Trump launches 1M ''gold card'' immigration visas (www.bbc.com)
A list of parks around the world that are perfect to sit down and enjoy a book (www.placestoread.xyz)
SEO poisoning with legit AI chats delivers AMOS stealer (www.huntress.com)
Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought (www.economist.com)
Instagram gives users control of their algorithms in new feature (abcnews.go.com)
Oil Tanker U.S. Seized Has Faked Its Location Before, Data Shows (www.nytimes.com)
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org)
Oracle Credit Risk Gauge Deteriorates After Earnings Report (www.bloomberg.com)
Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Tumbleweed aerodynamics inspire hybrid robots for harsh terrains (techxplore.com)
Concord – an offline-first cognitive engine that runs on your computer (github.com)
Vibe Coding Is Depressing (law.gmnz.xyz)
Errors and Zig (notes.eatonphil.com)
CEO of Chinese robotic company post video of himself getting kicked by his robot (www.businessinsider.com)
Ghostly solar neutrinos caught transforming carbon atoms deep underground (phys.org)
Attention Economy (studium.dev)
NASA Teams Work Maven Spacecraft Signal Loss (science.nasa.gov)
NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one (arstechnica.com)
Searchable Bronze Age site database could help understand ancient Anatolia (phys.org)
Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel (thenewstack.io)
The Normalization of Deviance in AI (embracethered.com)
Instacart''s AI-enabled pricing may bump up your grocery costs by as much as 23% (www.cbsnews.com)
EV school bus goes up in flames (abc7.com)
ASCII Art Archive (www.asciiart.eu)
What Happens When an "Infinite-Money Machine" Unravels (www.newyorker.com)
Significance of Numbers in Judaism (en.wikipedia.org)
DeepSeek is using Nvidia''s banned Blackwell AI chips (www.cnbc.com)
My experience with Lean 4 for general programming (quamserena.com)
Nature''s many attempts to evolve a Nostr (newsletter.squishy.computer)
Cannabis dispensaries lead to reduced opioid prescriptions (medicalxpress.com)
Be Careful with GIDs in Rails (blog.julik.nl)
Online child sexual abuse surges by 26% in year (www.theguardian.com)
The devious art of lying by telling the truth (2017) (www.bbc.com)
Gogs 0-Day Exploited in the Wild (www.wiz.io)
Midjourney Is Alemwjsl (www.aadillpickle.com)
What border guards will look for on your socials, could be made to hand over DNA (www.afr.com)
Malaysia uncovers 1B in power theft losses from illegal crypto mining (www.theblock.co)
AI Researcher: Replacing scientists with AI is evil (twitter.com)
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 (selfh.st)
Earliest fire-making dating back 400k years unearthed in Suffolk, England (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Thinking About Growth (www.econforeverybody.com)
China government-approved AI hw suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei in, Nvidia out (www.tomshardware.com)
Returning Astronauts forget gravity exists for a while [video] (www.youtube.com)
Agency Is Eating the World (giansegato.com)
MacKenzie Scott Announces 7B of Charitable Giving This Year (www.nytimes.com)
Pslscale.com – AI facial analysis for attractiveness scoring (pslscale.com)
Patterns.dev (www.patterns.dev)
Jonathan Blow new game announced. Uses new language and new engine (twitter.com)
Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll (www.bloomberg.com)
Galea – the most sophisticated biosensing headset (galea.co)
San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi (apnews.com)
Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984 (rodyne.com)
Is your website Archive Ready? (archiveready.com)
U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Escalating Pressure on Maduro (www.nytimes.com)
Claude Code Space Invaders Game (space-invaders.centminmod.com)
Canada DND scrambles to figure out how to mobilize and equip a citizens'' army (www.cbc.ca)
Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy (www.theatlantic.com)
Curiosity in Relationships (okaykoa.substack.com)
Understanding Carriage (seths.blog)
HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey with TUI animation (github.com)
ClassicPress Version 2.6.0 is Out (www.classicpress.net)
Gatekeepers: The Traffic Controllers of the Gnome Village (www.happihacking.com)
SoC-2 is table stakes now. Here''s what matters for AI products (www.superagent.sh)
Tandy Advent Calendar (advent.pcotandy.org)
Undeciphered Writing Systems (en.wikipedia.org)
Blue Origin Might Make Starship Obsolete (wlockett.medium.com)
After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why? (arstechnica.com)
FixBot: We Built an AI That Knows How to Fix Things (www.ifixit.com)
Kiwis travelling to US could soon face new social media screening (www.1news.co.nz)
Lazard CEO says a Washington strategy now essential to get deals done (www.reuters.com)
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country (www.theguardian.com)
Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela (www.wsj.com)
