Rising stars of mathematics awarded prestigious 2026 Fields Medal (www.nature.com)
Australia to AI: Produce More Power Than You Burn, Stop Content ''Theft'' (www.theregister.com)
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Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3''s Cyber Capabilities (www.aisi.gov.uk)
Now on the American Road: Bulletproof Cars (www.nytimes.com)
Sherlock Search – find anyone by photo (sherlocksearch.net)
There isn''t a single consumer Wi-Fi router that is 100% American-made (www.engadget.com)
Negative Resistance (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Soccer/Wordle/Chess (tactkicks.com)
Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone (spectrum.ieee.org)
If AI companies avoid AI slop, shouldn''t we? (www.machinesociety.ai)
The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
How working out at the gym replaced the home improvement project (www.cnn.com)
CodeCrafters – Build Your Own repo (github.com)
Saying Goodbye to My Office (manilsuri.substack.com)
Palo Alto Networks Plans to Buy Embrace in Observability Push (www.morningstar.com)
Measuring the Performance Cost of High Availability in Postgres (clickhouse.com)
Feral cats fail at urban rodent control (2018) (wildlife.org)
China won the car wars with cheap EVs loaded with technology (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Online MBA (theonline.mba)
The Elm Architecture, Without Elm (bichanna.github.io)
About 1 in 4 workers keep unwanted jobs for health insurance, poll finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
OpenAI''s Dean Ball on Chinese Open-Weight Models (twitter.com)
India''s CJP Protests Meet Internet Shutdowns and Pervasive Surveillance (www.techpolicy.press)
Canva uses S3 for logged-in session management (www.canva.dev)
FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the 150MB Linux Copilot binary (www.osnews.com)
Four takeaways from our investigation into a hidden gene-editing death (www.science.org)
Quick Followup on the Truth Social Thing (www.businesslawprofessors.com)
Patreon Lays Off 20% of Employees as Part of ''Painful'' Restructuring (variety.com)
What is the shortest paper in the history of mathematics? (2015) (hsm.stackexchange.com)
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about 10B (twitter.com)
MTTR is the wrong metric for Engineering Teams today (www.ito.ai)
Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS (www.theregister.com)
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)
How to become a 10x ramble-coder (moekhalil.substack.com)
Ensoniq EPS-16 Plus VST3 Emulator (github.com)
Toward Self-Improving Agents (www.salesforce.com)
Using a Landline Phone in 2025 (n1ugk.com)
98.css (jdan.github.io)
Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games (rogerdickey.com)
Snailmail Club (sketchkids.com)
Government withdraws reporter subpoenas for NYT after admitting legal errors (apnews.com)
Linux from Scratch Security Advisories (www.linuxfromscratch.org)
I built for one user. Myself (www.indiehackers.com)
Sierra Is Acquiring Takeoff (sierra.ai)
Someone Call Tesla a Robotaxi, or SpaceX, Quick (www.bloomberg.com)
How to Score Goals, Statistically (www.datawrapper.de)
Handwritten-edit benchmark: Fable 5 is #1, Opus 4.8 regresses 55% on miscounting (dorrit.pairsys.ai)
AI Kill Switch Act: Official Bill Text by Reps. Lieu and Moran (2026) (lieu.house.gov)
New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird (news.mit.edu)
Her rape kit had a DNA match. In San Francisco, that''s not enough (sfstandard.com)
How the most-used zero-knowledge proof system (Groth16) works (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
Agents Found Three RCEs as System (and Root) on Bing Image Search (xbow.com)
AMD calls CUDA a ''non-event'' (www.pcgamer.com)
First experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI) (threadreaderapp.com)
How Tether Benefited as Trump Insiders Shaped First Crypto Law (www.bloomberg.com)
Microsoft deleted Nokia''s archive of unreleased ringtones in 2016 HMD sale (bsky.app)
The AI Productivity Paradox (www.svpg.com)
Flock''s CEO Says Its ALPRs Don''t Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can (www.404media.co)
AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced and Looks Poised to Be a Grand Slam (www.phoronix.com)
Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else (www.quantamagazine.org)
US announces double-digit tariffs on most of globe to replace expiring duties (finance.yahoo.com)
Tesla shares tumble 11% after discounts hit profits (www.ft.com)
Why Trump''s Neglect of Working Families Is a Wake-Up Call for Voters (bluepressjournal.substack.com)
Mary-Dell Chilton, the Mother of Genetically Modified Crops, Dies at 87 (www.wsj.com)
Lazarus Group Using Git Hooks to Hide Malware – Open-Source Malware Blog (opensourcemalware.com)
California legislature removes REAL-ID compliance from Governor''s budget (papersplease.org)
FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified (arstechnica.com)
Oracle signs 10-year software contract with Pentagon worth up to 7B (www.cnbc.com)
Pinjour – An App for the Outdoors (jfornear.com)
Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign (www.axios.com)
Doctor Dario (Game) (doctordario.ai)
Saudis must recognise Israel for nuclear deal, says Trump (www.bbc.com)
Terry Tao on how university students should control AI diet (www.beyonddream.me)
China''s Moment of Weakness (www.foreignaffairs.com)
Fujitsu just offloaded five datacenters while everyone else piles in (www.theregister.com)
Google reportedly working on ultra-efficient AI chip for Gemini (thedailycompute.beehiiv.com)
Coin Used for Bus Fare Turns Out to Be 2k-Year-Old Carthaginian Artifact (mymodernmet.com)
In search of a collaborative internet without big tech and server farms (seamside.com)
Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows (arstechnica.com)
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for 10B (www.wsj.com)
Official Swedish dictionary completed after 140 years (2023) (www.theguardian.com)
CalMac ferry bridge visits paused over passenger''s filming with smart glasses (www.bbc.co.uk)
Couple pay 800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (www.science.org)
Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network (www.sciencealert.com)
BBC Sound Effects (sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk)
DOJ Says Government Can Use TikTok Again Because ''Owned'' No Longer Means ''Owned'' (www.techdirt.com)
What 4,523 AI investment forecasts revealed about model disagreement (ipulseai.substack.com)
Brazilian Trees (www.guidavid.com)
Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out – Filip Pizlo – SSW 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why do dogs kick their back legs after pooping and peeing? (www.popsci.com)
How Apple''s Hide My Email exploit worked and why you''re still at risk (easyoptouts.com)
US weekly jobless claims plunge to lowest since 1969 (www.reuters.com)
Big Tech Isn''t Hiding 1.65T of Debt (finterm.ai)
What the demise of the UK''s department of science means for research (theconversation.com)
OpenWorker (openworker.com)
The Economist interviews Elon Musk (www.economist.com)
Improved Voice Mode on Claude (twitter.com)
Simplicity Doesn''t Sell (and I''m Tired of Being Called Lazy for It) (joshkaramuth.com)
Claude Voice Mode (twitter.com)
ChatGPT Voice is now in the desktop app (twitter.com)
DeepSeek''s Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence (www.fredgao.com)
Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
New rental trend? A 200 ''work-from-home fee'' tacked on to Bay Area lease (abc7news.com)
China Rolls Out the ROAs (www.kentik.com)
Breaking Down 1.65T of Big Tech AI Spending (Not Debt) (finterm.ai)
Bakelite – first commercial synthetic plastic (en.wikipedia.org)
Future euro banknote design proposals (www.ecb.europa.eu)
''Customers prefer AI chatbots,'' says British Gas owner as call centre jobs axed (www.theguardian.com)
The DeepSeek Doctrine (www.thexpin.com)
Write video in HTML, render MP4 in the browser (webmotion.superhq.ai)
Brussels slaps 890M fine on Google despite looming new US tariffs (www.euronews.com)
Emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading books (theconversation.com)
Nolan''s ''The Prestige'' is being re-released in 70mm for 20th anniversary (www.nme.com)
Sega Dreamcast is getting its first game release in 24 years (www.gamingbible.com)
ChatGPT proves Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false (twitter.com)
How AI Is Changing Open Source (enblog.eischmann.cz)
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries security team (www.theregister.com)
