ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary intervention (www.nature.com)
AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0 (aomedia.org)
EU moves to force the phase-out of Chinese suppliers from key infrastructure (www.reuters.com)
Brazil''s Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books (www.theguardian.com)
PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
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I Render 10MB Markdown Files in the Browser (igorstechnoclub.com)
After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn''t need to look like news (www.niemanlab.org)
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Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com)
Study debunks Trump claim that paracetamol causes autism (www.theguardian.com)
The 727 That Vanished (2010) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
IN Memory of Professor Emeritus Benedict Gross (www.math.harvard.edu)
Office app has changed to copilot and now I can''t open files (old.reddit.com)
Temporal – Durable Execution Platform (github.com)
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The Integral of Life (atmankalena.substack.com)
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Supreme Court to decide whether police can track everyone''s cell phones (comuniq.xyz)
Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists (www.theguardian.com)
The Misogyny Myth (www.city-journal.org)
Every data centre is a U.S. military base (www.policyalternatives.ca)
An Agent for Acme (blazelight.dev)
A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – my deepest secrets are online forever (www.bbc.co.uk)
Meta delays international launch of Ray-Ban Display due to U.S. demand surge (techfusiondaily.com)
The New Food-Stamp Rules Will Make Your Head Spin (www.theatlantic.com)
Something Is Wrong with Russia''s Children (www.theatlantic.com)
YouTube relaxes monetization policy on videos with controversial content (apnews.com)
ClickHouse valued at 15B as database analytics firm rides AI wave (www.reuters.com)
Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Best AI Training Platforms of 2026: Ranked and Reviewed (aitrainer.work)
The ''untouchable hacker god'' behind Finland''s biggest ever crime (www.theguardian.com)
Escape from Woomera (en.wikipedia.org)
Politics and the English Language (1946) [pdf] (bioinfo.uib.es)
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons [pdf] (www.nature.com)
China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US Government cleared for export – report (www.theguardian.com)
Fatberg the size of 4 buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches (www.theguardian.com)
USB VSense – Design Deep Dive #3 – Thermal Resilience (www.crowdsupply.com)
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A beautifully designed particle mouse effect (chromewebstore.google.com)
True story of the 1916 hanging of Murderous Mary, a circus elephant (www.themoonlitroad.com)
Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Do not give up your brain (cassidoo.co)
Reality Is Breaking the "AI Revolution" (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)
Global sports face challenges from ''AI slop'' misinformation (www.reuters.com)
A Nazi theorist''s vision of a world divided has found a new advocate? (www.theguardian.com)
The year ahead – Optimism with footnotes (www.gatesnotes.com)
Vibe coding is a blight on open-source (old.reddit.com)
Teen Jailed After Exploiting Refund Policy for 570k (www.vice.com)
Anatomy of an Excellent OpenCode Skill: Lessons from Cloudflare-Skill (medium.com)
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Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
Google asks US judge to defer order forcing it to share data while it appeals (www.reuters.com)
Anthropic opens up its Claude Cowork feature to anyone with a 20 subscription (www.engadget.com)
The Pink Park Ranger Takedown: CCC vs. White Supremacy (canada.diplo.de)
AWS Duvet: a bidirectional link between implementation and specification (awslabs.github.io)
Buffer Overflow in Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 Baseband (github.com)
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Let''s Talk About What It Means to Rest for the Sake of Rest (electricliterature.com)
My Week with OpenCode (deadsimpletech.com)
GoodJob, Solid Queue, Sidekiq, Active Job, in 2026 (island94.org)
Computation Sovereignty and the Future of Tastes – An RGA Account (jimiwen.substack.com)
Pokémon card thefts on the rise [video] (www.youtube.com)
Germany''s shut down of nuclear plants a ''huge mistake'', says Merz (brusselssignal.eu)
Nvidia suppliers halt H200 output after China blocks chip (www.ft.com)
Intuition why the derivative of ex is itself (math.stackexchange.com)
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT''s drug advice. He died from an overdose (www.sfgate.com)
Gas Town is a glimpse into the future (johncodes.com)
Grand Illusion (chrishedges.substack.com)
Ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math (www.cnn.com)
China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers (www.bloomberg.com)
Artisanal Code (sunnyamrat.com)
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to step down (www.latimes.com)
Stay-at-home sons are here – and they''re not going anywhere (www.washingtonpost.com)
Dispute with Russian billionaire leads to 4 Bay Area bankruptcies (www.sfgate.com)
Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers (www.seangoedecke.com)
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the Limits of AI in Filmmaking [video] (www.youtube.com)
Myths we tell ourselves about software engineering (medium.com)
GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode (github.blog)
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments (www.nytimes.com)
GitHub Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won''t Explain Why (www.404media.co)
Building Amiga 4000T (Part 1, Daughterboards) (wordpress.hertell.nu)
Matthew McConaughey trademarks catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes (www.theguardian.com)
ClickHouse Handles Strings (rushter.com)
Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids (www.bloomberg.com)
Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor (www.washingtonpost.com)
daff: data diff (paulfitz.github.io)
Donald Trump Wants to Cancel the Midterm Elections (Jamelle Bouie) [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Compressing Cellular Automata Images (2017) (cloudinary.com)
