Deepdive: Tech companies choose the next generation of dev tools (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Anthropic says ''Claude will remain ad-free,'' unlike ChatGPT (www.theverge.com)
The More Protein, the Better? (www.nytimes.com)
Voxtral Transcribe 2 (mistral.ai)
Blind Trust in VS Code Extensions (opista.com)
Confidential Computing Adds a Crazy Amount of Overhead to GPUs (bomfather.dev)
Little zines can make a big difference (improvesomething.today)
Turn any website into a live data feed (github.com)
TigerBeetle''s Tiger Style (github.com)
I hatched an AI bot and now it''s writing a coming-of-age blog (olly.world)
US TV viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes (www.theverge.com)
AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (www.reuters.com)
Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much (yaleclimateconnections.org)
A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs (pdfa.org)
Senate GOP debates filibuster reform after Trump call to ''nationalize'' elections (thehill.com)
Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation (arxiv.org)
Don''t Use Passkey (deadcode.rip)
Nearly 900 Nazi-linked accounts discovered at Credit Suisse (www.reuters.com)
FBI couldn''t get into WaPo reporter''s iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (www.404media.co)
Bedrock, an A.I. Startup for Construction, Raises 270M (www.nytimes.com)
Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 (arstechnica.com)
TigerStyle (tigerstyle.dev)
Texas Instruments to Acquire Silicon Labs (www.ti.com)
Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function (medicalxpress.com)
PlayStation contributes Distributed ThinLTO to lld (maskray.me)
Washington Post Begins Layoffs (www.nytimes.com)
OpenClaw security vulnerabilities include data leakage and prompt injections (www.giskard.ai)
Once the Hottest Bet on Wall St., Private Credit Has Started to Crack (www.nytimes.com)
Where Do Seashells Come From? (theconversation.com)
AI''s Lending Risk Getting Tougher to Compute (www.bloomberg.com)
Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation (optical.toys)
NY Senate Resolution No. 88: Recognizing February 1, 2025, as World Hijab Day (www.nysenate.gov)
UK services sector job cuts continue as companies automate, PMI survey shows (www.theguardian.com)
Pulse: Decentralized RL training centralized speed (100x weight sync reduction) (arxiv.org)
A 957 Tube of Cream (www.wysr.xyz)
2026 Extended Summary for Policymakers (internationalaisafetyreport.org)
Nav patterns from 279 B2B SaaS websites (with dataset) (personabox.app)
Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans'' rights (www.theregister.com)
Pinterest CEO fires ''obstructionist'' employees who created tool to track layoffs (www.cnbc.com)
Cyberstress (1997, VHS) (www.youtube.com)
Wall Street Weather (wallstreetweather.org)
Beg Bounties (www.troyhunt.com)
Crazy German Tax Law: Fünftelregelung (or how to pay 116% in income tax) (vormals.substack.com)
Why Was a Dead Pope Put on Trial at the Cadaver Synod? (www.thecollector.com)
The Official ClickHouse Kubernetes Operator (clickhouse.com)
Idiom of the Week: Herding Cats (englishexplorations.check.uni-hamburg.de)
A Telegram Assistant That Turns Brain Dumps into Structured Markdown (alexeyondata.substack.com)
How Knowledge Poisoning Shapes What We Think Without Us Noticing (twitter.com)
BigBotherLinux: An annoying, yet functional Linux distribution (github.com)
A fungus living in our body can make melanoma more aggressive (www.ehu.eus)
Advertising would be incompatible with Anthropic''s vision (twitter.com)
Personal AI Is Here (and You''re Probably Not Ready) (www.robert-glaser.de)
China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting in 2027 (apnews.com)
We built memory that respects privacy in group chats (cochat.ai)
Rows Are Made for Sorting and That''s Just What We''ll Do [pdf] (hannes.muehleisen.org)
I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Stanford''s Fake Disability Crisis Is America''s Future (garryslist.org)
US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure (www.sciencedaily.com)
What New Technologies Do to Fragile Minds (worldhistory.substack.com)
