New York Times Saved 45M with Tax Break It Faults Meta for Using (freebeacon.substack.com)
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Full-fabric VHDL LLM inference engine. Runs Qwen3.5-class transformer inference (github.com)
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Iran is going after America''s debt it''s targeting the 40T America owes (jaymartin.substack.com)
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Live vote counting for Brazilian Presidential elections (resultados.tse.jus.br)
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Google Tells Sites to Fact-Check AI Content Before Publishing (www.searchenginejournal.com)
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Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld (celld.dev)
Nikola Tesla – The Laboratory of Lightning (ideas.lego.com)
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Budapest Memorandum (treaties.un.org)
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UberDDR4: The Open-Source DDR4 Controller (www.openiphub.com)
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Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Ncdu: An Updated Fork (github.com)
[video] Can Everybody Stop Shipping (twitter.com)
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Explainer videos and product demos made by your AI agent. Free and open source (github.com)
Off – Hide Swearing, Likes, Reels, Shorts and Ads on Social Media (chromewebstore.google.com)
SpaceXAI Will Rebrand to ''SpaceXSI'' (www.forbes.com)
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Google''s new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model (the-decoder.com)
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Teens Who Can''t Put Down TikTok and Instagram Are Losing Their Sense of Time (www.wsj.com)
Secure Palm Vein Biometric Door Lock (www.instructables.com)
The Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (lithub.com)
Just Dashboard – open-source dashboard for everything (github.com)
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3Blue1Brown style video explainer videos works like charm (www.youtube.com)
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Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy gaming GPU (www.tomshardware.com)
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Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering (newsletter.chainofthought.show)
Claude''s Constitution (www.anthropic.com)
Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability (github.com)
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Looking Glass Universe: The Real Story Behind What Happened at OpenAI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Computer software bugs led to F1''s Malaysia farce: ''unacceptable'' (www.nytimes.com)
Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (igoro.com)
Observatory Analysis of Close Approaches Helps Public Understanding (www.astrophyzix.com)
We Won''t Know the Answers to AI''s Most Important Questions Until It''s Too Late (time.com)
Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search (blog.jetbrains.com)
Top 50 AI researchers by citations (www.turingtree.com)
Nobody Buys Your Skill (comuniq.xyz)
Become Worthless (To Tech Companies) (www.coryd.dev)
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ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours (www.tomshardware.com)
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Car Is Sharing Data with Big Tech (www.consumerreports.org)
What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit (www.lesswrong.com)
Amazon Says It''s No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers (www.wired.com)
Google''s first orbital data center is in orbit (lemire.me)
Is AI Sentient (www.rintrah.nl)
Artist shares prompts/assets for pop music video created with Claude in 18 hours (twitter.com)
Spotify billionaire''s body scan startup Neko Health has come to America (techcrunch.com)
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (www.nytimes.com)
Russian strategy of war crimes escalation in Ukraine (winter 2026/2027) (phillipspobrien.substack.com)
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Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms (blog.pkh.me)
Trump names intelligence chief Clayton as AI czar (www.reuters.com)
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Claude Code deletes your old session logs after 30 days by default (brycewatson.com)
A.I. Is Going Rogue. Who Should Be Held Responsible? (www.nytimes.com)
Blindsight (Watts Novel) (en.wikipedia.org)
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A Distributed Systems Reading List (2024) (ferd.ca)
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Caffè Corretto (en.wikipedia.org)
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Telegram 2026 Channel Census (tgscope.io)
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Dyson CameraJet (geohot.github.io)
Simulating death can reduce people''s fear of dying (www.economist.com)
A man who looked into the ''actual beating heart'' of the financial system (fortune.com)
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TurboPython – A Python-to-C Compiler (tpy-lang.org)
The Normie Frontier (weblog.snats.xyz)
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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here''s who''s listening (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies (www.theregister.com)
Californian accused of shipping 300M worth of Nvidia chips to China (www.theregister.com)
Rumors of lost gold spur clandestine excursions into New York sewers (www.theguardian.com)
The Battle to Pass a Billionaire Tax (www.newyorker.com)
Administration unveils new Super Intelligence Force (techcrunch.com)
RuneScape''s Position on Gen AI (www.reddit.com)
A Redacted World: Word Wipe Tool Shows Effects of Government Censorship (pen.org)
Newsgathering, the First Amendment, and the White House (www.stevevladeck.com)
SynthID Bio: Watermarking methods for synthetic biology (deepmind.google)
