Building AI agents that work: Introducing Nova Act as a service (labs.amazon.science)
Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost (news.mit.edu)
Alignment Research Blog (alignment.openai.com)
Apple Glasses could be next year''s most attention-grabbing product (9to5mac.com)
Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes (lite.localcafe.org)
Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting (www.ft.com)
Supreme Court leans toward internet service providers in copyright battle (www.cnn.com)
Stripe Acquires Metronome, a Usage-Based Billing Platform (metronome.com)
I tracked 677k newly launched websites in November. Here''s the breakdown (websitelaunches.com)
Stop Blaming Scale: Why Ownership Matters (pve.dev)
Remote teleoperation of robots with live video (transitiverobotics.com)
What even is "literate programming"? (pqnelson.github.io)
In defense of lock poisoning in Rust (sunshowers.io)
Re-Signifying My Relationship with Speed (rashidazarang.com)
Nvidia CFO admits the 100B OpenAI megadeal ''still'' isn''t signed (fortune.com)
AI Can Steal Crypto Now (www.bloomberg.com)
Zorin OS (zorin.com)
The Myth of the 140k Poverty Line (www.thefp.com)
How much of "Mississippi''s education miracle" is an artifact of selection bias? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
Disable-Javascript.org (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Amazon Trainium3 UltraServers (www.aboutamazon.com)
Overlap in Corporate Leadership Increases Collusion (www.nber.org)
Michael Lewis ''Against the Rules'': Michael Burry Speaks [audio] (www.pushkin.fm)
Trump Accounts Are a Big Deal (marginalrevolution.com)
Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout (www.wsj.com)
Kiro Autonomous Agent (kiro.dev)
Gel Joins Vercel (www.geldata.com)
How AI is transforming work at Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
It''s hard to deny the simple beauty of a function (www.jameskerr.blog)
YouTube AI: Deepfake detector tool is alarming creators, experts (www.cnbc.com)
Government of Canada AI Register (Minimum Viable Product) (open.canada.ca)
Why We Love Functional Programming But Don''t Use Effect-TS (runharbor.com)
ABC''s from Space (www.visibleearth.nasa.gov)
Tree-planting robot saves burned land from deforestation (www.designboom.com)
Small numbers of Notepad users reporting security woes (doublepulsar.com)
Who Is Beej? (gist.github.com)
LowType: Intuitive Ruby runtime type checking (github.com)
Claude 4.5 Opus'' Soul Document (simonwillison.net)
Amazon launches Trainium3 (techcrunch.com)
RAG Isn''t One-Size-Fits-All - Here''s how to Tune It (lancedb.com)
Lazy Linearity for a Core Functional Language (POPL 2026) (alt-romes.github.io)
Fwupd 2.0.18 Enables Linux Firmware Updating for More Hardware (www.phoronix.com)
EA''s Next Act and It''s Vision for Sports and Sports Fandom (www.matthewball.co)
Supermodel: Sega Model 3 arcade emulator (github.com)
Every Sora AI video burns 1 Kilowatt hour and emits 466 grams of carbon (reclaimedsystems.substack.com)
Automatically mark pull requests and issues as stale with GitHub Actions (cassidoo.co)
Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Supreme Court dubious of billion-dollar judgment for copyright infringement (www.scotusblog.com)
Understanding the Electron (2015) (arxiv.org)
Hot takes on 13 talks from NANOG 95 (blog.apnic.net)
Just Use Postgres (www.manning.com)
The AI boom has all 4 classic bubble signs (www.businessinsider.com)
SaaS Starter Stack – Open-Source Node.js Boilerplate, Stripe, Invoicing, GDPR (github.com)
Local MCP traffic audit and observability tool (inspector.mcpshark.sh)
Ymir: Sega Saturn Emulator (github.com)
Noise, Stability, and ML Model Calibration (www.testingbranch.com)
Michael Burry Speaks [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why Sourcegraph and Amp Are Becoming Independent Companies (sourcegraph.com)
O''Saasy License Agreement (www.fizzy.do)
Bending Spoons Acquires Eventbrite (www.businesswire.com)
The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users (gizmodo.com)
Eventbrite to go private in a 500M deal (seekingalpha.com)
Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph (ampcode.com)
I Fed Claude 7 Years of Daily Journals. It Showed Me the Future of AI (medium.com)
