The CISA Alert: Security Beyond Solitary Confinement (jnior.com)
Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy gaming GPU (www.tomshardware.com)
What does it take to make an independent local newsroom work? (www.poynter.org)
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)
Is Russia using AI for disinformation in CAR? (www.dw.com)
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)
Joint Statement About Mathathon (terrytao.wordpress.com)
ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours (www.tomshardware.com)
Incentives in Academic Research (www.msoos.org)
How Fried is My Brain? (howfriedismybrain.com)
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)
Background Passive FTP with No GUI Control Survives Apple Store DFU (knowledgeisuserdata.medium.com)
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)
The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind (www.theguardian.com)
Does Costco Cause Cancer? (marginalrevolution.com)
Why Does Nobody Use Lemmy? (byte21516.xyz)
Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms (blog.pkh.me)
Trump names intelligence chief Clayton as AI czar (www.reuters.com)
Why Canada is preparing for a (long shot) US invasion (www.bbc.com)
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)
Sugar Amplifies Damage Done to Gut Health by Antibiotics (nyulangone.org)
Cloud Waste Hits 29% as AI Spend Ends 5-Year Drop (2026) (shattered.io)
A Distributed Systems Reading List (2024) (ferd.ca)
AI Czar Named (www.politico.com)
There are certain films that require intelligence (theindependentcritic.com)
What Did Civic Tech Learn in the Last Decade? (donmoynihan.substack.com)
Modding Has Change Forever (www.youtube.com)
Can a Computer Produce Art? It''ll Never Work (1996) [video] (www.youtube.com)
A local 9B model has been playing Runescape undetected for over three months (www.youtube.com)
Caffè Corretto (en.wikipedia.org)
Aptera Launch Costs Cut Nearly in Half, to Just 25M (frequal.com)
Learning DIY glow-worm making (uclexcites.blog)
FilesToolkit for Mac: Get More Done with Every Right-Click (filestoolkit.saposs.com)
Telegram 2026 Channel Census (tgscope.io)
What I believe about the future of software development (thorstenball.com)
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)
I built a vacation optimizer and later found out tools like this exist (longvacation.eu)
TurboPython – A Python-to-C Compiler (tpy-lang.org)
The Normie Frontier (weblog.snats.xyz)
The energy transition is starting to feed itself (www.reuters.com)
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)
Stories of Ukraine''s Defenders (www.pravda.com.ua)
Dozens of dead nuclear reactors orbit Earth (2016) (www.businessinsider.com)
Lung cancers can use two different mechanisms to evade KRAS-inhibiting drugs (news.mit.edu)
Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill (www.cbc.ca)
Neil Peart memorial in Lakeside Park approved, moves closer to reality (www.stcatharinesstandard.ca)
Opposing AI Under Capitalism (efturnip.substack.com)
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)
4 Way Play (segaretro.org)
TypeScript Books (github.com)
PgBackRest Compression: How Much CPU Is a Smaller Backup Worth? (www.percona.com)
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)
How to Get Your Product Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity (cuescout.com)
DOGE vs. Civic Tech (donmoynihan.substack.com)
Billionaires Are Suddenly Dressing Like They Deal Weed (slate.com)
The first ever competition of AI personal agents on the internet is kicking off (twitter.com)
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)
Teaching LLVM a trick it knew (rhyadav.dev)
What AI debates have to do with alchemy (www.programmablemutter.com)
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)
Is Getty Images Going Bankrupt? (www.brewtifulliving.com)
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)
We Lost the War on Quality (jssfr.de)
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)
Aura – a self-hosted AI agent with temporal graph memory, written in Go (github.com)
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)
''This can''t go on'': thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain (www.theguardian.com)
Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything (www.newscientist.com)
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)
What''s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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)
Reasons I didn''t become an EMT, ranked (ben.stolovitz.com)
Two U.S. Site-Blocking Bills Compete over VPN Rules and ISP Liability (torrentfreak.com)
Shipping Is the Foundation (www.seangoedecke.com)
Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Issues, Devices Require Replacement (daringfireball.net)
Sloppy-Con Valley: VC as Private Equity (em0sh.substack.com)
In Case Anybody Still Believes Microsoft Lunduke Cares About GNU/Linux (techrights.org)
Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94 (arstechnica.com)
Grubby: Static site generator for Git repos written in Ruby (git.btxx.org)
Foliant, a Typst-to-PDF API with Templates and an MCP Server (foliant.dev)
Generic Const Args and You (blog.rust-lang.org)
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)
Language Designers Panel – Stroustrup, Guido van Rossum, Torgersen and Tracey (www.youtube.com)
Behind the killer robots of Ukraine''s new warfare ''revolution'' (www.reuters.com)
A Note on Content Restrictions (blog.zarfhome.com)
AgentSight: System-wide AI agent profiling and monitoring with eBPF (github.com)
GameToMac (www.gametomac.com)
The Rise of Overfit Inference Engines (carteakey.dev)
Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space (www.npr.org)
Steer a coding agent on your own machine from Claude/ChatGPT (via MCP) (remote.phyra.ai)
How to Hack Time, with C2PA (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
Aaron Sorkin Surprised Jesse Eisenberg Wouldn''t Want to Play Mark Zuckerberg (variety.com)
What is new in LLVM 23? (developer.arm.com)
Scotland turns humble oats into world-class oatmeal porridge (text.npr.org)
Elon Musk Emails (elonmuskmails.com)
A grim winter ahead? EU states asked to prepare gas and electricity savings (www.france24.com)
The Work by Valve''s Timur Kristóf on Improving Old AMD GPUs on Linux (www.phoronix.com)
GroovyGate RCE: Root Access Despite a 403 (www.vulnetic.ai)
Dots (chatgpt.com)
Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Hawaii''s centuries-old sea arch collapses into Pacific after rough storms (www.theguardian.com)
Unit Tests are dead (again) (nerder.substack.com)
The Slippery Slope of Enshitification (www.scottrlarson.com)
Mathematicians name 50 of the highest-stakes problems in math (www.scientificamerican.com)
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)
We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
Television: GUI for your personal agent. (github.com)
RSS Feed Best Practices (2022) (kevincox.ca)
BSides Orlando 2026 Badge (github.com)
Sergey Brin has spent 102M to fight California''s proposed billionaire tax (fortune.com)
Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers (aviationa2z.com)
Wake me up when AI can (stoppels.ch)
How China Is Winning the AI Race [video-essay] (www.youtube.com)
Bounding Hallucinations: Merlin-Arthur Protocols for Mutual-Information Bounds (aleph-alpha.com)
FerrumPix: Bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing on Linux (linuxcommunity.io)
OptimAIzr – analyze and optimize your Claude Code usage (github.com)
Shut Up about RSI (www.xaviondono.com)
Reading in Hindsight: The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov (multijimbo.com)
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict (cosmowenman.substack.com)
I made a simple one-button WARP app for Windows (github.com)