AI has ruined cute animal videos (www.bbc.com)
Iran War Energy Cost Tracker (iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu)
War Is a Racket (1935) [pdf] (www.heritage-history.com)
Grey area of information (8 of July 26) (www.senat.fr)
Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism (www.cnn.com)
Media silence as Kushner''s 2B tie to Saudis slips under cover of Trump deal (www.msn.com)
First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched (www.nrl.navy.mil)
FDA panel is reviewing if 7 peptides should be made more accessible (www.washingtonpost.com)
Bryan Johnson says he''s ''cloned himself as a baby'' to harvest its organs (www.independent.co.uk)
Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game (www.theguardian.com)
The Long Trip to Java (1996) (www.blinkenlights.com)
Don''t put your name to bot-written content (tris.sherliker.net)
I built a premium course and sold zero copies (gammavibe.com)
The Rise of the Deserving Rich (economist.com)
PlayMagicReef – Kids color in a fish, scan it, and it appears in a digital tank (www.playmagicreef.com)
Rolling in the Diffs (pwno.io)
I stopped alt-tabbing my way through LeetCode practice (leetcopilot.dev)
California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth (www.theregister.com)
Coolify (coolify.io)
Y Combinator joins the army [video] (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft could do something big (www.marginpoints.com)
An Almost Periodic Function (www.johndcook.com)
Microsoft Store Shows Years of App History After a Clean Windows 10 Install (old.reddit.com)
Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity (www.uncommonapps.nyc)
How Fast Is the Universe Expanding? (www.quantamagazine.org)
LinkedIn Slop (olly.world)
Stronger AI agents did more damage, not less (www.agentx-core.com)
Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples Are Not Rare (win-vector.com)
Sierra acquires TakeOff, the long-horizon AI agent platform (runtimewire.com)
What happened to the tea.xyz spam wave (nesbitt.io)
Three Architectures for Responsive IDEs (2020) (rust-analyzer.github.io)
ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir (www.techdirt.com)
AI Casino (selfprompt.dev)
The Topology of Depression: A System Dynamics View of My Depression and Recovery (tomatovillain.substack.com)
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches (www.phoronix.com)
''Extraordinary'' Iron Age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links (www.theguardian.com)
Waymo''s driverless cars crash less often than people (www.iihs.org)
ChatGPT medical advice brought man ''to brink of death'', lawsuit alleges (www.bbc.com)
A distillation primer and why banning it would not halt progress of Chinese LLMs (twitter.com)
Air conditioning torn from UK homes under net zero clampdown (www.yahoo.com)
From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 (blog.mozilla.ai)
I used to ignore prediction markets. Then I learned people bet on wildfires (www.hcn.org)
Wt – C Web Toolkit (www.webtoolkit.eu)
Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
Engineer Away the Slop (ghuntley.com)
Why does DOS include "get interrupt vector" and "set interrupt vector" syscalls? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
Microsoft 365 a.k.a. Microsoft Copilot a.k.a. Office 365 has jumped off a cliff (cyberplace.social)
Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past (www.theregister.com)
My coding font and how I made it (github.com)
AMD''s 256-core Epyc 9996 ''Venice'' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon (www.tomshardware.com)
Open Trading Surface (pauljbernard.github.io)
Geekbench 7 (www.geekbench.com)
AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees (www.msn.com)
Claude Opus 5 (artificialanalysis.ai)
You don''t need an LLM to cluster LLM traces (seldon-ai.com)
A solid-state "atomic channel" for separating rare earth elements (pme.uchicago.edu)
Why Sony Can''t Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
Ukraine May Have Manipulated Russian Air Defenses into Downing Their Own Su-57 (united24media.com)
AMD''s Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun (chipsandcheese.com)
Sony''s decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows (arstechnica.com)
Ukraine may be winning World War III for an oblivious West (thehill.com)