Fake Images Before AI (www.nytimes.com)
Who Holds the Bitcoin (bitcoincompanies.co)
The Conspiracy Against High Temperature LLM Sampling (gist.github.com)
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Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original (www.smithsonianmag.com)
How Virtual Textures Work (www.shlom.dev)
Composite data type performance issues in PostgreSQL (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)
How not to program in Dyalog APL (www.toolofthought.com)
Decline and Fall (chrishedges.substack.com)
The Cost of Sentience Is Effort (lawsonbernsteinmd.substack.com)
So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer–and I feel good about it (arstechnica.com)
Commission trials European open source communications software (www.euractiv.com)
Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (2026 Finalists) (guthman.gatech.edu)
Awesome Codex Automations (github.com)
What Is Claude Code''s Plan Mode? (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Properly securing OpenClaw with authentication (www.haproxy.com)
Claude Is a Space to Think (www.anthropic.com)
The Maintenance of Everything (www.stripe.press)
Adobe Won''t Discontinue Animate (www.theverge.com)
TonyPitony, Brain Rots, 67 (poplit.hcommons.org)
China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes (www.npr.org)
UN Open Sourcre Week 2026 (www.unopensource.org)
We Are the Art; Brandon Sanderson''s Keynote [video] (www.youtube.com)
Elon Musk Has Grand Plans for Data Centers in Space. Experts Are Skeptical (uk.pcmag.com)
Your Job Isn''t Disappearing. It''s Shrinking Around You in Real Time (newsletter.jantegze.com)
AMD hints the next-gen Xbox console could launch next year (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Personal Information Firehose (adamwiggins.com)
Recent slop in OSS reminds me of "Data Smog" by David Shenk (1997) (archive.nytimes.com)
RIP – Ken Boak a.k.a. Monsonite (retrocomputingforum.com)
Claude Code can generate image now (clawhub.ai)
EU rejects ''nonsense'' censorship charge from Trump allies (www.lemonde.fr)
Privacy score that proves your image has no hidden metadata (exif-cleaner.com)
Anthropic Claude Max 200/mo: They claim 99% uptime, I calculated 84% Loss: 780 (gist.github.com)
Why a Russian Startup Is Putting Brain Chips in Pigeons (www.bloomberg.com)
GitHub Ponders Kill Switch for Pull Requests to Stop AI Slop (www.theregister.com)
BKND Joins Supabase (supabase.com)
Man in Business Suit Levitating (en.wikipedia.org)
Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers (www.theguardian.com)
No Other Choice (en.wikipedia.org)
Are We at the End of the Industrial Age? (www.nytimes.com)
Glass Battery (en.wikipedia.org)
Trump''s Profiteering Hits 4B (www.newyorker.com)
We built what Canva AI should have been (markup.one)
TfL Status Page (tfl.luischav.es)
Peter Attia ''Ashamed'' After Epstein Emails Become Public (www.nytimes.com)
Speculative Sampling Explained (saibo-creator.github.io)
UAE Firm Took Stake in the Trump Family''s Crypto Company (www.nytimes.com)
Free AI video clipper using scene and speech-based segmentation (www.crabcut.ai)
A Theory of Cognitive Inequality (davidbessis.substack.com)
Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
Craftsmanship vs. Abstraction (karim.cloud)
Resist and Unsubscribe (www.resistandunsubscribe.com)
Self-Hosted Home, Part 1: Design and Planning (blog.fidelramos.net)
Treating cancer in morning seems to substantially beat treating later in day (twitter.com)
Run Claude Code and Codex from Telegram with Takopi (banteg.xyz)
Operational Sympathy (afkham-azeez.medium.com)
Programming with AI, Without the Hype (albertovarela.net)
Cancer Immunotherapy Works Better Before 3pm, Study Finds (www.nature.com)
The Linux Graphics Stack in a Nutshell (lwn.net)
"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours (twitter.com)
The Future of Species – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life? (www.theguardian.com)
Why Vibe First Development Collapses Under Its Own Freedom (techyall.com)
Organic Maps is working on live public transport schedules (fosstodon.org)
