Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (www.atomscale.ai)
Trace: Stripe Radar for autonomous AI agents (Sybil fraud reduced by 86%) (trace-api-ixv6o.ondigitalocean.app)
Oneko (github.com)
How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI (casp.ac)
The end of consumer AI winter (jonready.com)
LG and Alienware monitors caught auto-installing Windows adware (www.techspot.com)
Japan''s pension pivot puts Abe-era outpouring of capital in reverse (www.reuters.com)
He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The EPA Fired Him (www.nytimes.com)
Native SDK – Toolkit for building native desktop apps (native-sdk.dev)
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Soulless – List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify (soullessmusic.com)
Blanks – Why do some books contain blank pages? (2016) (rhollick.wordpress.com)
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UK Online Safety Consultation: Giving users more choice control and trust online (www.ofcom.org.uk)
Ethical NBA Championships (pudding.cool)
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The Future Worth Building Is Human (thinkingmachines.ai)
New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices (www.theguardian.com)
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An Update on the Scraper Situation (lwn.net)
Harness Handbook (ruhan-wang.github.io)
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Feasio – AI that gives brutally honest feasibility reports on business ideas (feasio.co)
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Sodas with a Doctorate (bsky.app)
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Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn''s "thought leadership" content mill (restofworld.org)
War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)
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China recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it (phys.org)
The Difference Between Watercolor and Gouache Paints (www.jetpens.com)
Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to 350B in AI Spending Spree (www.bloomberg.com)
Kimi 2.7 Code: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second (www.lithosai.com)
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OnCue (oncue.thelettertwo.com)
Chat Control 1.0 has been passed (gerarddupre.dev)
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Why don''t schools teach debugging? (2014) (danluu.com)
The tech of ''Terminator 2'' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)
Dataportability.org – Share and remix data using open standards (2008-) (web.archive.org)
Memory is needed for more than just weights (www.lttlabs.com)
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I spent a week using the Trump phone – it sucks (www.theverge.com)
"You and Your Research" (1986) (www.cs.virginia.edu)
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USDA lowers beef export sales by 90% amid growing doubts over data (www.reuters.com)
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OpenAI is shutting down its AI browser Atlas (techcrunch.com)
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Zero-downtime deploys when every player lives in RAM (growordie.io)
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AI that helps you BE, not just DO (self.md)
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OpenAI''s Atlas browser doesn''t make it to its first birthday (www.theregister.com)
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DNA signatures preserved in official 1978 sample collection of Shroud of Turin (www.nature.com)
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Never Argue with Your Boss (2009) (righteousit.com)
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Babylon Lite – 19x Smaller (forum.babylonjs.com)
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The .plan Archive (d8d.org)
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AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks to Scan Properties for Code Violations (www.gadgetreview.com)
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No, Qwen 27B isn''t the sweet spot (barajas.blog)
I''ve been fixing AI slop for 6 months and here''s my observations (aislopfix.dev)
Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes (abeljansma.nl)
Estonia Won the War on Fentanyl. What Came Next Was Worse (www.nytimes.com)
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EU tells Instagram, Facebook to change addictive features or risk fines (www.reuters.com)
AI progress should upgrade our view of the human brain – not devalue it (livingsystems.substack.com)
Energy is AI''s natural home – but, it''s fumbling (www.weforum.org)
Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP from climate shocks, say actuaries (www.theguardian.com)
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AI as a weapon of mass cognitive destruction (taoofmac.com)
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China retrieves booster in reusable rocket breakthrough (www.dw.com)
Amble One (driveamble.com)
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Cuba sees nationwide power blackout for third time in six months (aljazeera.com) (www.aljazeera.com)
Planned Texas data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than many countries (www.texastribune.org)
Productivity by Sam Altman (blog.samaltman.com)
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Looma – turn coding-agent history into resumable project context (github.com)
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The Iran War threatened a food crisis. The next Gulf conflict could do the same (www.reuters.com)
