Google, the Sleeping Giant in Global AI Race, Now ''Fully Awake'' (www.bloomberg.com)
Bad UX World Cup 2025 (badux.lol)
Russian Gerbera drone crashed into a house in Moldova (militarnyi.com)
Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data (www.promptarmor.com)
Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video (www.kentik.com)
Nix Package Tool Approved for Availability in Fedora 44 (www.phoronix.com)
In leaked recording, Nvidia CEO says its insane managers aren''t using AI enough (www.businessinsider.com)
WebGPU is now supported in major browsers (web.dev)
"Mine Is Really Alive": Schisms in the MyBoyfriendIsAI Subreddit (www.thecut.com)
The Fracturing of the World Economy (www.ft.com)
RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster (www.theverge.com)
Cronicle – A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI (github.com)
Ilya on Dwarkesh [video] (www.youtube.com)
What Does "Capitalism" Really Mean, Anyway? (www.newyorker.com)
Quick Wins Become a Costly Addiction (ottic.ai)
AMD could cancel RX 9070 GRE 16 GB due to explosive increase in memory prices (www.notebookcheck.net)
Ret: Online Assembly Playground and Reverse Engineering Tool (ret.futo.org)
Broken Promises: How Technology Companies Bait and Switched All Generations (josebriones.substack.com)
Feedback on an open source Ruby – LLM project (github.com)
What Makes You Senior (terriblesoftware.org)
Europe''s Cold Snap Puts New Heat Pumps to the Test (www.bloomberg.com)
We Rewrote Our Startup from PHP to Gleam in 3 Weeks (www.radical-elements.com)
Ilya Sutskever – We''re moving from the age of scaling to the age of research (youtu.be)
Larry Ellison Met with Trump to Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan to Fire (www.techdirt.com)
Nimbalyst: WYSIWYG Markdown editor with visual diffs powered by Claude Code (github.com)
Atlassian''s DR simulation showed it lived in dependency hell (www.theregister.com)
Tampa men charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to China (www.tampabay.com)
It Is OK to Say "CSS Variables" Instead of "Custom Properties" (blog.kizu.dev)
Lowercase head behaves differently in Git worktrees (www.brandonpugh.com)
Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON (www.process-one.net)
RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 on Apple Silicon – 14µs latency (twitter.com)
FBI: Cybercriminals stole 262M by impersonating bank support teams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Super-adjuvant nanoparticles for platform cancer vaccination (www.cell.com)
Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel''s Podcast (www.dwarkesh.com)
Pluribus: The audacity of the Breaking Bad creator''s new TV show is incredible (www.theguardian.com)
CSS Meets Voxel Art: Building a Rendering Engine with Stacked Grids – Codrops (tympanus.net)
A Visual Introduction to Dimensionality Reduction with Isomap (alechelbling.com)
Gramma, tortoise who lived through two world wars, dies aged 141 (www.theguardian.com)
Good Enough Is Reorganizing (goodenough.us)
OpenAI needs to raise at least 207B by 2030, HSBC estimates (www.ft.com)
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm (techcrunch.com)
CBS to "redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate" (twitter.com)
EU set to adopt ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion (digitalcourage.social)
Neural Architecture for Dummies (theahura.substack.com)
Web browser status bars are nuts (lapcatsoftware.com)
MacTiler – a macOS menubar window manager I''ve been building (mactiler.com)
Windows Digital Signage mode hides BSoDs after 15 seconds (www.theregister.com)
I built my website back end in Swift instead of Rust or Node.js (old.reddit.com)
How Loud Are Cities? (www.datawrapper.de)
Pre-Cache: A Microarchitectural Solution to Prevent Meltdown and Spectre (arxiv.org)
Market Volatility Underscores Epic Buildup of Global Risk (www.nytimes.com)
Roman fingerprints found in 2k-year-old cream (2003) (www.theguardian.com)
Companies overpaying on employee expenses by up to 14% (ffnews.com)
The Wanderer (randsinrepose.com)
Lessons from testing three AI agents on the same complex task (prashamhtrivedi.in)
The Return of the Viva (ednutting.com)
A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs (www.pnas.org)
Broken Business Processes: The Hidden Profit Killer (instituteprojectmanagement.com)
Unifying Wikipedia mobile and desktop domains (techblog.wikimedia.org)
