How Long Can Life Wait? (mceglowski.substack.com)
Etch Lab (kharelpk.github.io)
Reusing Exploits to Hijack Tower of Fantasy Accounts (hunio.org)
0rwx – A simple model of AI usage, inspired by Unix permissions (0rwx.com)
BYD Yangwang U9 Xtreme electric car – 503 km/h Top speed World Record [video] (www.youtube.com)
I built Winbux, a shared 4-digit code puzzle with a gift card prize (winbux.xyz)
Echoloc: A minimalist echolocation horror videogame (level102.itch.io)
They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7 (kevinboone.me)
Iyi: A friendly, fast programming language for people and their agents (github.com)
Selective Mutism (en.wikipedia.org)
A 1:12 scale model of Terry Pratchett's study (hachyderm.io)
Google Described Its Agent Sandbox. I Built One with Firecracker and Measured It (antonau.tech)
Why the 300-year-old novel Gulliver's Travels is so misunderstood (www.bbc.com)
I'm Done with Google (2022) (deijin.bearblog.dev)
A Plug for the Spartan Protocol (kevinboone.me)
Tomy Turnin' Turbo Dashboard Outrun Arcade (circuitbeard.co.uk)
A failed experiment in laptop cooling (kevinboone.me)
Sentient LLMs Are Possible (Sorta) (fixingtao.com)
The latency inside your database (planetscale.com)
Chinese fire services turn to specialized fire-fighting drones (asia-tech-news.ghost.io)
An Efficient Implementation of the Priority Queue ADT (Abstract Data Type) (www.youtube.com)
HyprBSD Provides Wayland-Based Desktop Built Atop FreeBSD, with Steam Gaming (www.phoronix.com)
Datastructures-JS – The JavaScript data structures project (github.com)
Web support is coming back to Unreal in preview next week (ixbt.games)
Terry Pratchett's Study (www.sussi.dk)
Let's Encrypt AI: protect AI chats with on AI GPUs by the end of 2027 (letsencrypt.ai)
Using AI should be joyful (12gramsofcarbon.com)
Sequoia shutting down its Scouts program marks the end of an era (techcrunch.com)
Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam (www.theguardian.com)
Quantum Physicists discover nothing can be fully transparent (www.scientificamerican.com)
France Approves Proposal for 0.055 Tax per GB of Internet Traffic (www.gadgetreview.com)
Securing AI Agents [at Uber]: Lessons from Real-World Deployment (www.uber.com)
An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers (xnacly.me)
Weaponizing Personalization: From Knowledge Graph to Extortion (8rank.ai)
Air holes turn silicon wafers into flat UV focusing mirrors for compact optics (phys.org)
Alex Stamos thinks we're entering a cybersecurity dark age – Decoder (www.youtube.com)
AI can track a single bird over time–based solely on its song (www.science.org)
Add a walking Ralsei to your site (github.com)
A ten-minute guide to electrical theory (kevinboone.me)
A Bit about Email (maurycyz.com)
Paraguay bank collapse fells a presidency and leaves millions broke (www.theguardian.com)
The planet Vulcan: a cautionary tale (kevinboone.me)
A video game which caused real world violence (shkspr.mobi)
U.S. Refineries Make Dramatic Shift Away from Gasoline (oilprice.com)
Netlens.dev (netlens.dev)
Dependencies in Linux Binaries (2024) (thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com)
The Secret Lives of China's Art Factory Workers (www.instapainting.com)
A maximally tiny language model (tonisagrista.com)
New "high safety" chemicals in plastic food packaging linked to low birth weight (www.theguardian.com)
Did aliens talk to us in "binary code" at Rendlesham Forest? (kevinboone.me)
The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry [pdf] (www.newyorkfed.org)
Dune – unholy combination of bash and Lisp (adam-mcdaniel.github.io)
What I heard at the Legal and Licensing Workshop 2026 (www.thomas-huehn.com)
Patrick Stewart, Susan St. James, and the Brilliant Transformation of Fatherhood (www.realclearmarkets.com)
Microsoft open-sources DACS: stalled data loads fell from 14% to 0.1% (opensource.microsoft.com)
The Weil conjectures formalized in Lean (axiommath.ai)
I don't care if web content is AI-generated (kevinboone.me)
The 8 Linux Computer (2022) (thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com)
Former Meta Security Chief Calls Password Access for AI Agents 'Insane' (epyhia.com)
Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPO (techcrunch.com)
America's renters are in serious trouble (www.economist.com)
The Joy of Coding Is Gone: My Honest Take on AI (www.youtube.com)