Trump Pushes Out Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms (www.propublica.org)
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Record Companies Push to Label AI Songs on Streaming Platforms (www.wsj.com)
JDK API Changes in Java 27 (javaalmanac.io)
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The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
The hard part of AI root cause analysis is no longer the model (coroot.com)
Memories Can''t Wait–Or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web (zeldman.com)
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Why Fear Matters in Governing Military AI (www.techpolicy.press)
ActivityPub over ATProto (berjon.com)
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Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues (status.proton.me)
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Go-Flavored Concurrency in C (antonz.org)
Sign in IPv6 Is Watching You: The Hidden Privacy Nightmare [video] (www.youtube.com)
An orbital StormWall could mitigate the next Carrington event (hackaday.com)
DominoTree (arxiv.org)
Feeds: An Introduction to RSS (feeds.software)
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Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (en.wikipedia.org)
Successful Companies Go Blind (ianreppel.org)
Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87 (arstechnica.com)
Meta found to breach EU laws with ''addictive'' Instagram, Facebook designs (www.cnbc.com)
Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (www.engadget.com)
Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight (www.theguardian.com)
Time Pricing Big Macs Around the World (newsletter.humanprogress.org)
If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it? (www.theverge.com)
"Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (pluralistic.net)
12-year-old founds AI-powered receptionist business (www.businessinsider.com)
New Codex and Chat GPT app is a bit confusing to use? (learn.chatgpt.com)
A Plan to Stop Solar Storms from Sending Us Back to the Stone Age (www.wsj.com)
StubHub''s ''marketplace for fans'' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal (www.cbc.ca)
Why Do You Suck at Juggling? (pgadey.ca)
A 4x4 MIMO SDR tile for spatial RF vision and beamforming (www.crowdsupply.com)
EasyJet is essential British travel infrastructure (revman.substack.com)
Europe''s Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
Give Your AI Assistant a Private Memory (hister.org)
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AI has lost all meaning (newslttrs.com)
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The future of work: AI, juniors, and expectations (www.zeitgeistofbytes.com)
The Ring That Wouldn''t Shrink: Building Musklr''s Rest Timer Animation in SwiftUI (musklr.com)
AI doesn''t know how to forgive and cannot forget (tejassuds.com)
Goroutines for Python (robertsdotpm.github.io)
Pearson''s Anti-Piracy Vendor Takes Down Best-Selling Author''s Own GitHub Repo (torrentfreak.com)
How I''m using CSS View Transitions on this blog (blog.omgmog.net)
Negative squaring – pre-tilted 3-bit quantization beat naive 4-bit (github.com)
Designing a Distributed Anti-Cheat Architecture (medium.com)
One local man''s immunity to ticks could save us all (2015) (www.caryinstitute.org)
A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience AI (www.axios.com)
Xring: Crashing XQUIC with spec-compliant QPACK instructions (foxio.io)
Why Europe''s tech ecosystem collapses in simulation (a causal-loop analysis) (hebelai.substack.com)
Nearly half of U.S. retail spending comes from top 10% of earners (www.marketplace.org)
Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)
Pgrust – Postgres, Rewritten in Rust (pgrust.com)
Hardening stb libraries using AI agents (mrunix.me)
Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military (www.theguardian.com)
Xonotic: Free and Fast Arena Shooter under copyleft GPLv3 license (xonotic.org)
China''s ''Silicon Valley'' in Hangzhou: Home of DeepSeek, Alibaba and Ant Group [video] (www.youtube.com)
I''m Quitting as Pluto.jl Maintainer (discourse.julialang.org)
Man nearly sucked out of ''detached'' window on Ryanair flight (www.france24.com)
AI Surveillance and Social Progress (www.schneier.com)
Email link phishing: why your email app should always show the URL (www.phpfreelance.co.uk)
Polymarket Seeks License to Offer Margin Trading Legally in US (www.bloomberg.com)
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Could We Mitigate Super El NiñOS by Artificially Changing the Climate? (www.smithsonianmag.com)
80-year-old woman with Alzheimer''s took mushrooms and started speaking again (www.microdos.in)
Igloo Inc (www.igloo.inc)
Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can''t (vettedconsumer.com)
''Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics'' (www.livescience.com)
Stardew Valley Mod Enables 3D and VR (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Meta risks 12B EU fine over addictive Instagram and Facebook feeds (www.theverge.com)
Cybersecurity Startup Publishes Infostealers to NPM (opensourcemalware.com)
China tests sea-based rocket booster recovery system (www.reuters.com)
AB 2047: California''s 3D Printer Surveillance Bill Advances (reclaimthenet.org)
EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (ec.europa.eu)
More Flock cameras cut down in Houston amid some privacy concerns (abc13.com)
Tea app profile lookup with verified results in 24 hours (teaaboutme.com)
Good Tools Are Invisible (www.gingerbill.org)
GPT 5.6 Sol better than Fable? (twitter.com)