Trump''s FCC: Internet Providers Can Monitor Their Own Cybersecurity Standards (www.cnet.com)
Popular Git Config Options (jvns.ca)
CDC instructs researchers to end all monkey studies by year-end: Science (www.fiercebiotech.com)
Tips on being a kinder neighbor and fostering a sense of community (text.npr.org)
You probably shouldn''t block AI bots from your website (kerkour.com)
Exploring Anthropic''s Memory Tool (leoniemonigatti.com)
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience (blog.genesmindsmachines.com)
Flux2 VAE Research Report (bfl.ai)
The AI Industry Is Built on a Big Unproven Assumption (www.bloomberg.com)
Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer''s, study finds (www.semafor.com)
One weird trick makes the AI a better writer (blog.fsck.com)
Apple iBoot Reversing: AI Slop Featured on Hacker News (social.treehouse.systems)
Return to China not an option for Taiwan''s people, premier says responding to Xi (www.reuters.com)
Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs. SHA-3 vs. BLAKE3 (kerkour.com)
Finland clings to happiness crown as economic gloom deepens (www.reuters.com)
Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond (blog.kagi.com)
Unlimited Cloud Storage with GitHub (stash-i1.vercel.app)
Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires (www.pnas.org)
Postgres 18: Skip Scan – Breaking Free from the Left-Most Index Limitation (www.pgedge.com)
Nicolas Guillou, French International Criminal Court Judge Sanctioned by the US (www.lemonde.fr)
3I/Atlas spectrophotometric evidence: metal-bearing, carbonaceous, pristine (arxiv.org)
Mountains Warming Faster Than Lowlands (e360.yale.edu)
The last places on Earth to see dark starry nights (www.bbc.com)
US ready to cut support to Scouts accusing them of attacking boy-friendly spaces (www.npr.org)
Roblox is a problem – but it''s a symptom of something worse (www.platformer.news)
Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing (www.3ammagazine.com)
All that is solid melts into code (www.robinsloan.com)
He Hunted Alleged Groomers on Roblox. Then the Company Banned Him (www.wired.com)
Seal Milk Is the Cream of the Molecular Crop (www.nytimes.com)
Two Years of Listening to the Universe''s Most Violent Events (www.universetoday.com)
The Big Shift in MCP: Why AI Guides Will Replace API Wrappers (www.tigerdata.com)
Flexible Code, Rigid Org (avivbenyosef.com)
TV Tuned to a Dead Channel (www.johndcook.com)
TSMC in a tight spot: demand for high-end chips exceeds capacity by factor of 3 (www.igorslab.de)
Major US Banks Impacted by SitusAMC Hack (www.securityweek.com)
Third-party hack may have spread to JPMorgan, Citi, and Morgan Stanley (www.scworld.com)
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (www.upress.umn.edu)
The EFF we need now (werd.io)
''Friends block you'': NW Mutual sold grads a dream job that left them ruined (www.theguardian.com)
Black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (huggingface.co)
I tried to change my flight and accidentally accessed everyone else''s (alexschapiro.com)
FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
''Destroyed'' Usenet Provider NSE and Brein End 16-Year Battle with Settlement (torrentfreak.com)
The Math of Why You Can''t Focus at Work (justoffbyone.com)
Meta is helping fraudsters scam you and doesn''t care (proton.me)
Nvidia stock falls 4% on report Meta will use Google AI chips (www.cnbc.com)
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk (finance.yahoo.com)
BlackRock CEO: ''Doesn''t matter'' who wins US election; both benefit Wall Street (web.archive.org)
Google Drops a Nuke in the AI Wars (dailyreckoning.com)
Canonical''s plan to make 2026 the year of Linux on the desktop (www.zdnet.com)
Archaeologists Uncover 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City (scitechdaily.com)
Polish antitrust watchdog investigates Apple over privacy policy (www.reuters.com)
2B Counter-Strike 2 crash exposes a legal black hole (theconversation.com)
Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages (apnews.com)
Big attack on NPM – Shai-Hulud 2.0 (about.gitlab.com)
A Power Grid-Aware Website (fershad.com)
Software Never Fails (entropicthoughts.com)
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism''s AI Era (thelocal.to)
Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key (www.bbc.com)
Idempotency Keys (www.morling.dev)
