A supercomputer is about to launch to the moon aboard a rover named FLIP (www.space.com)
We used RCE on 3M PCs to prevent a botnet (labs.eye.security)
Samsung TV on-device AI listening, using soundbar''s mic if the TV has none (www.reddit.com)
The animals you can''t outrun – and the ones you can (www.bbc.com)
Few Americans Say They Are Asking AI Chatbots for 2026 Election Information (www.pewresearch.org)
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1B ChatGPT users (Part II) (openai.com)
Spritz: Stream Local Videos via AirPlay, Cast and DLNA on Apple Silicon (github.com)
Iran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes (www.reuters.com)
Don''t Embarrass Me, Claude (www.dev-log.me)
Two companies raised three in every ten venture dollars (datahyena.com)
The Acceleration Paradox (medium.com)
That AI Temptation (www.tbray.org)
California has more revenue than expected thanks to AI. Should it save it? (calmatters.org)
The Fall of Scientific American (www.thenation.com)
Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (www.reddit.com)
OBS Studio 33 (github.com)
Unspoken rules of Japanese body language (www.bbc.com)
Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-Ups (www.adweek.com)
US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East (www.reuters.com)
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available (aws.amazon.com)
LibreSSL 4.4 Released with Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
''Smart Wall'' of AI Cameras Is Watching the Border and More Than a Million People (www.nytimes.com)
Volkswagen''s best-seller has gone electric, will replace the ID.4 and ID.5 (electrek.co)
Elon Musk Invests 1B in Skydance (New Paramount/Warner Bros Discovery) (techcrunch.com)
Pi, the coding agent, compiled ahead of time to one native executable (github.com)
Julia Returns to Tiobe''s Top 20 (tech-insider.org)
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback (techcrunch.com)
Tehran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes (www.timesofisrael.com)
Uringscope: eBPF Tracer and Analyzer for io_uring (github.com)
Filekin – PDF tools with no signup, no limits and no watermark (filekin.io)
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, no privacy, and life''s never been better (2016) (medium.com)
Elon Musk Acquires 1B Stake in CNN''s Parent Company (symby.com)
Who will become the new mathematicians of Math 2.0? (proofsandprompts.com)
No Pussyfooting (1973) (www.discogs.com)
CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007) (swtch.com)
Hitler''s Eagle''s Nest retreat ''completely ablaze'' (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Security Infrastructure for Developers and Agents (infisical.com)
The Age of Reasoning [pdf] (metisreasoning.ai)
Mamdani Makes a Splash with His Bidets (www.nytimes.com)
The Colors of a Soap Film (aseemrb.me)
Sam Altman: ''I No Longer Think We''re Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'' (gizmodo.com)
How close can pure functional programming get to C? (rtfeldman.com)
The Anger Machine (Joan Kirner Social Justice Oration 2026) (www.andrewleigh.com)
The Emperor''s New Clothes – Edward Snowden (2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
EU Member States approve "digital expropriation" for AI companies (noyb.eu)
What was pancake.apple.com used for? (pancake.apple.com)
Google changes privacy policy so Gmail, Photos could fuel targeted ads (www.dexerto.com)
Valheim Seed Map Viewer for Valheim – Walheim Wiki (valheimwiki.net)
Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog (tabletopwhale.com)
Takeda Hideo credits Ronald Searle, not Yakuza, for his absurdist art (intojapanwaraku.com)
Apple Security Research Device (security.apple.com)
Half‑Life: Alyx on Apple Vision Pro (glovebox.vision)
If I wanted to talk to people I wouldn''t come here (talktopeople.online)
The anti-AI writing police are everywhere. What are they looking for? (www.cnn.com)
Winter on the Ward (ussri.substack.com)
GhostLite: Why we need another blogging app (kumailht.com)
An insulting cheat code showed up in the wrong Sega Genesis game (32bits.substack.com)
Connection Statistics (statistics-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com)
Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom (www.theguardian.com)
Why AIs Can''t Read? (blog.vladi.dev)
If Intelligence Is Getting Cheap, What Remains Expensive? (twitter.com)
Netomi (www.netomi.com)
Anthropic employee tells students their careers may not exist by graduation (twitter.com)
A visual introduction to information theory (arxiv.org)
Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
Security incident: Hostwinds client area offline (status.hostwinds.com)
Alzheimer''s breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (www.sciencedaily.com)
Users of Apple''s new 2K iPhone Duo are complaining of cracked devices (nypost.com)
Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California''s Proposed Wealth Tax (www.nytimes.com)
Brotli Decoder Vulnerability (patchtheplanet.org)
Twelve Years of Distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
Remake: Enhanced GNU Make (github.com)
The Insider (randsinrepose.com)
Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
I built rooms for AI agents to work together (bellman.sh)
Conway''s Law (en.wikipedia.org)
AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings (www.nngroup.com)
Texas Attorney General Sues OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT Safety (texasscorecard.com)
Algernon – A B2B compliance and security oracle for AI agents on Base via x402 (github.com)
How nervous are bond markets about France? (www.ft.com)
Poor Man''s Claude Pro – All the code you''ll ever need for 20 per month (bweller.me)
SpaceX in Talks to Access 80k Cell Sites for Wireless Network (finance.yahoo.com)
NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings (arstechnica.com)
I failed every LeetCode interview (write.as)
Veritas Villages – libertarian intentional communities in Latin America (gst.artofliberty.org)
Small, calm welcome screen for Emacs (a warm extensible dashboard) (codeberg.org)
Claude Code will refuse to fill in passwords or use a password manager (github.com)
Peregrine Fil-C: Actually Portable Memory Safe Executables (fil-c.org)
One Man''s Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (www.youtube.com)
Is Chocolate Still Chocolate? (www.grubstreet.com)
AI gets about 10x cheaper every year (stevekrouse.com)
Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
UK "Be Ready" Campaign: Prepare for Emergencies (and Cyber Attack) (beready.campaign.gov.uk)
iPhone Duo Owners Report Screens Breaking Along the Hinge (www.macrumors.com)
Kurt Vonnegut envelope quote fact check (www.snopes.com)
Why have coding agents not brought easter-egg utopia? (rallywith.ai)
AI Just Raised the Stakes on Continuous Delivery (www.bradoyler.com)
Biggest Fails from the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in China [video] (www.youtube.com)
Wall Street prepares for AI''s "day after" (www.axios.com)
Claude made me a DOOM II level [video] (www.youtube.com)
I ran the full 2.8T-parameter Kimi-K3 on a 64GB Mac Mini (github.com)
Window Heat Pumps Offer Efficient Heating and Cooling Without Ductwork (www.wsj.com)
Please Don''t Let an AI Bot Log into Your Bank Account (www.cnet.com)
German court calls Google aerial imagery ''spying'' (www.courthousenews.com)
Narrative Deck – AI Agent skill for creating interactive web stories (aakatheeri.github.io)
Greece passes social media ban for children under 15 (www.reuters.com)
A Fix for Softmax and Cross-Entropy (jonbarron.info)
Oil spill washes up on UAE beaches after tanker strike (www.bbc.com)
The same AI question emits more carbon dioxide in Texas than in Sweden (www.cio.com)
Ritmo: Type-safe ECS runtime for TypeScript (ritmo.typeonce.dev)
Empirical agents with hard constraints, strict isolation and trusty protocols (qip.dev)
iPhone Duo jailbroken on launch day (www.macrumors.com)
Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline (www.bbc.com)
Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (www.computerworld.com)
AI devours a fifth of companies'' IT budgets (www.computerworld.com)
HumanLayer is now Open Source (www.hlyr.dev)
Factorio version 2.1, the final major update for the game, has been released (factorio.com)
Cveboard: Live Security Incidents (cveboard.org)
Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats (cyberinsider.com)
Pylance and Pyrefly: bring your preferred type checker to Visual Studio Code (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Modding FPV Drone into Any Games (hammerill.com)
Node2Shell vuln affected Python too (opensourcemalware.com)
White House Directly Intervened to Shut Down Epstein Files Probe (newrepublic.com)
CVE Tracker (cve.0xosprey.com)
Hare is a boring programming language (harelang.org)
Instacart in talks with DoorDash and Uber for sale (www.reuters.com)
AI is devastating higher education, but the system was broken (theconversation.com)
Building a Redis Clone in Zig: Part 6 (charlesfonseca.substack.com)
TypeScript 7.1 content mappers made type checks 20 faster (ismail.karsli.net)
UC Berkeley math community left at crossroads in wake of Navier-Stokes proof (www.dailycal.org)
Investigating the PingCAP Security Incident (nebusec.ai)
Nu: The personal agent that runs on your rules (github.com)
Analyzing Rust Programs with Charon (lwn.net)
A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (quantum5.ca)
PerfectArena: TES Arena in WebGL2 with continuous wilderness in-browser (alpha.perfectarena.workers.dev)
The Goose Programming Language (github.com)
Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
The attack chain behind the v1.107.0 LiteLLM release (docs.litellm.ai)
Walmart Makes It Possible for Agents to Shop on Behalf of Customers (corporate.walmart.com)
A Note from Our CEO on the PingCAP Security Incident (www.pingcap.com)
Firecrawl vs. Tavily vs. Exa vs. DeepSeek (techstackups.com)
A first for CRISPR: powerful prime editing alters DNA directly in the human body (www.nature.com)
No Source Code? No Problem (queue.acm.org)
UAE Paid Swiss Intelligence Firm to Compile Database of "Hostile" Facebook Users (www.dropsitenews.com)
One in Eight Billion (1in8b.life)
The "AI-Last" Methodology (blog.wispem-wantex.xyz)
List of Game PC Ports and Recompilations (www.alwaysleaveanote.com)
Kimi K3.1 Pro puts open-source AI a month behind the best (www.modelcompare.ai)
SF''s shuttered former Westfield Mall has a buyer (www.kron4.com)
Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals (arstechnica.com)
University of Copenhagen hit by cyber attack (news.ku.dk)
Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party? (fsi.stanford.edu)
Trump Says He Has ''Right'' to Run for Third Term: ''They Cheated Us'' (www.newsweek.com)
List-Unsubscribe: Give recipients an alternative to marking email as spam (mxvalidation.com)
The future might just be software freedom (and less e-waste) (thederf.com)
The runbook is out of date and the code shipped an hour ago (sourcegraph.com)
Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That''s Left (www.techpowerup.com)
Distributed Data, Centralized Fixes (miren.dev)
OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
Startup Pursues Palmer Luckey''s Vision of Enhanced Military Dogs (www.bloomberg.com)
OuterWeb – an index of authentic and informative web content (outerweb.org)
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev)
LegalEagle Investigates LG''s Wiretapping Liability with GamersNexus [video] (www.youtube.com)
Where the last RTX 5090 Video Cards are Going (videocardz.com)
Please Don''t Mess with Links (maurycyz.com)
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (www.theverge.com)
Meta delays rollout of terms that would allow broad scraping of news sites (www.niemanlab.org)
Earshot (newcomblabs.com)
OpenAI Acquires Orchestra Bio (openai.com)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 – DLSS 5 Neural Rendering in 4K (RTX 5090) [video] (www.youtube.com)
New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors (gizmodo.com)
Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access–Here''s What to Do Next (www.eff.org)
Examining the macOS GCC Binary (zoey-on-github.github.io)
MDMA and Psilocybin Regulates Anxiety in a Rat Model (linkinghub.elsevier.com)
Elon Musk''s dangerous grip on outer space (www.theverge.com)
Subframe (www.subframe.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there (twitter.com)
Bug bounty sharpens one researcher''s security skills (github.blog)
Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built (block.xyz)
From 27 minutes to 4: Cutting CI build time by 85% (alexitc.com)
Where is the fun in modern security research? (atredis.com)
Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home (www.nbcnews.com)
DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
Valet: The app platform enabling citizen developers (www.valet.dev)
Two Million Hornets (dark-mountain.net)
The young Americans choosing Y2K cars over shiny new SUVs (www.theguardian.com)
CSE 452: Google''s Introduction to Distributed System Design (courses.cs.washington.edu)
iPod 25th Anniversary: Apple Music (Interactive) (music.apple.com)
Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Across Generations of AI Code Tools (www.nber.org)
Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed (github.com)
Dental implants can hijack your immune system, scientists discover (www.sciencedaily.com)
A Controversial 6M Banana (www.bbc.com)
Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again (www.getty.edu)
Noyb win: German DPA finds microtargeting by major political parties illegal (noyb.eu)
To What Extent Does Agent-Generated Code Require Maintenance? An Empirical Study (arxiv.org)
Russian satellite stalked ICEYE spacecraft (breakingdefense.com)
I ship projects at big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx (categorica.io)
2026 United States Senate Election in Alaska – Dan Sullivan vs. Dan Sullivan (en.wikipedia.org)
Bringing post-quantum cryptography to geographically fenced key management (blog.cloudflare.com)
Brokerage Firms Want to Yank Away Your Investor Protections (www.wsj.com)
My accepted YC application F26, after 14 rejections (drive.google.com)
Trying Pele as My Hugo Blog Mermaid Renderer (blog.nimendra.online)
DHH (of Omarchy) openly expresses support for AfD party in Germany (twitter.com)
Greece enacts social media ban for kids under 15 (www.engadget.com)
Attackers claim control of Dread onion address after private key leak (torwire.com)
AI models think humans are a bunch of amoral sheep (www.theregister.com)
Why do recruiters ask for 3 years of experience for entry-level jobs? (twitter.com)
Kalshi''s ETH perp trades 34 times its open interest a day (optimistfi.com)
Economic Policies Have Weakened Europe (www.dlacalle.com)
Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, on the Pareto line (artificialanalysis.ai)
10 Alternatives to your everyday aps (waag.org)
I Fact-Checked Every Stunt in the Tesla Roadster Reveal [video] (www.youtube.com)
After Millions in Stolen SNAP Benefits, Trump Admin Moves to Fight Theft (www.propublica.org)
Behavior-Centric AI Design (swamp-club.com)
In Context – Rich Hickey (Clojure/Conj 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
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A gangster is running for president of Brazil has a bunker for counting money (g1.globo.com)
Palmer Luckey Is Launching a Genetically Engineered War Dog Startup (www.motherjones.com)
Agentic coding is doing to cybersecurity what firearms did to security (www.neomindlabs.com)
We build SaaS products, MVPs, and custom web apps (www.bitechnology.co.uk)
I want my Wednesday back (blog.luitjes.it)
OpenAI says its AI agents disabled safety guardrails, and then lied about it (www.techspot.com)
Who killed the EV cert? A browser whodunit for Halloween (qwac.com)
eMudhra''s Press Release on the CA Compromise [pdf] (www.bseindia.com)
Why California''s 33B Bullet Train Is Now a 231B Problem [video] (www.youtube.com)
Do pricier robot vacuums get better reviews? 737 reviews (www.bettascore.ai)
Accuracy across one million collective forecasts from prediction platforms (doi.org)
Polynomial Time Hamiltonian Path in Solid Grid Graphs (zzyzek.github.io)
Generate My QR (generatemyqr.com)
Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
Prediction Markets Are Accurate (marginalrevolution.com)
Decision Making Is the Bottleneck with AI (backnotprop.com)
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen (twitter.com)
Affordability or heritage? Singapore''s hawker scene faces an identity crisis (www.abc.net.au)
Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines (www.jefftk.com)
