''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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
How Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump''s New Tech Order (bylinetimes.com)
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Catch of the Day (1988) (en.wikipedia.org)
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KEF: A file format for easy encryption/decryption of data (github.com)
Can you discover unknown elements by calculating their spectra? (www.scannedinavian.com)
JWST discovers an ancient Milky Way-like spiral galaxy (scienceclock.com)
Monoidal Hashing for Data Deduplication (www.scannedinavian.com)
Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language (pointersgonewild.com)
''End-to-end encrypted'' smart toilet camera is not end-to-end encrypted (techcrunch.com)
Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa (www.reuters.com)
Airlines Reporting Corp. says it''s ending sales of ticket data to police, Feds (papersplease.org)
Amazon Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs (arstechnica.com)
Is Male Infertility Contributing to Falling Birth Rates? (undark.org)
Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium (www.corellium.com)
Micron Is Exiting Its "Crucial" Consumer Business (www.servethehome.com)
Half of Linux Users Stick with X11, Despite Years of Wayland Being Forced (www.youtube.com)
Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll (www.nytimes.com)
The LLM Evaluation Guidebook (huggingface.co)
Tor: What we''ve learned from fighting censorship in Iran and Russia (blog.torproject.org)
Drive with "SpongeBob" on Waze (blog.google)
Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead and Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support (www.phoronix.com)
President DJT Said He Just Legalized Cheaper, Smaller ''Cute'' Kei Cars in America (www.theautopian.com)
President DJT Appears to Approve Kei Cars for the USA (www.roadandtrack.com)
What would a WeWork of the future look like? (james.js.org)
RAG in 3 Lines of Python (pypi.org)
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Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)
ESP32-Powered PPG Signal Acquisition: Open-Source Hardware and Software (www.mdpi.com)
Apex GPU: Run CUDA Apps on AMD GPUs Without Recompilation (github.com)
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Design executive behind ''Liquid Glass'' is leaving Apple (www.cnbc.com)
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Dropbox: Knowledge Graphs, Prompt Optimizers, and MCPs (maven.com)
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"Hi, I designed the weight on wheels logic for the Boeing 777-9" (old.reddit.com)
Microsoft Kin (en.wikipedia.org)
Morgan Stanley Considers Offloading Some of Its Data-Center Exposure (www.bloomberg.com)
Golang''s Big Miss on Memory Arenas (avittig.medium.com)
Django: What''s New in 6.0 (adamj.eu)
Elixir: Dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable apps (elixir-lang.org)
Decentralized search engine – Node, SQLite, mesh network, 22/mo to run (www.qwikwit.com)
Crates.io: Malicious crates evm-units and uniswap-utils (blog.rust-lang.org)
South Carolina''s measles outbreak shows effect of vaccine misinformation (medicalxpress.com)
Should we be positioned for Feudalism? (pracap.com)
Reddit''s CEO says r/popular ''sucks,'' and it''s going away (www.theverge.com)
Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently (arstechnica.com)
California farmland doused with 2.5M pounds of PFAS pesticides each year (www.thenewlede.org)
OpenAI to Acquire Neptune (openai.com)
Kristi Noem''s ICE hiring chaos laid bare (www.dailymail.co.uk)
PR adding custom progress bar themes to GNOME Bazaar rejected, citing "racism" (github.com)
Apple''s new Font Book icon is upsetting designers (www.creativebloq.com)
Drone Dominance Program a New Frontline of Modern War (nerdrums.com)
Apple''s head of UI design is leaving for Meta (www.theverge.com)
ChatGPT is displaying AIPAC ads (twitter.com)
A routine shingles shot may offer powerful defense against dementia (www.sciencedaily.com)
Anthropic''s AI bubble ''YOLO'' warning (www.theverge.com)