Re-Releases of Wing Commander, Ultima Titles Hit Steam and GOG (arstechnica.com)
Cancer at Sea (biographic.com)
Ur-Nammu Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance (www.worldhistory.org)
Replacing GitHub Actions with a Tiny Desktop (asbedb.dev)
Foo (www.foo.com)
Meridian – a web browser for macOS built on GPUI and Servo (op.tngl.io)
Why does America hate AI? (www.ft.com)
Business Explainability in Systems Is Not a Nice-to-Have Anymore (medium.com)
AI Santa Video Generator – Personalized Santa Videos (aisantavideo.net)
AI is turning protectionists into free traders (www.economist.com)
Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres (www.theguardian.com)
Working with Designers (www.seangoedecke.com)
4.2-Kiloyear Event May Have Helped Cause the Collapse of Egyptian Old Kingdom (www.iflscience.com)
Microsoft requiring DMARC now or just us? (list.sys4.de)
Weekend at Bernie's II (nesbitt.io)
EU and UK spent millions on Israeli phone cracking tech despite risks (statewatch.org)
If You Were an Engineer (sorzel.com)
Custom NY plate "Blank" results in 40k of fines (www.nytimes.com)
In praise of Pac-Man (archive.org)
British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed (arstechnica.com)
Two-dimensionsal version control with Jujutsu (www.redblobgames.com)
The cyber range builder for red, blue and purple teams. (www.purpleedge.io)
The post-quantum future of web privacy (blog.cloudflare.com)
Hacking Two Automakers: ForgeRock Path Confusion, RCE, and Remote Vehicle Access (samcurry.net)
Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones (arstechnica.com)
Google: Old TODO comments send coding agents chasing bugs fixed years ago (developers.googleblog.com)
How to Learn Efficiently and Durably (www.milanmecklenburg.com)
Impossible C64 Raycaster (c64.monster)
Google says there's no way to use Search without using artificial intelligence (www.theguardian.com)
Distributed Systems Kernel written in Rust (github.com)
The Irish Warning: What Data Centres Cost the Country That Hosts Them (chappisacoff.substack.com)
Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why (www.windowslatest.com)
ChatGPT business hub spotted showing daily mentions and clicks (mojodojo.io)
The vi Editor Turns 50: Interview with Bill Joy (1984) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
Tamizdat Project: Banned Books from the Cold War to the Present (tamizdatproject.org)
Microcorruption: Classic Web-Based Assembly Reverse Engineering Game (microcorruption.com)
How many frames does a scroll animation need? (and how big should each be) (beta.scrollsequence.com)
AARE: A proof-of-concept open-source implementation of Android Auto (github.com)
SultanC – an Arabic-first systems programming language (github.com)
Call is being recorded – and broadcast to the internet (groundup.org.za)
Greece launches semiconductor and microelectronics strategy (hccc.org.gr)
London Beer Flood (en.wikipedia.org)
Vale: Bring code-like linting to prose (vale.sh)
Upload Your RAM (uploadyourram.org)
Activists breach Microsoft data centre construction site; protests spread in EU (www.reuters.com)
Ex-Tesla Autopilot head calls vision-only a 'weird religious stance' (electrek.co)
Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier (8rank.ai)
Running a law firm on Free software (decoded.legal)
Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser (nfsu2.xyz)
Apple to Drop the iPhone's Action Button Next Year (www.macrumors.com)
Data centers backlash fueled historic blue wave (www.cnn.com)
Best Restaurant in Abu Dhabi for Seafood Lovers – Shams Al Bahar (shamsalbahar.com)
How close are Ubuntu 26.04's Rust coreutils to GNU? I diffed 27 utilities (github.com)
Beyond Transformers: Can LLMs redesign themselves as they train? (www.doubleai.com)
Nondeterminism in Futhark (futhark-lang.org)
Doctor Yellow (en.wikipedia.org)
The hardware bet is wrong. It is running from a war (twitter.com)
AI Source Code Analysis Detection Evasion Techniques (cipher.org.uk)
About a Third of Americans Have Left an Online Community (www.pewresearch.org)
Why you shouldn't pour coffee down the drain (www.rte.ie)
Mammoth Steppe (en.wikipedia.org)
Galactica, a TypeScript codebase map for developers and agents (github.com)
Dark personality levels relate to people's job interests and chosen careers (psychology.ku.dk)
Understanding the World: A Practical Worldview Framework[pdf] (zenodo.org)
