)
Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System (www.audiobooks.com)
Determinate Nix 3.0 (determinate.systems)
Amazon shareholders call for report on AWS use in Gaza and by US ICE (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
The new ChatGPT Images is here (openai.com)
All AI videos are harmful (idiallo.com)
Workbox: JavaScript Libraries for Progressive Web Apps (github.com)
Dell preps price hikes up to 30% citing memory pricing ''out of our control'' (www.tomshardware.com)
Context: Odin''s Most Misunderstood Feature (www.gingerbill.org)
DoorDash launches AI social app for restaurant discovery (www.bloomberg.com)
It''s time to reset our expectations for AI (www.technologyreview.com)
Two APIs Walk into a Browser: FedCM vs. the DC API (sphericalcowconsulting.com)
Exe.dev, Modern VMs (blog.exe.dev)
America''s collapsing consumption is the disenshittification opportunity (pluralistic.net)
AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded (restofworld.org)
The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free (www.blacksmith.sh)
Gemini 3 vs. GPT-5.2: Detailed Coding Comparison (www.tensorlake.ai)
Other people might just not have your problems (thingofthings.substack.com)
OpenCode Desktop (Beta) (opencode.ai)
Evaluating AI''s ability to perform scientific research tasks (openai.com)
GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026 (github.blog)
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 source code now available (2013) (sixcolors.com)
I made the Xkcd impossible app without any words (www.danshapiro.com)
Zenflow: Free desktop AI Orchestration app with multi-agent verification (zencoder.ai)
Vibe coding startup Lovable''s latest funding round values it at 6.6B (www.cnbc.com)
Build a Self Learning Research Agent That Tracks Consensus over Time (www.ashpreetbedi.com)
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich (www.nytimes.com)
TikTok Video Downloader (tiktokme.app)
Lightning: Real-time editing for tiled map data (felt.com)
FVWM-95 (fvwm95.sourceforge.net)
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions (resources.github.com)
How I Manage My Private Keys (bomfather.dev)
Day 7 update on building FeedBugs (solo founder) (www.feedbugs.com)
Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship (www.eff.org)
Track Surveillance (Flock Cameras) Tech in Local Government Meetings (alpr.watch)
Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox to Evolve into a "Modern AI Browser" (www.phoronix.com)
CoreWeave''s Staggering Fall from Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears (www.wsj.com)
MiMo-V2-Flash: High-Efficiency Inference, Code and Agent Foundation Model (platform.xiaomimimo.com)
Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? (ngrok.com)
Vendor Lock in Nightmares (eliocapella.com)
Android Use – AI Agents for Android Devices (twitter.com)
Serving bots some holiday cheer in my /.env (aero.zip)
Your Mission Is an API (theuncredentialed.substack.com)
Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review (radar.cloudflare.com)
The Science and Strategy Behind Wyoming''s Snow Fences [video] (www.youtube.com)
VS Code – What''s the deal with the telemetry? [2022] (www.roboleary.net)
Elon Musk said he''d spend less on politics. Now he''s donating again (qz.com)
The Complete Bash Scripting Course (Free) (course.ysap.sh)
Leslie Lamport''s Annotated Writings (creator of LaTeX, TLA, Paxos) (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
Sawing a Dam in Half (On Purpose) (practical.engineering)