A Software Language That Vibe Coding Kids Deserve (github.com)
Browserbench.ai is launched to evaluate browser runtimes for AI Agents (www.browserbench.ai)
Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor (longform.asmartbear.com)
Ageing Populations Will Lead to Lower Living Standards, Warns Study (www.ft.com)
Questioning an Interface: From Parquet to Vortex (www.polarsignals.com)
Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature (countercraft.substack.com)
What our data says about timed coding problems (www.otherbranch.com)
German ''hammer gang'' trial for seven accused of extreme-left violence (www.bbc.com)
We nearly had power profiling in Chromium (fershad.com)
A Word on Scalability (www.allthingsdistributed.com)
AIMusubi – Local-First Agentic Network Automation for Cisco, Arista, and VyOS (github.com)
Large language mistake: Cutting-edge research shows language is not intelligence (www.theverge.com)
Lessons from two failed promotions and what changed after ZIRP (world.hey.com)
AI Smells on Medium (rmoff.net)
Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter? (www.newscientist.com)
Klarna to launch dollar-backed stablecoin (www.reuters.com)
In Praise of DHH (okayfail.com)
When Will the US Get 15K EVs? (www.wired.com)
Is This How the AI Bubble Pops? (ofdollarsanddata.com)
Spyware Allows Cyber Threat Actors to Target Users of Messaging Applications (www.cisa.gov)
When Poetry Meets AI Safety: A Critical Look at "Universal" Jailbreaks (daridor.blog)
Arduino''s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition (arstechnica.com)
Germany wakes up to US tech dominance (www.politico.eu)
What does it mean to be massively against AI? (pythonbynight.com)
Cheetos and Doritos to offer "no orange dust" variations starting December 1 (www.pepsico.com)
Microsoft is speeding up the Teams desktop client for Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Markdown Translator (github.com)
Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI (news.ycombinator.com)
Shutting Down Not Another CV (mikevdv.dev)
X''s new location feature exposed big US politics accounts (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Value of Turning Around (steplong.substack.com)
Building AI Agents for DevOps: From CI/CD Automation to Autonomous Deployments (muhammadraza.me)
Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My a Guide to the Terminology (www.techdirt.com)
My New Yorker college roommate and I vibe-coded "Mamdani Run" (mamdanirun.cc)
Hotelling''s Law (fffej.substack.com)
Apt Rust requirement raises questions (lwn.net)
''A''s will soon be most common university grade (New Zealand) (www.rnz.co.nz)
Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
Psychoanalysis in Reverse (cybershow.uk)
I Sent 200 Cold Messages and Got Zero Calls: My Customer Discovery Reality Check (meysam.io)
Implementing Zero-Trust Network Access for Microservices with OpenZiti (www.vroble.com)
AWS Lambda Networking over IPv6 (aws.amazon.com)
Unlocking ammonia as a fuel source for heavy industry (news.mit.edu)
Skip short strolls – a longer daily walk is better for your heart, says study (www.bbc.com)
A decade-long chimp war ended in a baby boom for the victors (www.livescience.com)
UK digital bank Revolut sees value jump 23B in a year (www.computerweekly.com)
Opus 4.5 is the best model for RAG (agentset.ai)
IKEA''s colorful new Bluetooth speakers (www.theverge.com)
Let your code be brutally analyzed with AI (roastmycode.idealane.app)
Chatbot Psychosis (en.wikipedia.org)
Brain has five ''eras'' – with adult mode not starting until early 30s (www.theguardian.com)
Modern JavaScript for Django, Part 3: Adding Vite, React, and Tailwind (www.saaspegasus.com)
Mitigating Application Resource Overload with Targeted Task Cancellation (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
Tech Predictions for 2026 and Beyond (www.allthingsdistributed.com)
X.org Server 21.1.21 Released to Fix Several Regressions (www.phoronix.com)
A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse (www.nytimes.com)
CNN pulls stories from Apple News feed (www.reuters.com)
Busy doing nothing: why politicians implement inefficient policies (link.springer.com)
Teleporting a Public IPv6 Address from Your VPS to Your Home Server (weisser-zwerg.dev)
Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? (2022) [pdf] (db.cs.cmu.edu)