The Logic of Cue (cuelang.org)
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RedisPlay (github.com)
Using edge detection to preserve significant features while downsampling (yogthos.net)
The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth (www.lemonde.fr)
Library of Time (libraryoftime.xyz)
NASA loses contact with Maven – spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade (www.theguardian.com)
Rep. Massie Introduces Bill to Remove the United States from NATO (massie.house.gov)
Elon Musk says Doge was ''somewhat successful'' but he would not do it again (www.bbc.com)
Oracle''s stock slides 11% on revenue miss (www.cnbc.com)
Oldest evidence of deliberate fire use found in England (www.aljazeera.com)
Turn commits into user-friendly content (handleco.vercel.app)
Amazon copyright protection changed for Kindle Direct''s self-published e-books (techcrunch.com)
Residential solar panels can raise electricity rates (techxplore.com)
The Secret Life of Moles: What They''re Up to Underground (thenaturenetwork.co.uk)
Coldest air barrels into US as polar vortex threatens 17 states deadly freeze (www.dailymail.co.uk)
US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela (www.reuters.com)
Product Design Decisions and Metrics behind chat-to-video in Lumen5 (lumen5.com)
Electron Orbital Scanner (claude.ai)
New digital wallet to restrict social media access in Ireland for under-16s (www.irishtimes.com)
The (re)-prioritization of open-source AI – Pinterest (medium.com)
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Omniclip – universal clipboard free from the Apple ecosystem (github.com)
What''s needed for AI agents to work (substack.com)
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Solo-journaling RPGs and their benefits wrt writing [video] (www.youtube.com)
A high-performance document search engine built in Rust with WebAssembly support (github.com)
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over ''wasteful'' Calibri (www.bbc.com)
US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales "makes no sense," experts say (arstechnica.com)
Systemization of Knowledge: Security and Safety Challenges in MCP (arxiv.org)
Green Spaces Tied to Fewer Mental Health Hospitalizations (www.medscape.com)
Rails Updates: Schema-Enforced JSON Access, Postgres Type Decoding and More (rubyonrails.org)
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Libretro (www.libretro.com)
Intel, AMD Processors Affected by PCIe Vulnerabilities (www.securityweek.com)
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AI browsing in Brave now available for early testing (brave.com)
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Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal (en.wikipedia.org)
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort? (buttondown.com)
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Copilot Usage Report 2025 (microsoft.ai)
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AI Turns the Firehose into a Funnel (www.niemanlab.org)
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htpy: Generate HTML in Python (github.com)
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Nature Method of the Year 2025: electron microscopy-based connectomics (www.nature.com)
Free users now get 100 credits/week on A2A Net (a2anet.com)
US seizes tanker near Venezuela, Trump says (www.bbc.com)
I ran DOOM on the Polkadot JAM blockchain on my laptop (www.youtube.com)
36 months and the Australia social media ban (2024) (bleepitybloopity.com)
Twitter (www.twitter.new)
AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease (www.nature.com)
Italian cooking awarded Unesco cultural heritage status (www.bbc.co.uk)
SpaceX Installs Starlink Vending Machine in Iowa (www.pcmag.com)
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
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Zimbabwe''s only female heart surgeon on medicine, misogyny & making a difference (www.theguardian.com)
EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws (www.eff.org)
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Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space (www.wsj.com)
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India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for AI training; lobbying group protests (techcrunch.com)
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Flexible display cools surfaces for energy-efficient signs (techxplore.com)
US Fed will start buying Treasury bills to manage market liquidity (www.reuters.com)
Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds (www.cam.ac.uk)
YouTube CEO says more AI moderation is coming despite creator backlash (www.dexerto.com)
After Microsoft''s 17.5B commitment, Amazon announces a 35B investment by 2030 (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
EPA website removes fossil fuels as cause of global warming (www.euronews.com)
Code agents does not handles Jupyter well, so I build a special AI agent for it (www.youtube.com)
