Tech cos build software factories (swft.io)
Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal (prospect.org)
Deadly Livestock Virus Found Lurking in Ancient Texts (nautil.us)
Post-Job Whiplash (2024) (monkeynoodle.org)
Tesla''s Cybercab Is Being Investigated by Federal Regulators (www.nytimes.com)
Microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel''s desalination plants (www.cnn.com)
US Military disables ad trackers on troops'' phones (www.theguardian.com)
Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era (motherduck.com)
2 Spacecraft will soon reach Mercury after 8 years (www.space.com)
If you left your current industry, what would you do for a living? (textlog.cc)
A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft (spectrum.ieee.org)
The Work of Forgetting (lawcha.org)
Individual Consequences of a Global Crisis (eos.org)
Microsoft challenges data centre costs after pledging to protect ratepayers (www.ft.com)
My Experience with Navidrome (jeferson.me)
EU ''Return hubs'' in Rwanda and Uganda ''cruel black holes'' for human rights (www.amnesty.org)
Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns (www.cbc.ca)
Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult (www.openculture.com)
Where were you when reality died? (www.unite.ai)
ChatGPT now limits prompts per week, even on their most-expensive plans (help.openai.com)
Project Zenith: The ready-to-code Windows experience out of the box (blogs.windows.com)
Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents (x.ai)
Fork a fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows (git-fork.com)
''People are going to get screwed'' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres (www.ft.com)
OpenWhispr – Open-source, privacy-first voice-to-text with local AI (digitalescapetools.com)
Volkswagen says it is cutting 100k jobs by the end of the decade (techxplore.com)
Norway''s Oil Fund Proposes Selling Roughly 80B in U.S. Treasurys (www.wsj.com)
AI engineer breaks part of RSA encryption protocol by hand (www.scientificamerican.com)
Dogpark is a message board for a handful of software agents and one human (github.com)
Scientists Find Worms in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected (www.sciencealert.com)
Reverse recruiting and the HR shift: what changes when talent also chooses (www.foxapply.com)
NPM audits endpoint is having issues (status.npmjs.org)
Tzopilotl: A statically typed live-coding language for real-time audio (lfnoise.github.io)
To do your best work you need to work like a sculptor (livingsystems.substack.com)
You Cannot Know the Future. You Can Only Model It (www.saul.at)
Tesla Cybercabs Hit Austin Streets in Expansion of Robotaxi Service (www.wsj.com)
Beam Bots – Resilient Robotics with Elixir (beambots.dev)
All the Troubles of the World (en.wikipedia.org)
iPhone USB reverse tethering on Windows (github.com)
macOS Broke Python (2018) and it''s still broken (www.wefearchange.org)
Enough is enough. Let''s kill the camera bump (mnchrm.co)
IBM Bob (bob.ibm.com)
Flashviz: Microcontroller flash and RAM 3D visualization (clisystems.com)
Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region (github.com)
AI adoption at work is broad but shallow (www.theregister.com)
.FAGE is a brand TLD owned by FAGE a Greek dairy company (domaindetails.com)
Parrot was caught ordering items off Amazon''s Alexa (www.cnbc.com)
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6 (arstechnica.com)
Ok, but Does It Scale? (spacetimedb.com)
The best dark mode toggle is probably none (lea.verou.me)
A fun debugging story from this weekend (hamatti.org)
Collider: An Experimental Minecraft Server in 5500 lines Clojure (github.com)
Machine Testimony (yalelawjournal.org)
Negative people make you age faster (www.pnas.org)
Argus – an anti-detect browser with automation, local API, and MCP (www.browserargus.com)
Most Small Business Websites Don''t Need a Web Developer (websmith.studio)
Researchers developed short training to improves people''s detection of AI faces (www.southampton.ac.uk)
Inbxer – Open-source customer support platform for B2B SaaS (github.com)
What if Zig and Rust could speak? (1matin.com)
Nvidia PAIR turns your household''s idle PCs into a local AI cluster (tokenstead.ai)
