Why Air Batteries Are Finally Beating Lithium [video] (www.youtube.com)
MauroPello/stop-the-slop: Spot AI-generated YouTube scripts (github.com)
Chinese Espionage Threat: Suspected Spy Drone Caught over Sensitive U.S. Missile (www.theyeshivaworld.com)
Mouse tops FrontierHarness at 24/30 with Kimi K3 using completion loops (mouse.dev)
Catalan''s Constant Is Irrational (arxiv.org)
High Oil Prices Speed Up China''s Shift Away from Crude (oilprice.com)
Switcher (www.folklore.org)
After OpenAI''s Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash (www.nytimes.com)
Confronting Risks of Mirror Life (www.science.org)
Inside Gabe Newell’s 111m superyacht Leviathan (www.boatinternational.com)
Making LEDs from an Epiwafer (www.semiconductor.diy)
Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools (www.agentconnect.md)
Rust 1.98.1 (blog.rust-lang.org)
The 1990s Web vs. today''s AI (arnoldkling.substack.com)
Is controllability becoming the real bottleneck for computer-use agents? (twitter.com)
Agentic Search (mistral.ai)
An ''Exercise Pill'' Just Cleared Its First Human Test (gizmodo.com)
Post-Training Language Models for Gold-Medal Performance in Coding Competitions (arxiv.org)
Wan 3.0 – 30-second native-audio video from text, images, docs, or web (wan30.io)
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to long-term (www.sciencedirect.com)
How to Parallelize a Transformer for Training (ezyang.github.io)
Tesla opens search for Cybercab fleet sales, but FSD owners are still left out (electrek.co)
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet (ai-on-the-internet.github.io)
How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI? (www.pewresearch.org)
Study projects human population up to 2300 (populationconnection.org)
An interval-scoped notation framework born from AP Calculus homework (github.com)
DEF Con 34 – Hacking AI – Bruce Schneier [video] (www.youtube.com)
Never Forget How Eagerly Apple and Google Coddled Fascism (karlbode.com)
A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas (www.texasmonthly.com)
Why Does Rust Need Send and Sync? (gmcgoldr.github.io)
WireGuard Protocol Implementation in D (github.com)
OT Isolation Plan: What You Can Disconnect When It Matters (www.emberot.com)
Blue Continuum, from the Founder of Nautilus (www.bluecontinuummag.com)
A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
FrontierMath Erdős (epoch.ai)
Where Europe Goes to Gig (europeancorrespondent.com)
Mercury Poisoning Situation at MIT [video] (www.youtube.com)
Burning Man has become a wrinkled sausage fest of aging millennial men (nypost.com)
Late Merge (third-bit.com)
BoardUI (github.com)
Superlocal: Email Multiplexer (github.com)
The Heavy Reality of Having a "Favorite Person" When You Live with BPD (medium.com)
Therapeutic Food (Child Malnutrition) (en.wikipedia.org)
From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
Patient Who Received Pig Kidney First to Progress to Human Kidney Transplant (hms.harvard.edu)
Botpool Create – Build websites and apps by chatting with AI (www.botpool.ai)
Tesla opens "Help us grow out fleet" after opening robotaxi to the public (www.tesla.com)
Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel (www.nytimes.com)
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (awards.journalists.org)
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British police try to track down theft of 70k pints worth of Guinness stout (apnews.com)
Delve (YC W24) accused of misleading customers with ''fake compliance'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Kalder CEO Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud (www.justice.gov)
ArtStation Should Put Artists First (magazine.artstation.com)
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Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (gwern.net)
Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
Wikimedia Workers Overwhelmingly Win Union with 93% Yes Vote (www.wired.com)
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Jensen Huang Became AI''S Taylor Swift (www.economist.com)
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Adobe names insider Chakravarthy CEO, Narayen transitions to executive chair (www.reuters.com)
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2FAS – Authenticator and Password Manager (2fas.com)
Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Interactive Tree of Life (ptree.org)
Green Card wait for most Indian immigrants is now 179 years (nypost.com)