Sam Altman Declares ''Code Red'' as Google''s Gemini Surges (fortune.com)
Churches withdraw investments from fossil fuels (dpa-international.com)
Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward (www.theregister.com)
Sam Altman declares ''code red'' to improve ChatGPT amid rising competition (apnews.com)
LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 (www.gilesthomas.com)
See your life in weeks (www.compasscalendar.com)
1T row challenge in 76s using DuckDB on 10k CPUs (docs.burla.dev)
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft''s AI obsession has ruined the service (www.theregister.com)
IBM CEO says there is ''no way'' spending on AI data centers will pay off (www.businessinsider.com)
Android Zero-Days Patched in December 2025 Security Update (www.securityweek.com)
Over 90% of the cases we receive, cell-level repair is not possible on LG packs (twitter.com)
Sam Altman issues ''code red'' at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals (www.theguardian.com)
Mistral misspelled Ministral on HuggingFace and Ollama (huggingface.co)
Bank of England warns of AI bubble risk (www.bbc.com)
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic (bun.com)
Anthropic Acquires Bun (www.anthropic.com)
What to buy that improves quality of life (www.developing.dev)
DocNode: A TypeScript OT library for local-first apps (github.com)
100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite (andersmurphy.com)
How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house (github.blog)
School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement (NBER Digest) (www.nber.org)
Joys of a Strongly Worded Email (vale.rocks)
Oracle EBS exploitation similar to Clop''s MOVEit, GoAnywhere attacks (www.scworld.com)
The Junior Hiring Crisis (people-work.io)
IETF draft calls to grant five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators (www.theregister.com)
Ann Bedsole, founder of the Alabama School of Math and Science, dies at 95 (yellowhammernews.com)
The Math at the Heart of Reality (www.scientificamerican.com)
WebAssembly with Go: Taking Web Apps to the Next Level (2023) (permify.co)
The batteries powering the fastest racing EVs (www.bbc.com)
A framework for unifying cognition across all substrates (defaulttodignity.substack.com)
D-Wave Announces Formation of U.S. Government Business Unit (www.dwavequantum.com)
Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua (galileo.ai)
Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk (futurism.com)
Sony A7 V Review (www.dpreview.com)
Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Responsible Disclosure: Joiners, Movers, and Leavers in NHS BSA (shkspr.mobi)
Your Face as a QR Code (research.swtch.com)
Stack Overflow AI Assist–a tool for the modern developer (stackoverflow.blog)
Bill to disallow dual citizenship proposed (www.msn.com)
When You Give a Manager a Chatbot (disgruntleddeveloper.substack.com)
Software Engineering Is Map Making, Not Magic (www.chrisbako.com)
Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years (sherwood.news)
Fizzy, the Kanban tracking tool for issues and ideas by 37signals (github.com)
Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco (www.fieldnotes.nautilus.quest)
Indian order to preload state-owned app on smartphones sparks political outcry (www.theguardian.com)
Solid State Volumetric Display (mastodon.social)
What Is the "Bean Soup Theory" on TikTok? (www.insidehook.com)
Engineering Lessons from Replicating Amazon RDS Postgres with Rust (serendb.com)
Practical Engineering: Hurricane vs. Tiny House (practical.engineering)
SMB vs. NFS: Why I switched for Home Lab file sharing (www.xda-developers.com)
a16z: Why Local Tech Scenes Have Changed (www.a16z.news)
Lambda Durable Functions (docs.aws.amazon.com)
Paged Out – Call for Pages (pagedout.institute)
Eat Some Spinach (swedenherald.com)
Russian Porsche owners'' cars immobilised across country (www.dailymail.co.uk)
API GitHub Meta (api.github.com)
Notes about VK_EXT_custom_resolve (rg3.name)
Photons Light the Way (www.symmetrymagazine.org)
"We have nothing to hide"- Why the Dutch don''t mind you peering into their homes (www.cnn.com)
Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits (eli.li)
Elevated Errors on Claude.ai (status.claude.com)
