Are frontier VLMs trained on robotics specific data? (github.com)
rVPN – stealth VPN with end-to-end encryption (rvpn.org)
Concurrency is not Parallelism (2012) (go.dev)
Worse Is Better (www.dreamsongs.com)
Five Principles of Extraordinary Math Teaching [video] (www.youtube.com)
Claude Fable 5.2 HTML Files (miaai-lab.github.io)
Send SMS from your own phone/number via API (desktop app our server can't read) (smstunnel.io)
Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy (9to5mac.com)
Court Dismisses Google's Amended Complaint Against SerpApi (serpapi.com)
Science Has Shown That Your Cat Meows to Demand That You Fix Their World (www.sciencealert.com)
Little Red Dots Are Direct-Collapse Black Hole–Forming Galaxies (iopscience.iop.org)
Windows Search RCE Vulnerability (msrc.microsoft.com)
Shellport: An SSH terminal, file browser and live server dashboard (shellport.app)
My AI Agents Found an Unmapped Maya Site (pietromiotti.com)
In open-weight AI, America is the one playing catch-up (village.dev)
Technical Debt Can Derail Coding Agents Through "Agent Distraction" (www.infoq.com)
Social Policy Builds Financial Markets (economicsociology.org)
Building a thread UI on hard mode – Zed (delta.dev)
Now We Act – Timothy Snyder [playlist] (www.youtube.com)
Fighter Radomes Explained: Why noses pass radar (migflug.com)
Six Math Essentials by Terence Tao (teorth.github.io)
Apple is working on a new app called Harbor (twitter.com)
Jefferies Accused of Betrayal by Client of Its Leucadia Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
New Phase 3 Parkinson's drug candidate (www.rockefeller.edu)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890 (www.archives.gov)
What Is Agent Experience (Ax)? (developer.microsoft.com)
Tim O'Reilly – The New Knowledge Artifacts of the AI Economy (oreillyradar.substack.com)
Alpine Linux and OpenSSH patch flaw that's as bad as it can get (www.zdnet.com)
Dungeon Crawler's Lookbook: Visualize character progression, built on dbt Charts (crawl-atlas.anders.omg.lol)
A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players w/ malware That Exposed Their Cards (www.wired.com)
Neurons as an Interpretable Basis (www.goodfire.com)
FiberFS 1.0 Is Released (fiberfs.io)
Moving Back to Sourcehut (www.cedricbonhomme.org)
Statement from the Independent Members of the Nvidia Board (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Anthropic's Seven Founders Plan 250M Sales Each (freemalta.com)
Big Russian cloud provider hacked and wiped (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
JobChop: Chop Logos and Find Work (jobchop.co)
Building a Bike Computer from Scratch (marvinh.dev)
Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei truck in America (www.theautopian.com)
Doc2Harness: Benchmarking how well AI builds agent harnesses (arxiv.org)
Chrome 157 fixes CVE-2026-125350, a use-after-free exploited in the wild (chromereleases.googleblog.com)
Hacker News: An Apology (lee-phillips.org)
Hayabusa2 Is Chasing the mysterious object 1998 KY26 (gizmodo.com)
Ring's new AI drone camera for your home (www.theverge.com)
State of Docs: Agents are your top readers (buildwithfern.com)
Senior US soldier arrested by UK counter-terror police (www.bbc.com)
Regarding the PocketOS accident, we have built the best possible solution (github.com)
Gas Town Burned Down (www.metafilter.com)
An Experimental One-Time Treatment for High Cholesterol Shows Promising Results (time.com)
Gilguard: Catch the import that silently re-enables GIL on free-threaded Python (github.com)
Where Does Jensen Huang's Dishonesty End? (www.bloomberg.com)
Cracking Server 2022 NTLMv1-SSP Hashes with Rainbow Tables (hunio.org)
Why High Beef Prices Are Here to Stay (www.wsj.com)
Anthropic says a key AI safety alarm has been triggered, days before its IPO (finance.yahoo.com)
Anthropic Targets 1.4T Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
Binance warns of iOS flaw that could leak crypto wallet secrets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Failure of Billionaire Tax Strikes Blow to Progressive Agenda (www.nytimes.com)
Building Durable Streams on Postgres (hatchet.run)
Artifical Intelligence and Sharing Knowledge (www.roberthenke.com)
