Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact (www.nature.com)
Segregating women on public transport is the wrong solution to crime problems (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan (www.npr.org)
Robert Hooke (en.wikipedia.org)
Write once, deploy everywhere Python apps (beeware.org)
Zotero-CLI: Proof of concept Python and elisp library for working with local API (github.com)
DOJ accuses US ransomware negotiators of launching their own ransomware attacks (techcrunch.com)
Hybrid Work is not the Problem, Poor Leadership is (sloanreview.mit.edu)
Israels top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail (apnews.com)
Possession of porn featuring strangling to become a crime in the UK (www.theguardian.com)
GeoPulse: Self-hosted location tracking with timeline, analytics, friend sharing (old.reddit.com)
Kevin Kelly: The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed (2002) (scripting.com)
LLMs show a "highly unreliable" capacity to describe own internal processes (arstechnica.com)
Nicholas Carlini – Are LLMs worth it? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Things you can do with diodes (lcamtuf.substack.com)
For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm (www.hcn.org)
Opinion: The era of ''free'' excess renewable energy is over (www.utilitydive.com)
Palantir tops estimates, boosts fourth-quarter guidance on AI adoption (www.cnbc.com)
Fusion Energy in 2025: Six Global Trends to Watch (www.iaea.org)
Linkers: A 20 Part Series (2007) (www.airs.com)
2025 United States federal government shutdown (en.wikipedia.org)
Scaling up Prime Video monitoring service reduced costs 90% (archive) (2023) (web.archive.org)
Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels (www.independent.co.uk)
Cost-neutral food tax reforms for healthier and more sustainable diets (www.sciencedirect.com)
A Friendly Tour of Process Memory on Linux (www.0xkato.xyz)
A confidential manifesto lays out a billionaire''s new vision for NASA (www.politico.com)
Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer''s disease (www.nature.com)
PocketBook – DIY pocket-sized Project Gutenberg books (github.com)
LLM Security Guide – 100 tools and real-world attacks from 370 experts (github.com)
Trump Officials Torpedoed Nvidia''s Push to Export AI Chips to China (www.wsj.com)
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All (www.wired.com)
Experience with SimpleX Chat: Ultimate Open Source Private Messaging App? (2024) (news.itsfoss.com)
The Origins of the Pirate Accent (www.history.com)
Antarctic glacier saw the fastest retreat in modern history (www.cnn.com)
An AI company CEO could take over the world (blog.ai-futures.org)
Guideline Has Joined Gusto (help.guideline.com)
No space, no time, no particles: a vision of quantum reality (www.newscientist.com)
DJI''s Drones, Both Branded and Disguised, Are Even Closer to a US Ban (petapixel.com)
Norway''s Public Buses Can Be Shut Down Remotely from China (www.carscoops.com)
Why Does the Universe Exist? (1991) [pdf] (philosophy.fas.harvard.edu)
Awesome Cold Showers (github.com)
Glass Knife (en.wikipedia.org)
The Curious Case of the Disappearing Captcha (www.wired.com)
Obsidian Entertainment''s AI support forwards emails to Obsidian support (twitter.com)
HedgeDoc – self-hosted real-time collaborative Markdown notes (hedgedoc.org)
Is 67 just brain rot? (www.youtube.com)
A Fight over Credit Scores Turns into All-Out War (www.msn.com)
Would Zohran Mamdani''s Rent Freeze Keep Rent-Stabilized Apartments Empty? (www.newyorker.com)
100 Hours to Shanghai (medium.com)
Vectorless, Vision-Based RAG (colab.research.google.com)
Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API (developer.amazonservices.com)
Nordstrom Pivots to a Catalog (www.nytimes.com)
Tech hiring still hasn''t recovered from 2022 – and may not soon (lukasz-madon.github.io)
Resend is launching inbound emails (resend.com)
ScraperAI devs: Apify launches 1M reward challenge for new automation tools (apify.com)
GM''s EV push will cost it 1.6B in Q3 with end of the tax credit (arstechnica.com)
Writing simplest HTTP server and blog in C and Lua (blog.dominikrudnik.pl)
R interface to Apple''s MLX library (hughjonesd.github.io)
How the American Dream Became a Nightmare (twitter.com)
Walking Down to the Rhine''s Riverbed (www.youtube.com)
