1. Warner Bros. Discovery once again rejects Paramount offer in favor of Netflix

2. Lincos: A Language for Cosmic Intercourse

3. Hi, JAX: An introduction to vanilla JAX for deep learning research

4. Most successful information technology in history is the one we barely notice

5. U.S. Forces Seize Fleeing Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker in North Atlantic

6. Cert Expirations disables Logitech keyboard and mice apps

7. CES 2026: Dell XPS Returns

8. Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs

9. I lost my library in a fire

10. NFL Again Towers Over U.S. Media in 2025 – NFL had 83 top broadcasts

11. Jobs ''At Risk from AI'' Were Declining Before ChatGPT Launched

12. Bitcoin still hasn''t hit 100k when adjusted for inflation

13. Automotive industry expands open source collaboration

14. Open-source Teensy-compatible – what features do you want?

15. Why California''s milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol

16. Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

17. Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (2024)

18. Gnome dev gives fans of Linux''s middle-click paste the middle finger

19. Backdoors in VStarcam Cameras

20. What It Takes to Build an AI Agent

21. AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis

22. Alpie Core: a 32B reasoning model trained and served at 4-bit

23. Implementing OPA: Comprehensive Overview and Practical Examples (2024)

24. Housing Tracker: Southern California home values drop in November

25. Pgpm: A Package Manager for Modular PostgreSQL

26. Grok Is Pushing AI ''Undressing'' Mainstream

27. Tessellation Art

28. AWS and Microsoft are selling more than cloud services

29. Diversity Vs Density: A data strategy comparison for fine-tuning VLMs

30. Lego Smart Brick

31. A Company Came Up with a Different Approach: Fuel Without Petroleum

32. xAI raises 20 billion to expand Grok AI models and enterprise tools

33. File over App Is a Philosophy

34. Market Beliefs about Open vs. Closed AI

35. Can you review my online toolbox website?

36. A4 Paper Stories

37. New York Has 400 Miles of Scaffolding. Tokyo Has Nearly Zero

38. Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001

39. Alivenet

40. Progress made on AI-powered humanoid robots [video]

41. New Gemini API

42. The 160k Mechanic Job That Ford Can''t Fill

43. Bitcoin Core sees development uptick, reversing multi-year decline

44. Timothée Chalamet Just Showed Us Why AI Music Licensing Will Fail

45. Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016)

46. Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

47. Logitech Mac Apps Fail After Expired Certificate on January 6

48. Diverse vertebrate species in mosquito blood meal

49. With SQLite, INSERT OR IGNORE Is Often Not What You Want

50. The Money People Still Won''t Admit We''re in an AI Bubble–and They Never Will

51. The first new compass since 1936 [video]

52. Redstone.dart, create mods in Dart or full GUIs using Flutter in Minecraft

53. The most popular Go dependency is

54. Research identify two psychological traits that predict conspiracy theory belief

55. Continuous AI on Your Terminal

56. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System

57. History''s Attention Gap

58. Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who spied for Soviet Union and Russia, dies aged 84

59. AI ''Fatigue'' Leaves Investors Focused on S&P''s Other 493 Stocks

60. UK university degree no longer ''passport to social mobility'', says King''s VC

61. C-from-scratch: Learn to build safety-critical systems in C

62. Germany Discovers Lithium Deposit

63. CPU Counters on Apple Silicon

64. Building a speech-to-Markdown app with three coding agents

65. RAG That Works

66. Product Description Generator

67. Aviation emissions could be halved without cutting journeys

68. Shame Surrounding Spreadsheets

69. Reflex FRP – a Haskell-based ecosystem for building user interfaces and web apps

70. Vercel CEO''s Grok 4 vs. GPT 5.2 chess match runs all night (still on)

71. Ikigai

72. Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

73. China seeks to enhance ties with Ireland to boost relations with EU

74. Hetzner: Measuring the performance of the new gen server types

75. Digg.com (Relaunch)

76. OpenAI down 20% of AI Web Traffic in last 12 months

77. Ralph Wiggum went from ''The Simpsons'' to the biggest name in AI

78. China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers, sources say

79. How CU Boulder''s student news site got taken over by AI slop

80. Valve Should Buy Discord (Before the IPO)

81. The mineral riches hiding under Greenland''s ice

82. Robot vacuum maker Roborock shows off stair-climbing model with legs

83. Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors

84. Teenager died of overdose ''after ChatGPT coached him on drug-taking''

85. Changes to Android Open Source Project

86. Snake Oil by Bruce Schneider (February 15, 1999)

87. Universal Consciousness as Foundational Field

88. One Pizza Team

89. Promoting AI Agents

90. Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins says AI is useless for solving math

91. No one is invading Greenland anytime soon

92. Netflix Ruined Korean Dramas Forever [video]

93. Why one small American town won''t stop stoning its residents to death

94. Necrosecurity, Immunosupremacy, and Survivorship in the Imagination of Covid-19

95. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972)