Research taste in history: the importance of learning Babylonian math (resobscura.substack.com)
What running a company on 20 Claude agents taught us (agent-ops-kit-5jb.pages.dev)
"Peak Greenwashing": Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims (www.propublica.org)
Gel: Postgres Unchained (www.geldata.com)
Term Sheet, Please (termsheetplease.com)
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Think of an Apple (skillsync.com)
What objective is reasoning solving? (alexwang.ai)
macOS 27.2.1 Fixes eMudhra Certificate Flaw in Command-Line Tools (www.macrumors.com)
Why does a job board show more postings for Toronto than for Canada? (ramonactruta.substack.com)
Saltline: First-person shooter built by Fable 5.2 (claude.ai)
Woolly, a local memory shared by all your AI tools (github.com)
Experimental treatment promotes repair after heart attack damage in animal study (www.cam.ac.uk)
The Case for a Bubble at Life's Start (www.quantamagazine.org)
AWS Introduces Nitro Sandboxes on EKS, ECS and EC2 (docs.aws.amazon.com)
Goodbye Internet, Hello Slopnet (shojiwax.com)
Measure agent-traffic for any site (github.com)
Measuring Quack: DuckDB's New Client-Server Protocol (ramonactruta.substack.com)
JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy" (pluralistic.net)
An Overview of the BWRX-300 Reactor Building Design: Challenges and Solutions (www.preprints.org)
A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are (fingerprinting.study)
Five Self-Contained CUDA Optimizations for 3D Gaussian Splatting (grgkopanas.github.io)
The Problem of AI Agent Governance (www.sinapsdata.com.br)
We Need More Goat Sacrifices (www.experimental-history.com)
Creative Cloud apps get a MCP (news.adobe.com)
OpenAI acquires Odessia (twitter.com)
LLMs Are Different Now (zerolimits.dev)
AutoCompress: Automated Hardware-Guided Model Compression (arxiv.org)
Microservices can work for low-latency workloads (madflojo.medium.com)
Henneman's Size Principle (en.wikipedia.org)
History of Self-Learning Harnesses and State of the Union in 2026 (boskykode.com)
RAG: Coming together at the Seams (rational-agents.ai)
How Curative is building a national provider network with agents on Claude (claude.com)
Jensen's Adventure (www.wheresyoured.at)
Git 2.56.1 fixes six vulnerabilities, including RCE on recursive clone (github.blog)
From Pirates to Protesters, France Keeps Reaching for Internet Choke Points (www.techdirt.com)
Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic Has No Moat (www.trevorlasn.com)
AMD Zen 6 Technical Deep Dive (www.techpowerup.com)
Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming (1972) (dl.acm.org)
My Brutally Honest Thoughts About the AI Bubble (www.youtube.com)
A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator (devblogs.microsoft.com)
In Trumps Washington, Prosecutors Can't Count on Grand Juries to Take Their Side (www.nytimes.com)
The Return of the Rhetor (caput.substack.com)
More Ways to Work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors (claude.com)
What We Will Wear in the Future (www.chrbutler.com)
Spec-Driven Development for Codex (github.com)
Safari 27.3 Adds Support for Global Privacy Control – Pixel Envy (pxlnv.com)
"Free Software" isn't enough (riverseeber.net)
Gemini 4 Carbon now available (twitter.com)
AI and the Art of Work (shanedowling.com)
AI R&D Is Accelerating Towards Potential RSI in 2027 (thezvi.substack.com)
Code Factory is not comoditized yet (www.shipfox.io)
Anthropic's IPO: A close look at AI frontrunner's rapid growth, spiraling costs (www.reuters.com)
Starlink Mini 2 (starlink.com)
Resurrecting Prodigy's Dead Graphics Language (www.vintagecomputing.com)
Could the United States Seize Anthropic at a Discount? (www.techpolicy.press)
Remembering Gunpei Yokoi (1997) (shmuplations.com)
Clegg: Getting Too Close to Trump Was a Mistake (www.theatlantic.com)
Businesses in ChatGPT – OpenAI (openai.com)
GPT-6.2 Sol: My Impressions/Review (twitter.com)
Anthropic eyes 1.4T IPO valuation in test of Wall Street's AI fervor (www.reuters.com)
A Brief History of the Cybertruck Exploding, Sinking, and Sucking (gizmodo.com)
Nanotern – Ternary LLM training on consumer hardware (github.com)
