My coding agent said "all tests pass." They were never run (coldtake.dev)
How many cookies did you eat today? (sheets.works)
Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks (www.acollectedman.com)
Montray – don''t let a broken systemd service go unnoticed (github.com)
China''s Five-Year Plan Mandates AI Agents Across the Economy: What It Means (openclawai.io)
Army Announces First Ever ''Manufacturing Rodeo'' (www.army.mil)
Firefox 158 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support by Default (www.phoronix.com)
UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with 3.1M in credits and 1.31M wiped (www.theregister.com)
District 9 (en.wikipedia.org)
The Genealogy of Eliza (elizagen.org)
Git Is Still Awful (lukeplant.me.uk)
Cole Brauer sailed solo around the world. She plans to do it again (www.marketplace.org)
I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me–and Meta Says That''s Fine (www.wired.com)
Cyberattack Disrupts Refrigeration Systems at French Supermarkets (www.france24.com)
A Modern Agentic AI Operating System (github.com)
TikTok gave children placebo safety controls in undisclosed experiments (www.biometricupdate.com)
15% lower bitrate at the same video quality with WHIP (pion.ly)
Tom Cruise film ''Digger'' could lose 245M (www.bbc.com)
Litestream: Streaming Replication for SQLite (github.com)
Epic Games reportedly orders staff to implement ''AI-first'' development (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Tesla Factory Plan Increase of Toxic Heavy Metal Emissions Near School (anonymous94538.substack.com)
DHH, AI, and the Future of Rails (www.fastruby.io)
Why is software not getting better? (www.alexhyett.com)
Prompting as Self-Portrait (www.doc.cc)
Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (www.avclub.com)
Muse DAU dropped and Meta insiders decided to sell (theinference.org)
To Classify, Try a Trie Tree (fsdatalab.github.io)
Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to rewrite how Linux reads cached files (startupfortune.com)
40th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)
Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna''s Archive (www.tomshardware.com)
"Today we''re laying off a large part of the Airtable team " (twitter.com)
Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video] (www.youtube.com)
NocoDB: Free and Self-Hostable Airtable Alternative (github.com)
1k-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day (www.livescience.com)
New sensor uses slowed light to detect gravitational pull of tiny objects (phys.org)
BCHS is an open source software stack for web apps. BSD, C, httpd, SQLite (learnbchs.org)
Cerebras hits a new low days before insiders can sell (theinference.org)
R² Index: Global leaderboard of top 800k "de-slopped" AI researchers. (r2index.fyi)
Phishing emails are now baiting your AI assistant (www.malwarebytes.com)
Tim Sweeneys says AI is enabling a big pivot at Epic Games (twitter.com)
IMF says AI investment is keeping global growth near 3% (thenextweb.com)
Palantir CTO: AI researchers taking up smoking; they expect AI to cure cancer (www.businessinsider.com)
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
Decentralize AI: Use Model torrents for your Python scripts (twitter.com)
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors (news.mit.edu)
Veda: Bringing the AI OS from the Movie Her to Life (github.com)
Rayhunter – An IMSI Catcher Catcher (efforg.github.io)
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (www.anthropic.com)
RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon''s in-house Waylith engine (ludeon.com)
ePub 3.4 Is Coming (www.w3.org)
Where is all the new, good software? (www.natemeyvis.com)
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch – not some new software (www.theregister.com)
Tidy – Open-Source Paper (github.com)
Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism (2021) (www.theangryoptimist.org)
How the AI boom is forcing tech prices higher (www.abc.net.au)
Kamino: GPU-Based Simulation of Rigid Multi-Body Physics with Kinematic Loops [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ricky Mondello responds to "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." (hachyderm.io)
Getting Plex Running on Steam Frame (kaspa.rs)
Muse Wonder Full: A new Fable level model on artificial analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Obituary: Robert X. Cringley (www.facebook.com)
State of AI Report 2026 (www.stateof.ai)
Introducing OpenFatigue (openfatigue.ai)
Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI (www.bloomberg.com)
How much a flu vaccine may lower your dementia risk (www.washingtonpost.com)
Google must pause Finnish data center construction due to environmental concerns (posteo.de)
Attacking AI-based reverse engineering tools using weaponized binaries (it4sec.substack.com)
The Toddlers Have Bazookas Now [video] (www.youtube.com)
Cover Your Tracks: See how trackers view your browser (coveryourtracks.eff.org)
Zen: System-wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux (github.com)
The macro implications of the AI investment boom [pdf] (www.apollo.com)
How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI? (www.pewresearch.org)
Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin''s 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction (phys.org)
Can your brain grow new neurons? (www.nature.com)
Quattro ZBD – 4-legged, 12 DOF quadruped robot dog running on an ESP32 (github.com)
Why My Next Laptop Is a Linux-First? (www.learnwithgurpreet.com)
The end of the road – OSGrid shutting down due to attack (www.osgrid.online)
BellRun: An Agentic Day Trading Game (bellrun.com)
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him (www.wired.com)
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
ZFS Object Storage (proof of concept) (github.com)
The Punks Plan to Reclaim the Internet from ''Big Tech'' (www.abc.net.au)
Responsive Is Joining Databricks (www.responsive.dev)
AI is fucking overwhelming man (himanshusinghbisht.substack.com)
Swarm Intelligence (kevinkelly.substack.com)
From Plesiochronous to Synchronous (computer.rip)
Ledger (hw crypto wallet): Some devices contain unauthorized hardware implant (twitter.com)
It''s important that we don''t concede FOSS to socialists and communists (twitter.com)
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)
Russia is not prepared for the ''data centre war'' it started (bsky.app)
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta reached AI ''frontier'' and rejects calls for slowdown (www.ft.com)
Anthropic AI Model Goes Rogue, Gives Cops a Fake Tip (www.bloomberg.com)
Many hands, one yes: a guide to harness engineering (faviovazquez.github.io)
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping (blog.ericgoldman.org)
''AI'' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (gist.github.com)
The Curve Bends You (thezvi.substack.com)
No Man''s Sky iOS Deep Dive [video] (www.youtube.com)
French supermarkets face food crisis after cyberattack hits refrigerators (www.politico.eu)
Can AI Automate Epoch? (epoch.ai)
Agent-first design: Bringing UX to the user (www.qawolf.com)
VesiroSearch – a performance enhancing Elasticsearch plugin (www.vesiro.com)
Species Have Blurry Boundaries (press.asimov.com)
AI Cyberswarm Warfare Predictions (www.transitivebullsh.it)
"My Hands Are Shaking While Writing" About IBM''s Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (techrights.org)
Mosscap "Rails Community Fork" – October Update (mosscap.dev)
Sweden''s Telia to cut around 900 jobs and save 1M (www.reuters.com)
Norway fines Microsoft''s Xandr 9.6M over Grindr data sharing (www.reuters.com)
USD BRep: Nvidia''s open-source NURBS B-rep solid modeling kernel (github.com)
Empty shelves likely at Nederlands Albert Heijn due to "Cyber incident" (nltimes.nl)
Will AI Crowd Out Jobs? (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Vibe Coding Emails (www.vibemail.dev)
Terminal Instability of the Solar System Triggered by Stochastic Solar Mass Loss (iopscience.iop.org)
Man Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for AI Assisted Music Streaming Fraud (www.justice.gov)
Determinate Systems Brings OTEL to Nix (determinate.systems)
AI Plays Slay the Spire (ai-plays-slay-the-spire.com)
Nvidia, Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Howisee: Live Color Blindness Simulator (www.josh.ing)
How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (pluralistic.net)
New EU Rules: Smartphones and Tablets to Meet Ecodesign Requirements by June (repair.eu)
The Kubernetes Control Loop Changed the Question (www.diagrid.io)
A YouTube Transcript CLI Built for Humans and AI Agents (github.com)
Casio F-91W using Statecharts (github.com)
Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie''s (www.theregister.com)
The Great Experiment (yakshed.com)
The People, Counted: Browse Raw Census Records at the Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)
A man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses (www.bbc.com)
Lonely Reality of Self Hosting (noted.lol)
More gears in my hands, but fewer beats in my heart (www.lesswrong.com)
GitLab warns of max severity code execution vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Drop in Russian bot traffic after Yandex drone strikes was mostly web crawlers (www.theverge.com)
Written in Go (shelley.dev)
Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon''s Producer (www.wired.com)
Getty Images is filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (www.msn.com)
What''s inside a Git commit? A fun intro to Git internals (app.learngit.io)
Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents (news.ycombinator.com)
AI''s price wave reaches the processor: Intel up to 20%, Qualcomm 10%, TSMC next (theinference.org)
I Redesigned VLC After 25 Years [video] (www.youtube.com)
Thinking Will Become a Hobby (www.spinellis.gr)
What''s Left for Us? (rodolphoarruda.pro.br)
Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)
Hermes vs. OpenClaw: Which AI agent I kept after running both (www.dhawalshah.net)
New Math from OpenAI (thezvi.substack.com)
Michael Woodford, Nobel Laureate (marginalrevolution.com)
There are many like it, but this one is mine (joshstrange.com)
Poverty Changes Your Mind-Set (2018) (www.chicagobooth.edu)
Program Performance Degrades with Usage (www.dotnetperls.com)
Why Language Models Are So Hard to Understand (www.quantamagazine.org)
The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain (www.wsj.com)