96. How 150 Minutes over Caracas Rewrote the Physics of Global Power

97. What is index overhead on writes?

98. A Couple 3D AABB Tricks

99. Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming

100. I built a marketing operating system instead of another AI tool

101. Nineteen Septillion Addresses – Setting Up an ASN and Getting an IPv6 Allocation

102. Modern C Programming (open-access course)

103. Climbing the mountain: or, venturing into PL theory

104. The Q, K, V Matrices

105. Quaject

106. This Month in Redox – December 2025

107. The Stock Market Is Doing Something It''s Only Done Twice Since 1871

108. Coding Essentials for Astronomers

109. Greenland Will Be American

110. Remember this video next time you''re arguing with someone on the internet

111. Reverse Engineering Zed''s AI Coding Assistant with Mitmproxy

112. Hacker Dressed as Pink Power Ranger Dismantles Racist Websites Live on Stage

113. An Electronic Ising Machine

114. How to Install Cosmic Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

115. XARA9 – Complete AI Framework running on consumer hardware

116. Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries

117. Unified Local Observability for AI Coding Assistants

118. State of GPU Hardware (End of Year 2025)

119. Why Devs Need DevOps

120. OpenPBR: Novel Features and Implementation Details

121. A bit of glass and freedom is all you need

122. Google Dorking

123. Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run

124. Take a Moment, and Read

125. Larry Page officially moving out of California ahead of proposed billionaire tax

126. Trump steals 50M barrels of oil from Venezuela

127. How GitLab uses Postgres and ClickHouse to power their data stack?

128. Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GLM-4.6

129. Getting my first 100 users with 0: what worked

130. Siemens and Nvidia Expand Partnership to Build the Industrial AI OS

131. Scientists Think They''ve Discovered How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision

132. FDA to limit regulation of health and fitness wearables

133. Proposal: Extract the Parser of TypeScript Native into a Standalone Go Module

134. (US) Homeland Security uses Hiroshi Nagai''s artwork without permission

135. ''Yamagata is ramen'': Japan''s city of noodle fiends revels in ''capital'' status

136. Jupiter''s moon Europa lacks undersea activity needed for life, study suggests

137. Canada''s Immigration Dept shelves visa program for entrepreneurs, citing misuse

138. Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress

139. Venezuela ''turning over'' oil to US in move that could cut supply to China

140. Trump gets Greenland in 4 easy steps

141. The ''Growler'' Signal-Jamming Jet That Helped Capture Nicolás Maduro

142. VLang 0.5 Released

143. Featherbase

144. PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code

145. A Tutorial on Safe Anytime-Valid Inference [pdf]

146. AIVO Standard Methodology Note: Correction and Assurance Ledger

147. Investing Mastery with Nick Sleep: Nomad''s Costco Investment

148. Most Shorted Stocks of 2025

149. FreeBSD and Poudriere in High Security Environments

150. Japanese Washi Paper

151. 2025 Buy-Side Quant Job Advice

152. What Social Science Knows About the Value of Diversity

153. Lego''s ''SMART brick'' is designed for interactive play without screens

154. Benchmarking Postgres for FTS with TOASTed JSONBs and GINs Against Elasticsearch

155. Micro Victory Army

156. We need to seize the means of robot production

157. Innovation Cycles in an Age of AI

158. Coral reef fish recovery could boost sustainable seafood servings by up to 50%

159. Why the Sudden Emergence of Sodium-Ion Batteries?

160. Gemini''s 3 line execution mode

161. Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV

162. A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V

163. A game engine based on dynamic SDFs [video]

164. The Untold Story of Charlie Munger''s Final Years

165. Logitech Options not working on macOS due to expired cert

166. "We have stratum zero at home"

167. Travel Is Not Education

168. Native NVMe Support in Windows Server 2025

169. When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?

170. Making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields [video]

171. A Child in the State of Nature

172. Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II''s Memory Limitations

