Splitt – A gym set tracker that does nothing else (trysplitt.com)
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Design.md (github.com)
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Hermes Agent by Nous Research (hermes-agent.nousresearch.com)
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The Khan Ted Institute (khanted.org)
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Old Computers Sucked (oldcomputerssucked.com)
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Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms (nautil.us)
The LMAX Architecture (martinfowler.com)
CrossOver 26.1 released for Linux and macOS (www.codeweavers.com)
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IPv8 (datatracker.ietf.org)
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Corporate Profits Are at Record Highs. These 4 Factors Could Sink Them (www.nytimes.com)
Only Law Can Prevent Extinction (www.lesswrong.com)
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What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (2014) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Our World in Data (ourworldindata.org)
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Adobe Has Run Out of Allies (petapixel.com)
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The AI stack trap: the hidden cost of overbuilding with AI (www.forbes.com)
Digital Ecosystems: Interactive Multi-Agent Neural Cellular Automata (pub.sakana.ai)
In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning (www.economist.com)
Berlin offers free entry for litter picking to make tourists do their bit (www.euronews.com)
Traders placed over 1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (www.theguardian.com)
America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
Claude Mythos and Cybersecurity (www.schneier.com)
Audio transcription is worse in 2026 than it was in 2016 (write.as)
The American Society of Cinematographers – Zero Day: Exploring An (theasc.com)
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Discord Robots.txt (discord.com)
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Comparing GPT-5.4, Opus 4.6, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.5, MiMo V2 Pro and MiniMax M2.7 (www.codejam.info)
Filmmakers defend Val Kilmer movie made with AI (www.reuters.com)
US ''Golden Shield'' Takes Form in First Exercise with Micro-Missile Interceptors (nextgendefense.com)
TSA Bans This Knife at Checkpoint – Then Airlines Hand It to You on Plane (viewfromthewing.com)
SF is obsessed with the safest drivers and ignoring the ones killing people (www.sfchronicle.com)
Phantom Camerawork: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) (theasc.com)
Headless Everything for Personal AI (interconnected.org)
Apple TV''s Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner (screenrant.com)
Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program (prog21.dadgum.com)
Salesforce launches Headless 360 turn platform in infrastructure for AI agents (venturebeat.com)
Bluetooth tracker in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location (www.tomshardware.com)
Trump, When Asked About White House Meeting with Anthropic''s Dario Amodei: Who? (gizmodo.com)
Too many tools or tool overload (devcyc.life)
IMF says America''s 39T national debt is a global problem (finance.yahoo.com)
List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
SpaceX Files FCC Complaint over Ariane 64 Amazon Leo Launch (europeanspaceflight.com)
Welcome to the Machine: The Matrix (1999) (theasc.com)
4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
Two 20B: OpenAI and Nvidia in a ''Reasoning Battle'' (jianshiapp.com)
Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
Rail: A self-hosting language that speaks TLS alone (github.com)
URLmind – Turn any business URL into structured context for AI agents (urlmind.com)
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (www.sidephone.com)
Does Your Poop Float? (buildojas.substack.com)
Version 1.0 of WireGuard for Windows and WireGuardNT Released (lists.zx2c4.com)
C64GFX – Commodore 64 Pixel Art Gallery (c64gfx.com)
China''s HH-200 Cargo Drone Flies First Mission with 1.5-Ton Load (dronexl.co)
Open-source isolated runtime for AI agents (github.com)
Blade Runner Cinematography (1999) (theasc.com)
867-5309: Famous ''80s song phone number now directs to cancer support line (thehill.com)
White House probes wave of missing or dead American scientists (www.foxnews.com)
Georgia''s Voting Technology Blunder (pluralistic.net)
Matt Mullenweg Says "The Wheels Have Fallen Off" in WordPress (www.therepository.email)
Unearthly Terrors: Event Horizon (1997) (theasc.com)
The USDA''s gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (apps.npr.org)
They Were YouTube''s First Stars. Here''s What They Wish They''d Known (www.nytimes.com)
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber''s star tracker (www.righto.com)
Nothing prepares you for the death of a pet (spectator.com)
The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light (www.johndcook.com)
Trump announces reforms to accelerate access to psychedelic drug treatments (www.theguardian.com)
See what model is better at design (pixel-match.bsct.so)