Giant Roadside Attractions Face Mounting Costs and an Uncertain Future (www.nytimes.com)
Work at the Frontier: AI's effect on freelance work (openai.com)
Interactive user productivity (1981) [pdf] (www.bitsavers.org)
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers (lwn.net)
Nintendo officially shuts down Switch 2 jailbreak in new update (twitter.com)
Compositor – The Photoshop Alternative for Mac (github.com)
The Trolls' Comeuppance (www.theatlantic.com)
Past Obsessions (novum.substack.com)
Architecture Decisions for Marin 535B-A23B (openathena.ai)
The backlash about data centers might just be about electricity (www.technologyreview.com)
Rocket.Chat 9.0.0 (github.com)
Safe self-referential data structures in kernel Rust (lwn.net)
An Open Field Guide to Inference Engineering (docs.modelplane.ai)
Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (claude.com)
Home appliances could be next after fridge hacks, warns EU cyber chief (www.euronews.com)
Clarifying Organizational Use of the Chocolatey Community Repository (blog.chocolatey.org)
We extracted a full Google account via CLI with zero security alerts (zenodo.org)
TDD and Coding Agents: Is It Theater? (joebew42.github.io)
Is consent required when building technology? (mindslice.substack.com)
Judgment Is the Job – The Future of Software Engineering (jdforsythe.substack.com)
What AI progress teaches us about human psychology (www.optimallyirrational.com)
Degrowth Is Coming for Us (www.andyhinesight.com)
New York governor launches nation's first state AI testing program (www.politico.com)
Life on Claude Nine (babuschk.in)
LLMs: Loss of Logical Minds (kinocow.com)
Gary Fisketjon Has Died. He Edited Ellis, Tartt, McInerney, and McCarthy (www.nytimes.com)
Terence Tao on AI in mathematics (and beyond) (teorth.github.io)
Hollywood Has Flipped on GenAI, 'If You Don't Have an AI Strategy, Don't Bother' (variety.com)
Anthropic unveils Office tools ahead of IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions (arstechnica.com)
Val Town is winding down (blog.val.town)
Gemini for Healthcare (cloud.google.com)
Incident with Git Operations and Pull Requests (www.githubstatus.com)
Easy: Yoo, new app is launched (play.google.com)
Classifying images with a 2B decision model instead of a vision LLM (builder.aws.com)
Could Ice Cream Have a Health Benefit? (mymodernmet.com)
U.S. highways have 878 stretches of 50 miles with no fast EV charger (map) (chargingnear.me)
Singularity Gate: Benchmark for AI-driven paradigm-shifting scientific discovery (singularitygate.org)
TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for temporal foundation models (github.com)
Greenfield – a short film about the last engineers who write code by hand [video] (www.youtube.com)
Salmon Farmers Deploy Lasers, Robots to Meet Booming Demand (www.wsj.com)
What AI gets wrong outside software (clach.dev)
Apple TV makes sign language interpretation a built-in accessibility feature (techcrunch.com)
Ring Drone Cam Reinventing home security (ring.com)
E Ink Unveils Spectra 6 9-Color for Smoother, More Vibrant Images (www.eink.com)
How Do Building Codes Affect the Price of Housing? (www.construction-physics.com)
Keep the Why – Better Decisions for Your Agents (www.i-programmer.info)
AI agents are developing odd dialects humans struggle to follow (news.northeastern.edu)
A quantum breakthrough makes light behave like both a solid and a liquid (www.sciencedaily.com)
Anthropic IPO Roadshow (www.netroadshow.com)
Looks Like the Intelligence Explosion Will Happen in 2027 After All (blog.aifutures.org)
Oh You Medieval Scribes (dannybate.com)
AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast (chipsandcheese.com)
Unreal Engine 5.9 preview release supports WebGPU builds (twitter.com)
Git considers voting to determine its LLM policy (lwn.net)
ADHD Is Not a Superpower (www.technotheoria.org)
US to become first nation to shun a UN Human Rights Council review (abcnews.com)
Trump picks Palantir cybersecurity executive to lead CISA (www.cybersecuritydive.com)
Switching LLMs mid-conversation is a ski rental problem (www.edgee.ai)
How Hard Can Quant Trading Be? I Tried It to Find Out (laurenleek.substack.com)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Had an Affair with a Chinese Spy (thezvi.substack.com)