NVIDIA is driving the AI boom. Good (www.economist.com)
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Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming subscribers (www.cnbc.com)
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The Death of Educational Content on YouTube [video] (www.youtube.com)
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia''s hands (www.theregister.com)
Nvidia Personal AI Router (Pair) (www.nvidia.com)
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The Multiplayer AI Manifesto (multiplayer-ai.com)
GTP-6 Astra (www.youtube.com)
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Star Trek S01e20 "Court Marshall" (en.wikipedia.org)
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Oura S-1 (www.sec.gov)
Modal''s rise: sandboxes, cold starts, and what the SEC paperwork reveals (henrymichaelson1.substack.com)
Dash for Windows: Now in Beta (blog.kapeli.com)
here is how We''re All Going to Die (www.noahpinion.blog)
SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other ''compute partners'' (www.engadget.com)
GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB (gizmodo.com)
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Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. I [Gary Marcus] Oppose It (garymarcus.substack.com)
Tim Cook donated 1M to Trump''s inauguration (bsky.app)
Performance Characterization of SPEC CPU 2026 on AMD EPYC 9755 "Zen 5" Processor (arxiv.org)
Google DeepMind Just Rolled Out Its Most Accurate AI Global Weather Model (gizmodo.com)
Ukrainian Sea Drones Strike Russian Black Sea Resort Town of Sochi (www.twz.com)
Rusty state of USS Abraham Lincoln after marathon deployment shocks observers (www.cnn.com)
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GPT 6 is way behind Anthropic on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime (arstechnica.com)
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CERN moves accelerator control computers to Debian (www.theregister.com)
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Microsoft Announces Change to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Switches to Monthly Hour Limits (www.ign.com)
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Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM (www.tomshardware.com)
The Paradox of Talent: How Chance Affects Success in Tennis Tournaments (arxiv.org)
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Linux to Disable RandStruct Security Feature by Default If Rust Support Present (www.phoronix.com)
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Judge Tells RFK Jr. To Stop Using Fake AI Studies on Teen Pregnancy (newrepublic.com)
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Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras in Two Hyundai Models (www.caranddriver.com)
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Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality (www.nature.com)
GLP-1 Drugs for Aging? (www.science.org)
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Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI (www.sanders.senate.gov)
Apple facing 2.7B UK lawsuit over ''unfair'' app tracking rules (www.reuters.com)
A common measure of communication for thought-to-text brain-computer interfaces (twitter.com)
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Agent behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI Hugging Face incident (www.redwoodresearch.org)
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Coral: An LLM-Native Harness for Production Recommender Systems (arxiv.org)
Justin Mares: Scaling a Bone Broth Empire and How to Prevent Chronic Disease (www.new-ontologies.com)
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Marten 0.7 – A batteries-included web framework for Crystal (martenframework.com)
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AIs as Modern Genies (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Interlune: Mining lunar helium-3 as a preemptive chokepoint for a fusion economy (beyondhorizonforesight.substack.com)
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB (engineering.fb.com)
Government-funded journalism can work if it''s free to report the truth (theconversation.com)
Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Bosch shuns battery cell production in blow to Europe (2018) (www.reuters.com)
Why office workers are turning against AI (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
Colleges Are Sending Acceptance Letters to Kids Who Didn''t Apply (www.wsj.com)
Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature – LibreOffice blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
How concerned should we be about Astra''s recurrent architecture? (www.lesswrong.com)
Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB (smallrun.net)
Apple Apparently Cancels Plans for Two New MacBooks (www.macrumors.com)
Clojure 1.12.6 (clojure.org)
Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into personal AI datacenter (www.theverge.com)
Practical Guide to Validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP (shkspr.mobi)
Wildwood by Laika Studios (wildwoodmovie.com)
Global Heating Will Hit at Least 1.8 C, UN Warns, with "No Good Outcomes" (www.motherjones.com)
The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (improbable.com)
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance (www.theregister.com)
I hate benchmarks: Moving a production workflow from GPT to GLM-5.3 Flash (polyform.ai)
American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years from Your Life (lithub.com)
Chinatown Bus Lines (en.wikipedia.org)
The dark secret behind distressed denim jeans (www.cbc.ca)
MichiAI 530M parameters full-duplex speech LLM with 80ms latency (ketsuilabs.io)
HuggingFace deal price was the decimal Unicode for the hugging (twitter.com)
Yes, we should be worried about the Hugging Face hack (mathewingramblog.wordpress.com)
Musk starts spending his midterm election millions, showing key Senate targets (www.cnbc.com)
Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents (www.mireye.com)
K2 Horizon (huggingface.co)
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (www.discoverwildlife.com)
Omacom Foundation hires kernel developer Krzysztof Wilczyński (omarchy.org)
Trump administration aims to strip schools'' tax exemption if they consider race (www.washingtonpost.com)
A Cop''s Case for Flock (www.worksinprogress.news)
Brazil''s 97M Discord Lawsuit Could Reshape Big Tech Regulation (medium.com)
IMABO: infinitely many-armed bandit with an oracle for hyperparam optimization (github.com)
Homegrown Auth Is a Business Continuity Risk, Not Just a Security Risk (fusionauth.io)
Lustro by Ligatum (github.com)
Tuft and Needle (oleander.dev)
Scientists, Not Lawyers (www.robw.fyi)
Linux vs. Windows: Which Operating System Is Better for You? (www.reviewhub.co.ke)
Seriously, What Are You Supposed to Do with Old Clothes? (www.theatlantic.com)
OpenAI''s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts (techcrunch.com)
Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned (www.kxan.com)
Prediction: AI Will Collapse (twitter.com)
Not Your Compute, Not Your Model (deskofjim.com)
''Starwashing'': The new space race has an environmental problem (grist.org)
Zepbound linked to lower healthcare costs in new study (investor.lilly.com)
Trump Admin Says xAI Data Center in NAACP lawsuit is critical to military effort (americanbuildout.com)
WeatherNext 3: Our most advanced global weather AI model (blog.google)
Best Insults in History (www.stephenhicks.org)
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own (huggingface.co)
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Sony makes bold claim about game ownership (aginggamer.net)
Honkish (benji.org)
Brutally Honest Predictions on the Future of AI (www.honest-broker.com)
Terence Tao: Speed in science isn''t the same thing as progress [video] (www.youtube.com)
K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open (ifm.ai)
Borg Complex, technofatalism and think-hostility (axbom.com)
Revolut Receives Conditional Approval to Form a US National Bank (www.revolut.com)
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down (www.macrumors.com)
Preparing for a Post-Trump Internet (pluralistic.net)
Hugging Face acquisition price matches decimal HTML entity of emoji (twitter.com)
Most laid-off SF tech workers aren''t qualified for this 50 dishwasher job (www.sfgate.com)
Flock''s AI Search Tool for Cops (www.wired.com)
Straw Hat Riot (en.wikipedia.org)
Inside Google’s 200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic (www.ft.com)
PDGA Tracker (pdgatracker.com)
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Solar energy from railways shows first positive results in Switzerland (www.swissinfo.ch)
Rich Dad Poor Dad author shocks fans with 1.2B debt (finance.yahoo.com)
Human-in-the-Loop AI Deployment with IPE (substack.com)
Does Germany really have 25,000 castles? (www.dw.com)