GenAI generates GenAI – A Diffusion Model That Generates Neural Networks (github.com)
Linux for Your Mac (gravitylinux.org)
OpenAI reportedly raises an additional 11B at a 1.25T valuation (techcrunch.com)
Missile Thermal Batteries (medium.com)
60 years of denial about Israel's nuclear weapons program confronts new reality (www.cnn.com)
Sonda – An open-source static analysis tool built in Rust (www.sonda.sh)
Meta joins Microsoft and Google in offering employees voluntary exit packages (www.peoplematters.in)
Solar plane soars to 47,600 ft, on target to fly 100 hours (newatlas.com)
Every processor die anyone has photographed (sheets.works)
Google extends voluntary buyout offers to employees in several countries (www.reuters.com)
A Quantum Theorem Has Killed Einstein's Reality (www.quantamagazine.org)
Inter-AI Morality: How AI Systems Treat One Another [pdf] (digitalminds.cam)
Bong: DuckDuckGo bang alternative, open-source and self-hosted (bong.glendalab.com)
Six humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift at a convenience store (www.techspot.com)
An injured Ukrainian soldier was evacuated by drone (www.theguardian.com)
Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values (nousresearch.com)
Digestive Tract for Digestion, Respiration in Air-Breathing Weatherloach [pdf] (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Cyber Crime Investigation Masterclass – Complete Course (14 Video Chapters) (www.youtube.com)
Stream generative UI with JSON-render (vercel.com)
Are You Ready for Superintelligence? (twitter.com)
Slonbase – A PocketBase like back end built on PostgreSQL (github.com)
Envelox: Private Email Client (apps.mjanssen.nl)
Major strawberry grower for Driscoll's calls it quits in coastal California (www.sfgate.com)
Church quits role at AI startup claims 'sleazy' behavior stole credit (endpoints.news)
Why do people see colours differently? Sometimes, it's the display's fault (physicsworld.com)
Daily game guess what old tech cost at launch (and where it was invented) (pricetimemachine.com)
Stanford scientists find solution to reverse coral bleaching (stanforddaily.com)
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17776 (2017) (www.sbnation.com)
Quantum Computers Are Poised to Crack Encryption. AI Could Beat Them to It (www.wsj.com)
SpaceX's 2T Bet Has a Physics Problem [video] (www.youtube.com)
He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget (www.texasmonthly.com)
SR-Gadgets: Make Scan-Resistant Caching Practical (arxiv.org)
Powered by muscle cells, a paper-thin robot swims through watery maze (news.mit.edu)
Just turned my car into a Tesla Roadster (roadster-chi.vercel.app)
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3 (asahilinux.org)
Google, Meta and TikTok Sue to Block Law Curbing Addictive Social Media for Kids (www.kqed.org)
California Voters Reject Billionaire Wealth Tax, DDHQ Projects (www.bloomberg.com)
Naval Ravikant: The Beginning of Infinity [video] (www.youtube.com)
A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals (www.science.org)
Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age – Bryan Cantrill – Rust NYC [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses (www.theatlantic.com)
Vapes, pouches and now tablets: The tobacco industry's newest nicotine product (www.theexamination.org)
Z2RAM – HBM replacement, no capacitor, mass manufacturable at 300nm (www.nagarelabs.ai)
The AI Business Model Just Collapsed (www.honest-broker.com)
GLP-1 Prescriptions for People with No Medical Need Are Climbing (www.nytimes.com)
US believes Nvidia's Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy (www.ft.com)
What do workers want in a leader? New study challenges stereotypes (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
What happens when a fake coding test reaches a security company? (www.sophos.com)
TikTok's For You page needs to change, says the EU (www.theverge.com)
YC Backed Bron AI Accused of Using LeBron's Name and Likeness (frontofficesports.com)
Lighting the Skies (computer.rip)
My personal Navier-Stokes or How Claude rebuilt the game we wrote in high school (writing.pointnine.com)
Coding agents ranked for builders shipping AI software (rankings.leffke.com)
Toddler Phone Calls Family and No One Else (hackaday.com)
A wearable identifies tagged objects by pointing a narrow infrared beam at them (arxiv.org)
The Military Triumphal Arch (triumphalarch.com)