Elon Musk hypes Tesla''s 8th gen AI chip, still hasn''t delivered self-driving (electrek.co)
Comparing C/Qt Data Serialization Formats: Code, Size, and Performance (www.qt.io)
Apple''s App Store Full Front End Source Code (github.com)
Fund the future Trillion-dollar Industrial monopoly, just got validated (github.com)
Effect of cooling white rice on resistant starch content and glycemic response (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
A brief history of Time Machine (2024) (eclecticlight.co)
Major compute price reduction on Neon (neon.com)
Every app is a RL environment (sdan.io)
Machine Language for the Commodore 64 and 128 (2014) (blog.hostilefork.com)
I built ScreenStacka – a simple, ad-free tool to compare TV and monitor sizes (screenstacka.com)
Apple App Store Web Has Exposed Its Source Code (www.reddit.com)
Microsoft''s hiring shift: Fewer generalists, more AI-driven roles (www.interviewquery.com)
The Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) – A new way to build reliable Agents (www.arthur.ai)
DeepMind''s AI Learns to Create Original Chess Puzzles, Praised by GMs (www.chess.com)
AI''s Dial-Up Era (www.wreflection.com)
How LLMs Cheat: Modifying Tests and Overloading Operators (www.enbao.me)
Roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air (newatlas.com)
CIA World Facebook: Taiwan (www.cia.gov)
Predicting Every Block of the 2025 NYC Mayoral Election (www.michaellange.nyc)
Gullible bots struggle to distinguish between facts and beliefs (www.theregister.com)
Qwen3-Max-Thinking Released (xcancel.com)
2,400 HP FDNY Super Pumper could extinguish hell itself (bangshift.com)
In Pursuit of Democracy (pudding.cool)
Repurposing Dodgy Android TV Boxes as Linux Boxes (hackaday.com)
Trump says he has ''no idea who'' Binance''s CZ is after pardoning him (www.cnbc.com)
Lena: A short story about simulated consciousnesses (qntm.org)
AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 Offers Competitive Workstation Graphics Performance/Valu (www.phoronix.com)
40 years on, Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES (hanafuda.report)
Names of 5M holocaust victims now compiled in single database (www.timesofisrael.com)
On Being a Free Software Maintainer (feaneron.com)
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
A Simple Definition of Intelligence (minimoog.substack.com)
Castelvania AGA (danteretrodev.itch.io)
Will AI mean the end of call centres? (www.bbc.com)
Quantized Float Exposed (www.quant.exposed)
The Cantor Experiment: Forcing a GPT-5-Class AI to Forget a Century of Math (romainpeter.substack.com)
Validation Machines (www.theatlantic.com)
A simple illusion can unlock your childhood memories (www.psypost.org)
Tech giants brace to spend billions more in CapEx as AI race heats up (www.msn.com)
Norway Leads Global EV Adoption (oilprice.com)
Naïve Shuffle Algorithm (2007) (blog.codinghorror.com)
Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in cash and stock deal worth –48B (apnews.com)
Coca-Cola – Holidays Are Coming [video] (www.youtube.com)
Boost your Codex CLI productivity with scripts (promptcoding.substack.com)
I Tracked 10k Top Podcasts: Here''s Who Hosts Their Feeds (www.adithyan.io)
Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] (www.youtube.com)
Windows 7 slimmed down to 69 MB (www.theregister.com)
This Month in Ladybird: October 2025 (buttondown.com)
Snapit: Snapshot Testing for C (mattjhall.co.uk)
Intellectual Ventures: Mosquito Laser Shootdown Sequence (2010) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Writing Music with Emacs (2020) (www.youtube.com)
The Year of a Thousand Rooms (dxdt.ch)
An Experimental Program for AI-Powered Feedback at STOC (scottaaronson.blog)
Temml: A TeX-to-MathML conversion library in JavaScript (temml.org)
Trust Your Intuition in the Face of Uncertainty (lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com)
Hosting your static web site with Firebase Hosting (www.peterbe.com)
Portable documents host new file formats (preludes.eu)
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999) (donellameadows.org)
First clinical pregnancy following AI-based microfluidic sperm detection (www.thelancet.com)
The dangers of driving after too much coffee (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Use AMP to send interactive, dynamic emails (amp.dev)