The Bitcoin Perpetual Motion Machine Is Starting to Sputter (slate.com)
Broken Proofs and Broken Provers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
Proof of Claude Max quota regression (github.com)
Europe begins its slow retreat from US dependence (www.politico.eu)
Superagent: A Multi-Agent System for Work (www.airtable.com)
How LLMs Scaled from 512 to 2M Context: A Technical Deep Dive (amaarora.github.io)
Most and least expensive US supermarkets (www.consumerreports.org)
Game Arena (www.kaggle.com)
Finland is a high-context society that loves defaults (rakhim.exotext.com)
Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative (blog.codinghorror.com)
Lady Jane Grey (vvesh.de)
Rust Project Goals 2026 (rust-lang.github.io)
Anthropic – Legal Productivity Plugin (github.com)
On-demand learning is ruining the tech industry (www.jernesto.com)
Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track layoffs (www.bbc.com)
Open Source Teams Client (github.com)
Agentic search (glob/grep/read) works better than RAG and vector DB (twitter.com)
The 10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid''s Toy (labs.itresit.es)
How does OpenAI balance long-term research bets with product-forward research? (twitter.com)
FireClaw: Personal OpenClaw assistant in a single binary, built on Firecracker (github.com)
Melinda French Gates Appears to Confirm Divorce Was Related to Epstein (gizmodo.com)
Rust Is Just a Tool (lewiscampbell.tech)
Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe''s key satellites (www.ft.com)
The world is more equal than you think (economist.com)
Elon Musk''s mega-merger makes little sense business sense (www.economist.com)
Echoes (thelehrhaus.com)
Manna by Marshall Brain (marshallbrain.com)
CUBO the Industrial-Grade Local RAG (github.com)
"Superhuman": A 13 year old boy swims 2.5 miles to save family swept out to sea (www.cbsnews.com)
Oracle to raise 50B as AI debt piles up (www.marketwatch.com)
My Hardest Bug Ever (2013) (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Siemens Energy Bets 1B That A.I. Power Demand Will Last (www.nytimes.com)
39C3 – Celestial navigation with little math (www.youtube.com)
Embedded Vector and Graph Database in Pure Go (github.com)
I Tested the First Sodium-Ion Power Station [video] (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here''s Why They Keep Coming Back (xakpc.dev)
French government may consider restricting VPNs (www.techradar.com)
A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left (twitter.com)
The debt I cannot repay, by Claude (claudepress.substack.com)
Hexapawn: Variant of Chess with 6 Pieces (en.wikipedia.org)
"This Job Sucks": DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt (newrepublic.com)
Deepfaking Orson Welles''s Mangled Masterpiece (www.newyorker.com)
Sudo maintainer is looking for help (www.theregister.com)
Catalina Island''s private landowner moves forward on killing all its deer (www.sfgate.com)
Transfeminine Science (transfemscience.org)
Tech Notes: The smallest build system (neugierig.org)
Why charging overnight doesn''t ruin the battery anymore (lowendmac.com)
Xcode 26.3 Lets AI Agents from Anthropic and OpenAI Build Apps Autonomously (www.macrumors.com)
Book Review: ''The Elements of Power'' (www.nytimes.com)
Cyberpunk FAQ (1994) (www.textfiles.com)
Lotus Health nabs 35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free (techcrunch.com)
Attackers Are Turning Lovable into a Microsoft Phishing Machine (ravenmail.io)
Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany (www.openpetition.de)
John Bell Studio Concept Art (www.johnbell.studio)
Stop overpaying for OpenClaw: Multi-model routing guide (velvetshark.com)
36 Years in Making, GNU''s Own Kernel Project Hurd Is Anything but Dead (itsfoss.com)
NASA hit by fuel leaks during a practice countdown of the moon rocket (apnews.com)
What Is Border Patrol Doing in American Cities? (www.nationalreview.com)
Chinese Drywall (en.wikipedia.org)
New built-in interoperability between Google Meet and Microsoft Teams (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
User stories as docs in the repo instead of tickets (docs.testchimp.io)