Coding Trance Music [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Harvard Endowment''s Biggest Public Investment Is Now Bitcoin (gizmodo.com)
What Chick-Fil-A''s Lemonade Station Can Teach SaaS About Killing Tool Sprawl (medium.com)
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months (pcpartpicker.com)
OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case (www.reuters.com)
Apple UI Design Chief Alan Dye Leaving for Meta (www.macrumors.com)
Anthropic''s Chief Executive Acknowledges Risks of Spending on A.I (www.nytimes.com)
Beyond the usual suspect: Nitrogen feeds algae blooms, researchers find (phys.org)
Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server (www.isc.org)
CodeWeaver v0.0.15: CLI that transforms your codebase into a single Markdown (github.com)
Vanilla CSS is all you need (www.zolkos.com)
AMD raises CPU prices – Ryzen 9000 and older chips affected (www.notebookcheck.net)
AgentDevCamp (agentdevcamp.com)
We Shut Down Double Finance (YC W24) (www.bedpage.com)
MinIO in Maintenance Mode (github.com)
I built a forum where only AI agents can post (ImageMCP) (image-mcp.com)
Zmx: Session Persistence for Terminal Processes (github.com)
Cloudflare outsources decisions on legality of US content to FSM-Hotline Germany (twitter.com)
''If you aren''t lying, you aren''t flying.'' Pilots hide mental health struggles (www.reuters.com)
Thaumaturgy (en.wikipedia.org)
A Flutter Plugin for Hosting Tor Hidden Services on Android Devices (github.com)
A Journey Inside Apple Time Capsule: Getting Root Access (xpway.com)
Bill Gates-backed Modern Hydrogen lays off most of its employees (www.geekwire.com)
Jujutsu Worktrees Are Convenient (shaddy.dev)
PoC for React RCE CVE-2025-55182 (github.com)
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business (gizmodo.com)
AT&T and Verizon are fighting back against T-Mobile''s easy switch tool (www.androidauthority.com)
Lawyer''s 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator (www.theregister.com)
China is developing the most ambitious network to transport clean energy (english.elpais.com)
Take a walking tour of the Gothenburg Radio Museum (radiomuseet.se)
Australia''s first 6 GWh battery to be built as part of grid resiliency hub (reneweconomy.com.au)
Russian cosmonaut removed from SpaceX mission amid security breach (www.upi.com)
RAM is so expensive, Samsung won''t even sell it to Samsung (www.pcworld.com)
Porsche Owners in Russia Unable to Start Cars After System Failure (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Waymo autonomous testing in Philly; robotaxis St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Balitmore (techcrunch.com)
Why doesn''t Apple make a standalone Touch ID? (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Are psychedelics the new GLP-1s? (andyfromthefuture.substack.com)
Weather app using Nano Banana Pro (bananaweather.vercel.app)
What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year (www.newyorker.com)
Uber and Avride launch robotaxi service in Dallas (techcrunch.com)
Rebecca Stup: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds, promote biodiversity (cals.cornell.edu)
San Francisco sues ultra-processed food makers [video] (www.youtube.com)
''From taboo to tool'': 30% of GPS in UK use AI tools in patient consultations (www.theguardian.com)
Kircher and Schott''s computer music of the Baroque era (2014) (larkfall.wordpress.com)
Crucial is shutting down – because Micron wants to sell to AI companies instead (www.theverge.com)
Model Collapse: The Bubble Economy Is a Hallucination (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
Home Assistant 2025.12 Released (www.home-assistant.io)
Four ways learning Econ makes people dumber re: future AI (www.lesswrong.com)
Managing Postgres Extensions with ImageVolume (www.gabrielebartolini.it)
Postgres CDC in ClickHouse, A year in review (clickhouse.com)
3D-Printed Carotid Artery-on-Chips for Personalized Thrombosis Investigation (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
My Database Was Correct. It Was Also 296x Too Slow (www.chandlernguyen.com)
We Built an AI-Agent to Debug 1000s of Databases – and Cut Incident Time by 90% (www.databricks.com)
''Hobby dogging'': Germany''s viral trend of pretending to walk a dog (www.uniondemocrat.com)
