The All-Star Chinese AI Conversation of 2026 (www.chinatalk.media)
Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux? (twitter.com)
ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide (openai.com)
The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd (www.jeffgeerling.com)
A year in the life of a Staff Engineer (medium.com)
DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI (duckduckgo.com)
US says Canada will regret decision to allow Chinese EVs into their market (www.reuters.com)
Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python (aljamal.substack.com)
I''m not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs (kian.wtf)
AI hype is 80% real (sealedabstract.com)
LogiCode: LeetCode for hardware design. Synthesize, optimize, and compete (logi-code.com)
''Dilbert'' Was Always MAGA (www.nytimes.com)
OpenAI testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (twitter.com)
The wealth of the top% reaches a record 52T (www.cnbc.com)
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Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump wants tech companies to foot the bill for new power plants because of AI (www.cnbc.com)
Squishy Go (puyogo.app)
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Testing a sci-fi story from 1953 (blog.outlandish.claims)
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Pencil case feminism (glosswitch.substack.com)
SkyVM (By Dioxus Labs): Instant-Boot Desktop VMs for AI Agents (skyvm.dev)
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson''s America, Dies (www.nytimes.com)
When tools pretend to be people (uxdesign.cc)
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New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic (newrepublic.com)
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier (www.statnews.com)
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
IBM warns AI spend fails without AI literacy (www.thedeepview.com)
The Toxic Modernity Narrative (www.theargumentmag.com)
Langfuse Joins ClickHouse (langfuse.com)
Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Major Shift for JavaScript Date (socket.dev)
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration''s demand for ''lists of Jews'' (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (xcancel.com)
Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers (www.nytimes.com)
Creating a 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU – Brother Zhang''s Repair Shop (Ft. 张哥) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work (www.wired.com)
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted (www.politico.com)
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We do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers (www.theargumentmag.com)
ChatGPT ads are coming, a bellwether for free AI services (www.axios.com)
RTS for Agents (www.getagentcraft.com)
Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant (www.esa.int)
SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots (skyvm.dev)
AI Generated Code Isn''t Cheating: OSS Needs to Talk About It (blog.mozilla.ai)
Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video] (www.youtube.com)
Claude Cowork Is Now Available to Pro Subscribers (twitter.com)
OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT (www.bloomberg.com)
OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads in ChatGPT in Push for Fresh Revenue (www.wsj.com)
OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
The pirate-based logic of Rust shared references (ais523.me.uk)
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT (openai.com)
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TSMC says AI demand is "endless" after record Q4 earnings (arstechnica.com)
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OpenAI Has Some Catching Up to Do (every.to)
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American Invasion of Greenland (2029) (falloutfanfic.fandom.com)
AI and Copyright Law (www.sfchronicle.com)
Is This Billionaire a Financial Genius or a Fraudster? (www.nytimes.com)
Terminalai – Turn natural language into shell commands (www.terminalai.app)
Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden''s official charts (www.theguardian.com)
Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years (sherwood.news)
STFU (github.com)
Semantic highlight model to cut token cost for RAG (huggingface.co)
Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness (web3.arxiv.org)
Future-as-Label: Scalable Supervision from Real-World Outcomes (arxiv.org)
ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights (apnews.com)
Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Game Poems (www.gamepoems.com)
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Crystal 1.19.0 Is Released (crystal-lang.org)
