Formally verifying agent-written full-stack apps with Proof-Driven Development (www.microsoft.com)
Ads in popular apps give police a powerful tool to spy on users (www.bloomberg.com)
Data scientist David Shor on how his party won a historic landslide (www.vox.com)
Thursday's 3T tech sell-off, and what it means if you build AI products (vithushansylvester.com)
What the F**k Has AI Done? (whathasaidone.com)
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say 16B fraud revenue (finance.yahoo.com)
How two engineer side projects became the agent taking action inside Dropbox (dropbox.tech)
Michael Burry says Anthropic is 'betting its existence' on optimism (www.businessinsider.com)
Novartis confirms 9 reported cases of tumors in patients treated with Zolgensma (www.biospace.com)
Researcher Finds That Some Bots Still Think in Stereotypes (www.rutgers.edu)
The Tech Bros Who Bet on Fascism Lost. Don't Let the Internet Pay for It (www.techdirt.com)
Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber (www.404media.co)
Where Is Federal Law Enforcement's Data-Buying Transparency? (www.lawfaremedia.org)
China Plans Broad AI Guardrails After Global Security Lapses (www.bloomberg.com)
Confessions from Slopaholics Anonymous (thomasjiralerspong.substack.com)
Hong Kong: Joshua Wong Gets Nearly 10 More Years in Prison (www.hrw.org)
AgentSight: System-wide AI agent profiling and monitoring with eBPF (eunomia.dev)
Frameboy: Explore worlds in real-time streaming from cloud GPUs at up to 15 FPS (twitter.com)
Nikke PC game launcher hacked to spread remote access, data-stealing malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Claude Code sends your email address to websites (github.com)
ESP32Authenticator – a password manager and FIDO2 key on an e-ink reader (github.com)
An update for our longest listeners (Audible account migration) (www.audible.com)
I'm an Engineer. This ChatGPT Test Scared Me [video] (www.youtube.com)
Bill Gates was not the best programmer of his generation (twitter.com)
New York Times adds 420k digital subscribers in 3rd quarter 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
The Interim Computer Museum: log into old systems (icm.museum)
Durable Execution: The Missing Runtime Primitive for Agents (www.diagrid.io)
Kimjongun.vc: Announcing Our Series B (kimjongun.vc)
How "Safety" Rhetoric Is Weaponized to Protect Israel and Smear Its Critics (www.columnblog.com)
Barracuda ESG pre-auth remote root (CVE-2026-116606) (labs.watchtowr.com)
Remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Paint (twitter.com)
Free energy screening for run-of-river hydro power sites in North America (www.catchflo.ca)
Meridian: Web-browser built on GPUI and Servo (tangled.org)
Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure (openai.com)
Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder (arstechnica.com)
Paraguay's president is impeached following a bank collapse (www.npr.org)
The Cost of AI Code Shows Up 30 Days Later (cacm.acm.org)
The benchmark where AIs have to lie to win (www.dwarkesh.com)
TB 26-10 Printed Circuit Board Assembly Chip Resistor Body Cracking (www.nasa.gov)
2.5T has been wiped from US stocks (www.reddit.com)
This Month in Ladybird: October 2026 (buttondown.com)
The Blue Wave Hits Sand Hill Road (www.businessinsider.com)
Slack Is the New IDE (opencomputer.dev)
Compilers and Termination Revisited (blog.regehr.org)
AI finds security bugs faster than they get fixed. Should the 90day rule change? (www.reasond.de)
Copilot Chat's usage cap and Microsoft would rather u found them by hitting them (www.theregister.com)
What Do the Next 4k Emoji Look Like? (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)
GitHub's new Git storage architecture – The GitHub Blog (github.blog)
Uchū – the color palette for internet lovers (uchu.style)
The Pacific's Busy Storm Season (science.nasa.gov)
Can you instruct the robot to make a PB&J sandwich? (www.sudosandwich.lol)
A small, fast container runtime for Mac, Windows and Linux. Written in Rust (runkiri.com)
I made a film in Excel [video] (vimeo.com)
Chip stocks get slaughtered as Wall Street in worst post-midterm day since 1896 (finance.yahoo.com)
GNU Mes and the 0.28 Release (ekaitz.elenq.tech)
Could AI give NFTs a second chance? (www.dw.com)
OpenAI CEO's Codex keyboard gift to Samsung presidents draws attention (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (www.cve.org)