Accidental data loss in Claude Code and OpenAI Codex: when AI deletes user files (firasd.substack.com)
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash (microsoft.ai)
Industrial Society and Its Future (Text of Unabomber Manifesto) (archive.nytimes.com)
Qwen 3.8-Max: Interviewing the AI About Itself (manish.sh)
Augmental MouthPad is a tongue-controlled touchpad/trackpad (www.cnx-software.com)
Tesla swapped a solar owner''s lease contract for the Book of Enoch (electrek.co)
Xbox introduces ad-supported free game streaming for Xbox, available for testers (news.xbox.com)
Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era (www.law.uchicago.edu)
ECB reveals shortlisted designs for new banknotes and launches public survey (www.ecb.europa.eu)
US eyes ban on Chinese humanoid robots as US-China tech rivalry intensifies (www.scmp.com)
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous (thewire.in)
Naive design is better than AI design (alexwennerberg.com)
Social-Media Age Bans Won''t Make Children Safer – Pressuring Tech Firms Will (www.project-syndicate.org)
Report from the March to Stop the AI Race (www.robinsloan.com)
Google Discloses 94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake (www.wsj.com)
Utilities Join Trump Pledge to Limit AI-Driven Increases in Electricity Bills (www.wsj.com)
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look to Allow for Web-Based Remote Installations (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
Microsoft 365 outage affects Teams, SharePoint and other services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything (www.theregister.com)
The Founder Market Fit (www.veradiverdict.com)
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (www.nytimes.com)
Launching Health in ChatGPT (openai.com)
DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites (text.npr.org)
The Password Game (neal.fun)
FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due to a Large Commit (www.phoronix.com)
Mistral wanted to beat Anthropic. Now it''s becoming Palantir (sifted.eu)
LOS Minesweeper: A Minesweeper App for the Lisa Office System (github.com)
The Arguments Against Open Source AI Are Very Bad (tombedor.dev)
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com)
Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit (www.theregister.com)
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to AI spending (arstechnica.com)
Woman loses vision in one eye after UTI bacteria evolves to invade her brain (arstechnica.com)
What''s New in Postgres 19 (planetscale.com)
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn''t killing the mainframe (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft Is Replacing OpenAI Image Models in PowerPoint, Bing (www.bloomberg.com)
When a Passing Test Suite Hides a Broken Model (medium.com)
Screenpipe (YC S26) – Power your agents by your 24/7 screen recording (news.ycombinator.com)
Why the UK is dithering over what to do about e-scooters (www.bbc.com)
US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers let AI models run a simulated society (fortune.com)
EU fines Google 1B over its search and Play Store (proton.me)
Could China and Russia Destroy Starlink? (arstechnica.com)
Shayan Oveis Gharan Wins 2026 IMU Abacus Medal (www.quantamagazine.org)
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) (ourworldindata.org)
Hill-Climbing MAI Models for GitHub Copilot and Excel (microsoft.ai)
Tesla''s Founders Are Backing the Anti-Cybertruck (www.forbes.com)
Paper Things I Use (aartaka.me)
The Big Smoke – a living atlas of London (www.levels.fyi)
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines (arstechnica.com)
From Amazon SDM to Solo Developer (blog.bitflinger.tv)
Data centers barely use any water or land, and they lower electric bills (twitter.com)
Getting Started with Loops (twitter.com)
Half-Life 2 / Valve Source Shading [pdf] (www.decew.net)
Why Linus Is Right and AI Is Wrong (raymyers.org)
Albert Einstein''s Real Interview on War, Nationalism, and Democracy (1940) (www.youtube.com)
JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) (openjdk.org)
Ayghri/I-have-ADHD: skill for coding agent to stop it from burying the answer (github.com)
Encryption in the 1790s (hackaday.com)
How to Vulkan in 2026 (www.howtovulkan.com)
Stop Prompting, Start Looping (lanes.sh)