MongoDB Workspace for Queries, Schema, Charts, and Teams (visualeaf.com)
''I''m not a programmer'' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now (www.zdnet.com)
Java 27: What''s New? (www.loicmathieu.fr)
LiboPrime ReviEwS (2026): We Tried It My Honest Review (gamma.app)
2,100 castles across 133 countries, one map (thecastlemap.com)
OpenAI Will Reset Codex Limits Twice to Celebrate GPT-5.6 in 24h (twitter.com)
Ryanair B738 cabin window shattered, passenger partly sucked out (avherald.com)
Meta to build C13B Alberta data center, its first in Canada (www.reuters.com)
Segfault on Rust 1.97.0 (github.com)
2,300B wiped out from Chinese stock market in last 2 hours (www.disruptionbanking.com)
The SBC hobby is dying (Geerling, 3 months ago) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Pro-Palantir data has litany of errors, English hospitals admit (www.ft.com)
I built an app that solves math problems from a photo (apps.apple.com)
Quantum computing: one universe is more than enough (muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com)
China becomes second country to recover orbital booster with Long March 10B (spacenews.com)
Investigation Reveals Deep Military Cooperation Between Russia and China (www.spiegel.de)
FCC Approves Reflect Orbital''s Giant Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate (ca.pcmag.com)
Iran Hatched Fresh Plot to Kill Trump, Israel Told U.S. (www.wsj.com)
Observing oscillations, flares and tornados on the sun (phys.org)
Can AI Answer the 3T Question? (techcrunch.com)
Italy privacy watchdog fines Character.ai owner over age-check failures (www.reuters.com)
China lands reusable rocket for first time, state media says (www.bbc.com)
What Happened to Front End? (davidpoblador.com)
In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (yummymelon.com)
NixOS on real hardware is more complex than you think. Noctalia V5 and LabWC (grigio.org)
OpenAI, Anthropic Employees Could Buy 1/3 of All Homes in SF with IPO Earnings (www.redfin.com)
Open AI No. 2 Exec at OpenAI Fidji Simo is leaving the company (techcrunch.com)
Russian Surveillance Software Suppresses Georgian Civilians Rights (algorithmwatch.org)
Open Source E-Reader (liliputing.com)
The triage is the product: running AI agents against Ethereum''s protocol code (blog.ethereum.org)
CleoBench: Can Fable mathematically prove Cleo''s integrals? (rain-1.github.io)
PwC employee was working remotely in India when he should have been in Dublin (www.irishtimes.com)
AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (nevo-project.epfl.ch)
Bayeux Tapestry arrives at British Museum under police escort in dead of night (news.sky.com)
The Id Software Cuts Will Change It Forever: ''I Don''t See How They Make a Game'' (kotaku.com)
Hackers Use Fake Emergency Requests to Steal Data from Apple, Meta and Others (www.bitdefender.com)
The Future of Meta Superintelligence: A 1 Year Progress Update (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
China recovers Long March 10B rocket following maiden flight (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
CO2 overload in blood suggests potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years (link.springer.com)
Localghost. A little ghost to help you NPM dev (hamedb89.github.io)
NeverDeliver, a fake online shop for the dopamine hit without the spending (never-deliver-shop.vercel.app)
Browser Fingerprinting – How websites track you across internet –without cookies (mysysinfo.com)
Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum in dead of night (www.bbc.co.uk)
Long March-10B first landing [video] (www.youtube.com)
China may restrict foreign access to Chinese open-source AI models (www.reuters.com)
The Feel-Good Story of the World Cup Is Too Good to Be True (www.theatlantic.com)
Experiment with tiny quantum universe: time ''arises'' from changes in disorder (www.sciencedaily.com)
Pressurizing a Chicken Coop to Clean it [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why Industry 5.0 is more than AI-powered analytics (geekyants.com)
Turn off this Meta setting before someone generates AI images of you (www.malwarebytes.com)
China''s provinces asked to bail out risk-fraught regional banks (www.chinabankingnews.com)
Neuralwatt Doubling the Price (portal.neuralwatt.com)
The great AI data centre cover-up (www.ft.com)
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search (www.adweek.com)
Lisp as the Maxwell''s Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org)
AI Investors Buying Accounting Companies and Force Them to Use OpenAI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Controlling the Human Body via EMS (github.com)
Zeno''s Paradox and Infinite Sums – Lectures on Infinity (Lecture 1) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ukraine''s Drones Are Now Reaching Siberia and Imperiling Russian Energy Assets (www.wsj.com)
Tech volatility hits highest since dot-com bust next to S (fortune.com)
OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups (www.ft.com)
We Helped an Auto Parts Plant Cut MES Query Times by Up to 116x (medium.com)
China''s public QR codes are being hijacked to redirect users to porn and scams (www.sixthtone.com)
China recovers Long March 10B rocket (www.bilibili.com)
Think you can win on prediction markets? Here''s why you''re more likely to lose (www.cbc.ca)
"Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head": Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage (publicdomainreview.org)
Formally Verifying AI-Generated GPU Kernels (gimletlabs.ai)
NEO''s Hands – An API to the Physical World (www.1x.tech)
China recovers reusable rocket used in the maiden launch of Long March 10B (www.scmp.com)