Spinal cord neuromodulation for BP control with low-intensity focused ultrasound (www.nature.com)
The Illusion of Accuracy in AI Models (paidforarticles.in)
Stop Putting Your Passwords into Random Websites (labs.watchtowr.com)
Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code (blog.trailofbits.com)
Offline and Free Background Remover Powered by WebGPU (bgremovefree.com)
The First Image on the Internet (www.amusingplanet.com)
The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework (scorpiosoftware.net)
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing (spectrum.ieee.org)
Laptop Isn''t Ready for LLMs. That''s About to Change (spectrum.ieee.org)
TSMC sues ex-executive suspected of giving trade secrets to Intel (focustaiwan.tw)
WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS (github.com)
A Critical Security Flaws in HashiCorp''s Provider (securebulletin.com)
Artificial Analysis: Claude Opus 4.5 is the #2 most intelligent model (artificialanalysis.ai)
Sam Altman''s Dirty DRAM Deal (www.mooreslawisdead.com)
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy (www.wsj.com)
The chemical attack that forced the Northern line''s extraordinary repair (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
Aligning VMware migration with business continuity (www.technologyreview.com)
Git 3.0 Retires Master: What Developers Need to Know (jsdevspace.substack.com)
Introducing F# (F Sharp) 10 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
A skeptic''s guide to whether AI is conscious (figsinwintertime.substack.com)
Claude 4 Opus just one-shotted my app idea in 30 seconds (www.aithings.dev)
Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ''AI free'' (www.theverge.com)
Dangers, Solution of Relying on AI Chatbots for Mental Health, Parasocial (hstsethi.vercel.app)
Schema.org: create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data (schema.org)
A dormant volcano erupted in Ethiopia sending ash plumes toward Yemen and Oman (abcnews.go.com)
Adolescence lasts into 30s – new study shows four pivotal ages for your brain (www.bbc.com)
The 30-foot sea cow quickly hunted to extinction because of its tasty meat (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Nvidia Says It''s Not Enron in Private Memo Refuting Accounting Questions (www.barrons.com)
DroneEye – Real-Time European Drone Incident Intelligence Dashboard (www.droneeye.eu)
The 1916 Design Pattern That Still Works (substack.com)
Kubernetes Configuration Good Practices (kubernetes.io)
Curious gravitational wave may hint at primordial black holes (www.science.org)
The Mediating Role of Working Memory in ADHD Inattention: A Classroom Study (link.springer.com)
Your brain changes at 9, 32, 66, and 83 (www.popsci.com)
Could Virtual Reality Help Doctors Learn Empathy? (nautil.us)
Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19 (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)
Mae West jailed; court sees trial as vindication of city''s morals (1927) (nytimes.com)
Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions (www.wsj.com)
Study: The development of carbon-neutral data centres in space [pdf] (www3.ntu.edu.sg)
University student confronts lecturer for using Al-generated slides (youtu.be)
Architecture no longer considered a "professional degree" in US (www.dezeen.com)
Faciemo (faciemo.web.app)
Where the rumored budget MacBook fits in Apple''s laptop lineup (appleinsider.com)
Musk Accidentally Proves Most MAGA Accounts on Twitter Live in Russia (www.thegodpodcast.com)
Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures (newrepublic.com)
Claude Is Down, Again (status.claude.com)
LLMs have me feeling heavy (old.reddit.com)
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI''s product moat with Gemini''s "dynamic view" (spyglass.org)
Having Fun with K&R C (sbaziotis.com)
Aussies sell their tech company to US giant for 5B (www.afr.com)
Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Attack: 25K Repos Exposing Secrets (www.wiz.io)
Neoteny (en.wikipedia.org)
Nvidia''s ''I''m Not Enron'' memo has people asking a lot of questions (www.theverge.com)
We removed the τ2-bench airline eval because Opus 4.5 was too clever (twitter.com)
Vdu_controls – a DDC control panel for monitors (github.com)
Michael Burry''s Substack (michaeljburry.substack.com)
/https://andros.dev/media/thumbnails/org-social.png)
Quick tutorial to get started on Org Social (en.andros.dev)