Helix World: A real-time world model that generates video and stereo sound (noiz.ai)
Unreal Engine 5 compiled to WebAssembly and rendering in WebGPU (simplystream.dev)
Interactive Maps for Storytelling (github.com)
AI didn''t create the identity problem. It removed the speed limit (fusionauth.io)
Exile on Silicon Valley (nazhamid.com)
Introducing SubQ Snap: A Long-Context Decision Model (subq.ai)
Adieu aux ''Enfants Rouges'': Fire destroys Paris''s oldest covered food market (www.france24.com)
China''s carmakers export more as EU caps hybrid vehicle imports at 350k a year (apnews.com)
French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack (www.afp.com)
Michael I. Jordan on AI: "Superintelligence is science fiction" (www.di.ens.fr)
A 23yr old intern translation trick led to ChatGPT (www.quantamagazine.org)
Quantum Genesis (www.energy.gov)
A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)
GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence (z.ai)
Your Browser Has Already Betrayed You (logos.co)
Unboxing a new Ledger from the store and finding spy device in it (twitter.com)
Time-based one-time-password authenticator for Game Boy (github.com)
Americans earning 100K are struggling. This breakdown offers clues as to why (www.independent.co.uk)
Floor 404 – Backrooms Puzzle Game (Made with GPT 6 Astra) (www.pendo.io)
The Verification Inequality: Language Models as Opaque Intermediaries (medium.com)
Hackers Breached U.S.-Bound Oil Supertanker (www.mbtmag.com)
Cybersecurity Incident at Albert Heijn (nltimes.nl)
The Tragedy of AI Coding (www.theatlantic.com)
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote (startupfortune.com)
Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software (vibealternatives.com)
Audit of OpenAI''s Navier-Stokes Formalization: Weak Bochner vs. Clay Statement C (github.com)
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after ''unprecedented'' cyberattack (uk.finance.yahoo.com)
Wikis that use source-control for their backing store (2017) (paulhammant.com)
Amazon has over 1M robot workers. What''s next for human employees? (arstechnica.com)
Kevin Kelly''s 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
Are There Better Languages for Programming with LLMs? (akitaonrails.com)
Countersigned – Free Alternative to Docusign (countersigned.io)
Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with 276M donations (www.cnn.com)
People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media (www.the-independent.com)
Mathematicians Just Proved How to Prevent AI Brain Rot [video] (www.youtube.com)
Migrating to OpenCode 2.0 (opencode.ai)
How to Select an Experiment (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Data: The First 50 Years (history.columnar.tech)
Dexterity is the Frontier: Thoughts on IROS 2026 (itcanthink.substack.com)
Can Ease of Creation Lead to Decrease in Quality and Value? (pikuma.com)
Veda Launches First Agentic Hobby OS with Built‑in AI Agent (www.saasrise.com)
Sound Blaster: The Card That Owned PC Audio, Then Disappeared [video] (www.youtube.com)
The sky is round, the Earth is square: Building a Ming horseshoe chair (ollie.md)
Faster Fourier Transforms (www.argmin.net)
Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (www.bbc.com)
Why people have moved away from using /proc for everything (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Modern Python Skill (github.com)
Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-Based GnuPG Replacement (itsfoss.com)
Is Hair on Your Head "Personal Property" for Purposes of Robbery Law? (reason.com)
TIL: YouTube Supports RSS (mgmarlow.com)
Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
rqlite: fault-tolerant relational database built on SQLite (rqlite.io)
Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses (www.reuters.com)
What we stopped paying for after agents started writing our code (amaiko.ai)
Climate Finder (weather.theojaffee.net)
UniFi Network 11 (blog.ui.com)
Why aren''t AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo (www.404media.co)
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (azure.microsoft.com)
The Yandex attack in Sasovo: consequences and what''s next [Ukrainian] (blognot.co)
Is Universal Basic Income the Answer to A.I.-Fueled Job Losses? (www.nytimes.com)
JevBench: Benchmarking decision models (Clef, pplx-decider and 15 more) (leanmcp.github.io)
Scientists reaffirm ''incontrovertible'' evidence of human influence on climate (www.uea.ac.uk)
Survey: People don''t trust AI, but they tell it everything (proton.me)
Charitymaxxing (betterthanrandom.substack.com)
An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Feds search Rep. Ilhan Omar''s home in immigration probe (www.axios.com)
Elon Musk''s 276M Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (www.nytimes.com)
Vase Breath: the clench-your-anus meditation (psychotechnology.substack.com)
Additional recent pieces on math and AI (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Super Mario levels are mathematically unsolvable (www.scientificamerican.com)
How Opus 5.5 Made a Stop-Motion Purely Using Code (muhammadraza.me)
Nobel Prize in economics goes to Hall, Woodford for work on boom-bust cycles (www.npr.org)