The Bitter Lesson of Agent Frameworks (browser-use.com)
ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US (www.theguardian.com)
I''m Being Prosecuted for the Opposite of Insider Trading (www.wsj.com)
Why Flutter Isn''t Dead (shorebird.dev)
RFK, Jr., shifts focus to questioning whether cell phones are safe (www.scientificamerican.com)
''Are you Murray Hunter?'' How four posts landed Australian blogger in Thai jail (www.smh.com.au)
The fashion industry that is tech (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
Engine-Bench: Benchmarking Coding Agents on TCG Game Engine Tasks (github.com)
Civilian or military? China turns to merchant fleet to boost military power (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Dancing Mania (en.wikipedia.org)
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Caliper: Right-size your CI runners (www.attune.inc)
Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA (brandur.org)
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com)
Acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism, ADHD or IDs (medicalxpress.com)
LLMs Are Lagging Indicators (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
Babyfiend.net (babyfiend.net)
Rcarmo/rdp-HTML5: RDP web client with Golang back end (github.com)
Can you legally defend yourself against an attacking police officer? (2017) (law.stackexchange.com)
Bank opacity and deposit rates (www.nber.org)
The past, present and future of LLM coding (www.hermandaniel.com)
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
Iran restores sending and receiving SMS (www.iranintl.com)
Mysterious ''iron bar'' discovery in space may reveal Earth''s future (www.bbc.com)
Miyazaki''s Sherlock (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Investors Warn of ''Rot in Private Equity'' as Funds Strike Circular Deals (www.nytimes.com)
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Simulario – A physics simulation based game (x.com)
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Ralph Loop Built into AWS Kiro (kiro.dev)
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Trump Sets Fraudster Free from Prison for a Second Time (www.nytimes.com)
Mothers Against Decapentaplegic (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Dilbert Afterlife (By Scott Alexander) (www.astralcodexten.com)
Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender (github.com)
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FTC Finalizes Order Banning GM from Sharing Driver Data (www.pcmag.com)
IETF@40 (www.ietf.org)
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LimX COSA – Agentic OS for Humanoid Robots (YouTube) (www.youtube.com)
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US moves to strip sovereign wealth investors of US tax perks (www.ft.com)
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AT&T collapse:A single typo that shut down the US long-distance network (en.wikipedia.org)
Debian gnome team plans to kill GTK2 (ludditus.com)
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Iran, 200 hours of a nationwide internet and telecommunications blackout (www.dw.com)
Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine (www.phoronix.com)
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Drawbot: Let''s hack something cute (2025) (www.atredis.com)
Radithor (en.wikipedia.org)
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions (arstechnica.com)
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How to open a file in Emacs (www.murilopereira.com)
The cardinal sin of software architecture (functional.computer)
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Kusto Query Language (github.com)
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We''re more patient with AI than one another (www.uxtopian.com)
Demystifying Evals for AI Agents (www.anthropic.com)
OpenAI Introduces Ads to ChatGPT (twitter.com)
Fastmail Is Down (fastmailstatus.com)
Billionaires demand more babies but make parenthood unaffordable (www.aljazeera.com)
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The truth Elon left out (openai.com)
White House seeks emergency power auction for largest US electric grid (www.reuters.com)
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Cloudflare – Elevated 500 errors for customers using User Service Keys (www.cloudflarestatus.com)
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Ripple and UC Berkeley Launch the University Digital Asset Xcelerator (UDAX) (ripple.com)
Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check (www.theregister.com)
ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a ''last resort.'' (www.businessinsider.com)
RFC: Distributed Computation Mesh in Logos Language (github.com)
Trump Delays Plan to Seize Wages of Student Borrowers Amid Affordability Push (www.bloomberg.com)
U-Haul Growth Index: Texas Back on Top as No. 1 Growth State of 2025 (www.uhaul.com)
English is the new programming language (deadneurons.substack.com)
Meta''s Internal Research (metasinternalresearch.org)
Longest Joke in the World (www.longestjokeintheworld.com)
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Grok''s biggest danger isn''t what it says – it''s where it lives (restofworld.org)
LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (social.kernel.org)
Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation (theconversation.com)
US Files Forfeiture vs Two AntiSub Warfare Trainers En Route to Chinese Military (www.justice.gov)
The Essential Arrogance of Children (elliotmorris.net)
Nintendo Virtual Boy at 1M Frames per second [video] (www.youtube.com)
The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats (1994) (www.wired.com)
OpenAI Asking Contractors to Upload Work from Past Jobs to Evaluate AI Agents (www.wired.com)
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Gladys West''s vital contributions to GPS technology (en.wikipedia.org)
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT in bid to boost revenue (www.reuters.com)
Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence to the Battle Against Social Media (www.nytimes.com)
Free IP blacklist checker (DNSBL/RBL) with CIDR and /24 support (networkwhois.com)
A controller-enforced alternative to agent-driven ''Ralph'' loops (github.com)
SkipCV (www.skipcv.com)
Open Source Alternatives to Cloudflare Products (oneuptime.com)
Medium Was Built for an Internet That No Longer Exists (medium.com)
Cloudflare Just Bought a Web Framework. Here''s Why That Changes Everything (jpcaparas.medium.com)