What Did She Expect?" – Sexism and Classism Behind UK''s Aesthetics Safety Crisis (www.marieclaire.co.uk)
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search (productrise.app)
Motivating Myself for Exercise by Arbitrarily Withholding Rewards (blog.klungo.no)
Trump''s White House releases deportation video games (www.whitehouse.gov)
Meta new layoff goal of 60% to AI after moving 30% engineers to labelers (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
Crew, a multiplayer workspace for humans and AI agents to work together (github.com)
Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance (arstechnica.com)
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
Estonian defense minister resigns after procurement scandal (www.politico.eu)
Getting Agents to Tell on Themselves (blog.thinkst.com)
Psilocybin prevents chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy (www.science.org)
What Eight Agent Systems Record About What They Did (machinetestimony.org)
The sextant as backup navigation tool for astronauts (www.bbc.com)
Tgrep: Trigram-Indexed Grep (github.com)
Sudden Unexpected Death in the Pfizer Trial: A Pharmacovigilance Failure (esmed.org)
Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up (www.theguardian.com)
O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 (www.oo-software.com)
Whistle Synth (www.jefftk.com)
You Don''t Need Initial-Scale in Your HTML (vale.rocks)
An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment (stratechery.com)
Readers can''t identify watermarked AI text (www.seangoedecke.com)
Chinese businesses giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, dumplings (restofworld.org)
US diesel prices hit a record high of 5.85 on average (apnews.com)
These Linux distros run in RAM and barely touch your SSD (www.makeuseof.com)
A preview of the future IA documentation (intel.github.io)
Conserved water shapes the pathogenicity of missense variants in human proteins (academic.oup.com)
NPM is experiencing elevated latency (github.com)
Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com)
DeepSeek to use 160K of Huawei''s Ascend 950DT chips at a Mongolia data center (bloomberg.com)
Before It''s Lost – Rebuilding the Sega Saturn''s Dev Environment on a Modern PC (www.yabasanshiro.com)
The auto lobby spent millions on media manipulation (impuls.news)
OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout (www.reuters.com)
US Military turns off ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reports (www.reuters.com)
Mixbox: Pigment-Based Color Mixing (github.com)
Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge (jestoph.com)
ERIS: Local-first vault agent in Rust, grammar-enforced tools (github.com)
Simple Made Easy (github.com)
Bun v1.4.1 (bun.com)
Punktfunk – Game streaming that outgrew GameStream (punktfunk.unom.io)
A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain (research.google)
Hot take on GPT-6 Astra (garymarcus.substack.com)
German Government abandons plan for BSI constitutional amendment (www.heise.de)
Cybercab motor uses no rare earth metals (twitter.com)
Muse Spark 1.3 Ranks #3 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
Nicholas Polson Has Written Over 200 Academic Papers in 2026 (so far) (economistwritingeveryday.com)
BlackRock CEO said Americans'' savings and investments will fund data centers (www.msn.com)
Weird Little Guys of FOSS (drewdevault.com)
The most important half-hour of my life (greghadfield.medium.com)
Amazon and Meta AI bots account for most website visits (pressgazette.co.uk)
I built CashmApp – a "GPS for your finances" that reroutes when life changes (apps.apple.com)
NPM audit service is down while NPM status page reports otherwise (github.com)
Nvidia will buy Hugging Face for 13B (www.economist.com)
Wiki Is Not Enough (replicated.live)
I love Omarchy but I needed Niri so I made this (github.com)
The Raspberry Pi Interactive Timeline · 2006–2026 (raspberry.tips)
73% of What We Blocked in a Month Was One Syscall Your Sandbox Cannot See (grith.ai)
Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids (carbonawarepricing.com)
Today markets scores 67, almost confident (gmdmarkets.com)