DeepMind AI agents find two weaknesses in legacy 1024-bit RSA cryptosystems (twitter.com)
Brave Sells Its Search Index to AI, and Your Website Is Probably in It (www.searchenginejournal.com)
I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering (www.nytimes.com)
Musk reposts tweet calling Starlink service for Ukraine 'mistake' (kyivindependent.com)
A Preposterous, Overpriced, Beautiful Disaster of a Car (www.theatlantic.com)
ESLint now officially supports linting of shell scripts (eslint.org)
Constraining the Commit Boundary: DIO/ODI Authorization Guardrail for Agentic ER (arxiv.org)
Trigger.dev: Security incident report – Sunday November first (trigger.dev)
Meteorite found in the Sahara shows what Mars was like 4.1 billion years ago (www.cnn.com)
An app aimed to solve the loneliness crisis (apps.apple.com)
His Job Is to Turn Walmart's Customer Data into Profit (www.wsj.com)
Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other (www.theregister.com)
The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes (www.kadoa.com)
Man reaches the Bay Area after walking across the country from New York City (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Diana – a terminal that records what your coding agents did (heydiana.ai)
Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits(2017) (aeon.co)
Herbert Blomstedt, former SF Symphony music director, dies at 99 (www.sfchronicle.com)
Cellular pathway that allows colorectal cancer to metastasize (news.mit.edu)
An open-source harness for coding agents that shows its work (github.com)
Git Wrapper with Easier Syntax (github.com)
Organic farm in Switzerland is growing blueberries beneath 5,220 solar panels (www.autonocion.com)
The School Apps Are Out of Control (www.theatlantic.com)
GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks (thezvi.substack.com)
Reverse Engineering with AI: Your Decompiler Can Lie to You (prod.codes)
When Alexa can't answer, Claude takes over (github.com)
Locking down hibernation in Linux (lwn.net)
Mexico's Senate Approves ISP Rules to Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com)
Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark (latent.space)
EU accuses TikTok of trapping users in harmful 'rabbit holes' (therecord.media)
I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West (josef.cn)
A woman possibly using AI to help murder her husband – a play (awbvious.com)
Implementing GPT-2 in CSS (shubhampatil.dev)
RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly 360M to renters (www.multifamilydive.com)
DigiNotar (en.wikipedia.org)
Teaching Agents to Write Maintanable Code (boundaryml.com)
Run cloud agents from your home IP through a Tailscale tunnel (rtrvr.ai)
Lovable: We're Currently Experiencing Issues (status.lovable.dev)
Help your friends get ADHD and depression meds (www.lesswrong.com)
Paraguay Freezes millions of bank Accounts (www.washingtonpost.com)
My Website's Soundtrack Is Written in TypeScript (patricklehmann.io)
The Slop Index: Which AI Model Writes the Least Like AI? (www.theslopindex.com)
Test your defenses against a nation-state level attack (factory.com)
I Hate Emacs (danielfm.me)
Terra Tempora: we shouldn't entrust our understanding of history to AI (scholar.social)
Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from the PC itself (www.pcworld.com)
OpenAI Secures 11B at 1.25T Valuation (epyhia.com)
Amutable Foundations: A Technical Overview (amutable.com)
Live now: attacking P vs. NP using only AI, written out in real time (x.com)
Tessera, an open 27B tuned Qwen coding model that thinks in compressed CJK (huggingface.co)
Libghostty 1.0 (mitchellh.com)
No CVE Today, Please (nocveday.com)
Archiving a Shuttered Japanese Drift Magazine's Back Catalog Is a Labor of Love (www.thedrive.com)
ECB considers review of bank data center lending on AI risk (www.bloomberg.com)
Outbound SIP calling is now available to all organizations (developers.openai.com)
Running Doom Inside SQL Server (sqlartist.github.io)
Evergreen by Carta: Multiplayer coding platform where teamsagents ship together (evergreen.carta.com)
CATL Sodium Battery Hits LFP Cost Parity in 2026: 15,000 Cycles, 30-Year Life (ievchina.com)
Mac lookalikes multiply as Linux raids Apple's wardrobe (www.theregister.com)
The Port That Does Not Exist (acid.vegas)
ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card (community.openai.com)