The Web Is More Than Enough (ftrain.com)
Wallet screening your AI agent can call over MCP (prax-labs.com)
The Cost of Being Online (olu.online)
Everyone is wrong about ArtCraft (www.youtube.com)
Oregon Trail (Computer Game) (www.mnhs.org)
California Gov Newsom commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death row (www.bbc.com)
Met Norway Service Disruptions, Revised Terms of Service (lists.met.no)
Z.ai says GLM 5.5 built on 1T web pages (twitter.com)
Feeling Guilty for Over-Sleeping (drpedia.pages.dev)
I turned 100 old science fiction books into a database of 6,222 startup ideas (www.reddit.com)
Tencent Launches Hy4, One of the Leading Open-Source AI Models (www.tencent.com)
Jack Dorsey's Block makes second round of job cuts this year (www.businessinsider.com)
Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026 (metr.org)
Prehistoric 'giant rat' found in Thailand from fossil teeth (phys.org)
The Cost of Blogging (onlinegoddess.net)
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From the Vault to Your Library—How Seven of EA's Classic Games were Restored (www.ea.com)
Kagi Search for Everyone (kagi.com)
When France Gave Away Terminals, and a Dozen Email Services Bloomed (buttondown.com)
Australia approves seabed site where a Japanese company will store CO2 pollution (phys.org)
Englishman Karl Bushby returns home after 28 years walking 30k mi around world (www.cbsnews.com)
AI Makes Building Easy. Failing First Is the Hard Part (brian.biz)
Goodbye from Salon (www.salon.com)
Newsom Commutes the Sentences of California's 548 Death Row Inmates (www.nytimes.com)
Can 23,000 quantum qubits break RSA-2048? (www.bfswa.blog)
Reverse engineer how any company grows (treg.to)
Wipeout for AI stocks sends Wall Street reeling and S&P 500 tumbles more than 3% (apnews.com)
World Economy in 2040, in One Chart (www.visualcapitalist.com)
Windows Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (msrc.microsoft.com)
As budgets tighten, people are breaking out their library cards (www.npr.org)
How Long It Takes to Find a Job in 42 Countries (www.visualcapitalist.com)
Shares in Musk's SpaceX plunge as tech and AI stocks fall (www.bbc.com)
World Bank: Debt of poorest countries at record 9.4T high (www.theguardian.com)
Nix and Determinate are a better foundation for keeping your systems secure (determinate.systems)
Reverse-engineering Kiro-account-manager: AWS accounts and Claude distillation (hansdekker.dev)
Anthropic engineer warns about 'cognitive surrender' (www.businessinsider.com)
The Hackintosh Reborn (www.naut.ca)
Protesters across Europe to call for freeze on energy hungry data centres (www.euronews.com)
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is changing the color of the ocean (www.scientificamerican.com)
Mystery Seller Seeks to Dump 500M of Data Center Loans (www.bloomberg.com)
Sony Debuts Retro 60 Wired Headphones in Tribute to 1979 Walkman (www.bloomberg.com)
Infant Bleeding Surged as Parents Rejected Vitamin K Shots, Studies Find (www.nytimes.com)
Linux distribution is a security policy (brianredbeard.com)
Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened? (www.theguardian.com)
Many diagnosed with a peanut allergy don't realize they may not have it anymore (www.washingtonpost.com)
Search engine for Centuries of art, photography, illustration from great museums (arkivism.com)
Z Is Diophantine in Q (github.com)
European funders support new 'publish, review, curate' approach for preprints (www.nature.com)
The Moe Training Handbook: How to Train a Mixture-of-Experts Model at Scale (huggingface.co)
How to Make Things, and Why – Stuart Halloway (Clojure/Conj 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Dept of Justice probes Nvidia over 13B Hugging Face acquisition (www.tomshardware.com)
Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed (www.euronews.com)
Is Flying Private Less Safe? How the Rules Differ from Commercial Airlines (www.wsj.com)
NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings (www.nasa.gov)
Apple Announces a New Mac Sales Record (www.macrumors.com)
National Weather Service ordered to resume twice-daily weather balloon launches (www.cbsnews.com)
Best Re Binary Tool – EasyRE (github.com)
Keychron Orca echo (split key) Pre-launch Campaign (www.keychron.com)
Zero Hour: Telling time was a matter of survival and strategy during WWI (2014) (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Benefits of Performance Testing with AI-Generated Synthetic Data (cookbooks.datacebo.com)