Duffy says he would shutter US airspace if he thought it was unsafe (www.reuters.com)
Coca-Cola''s new AI holiday ad is a sloppy eyesore (www.theverge.com)
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 26 – evaluating the fine-tuned model (www.gilesthomas.com)
Credentials Evidence or Simulate (preludes.eu)
Not so sweet: Some sugar substitutes linked to faster cognitive decline (www.aan.com)
Max Number of Simultaneous Key-Press (N-Key Rollover, NKRO, Ghosting) (xahlee.info)
Adeia sues AMD for patent infringement over semiconductor technology (www.reuters.com)
Inflammaging biomarkers: retinal vasculature, cardiovascular diseases, longevity (medicalxpress.com)
Htmx – The Fetch()ening (htmx.org)
Gut microbiome tests are everywhere. Should you get one? (apnews.com)
FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN) (github.com)
The Louvre''s CCTV password was "Louvre" (twitter.com)
Coinbase Said Web3 (www.bloomberg.com)
Writing under my real name (psychotechnology.substack.com)
Waymo to expand robotaxi service to Las Vegas, San Diego and Detroit next year (www.reuters.com)
Private messages reveal GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape (www.politico.com)
Python steering council accepts lazy imports (lwn.net)
Apple Launches App Store for the Web (apps.apple.com)
Rare ''mad honey'' is only found in two places in the world (www.cnn.com)
Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on ''Gaza genocide'' page (www.thenational.scot)
Snap benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment (www.npr.org)
Software Development in the Time of New Angels (davegriffith.substack.com)
I tried Elon Musk''s Wikipedia clone and boy is it racist (www.sfgate.com)
Datalyzer – AI Analysis Report Generator (dataanalyzer.pro)
AI Meeting Notes – Summarization Optimization (www.schneier.com)
Rateless Bloom Filters (arxiv.org)
X Payments Money Transmitter Licenses (money.x.com)
Stop Vibe Coding – Start Writing Elegant Code [video] (www.youtube.com)
Soft Magnetic Artificial Muscles with High Work Density and Actuation Strain (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Principle of Least Power (www.lihaoyi.com)
Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk (medicalxpress.com)
Korean Fried chicken stocks surge 30% as Nvidia CEO dines out on local delicacy (www.tomshardware.com)
Fight context rot with context observability (blog.nilenso.com)
Better authentication with workload identity federation (tailscale.com)
Debugging Playwright Timeouts: A Practical Checklist (currents.dev)
Online OR1K Emulator Running Linux (github.com)
rm -rf / remains (www.lambdaops.com)
2025 Quantum Open Source Software Survey Results (unitary.foundation)
Every Country Has One (everycountry.us)
Understanding H-1B Visa Changes (www.richmondfed.org)
Google is showing ads to people who are about to buy [video] (www.youtube.com)
Equifax Plans to Profit from Medicaid Cuts (www.nytimes.com)
Bessent: Broader recession possible without more rate cuts (www.axios.com)
50 PlanetScale Metal (planetscale.com)
The Stallman Paradox: How Web3 Became the Ultimate Open Source Theater (paragraph.com)
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse? (asteriskmag.com)
Install script does rm -RF /usr for Ubuntu (github.com)
Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received (guestbook.goodenough.us)
Mechanochemical Approach to Upcycling of Fluoride from PTFE into Fine Chemicals (pubs.acs.org)
We spent 47k running AI agents in production (pub.towardsai.net)
The Americas, led by Canada, is on brink of losing measles-elimination status (www.statnews.com)
Botsify (botsify.com)
Top US billionaires'' collective wealth grew by 698B in past year – report (www.theguardian.com)
Generalized Consensus: Consistent Reads (multigres.com)
Python Integration for Scryer Prolog Using FFI (Research Project) (github.com)
Circus CA-1 (cooking robot) (www.circus-group.com)
The Dominic Cummings dream lab chasing our ''Ozempic moment'' (www.thetimes.com)
Time to move on: n8n is not a good fit for SaaS (pixeljets.com)
Editorial: Experts'' opinions in radiation & health: emerging issues in the field (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Dependent Types and How to Get Rid of Them (chadnauseam.com)
Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world (theconversation.com)
