China''s tech giants are paying 1M yuan for a new kind of AI engineer (www.scmp.com)
Science could lift Italy''s sinking cities back up (www.repubblica.it)
Guernsey, Jersey and other havens rake in revenues from global minimum tax (www.ft.com)
Trace the footsteps of England''s most famous accused witches (www.bbc.com)
The "canal" in the Amazon that breaks the rules (signoregalilei.com)
Raspberry Pi Pico W Irrigation – Telegram and Google Calendar All on Pico (github.com)
France''s Nuclear Forces Bring in Neighbors to Keep Russia in Check (www.wsj.com)
Human body model: 206 joints and 700 muscles for MuJoCo (MS-Human-700) (lnsgroup.cc)
A few seconds of loading time can push online learners off track (phys.org)
A cool 3D interactive demo of neuroevolution with supermario (github.com)
When a glibc update accidentally breaks Chromium''s audio (2021) (refi64.dev)
Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public (arstechnica.com)
Mojo Deflate vs. C (kodare.net)
The result of the C26 DIS ballot (train-it.eu)
What are vector embeddings? An interactive guide (isaacus.com)
Germany to tap Ukrainian tech with missile purchase (www.ft.com)
CleanYourTV : Debloat Any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi (github.com)
Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust (github.com)
Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for (www.theverge.com)
How hospitals used inspiration from F1 for surgery-to-ICU handovers (www.bbc.com)
Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits (electrek.co)
Decompressible Oracle Generators (gertlabs.com)
Can a good philsophical contribution be made just by asking a question? (2022) (philpapers.org)
SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef (divemagazine.com)
Local-first video production workspace for people and AI agents (github.com)
RSS Vault – a curated directory of RSS feeds (rssvault.org)
Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades (maritime-executive.com)
An Invisible Spirit (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism (contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
Failure Modes (www.autodidacts.io)
The Tesla-SpaceX merger explained (finshots.in)
Sharp Tools (bojidar-bg.dev)
Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down (www.semafor.com)
Mantle – Agentic API Maintenance (getmantle.dev)
Dua Lipa''s Manifesto Library (www.banned-books.org)
You Can''t Change Your Boss (jacobian.org)
US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low (fred.stlouisfed.org)
Oseberg Tapestry Fragments (en.wikipedia.org)
Netflix Users Are Watching Less, Not Opening the App as Often (www.bloomberg.com)
Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office (exhibits.stanford.edu)
PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP (github.com)
Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained (shattered.io)
Unique source blinded Dutch intelligence agencies to Putin''s invasion (www.volkskrant.nl)
How Close Are We to Autonomous Chip Design (semiengineering.com)
What managing emergencies at Burning Man teaches me about incident management (greatcircle.com)
Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil elections: Lula secures fourth term after dramatic comeback (www.bbc.com)
JaJa: Job Agency Harness (github.com)
Claude model bypassed paywall to access voter info without human authorization (www.axios.com)
FileBot Forums (phpBB) have been hacked (www.reddit.com)
If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay (www.economist.com)
Biff 2.0.4: LLM Skills (biffweb.com)
U.S. birth rate drops to record low, but older women are having more babies (www.npr.org)
Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category (korindiehacker.bloffy.blog)
Setup Home Lab Static Website: Rasp Pi, Astro, Nginx Proxy Mgmt, Cloudflare (blog.jacq.cc)
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a 2 microcontroller (shraiwi.com)
iPhone Duo Teardown [video] (www.youtube.com)
Cve.now: A Free Feed of Security Vulnerabilities for Agents (www.sazabi.com)
Drone warfare is evolving faster than armies can adapt (www.thestar.com)
Scientists Discover a Surprising Shortcut to Nuclear Fusion (scitechdaily.com)
Coding Is Dead. Programming Is Not (twitter.com)
One gateway for your AI agents, APIs and MCP servers (github.com)
Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms (www.bbc.com)
Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape''s BBS logon screens (breakintochat.com)
Grokking: A 777-Parameter Transformer Learned Real Math (themenonlab.blog)
iPhone Duo Teardown (www.ifixit.com)
The Great Schlep: Israelis Are Flying Back to Vote (www.newyorker.com)
Learning to Ride Your Brain (contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
Trump critic Lula wins reelection in Brazil, securing fourth presidential term (apnews.com)
They Fled Trump''s America. Now They Regret It (www.wired.com)
Less Is More: From 1M Lines of Firmware to 300 of Assembly (tinfoil.sh)
Lula wins election after final votes tallied (www.reuters.com)
Birth control pills do not alter women''s preferences for masculine faces (www.psypost.org)
Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC (github.com)
KC-135 navigator recalls his Stratotanker towing damaged F-111 (theaviationgeekclub.com)
Lula Wins Brazilian Election (resultados.tse.jus.br)
DevRel is unbelievably back [video] (www.youtube.com)
Vim Classic (vim-classic.org)
Securing a DuckDB Server in Production (blog.starlake.ai)
A library of 200 human UGC reactions for 19 is legit? (ugcpeople.com)
Lula Wins a Record Fourth Term in Brazil in a Surprise Comeback (www.bloomberg.com)
Attention Is Not What You Need (arxiv.org)
Do not remove Contracts from C26 [pdf] (www.open-std.org)
AI is getting good at math, here''s why (latent.space)
macOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS (hypnotize.works)
Palo Alto retracts claim of PHP2Shell exploitation at European government agency (unit42.paloaltonetworks.com)
Fedora 45 Hits a Second No-Go: Not Releasing Until November (www.phoronix.com)
Apollo says AI has delivered ''zero financial payoff'' outside the tech industry (www.businessinsider.com)
Internet Security: We''re Doomed (www.nationalreview.com)
Surprising gender biases in GPT (2024) (www.sciencedirect.com)
Focus: Why Everything Is Not for You (leveragethoughts.substack.com)
Why I Built Verto (jackdamon.org)
Why the EU avoids tackling Big Soccer (www.politico.eu)
Conservative party wins first election in nearly a century in BC (www.reuters.com)
Black October (Information Security) (en.wikipedia.org)
Does Flapping Airplanes mean short timelines and hard treaty enforcement? (twitter.com)
Pocket Casts Unfolded (kean.blog)
Unlearning Adulthood (aishwaryagoel.com)
Are You Smarter Than a Chimp? (geniusandimpostor.com)
Why the Columbia River Has No Delta (www.worldatlas.com)
Forget the plague, this is the disease that will kill us all (mapwriting.substack.com)
Worried by Wordexp(3) (www.cipht.net)
Serbia''s ruler VučIć concedes election to student-led protest (www.bbc.com)
Stop resetting privacy settings to default on updates #17107 (github.com)
Germany''s Idle Nuclear Plants Eye New Life as AI Data Centers (www.bloomberg.com)
Introducing Aqua WebKit. It''s 2026, and Safari 7 is the world''s best web browser (forums.macrumors.com)
Nvidia eyes converting old nuclear plants into AI data centers (www.tomshardware.com)
F45 (Fedora 45) Final Is No-Go (lists.fedoraproject.org)
Europe''s summer heat wave killed more han 50k people in urban areas (www.science.org)
Aster My HobbyOS with a custom C toolchain and network stack (runs on 128MB RAM) (github.com)
Health devices that sync to Apple Health/Health Connect with no subscription (subscription-free-health-devices.vercel.app)
Cross-Platform vs. Native Mobile Development: Empirical Study (arxiv.org)
A rising tide raises all rents (jyn.dev)
What Security Teams Need to Know About Agents Using Abliterated Models (eve.security)
China increasingly depends on copying American AI (economist.com)
Report says ''circular financing'' shows AI bubble ''primed to pop'' (www.openmarketsinstitute.org)
A Woman Who Made History by Answering the Phone (2015) (time.com)
Git History the Future of Observability (github.com)
Psilocybin Replaces Lost Synapses in Depressed Brains (neurosciencenews.com)
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? (minimaxir.com)
A hidden bias in human language challenges 70 years of science (www.sciencedaily.com)
Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America''s Earnings Boom (www.wsj.com)