Building the CAD application of my dreams (v2.brep.io)
Native Rust/C LLM inference engine (github.com)
KupujemProdajem searches 5.6M ads at 10 ms with Manticore Search (medium.com)
Nvidia''s 12,930,300,000 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg (twitter.com)
X Corp blocks social media startup from using ''Twitter'' name (www.reuters.com)
Why Software Needs a Reliability Control Plane (techscoop.substack.com)
Oakland Noticing Club (mailchi.mp)
Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages? (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It (www.quantamagazine.org)
Bank of Canada bank notes: Resources for the blind and partially sighted (www.bankofcanada.ca)
Mom Is Working for Moloch (blog.exitgroup.us)
The phrase that ruins every eCommerce project: "Just connect it to our ERP." (shiftmag.dev)
Nvidia links gaming PCs into a local AI cluster (forgeeks.net)
Marin 32B Spike Fixing (wandb.ai)
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
OpenAI commits 1B to critical-infrastructure AI initiative (axios.com)
Google engineer unplugged fiber and took down a chunk of the G-Cloud (www.theregister.com)
The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming (www.technologyreview.com)
Marin 535B-A23B (openathena.ai)
First open-source knowledge enterprise world model (github.com)
An audio end-of-turn gate before LLM invocation in a local voice-agent pipeline (www.reddit.com)
Signal Beta adds support registrations without a phone number (community.signalusers.org)
Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year (www.techdirt.com)
Septabee, a unique, free DAW [video] (www.youtube.com)
Profession has died. Now what? (blog.ponelat.com)
Nano LM Studio (github.com)
Limiting Overshoot – Navigating exceedance of 1.5C and pathways towards return (www.unep.org)
UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa''s true scale (www.theguardian.com)
Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion (5000 Tk/S) (s-sahoo.com)
What happened to Amprius and their claimed 450Wh/kg battery? (www.google.com)
OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk (www.wired.com)
New stealth model: omen alpha (twitter.com)
John Margolies'' Photographs of Roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
America must learn AI lessons from Astro Boy (www.ft.com)
Cerebras and Compute Nordic Finland Announces AI Data Centre in Mikkeli, Finland (investors.cerebras.ai)
Model Fatigue Is Real (moekhalil.substack.com)
Max H3 – MiniMax H3 Max AI Video Generator (www.maxh3.com)
US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts intensify supply crunch (www.reuters.com)
What''s New in Neovim 0.13 (dotfiles.substack.com)
Buying Used? Check the Warranty History Before You Pay (holdmybill.com)
World Sandwich (claude.ai)
AI, Tools and Transformation (www.ben-evans.com)
Arcade – The White House (www.whitehouse.gov)
Oura''s IPO Reveals High Growth for Smart-Ring Maker (www.wsj.com)
Volkswagen board approves plan to cut another 50k jobs (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump White House Launches Arcade with Games to Build Wall, Deport Migrants (www.newsweek.com)
Average wages no longer buy a standard-size home in most of Europe (english.elpais.com)
Volkswagen flags 50k job cuts across group as board approves turnaround plan (www.reuters.com)
104,791 Hugging Face Spaces are unmodified copies, found via inverted timestamps (huggingface.co)
White House website debuts 5 retro arcade video games promoting Trump''s agenda (apnews.com)
Mayor Mamdani''s Friendly Influencers and Funding of Public Messaging in New York (www.cjr.org)
Tcl for Web Nerds (philip.greenspun.com)
Customer sues domain registrar Trustname over stolen domains (domainnamewire.com)
Genome Duplication Is an Evolutionary Gamble (www.quantamagazine.org)
Why Air Batteries Are Finally Beating Lithium [video] (www.youtube.com)
MauroPello/stop-the-slop: Spot AI-generated YouTube scripts (github.com)
Chinese Espionage Threat: Suspected Spy Drone Caught over Sensitive U.S. Missile (www.theyeshivaworld.com)
Mouse tops FrontierHarness at 24/30 with Kimi K3 using completion loops (mouse.dev)
Catalan''s Constant Is Irrational (arxiv.org)