Is open-weight AI banned yet? (isopenweightaibannedyet.com)
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (en.wikipedia.org)
Four Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medals (www.nytimes.com)
Cognition Acquires Poke Creators, the Interaction Company (cognition.com)
LLMs will make scientists do more, less well (arxiv.org)
Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts (github.com)
Documentation is insurance for the future (github.com)
B1M: This Country Is Dominating the Nuclear Power Race [video] (www.youtube.com)
Transform your fund into something you can talk to (www.angellist.com)
Devctl, a handy way to manage many dev servers (github.com)
2026 Fields Medals go to four young mathematicians (www.scientificamerican.com)
Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce (www.404media.co)
As the cost of aging soars, families'' wealth is evaporating (www.washingtonpost.com)
Signed into NYTimes.com Cooking website – got signed up for three newsletters (clintmcmahon.com)
Pete Hegseth''s Pentagon secrecy push threatens access to unclassified records (www.ms.now)
Tunas Evolved to Become an Apex Predator of the Sea (nautil.us)
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August (www.theguardian.com)
US House passes 1T defense bill despite Iran, Israel concerns (www.reuters.com)
I wouldn''t say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it''s brittle (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
Microsoft Azure Outage 7/23/2026 (azure.status.microsoft)
Notes on Document Processing with LLMs (andrewpwheeler.com)
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI (thenextweb.com)
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ''catastrophic'' for planet (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE''s Fingertips (www.404media.co)
Permanent Daylight Saving Time (leancrew.com)
AI slop learning websites with .org domains (a14a.org)
Why Software Factories Fail (github.com)
Getting Off with the Luddites (www.nplusonemag.com)
I Killed an AI-Generated Essay During Its Defence (medium.com)
Microsoft considers replacing ChatGPT and Claude with Kimi K3 to save 600M (www.msn.com)
iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments (9to5mac.com)
Using AI to bring children''s drawings to life (2021) (ai.meta.com)
The Future of Space Is Too Big to Launch (theexistentialhope.substack.com)
5.6 Sol produces a new research paper in one shot (aifails.substack.com)
PyPI now rejects new files after 14 days (lwn.net)
Flux 3: One multi-modal model for Image, Video, Audio and Action-Prediction (bfl.ai)
You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever (www.currentaffairs.org)
We self-host DeepSeek V4 Flash on AWS spot instances (camelai.com)
Mathematicians grapple with a ''rapid and unsettling change'' (fortune.com)
In 1997 Pradhan protested a paper leak. Today he faces calls to resign over one (www.deccanherald.com)
The Build Step Nobody Ordered (vivianvoss.net)
The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted (2014) (mashable.com)
Windows: Global Device ID leads to legally relevant identification (www.heise.de)
Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears (benjaminwil.info)
One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company (www.theregister.com)
Cross-entropy comparison of LLM responses reveals Kimi''s similarity to Claude (typebulb.com)
Four Forks: AI Riskgaming Scenario (fourforks.riskgaming.com)
Lessons from my RL experiments with snake (saheb.github.io)
A Rust-based time-series DB for quant workloads (4.5x faster than DuckDB/Polars) (old.reddit.com)
NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR (github.com)
How to find believers and speed up time to market in Industrial tech? (deploy95.substack.com)
ASCII Art Map of the World (2017) (community.sap.com)
Camelid – Local AI inference in Rust with desktop, web, terminal, API interfaces (github.com)
The Men Who Believed Some Men Are More Equal Than Others (www.nytimes.com)
Milgram Experiment (en.wikipedia.org)
Everyone says Chinese AI is dirt cheap (badboylabs.com)
The little type that could too much (tech.ahrefs.com)
I Reported on Flock''s Cameras. Now I''m One of the System''s Mistakes (www.rascal.news)
Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (papers.ssrn.com)
Still Looking (stilllooking.co)