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HBM: High-Bandwidth Mistake (irrationalanalysis.substack.com)
Page Table Memory Consumption (frn.sh)
Ruby in the Age of AI (enogrob.github.io)
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RexaDB: Modern Database Studio (www.rexadb.app)
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California Legalizes Balcony Solar (www.kqed.org)
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A Tale of Too Many Protocols (accrescent.app)
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Rust to WGSL transpiler wgsl-rs released (renderling.xyz)
Latte Art for Nerds (www.olafalders.com)
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Ban Kids from Social Media and They''ll Chat in Public Radio Podcast Comments (www.techdirt.com)
100 Objects #11: Brannock Device (99percentinvisible.org)
Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning (arxiv.org)
Context Language Models (CLMs) (github.com)
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Gemini 4 Argon: Google is back among the top three labs in intelligence achieved (artificialanalysis.ai)
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Millions of dollars paid to AI providers, where was that money going before? (www.youtube.com)
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Readable Regular Expressions for JavaScript/TypeScript, Inspired by Emacs'' Rx (rahuljuliato.com)
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Appeal of Surveillance Tech CEO''s Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist Fails (www.eff.org)
Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI (www.theatlantic.com)
Configurable Indent Levels? (github.com)
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EDG C Compiler is open source (github.com)
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins (arstechnica.com)
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The AI Pascal''s Wager (ploum.net)
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience (56k.rip)
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Parasitic Computing (en.wikipedia.org)
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The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (www.thespacereview.com)
NASA observatory could be weeks away from falling to Earth after failed rescue (www.cnn.com)
IANA''s email about why example.com changed (www.oliverdunk.com)
Echo – A SOTA writing model for style imitation (echo.fulcrum.inc)
China''s 2,250kW chargers are in service, US thinks about 750kW next year (electrek.co)
The Airbnb Backfire (www.businessinsider.com)
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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians (arxiv.org)
Vast-10M (www.voltropy.com)
America.gov AI Easter Egg? Type "play minecraft" (www.facebook.com)
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Swatting Calls: A Couple''s Fight Against Online Stalkers and the Police (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Newt Gingrich to Help Pentagon with Warfare Initiative (www.cnbc.com)
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16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases (www.theregister.com)
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There Are Plenty of Laws on the Books to Check the A.I. Giants. Use Them (www.nytimes.com)
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Agentic GPU Programming for MLSys (mlc.ai)
Purlin: Separating Orchestration from the Datapath of Collectives (arxiv.org)
Vulnerability disclosures double to 10k per month as AI fuels exploitation (therecord.media)
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Invisible XML (2025) (www.xml.com)
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Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Gitea 28.0.0 Is Released (blog.gitea.com)
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Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (aws.amazon.com)
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Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model (www.bloomberg.com)
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Gemini 4 Argon (twitter.com)
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CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)
Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct query of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data (aws.amazon.com)
US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants (www.theguardian.com)
CafeBench: Sol 6.1 is great value, but not quite Opus level (www.getdot.ai)
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Factory AI vs. Cognition (Devin) (twitter.com)
Dear Software Makers (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Bologna Bottle (en.wikipedia.org)
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Government AI Chatbot Reprogrammed to Stop Fact-Checking President (newrepublic.com)
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AI CEO Interviews (2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Infinite Mac now includes BeOS (infinitemac.org)
A year of databases: how I fell in love with programming again (dennypenta.github.io)
EDG C front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)
AI broke the job application. What replaces it? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Meat Proxies (www.davidrevoy.com)
Framework Desktop with 192GB Ryzen AI Max 400 released for pre-order (frame.work)
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Stateless zero trust database schema drift detector in Go (veritect.vercel.app)
NYSE to Commence Delisting Proceedings Against Getty Images Holdings, Inc (www.morningstar.com)
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The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth''s history (news.berkeley.edu)
The Homeless Community in Portland, Oregon That Became a Self-Governed Village (www.nytimes.com)
a16z’s State of Markets II (a16z.com)
Jevstiller: Distill a repeated Jev classification task into a local model (github.com)
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Read the History, Not Just the Code (blog.ptidej.net)
Git-dedup – faster and smaller checkouts for agentic workflows (ben3d.ca)
Drone startup tied to Trump sons aims to bring Ukrainian tech to US (www.reuters.com)
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What do you want from AI? (www.anthropic.com)
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AI Blinder (github.com)
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Google asks EU to suspend order to open up to AI chatbots, search engine rivals (www.reuters.com)
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Three years migrating latency-sensitive services to Rust and one Tokio failure (www.reddit.com)
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (techcrunch.com)
Low Poly Earth: A stylized low-poly Google Earth (play.lowpolyearth.online)
Pggo: Tiny, fast Postgres driver for agents (pggo.dev)