New sleep apnea pill cuts breathing events by 44% (www.sciencedaily.com)
Anatomy of a Browser (medium.com)
How the male fruit fly''s brain map is advancing neuroscience (blog.google)
Top AI Agent Skills for Building Live Streaming Apps (www.red5.net)
Peerseek – A Federated PeerTube Video Search Engine (polykit.rocks)
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OpenAI Releases GPT Astra (developers.openai.com)
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The Chinese wholesale market for Claude and ChatGPT accounts (vectoral.com)
Open AI X post on Astra (twitter.com)
Your Queries Can Reorder the Retrieval Leaderboard (georgianailab.substack.com)
Texas Republicans turn against data centers, putting big tech on notice (www.reuters.com)
Grok Models Outage (status.x.ai)
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex (status.openai.com)
.name Termination (neil.fraser.name)
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (anyhumanever.com)
Scientists Say a Key Trigger for Alzheimer''s Damage Isn''t Even in the Brain (gizmodo.com)
How Much Redistribution Will AI Require? (marginalrevolution.com)
PGrid, a spec-first laptop search (www.pgrid.app)
Don''t do anything you can''t undo (susala.eu)
Codex Is Down (github.com)
ChatGPT Work Mode High Error Rates (status.openai.com)
Sony Says It Won''t Pass Tariff Refunds Back to PlayStation Customers (www.ign.com)
ChatGPT and Codex Is Down (chatgpt.com)
Bernie Sanders proposes ban on artificial superintelligence after AI incidents (www.washingtonpost.com)
ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 (chatgpt.com)
Lot Vulture – Turn existing RTSP cameras into live parking occupancy maps (github.com)
Lessons for founders from my time as a founder (hraness.com)
ChatGPT Healthcare Epic Integration (openai.com)
I Connected My Withings Body to Home Assistant with an ESP32 (didac.dev)
Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale (www.uber.com)
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Why has Peter Thiel moved to Argentina? (www.theguardian.com)
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How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish? (www.404media.co)
Reinforcement Learning or Active Inference (2009) (journals.plos.org)
Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond (reason.com)
Building an Invisible Smart Home (nealshyam.com)
Industrial AI Founders Keep Solving the Wrong Problem (deploy95.substack.com)
Cratering oil use in China shows the death spiral that could end oil (electrek.co)
Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance (lemire.me)
How AI can put out its PR dumpster fire (www.ft.com)
Scientific Agent Skills: A Library of Procedural Knowledge for Research Agents (arxiv.org)
Firefox url bars gone after update, how to restore (www.reddit.com)
Tencent Cloud Code Analysisis: comprehensive code analysis and issue tracking (github.com)
QNX-style ("Qnet") networking is available in QSOE 0.2 (qsoe.net)
A Transformer Plays Tic-Tac-Toe (sbondaryev.dev)
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Justifying text by hand, now at 35 columns (en.andros.dev)
Claude''s new system prompt doesn''t want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
RepoPolicyScore – check if a GitHub repo is ready for AI contributors (repopolicyscore.com)
Body Has a ''Second Heart'', and It''s Crucial You Keep It Pumping (www.sciencealert.com)
Why Short AI Coding Prompts Can Cost You More Time (deanhume.com)
New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal (newsguild.org)
Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn''s Atmosphere (www.sciencealert.com)
Robotaxis Aren''t Going Where They Are Needed Most (www.bloomberg.com)
Nginx 1.31.5 introduces a built-in JSON parser, Control API, and predicate locat (www.linuxcompatible.org)
Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas) (foaas.io)
Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor (github.com)
ICE Has a 2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click (www.military.com)
Paid Phones (thebaffler.com)
Live Atomic Spatial Audio (panaudia.com)
Fedora 46 Proposal Wants to Provide Official Support for Crystal Language (www.phoronix.com)
Elevated Errors for Multiple Models (status.claude.com)
GLP-1 treatment late in life extends lifespan in animal model (www.nih.gov)
UK''s Online Safety Act has made ''absolutely no difference,'' kids say (www.theregister.com)
FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for 13B (www.wsj.com)
Yojimbo 1.11.0 (github.com)