What life is like when you have an unfortunate surname (www.bbc.co.uk)
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The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple''s Studio Display XDR (blog.tymscar.com)
Artemis Was a State Failure and a Human Triumph (www.bloomberg.com)
The AI Doomers Who Are Playing with Fire (gizmodo.com)
I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend''s ChatGPT and It Ended Our Relationship (lindseyhallwrites.substack.com)
Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is 45% (tokens.billchambers.me)
What my journal doesn''t say about my life (www.tsoon.com)
Anthropic''s Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation (www.artificialintelligencemadesimple.com)
The curse of the gifted programmer (2000) (lwn.net)
The Mythos Threshold (joereis.substack.com)
LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Geometric Context Transformer (technology.robbyant.com)
Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods from Hollywood''s AI push (restofworld.org)
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Fuzix OS (www.fuzix.org)
The Listener: Is Private Knowledge Real? (tantaman.com)
Why we expect more from technology and less from each other (hedgehogreview.com)
25 Weeks Challenge (25weeks.now)
Sherry Turkle: "We''re losing the raw, human part of being with each other" (www.theguardian.com)
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Quantum ''Jamming'' Explores the Fundamental Principles of Nature (www.quantamagazine.org)
SQLite prefixes its temp files with etilqs_ (avi.im)
The Fire Framework (dvcoolarun.com)
LLMs will soon disrupt algorithmic media feeds (www.lesswrong.com)
Simple Made Easy (2011) [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Mismanaged Geniuses Hypothesis (alexzhang13.github.io)
When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed (PDF, 2012) (thrive.arizona.edu)
How We Build Effective Agents: Barry Zhang, Anthropic [video] (www.youtube.com)
Dive into Claude Code: The Design Space of Today''s and Future AI Agent Systems (arxiv.org)
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting (2011) (www.lesswrong.com)
Trump''s reversal on day care upends a bipartisan push to lower costs (www.washingtonpost.com)
Real-time poker engine (replay, telemetry, AI players) (oxyklon.net)
Trump deal with IRS could see him given 14B in taxpayer money (www.9news.com.au)
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Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo (www.theregister.com)
My AI writes to my Apple Health in real time: observations on personal software (shuyangli.substack.com)
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Sprawl was caused by the nuclear arms race (www.treehugger.com)
Takeaways from the Story of Trump''s Decision to Go to War with Iran (www.nytimes.com)
Isaac Asimov: The Last Answer (1980) (www.highexistence.com)
Vibe Coders Confessions (horror.vc)
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The Mystery of Rennes-Le-Château, Part 4: Non-Fiction Meets Fiction (www.filfre.net)
Hello old new "Projects" directory (blog.tenstral.net)
GitHub Copilot EU data residency (github.blog)
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LingBot-Map: Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction (github.com)
The Most Remarkable Case in Swedish UFO History [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mac-control-MCP – 63-tool native Swift MCP server for macOS (github.com)
Value Numbering (bernsteinbear.com)
The Great Man-Made River of Libya (en.wikipedia.org)
Graph RAG finds what''s similar. We should aim for what''s relevant (github.com)
Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)
A Reality Check on the Inequality Panic (pastimperfect.humanprogress.org)
Việt Nam: Local Police Dox and Fine Citizens over Critical Comments (thevietnamese.org)
Oil Depletion Allowance (en.wikipedia.org)
You can have an RSS dependent website in 2026 (matduggan.com)
Escaped wolf returned to zoo after nine-day search (www.cnn.com)
The Apple II Moment is here (hipocampus.ai)
Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)
AI Is Finding More Bugs Than Open-Source Teams Can Fight Off (www.bloomberg.com)
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)
State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
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Poor Planning and Lax Oversight Wastes Millions (www.mass.gov)
The Download: cyberscammers'' banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles (www.technologyreview.com)
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Tomb Raider Studio Faces Fourth Round of Layoffs in Just 12 Months (kotaku.com)
Atlassian''s new data collection policy protects rich customers, AI eats the rest (www.theregister.com)
My AI thinks civics is black studies (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
Hikikomori: Two Hundred Years of Housework Devalued (wonbrand.substack.com)
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A certain enchanted forest is inhabited by talking birds (wiki.xxiivv.com)
The Only Two Markup Languages (www.gingerbill.org)
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