Serbia''s Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement (www.reuters.com)
iPhone Duo 1M fold test [video] (www.youtube.com)
Struggling to Keep AI Out (blog.eunach.scot)
Why I''m Short the AI Buildout Even Though I''m Long Computers (unverifiablerewards.substack.com)
Don''t Hinge Your Career Earnings on Technical Skills Alone (leveragethoughts.substack.com)
Product Engineers (leerob.com)
The Factory Outside Phoenix That Could Save American Manufacturing (www.nytimes.com)
The State of Context Engineering (www.dbreunig.com)
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering (2023) (repo-sam.inria.fr)
A Comprehensive Introduction and Overview of Gaussian Splats (alphapixeldev.com)
Information Security North Star – the least a project must know (informationsecuritynorthstar.com)
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity (danluu.com)
I don''t want to be an spectator (paulocuambe.github.io)
Plan and code review for your agents (plannotator.ai)
Website to Markdown – keyless HTMLclean Markdown for RAG, pay-per-use (apify.com)
A Stackless Floodfill Automaton (t3x.org)
Focused Company Operating Principles (focused.io)
Upwelling – Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers (www.inkandswitch.com)
What goes into making an animated film? (www.disneyanimation.com)
The iPhone Duo just came out, and owners are seeing screens crack (www.tomsguide.com)
Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops (arstechnica.com)
Reclaim disk space with an AI agent (github.com)
.NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates (devblogs.microsoft.com)
NvALT Back from the Dead (brettterpstra.com)
My university is proposing to offer shorter degrees. Others should follow suit (www.washingtonpost.com)
Crosscut – Drawing Dynamic Models (www.inkandswitch.com)
Hooke – Run agents on schedule or file changes with just one file (github.com)
Coma – Paimen (1996) [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Power Grab of the AI Doomers (www.aipanic.news)
Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Further Removed from Prosperity (lusopt2016.blogspot.com)
Kauldron: Modular, scalable library to train ML models (github.com)
It''s a trap: testing coding agents on a language with surprising semantics (blog.csongor.co.uk)
Monarchs report their locations via cell phone (news.vt.edu)
NeuronDump: Open a local LLM as a 3D graph, cut parts, see what breaks (github.com)
Google''s privacy policy to use info shared through Personal Intelligence for ads (www.androidauthority.com)
Augmodo Raised Capital to Take Its Employee-CameraBadges Beyond the Retail Floor (startupfortune.com)
Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) (armincat.com)
Against Against Handover (www.astralcodexten.com)
Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) (iosiflazaridis.github.io)
Human Limits to Growth (papers.ssrn.com)
Geneva in 3D and real time with open data (geneva3d.ch)
Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42% (arstechnica.com)
"Study history thoroughly" Lithuanian woman to hammer and sickle waving students (www.baltictakes.com)
Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest (arstechnica.com)
Settler attacks, demolitions and roadblocks: A week in the West Bank [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why I Am a Programmer (www.alfie.wtf)
People are using AI to ''dumb down'' their smart TVs. Is that a good idea? (www.cbc.ca)
Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens (www.wiz.io)
Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down (www.theverge.com)
My wellbeing does not depend on my project (yapern.com)
The Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives (2023) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
OpenAI''s isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache (the-decoder.com)
AI didn''t cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there''s no recovery (vithushansylvester.com)
Making Emacs code folding unified and consistent (jointhefreeworld.org)
Maintenance Futures (www.chrbutler.com)
Krillion (krillion.io)
PC Prices Got Stupid, So I Tried Gaming Like It Was 1996 [video] (www.youtube.com)
How ''Alignment'' Took over the Worlds of Business and Tech (www.nytimes.com)
I made a virtual pet fruit fly that Twitch chat can interact with (www.twitch.tv)