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Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (www.dell.com)
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Bloom Filters (arpitbhayani.me)
Succinate Modulation Associated with Intermittent Fasting in Obesity (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump (www.bbc.com)
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Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% (electrek.co)
Real Foresight Looks Wrong (Or Why Steve Ballmer Was Right) (notes.philippdubach.com)
Trump Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With (www.propublica.org)
Designated Initializers, the best feature of C20 (mropert.github.io)
Google Search Engine (www.google.com)
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Canada, China slash EV, canola tariffs in reset of ties (www.reuters.com)
Google AI Studio''s API key protection is as exposed as the key itself (github.com)
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Poor''s Man Shaders (nullonerror.org)
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AI Weiwei: ''You in the West Can''t Compete with China'' (www.thetimes.com)
Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 – 2026 (blog.emojipedia.org)
High Contrast-ish Gruvbox theme for VS Code (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
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Programming pearls: a sample of brilliance (1987) [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
Firefly race – watch brains learn in realtime (claude.ai)
What does 2026 hold for Cowboy? (micromobility.io)
Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind (www.notboring.co)
Some (some.3b1b.co)
Eatmydata – transparently disable fsync() and other data-to-disk sync calls (manpages.debian.org)
Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (www.shimmer.care)
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AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge (www.schneier.com)
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Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year (www.theregister.com)
I Turn Scientific Renderings of Space into Art (nautil.us)
Chinese EVs inch closer to the US as Canada slashes tariffs (techcrunch.com)
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White House Insists Trump Is ''Joking'' About Canceling Midterm Elections (time.com)
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Read at 600 wpm using rapid serial visual representation (RSVP) (read-faster.com)
AI will destroy jobs if not controlled, Khan warns (www.bbc.com)
10,924x: The Instability Bomb at 1.7B Scale (taylorkolasinski.com)
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Many Bluetooth Devices with Google Fast Pair Vulnerable to "WhisperPair" Hack (arstechnica.com)
Open Responses: What you need to know (huggingface.co)
Picat: A simple, powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language (picat-lang.org)
Twitter Is Down (www.tomsguide.com)
Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data (coywolf.com)
Apple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI (www.ft.com)
GPU Memory Fundamentals (github.com)
Thoughts on No Graphics API (www.corsix.org)
AWS Launches AWS European Sovereign Cloud and Announces Expansion Across Europe (press.aboutamazon.com)
Judge: ICE violated Liberian man''s rights by bursting through front door (www.fox9.com)
Observations and Thoughts from 180 Days in Rome (avivbenyosef.com)
BIP352: static payment addresses in Bitcoin without on-chain linkability (github.com)
High-Five to the Belgrade Hand (asianometry.passport.online)
20260116 – AI''s first real casualties (e27.co)
Natural History Museum Offering Scorpion Display on Freecycle (www.freecycle.org)
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
"Feel nothing to wear" every morning? (stylepilot.ai)
Pebble Brings Open Wearables to Your Wrist (Or Finger) (spectrum.ieee.org)
Serveo: Expose local servers to the internet using only a browser extension (serveo.net)
Everything is amazing and nobody''s happy (notes.philippdubach.com)
The GDB JIT Interface (bernsteinbear.com)
The Evolution of Bacteria (worksinprogress.co)
Let''s Fucking Encrypt Everything (kerkour.com)
X (Twitter) Is Down (downforeveryoneorjustme.com)
Twitter Down? (x.com)
Salvador Dalí''s home: A labyrinth of fishermen''s huts (archeyes.com)
Kuycon P20 28.2" 4.5K Ultra-HD Monitor (3:2 aspect ratio) (clickclack.io)
"Iran – Stop Dreaming That China Will Take the Bullet for You" (discoursepower.substack.com)
Archil: An elastic, scale-out file system that syncs to S3 (archil.com)
Run a team of coding agents on your Mac (www.conductor.build)
How to Steal Any React Component (fant.io)
Investigating shared dictionaries and ChatGPT breakage in Firefox (joshua.hu)
The Stick in the Stream (randsinrepose.com)
The Human Need for Storytelling (dl.acm.org)