Self-Hosting WordPress Course (wpshell.com)
Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
DiskBBQ – Elasticsearch''s vector storage format (www.elastic.co)
Docker Compose Models Explained (oneuptime.com)
Yoloe: Real-Time Seeing Anything (docs.ultralytics.com)
Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e (eamonnsullivan.co.uk)
NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars (www.nytimes.com)
City Of Winter: A roleplaying game about a fantastical family saga (sphaerenmeisters-spiele.de)
Inside ThunderKittens'' Python Bindings (www.enbao.me)
Boundaries, Modularity and a Diaper Effect (talesfrom.dev)
Alpine Linux 3.23 Released with APK Tools v3 for Package Management (www.phoronix.com)
Why don''t we get more scientific breakthroughs? (lemire.me)
RISC-V Oral History Panel [video] (www.youtube.com)
Cloudflare Timeouts in Europe (www.cloudflarestatus.com)
Trump admin funds geothermal network expansion (insideclimatenews.org)
Making Friends with Foreigners (shxlpa.substack.com)
Developing a New Electric Vehicle Sound (acoustics.org)
The framework isn''t for you. You''re just along for the voyage (doingsoftwarewrong.com)
I ran out of money, spent my savings on a Hong Kong prostitute,& became a commie (docs.google.com)
Dynamic Custom Fields in Laravel Without Migrations: A Deep Dive (github.com)
8086 Microcode Browser (nand2mario.github.io)
Meta''s Child Sex-Trafficking Problem (www.afterbabel.com)
US parents say Peppa Pig is giving their kids British accents (2021) (www.theguardian.com)
The problematic path of least resistance for coding agents (anyblockers.com)
React tool to smoothen front end vibe coding (www.npmjs.com)
What I Learned from Vibe-Coding Auth with AI (fusionauth.io)
Chips for the Rest of Us (engineering.nyu.edu)
S3 Vectors GA – 40x scale increase, 2B vectors per index (aws.amazon.com)
Reverse Engineering iOS to Fix SDK Crashes (sentry.engineering)
Alpine Linux 3.23.0 Released: APK-tools v3, Linux-stable replaces Linux-edge (alpinelinux.org)
Share your favorite book/article/podcast recs (www.rhomeapp.com)
And Then the Wolf Deleted Grandma (docs.eventsourcingdb.io)
So, how did porn ID laws go? (moth.monster)
LangSmith Agent Builder Now in Public Beta (blog.langchain.com)
Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains (air.dev)
Wikipedia earned 184M from donations, the servers cost less than 5M (twitter.com)
A Shiny Fuzzer in Go (github.com)
Valve''s version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Windows 11 growth slows as millions stick with Windows 10 (www.theregister.com)
Checked-size array parameters in C (lwn.net)
My redirect rules from 2013 still work and yours don''t (idiallo.com)
Pentagon Launches 1B Program to Buy Hundreds Of Thousands Of Kamikaze Drones (www.twz.com)
The case of the 500-mile email (2002) (www.ibiblio.org)
Solve Go Challenge: Octantconway (github.com)
Why Won''t the Media Report Accurately on Road Deaths? (jakecoppinger.com)
Social identification with a team boosts fans'' social well-being (phys.org)
StackOverflow: AI Assist (stackoverflow.com)
Mixtures of dietary nutrients lessen behavioral deficits in mouse autism models (journals.plos.org)
Comments on smartphone ban from high school teacher (marginalrevolution.com)
Rock Paper Scissors Is a Game of Skill (collisteru.substack.com)
Alzheimer''s is the symptom, not the problem (1393.xyz)
After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers (arstechnica.com)
Ilya Sutskever, the Scaling Hypothesis, and the Art of Talking Your Book (thinking.luhar.org)
Moonshot Space Raises 12M for Electromagnetic Launch (payloadspace.com)
Next job may come from a stranger (www.careersycoaching.com)
Learning Rust: Download and deserialize 10 000 files in 9.833 seconds (rup12.net)
Utah''s proposed homeless camp claims to be ''most compassionate policy anywhere'' (www.deseret.com)
Search for long-missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume (www.bbc.com)
CVE-2025-55182: pre-auth remote code execution in React Server Components (nvd.nist.gov)
Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup (www.bloomberg.com)
Google is staring to force age verification (old.reddit.com)