Kuzu Graph DB is archived:( (github.com)
Memtest86 v8.00 Released (github.com)
New Amazon Nova AI models that help build highly reliable AI agents (www.aboutamazon.com)
I built an open-source CRM after getting frustrated with HubSpot''s pricing (old.reddit.com)
Fizzy (www.fizzy.do)
Twinning: A Simple Jailbreak That Bypasses AI Image Protections (anthonymattas.com)
Replacing a complex Postgres and Memcached and Kafka back end with Rama (blog.redplanetlabs.com)
Amazon launches Nova 2 family of models (aws.amazon.com)
Deep dive into the grounding of 6000 Airbus Planes (yvesremmler.substack.com)
AWS Announces Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases (aws.amazon.com)
I Ported the Web to the Web (developer.puter.com)
The Legal Case Against Ring''s Face Recognition Feature (www.eff.org)
Asteroid Bennu has all the ingredients for life as we know it (www.newscientist.com)
Helldivers 2 cuts its install size from 154GB to 23GB (store.steampowered.com)
Every Major City as a Tiny Miniature World (www.adithyan.io)
Amazon Prime Video removes controversial AI anime dubs (animecorner.me)
4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda''s 7-Year Malware Campaign (www.koi.ai)
Removed Rust to Gain Speed (www.prisma.io)
CJEU Ruling may invalidate DSA protections for platfroms (bsky.app)
3D-printed cornea restores sight in a legally blind patient (newatlas.com)
Peter Thiel''s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy (jacobin.com)
All I Want for Christmas Is the Right Aspect Ratio (perladvent.org)
Tesla hints at new camera upgrade, casting doubt on Full Self-Driving promises (electrek.co)
Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase (www.theregister.com)
New graphene breakthrough supercharges energy storage (www.sciencedaily.com)
Shining Force III – 1998 Developer Interview (shmuplations.com)
George Washington''s Teeth (en.wikipedia.org)
CNRS Is Breaking from the Web of Science, Core Collection and JCR (www.cnrs.fr)
Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second, AI leads TypeScript to #1 (github.blog)
Apple security bounties slashed as Mac malware grows (9to5mac.com)
Reduction of residence time of air in the Arctic since the 1980s (essopenarchive.org)
Breakthrough to Strengthen Bone Could Reverse Osteoporosis (www.nature.com)
Open-source full-stack starter built on TanStack Start (github.com)
The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down (www.wired.com)
Towards Holistic IoT Systems Profiling (blog.ptidej.net)
Unless Its Governance Changes, Anthropic Is Untrustworthy (anthropic.ml)
India Orders a Tracking App to Be Installed in All Smartphones (www.nytimes.com)
Fallout 2''s Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy (arstechnica.com)
How''s Linux Dealing with AI? (thelibre.news)
Scientists discover 53 powerful quasars shooting out jets (www.space.com)
Garmin InReach Mini 3 Plus (www.garmin.com)
Sharks and Rays Gain Protections from Wildlife Trade (www.nytimes.com)
Chat Control 2.0 – EU Messages Scanning Despite Evidence of Privacy Risks (reclaimthenet.org)
Why does ChatGPT think mammoths were alive in December? (ramblingafter.substack.com)
Dells donate 6.25B to encourage families to claim ''Trump Accounts'' (apnews.com)
Context Plumbing (Interconnected) (interconnected.org)
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes (www.technologyreview.com)
Star Wars: Darth Vader Learns the Truth about Luke Skywalker (www.youtube.com)
The Anti-Planner (www.anti-planner.com)
Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python (alexwlchan.net)
macOS Tahoe Adoption Rate (old.reddit.com)
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro for WSL (canonical.com)
Distributed ID Formats Are Architectural Commitments, Not Just Data Types (piljoong.dev)
The era of AI slop cleanup has begun (www.reddit.com)
Russia''s War Drones Still Using Starlink Despite Pentagon Crackdown (united24media.com)
What''s Possible in Brain Circuit Mapping in 5 Years [video] (www.youtube.com)
Some models of reality are bolder than others (cjauvin.github.io)
Is 2026 Next Year? (www.google.com)
Kitten Space Agency (ahwoo.com)
NYC''s Premiere Analog Photobooth Gallery and Museum (www.autophoto.org)