Dev used AI agents to rebuild Modern Warfare 2''s source code; 83% matches (www.tomshardware.com)
The Münchhausen/Agrippa''s Trilemma (en.wikipedia.org)
We don''t know how to hire. We''re just confident (www.nibzard.com)
What even is mathematical output? (thehighergeometer.wordpress.com)
Eve TanStack Agent Template (vercel.com)
Understanding the AI That Drives Robots (www.construction-physics.com)
CEO-Bench – Can agents play the long game? (ceobench.com)
Elephants Understand Pointing (www.theguardian.com)
EU to limit Chinese hybrid vehicle imports to 350k a year (www.theguardian.com)
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
Mathematics as a new Age of Discovery (and what they might find) (interconnected.org)
Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds (www.sciencedaily.com)
We ran the same broken app on three cloud sandboxes (mainbrella.com)
Companies are losing billions because of agents, here''s what you can gain (www.nexertise.com)
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Its 2026 Minimum (science.nasa.gov)
Light-responsive inks could make tattoos visible on demand (phys.org)
Parsing JSON at gigabytes per second in Python (lemire.me)
Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 (chuck.is)
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled (www.gadgetreview.com)
"Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill (justismills.substack.com)
Microsoft to expand Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments (blogs.microsoft.com)
Zafira–A dual-mode language bridging Python agility and native C safety (github.com)
Releasing AI-Generated Software (blog.ploeh.dk)
When AI writes your code, DDD is more relevant (threedots.tech)
Now you can ship software you don''t understand (diqi.dev)
NS delegation for platforms sending email on behalf of others (www.helohq.com)
AI Almost Solved Reverse Engineering [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
The Fear That Never Left Alex Honnold (blue-continuum.com)
What kind of philosopher are you? (philotype.cc)
Hug this cuddly toy, and hear the piercing scream of real AI data centers (www.designboom.com)
ESP32 Bit Pirate, Using ESP32S3 builtin WiFi radio as a software-defined radio (geo-tp.github.io)
Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial (arstechnica.com)
AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety (www.theguardian.com)
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to R. Hall and M. Woodford (www.nobelprize.org)
Freckle phone aims to send kids outside to play and engage with the world (www.dezeen.com)
Linus Torvalds Endures a Debug Session from Hell, "Enormously Helped" by AI (www.phoronix.com)
Americans Win Nobel Prize for Work on Economic Stability (www.wsj.com)
The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014) (www.politico.com)
Data Center Excess Solar Powers Modular GPU Pods (spectrum.ieee.org)
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
Too Dumb for AI (leancrew.com)
Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges (www.tomshardware.com)
Ledger confirms unauthorized hardware implant, says losses may exceed 86M (cointelegraph.com)
Is Add about Attention? (www.nytimes.com)
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Genocide Economy, Mapped (bl00d.money)
The left hand should know what the right hand is doing (unsung.aresluna.org)
Man uses ChatGPT to win three-year parking ticket dispute (www.techradar.com)
French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown (www.france24.com)
Britain''s Burnout Crisis Grows as 55% of Professionals Say They Feel Burnt Out (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
(Linus Torvalds) I did what I preach: use LLMs to help make sense of the code (git.kernel.org)
AMD EPYC 8005 SKU List and Value Analysis: Mainstream Sorano''s Big Stride (www.servethehome.com)
Earn My Keep: an AI with a month to prove its worth (earnmykeep.rendilab.com)
D-Bus Hell (dbushell.com)
Gearslip – Android Auto replacement without Google (github.com)
How to Pivot Your SaaS Company in the Age of AI (www.bannerbear.com)
Software engineers don''t get to be Luddites about AI (www.seangoedecke.com)
Sprout Pi – A modern, RP2350-powered motherboard for iPods (www.crowdsupply.com)
MCP Server Should Answer Questions, Not Expose APIs (medium.com)
Segor Electronics to close after 48 years [German] (www.segor.de)
Russia behind Britain''s Brexit vote, UK prime minister admits for first time (kyivindependent.com)
QGIS bans AI assisted contributions (github.com)
The Vikings who reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus (www.bbc.com)
Intelligence Is Not Sentience (aditya.rs)
The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests (www.technologyreview.com)
Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (blog.julik.nl)
Dutch supermarket takes precautionary measures following cybersecurity incident (newsroom.aholddelhaize.com)
Ocean – A fun online music maker (www.oceanwaves.io)
Second Houthi strike on Riyadh airport in two days (www.bbc.com)
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 (www.nobelprize.org)
Nio completes 1.2 million EV battery swaps in a single week (electrek.co)
IMF says AI investment keeps global growth around 3% (www.reuters.com)
Veda: The First Native Agentic Hobby OS (github.com)