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers (www.theregister.com)
Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don''t need (world.hey.com)
GrapheneOS leaves OVH: "France isn''t safe for open source privacy projects." (twitter.com)
China launches Shenzhou 22 spacecraft to return 3 stranded astronauts (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
Disasters I''ve seen in a microservices world (world.hey.com)
Plamort Tank Trap (www.atlasobscura.com)
Astrl (www.tryastrl.com)
LLMs in Predicaments (dxdt.ch)
How do we keep apps maintained on Flathub? (tim.siosm.fr)
Perplexity Comet UXSS (www.hacktron.ai)
Build Your Own Router with URLPattern() (jschof.dev)
ChatGPT insists that Musk''s DOGE never existed (old.reddit.com)
No Backup, No Cry (world.hey.com)
Rust for Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down (www.phoronix.com)
RL Control of Exercise-Strengthened Biohybrid Robots in Simulation (arxiv.org)
How to prepare for an emergency situation in the Netherlands [pdf] (www.denkvooruit.nl)
Collection of LLMs that run well in 32gb VRAM (huggingface.co)
US demands digital concessions in return for EU steel tariff relief (www.politico.eu)
Viola Ford Fletcher, survivor of 1921 Tulsa Massacre, dies age 111 (www.aljazeera.com)
The Airport-Lounge Wars (www.newyorker.com)
How to Deal with Difficult People at Work: 4 Secrets from Experts (bakadesuyo.com)
What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription (nmil.dev)
Most Stable Raspberry Pi? 81% Better NTP with Thermal Management (austinsnerdythings.com)
Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world (news.ucsc.edu)
Instructions for generating AI porn posted on .gov website (bakersfieldnow.com)
The Tune of Things: Is Consciousness God? (harpers.org)
NASA and Boeing Scale Back Starliner Missions After Fumbled Astronaut Flight (www.wsj.com)
Endogenous Automation Will Hit You (lydianottingham.substack.com)
Jakarta Is Now the Biggest City in the World (www.axios.com)
Ytmnd (en.wikipedia.org)
U-turn: Google wants to bring JPEG XL back to Chrome (www.heise.de)
Memories of .us (computer.rip)
Kubricks'' 2001: One Man''s Incredible Odyssey (2015) (nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com)
Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model (arstechnica.com)
Locking in WebKit (2016) (webkit.org)
Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) (creolened.com)
NZ''s draft science curriculum favours rote learning over critical thinking (theconversation.com)
Alphabet in Motion: An ABC Pop-Up Book about Typography (www.kellianderson.com)
The Druridge Bay Ruin [video] (www.youtube.com)
How I talk to whales (www.nytimes.com)
Turbine Transport Transformer (mitxela.com)
Unpaid Labor Allegations Cast Shadow over Naver WEBTOON''s Market Dominance (www.animenewsnetwork.com)
The ''S&P 493'' reveals a different U.S. economy (www.washingtonpost.com)
Real-world Nausicaa Ghibli anime glider completes its final flight in Japan (soranews24.com)
The Tree That Produces the Only True Blue Fruit on the Planet (www.forbes.com)
Linux compatible reliable C# boost for NATS messaging (github.com)
We''re Stuck in an Infinite Loop of Terrible Tech (timyc.substack.com)
Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as largest city, according to UN (www.abc.net.au)
Revolut hits 75B valuation (news.crunchbase.com)
The Valley of Death: Why 100k Is the New Poverty (www.thefp.com)
Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia''s Turf with New AI Chip Push (www.theinformation.com)
Algorithmic Harm, Explained by Former Meta Vice President Brian Boland (overturned.substack.com)
Campbell''s Boss Taped Saying Soup Is ''Bioengineered,'' Lawsuit Claims (nypost.com)
Energy Department Launches ''Genesis Mission'' (www.energy.gov)
RoaringBitmap Extension for PostgreSQL (github.com)
Symbol of LA Modernism, the Stahl House Hits Market for First Time, Asking 25M (www.mansionglobal.com)
AI or You? Who is the one who can''t get it done? (medium.com)
Unexpected ''Zig-Zag'' Structures Discovered in Earth''s Magnetic Field (www.sciencealert.com)
The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón (news.mongabay.com)
MetaOCaml: Ten Years Later System Description (www.sciencedirect.com)
CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (cs61a.org)
Microsoft doesn''t understand the dislike for Windows'' new direction (www.xda-developers.com)
Age of the Captain (en.wikipedia.org)