High Oil Prices Speed Up China''s Shift Away from Crude (oilprice.com)
Switcher (www.folklore.org)
After OpenAI''s Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash (www.nytimes.com)
Confronting Risks of Mirror Life (www.science.org)
Inside Gabe Newell’s 111m superyacht Leviathan (www.boatinternational.com)
Making LEDs from an Epiwafer (www.semiconductor.diy)
Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools (www.agentconnect.md)
Rust 1.98.1 (blog.rust-lang.org)
The 1990s Web vs. today''s AI (arnoldkling.substack.com)
Is controllability becoming the real bottleneck for computer-use agents? (twitter.com)
Agentic Search (mistral.ai)
An ''Exercise Pill'' Just Cleared Its First Human Test (gizmodo.com)
Post-Training Language Models for Gold-Medal Performance in Coding Competitions (arxiv.org)
Wan 3.0 – 30-second native-audio video from text, images, docs, or web (wan30.io)
Probabilistic population forecasting: Short to long-term (www.sciencedirect.com)
How to Parallelize a Transformer for Training (ezyang.github.io)
Tesla opens search for Cybercab fleet sales, but FSD owners are still left out (electrek.co)
The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet (ai-on-the-internet.github.io)
How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI? (www.pewresearch.org)
Study projects human population up to 2300 (populationconnection.org)
An interval-scoped notation framework born from AP Calculus homework (github.com)
DEF Con 34 – Hacking AI – Bruce Schneier [video] (www.youtube.com)
Never Forget How Eagerly Apple and Google Coddled Fascism (karlbode.com)
A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas (www.texasmonthly.com)
Why Does Rust Need Send and Sync? (gmcgoldr.github.io)
WireGuard Protocol Implementation in D (github.com)
OT Isolation Plan: What You Can Disconnect When It Matters (www.emberot.com)
Blue Continuum, from the Founder of Nautilus (www.bluecontinuummag.com)
A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
FrontierMath Erdős (epoch.ai)
Where Europe Goes to Gig (europeancorrespondent.com)
Mercury Poisoning Situation at MIT [video] (www.youtube.com)
Burning Man has become a wrinkled sausage fest of aging millennial men (nypost.com)
Late Merge (third-bit.com)
BoardUI (github.com)
Superlocal: Email Multiplexer (github.com)
The Heavy Reality of Having a "Favorite Person" When You Live with BPD (medium.com)
Therapeutic Food (Child Malnutrition) (en.wikipedia.org)
From Hookswitch to Grave (computer.rip)
Patient Who Received Pig Kidney First to Progress to Human Kidney Transplant (hms.harvard.edu)
Botpool Create – Build websites and apps by chatting with AI (www.botpool.ai)
Tesla opens "Help us grow out fleet" after opening robotaxi to the public (www.tesla.com)
Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel (www.nytimes.com)
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (awards.journalists.org)
Why I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
British police try to track down theft of 70k pints worth of Guinness stout (apnews.com)
Delve (YC W24) accused of misleading customers with ''fake compliance'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Kalder CEO Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud (www.justice.gov)
ArtStation Should Put Artists First (magazine.artstation.com)
The Last Interview (nition.momentstudio.co.nz)
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (gwern.net)
Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
Wikimedia Workers Overwhelmingly Win Union with 93% Yes Vote (www.wired.com)
The Most Famous "Odyssey" Translation Is Inaccurate (substack.magazinenongrata.com)
Jensen Huang Became AI''S Taylor Swift (www.economist.com)
Congress Is Trying (Again) to Ban Boycotting Israel (reason.com)
1Password Replied to My Disappointment (nicolalosito.it)
Adobe names insider Chakravarthy CEO, Narayen transitions to executive chair (www.reuters.com)
Paul Graham on Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders [video] (www.youtube.com)
2FAS – Authenticator and Password Manager (2fas.com)
Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Interactive Tree of Life (ptree.org)
Green Card wait for most Indian immigrants is now 179 years (nypost.com)