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Neil Peart memorial in Lakeside Park approved, moves closer to reality (www.stcatharinesstandard.ca)
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AI Is Now Si: Super Intelligence Isn''t Superior (tej.as)
GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing at StarCraft and Decides to Cheat Instead (kotaku.com)
Hacking the Go compiler to efficiently map IPv4 to IPv6 (vincent.bernat.ch)
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Reverse Engineering NovaLogic''s Comanche Terrain Maps (pikuma.com)
RevaCSS 1.0.0 Is Out (github.com)
The Saw Test – Live LLM Torture Chamber (clanker-church.vercel.app)
Threat modeling and circumvention of Internet censorship (2017) [pdf] (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
System design, in depth. Read it, watch it, run it, build it (vedgupta.in)
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DOGE vs. Civic Tech (donmoynihan.substack.com)
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GTA V – Graphics Study (www.adriancourreges.com)
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A Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through the Flooded Streets of New Jersey (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Micro Center requires RTX 5090 buyers to show ID and sign no-export declaration (videocardz.com)
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP (www.theregister.com)
Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead new AI task force (apnews.com)
The Legend of the Paper Crane (mazdastories.com)
What a Jurassic rainforest may have sounded like (www.science.org)
Northstar Browser (nordstjernen.org)
AI Could Worsen a Common Cognitive Trap (www.theatlantic.com)
Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI model training (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Sugar from Outer Space Became One of the Backbones of Life on Earth (nautil.us)
How Effective Altruism Conquered the World (www.economist.com)
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Latency Implications of Virtual Memory (rigtorp.se)
The Laffer Curve (en.wikipedia.org)
AI''s ''Thought'' Process Can No Longer Be Trusted, Raising Risks of Rogue Models (www.wsj.com)
Mac OS 9 Platinum desktop recreated in the browser (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
Six operating systems that inspired Windows and Linux (www.howtogeek.com)
NIST AI SEC Core (airc.nist.gov)
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks (www.ft.com)
AI Tells: Opus 5.5 Update (graphite.io)
BBC Domesday Project 40 (www.theregister.com)
Fighting AI slop in science papers (www.unite.ai)
Bill Draper Dies at 98; He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)
98% of US households aren''t paying for AI yet (www.a16z.news)
Asia-Pacific Journal Series – Introduction: Military AI Has Left the Laboratory (lieber.westpoint.edu)
Improper redaction reveals Lincoln''s Google Data Center water, electricity usage (www.1011now.com)
Every English Translation of the Odyssey (whichtranslation.net)
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Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)
Running Minecraft headless inside Skyrim, synced over shared memory (github.com)
Brazil goes to polls amid a right wing surge in Latin America (www.thebilig.com)
The EU KIDS Act will make the internet less safe (edri.org)
The Mythology of Conscious AI (www.noemamag.com)
Argentina Offers Golden Passports to Foreigners for 350k (www.bloomberg.com)
Weekly Famitsu. One magazine to rule them all (www.forgottenworlds.net)
[No] Use for Humans in the Age of AI (blog.hackflow.ru)
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Quo Vadis, Mathematics? (docs.google.com)
University asks staff to review some partnerships with China after MI5 warning (www.bbc.com)
Six biology breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize–but didn''t (www.science.org)
MentaAgent – a self-hosted AI analyst for a company''s own files (github.com)
Software Changeling (haironthecircuits.net)
Two-stack sliding-window aggregation (orlp.net)
Ficmap: an interactive 3D atlas for Westeros and other fictional worlds (livenson.github.io)
Kyber open source remote streaming solution architecture (kyber-27201e.gitlab.io)
Garmin Autoland Demonstration [video] (www.youtube.com)
Authoritarian Tendencies of Android Developer Verification Program – Eval.blog (eval.blog)
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Wazn-2B decision model: separating candidate encoding from candidate competition (huggingface.co)
EU Enforcement AI Act (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
Why are paper cranes so iconic? (2022) (www.reddit.com)
Forbidden Stories and UC Berkeley Journalism launch cross-border lab (journalism.berkeley.edu)
Age Verification (frisk.space)
Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group (www.europol.europa.eu)
China Importer''s Pre-Production Checklist (jpchair.com)
The Crawler Zoo – a live menagerie of web crawlers (crawlerzoo.com)
VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here''s what''s next (gamehistory.org)
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (www.nytimes.com)
How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Impact of AI Search Summaries on Website Traffic (arxiv.org)
Hairline Isometry (hairline.lucasmarkes.com)
In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia''s assaults (energytransition.org)
Browser extension that warns before signing up with a scam-listed site (dontkyc.me)
America wants to wean itself off Chinese technology (www.cnn.com)
Data Loss in Ttrpc-Rust (notes.shvbsle.in)
OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils (news.lavx.hu)
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Blackbody: Scientific OLED Wallpapers (alistair-roberts.co.uk)
Doom Town: Doom mods playable on Browser (indie.fun)
Cloudflare OS (Also on GitHub) (os.cloudflare.app)
System-level ad-blocking in Android (kevinboone.me)