Drone warfare in space: Autonomous laser cubesat swarms could defend satellites (www.space.com)
Self-powered toothbrush makes electricity to kill cavity-causing bacteria (www.livescience.com)
Coding agents report "verified " when the check never tested the thing (zenodo.org)
DeepFinance: Can AI diligence a 100M deal? (www.juliusresearch.ai)
Importance of Harness, Context and Model co-design (www.wisdom.ai)
Noise pollution changes biology or behavior in 80% of animal species studied (phys.org)
Changes to UK visa and settlement rules (2026) (commonslibrary.parliament.uk)
The Privatization of Free Will (project507.substack.com)
Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever (pluralistic.net)
*sshole, or when are we going to get rid of C? (sunshowers.io)
TSMC is considering getting into the RAM business at the request of Nvidia (www.theverge.com)
China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang (www.nytimes.com)
Book Review: Orality and Literacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
TSMC considers making advanced memory chips (www.reuters.com)
Open-source lightning detector PCB that runs for months (2-day design) (solderable.dev)
Knives manufactured from human feces do not work (www.sciencedirect.com)
A First-Look Image of M87* from the 2026 EHT Monitoring Campaign (iopscience.iop.org)
Attention, and the Things We're Avoiding (alejandroandr.eu)
Microsoft Winding Down Oracle Deal to Rent AI Cloud Capacity (www.bloomberg.com)
Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science (openai.com)
Tesla's Cybertruck heads for an exit after years of hype and division (apnews.com)
Combining freelancing, social networking, and AI (freelancer.svoxx.com)
Developers say they didn't know gov't was buying user data (404privacy.com)
Anthrax outbreak in Africa's oldest national park kills hippos (abcnews.com)
One of the greatest scam artists ever used Ghana’s colonial past to get rich (foreignpolicy.com)
1994 After Dark Files Rat Race, Ported to the Browser (rat-race.heyitsjam.es)
Elon Musk is about to learn how much America hates him (www.independent.co.uk)
What Is Pico Ballooning? (traquito.github.io)
US warns China it must 'immediately' meet terms of Busan trade deal (www.ft.com)
Mineral-forming method removes over 99% of radioactive technetium from waste (phys.org)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (koenvangilst.nl)
FMF Jailbreak Rating Framework for Frontier Cyber Threats (www.frontiermodelforum.org)
Anthropic to press ahead with November IPO targeting 1.5T valuation (www.ft.com)
Teaching AI to build scientific models (www.anthropic.com)
End of the Internet (stratechery.com)
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. Like a taste of the future (www.technologyreview.com)
The Components of Agent Memory (www.anthropic.com)
The Yak Is Shaved (oddbits.ai)
LZ4 1.11 Introduces Multi-Threaded Compression for Liblz4, Other Gains (www.phoronix.com)
88x31 GIF Stickers for 2026 (a90.com)
DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information (www.theregister.com)
Protesters break into Microsoft AI data centre site in Amsterdam (www.aljazeera.com)
Leeroy: Making AI agents play World of Warcraft (pthm.dev)
To Cross the Red Sea, Shippers Email Houthi Rebels. (www.wsj.com)
Nvidia Tightens Tracking of AI GPUs in Southeast Asia (www.tomshardware.com)
Fox Corp. Closes 22B Acquisition of Roku (deadline.com)
I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West than ever (twitter.com)
Steam gets restored games after EA producer stumbles across old tapes (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
AI coding agent setups from 663 Hacker News comments (theainewsreport.com)
The Nuclear Company Proposes 6.6-GW AP1000 Nuclear Campus in Kentucky (www.powermag.com)
What if 90% of your prompt is content you can't control? (www.brex.com)
AI agent can move money in Stripe (stripe.dev)
The Harness: Deterministic Systems (klaviyo.tech)
Promethevs: Full DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017, locally, on 12GB of VRAM (github.com)
Six pallets of Nvidia GPUs worth 11.4M stolen in California in Aug 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
11.4M of Nvidia Chips Vanished in Oakland (tech-insider.org)
Swipeblocked: The phrases your iPhone won't suggest (swipeblocked.com)
Chainalysis says breach exposed password hashes and live tokens (cointelegraph.com)