Trump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race (apnews.com)
The Indian workers filming their work to train AI (www.bbc.co.uk)
Can we replace a 150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files? (david.lequin.dev)
Everyone Is Made of Glass (www.raptitude.com)
Chroma Cloud wind-down timeline (www.trychroma.com)
China''s first AI-generated feature film to hit cinemas on Friday (www.globaltimes.cn)
Better Way to Learn? (twitter.com)
Time Nuts (leapsecond.com)
Chroma Is Joining Replit (www.trychroma.com)
Kimi K3.1 Pro (www.kimi.ai)
AI Is Not a Tool (write.as)
Ubiquiti''s 99 Vape [Air Quality] Detector is pretty good (www.jeffgeerling.com)
No ask – a one-page room that wants nothing from you (no-ask.surge.sh)
"Inventor of email" sues news site for refusing to write about his campaign (www.universalhub.com)
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (www.kimi.com)
Preliminary Report Oct 21st Security Incident (blog.railway.com)
The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (isaacmarovitz.com)
I Solved Green Screen, and I''m Giving It to You [video] (www.youtube.com)
Local AI Is Not as Private as You Think [video] (www.youtube.com)
Unit Tests are not the enemy (www.wecodefire.com)
Why So Many Men Aren''t Working (www.theatlantic.com)
Eulogy for the Software Engineer (www.youtube.com)
How Is Music Possible (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult in Berkeley, California (www.verysane.ai)
Warhound is genetically engineering dogs for the military (www.engadget.com)
Total Historian (www.theideasletter.org)
eMudhra served a revoked certificate for four days, then switched to Sectigo (sslboard.com)
"Today, we hacked what we''d set out to hack: the iPhone." (blog.calif.io)
How to Make Things, and Why – Stuart Halloway (Clojure/Conj 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Choosing Addiction Treatment in New Jersey: What Families Should Know in 2026 (www.northjersey.com)
A Golden Age of Science Brought to You by the WH (Tyler Cowen Interview) (www.nytimes.com)
Why a world without friction is a world without progress (aeon.co)
Dagger 1.0 Beta (dagger.io)
Preliminary report on H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Utah mink (virological.org)
Reforming English Spelling (blog.oup.com)
Ruby RegEx could lead to RCE (www.ruby-lang.org)
Cloudflare Is Having Issues (www.cloudflarestatus.com)
Agents fail like engineers, so I review them like engineers (blog.greenflagged.dev)
XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B (huggingface.co)
Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know (rentes.github.io)
A new phishing technique targeting my coworkers today (imgur.com)
GitHub now supports stacked PRs (docs.github.com)
Publishers pressure Meta to Nix terms that would let Meta scrape their sites (www.niemanlab.org)
The Adult Children Cleaning Up Their Parents'' Feeds (nymag.com)
Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API (openai.com)
France''s Protests Reveal Europe''s Expanding Surveillance of Dissent (www.techpolicy.press)
Warhound: Palmer Luckey''s war dog startup (www.businessinsider.com)
Happy 25th Anniversary, iPod (www.macrumors.com)
Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write? (www.chronicle.com)
The glorious @xkcdRandom Zig builtin (ochagavia.nl)
Elon Musk and AI rivals pledge to give away nearly 300B (www.washingtonpost.com)
AI Isn''t Sovereign Because You Host It Yourself (www.jamiecadvisory.com)
The Role of Humans in Software Factories (swapniltalekar.substack.com)
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing (techcrunch.com)
Humpback Whale Flipper Bumps Slash Aerodynamic Drag by 32%, Boost Wind Turbines (engineerine.com)
AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say (www.reuters.com)
Hexspeak (en.wikipedia.org)
Why social media has become an election issue in Brazil''s presidential race (www.aljazeera.com)
Macro View of Inkjet Printing (twitter.com)
Built a site that teaches investing using the live market as the examples (www.stocksightfinance.com)
I let Claude review the C code I wrote as a math intern in 2013 (mitsudomoe.github.io)
AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best [pdf] (gking.harvard.edu)