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
Bring back ultrathink rainbow glow (github.com)
Rails app for managing a conference CFP (github.com)
How efficient are containers vs. virtual machines? (oneuptime.com)
Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities (www.nytimes.com)
Why is NPM getting rid of TOTP as 2FA authentication method? (github.com)
Reticulum Network (reticulum.network)
History of Mathematics (sites.math.rutgers.edu)
America could have 4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws (abio.substack.com)
Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? (eclecticlight.co)
Interpretable inflammation landscape of circulating immune cells (www.nature.com)
Bazel 9 includes prebuilt upstream protobuf (blog.aspect.build)
Just Use Postgres for Everything (www.amazingcto.com)
List of Pedestrian Circumnavigators (en.wikipedia.org)
Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity (klarasystems.com)
One Bottleneck at a Time (www.theengineeringmanager.com)
Netflix to Remain Streaming Home for Sony Movies, Studios Expand Deal Worldwide (variety.com)
Making (Very) Small LLMs Smarter with RAG (www.docker.com)
The day an Al taught me how to hack my own company (substack.com)
The State of Rust Cryptography in 2026 (kerkour.com)
Benchmarking a Baseline Fully-in-Place Functional Language Compiler [pdf] (trendsfp.github.io)
The billion-dollar security.txt problem (sansec.io)
ClickHouse Raises at 15B Valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
What I learned porting JustHTML to PHP with GPT 5.2 Codex (jasuja.us)
When AI Becomes a De Facto Corporate Spokesperson (www.aivojournal.org)
MetaFilter: An Internet Forum with a Signup Fee (www.metafilter.com)
Trying Out Every Exoskeleton at CES (lifehacker.com)
Microsoft GIF Animator (en.wikipedia.org)
Cursor''s latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) 2026 (trendsfp.github.io)
Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand (www.startribune.com)
Verizon just had a big outage. Here''s what we know (text.npr.org)
Astro Joining Cloudflare (astro.build)
Tesla built largest US lithium refinery in just 2 years and it''s now operational [video] (www.youtube.com)
The UK is losing the industry that makes everything [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mother of Elon Musk''s child sues xAI over Grok deepfakes (www.bbc.com)
Astro is joining Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
Alpine.js: Your new, lightweight, JavaScript framework (alpinejs.dev)
Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September (www.tomshardware.com)
The Ubiquitous B-Tree [pdf] (carlosproal.com)
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser (www.amusingplanet.com)
NestJS Best Practices (Yet another Claude skill) (github.com)
Speculation of Donut Lab Solid State Battery [video] (www.youtube.com)
White-Collar Workers Shouldn''t Dismiss a Blue-Collar Career Change (www.wsj.com)
From Building Houses to Storage Engines (tidesdb.com)
Michelangelo''s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old (www.openculture.com)
Many college players among dozens charged in point-shaving plot (www.espn.com)
Canada cut tariffs on Chinese EVs, China to cut Canadian farm tariffs (www.npr.org)
Dev-Owned Testing: Why It Fails in Practice and Succeeds in Theory (dl.acm.org)
FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers (www.techdirt.com)
Research Papers on SLMs (neurometric.substack.com)
Ordering Pizza Ahead While Driving (www.jefftk.com)
The three most common hallucinations (sashachapin.substack.com)
ArrayPool: The most underused memory optimization in .NET (medium.com)
psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context (github.com)
Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience (git.qt.io)
Mulholland Drive and the Future of Europe (milosmaricic.substack.com)
Article 5: The Case Against Code Or: What Evolution Teaches Us About LLMs (mcauldronism.substack.com)
Cloudflare''s plan for resilience after two outages in 2025 (blog.cloudflare.com)
AnyBlox (github.com)
Why Greenland''s natural resources are nearly impossible to mine (theweek.com)
Blog: Coding Agents Have Crossed a Threshold (blog.qaware.de)
We Are Running Out of Time in Low Earth Orbit (www.universetoday.com)
Try My Small RPG''s Battle System in the Browser (jslegenddev.substack.com)
Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (raulnegron.me)
UK High Court judgment on whether the Theft Act applies to Runescape gold pieces (caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk)
Digitization of the Old Town Astronomical Clock: One of Prague''s Monuments (connect.geant.org)
Why Creativity Just Became the Most Practical Skill (www.cesarsotovalero.net)
Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation (www.bbc.com)
