In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal (2021) (yalereview.org)
Infinite Ethics [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)
Dad''s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA (www.quantamagazine.org)
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National Portrait Gallery Buys Rare Photographs of Ada Lovelace for the UK (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
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The Garbage Collection Handbook (gchandbook.org)
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Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2) (arxiv.org)
Emacs for Writers – Everything You Need to Know (chrismaiorana.com)
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GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (z.ai)
Can Americans learn to love tiny, cheap kei cars? (www.npr.org)
Freshwater and hydrogen generation using ion concentration polarization (www.nature.com)
Christmas Songs That Do Too Much (danverbraganza.com)
Trump Administration Halts All Offshore Wind Projects (www.wsj.com)
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YouTube Playables Builder Beta (www.youtube.com)
I know you didn''t write this (ammil.industries)
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The Politics of Superintelligence (www.noemamag.com)
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Rivian''s AI pivot is about more than chasing Tesla (www.theverge.com)
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Larry Ellison pledges 40B personal guarantee for Paramount''s Warner Bros. bid (www.latimes.com)
US Suspends Offshore Wind Leases, Citing National Security (www.bloomberg.com)
The Peptide Craze (erictopol.substack.com)
Linux Advanced Formats for Hard Disk Drives and NVMe SSDs (wiki.archlinux.org)
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Border Radius Crimes on GitHub (earthly-delights.net)
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Why the McKinsey layoffs are a warning signal for consulting in the AI age (archive.ph)
Henge Finder (hengefinder.rcdis.co)
Overparameterized neural networks: Feature learning precedes overfitting (techxplore.com)
The FDA Often Doesn''t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did (www.propublica.org)
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Top Ways to Make Money with AI in 2026 (perplexityofficial.com)
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Factorio – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition out now (factorio.com)
Massgrave: Moving Forward (massgrave.dev)
Erlang/OTP 28.3 (www.erlang.org)
Paramount amends its 30 per share all-cash offer for warner bros. Discovery (ir.paramount.com)
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What the OpenAI–Mixpanel Incident Reveals About Metadata Risk (www.permit.io)
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Scientists Engineer Synthetic Metabolism That Eats CO2 Waste (scienceblog.com)
Driving Home for Christmas singer Chris Rea dies aged 74 (www.bbc.com)
End of Year Pay Report 2025 – Levels.fyi (levels.fyi)
Book: Latency (www.manning.com)
Be There (kupajo.com)
MacSync Stealer Evolves: From ClickFix to Code-Signed Swift Malware (www.jamf.com)
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The Infinite Software Crisis [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Russian General Killed by Car Bomb (www.bbc.com)
NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week''s power cut (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Data Agents L0-L5: Understanding the New Autonomy Hierarchy That''s Reshaping AI (techlife.blog)
Central Park Covered in Snow (www.westsiderag.com)
Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom (reason.com)
Mystery as YouTube creator''s finance livestream appears on White House website (apnews.com)
Chris Rea died – Driving home for Christmas (en.wikipedia.org)
Spotify reportedly investigating Anna''s Archive''s scraping of their library (www.billboard.com)
New Trump envoy says he will serve to make Greenland part of US (www.bbc.com)
The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify (www.androidauthority.com)
AI Scraping and the Open Web (cacm.acm.org)
AI Is Democratizing Music. Unfortunately (www.theatlantic.com)
Vienna Gasometers (en.wikipedia.org)
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Selfies as a Second Language (www.eugenewei.com)
fMRI Signals Often Misread Neural Activity (neurosciencenews.com)
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Demis Hassabis: Yann LeCun is plain incorrect on general intelligence (twitter.com)
US Administration halted largest Offshore Wind project in the U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
Compulsive behaviors may stem from too much (misguided) self-control (medicalxpress.com)
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Linux 6.19''s Significant 30% Performance Boost for Old AMD Radeon GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
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Claude Code gets native LSP support (github.com)
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America''s monopoly crisis hits the military (www.theamericanconservative.com)
Multi-Select in Fzf history (bartfokker.com)
Larry Ellison provides personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros (www.theguardian.com)
The Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words of 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
