The Aphantasia Lie [video] (www.youtube.com)
A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)
Scaling Memory Safety: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C Dependencies to Rust (bughunters.google.com)
Europe''s largest collection of historic adverts (www.advertisingarchives.co.uk)
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com)
Xkcd 1200: Authorization (xkcd.com)
AI isn''t sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we anthropomorphize it (theconversation.com)
Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping (www.tomshardware.com)
PlayStation wants to prove in court that you don''t own your digital games (www.polygon.com)
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Open Home Foundation (www.openhomefoundation.org)
Salad Theory (saladtheory.github.io)
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Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico Do SolstíCIO (en.wikipedia.org)
Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (openclaw.ai)
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Google Maps now shows "Lake America" (www.thehindu.com)
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Urban Dead is shutting down (urbandead.com)
Hugo Awards (www.thehugoawards.org)
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AI Accelerator Designed, Verified, and Deployed from Scratch in 2 Weeks by AI (arxiv.org)
SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film (www.pv-magazine.com)
Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets (www.theverge.com)
The Deadline Dividend (deadline-dividend.onrender.com)
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The Verification Gap: Who Audits the Agents? (gist.github.com)
Agency and Agents (www.oneusefulthing.org)
DDoS Attack Breaks Beloved Video Game Wiki After AI Bro Was Banned (kotaku.com)
Glean: Run an AI skill only over what changed since it last ran (github.com)
Steer: Deny or rewrite an AI agent''s tool calls before they run (github.com)
A key transparency self-audit can verify the wrong identity (gorokhov.dev)
CobaltC – The Successor to C? (strawberry9.github.io)
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)
Pentagon installs military influencers in civilian roles (www.washingtonpost.com)
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HermOS – a local-first AI agent IDE (hermos.is-a.dev)
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Sitegeist – The ultimate design extraction toolkit (chromewebstore.google.com)
Armageddon by Anthropomorphism: On Security and the Frontier (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
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GT-BN98 Quad-Band WiFi 8 (802.11B) Gaming Router (rog.asus.com)
Lady Gaga is now an AI-longevity biotech founder (www.regeneration.ai)
No-Code Self-Documenting Makefiles (github.com)
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PocketJS: UI runtime for every kind of computer (pocketjs.dev)
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Ace Targets Streaming Pirates Through Cloudflare and Discord Subpoenas (torrentfreak.com)
Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to ''Lake America'' on US Phones (thehill.com)
Yen weakens past 160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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Static Evaluation of Model Switching in LLM Agents Scores the Wrong World (arxiv.org)
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The Distractor (booktwo.org)
Are We Learning to Think Less? (socketstudy.com)
Qwen3.8 27B on MacPro 32GB (Tasks) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Give Your Coding Agent a Journal (doug.sh)
If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn''t You Become a Priest? (joecmarshall.com)
The Ternus Era at Apple Begins, but Cook Isn''t Leaving (www.bloomberg.com)
Will anybody use AI as much as coders? (www.economist.com)
West Point prof fired for continuing to teach human causes of climate change (www.theguardian.com)
Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results (www.404media.co)
Debian developer resigns after corporate LLM use without disclosure wins vote (lists.debian.org)
Papers with wrong IDs on ArXiv more common (www.reddit.com)
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (www.abortretry.fail)
The Shape and Feel of the Post-AI Data Stack (www.iandmacomber.com)
Build a Tokenizer from Scratch (github.com)
Developer Experience should become Engineering Experience (twitter.com)
A 500k-Euro Website (www.minid.net)
Which AI Wrote This? (modelaccent.com)
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Music Sparks Story-Like Brain Activity (communitynews.org)
Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires: Infrastructure Is Sexy (www.governance.fyi)
Civitas – A Civilization for AI Agents on GitHub (github.com)
Ghislaine Maxwell has virtually run out of legal routes to overturn conviction (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI ends it partnership with Cursor (twitter.com)
"I just chose words carefully." (unsung.aresluna.org)
Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV''s Magnifica Humanitas (adropincalm.com)
Terrance Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts (www.youtube.com)
Google quickly bows to Trump order and renames Lake Ontario ''Lake America'' (www.nzherald.co.nz)
AI Can Answer Almost Anything. It Still Can''t Tell You What Matters (medium.com)
The Productivity Trap Nobody Talks About (medium.com)
I built a scanner to find a SaaS worth cloning. Its best answer was "don''t." (www.petervijeh.com)
OpenAI acquires Mac Minis, Mac Studios for AI training (cryptobriefing.com)
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Car Sunroofs Keep ''Spontaneously'' Exploding–and the Problem Is Getting Worse (www.wsj.com)
Gitea/Forgejo and Neovim (github.com)
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Terrible Advice for Software Engineers (twitter.com)
Mark Zuckerberg''s Social Reckoning (www.newyorker.com)
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46ers, 55ers, 81ers, and Today (auren.substack.com)
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Too Cheap to Meter (en.wikipedia.org)
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge History – Bridge – Lessons from Failure (wsdot.wa.gov)
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Texas Senate hopeful Talarico teams with Mark Cuban to breakup healthcare (www.cnbc.com)
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Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google Maps Will Show ''Lake America'' in US, Not ''Lake Ontario'' (www.reuters.com)
The XGBoost Vector-Leaf Model (xgboost.ai)
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Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America (www.cnn.com)