Coding Agents Underestimate the Cost of Code They Own (ben3d.ca)
Hideo Kojima says AI lacks what makes the creative process fun (automaton-media.com)
Legend of Zelda lead says Nintendo doesn't do layoffs (www.gamesradar.com)
Claude skill that turns any two places into a pixel-art fly-through of the road (github.com)
China Fielding Robotic Space Weapons That Can Attack Other Satellites (www.forbes.com)
KLM sees 1,000 fewer jobs in push to restore profitability (www.reuters.com)
Orbital Matter 3D printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space (techcrunch.com)
The Software Factory: The Rise of Self-Improving Software (pauldix.com)
Excuse my French? The swear words that used to be illegal in Canada (www.bbc.com)
Sakani UI (www.sakaniui.com)
Paraguayan president impeached minutes after resigning following bank collapse (apnews.com)
The Tragedy of Johannes Kepler (loveofallwisdom.com)
Stocks plunge as midterm results send AI trade into a tailspin (www.cnn.com)
How Sphere Hid a Minicomputer Inside Their Micro – Ben Zotto [video] (www.youtube.com)
How to Lie With Statistics (1954) [pdf] (www.horace.org)
How we ran Terminal-Bench 4.0 11% cheaper and 12% faster than the frontier labs (www.omnara.com)
Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV (www.engadget.com)
Claude's new Personal Finance tool aims to help analyze your spending (www.zdnet.com)
I deleted all my SSH keys (blog.infected.systems)
Artificial Epanorthosis: Why LLMs overuse a classical rhetorical figure (arxiv.org)
TeXmacs Upsilon (mgubi.github.io)
Swarm Intelligence (kevinkelly.substack.com)
NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta (engineering.fb.com)
What It Took to Build Wafer-Scale, and Why It Lasts (www.cerebras.ai)
So, about that Anthropic IPO (www.ft.com)
Alpine Linux rebuilt its GitLab server after a close call (www.zdnet.com)
My Take on Jev (sunbeams.ai)
HackerBuys – Products recommendations from HN comments (hn.shellbear.me)
How the *sshole vulnerability came to be (twitter.com)
The Southwest's extreme flooding foreshadows a wild El Niño winter (grist.org)
Personal Finance in Claude (claude.com)
Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election (www.wsj.com)
I abused agent swarms to collect all your data (how to make it work) (www.tinyfish.ai)
Hermes-Voice: Talk to a Hermes Agent Profile Through Home Assistant Assist (github.com)
AI e-nose and wearable device deliver programmable smells with 73% accuracy (news.osu.edu)
President of Paraguay resigns amid crisis over bank collapse (www.cnn.com)
Benchmarking Decision Models on the Test of Proficiency in Korean (Topik) (rickcarlino.com)
William Nordhaus, favourite economist of the right and the left (www.economist.com)
How to discuss latency in system design interviews (interviewing.io)
Perplexity Team Mates (www.perplexity.ai)
A Homebrew port of Dark Souls Remastered to the PlayStation 2 (github.com)
Airport kiosk charger clones phone every time you plug it in, exfils via WiFi (twitter.com)
GPT-6 Cyber (twitter.com)
AT&T's Copper Shutdown Begins: POTS Phase-Out Timeline (www.ooma.com)
My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app (shayon.work)
Economics of Access: Pricing, Formats, and the Transformation of Digital Tools (medium.com)
The FP reporter Olivia Reingold posts AI generated image without disclosure (twitter.com)
The "10x Engineer" Is Dead. The New Hero Is the Editor (soargram.io)
EnterpriseDB acquires Altinity to unify open-source database engines (www.techtarget.com)
Delphi 3 – Delphi 13 Decompiler (also works for C Builder VCL Applications) (www.de-decompiler.com)
We should train AI as though it is conscious just in case (mathewingramblog.wordpress.com)
Prevent Siri and Search from Accessing Specific iPhone Apps (www.macrumors.com)
A 257-byte password matched '*' in OpenSSH on musl, traced through the code (theainewsreport.com)
Rivet (YC F25) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 (github.com)
Vetto ScienceBench: Expanding Scientific Capabilities of Frontier AI Models (vetto.ai)
Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory (www.cnbc.com)
Castov – The All-in-One Developer Toolkit for a Faster, Safer Web (castov.com)
Code Matters: Reflections on Rust in the LLM Age (speakerdeck.com)
Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode (99percentinvisible.org)