UK bid for 2035 women''s football World Cup with 15 cities and 22 stadiums in mix (www.theguardian.com)
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Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast (www.nytimes.com)
Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases (blog.kierangill.xyz)
What It''s Like to Retire in America After Age 75 (www.wsj.com)
To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG and friends (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
GLM-4.7 (docs.z.ai)
I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater (lapcatsoftware.com)
Origin of Hallucination in LLMs, The physical source of hallucinations has found (arxiv.org)
Trump''s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy (www.nytimes.com)
Optera''s room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive (blocksandfiles.com)
Lord Sandwich who the sandwich is named after (en.wikipedia.org)
Archive.org Is Down (www.archive.org)
Don''t Cheer the End of America''s Obesity Crisis Just Yet (www.economist.com)
How police tracked down the Brown University shooter (www.providencejournal.com)
Federal Prison for Writing Code (reason.com)
Lua 5.5.0 Released (lua.org)
Japan''s H3 suffers second-stage anomaly, QZS-5 satellite lost (spacenews.com)
FTC''s Take on Data Clean Rooms: The Hidden Risks and the Path Forward (www.integrate.ai)
Housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety (theconversation.com)
Are we framing the AI debate around the wrong problems? (www.phoenicianwave.com)
A collective fuck-you letter from humanity to 2025 (worstregards.com)
Land Grab: Israel''s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank (www.nytimes.com)
Benefits of Undefined Behavior (mazzo.li)
(Social) media manipulation in one image (kerkour.com)
What''s in the Future? (mliezun.com)
Spotify says ''anti-copyright extremists'' scraped its library (musically.com)
Newsom launches website tracking Trump''s top criminal cronies (www.gov.ca.gov)
Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape (www.nytimes.com)
One year of keeping a tada list (www.ducktyped.org)
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How North Korea Hid an IT Workforce Inside US Companies (Short Doc) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Uber and Lyft plan to bring robotaxis to London with China''s Baidu (apnews.com)
Dasharo TrustRoot Ephemeral Key Incident (blog.3mdeb.com)
Open Weights Coding Models in 2025 (blog.brokk.ai)
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24/192 Music Downloads are Silly Indeed (2012) (people.xiph.org)
Leveraging AI as an infinitely patient teacher (www.chriis.dev)
Zettabyte Era (en.wikipedia.org)
Pied-Piper: Create Team of AI Coding Agents for Long-Running/Complex SDLC Tasks (github.com)
What Teams Getting Value from AI Coding Do Differently (sderosiaux.substack.com)
America''s Seniors Are Overmedicated (www.wsj.com)
Scraping Spotify Is EZ (deepwalker.xyz)
Republican made deepfake AI video of Democrat giving kid trans hormone therapy (www.youtube.com)
Understanding your Linux graphics driver stack (timur.hu)
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MAGA''s Manly Manufacturing Misfire (paulkrugman.substack.com)
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Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler (docs.python.org)
Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 2 (randomascii.wordpress.com)
From RAG to Context – A 2025 year-end review of RAG (ragflow.io)
The power of agentic loops – implementing Flexbox layout in 3 hours (blog.scottlogic.com)
Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement (www.ft.com)
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony''s PVM-4300 (dfarq.homeip.net)
He made beer that''s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing (www.sciencenews.org)
MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro shot and killed in his home (fortune.com)
Rural Japanese Trains Still Exist (20:25) [video] (www.youtube.com)
How America Gave China an Edge in Nuclear Power (www.newyorker.com)
Minecraft, but It''s a Wayland Compositor (www.youtube.com)
Dog Spinner (www.pigenpalace.com)
That''s Not a Blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media Is Flooded by AI Slop (www.southernfriedscience.com)
James Webb Space Telescope confirms first ''runaway'' supermassive black hole (www.space.com)
Media over QUIC: You Don''t Need It (moq.dev)
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked (www.theregister.com)
Japan prepares to restart biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima (www.reuters.com)
Chinese open-source AIs are winning over a growing number of companies in the US (www.france24.com)
Why US and Chinese satellites are ''dogfighting'' in orbit (www.msn.com)
Can James Cameron make another blockbuster? Even he''s not sure (www.cnn.com)
A comprehensive and precise spec (2016) (www.commitstrip.com)
An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
A Cypherpunk''s Manifesto (www.activism.net)
Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple 115M for Abusing Dominant Position (en.agcm.it)
The Mozilla I want focuses on people and not AI (andregarzia.com)
Nuno Loureiro, prof and dir of MITs Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47 (news.mit.edu)
Key Transparency for the Fediverse (soatok.blog)
Japan to support domestic AI development with 6.34B (english.kyodonews.net)
iRobot bankruptcy revealed a new kind of competitor: ''the Chinese fast follower'' (www.businessinsider.com)