Was Renee Good Obligated to Comply with an ICE Agent''s Orders? (Paywall) (www.nytimes.com)
Claude Tool Search Tool (platform.claude.com)
MapQuest: The Brief, Glorious Era of Printed Directions (multiverseemployeehandbook.com)
Why Kant and Sontag Cannot Speak Otherwise (jimiwen.substack.com)
Machado Presents Trump with Her Nobel Peace Prize Medal (www.nytimes.com)
AI is just starting to change the legal profession (www.understandingai.org)
Beyond Senior: Consider the staff path (hawksley.org)
Pystage – Scratch-like Python programming (github.com)
Building an agentic memory system for GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
World''s Safest Airline Rankings for 2026 (www.airlineratings.com)
McClatchy Media accuses Google in federal court of monopolizing online ad sales (www.miamiherald.com)
Feldera''s Visual Profiler (www.feldera.com)
UN treaty to protect ''extraordinary'' marine life due to come into force (www.aljazeera.com)
How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse (2005) [pdf] (www.ecoshock.org)
Rubenerd: The Rubenerd LLM Licencing Pac (rubenerd.com)
Agent Skills Changed How I Work with AI (everything.intellectronica.net)
Does AI help us care less? (agileotter.blogspot.com)
An easy way to sync Claude Code configs across machines (github.com)
China and Canada announce tariffs relief after meeting between Carney and Xi (www.bbc.com)
U.S. Court Order Against Anna''s Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site (torrentfreak.com)
CompSci was a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Now graduates can''t get a job (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs (apnews.com)
Spurious Correlations (www.tylervigen.com)
New map reveals landscape beneath Antarctica in unprecedented detail (www.bbc.co.uk)
Understanding Watchmaking (the-naked-watchmaker-masterclass.thinkific.com)
Google Starts Scanning Your Photos for People and Places–Decision Time (www.forbes.com)
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (www.robinlinacre.com)
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too (www.theverge.com)
So You''ve Decided to Become Dead to the World: On Becoming an Anchoress (medievalmarginalia.substack.com)
More than 100k people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK (www.theguardian.com)
Crane Lowers Rocq Safely into C [pdf] (bloomberg.github.io)
I vibed a CMS with live-preview/users/click-through-edit in an afternoon (github.com)
John von Neumann''s MANIAC I (1952) (en.wikipedia.org)
The integrated explicit analytic number theory network (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Hands-On: Exploit RISC-V CPU Using Return-Oriented Programming (www.bogdandeac.com)
On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
Chrome 145 Adds Experimental Support for Vertical Tabs (www.bram.us)
The Thrill Is Gone: Airbnb and the Crisis of Imagination in Short-Term Rentals (skift.com)
Kamal: Deploy Web Apps Anywhere (kamal-deploy.org)
How WhatsApp Took over the Global Conversation (www.newyorker.com)
Browser Built with Cursor Agents in Just One Week (quasa.io)
PostgreSQL in Gleam with pog, squirrel, and cigogne (nulltree.xyz)
Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable (hackaday.com)
The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly (buildsoftwaresystems.com)
I Made Adobe CC Installers Work on Linux (old.reddit.com)
Catching API regressions with snapshot testing (kreya.app)
pf: Make af-to less magical (undeadly.org)
I was a top 0.01% Cursor user. Here''s why I switched to Claude Code 2.0 (blog.silennai.com)
ACX 2025 prediction contest retrospective (entropicthoughts.com)
Software Crisis (en.wikipedia.org)
How the New Yorker Became Irrelevant (www.persuasion.community)
Keeping Secrets from Claude Code (patrickmccanna.net)
California Gold Smelt [video] (www.youtube.com)
You Don''t Need an ORM (codebeameurope.com)
Bettershot an OSS Alternative of Cleanshot (github.com)
The Great Online Game (www.notboring.co)
AI-bots shall eat my docs (discourse.ubuntu.com)
59% of Republicans favor use of force immigration raids despite risk of deaths (www.reuters.com)
Support for C26 Reflection has been merged into GCC trunk (gcc.gnu.org)
Python Basics Explained with Real-World Examples (medium.com)
Tolkien Society Awards 2026 (www.tolkiensociety.org)
KerasHub: a pretrained modeling library (keras.io)
Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia''s fastest APIs (www.theregister.com)
Ferrofluid Technology Becomes a Magnet for Pioneering Artists (spinoff.nasa.gov)
The One Simple Thing That Makes the U.S. Economy Unmanageable (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Trial acquittal after 7yrs for aid workers prosecuted in Greece refugee crisis (www.theguardian.com)
American hybrid warfare against Greenland during the second Trump administration (en.wikipedia.org)
Promptg (github.com)