Dolly Parton''s Imagination Library (imaginationlibrary.com)
DocsGPT v1.1.0 chat analytics with a 400M model (www.docsgpt.cloud)
Expand Your Home Computer and Your Imagination to the Limit (www.dragondata.co.uk)
AI delivers ''zero financial payoff'' to most companies, Apollo economist says (techcrunch.com)
Dog fight: Ornithopter vs. Raptor [video] (www.youtube.com)
Search Photos by What''s in Them (photofindry.com)
China''s first AI-generated film hits cinemas but ticket sales lag (www.channelnewsasia.com)
We can do impossible things (www.technologyreview.com)
Lightning.ai October 2026 Security Incident (lightning.ai)
All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" (isburmistrov.substack.com)
The penguins are noisy, the people fantastic – being an Antarctic postmaster (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Hidden Economy of Your Internet Connection (spur.us)
MagicaVoxel (ephtracy.github.io)
If You''re So Smart, Then Why Are You So Poor? Russia''s 1990s Revisited (ninabyzantina.com)
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet 2.5M for Records About One Cop (theintercept.com)
AI Boom Looks a Lot Like the Housing Bubble (www.nytimes.com)
Flint · free browser streaming software for Twitch, an OBS alternative (flint.cam)
Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf] (gwern.net)
How we made our MMDB files a 33% smaller (ipinfo.io)
Reset Email Passwords on Dreamhost (www.dreamhoststatus.com)
I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 (talkweb.eu)
Fuck Nuance (2015) (crookedtimber.org)
Apple Watch''s Disasterous Update (aperocky.com)
Pat Gelsinger: Why This Is the Best Time to Build Hardware (thechipletter.substack.com)
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis (lynchlab.net)
Sabre Wulf Remastered (gp-64.com)
Heatbit Says Your Water Heater Should Be Mining Bitcoin, and Now It Can (gizmodo.com)
Making bbtree''s scans latch-free: 2x under contention, slower alone (rhyadav.dev)
I Couldn''t Sleep, So I Built a Factory (zontakllc.com)
There will be 30k critical CVEs in the next 12 months (build--yannick.3b.run)
Securing self-hosted services is exhausting, and I want to go back to SaaS (blog.outv.im)
AI Gateway Benchmark: OpenRouter, Vercel, Ramp, Keln (keln.ai)
eMudhra''s rise from Indian digital signatures to global cybersecurity (theprint.in)
One man became the unsung hero of the internet during a cyber-security scramble (www.bbc.com)
Tiny Software Is the Only Safe Software (philipbohun.com)
Scam Alert: Fake Captcha Prompts Users to Run Commands (www.umass.edu)
Impersonate-HTTP – byte-exact browser TLS fingerprints for Go''s http.Client (github.com)
We Are All in the C-Suite Now (www.brethorsting.com)
SEOAudit: Passive SEO and security scanner for any website (no sign-up) (seoaudit.com.ua)
UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms (unicode.org)
Turning real engineering stories into HBO'' Silicon Valley 2.0 AI episodes (dramadrama.ai)
Taming Intel''s "Brain Damaged" Chip (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
What Does a Privacy Team Do? (libber.org)
Hidebound: The Grisly Invention of Parchment (2016) (longreads.com)
A Mathematician Reads the AI Future (www.theatlantic.com)
JetBrains Thinkrail (github.com)
Systemd merges support for programs written in Rust (github.com)
End of an era? How the Hermes Birkin bag is losing its scarcity appeal (www.reuters.com)
Is Anybody Out There? Art in the Post-AI Era (programmingattack.com)
Ford Patents Idea That Lets Parked Cars Autonomously Flee Danger (www.caranddriver.com)
Low Birthrates in England Could Lead to ''Closure of 800 Primary Schools by 2029'' (www.theguardian.com)
Anthropic Sued for Stealing Elvis Presley Music to Train AI (www.billboard.com)
Flock Fever: A Review of Government Surveillance by Benn Jordan [video] (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks (gizmodo.com)
Jukebox-OS: Deterministic time-travel replay and ACID tool sandbox for AI agents (github.com)
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see ''no point'' in grading homework (www.dailycal.org)
Dreamhost: Investigating an incident affecting File Manager and Webmail (www.dreamhoststatus.com)
Bentley''s Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war (www.autonext.co)