I Spent 3 Months Researching Image-Based Attacks (zero-trust-web.vercel.app)
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical chord with US big tech (www.theregister.com)
Switchberry – CM4 Managed Switch for PTP, GPS, NTP, and PPS (github.com)
Germany Shifts to Nuclear Fusion After Fukushima-Era Fission Policy (www.forbes.com)
A DMCA "Bot War": Google Search Processed 5B Takedown Requests in 2025 (torrentfreak.com)
Costco gained a cult following – by breaking every rule of retail (2019) (thehustle.co)
Iatrogenic Slavery (unbekoming.substack.com)
If You Don''t Design Your Career, Someone Else Will (gregmckeown.com)
Can AI understand design intent, not just aesthetics? (picxstudio.com)
A Year of Vibes (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Take your disk space back on macOS (appsformacs.eu)
Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI (www.heise.de)
N-Queens in Python Packaging (github.com)
How to Reclaim Your Mind (www.newyorker.com)
The Austral programming language. (linear types and capability security) (austral-lang.org)
Letchworth Garden Shed – Borrowing Catalogue (borrow.letchworthgardenshed.com)
Dancing around the rhythm space with Euclid (pv.wtf)
Well Being in Times of Algorithms (www.ssp.sh)
Async Coding Agents "From Scratch" (benanderson.work)
Study suggests excessive porn use can cause depression, maybe brain fog (link.springer.com)
The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)
Writing Code Is Fun (davidcel.is)
Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025) (cnas.fandom.com)
CD Extended Graphics (extended.graphics)
Free Software (www.fsf.org)
The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice (www.bbc.com)
Israel could be bringing back the death penalty – but only for Palestinians (www.cbc.ca)
Perl articles are being memory wiped from Wikipedia (old.reddit.com)
BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove (www.military.com)
What architectural renders will look like (antirender.com)
Japan to restart biggest nuclear power plant, 15 years after Fukushima (www.cnn.com)
Installing Void Linux on ZFS with Hibernation Support (it-notes.dragas.net)
Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH (www.ubicloud.com)
Apollo cuts risk and stockpiles cash in preparation for market turmoil (www.ft.com)
Hybrid Aerial Underwater Drone – Bachelor Project [video] (www.youtube.com)
Rusty-JVM – JVM Implemented in Rust (github.com)
The changing story of the Beachy Head Woman (www.nhm.ac.uk)
AlphaEvolve Enters Google Cloud as an Agentic System for Algorithm Optimization (www.infoq.com)
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''Cinderella'' Rescued Disney from Ruin (www.smithsonianmag.com)
One Size Fits All: An idea whose time has come and gone (2005) [pdf] (cs.brown.edu)
Moore, Ex-Nvidia Billionaire Unveils New AI Chips After China IPO Debut (www.bloomberg.com)
German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) examines 12 email clients [pdf] (www.bsi.bund.de)
The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited (matthewbutterick.com)
I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me (eiratansey.com)
QBasic64 Phoenix 4.3.0 Released (qb64phoenix.com)
Alibaba''s Qwen releases AI model that splits images into editable layers like PS (the-decoder.com)
You have about 36 months to make it (letters.thedankoe.com)
Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid (blog.can.ac)
Agent Skills for Context Engineering (github.com)
Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems (github.com)
DGX-Spark-Finetune-LLM (github.com)
LLM Communications in the Wild (medium.com)
Keeping Up with Git (github.com)
Vibration Isolation of Precision Objects (2005) [pdf] (www.sandv.com)
Honey Targeted Minors and Exploited Small Businesses [video] (www.youtube.com)
An Open Source Interferometer for Accurate Distance Measurements (github.com)
Cursed circuits #3: true mathematics (lcamtuf.substack.com)
''He Was Poisoned.'' Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew (www.wsj.com)
Why immigration research is probably biased (laurenzguenther.substack.com)
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (c2pa.org)
A middle-class family''s only option: A 43,000 health insurance premium (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple''s IP Pretext (bergmayer.net)
CBS''s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations (www.washingtonpost.com)
Household upgrades can meet 100 percent of data center demand growth (www.rewiringamerica.org)
Indigenous Peoples Burning Network (firenetworks.org)
Your Inbox Is a Bandit (parentheticallyspeaking.org)
Marx''s Theory of the "Commons" Explains the AI Crisis (gpt3experiments.substack.com)
The Pointe Shoe Makers of Hackney (spitalfieldslife.com)
A power outage in Colorado caused U.S. official time be 4.8 microseconds off (www.npr.org)
I Ran an AI Misinformation Experiment. Every Marketer Should See the Results (ahrefs.com)
Apple Excludes iOS 18.7.3 from Compatible Devices (old.reddit.com)
JetBrains abandons Fleet, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool (devclass.com)
Hetzner API / Console down 8hr so far (status.hetzner.com)
NIST NTP clock crisis averted for now (groups.google.com)
''Slightly haunted but manageable'': new signs cause confusion in Christchurch (www.theguardian.com)
AI Datacenters in Space [video] (www.youtube.com)
ICE sending immigrants from continental U.S. to Hawaii, and no one knows why (www.hawaiipublicradio.org)
Make Change Cheap (johnocens.com)
OntoMesh – A Structural Map of a Bounded Meta-Architecture (zenodo.org)