US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela (www.usatoday.com)
macOS Music Players (andreyor.st)
Reproductive risk of Neonicotinoids: A review of male rodent studies (www.sciencedirect.com)
Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to 108/kWh (www.ess-news.com)
AI will probably force you to gate your content (www.niemanlab.org)
Maybe we don''t need a server (lecaro.me)
Edelweiss triples prices charged to publishers after acquisition (www.publishersweekly.com)
The real AI Bubble (www.vipshek.com)
Scientists Look to Ancient Microbes to Discover the Antibiotics of the Future (www.calpoly.edu)
DuckGPT – agent for solving complex coding problems (duckgpt.vercel.app)
Trump''s SAVE tool looks for noncitizen voters. It''s flagging U.S. citizens too (www.npr.org)
Convenience store socks became Japan''s coolest souvenir (www.bbc.com)
Coatings: The surface behind space missions (blog.satsearch.co)
Earliest Evidence of Making Fire (www.nature.com)
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor (www.theguardian.com)
Cdktf Has Been Deprecated (github.com)
Domains as "Internet Handles" (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Pentagon ordered to form AI steering committee on AGI (www.perplexity.ai)
DevLoop – Automated QA for solo developers (API tests and AI screenshots) (devloop-landing.fly.dev)
Why GitHub Why? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Is your brain tired? Researchers are discovering the roots of mental fatigue (www.nature.com)
Humans made fire 350k years earlier than previously thought, discovery suggests (www.theguardian.com)
Neurofluid circulation changes during focused attention mindfulness meditation (www.pnas.org)
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SC25: Estimating AMD''s Upcoming MI430X''s FP64 and the Discovery Supercomputer (chipsandcheese.com)
I bought a Grace-Hopper server for 7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (dnhkng.github.io)
It''s cheaper to buy a new printer every month (idiallo.com)
Certificate Authorities Are Once Again Issuing Certificates That Don''t Work (www.agwa.name)
Terraform CDK has been phased out (github.com)
AI beyond LLMs: a wearable foundation model based on JEPA (www.empirical.health)
The oldest evidence of people starting fires (arstechnica.com)
Super Mario 64 for the PS1 (github.com)
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Hear Bach''s Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments (www.openculture.com)
Akira ransomware: FBI tallies 250M in payouts (databreaches.net)
Cursor Introduces Debug Mode (cursor.com)
The Warner Deal Will Take a While (www.bloomberg.com)
A policy enforcement layer for coding agents (cupcake.eqtylab.io)
Pompeii of the Midwest (en.wikipedia.org)
Black-box concurrent data structures for NUMA architectures [pdf] (cs.brown.edu)
Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise (arxiv.org)
Mycenaean roads in Peloponnese: Least-cost path modelling using R and Movecost (www.sciencedirect.com)
Apple may have made it almost impossible for governments to ban iMessage (9to5mac.com)
30 Years Ago Windows 95 Changed Everything (www.goto10retro.com)
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SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System (www.ll.mit.edu)
I Pitched Netflix a Friends-Style Casablanca Sitcom (stohl.substack.com)
Using Git add -p for fun (and profit) (techne98.com)
Urik – The Privacy focused Android keyboard is now in Open Beta (github.com)
Powers of Ten (1977) [video] (www.youtube.com)
3D-Agent (3d-agent.com)
Tourists to US would have to reveal 5 years of social media activity: new plan (www.theguardian.com)
Creating a Benevolent Industrial Deployer for Memecoins (substack.com)
Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work (highimpactengineering.substack.com)
Replican''t (thinkhuman.com)
Transcripts dialectics Gregory Bateson 19th of July 1967 [pdf] (villonfilms.ca)
Hark: Voice prompts for LLMs, meeting minutes, quick voice journaling (github.com)
Pro-AI super PAC launches first candidate ads (www.cnn.com)
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy (publicdomainreview.org)
Big Ideas 2026: Part 1 (www.a16z.news)
I made a website to check if Cloudflare is down (www.iscloudflaredown.com)
A woman who discovered black holes (newhumanist.org.uk)
Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)
Morning coffee may protect the heart better than all-day coffee drinking (www.escardio.org)
Shopify SimGym creates "digital customers" that behave like real ones (twitter.com)
GNU Year 2000 List (1999) (www.gnu.org)
Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers (www.cnbc.com)
South Carolina sees ''alarming'' increase in measles cases, with 280 in quarantine (scdailygazette.com)
AIbraham Lincoln, the First AI Presidential Candidate (www.voteabe2028.ai)
HN Time Capsule (karpathy.ai)
Microservices is the software industry''s most successful confidence scam (twitter.com)
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