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (www.netlify.com)
Falcon Design (falcon.so)
Tesla patents ''Electric Fan Car'' with 4 ducted fans ahead of Roadster reveal (electrek.co)
A glimpse into life inside a child prison in France (www.theguardian.com)
Repack (Concurrently) in Postgres 19 (boringsql.com)
America.gov chatbot hallucinates Minecraft''s End Poem (twitter.com)
Interview with Richard Ho, OpenAI (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Open Dot (github.com)
Qt 6.12 LTS Released (www.qt.io)
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th (www.theverge.com)
Postgres {on,vs,with} Linux (www.youtube.com)
Songhive – a self-hosted and federated music platform (blog.fabiomanganiello.com)
Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event (www.theguardian.com)
Apple''s HomePad smart home hub launching on Oct 13 with iMac G4 design (9to5mac.com)
Shareholders Should Pay for AI Dangers (www.wsj.com)
The secret lives of men who read romance books (www.theguardian.com)
US private payrolls growth picks up in September, ADP says (www.reuters.com)
Chompi portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) (www.chompiclub.com)
Cognition exploiting privileged info from competitors (twitter.com)
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Why Hawaii Is the Only US State with a Foreign Flag Inside Its Own (www.thecollector.com)
Half of world’s population exposed to dangerous levels of ozone in 2026 (www.scientificamerican.com)
When the Tech Revolution Came to Wall Street – Stories.Finance (www.stories.finance)
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Claude Says (ohhfishal.net)
OpenAI is accused in lawsuit over rogue AI agents (www.fastcompany.com)
Trump decrees era of ''Super Intelligence'' upon us (www.theregister.com)
Hijacking Copilot Cowork''s AI Gateway to Bypass Sandboxing and Exfiltrate Files (www.promptarmor.com)
Bayesians Are Frequentists (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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How to Make Videos with Claude Code (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller''s Monster") (www.software3d.com)
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Adding Giscus to Your Hugo Site – Hayden''s Blog (blog.mrhaydendp.com)
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The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 (www.tomshardware.com)
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OLAP on GPU (oliverdb.ai)
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The Download: OpenAI''s chief research officer explains its hacking response (www.technologyreview.com)
The Exploit Bulletin – a free daily brief of exploited vulns to act on today (exploitbulletin.com)
What 192GB Changes for Local AI on the Framework Desktop (frame.work)
FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI (www.reuters.com)
The price of AI is crashing faster than the rate of Moore''s Law (www.tomshardware.com)
Interview with Tristan Buckmaster about Navier Stokes situation [video] (www.youtube.com)
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The Cable That Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858 (www.openculture.com)
OpenTV Mobile, an open-source IPTV player for Android phones (github.com)
The computer hacker who tried to take down Man City (www.bbc.co.uk)
Web browsers phoning home on launch (lapcatsoftware.com)
An MCP server that gates/verifies/screens before agents act (github.com)
Netherlands joins Germany in EU budget overhaul demands (nltimes.nl)
Opsec Fail Leaks a Rare Look Inside a Media-Buy-Powered Scam Operation (blog.confiant.com)
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Why copyright makes no sense (www.youtube.com)
Parrot – Open-Source and Free Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
Tokenization: A Survey for Modern NLP (www.alphaxiv.org)
Involution Without Export Is Wasted Effort (earnedintuition.substack.com)
Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 with Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than ZSTD (www.phoronix.com)
AI Stance Is Not Binary (carette.xyz)
Pilot on Tel Aviv-bound flight tried to crash plane after cockpit stabbing (www.washingtonpost.com)
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills (www.theregister.com)
AEmulator: Run classic Android firmware on a modern phone (aemulator.gt.tc)
Painting a fractal with a pool of WebAssembly threads (Rust, in the browser) (fusor.build)
Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
15 Years of Git, Then Jujutsu: Why I Can''t Go Back (juju-chu.com)
Bloom · Run coding agents in parallel on your Mac (runbloom.app)
California rushes to prepare for ''Kelvin'' wave and predicted sea level rise (www.theguardian.com)
The Microsoft Lunduke Slop Problem (techrights.org)
Real Reason Why We Never Got to See ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' Season 5 (2025) (fandomwire.com)
AI solves a ''holy grail'' problem from probability theory (www.scientificamerican.com)
The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)
Framework Desktop with 192GB RAM (frame.work)
192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order (frame.work)
Building Uncamera (www.shad.design)
An Easy Start to Philosophy (iep.utm.edu)
Preact 11 Is Here (preactjs.com)
AI Is a Collective Disaster (dogdogfish.com)
cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
Emulate-1: Pangram Evader (github.com)
Kuala Lumpur is the world''s most polluted city due to haze, Singapore third (www.scmp.com)
So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? (asteriskmag.com)
What Happens Inside an LLM Server (muhammadraza.me)
Tobacco – Smoking Cigarettes – Radiation Dose (www.nuclear-power.com)
A Look Back: The Bloomberg Keyboard – Insights – Bloomberg Professional Services (www.bloomberg.com)
Claude Cowork removes local-only mode for Pro and Max users on October 6 (support.claude.com)
Video A/B Testing (www.youtube.com)
7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028 (www.theregister.com)
Who we become when we talk to machines – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news.mit.edu)
Ice Age Spear Points Tell a Story of Human Progress (nautil.us)
Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped (www.404media.co)
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Android 17 enables certificate transparency, and breaks custom CAs (httptoolkit.com)
Every Pho Number (everyphonumber.com)
Movements in 3D (507movements3d.com)
Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane (www.ft.com)
Pilot arrested after stabbing anther pilot and trying to crash Israelbound plane (www.theguardian.com)
Minitel (en.wikipedia.org)
Coltrane''s Tone Circle (jtomschroeder.com)
Back to Backups: A Year in Review (signal.org)
Ukraine Can''t Stop Russia''s Jet-Powered Shahed Drone (spectrum.ieee.org)
You''ll never reach 85% on BEAM 10M using .md files (past.dev)
Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States (techcrunch.com)