173. In Memoriam: All the tech that died in 2025

174. It doesn''t take two to think. It takes ITERATION to think

175. PCBWay introduces transparent PCBs [video]

176. Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem

177. Someone tried to hack into my SendGrid account

178. Chat platform Discord files confidentially for US IPO

179. Why write unit tests? (2024)

180. The Guardian view on Trump''s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it''s not the whol

181. Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization

182. GitHub Compiled

183. Russia sends submarine to escort tanker the US tried to seize off Venezuela

184. Logitech Options Cert Expired

185. Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit

186. Rockstar still hasn''t offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 developers

187. Lost ''Star Trek'' Episodes from the Unproduced ''Phase II'' Series

188. Ba

189. It''s a Great Time to Be a Software Engineer

190. Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission

191. Clifm 1.27 Is Out

192. Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ''invade'' Venezuela

193. Clone Any Sass

194. Why does the Android Gmail app have no app-level lock? a security flaw

195. DiskImage: A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis

196. Programming is not coding: The cognitive cost of LLM generation

197. White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot''s 5th Anniversary

198. Cory Doctorow calls for abandoning anticircumvention appeasement laws globally

199. How do graphics drivers work?

200. InfiniTime 1.16 "Starfruit"

201. The Mac Malware of 2025 (Objective-See)

202. New California law requires a working fridge in all apartments

203. Frankenstyle is a build-less Tailwind CSS alternative

204. The data center rebellion is here, and it''s reshaping the political landscape

205. A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI

206. Logitech Apple Developer Certificate has expired;

207. The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S.

208. Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84

209. Beautiful Terminal Calendar

210. Why Most Websites Don''t Need Cookie Consent Banners

211. Many schools no longer assign full novels but excerpts on school-issued laptops

212. Sam Altman to Elon Musk on Recruiting from Tesla

213. PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases

214. Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

215. The paradox of failed resolutions

216. The modern peril of the availability heuristic

217. We Recreated Steve Jobs''s 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It

218. Microsoft wants to resurrect Three Mile Island. It will never happen

219. Cursor''s Context Engineering Practice

220. Website with a DMCA Takedown

221. XAI announces it has raised 20B

222. Revolutionary generator transforms Chinese factories into power plants

223. A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction

224. Refreshing the Brain''s Immune Cells Could Treat a Host of Diseases

225. The Start – Introduction, Mini Market Ticker

226. Knowledge curation (not search) is the AI big data problem

227. A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures

228. Coding Adventure: Analyzing Audio [video]

229. Startup develops inflatable fall-protection pants to prevent hip fractures

230. Debian Gets Its Own PPA-Like System as Debusine Repositories Launch

231. Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification

232. SQL Server SSMS scroll indicator 2.5x harder to grab

233. A Map of Us

234. LiveVue v1.0

235. AI automation paradox: More work, not less

236. Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

237. Ofcom asks X about reports its Grok AI makes sexualised images of children

238. TIL: Gabriel, Jibril, and Cebrail Are the Same Name

239. Scratchpad – A Throwaway Notepad for Developers

240. API Clients: Bruno betrays, Yaak yaks

241. Trump threatens to cancel midterms–realized he''ll be ''impeached'' if GOP defeated

242. JavaScript Analyzer – Burp Suite Extension

243. AI begins prescribing medications in Utah

244. Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space

245. The 5 stages of the ''Enshittification'' of Academic Publishing

246. The 1k Neuron Challenge

247. ''Whata Bod'': An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho

248. The Boring Reason We Don''t Have 7 Rideshares

249. A Response to France''s Best-Selling Covid Skeptic

250. Discord to File Confidentially for IPO

251. Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) [video]

252. Microsoft Bob: Microsoft''s biggest flop of the 1990s

253. A congressman wants to criminalize insider trading on prediction markets

254. Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf]

255. Vulnerability in Ruby that has existed since 2002

256. Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]

257. Software Too Cheap to Meter

258. 01.06.2021

259. Prosody 13.0.3 released – An XMPP/Jabber server written in Lua

260. Cloud: Row in Bavaria over billion-euro Microsoft contract without tender

261. Mail Censorship in World War II

262. Chat of the Future Initiative – XMPP – The universal messaging standard

263. European leaders rally behind Greenland in face of renewed US threat

264. Trump Floats Cancelling 2026 Elections, Then Insists He Won''t

265. Is the Fate of the West Being Sealed for Good in Greenland?

266. Reinforcement learning without human annotations

267. Magnetic control of lithium enables a safe, explosion-free ''dream battery''

268. AI Propaganda factories with language models

269. Marcus Weighs in (Mostly) for LeCun

270. Founder of spyware maker pleads guilty

271. Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026): Daily links from Cory Doctorow

272. Astronomy Picture of the Day

273. Nvidia''s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level

274. Coxeter and Dynkin Diagrams

275. GPT 5.2 helps solve Erdős problem #728

276. Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants

277. High-Performance GPU Cuckoo Filter

278. A connection between capability-based security and lambda calculus

279. Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios

280. Code is a liability (not an asset)

281. Client and Lawyer Both Responsible for Attorney Fees in AI Hallucination Case

282. Cybersecurity Bill: ORG calls on MPs to reduce UK reliance on US tech companies

283. Are we tired of social media once and for all? On the downfall of social media

284. What is the Base Services Charge, and how will it change my bill?

285. LG''s housekeeper robot designed to automate your daily chores

286. US discussing options to get Greenland, incl use of military, says White House

287. Over 200K law firms threatened by Vincent AI phishing flaw

288. Chinese auto giant Geely to announce entry into US EV market within 2-3 years

289. 500k tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released

290. Quant interview and mental math practice

291. The Great Depression: Elevator Pitch

292. Breakthroughs Rare and Decreasing

293. L.A. fire cleanups reports describe repeated violations

294. Oncotarget becomes the target of a DDoS attack

295. Stellar Catalog: Discover the nearby universe

296. CATL EV batteries significantly outperform rivals in degradation, tests show

297. 1972 Great Daylight Fireball

298. CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD''s Venice and MI400 SoCs

299. Tesla''s full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath

300. Losing Things Less Often