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online (hyperessays.net)
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Pokémon Shock (1997) (en.wikipedia.org)
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How on Earth does a Search Console for LLMs still not exist? (embassia.com)
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Salesforce CEO says the ''SaaSpocalypse'' is nonsense (www.cnbc.com)
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Google Maps Now Shows ''Lake America'' Instead of Lake Ontario (www.wired.com)
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The FOSS Force Interview with Richard Stallman (fossforce.com)
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4000-Series Integrated Circuits (en.wikipedia.org)
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Google''s Obedience to Trump''s "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern (www.motherjones.com)
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Pure-Rust Headless Browser: 5 Faster, 80% Less Memory Compared to Chromium (www.reddit.com)
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Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires (www.latent.space)
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Copycats in Apple Books (lapcatsoftware.com)
Google Bows to Trump, Renames ''Lake Ontario'' to ''Lake America'' in Google Maps (www.neowin.net)
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The Reverse Information Paradox (Satya Nadella) (snscratchpad.com)
A Tale of Two Coding Subscriptions (insufferable.dev)
Lexical laundering: The mainstreaming of antisemitic neologisms from 4chan (www.isdglobal.org)
Gram Editor 3.3.0 Released (gram-editor.com)
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12TB Steam leak reveals unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds (www.tomshardware.com)
Airlink''s low flypast over Rugby match in Cape Town (www.flightradar24.com)
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (www.haiku-os.org)
Mechanical Panda''s Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) (github.com)
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)
Oscilloscope app written in Rust with bevy game engine (github.com)
Startup Anti-Patterns (www.itamarnovick.com)
Extinction events happen every 100M years or so (twitter.com)
The pursuit of happiness requires free time [video] (www.ted.com)
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Takeaway cups release microplastics into your coffee (news.uq.edu.au)
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NASA''s Roman Space Telescope Launches on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket (www.space.com)
Wyoming governor requests investigation into activity of DOJ election monitors (www.wral.com)
The Patterns of Startup Failure (www.nfx.com)
Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point (oilprice.com)
Security scanner for AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills (github.com)
Collapse in Support for AI Data Centers Captured in New Poll (www.commondreams.org)
Newly Invented Pixel Could Turn Screens into Cameras (gizmodo.com)
BROCS: The framework for enterprise AI enablement (brocs.fyi)
Stratum 1 PTP grandmaster and router for 150 (opscode.io)
Amlc – fhe compiler where the noise budget is a static value of the type sys (github.com)
Agents. Your Controls (gryph.sh)
With the snip of a gene, scientists hope to erase high cholesterol for life (www.cnn.com)
Google Maps Faces Fury for Caving to Trump (www.thedailybeast.com)
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
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Terafab or Terrible Fad (noisebuffer.com)
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Daring flyover during SA-NZ Rugby Match in Cape Town at 14 meters (www.instagram.com)
Icelanders say no to restarting talks to join the EU (www.politico.eu)
Very Perilous: A sword wounds compendium by the surgeon Ravaton (hemamisfits.com)
China''s robots race ahead (www.theverge.com)
Rust flight controller for the M5Stack Stamp Fly (github.com)
METR and Redwood Offer Holy % Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (thezvi.wordpress.com)
DOJ blames China for string of hacks targeting federal agencies and hospitals (www.politico.com)
Keeping "Engineering" in "Software Engineering" (blog.maxgale.co)
2027 AI Power Shortfall of 15 GW (grok.com)
Dolphins and Other Lovers (aeon.co)
What agent skills are made of: programming languages (plicara.ai)
Wealthy Americans Find Another Tax-Free Way to Invest (www.wsj.com)
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Remembering the King who Drowned (komando1.substack.com)
Rapidly spreading genetic variants make parasites resistant to malaria treatment (www.brown.edu)
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Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence (nickbostrom.com)
DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure (labs.ripe.net)
Doom Played on Series of 555 Timers (hackaday.com)
Europe''s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)
Getting into Flow with AI Coding (www.natashatherobot.com)
China Tobacco products have likely caused at least 57M deaths since 1990 (www.theexamination.org)
RSSMonster – An agentic RSS reader built on local embeddings and small models (github.com)
Icelanders vote ''no'' to talks aimed at joining the EU in close referendum (www.npr.org)
A Society of Cheats (www.theatlantic.com)
Azure Linux Desktop Concept (www.boxofcables.dev)
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Google removed the URLs. Only for the people who resell them (www.scraping.club)
DumpsterCluster: From Dumpster Diving to Serving Llama-70B on 60 GPUs (arxiv.org)
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Running an LLM in the Browser: Verifying WebGPU, and Local Inference (capytoolkit.com)
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ClaudeDevs: We''re permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code (twitter.com)
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Judge rule AI-generated child sex abuse material is protected by First Amendment (reason.com)
Zoom activated my mic and played "recording in progress" at 4AM (imgur.com)
Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com)
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Nobody Told Me People Still Code New Games for a 1982 Computer (comuniq.xyz)
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AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting (www.theregister.com)
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FOSDEM 2027: 30 & 31 January 2027 Brussels, Belgium (fosdem.org)
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