Far, Far Away – Making a home on the most remote inhabited island (www.nytimes.com)
US Households Pay 62% More for Water Than They Did a Decade Ago, Study Finds (www.theguardian.com)
CIOs admit that after purchase vendors drive the timing and acceptance of change (www.computerweekly.com)
Open source impeded by inconsistencies in the Office Open XML document format (interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu)
ArtCraft Changes Every 2 Minutes. So I Built Something to Watch It [video] (www.youtube.com)
Rewriting Excel, PowerPoint, and Word for Agents (getcompound.ai)
If you''ve ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why (twitter.com)
Ideas (www.noahzender.com)
What Makes Life Beautiful? (nautil.us)
Cramdle: A game about packing shapes together tightly (cramdle.com)
JPEG XL with WebGPU makes smaller files than libjxl in 150 KB JavaScript (github.com)
Mozilla "Come back to Firefox" video "reunites meme royalty" (blog.mozilla.org)
Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers (techbronerd.substack.com)
Protocols and Relationships (systemsoflife.substack.com)
POSIX Wordexp(3) Is Dangerous (yossarian.net)
If AI Can Copy Photoshop, Why Would Anyone Build the Next Figma? (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
Firecrawl''s Government Index (lexifina.com)
Compression and Concatenation on the Web (theconsensus.dev)
Architectural Decision Records (adr.github.io)
In times of uncertainty, focus on principles (r.ena.to)
MongoDB vs. FerretDB: When Open Source Compatibility Becomes a Patent Risk (shujisado.org)
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B (huggingface.co)
Recent Tailscale Vulnerability Reports (www.reddit.com)
The Climb – Dream Again USA (dreamagainusa.org)
Anthropic sued for allegedly stealing from The King (www.avclub.com)
NoUploadConverter – In-browser file converter running 100% in RAM (nouploadconverter.com)
Honor-Based Value Transfer: A Walk Through Hawala (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning (blog.cloudflare.com)
You could do it alone (karrisaarinen.com)
Subreddit R/opensource banned all AI so we made a subreddit for you to post in (reddit.com)
A Few Thoughts on Intensity (www.tylerhogge.com)
OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp (atgreen.github.io)
Don''t anthropomorphize big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
elfmudhra: Check for eMudhra CA Certificates in Your Firmware (nrfcloud.nordicsemi.com)
Neon Ghosts with Ggplot2 (drmowinckels.io)
Mozilla reported HTTP2Shell with proof of RCE in April (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff (www.washingtonsun.com)
iPhone Duo Reports of Faulty Duo Hinges (forums.macrumors.com)
Proton Hosting Map of 300k Surveillance Devices – Flock Can''t Easily Stop It (www.gadgetreview.com)
Salesforce – Part Two (buildingslack.com)
South Korea Account Surplus Surpasses Germany and Japan Due to Chip Boom (en.koreadaily.com)
R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs (www.reddit.com)
Apollo''s Slok Says AI Has Delivered Zero Payoff Outside of Tech (www.bloomberg.com)
How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering? (arxiv.org)
MEPs urge EU ministers to act and bring an end to seasonal clock changes (www.thelocal.com)
GitHub Gists Flooded with Spam (gist.github.com)
You Are Losing Weight. Why Are You So Angry? (julienreszka.com)
The One Question I Can''t Stand at Restaurants (www.theatlantic.com)
A Space Startup Is Coming Out of Stealth with Seven-Figure Deals (newsbywire.com)
YousefAbdulHusain – The Dune Movies Erase Islam [video] (www.youtube.com)
Give the browser bookmarks a second life (addons.mozilla.org)
US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect (theconversation.com)
Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset (www.dreamhoststatus.com)
Framing the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid into a 2026 Story (torrentfreak.com)
Sending Modern Languages Back to 1980s Game Programmers (prog21.dadgum.com)
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn''t make it (techcrunch.com)
Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events (twitter.com)
Workmux: Tmux workflow for parallel coding agents (workmux.dev)
The Emacs Guru Guide to Key Bindings (2018) (www.wilfred.me.uk)