Why Healthcare Is in a Death Spiral: Follow the Money (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
China''s ''dirt cheap'' hypersonic missiles could upend global defence markets (www.scmp.com)
What I''m doing in GTM as B2B SaaS founder as of Dec 25 (nonamevc.substack.com)
What is evented IO and why does it scale? (ksat.me)
''Function Coloring'' (www.tedinski.com)
What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI (www.oreilly.com)
Zig''s new approach to asynchronous I/O (zig.show)
MCP vs. ChatGPT Apps: A Detailed Comparison (alpic.ai)
DotInsights – December 2025 (blog.jetbrains.com)
Launch-Day Diffusion: Tracking Hacker News Impact on GitHub Stars for AI Tools (arxiv.org)
Learn like an athlete, knowledge workers should train (marginalrevolution.com)
Rash: Declarative shell scripting using Rust native bindings inspired by Ansible (github.com)
Building a Toast Component (emilkowal.ski)
My Contribution to Toon (mateolafalce.github.io)
Highlight.io Sunsets Itself After LaunchDarkly Acquisition (www.highlight.io)
ICRC: A collection of codes of conduct issued by armed groups (2011) [pdf] (international-review.icrc.org)
Early modern humans experienced thoughts as commands from external "gods" (en.wikipedia.org)
Mistral 3 family of models released (mistral.ai)
OpenAI declares ''code red'' as Google catches up in AI race (www.theverge.com)
Daily JavaScript and Python Coding Challenges in the Browser – AdventJS 2025 (adventjs.dev)
AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself (www.currentaffairs.org)
Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix (github.com)
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years (www.bbc.co.uk)
Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing (martynassubonis.substack.com)
Gates: Linux is no threat to Windows (1999) (www.itprotoday.com)
''The biggest decision yet'': Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself (www.theguardian.com)
The Power of Proximity to Coworkers [pdf] (pallais.scholars.harvard.edu)
Best Anonymous Payment Methods 2025 (cloudexplorer.ai)
America''s elite colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem (www.theatlantic.com)
Has the TSA added immigration enforcement to "Secure Flight"? (papersplease.org)
FreeBSD 15.0 Now Officially Available with Many Updates, Reproducible Builds (www.phoronix.com)
Study Finds AI Wildlife Videos Creates a Disconnect Between People and Animals (petapixel.com)
Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk? (www.nytimes.com)
Zig''s new plan for asynchronous programs (lwn.net)
Every cheat site has the wrong code for Michelin Rally Masters (32bits.substack.com)
Catch the liar in this addictive party word game (www.imposterwords.com)
My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging (mtlynch.io)
Scientists just found a way to tell if quantum computers are wrong (www.sciencedaily.com)
I built a womens safety navigation app after my girlfriend got harassed at night (www.street-wise.app)
New GOP Survey Analysis of Today''s Republican Coalition (manhattan.institute)
Police detain former EU foreign policy chief F. Mogherini in anti-fraud probe (www.euronews.com)
First time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day (www.npr.org)
Presidential HIV council warns proposed cuts could reverse decades of progress (abcnews.go.com)
Build Your Own Train Departure Display (github.com)
Spectral rendering, part 3: Spectral vs. RGB (momentsingraphics.de)
Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (pallais.scholars.harvard.edu)
Intimate Advertising, the Next Frontier in AI Manipulation (jacobin.com)
A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1 (airbus-seclab.github.io)
Michael and Susan Dell to Put 250 in 25M Children''s Accounts (www.nytimes.com)
P-Civilization Theory: Capital Praise as a dual-axis framework (paxiscivlab.substack.com)
Demystifying Vulkan Ray Tracing [video] (www.youtube.com)
Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling (2007) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Speeding up C functions with a thread_local cache (lemire.me)
South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for ''sexploitation'' footage (www.bbc.com)
Why Authorization is more important (oscarevertsson.com)