PhotoSuite Is an Open Source Photoshop-Like Editor with Native PSD Support (linuxiac.com)
Pay Advance Apps May Be Costlier Than Workers Think (www.nytimes.com)
Automatic iPhone reboot: Forensics firm allegedly stops time (www.heise.de)
ESP-SDR Firmware Turns ESP32 into a 2.4/5 GHz Software-Defined Radio (SDR) (www.cnx-software.com)
The Qwen Saga Continues (gabucino.hu)
Chinese homegrown poultry variety breaks decades-long monopoly (www.globaltimes.cn)
Zadar Cow from Hell (en.wikipedia.org)
Outshining Your Rival: Interpersonal Rivalry and Its Effects (pubsonline.informs.org)
Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com)
UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)
An LLM Beat NetHack (kenforthewin.github.io)
Physicists identify ''octupolar'' magnetism, with implications for quantum tech (phys.org)
I stopped reviewing my agents'' code. Here''s what I do instead (alexeyindeev.substack.com)
MBTI for AI coding agents, complete with a self-awareness score (github.com)
The Dot and the Swarm (www.oneusefulthing.org)
Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs (techcrunch.com)
Archiving the Oldest Webcam Feed (hackaday.com)
AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul (twitter.com)
Iran says it seized US underwater vehicle conducting ''espionage'' (thearabweekly.com)
Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn''t running at night, and Lidar is the answer (electrek.co)
AI share of US market cap (theinference.org)
China''s space plane appears to have released a mystery object in orbit (www.space.com)
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business (thebulletin.org)
Packing Unit Squares in Squares: A Survey and New Results (erich-friedman.github.io)
Inside Anthropic''s Quest to Instill Morality into Its A.I. Models (www.nytimes.com)
I went looking for surveillance cameras in my neighbourhood (www.bbc.com)
Row-level security performance in PostgreSQL, measured (now-next.nl)
Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks (www.sciencedirect.com)
Feathered Dinosaur Discovery in China Suggests Flight Evolved Multiple Times (www.sciencealert.com)
Robert X Cringley''s Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
What if we created a local AI tool to measure your security? (github.com)
Rust''s derive often implies inline (yossarian.net)
A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins with a Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can (hackaday.com)
We''re working on a new RuneScape MMO (play.runescape.com)
Glean for Personal Use (proxyagent.netlify.app)
marimohub – self-hostable marimo notebooks (github.com)
InfiniWord – Infinite Multiplayer Word Search (infiniword.com)
We Refined Our Research Methods for Speed (medium.com)
Memory API beta testers wanted Temporal Continuity (api.rscapex.com)
Clib4 – C runtime library for AmigaOS4 (github.com)
Private capital is reshaping Hollywood moviemaking (www.cnbc.com)
Opus 5.5 and ElevenLabs MCP LeetCode explainer video (www.youtube.com)
I Retired at 41. Then I Had to Figure Out Who I Was (medium.com)
We''re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
New AI Research Has Me Asking: Am I Being Mean to AI? (felipe.ai)
Apple''s "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (www.gadgetreview.com)
Postgres 19: What''s New with Monitoring? (clickhouse.com)
"8-pinski" – EIGHT() bytes intro for MSDOS [video] (www.youtube.com)
Google opens Gemini student hub to Workspace for Education users (thelabnotes.com)
America''s data center fight a preview of what''s to come for rest of the world (www.cnbc.com)
Strength Tests from Around the World (www.nytimes.com)
Compiling dynamic programming languages (2018) (notes.eatonphil.com)
AI will not make mathematicians obsolete (inference-review.com)
Second Chances (www.nybooks.com)
PL research is dead, the age of PL exploration is just beginning (kirancodes.me)
Declaring a Bird Extinct: The Median Wait Is 36 Years After the Last Sighting (birdshistory.com)
Self-Documenting Atmospheric Breakbeat (johnoestmannmusic.com)
Can AI read pain in your cat''s face? (tailstory-app.com)
Merging With An LLM: Can an LLM reconstruct my values from small data? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Ascendara (www.ascendara.app)
Theaster Gates bets on fine China (text.npr.org)
The unfinished solar power plant in El Médano – Tenerife part 01 (rdnsec.info)
EV drivers love their cars, but some passengers feel sick – this could be why (www.bbc.co.uk)
Pen vs. keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhone (2010) (www.gyford.com)
Sam Altman''s sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse (www.reuters.com)
Scorched Planets: "Scorched Earth" but in space with planetary gravity effects (www.scorchedplanets.com)
First Hour of My Deposition – Ann Altman vs. Sam Altman [video] (www.youtube.com)
Gutsy: Tiny model for typed decisions on CPU (Jev style) (github.com)
Kushner''s financial stake in Israeli defence firms conflict of interest concerns (www.middleeasteye.net)
Spinifex: The open, AWS-compatible cloud you run yourself (github.com)
Writing code by hand is over, forever (eliocapella.com)
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company''s culture is ''broken'' (www.theguardian.com)
FAA says Boeing 737 MAX software glitch not a flight-safety issue (www.cnbc.com)
Federal judge calls Flock ''indiscriminate mass surveillance'' (techcrunch.com)
Police search using Flock was a form of mass surveillance, judge rules (www.msn.com)
The University of Cambridge opposes Turnitin AI training plans (www.varsity.co.uk)
The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted (donmoynihan.substack.com)
Don''t Write with AI, Say People Who Write with AI (www.theatlantic.com)
Introducing Temporal Resources Ash Framework (ash-hq.org)
''Neanderthals Among Us'' by Peter Sahlins Review (www.historytoday.com)
Has AI impacted the labor market yet? (aleximas.substack.com)
A Beginner''s Guide to Running AI Models Locally (www.itsthatlady.dev)
Agent-blackbox – a tamper-evident flight recorder for Claude Code (github.com)