Code-less vibe-"coding" – hallucinating apps one screen at a time (amongai.com)
Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed (retractionwatch.com)
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (www.heise.de)
Waymo: Delivering more for our riders in a year of growth (waymo.com)
Star Types (science.nasa.gov)
IDF Soldiers Fire on UN Peacekeepers (unifil.unmissions.org)
How People Use AI at Work (dejan.ai)
Super-Flat ASTs (jhwlr.io)
Authors retract Nature paper projecting high costs of climate change (retractionwatch.com)
LibGodot – Embed Godot Engine Everywhere (GodotCon 2025) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Regulating Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Real UDP Packet loss test using WebRTC (Beta) (vishnu.pro)
Tourists required to give 5 years social media history to enter US (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Scouts by Yutori is now generally available (yutori.com)
Study: 250 documents is all it takes to backdoor an LLM (www.searchenginejournal.com)
Stage Manager in Mac OS (blog.kowalczyk.info)
You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds (twitter.com)
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered (www.bbc.co.uk)
Closing the Agent Loop (www.sawyerhood.com)
Mandatory social media sharing and use of ETSA mobile app for entry to US (www.federalregister.gov)
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot (www.extremetech.com)
MacKenzie Scott donated 7.16B in the last one year (yieldgiving.com)
Meta''s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company (www.nytimes.com)
Important Ideas for 2026 (www.derekthompson.org)
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes (www.quantamagazine.org)
Calibri – In Crime and Politics (en.wikipedia.org)
DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says (finance.yahoo.com)
Bringing USDT Power to Parca (www.polarsignals.com)
DNP achieves 1.4nm semiconductor process without EUV (www.afp.com)
Building Audit Logs with CDC and SCD Type 2 (www.artie.com)
We don''t know what most microbial genes do. Can genomic language models help? (www.owlposting.com)
At this ultramarathon, runners tackle 31 miles and eat at nine Taco Bells (www.washingtonpost.com)
England Historic Aerial Photo Explorer (historicengland.org.uk)
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)
California Enacted AI Bills. Now Officials Must Define Them (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Greco for FHE and ZK Consistency (blog.enclave.gg)
Gold, guns and cartels: The battle for a billion-dollar mine (english.elpais.com)
Copyright Lawsuits over Embedding Are Still a Thing (blog.ericgoldman.org)
Michigan Has a Tech Ecosystem Problem, ''Michigan Pulse'' Wants to Fix It (michigan-pulse.com)
Why Your TV Will Probably Never Be Better Than It Is Now (lifehacker.com)
Simpler.Grants.gov (simpler.grants.gov)
Foundation model for health prediction using Apple Watch data (9to5mac.com)
InspectMind (YC W24) an AI agent for reviewing construction drawings (www.inspectmind.ai)
Sick in a Hospital Town (projects.propublica.org)
Size of Life (neal.fun)
Coding Agents Suck at Microservices (12gramsofcarbon.com)
Unrolling Loops (xania.org)
Migrate to PostgreSQL from Oracle Using IvorySQL, an Open Source Solution (www.data-bene.io)
In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars (arstechnica.com)
US may require foreign tourists to disclose 5 years of social media history (www.nbcnews.com)
We are past the point of no return for model collapse (www.obsessivefacts.com)
RAG Isn''t a Vector Search Problem (softwaredoug.com)
Musician Mattias Krantz Taught an Octopus to Play Piano (www.washingtonpost.com)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support for Google Services (cloud.google.com)
Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang (www.cbc.ca)
Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, behind Jeep and Chrysler (www.techspot.com)
Playwright leadership hit by Microsoft layoffs (twitter.com)
New research suggests warming winters could cause DNA damage in lizards (phys.org)
Hegseth Introduces Department to New AI Tool (www.war.gov)
The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses for SAML Authentication (portswigger.net)
State of URL parsing performance in 2025 (www.yagiz.co)
DarkGPT: Malicious Visual Studio Code Extension Targeting Developers (safedep.io)
Pinecone''s Slab Architecture (www.pinecone.io)
Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems (www.qualcomm.com)
Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren (worksinprogress.co)
Israel Used Palantir Technologies in Pager Terrorist Attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)
How Daft Punk Created "Something About Us" (reverbmachine.com)
Intel CEO''s faces questions of conflicts of interest between Intel and startups (www.nytimes.com)
OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications for 2026 (securityboulevard.com)
TIME''s Top Photos of 2025 (time.com)
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution (e360.yale.edu)