Boosting Ray Tracing Performance with Shader Execution Reordering (www.khronos.org)
Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams for set-theoretic types (elixir-lang.org)
When software becomes fast food (world.hey.com)
OpenAI''s Sam Altman declares ''code red'' after rivals make advances (www.ft.com)
The Download: AI''s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again (www.technologyreview.com)
AlphaFold shows why science may be AI''s killer app (fortune.com)
Apple refuses Indias order to preload state cyber safety app Sanchar Saathi (www.telegraphindia.com)
AMD GI-1.2 with multibounce indirect real-time rendering (gpuopen.com)
Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown (www.npr.org)
The Rise of AI Denialism (bigthink.com)
From Gears of War to Uno: the 15 most important Xbox 360 games (www.theguardian.com)
Shader Execution Reordering Benchmarked (www.evolvebenchmark.com)
University of Pennsylvania confirms new data breach after Oracle hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain''t one (www.theregister.com)
Gary Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding (twitter.com)
Don''t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives. (www.nytimes.com)
Optical guitar pickup for nylon strings using fork light barriers (codeberg.org)
The fading of Japan''s Shōwa era in pictures (www.theguardian.com)
Python Data Science Handbook (jakevdp.github.io)
Feynman vs. Computer (entropicthoughts.com)
XBerry Pi Review – ZX Spectrum Next in Pi Form Factor (retrogamecoders.com)
Constant-time support for LLVM to protect cryptographic code (blog.trailofbits.com)
University of Michigan Press – eBook Collection (Open Access) (www.fulcrum.org)
Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules (arstechnica.com)
TSA Imposes 45 Fee for Travelers Without Real ID Starting February 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession (www.jasonscheirer.com)
Doge Isn''t Dead. Here''s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now (www.wired.com)
Vim Motion for Writers (Inspired by Paul Graham) (www.ssp.sh)
A theoretical upper limit for offshore wind energy extraction (www.cell.com)
Lepton – a name for Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux (www.pcguide.com)
A private ambient listener for homes and offices (evanking.io)
Tree planting search engine Ecosia launches AI search (blog.ecosia.org)
High schoolers excel at Oxford quantum course using pictorial mathematics (arxiv.org)
New digital state of matter could help build stable quantum computers (phys.org)
Repair Shop Management Software (motara.tech)
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents (www.nytimes.com)
Complete AD&D 2nd edition compendium (www.completecompendium.com)
Why We Keep Making the Same Software Mistakes (spectrum.ieee.org)
Poetry of Joseph Stalin (en.wikipedia.org)
Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say (www.theguardian.com)
Multi-threaded LLM agent with async "subconscious" loop and pgvector memory (ivanhonis.github.io)
Operation 404: 3k Pirate Domains Blocked, Usdoj and Usdoc Get to Watch (torrentfreak.com)
Google Earth imagery reveals spoiler for yet-to-air episode of TV show Pluribus (old.reddit.com)
Deformable Object Manipulation (twitter.com)
Addressing the adding situation – Matt Godbolt (xania.org)
Parliament must buy European IT, lawmakers tell Metsola (www.euractiv.com)
AI''s Great Infrastructure Boom: Bullwhip or Building the Future? (gadallon.substack.com)
I love AI. Why doesn''t everyone? (www.noahpinion.blog)
Snowflake and Databricks Lost the Plot (datatrenches.boyanbalevengineering.com)
I know what you download (iknowwhatyoudownload.com)
Gelephu Mindfulness City (en.wikipedia.org)
Young Adults in China pay pretend to work companies (www.bbc.com)
GNU Guile 3.0.11 (lists.gnu.org)
Go proposal: Type-safe error checking (antonz.org)
TIC-80: Free open-source fantasy console for making tiny games (github.com)
India tells smartphone makers to put state-run cyber safety app on new devices (www.bbc.com)
Disco – Self-hosted PaaS for teams outgrowing Render and Heroku (disco.cloud)
But why is AI bad? (daymare.net)
Trap Street (en.wikipedia.org)
Hackers Use Npmscan.com to Hack Web Apps (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun) (audits.blockhacks.io)