Spotify Sued over "Billions" of Fraudulent Drake Streams (consequence.net)
Should we apply old-school multi-core scheduling to GPUs? (jott.live)
Agent-O-rama: build LLM agents in Java or Clojure (blog.redplanetlabs.com)
America is bracing for political violence – and significant portion think its OK (www.politico.com)
I tried lab-grown chocolate. Could it be the future of Halloween? (www.theguardian.com)
Can the Golden Age of Costco Last? (www.newyorker.com)
Europe''s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Farther North (www.wsj.com)
Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device (www.howtogeek.com)
''People will freeze to death'' if heating aid doesn''t come soon (themainemonitor.org)
Frozen in Place (economics.bmo.com)
I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don''t Trust Its Claims About ''Erotica.'' (www.nytimes.com)
LED types by Color, Brightness, and Chemistry (2021) (donklipstein.com)
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (www.newyorker.com)
Capitol Hill is abuzz with talk of the "Athena" plan for NASA (arstechnica.com)
In Mexico, Killer Whales Take Down Great White Sharks (www.nytimes.com)
What Is a Manifold? (www.quantamagazine.org)
AI Models Write Code with Security Flaws 18–50% of the Time, New Study Finds (medium.com)
Why agents do not write most of our code – a reality check (octomind.dev)
Fast Forward: macOS window switcher built with Rust and GPUI (github.com)
New California law requires AI to tell you it''s AI (www.theverge.com)
Movement to Prohibit AGI (time.com)
The Hidden Tax Penalty Killing Bootstrapped Startups (manidoraisamy.com)
BBC ''doctored'' Trump speech, internal report reveals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Sanely-automatic derivation – fixing type classes derivation UX in Scala (kubuszok.com)
LattePanda IOTA: x86 project board with PCIe (interfacinglinux.com)
Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse (www.theguardian.com)
Learning a Bit of VGA (www.usebox.net)
Streaming DiLoCo: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch (arxiv.org)
Kim Kardashian is welcome to join my Research Team on 3I/ATLAS (avi-loeb.medium.com)
Why Engineers Can''t Be Rational About Programming Languages (spf13.com)
Visualizing a topic model of NeurIPS 2025 Papers (newsletter.languagemodels.co)
The AI Capability Gap (blog.dwac.dev)
OCRmyPDF-AppleOCR plugin now supports LiveText (github.com)
America Is Missing the New Labor Economy (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
Infra Isn''t Special: Why Open Source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Wins (masterpoint.io)
Biggest careers that have now vanished, according to data (www.washingtonpost.com)
Microcatheter delivers therapies to the tiniest blood vessels (medicalxpress.com)
Baby Shoggoth Is Listening (theamericanscholar.org)
Caelus: An open source astronomy dashboard (caelus.siderealcode.net)
The number one sign you''re watching an AI video (www.bbc.com)
The AI field''s obsession with neural networks has created a dangerous blind spot (lightcapai.medium.com)
Mayor Karen Bass calls for investigation into LAFD that became Palisades Fire (ktla.com)
Explanation of Gated DeltaNet (Qwen3-Next and Kimi Linear) (github.com)
How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power (www.ft.com)
Free Game with EGA Graphics (emmfoolery.itch.io)
Publishing academic papers on transformative AI is a nightmare (www.lesswrong.com)
Linux: Microsoft WSL''s Decade-Long Journey to Open Source (thenewstack.io)
CHERIoT 1.0 Released (cheriot.org)
No Socials November (bjhess.com)
Diamonds and Lasers: Thermal Management for Chips (spectrum.ieee.org)
Kimberly-Clark to Buy Tylenol Maker Kenvue for 40B (www.nytimes.com)
Check if your website runs on green energy (www.thegreenwebfoundation.org)
Kimberly-Clark Strikes 40B Deal for Tylenol Maker Kenvue (www.wsj.com)
Disable YouTube''s AI video enhancements (for channel owners) (manualdousuario.net)
Small vs. Large Language Models (semiengineering.com)
Building a Theory of Distributed Systems: Work by Nancy Lynch and Collaborators (arxiv.org)
Training: Postgres Performance and Maintenance (postgresconf.org)
A Meta Vision for GPU Scale Compute with 1PB E2 SSDs (www.servethehome.com)
Factory Farming Is a Blight (www.palladiummag.com)
Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports" (discuss.python.org)
Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can (www.theatlantic.com)
Why We Migrated from Python to Node.js (blog.yakkomajuri.com)
How Many AI Artists Have Debuted on Billboard''s Charts? (www.billboard.com)
Your Gen Z colleagues have the right idea about work-life balance (www.rte.ie)
NCAA must pay 18M over alleged failure to warn player about concussion risks (www.theguardian.com)
Oura prepares Apple Watch-like hypertension detection for its smart ring (www.seattletimes.com)
Learning to read Arthur Whitney''s C to become Smart (2024) (needleful.net)
H.R.5857 – Farm Act (www.congress.gov)
Chinese Yutong buses purchased by Norway can be remotely updated and diagnosed (ruter.no)
Transparent Energy consumption of cloud infrastructure (www.eco-compute.io)
SAS Controllers and Flashy Lights (2021) (www.draeath.net)
NY wants to shut down Kalshi, the company behind the NYC mayor''s race odds (gothamist.com)
The race to shore up Europe''s power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage (www.theregister.com)
Behind Q3 Earnings: Big Tech''s 350B Bet on AI Infrastructure (www.profgmarkets.com)
It''s Not Your Boss''s Job to Grow Your Career (www.mistakesweremade.xyz)
Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation (www.theverge.com)
The Startup Winter Is Always Coming (brajeshwar.com)
Rome: Worker trapped and one injured after part of medieval tower collapses (www.theguardian.com)
Open Sourcing Kubetorch (www.run.house)
Study finds positive link between children''s IQ and parental longevity (genomicpress.kglmeridian.com)
rqlite 9.2 – the distributed SQLite database – fast restarts with GB datasets (philipotoole.com)
eBPF-powered firewall and TCP/HTTP proxy agent (github.com)
EventSourcingDB 1.2.0: Query event signatures directly, no external tools needed (hub.docker.com)
Running Minecraft on a Hobby OS (astral-os.org)
Global study reveals tempo of invasive species'' impacts (phys.org)
Masked Softmax Layers in PyTorch (mcognetta.github.io)
Meta has an AI product problem (techcrunch.com)
Cosmic desktop 1.0 due for release on December 11 (www.theregister.com)
The Scope Creep (scope-creep.xyz)
Robert Hooke''s "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz (mynamelowercase.com)
Escape from New York (stwsexpectedvalue.substack.com)
AWS "Bullish" on Homegrown Trainium AI Accelerators (www.nextplatform.com)
Econ Lit Search – a tool to search full text of papers from AER, AEJ, NBER (paulgp.com)
OAuth Device Code Phishing: Azure vs. Google Compared (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
AV1 vs. H.264: What Video Codec to Choose for Your App? (www.red5.net)
Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads (blog.wilsonl.in)
Zorin OS 18 Downloads Skyrocket in the Last 48 Hours (linuxiac.com)
Free TXT to PDF Converter Online (txt-to-pdf.com)
OpenAI Can Never Claim AGI Is Here (theahura.substack.com)
''Biotech Barbie'' says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies (www.nature.com)
"I Deliver Parcels in Beijing" author Hu Anyan on Chinese e-commerce, and more (restofworld.org)
There are a lot of racist VCS – even Gary Tan (genocide.vc)
Enforcing Architecture in an Agent-Driven Codebase (www.phoebe.work)
New Drug Kills Cancer 20,000x More Effectively with No Detectable Side Effects (scitechdaily.com)
How to Not Get Acquired (allenpike.com)
Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students (www.nytimes.com)
Facebook Dating Has Become a Surprise Hit for the Social Network (www.nytimes.com)
The AI Learning Plateau (www.zdziarski.com)
OpenAI, Amazon strike 38B agreement for ChatGPT maker to use AWS (www.reuters.com)
From Signals to Reliability: SLOs, Runbooks and Post-Mortems (fatihkoc.net)
Dark Mode by Local Sunlight (www.ctnicholas.dev)
The Slow Death of Special Education (www.theatlantic.com)
AMD Errata: RDSEED failure on AMD Zen 5 Processors (www.amd.com)
Cast(x AS STRING) casts to integer in SQLite (lalitm.com)
The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement (www.newyorker.com)
Influence of the planets may subdue solar activity (phys.org)
OpenAI signs 38B compute deal with Amazon (www.cnbc.com)
Israeli military''s ex-top lawyer arrested as scandal over video leak deepens (www.bbc.com)