Russia blocks access to US children''s gaming platform Roblox (www.reuters.com)
Apple Design VP Alan Dye Departing for Meta (9to5mac.com)
Unified Vision-Language Agents – Detect, Segment, OCR, Generate and More (github.com)
No room for error – A case study of Gleam in production at Uncover (gleam.run)
Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)
Basecamp to Phase Out Once Business Model (twitter.com)
How Attention Got So Efficient [GQA/MLA/DSA] [video] (www.youtube.com)
Diocletian''s Cabbages – The Abdication of an Emperor (historyhogs.com)
Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs and RAM (wccftech.com)
US pressures Mexico for violating the 1944 Water Treaty (english.elpais.com)
Ferrocene 25.11.0 Now Available (ferrous-systems.com)
My favorite iPhone ever is now officially obsolete (www.neowin.net)
Elon Musk is on a racist posting spree again (www.theverge.com)
Women''s Institute to Stop Offering Trans Women Membership (www.bbc.com)
DRAM prices may stay high past 2028 as Samsung, SK Hynix curb oversupply (www.pcgamer.com)
What Are Lie Groups? (www.quantamagazine.org)
Vanbi (xeiaso.net)
Random Gods song in ORCA (2D programming language) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Kalshi raises 1B at 11B valuation, doubling value in under two months (techcrunch.com)
Turtletoy (turtletoy.net)
OpenAI Agrees to Acquire Neptune to Improve AI Model Training (www.bloomberg.com)
Sunflower Basic (wiki.xxiivv.com)
Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes (news.mit.edu)
Shibuya Ward cancels New Year countdown event; security to be tightened (japantoday.com)
The Invisible Cost: From Creator to Consumer (edwardnoaland.substack.com)
The only winning move is not to play (gregg.io)
What Is Generative UI? (tambo.co)
Teaching an LLM a Niche Diagraming Language (www.huy.rocks)
HunyuanOCR by Tencent: A 1B Parameter End to End OCR Expert VLM (huggingface.co)
''Carspreading'' is on the rise – and not everyone is happy about it (www.bbc.co.uk)
Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu (www.nature.com)
The Metaverse Only Has 900 Users [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit (mitchellh.com)
Formally Verifying Advent of Code Using Dijkstra''s Program Construction (haripm.com)
Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage (www.reuters.com)
Private employers shed 32,000 jobs in November (adpemploymentreport.com)
A central hub for LLM API config info: model-api.info (www.model-api.info)
Waymo Now Autonomous in Dallas (twitter.com)
TSA''s New 45 Fee at U.S. Airports Unfairly Punishes Families in the Fine Print (www.thetravel.com)
Jensen Huang on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] (www.youtube.com)
Metrics That Actually Matter (jamesjboyer.substack.com)
Flow-Lenia: Towards open-ended evolution in cellular automata (arxiv.org)
Hundreds of Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure (headlinesmonitor.com)
YAMLResume: Resumes as Code in YAML (yamlresume.dev)
Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments (www.nytimes.com)
How many layers of nested mental states can humans track? (medium.com)
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (investors.micron.com)
Stumbling (quarter--mile.com)
Building an embeddable live demo into your landing page (www.databuddy.cc)
DFOS (www.dfos.com)
Solid State Volumetric Display [video] (www.youtube.com)
Prompt Injection via Poetry (www.wired.com)
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year''s final drop and likely next LTS (www.theregister.com)
Cyber Resilience Act – Implementation (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence (www.arxiv.org)
Google releases Chrome 143 to patch 13 security vulnerabilities (techoreon.com)
Microsoft''s Copilot PC hype needs to end, analysts say (www.computerworld.com)
Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals (www.cnbc.com)
Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app (news.ycombinator.com)
Ask Us Anything During JetBrains AMA Week (blog.jetbrains.com)
Reverse engineering a 1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k confidential files (alexschapiro.com)
DeepSeek Debuts New AI Models to Rival Google and OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)