Bandcamp bans AI-generated music: ''Human creativity first'' (ra.co)
Interlingua (en.wikipedia.org)
Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks (community.cloudflare.com)
Friday Deploys: Sometimes That Puppy Needs Murdering (charity.wtf)
Tehran Friday prayer leader calls for execution of detained protesters (www.iranintl.com)
Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See (www.fromjason.xyz)
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Smalloc: A Simple Memory Allocator (github.com)
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes (binaryigor.com)
The All-Star Chinese AI Conversation of 2026 (www.chinatalk.media)
Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux? (twitter.com)
ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide (openai.com)
The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd (www.jeffgeerling.com)
A year in the life of a Staff Engineer (medium.com)
DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI (duckduckgo.com)
US says Canada will regret decision to allow Chinese EVs into their market (www.reuters.com)
Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python (aljamal.substack.com)
I''m not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs (kian.wtf)
AI hype is 80% real (sealedabstract.com)
LogiCode: LeetCode for hardware design. Synthesize, optimize, and compete (logi-code.com)
''Dilbert'' Was Always MAGA (www.nytimes.com)
OpenAI testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (twitter.com)
The wealth of the top% reaches a record 52T (www.cnbc.com)
Building a MCP Client in Google Apps Script (justin.poehnelt.com)
Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump wants tech companies to foot the bill for new power plants because of AI (www.cnbc.com)
Squishy Go (puyogo.app)
When Polymarket Can''t Agree on Reality (nymag.com)
Testing a sci-fi story from 1953 (blog.outlandish.claims)
Dnstt (DNS Tunneling) Bypassing Iran''s Current DPI via DoH/DoT (www.bamsoftware.com)
Pencil case feminism (glosswitch.substack.com)
SkyVM (By Dioxus Labs): Instant-Boot Desktop VMs for AI Agents (skyvm.dev)
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson''s America, Dies (www.nytimes.com)
When tools pretend to be people (uxdesign.cc)
Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels (labs.iximiuz.com)
New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic (newrepublic.com)
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier (www.statnews.com)
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
IBM warns AI spend fails without AI literacy (www.thedeepview.com)
The Toxic Modernity Narrative (www.theargumentmag.com)
Langfuse Joins ClickHouse (langfuse.com)
Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Major Shift for JavaScript Date (socket.dev)
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration''s demand for ''lists of Jews'' (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (xcancel.com)
Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers (www.nytimes.com)
Creating a 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU – Brother Zhang''s Repair Shop (Ft. 张哥) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work (www.wired.com)
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted (www.politico.com)
Using a local DNS namespace for local service discovery (tech.stonecharioteer.com)
We do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers (www.theargumentmag.com)
ChatGPT ads are coming, a bellwether for free AI services (www.axios.com)
RTS for Agents (www.getagentcraft.com)
Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant (www.esa.int)
SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots (skyvm.dev)
AI Generated Code Isn''t Cheating: OSS Needs to Talk About It (blog.mozilla.ai)
Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video] (www.youtube.com)
Claude Cowork Is Now Available to Pro Subscribers (twitter.com)
OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT (www.bloomberg.com)
OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads in ChatGPT in Push for Fresh Revenue (www.wsj.com)
OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
The pirate-based logic of Rust shared references (ais523.me.uk)
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT (openai.com)
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence (disconnect.blog)
TSMC says AI demand is "endless" after record Q4 earnings (arstechnica.com)
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OpenAI Has Some Catching Up to Do (every.to)
1Password''s Enterprise Identity Transformation (softwareanalyst.substack.com)
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Life Under a Clicktatorship (donmoynihan.substack.com)
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west (www.theguardian.com)
American Invasion of Greenland (2029) (falloutfanfic.fandom.com)
AI and Copyright Law (www.sfchronicle.com)
Is This Billionaire a Financial Genius or a Fraudster? (www.nytimes.com)
Terminalai – Turn natural language into shell commands (www.terminalai.app)
Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden''s official charts (www.theguardian.com)
Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years (sherwood.news)
STFU (github.com)
Semantic highlight model to cut token cost for RAG (huggingface.co)
Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness (web3.arxiv.org)
Future-as-Label: Scalable Supervision from Real-World Outcomes (arxiv.org)
ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights (apnews.com)
Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Game Poems (www.gamepoems.com)
Fake cases, real consequences: The AI crisis facing UK law firms (vinciworks.com)
Crystal 1.19.0 Is Released (crystal-lang.org)
The rise of ''micro'' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them (techcrunch.com)
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (www.dell.com)
ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse (clickhouse.com)
Bloom Filters (arpitbhayani.me)
Succinate Modulation Associated with Intermittent Fasting in Obesity (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2025 Update (pikdum.dev)
Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump (www.bbc.com)
Hacking a Consumer Drone: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
Exiled crown prince urges world to help protesters topple Iran''s government (www.bbc.com)
Monty Hall Project Management: When to switch plans for better outcomes (davidlemayian.com)