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips (blog.google)
GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents (openai.com)
Cyberattack Hits French Blood Banks as Hackers Target EU Refrigeration Systems (securityaffairs.com)
Paraguay President Santiago Peña Resigns (www.bbc.com)
Three tax proposals targeting the rich that the new Congress could revive (www.cnbc.com)
Meta Employees 'Interacted' with Pirated Copies of Adult Films, Filing Shows (torrentfreak.com)
Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell appears at 17,999 MSRP, higher than RTX PRO 6000 (videocardz.com)
Five Ways Nvidia Co-Design Maximizes the Value of Every Byte in the AI Factory (developer.nvidia.com)
18 Years of GOG (www.gog.com)
Five Grand Challenges in Material Science for AI to Solve (discoveredmaterials.com)
Revolut Hits 115B Valuation Ahead of US Bank Launch (techcrunch.com)
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches (www.theregister.com)
Firecracker Escape (pwn.ai)
Window Sweaters (github.com)
An AI Fraud Kingpin's Confessions (www.404media.co)
GB ought to be enough for anybody (manualdousuario.net)
Software Line Specialist (lovro-bikic.github.io)
Data Centers Were on the Ballot Across the US, and They Lost. What Comes Next? (www.techpolicy.press)
Nasdaq plunges into correction threaten data centers and AI (nypost.com)
Vibe Coding Keypad (www.keychron.com)
Paraguay seizes major digital bank tied to president, leaving customers in limbo (apnews.com)
Tick – A Smalltalk with a Tcl like syntax (xyzzyapps.github.io)
Discord Plans Lighter Desktop App with Rust and GPUI (www.analyticsinsight.ae)
Flink's Kafka connector commits offsets to Kafka (dalelane.co.uk)
Google Summaries Aren't About AI, They're About Lock-In (www.eff.org)
Lattices – open-source Programmatic Window Manager (lattices.dev)
The Election Day Revolt That Threatens America's AI Boom (www.wsj.com)
Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share (www.theregister.com)
Paraguay bank collapses with half of population's savings (www.aljazeera.com)
Paraguay's President Resigned (www.reuters.com)
Discord rewritten in Rust, uses 93% less RAM (www.windowslatest.com)
This Year's Super El Niño Will Worsen Global Hunger (e360.yale.edu)
Japan contractor's AI-guided tunnel boring outperforms human operators (asia.nikkei.com)
T-Mobile launches 90 5Gbps fiber internet plan (www.tomshardware.com)
UK government considers smart glasses ban over secret filming concerns (www.theguardian.com)
Remote Desktop for Mac in 2026 (macky.dev)
The Hutterites' Guide to Technology (macleans.ca)
Google, Meta, TikTok sue to block California youth social media law (www.reuters.com)
The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin (www.404media.co)
Services4Agents – Pay-per-call infrastructure for autonomous agents (services4agents.fyi)
My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user (claude.ai)
Datadog Degradation, but No Incident? (updog.ai)
The Stacks Project, Formalized in Lean (axiommath.ai)
Asymptotic Freedom (en.wikipedia.org)
Reflex: An architecture for building mobile apps with agents (shopify.engineering)
Macau's Magic Square Stamps (www.theguardian.com)
Claude Study – circle part of your handwritten notes and ask Claude (claude-study-concept.vercel.app)
New Vibe Coding App (supacode.io)
Places in Tokyo that feel like Night City (milos.fyi)
Scala News – October 31st, 2026 Edition (www.scalanews.net)
Roko's Basilisk: The most rational idea in the world [video] (www.youtube.com)
Shotoku – local authorization layer for AI agents (www.shotoku.dev)
Model Routing with Nvidia's NeMo Switchyard (pub.towardsai.net)
Remote AI Jobs (nokku.payanai.com)
Hiding a Rule Inside Another Model's Weights (jonneslin.github.io)
Mistral Studio adds managed agents, workflows and apps (mistral.ai)
I Performed Forensics on a Server and It Got Somebody Fired (louwrentius.com)
AI Bureaucracy Will Enable Total Surveillance [video] (www.youtube.com)
Chess, but you can make the board bigger (www.willmeye.rs)
Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support (motorolanews.com)
OCAP Bounded Authority: Edera's Managed Approach to Object Capabilities (edera.dev)
Nvidia chips pile up in Hong Kong as China withholds import approval (www.reuters.com)
Building a Multi-Agent System from Scratch: Architecture Patterns (kadhar.dev)
What GDP Means in a Soft Budget Economy Like China (carnegieendowment.org)