.name Grandfathered (neil.fraser.name)
Apple Now Charges for High AI Use in Logic Pro, Debuts New Credit System (www.pcmag.com)
Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale" (www.reddit.com)
Trying to Cure My Cystic Fibrosis (press.asimov.com)
Suspicious Traffic Claiming Referral from Aocr.org (vale.rocks)
Build a Chess.com AI Companion for Your Latest Game (quickchat.ai)
NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars probes slingshot around Earth in double gravity assist (www.space.com)
The Rubber Stamp Problem: When a Human in the Loop Is Not Overseeing Anything (medium.com)
For security, self-host your production internal software (www.windmill.dev)
A Mathematician's Square Wheel Bike (www.macalester.edu)
Internally Deployed Users Are the Only Way to Ship Great Software Now (www.plushcap.com)
Postgres 19 Repack: Faster, Built-In Table Bloat Cleanup (www.snowflake.com)
Sakana AI may go public in 2027 (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Chinese authorities blocked Canada's Tiananmen Square tribute (www.cbc.ca)
Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support (www.blender.org)
Aussie newsagent worker linked to company at centre of Nvidia spy scandal (www.abc.net.au)
Microsoft employee price list from 1987 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Amazon launches 250 Ring Drone Cam (www.engadget.com)
Can You Just Buy a Human Rights NGO? (goflaw.substack.com)
Nintendo is officially investing in game preservation (careers.nintendo.com)
Instagram Can Predict How Lonely You Are (today.ucsd.edu)
Gemini 4 Carbon is rolling out today (twitter.com)
Paint Quest: King's Quest style scenes painted from code (kq-styles.specr.net)
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (blog.google)
When Everything Becomes Open-Source (research.intezer.com)
.NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Herdr Releases Mobile Apps (herdr.dev)
Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress (text.npr.org)
Ohme's new EV charger privacy policy drops its pledge not to sell data (blog.popey.com)
Gemini Carbon API out today (aistudio.google.com)
Mojang Just Declared War on Minecraft's Biggest Anarchy Server [video] (www.youtube.com)
Omnara: Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (www.omnara.com)
"Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented." (www.unicode.org)
Anthropic seeks 1.4T valuation; IPO aiming for November 19 or 20 (finance.yahoo.com)
State of the tech job market: late 2026 (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
New Linux-Based Desktop Operating System Is Built for AI Nerds (www.wired.com)
With web search, LLMs still give uncorrected EU law in 25% of decided answers (zenodo.org)
Pennsylvania Enacts Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act (www.insideprivacy.com)
Wikipedia's Most Successful Sockpuppet Campaign? A 20-Year Sybil Attack (samvaknin.info)
Ring announces Ring Robotics, ushering in a new era of security (www.aboutamazon.com)
We wanted to build an AI application, not maintain RAG pipelines (akropolys.cloud)
Ratwires – The Graffiti Wall of the Internet (ratwire.space)
Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity (deepmind.google)
The Luxury of Children (www.foreignaffairs.com)
ReBIOS is an EFI app to enable legacy BIOS booting on modern UEFI-only systems (github.com)
Ory Continuous Security License: (CVE) Patch Subscription for OSS (www.ory.com)
'We Used to Be a Wealthy City': Auto Woes Slam German Towns (www.nytimes.com)
World's best cities for Cycling and Running (remap.earth)
MiniMax H3-Image Released, an Open-Weight Image Model Built on H3 (huggingface.co)
Generate QVD Files Automatically (www.etl-tools.com)
Reddit Launches Reddit Reviews (redditinc.com)
New CSS, Who Dis? (2026 edition) (www.jvt.me)
Pirate Library WeLib Hit with 19.5M Default Judgment and Domain Takedown Order (torrentfreak.com)
Smart home devices should work without the internet (docodethatmatters.com)
Ex-FBI agent stole 2.5M in crypto from wallets in 35 FBI investigations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Anthropic heads for lower than expected 1.3T valuation (www.bbc.com)