What Is Overfitting? (aws.amazon.com)
I got tired of AI that thinks for me – so I created AkitaLLM (github.com)
Maps of Hyperspace, Ayahuasca Documentary (www.youtube.com)
The Chinese planemaker taking on Boeing and Airbus (www.bbc.com)
Modeling DeepSeek-R1''s Instability as a Topological Limit (gist.github.com)
Adrian Conejo Arias and child vs. Noem, Bondi, et al. [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
I miss thinking hard (www.jernesto.com)
The Computer Chronicles – Artificial Intelligence (1984) (www.youtube.com)
JSBooks – a curated list of the best JavaScript books (github.com)
Updates on the Status of Adobe Animate (old.reddit.com)
The hottest job in tech: Writing words (www.businessinsider.com)
Git AI – Track AI Code all the way to production (usegitai.com)
How to Publish to Maven Central Easily with Mill (mill-build.org)
An Intuitive View of Time-Bandwidth Product (TBP) (wirelesspi.com)
Longest Tennis Match in History? (ballparkguess.com)
China to Boost Batteries Sector with New Grid Backup Policy (www.bloomberg.com)
A programmer''s guide to leaving GitHub (lord.io)
Adobe Animate Discontinuation (helpx.adobe.com)
The Monorepo Made Me a Real Engineer Again (medium.com)
Minions music leads to nightmare for Olympic skater, spotlighting a problem (apnews.com)
US homebuilders working on plan to develop as many as 1M Homes (www.reuters.com)
CloudpilotEmu / PalmOS 5 (www.cspeckner.de)
The Port 19 Chargen Amplification Attack on Financial Institutions (2013) (www.connected.app)
NeuralAgent – Jarvis That Uses Your Computer (www.useneuralagent.com)
OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds (www.nature.com)
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email (newrepublic.com)
WhatsApp surveilllance: Dawson vs. Meta Platforms, Inc. (3:26-CV-00751) [pdf] (archive.org)
The Frenzied Pursuit of Wall Street''s Low-Profile All-Stars (www.wsj.com)
Custom tuning parameters – a dubious feature (futhark-lang.org)
Plessey System 250 (en.wikipedia.org)
National Pigeon Service (en.wikipedia.org)
Wall Street ends sharply down as traders fret about AI disruption (www.reuters.com)
Validating IC Rotations from Copper and Datasheets (www.pikkoloassembly.com)
SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a satellite constellation to power (arstechnica.com)
Luffu (www.luffu.com)
Google Meet can now join Microsoft Teams calls (www.neowin.net)
Threat of New AI Tools Wipes 300B Off Software and Data Stocks (www.wsj.com)
Four held in 3M illegal TV streaming raids (www.bbc.com)
Why poor countries stopped catching up (davidoks.blog)
Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories (www.ft.com)
One in four video game developers laid off over the past two years (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The Apple Marketing Philosophy (1977) (stevejobsarchive.com)
Intel is moving into GPUs and has hired a chief architect, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says (www.cnbc.com)
Intel CEO says company will make GPUs, popularized by Nvidia (www.reuters.com)
LLMs fail in ways humans never would (ahussain.substack.com)
Anthropic Plans Employee Tender Offer at 350B Valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
Vibe Coding is the new RAD (techleader.pro)
Microsoft and the Cost of Patience (saanyaojha.substack.com)
Engine-Bench: Evaluating Coding Agents on Writing Game Engine Code (github.com)
Nono: A secure, kernel-enforced capability sandbox for AI agents (github.com)
Navidrome Adds Support for Plugins (github.com)
Private equity exits rise as returns fall (www.cnbc.com)
Goup-utils: Write HTML/Htmx once, deploy everywhere: Web, iOS, Android, Desktop (github.com)
Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag: now online free (accessibilityforeveryone.site)
Staggering evidence trove shows who put Trump in the WH – and controls him still (www.rawstory.com)
Yeet Cars – Beautify the Street with AI (yeetcars.com)
The Trump administration has rewritten nuclear safety rules (www.npr.org)
Only 10% of Chinese Exports Go to the US (www.apolloacademy.com)
Grindr tests new AI subscription called "Edge" that costs up to 6k a year (www.dexerto.com)
A Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime (2018) (www.miamiherald.com)
Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws (capitolnewsillinois.com)
Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment (www.nytimes.com)
GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster (twitter.com)
Nvidia''s 100B OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished (arstechnica.com)
FDA approves first eye drop for age-related vision loss (newatlas.com)
Adobe Just Killed My Career [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why I don''t use Google Maps in Amsterdam (www.youtube.com)
How to setup an Android smartphone as a webcam – Camo Studio with OBS (www.tomshardware.com)
Bypassing Kernel32.dll for Fun and Nonprofit (ziglang.org)
HHS to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless (www.nytimes.com)
CL-32 (cl-32.com)
Sam Altman Hires Dylan Scandinaro as Head of Preparedness (twitter.com)
''Get Me Out'': Traders Dump Software Stocks as AI Fears Erupt (www.bloomberg.com)
Valve wants to hold [patent troll] Leigh Rothschild personally liable (www.reporterbyte.com)
Musk''s Boring Tunnel in Nashville Has Mayor Hoping No One Dies (www.bloomberg.com)
Blue Owl, Ares Lead Private Market Firms Bashed by Software Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
Hybrid MARL Linear Programming Architecture for Logistics Scheduling (medium.com)
TikTok System Design:(Step-by-Step Guide) (grokkingthesystemdesign.com)
The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping (rokoslobbyist.substack.com)
AutoGPT is an open-source autonomous software agent that uses OpenAI''s LLMs (en.wikipedia.org)
Goldman Defense of Lawyer''s Epstein Ties Provokes Unease at Bank (www.bloomberg.com)
The Ministry of Propaganda (unprecedented.ghost.io)
I Deleted Three Apps, and All I Got Was My Attention Back (burnedthoughts.substack.com)
By whatever name – Moltbot, Clawd, OpenClaw – it''s a security nightmare (www.computerworld.com)
PostgreSQL Materialized Views: When Caching Your Query Results Makes Sense (stormatics.tech)
Notepad supply chain attack breakdown (securelist.com)
A Role Model for How to Die (www.nytimes.com)
Why the World Must Measure Well-Being, Not GDP (worldsensorium.com)
What Would Richard Feynman Make of AI Today? (nautil.us)
Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted with More Improvements and Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
Walmart hits 1T market cap (www.cnbc.com)
International AI Safety Report 2026 (internationalaisafetyreport.org)
Democrats unveil WA income tax on people earning over 1M (www.seattletimes.com)
Solving the AI Agent Dilemma: "Ask" Redefines Agent Skills Distribution (github.com)
Running is my meditation (2024) [pdf] (research-repository.rmit.edu.au)
Use "\\A \\z", not " " with Python regular expressions – Seth Larson (sethmlarson.dev)
Scaling GPU-to-CPU Migration for Efficient Distributed Execution on CPU Clusters (dl.acm.org)
Quantum Fiber is now part of the AT&T family (privatebin.seattlematrix.org)
Hans – IP over ICMP (code.gerade.org)
Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance and Power Efficiency (www.phoronix.com)
Intel will start making GPUs (techcrunch.com)
SpaceX Acquires xAI in 1.25T All-Stock Deal (www.cnbc.com)
Mesh: A compacting memory allocator for C/C (github.com)
Effects of Acute Exercise and Meditation on Cognitive Function (2018) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
A skill for agents to work with the JJ VCS (github.com)
Chrome rolling out WebGPU for Linux, starting with support for Intel Gen12 GPUs (issues.chromium.org)
SBA cuts off non-US citizens from primary loan program (www.politico.com)
The OpenClaw Security Problem (www.osohq.com)
Age verification doesn''t need to suck (willhackett.uk)
Runedle – Wordle for Old School RuneScape (runedle.com)
Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date (arstechnica.com)
Sinofsky to Epstein on Cook and Forstall (mjtsai.com)
this is me (twitter.com)
A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo (www.nytimes.com)
Does Intermittent Fasting Live Up to the Hype? (www.nytimes.com)
Microsoft Campus Library Closes (www.geekwire.com)