NVIDIA is driving the AI boom. Good (www.economist.com)
Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets (techcrunch.com)
PayPal plans to lay off workers at its South Bay headquarters (www.sfchronicle.com)
Not Cool (placesjournal.org)
Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming subscribers (www.cnbc.com)
Stop obsessing about the goddamn robot (despairlabs.com)
The Death of Educational Content on YouTube [video] (www.youtube.com)
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia''s hands (www.theregister.com)
Nvidia Personal AI Router (Pair) (www.nvidia.com)
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
The Multiplayer AI Manifesto (multiplayer-ai.com)
GTP-6 Astra (www.youtube.com)
macOS 27 Simulator by OpenAI Astra (macos-27-simulator.mweinbach.chatgpt.site)
Coder''s registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
(George) Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts (lucasmuseum.org)
Star Trek S01e20 "Court Marshall" (en.wikipedia.org)
Anxious or outgoing? Study links Big Five personality traits to genetic variants (www.nature.com)
Oura S-1 (www.sec.gov)
Modal''s rise: sandboxes, cold starts, and what the SEC paperwork reveals (henrymichaelson1.substack.com)
Dash for Windows: Now in Beta (blog.kapeli.com)
here is how We''re All Going to Die (www.noahpinion.blog)
SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other ''compute partners'' (www.engadget.com)
GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB (gizmodo.com)
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company (longform.asmartbear.com)
Perhaps I should look up the statute of limitations (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters (www.404media.co)
Models Don''t Go Rogue (mail.cyberneticforests.com)
A Stranger''s Pull Request Almost Stole My Cloud Credentials (medium.com)
Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. I [Gary Marcus] Oppose It (garymarcus.substack.com)
Tim Cook donated 1M to Trump''s inauguration (bsky.app)
Performance Characterization of SPEC CPU 2026 on AMD EPYC 9755 "Zen 5" Processor (arxiv.org)
Google DeepMind Just Rolled Out Its Most Accurate AI Global Weather Model (gizmodo.com)
Ukrainian Sea Drones Strike Russian Black Sea Resort Town of Sochi (www.twz.com)
Rusty state of USS Abraham Lincoln after marathon deployment shocks observers (www.cnn.com)
Flock Is Cancelled–and Their Competitors Are Profiting (www.motherjones.com)
Hosting Valkey: one MicroVM per store, durable by default (mojave.sh)
GPT 6 is way behind Anthropic on Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime (arstechnica.com)
Have we finally found dark matter? (www.scientificamerican.com)
CERN moves accelerator control computers to Debian (www.theregister.com)
Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case–EFF Will Appeal (www.eff.org)
Microsoft Announces Change to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Switches to Monthly Hour Limits (www.ign.com)
The paradox of diffusion distillation (2024) (sander.ai)
Renowned NYC Washington Square Park Chess Hustler ''Chichi'' Detained by ICE (www.chess.com)
Microsoft releases MAI-Transcribe-2 (venturebeat.com)
Josh Kushner: How Thrive Capital Became the Most Important Firm in Tech (valueaddvc.com)
Bothy – a one-command terminal workspace from tools you trust (github.com)
Child prodigies and geniuses – 60 Minutes [video] (www.youtube.com)
Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM (www.tomshardware.com)
The Paradox of Talent: How Chance Affects Success in Tennis Tournaments (arxiv.org)
Knight vs. Snail (www.bl.uk)
Linux Foundation Is Plagiarism Hub, Linux Is at Risk from It (techrights.org)
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Linux to Disable RandStruct Security Feature by Default If Rust Support Present (www.phoronix.com)
More Indians live in the Gulf states than in the US, UK, and Canada combined (ourworldindata.org)
Pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage (apnews.com)
Get to Know Your Phone''s Built-In Emergency Kit (www.nytimes.com)
Pause AI Development Now (twitter.com)
MapQuest tops Apple, Google Maps downloads after refusing ''Lake America'' change (thehill.com)