What I learned from running a liquidity incentive bot on Kalshi (ckruger.bearblog.dev)
OpenLoc v0.2.0 is out now (github.com)
AI Companies Crack Down on the Coolest Thing People Were Doing with AI (www.404media.co)
Self-sufficient mobile weather station (www.raspberrypi.com)
WhatsApp Audio to Text (jeancamposlabs.github.io)
Maybe Be Careful: What games like RuneScape, Clocktower teach us about AI trust (miguelconner.substack.com)
MuJoCo 4 – Google DeepMind (mujoco.org)
Supply Chain Attacks in Practice (kerkour.com)
VeriSign backs down on third-level .name domain termination [pdf] (itp.cdn.icann.org)
Incident Report: October 21st Security Attack (blog.railway.com)
Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded (www.popsci.com)
Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Domains (www.malwarebytes.com)
Don't hate AI 'cause it's bad; hate it 'cause it's good (aspiz.uk)
Anthropic sets IPO price range of 70 to 78, looks to start trading Nov. 19 (www.cnbc.com)
TSMC approves investments of up to 500M each in Anthropic and OpenAI (pr.tsmc.com)
Large Language Models Are Terrible at Programming (joarvarndt.se)
Argentine company accuses US of meddling in Huawei project (www.ft.com)
Terminal-Bench 4.1: 23 of 66 tasks have scoring or data problems (vetto.ai)
Anthropic's Initial Public Offering (ipo.anthropic.com)
The core reason to be against AI (jasonpolak.substack.com)
In the UK, Face Sitting Porn Might Land You in Jail (www.404media.co)
Evidence for the decay B0μμ– and improved measurements of Bs0μμ (lhcb-outreach.web.cern.ch)
Making Comprehensible Input Compelling (learnwithkin.com)
How often Hacker News Mentions "Pareto Frontier" (claude.ai)
Anthropic's IPO price would make it the 12th most valuable US company (www.kadoa.com)
Amazon's Ring unveils flying drone and robot to patrol homes and businesses (www.cnbc.com)
A turbo-tax level tax return you can play around (smartonlabs.com)
A Look Back at the Most Breathtaking Photos of Saturn from Voyager 1 (nautil.us)
Typed Graphs, Checked Types: Graph as Code for Agentic Engineering/Data Quality (www.ssp.sh)
Long-horizon agents and durable execution (martinfowler.com)
The Linux TCP RCE is worse than we thought (www.firezone.dev)
We checked 312 AI-built apps: how ready are they to launch? (launchpal.app)
Why Morningstar Thinks Anthropic Is Worth 1.7T (www.morningstar.com)
Stack Overflow issue blocking legitimate user IPs (www.reddit.com)
Garbage Man: Bill Gates Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills (www.propublica.org)
Firefox 160.0 (www.firefox.com)
Zarf v1.0.0 (docs.zarf.dev)
Analogue Pocket: Sega Saturn Core (github.com)
Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? (so.long.thanks.fish)
The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists (www.nytimes.com)
Wake me up when AI can... (stoppels.ch)
27-year-old ex-firefighter builds 225M truck marketplace after leaving Goldman (fortune.com)
Digital and hybrid interventions for subacute and chronic low back pain (www.nature.com)
The Need for Experimental Law (www.noemamag.com)
Claude Code token cost explorer (entropicthoughts.com)
UniXNU – Run iOS and macOS on Non-Apple ARM64 Hardware Through UEFI (unixnu.com)
Worse_query iOS Critical Vulnerability (twitter.com)
Sexual harassment takes a hidden toll on gig workers (www.futurity.org)
Lions and tigers are kept legally in Ontario backyards. How many are there? (www.cbc.ca)
Matt's Free Perl CGI Scripts (www.scriptarchive.com)
Compress any LLM 3x in one click,near-lossless,in under 50 MB RAM (neuracryption.com)
Cyberattack hits French blood bank freezer – thwarted by failsafes (apnews.com)
Old Vintage Computing Research (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
Don't Lie to Us, Finland: The Happiness Report Has a Problem (mikesbalance.com)
Woodpecker (woodpecker.everydaymactools.com)
Sydney researchers uncover a hidden limit to AI predictability (www.sydney.edu.au)
Claude Fable 5.2, one day later [video] (twitter.com)
The natural alliance of everyone else (nonzerosum.games)
29M Japanese Buildings (tech.marksblogg.com)
Theory predicting an older Universe passes key cosmological tests (www.uottawa.ca)