Tuist Runners are finally here: managed macOS and Linux CI (twitter.com)
An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI (openai.com)
Yes, You Can Pass a Nuclear Missile Driving on Interstate 80 Through Wyoming (cowboystatedaily.com)
French blood banks hit alongside cyberattack on European supermarkets (www.yahoo.com)
The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (newbooksnetwork.com)
Epileptic seizures nearly vanish after people receive experimental gene therapy (www.nature.com)
The Beginner's Guide to AI Governance (www.karlsnotes.com)
Exporting tables from a SQL Server backup (.bak) to Parquet without restoring it (blog.arpe.io)
NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research (www.nasa.gov)
RIP Good Times (drive.google.com)
Offline survival assistant – local LLM and Kiwix, runs from a USB stick (github.com)
We can do better than line-buffered output (nullprogram.com)
Nordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust (nordstjernen.org)
My boy filling out applications but My nieces and Daughter (twitter.com)
Hard to Fool: A bounded LLM research loop for quantitative finance (arxiv.org)
Software as a Garden (carllapierre.com)
Mizu – zero-copy parallel R and Python over shared memory (github.com)
A writing app that helps you spot what could be clearer and how to improve (yukiwriter.com)
Bluesky was right all along and will accept your apology any time (www.fastcompany.com)
Pull the Plug on Technofascism Before It Reboots (www.techpolicy.press)
Private equity is buying up more methadone clinics (theconversation.com)
Twelve-month all-cause mortality after initial Covid-19 vaccination (www.sciencedirect.com)
Taylor Lorenz on X: "I'm once again being offered money promote anti-AI content (twitter.com)
The Making of Dario Amodei (www.nytimes.com)
US Democrats Win Enough Seats Nationwide to End Presidential Electoral College (newrepublic.com)
From Initial Access to Physical Damage: Map of French Supermarket Cyberattack (www.emberot.com)
Mercedes next-gen screen tech for windshield and side glass (www.motor1.com)
Online Maps Lay Bare the US Military Bases Targeted by Iran (www.bellingcat.com)
Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies (kottke.org)
X11, XWayland, Wayland, KDE, Debian (blog.raymond.burkholder.net)
How to Refactor a Legacy Team (avivbenyosef.com)
Alpine Linux Security advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass (alpinelinux.org)
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian (www.theregister.com)
Is Grand Theft Auto VI the most anticipated video game of all time? (www.cbc.ca)
An Underrated Reason Boys Aren't Reading (www.theatlantic.com)
Norway's aid agency pwned and all users' data is stolen (www.theregister.com)
Supabase's official Postgres skill took longer than no skill (rulemetric.com)
Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw (www.theregister.com)
Termite: A red team and blue team for CLI commands from agents (tanepiper.github.io)
FastFed Core 1.0 – draft 03 (openid.net)
Navier–Stokes, blowup, and the part of the Millennium Problem OpenAI claims [video] (www.youtube.com)
Trump's accounts made more trades than all of Congress combined (www.kadoa.com)
Creating Logic Using Waves: Photonic Gates [video] (www.youtube.com)
Chinese AI Scientist Completes 11,382-Step Experiment in 203 Hours (www.chosun.com)
September in Servo: , rounded rectangles, and more (servo.org)
Dropbox's next chapter: moving your work forward with AI in Dropbox (blog.dropbox.com)
Searching for the Origin of the Stonehenge Altar Stone (www.lyellcollection.org)
US startup's demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws criticism (www.theguardian.com)
Russian Man Sues Apple for 'Turning Him Gay' (www.courthousenews.com)
What did the Romans ever give Scotland? (www.theguardian.com)
GlobalMPC sign-guard – Adding policy enforcement to hot-wallet signing (github.com)
Zlib 1.4 (github.com)
Mistakes Claude Makes with Hardware in the Loop (groundrun.io)
Stop Multicasting Slop (sam-morrow.com)
Being a kid making games in the early 2000s (jaytholen.net)
Learning Almost Anything (litemind-0kq.pages.dev)
Why car headlights seem more blinding than ever before (www.rte.ie)
Ovipositor (en.wikipedia.org)
OpenAI Had 'Rough' First Half of Year Before Coding Takeoff (www.wsj.com)
CVS to break up 117B business, separating pharmacies from insurance (www.reuters.com)