Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card (www.theregister.com)
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SDPD captain helped secure a surveillance deal. Now he works for flock (www.sandiegouniontribune.com)
I''ve been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016) (www.snellman.net)
AI Chatbots and the Loneliness Crisis (www.bmj.com)
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MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home (www.nytimes.com)
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Pctx-Py – Code Mode for Python Tools and MCP (portofcontext.com)
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The Resistors Were Teenage Hackers and Computer Pioneers (spectrum.ieee.org)
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CC, a new AI productivity agent that connects your Gmail, Calendar and Drive (labs.google)
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MiMo-V2-Flash (mimo.xiaomi.com)
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Red Hat Acquires Another AI Company (www.phoronix.com)
Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (ai.meta.com)
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Microsoft Updates Windows ''To Stop Users from Downloading Google Chrome'' (www.forbes.com)
EIB and STMicroelectronics announce 1B agreement for EU chip manufacturing (www.eib.org)
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Piecemeal Formal Verification: Cloudflare, Java Exceptions, and Rust Mutexes (gavinhoward.com)
GPT Image 1.5 (platform.openai.com)
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Workbox: JavaScript Libraries for Progressive Web Apps (github.com)
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Context: Odin''s Most Misunderstood Feature (www.gingerbill.org)
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Exe.dev, Modern VMs (blog.exe.dev)
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TikTok Video Downloader (tiktokme.app)
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FVWM-95 (fvwm95.sourceforge.net)
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Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox to Evolve into a "Modern AI Browser" (www.phoronix.com)
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Mozilla names insider Enzor-DeMeo as CEO, looks to add AI features to Firefox (www.reuters.com)
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Know Your IP (github.com)
Gh-actions-lockfile: generate and verify lockfiles for GitHub Actions (gh-actions-lockfile.net)
Tangible AI Dungeons and Dragons (fab.cba.mit.edu)
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Trump''s Top Aide Acknowledges ''Score Settling'' Behind Prosecutions (www.nytimes.com)
Deloitte''s CTO: Companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people (fortune.com)
US gov''t launches ''Tech Force'' to replace IT staff DOGE fired (www.theregister.com)
Pax Silica Marks End of Globalization''s Golden Age (www.eetimes.com)
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Don''t Build a General Purpose API (4 Years Later) (max.engineer)
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U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains (www.wsj.com)
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Codesplain: Explain Any Codebase in Seconds (codesplain.ai)
This is not the future (blog.mathieui.net)
Dan Abramov''s RSC Explorer (rscexplorer.dev)
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Agentic AI is brilliant because I loath my family (shkspr.mobi)
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Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die (arstechnica.com)
The woman who sold time – and the man who tried to stop her (www.bbc.com)
Designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (www.whitehouse.gov)
English prose has become much easier to read (www.worksinprogress.news)
Vampire Ground Finch (en.wikipedia.org)
Large language models are not about natural language (arxiv.org)
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Kaist researchers develop new ''stealth cloak'' to be applied to robots, wearable (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
Cloudflare Radar: The rise of AI, post-quantum, and DDoS attacks (blog.cloudflare.com)
Lifemap (lifemap.cnrs.fr)
LLMs Are Left-Leaning Liberals: The Hidden Political Bias of LLMs (www.scl.org)
EU household real income per capita up 22% since 2004 (ec.europa.eu)
When Everything Is Important, Nothing Matters (ramezanpour.net)
AI that helps startups assess technical candidates (www.algo-voice.dev)
State of HTML 2025 Results (2025.stateofhtml.com)
Nemotron 3 Nano Technical Report [pdf] (research.nvidia.com)
Should we fear Microsoft''s monopoly? (www.cursor.tue.nl)
''A hostile climate for workers'': US labor movement struggles under Trump (www.theguardian.com)
Let''s write a toy UI library (nakst.gitlab.io)
Reflections on U.S. Government Outreach to Think Tanks (www.brookings.edu)
Optimization Countermeasures (mcyoung.xyz)
Going Fast, yet Standing Still (blog.rybarix.com)
Littlehampton Libels (en.wikipedia.org)
Deep Dive in Java vs. C Performance (johnnysswlab.com)
Experiment to train rats to play Doom reaches a new level: shooting enemies (www.tomshardware.com)
Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs (www.nytimes.com)
ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing (github.com)
King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI Bubble Burst? (www.lrb.co.uk)
China''s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can''t Catch Nvidia (www.cfr.org)
The cost of producing code is approaching zero (fffej.substack.com)
Normie.club – a daily web game where normies thrive (normie.club)
AI space datacenters are impossible (ulveon.net)
The Specification Renaissance? Skills and Mindset for Spec Driven Development (blog.scottlogic.com)
EU yields to pressure from automakers as it rethinks 2035 combustion car ban (www.reuters.com)
PhotoWorks 16.0: New Photo Editor to Bite the Big Mac (petapixel.com)
I''m a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do? (world.hey.com)
Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
Railway Is Down (status.railway.com)
A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces (a2ui.org)
A C Library That Outperforms RocksDB in Speed and Efficiency (tidesdb.com)
15,000 Free Pixel Art Icons (piixes.com)
Advent of Enterprise Integration Patterns (james-carr.org)
Single-Pass Huffman Coding (doisinkidney.com)
A Stealth F-22 Flew Right Under an Iranian F-4 (and Told Them ''Go Home'') (2019) (nationalinterest.org)
Censorship Explained: Shadowsocks (wallpunch.net)
VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot (www.heise.de)
November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and m (servo.org)
Interactive Code Reviews from the Terminal (github.com)
OpenAI''s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company (www.wired.com)
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The Laffer Curve in Action (rodgercuddington.substack.com)
Snowflake Major Outage (status.snowflake.com)
Global Known_hosts for SSH Services (knownhosts.net)
Linus Torvalds Advocates AI for Code Maintenance, but Rejects ''Revolution'' Label (www.zdnet.com)
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New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony (www.theregister.com)
Trump files 5B defamation lawsuit against BBC over Panorama speech edit (www.bbc.co.uk)
Torvalds on Linux Security Modules (www.phoronix.com)
The Computer Chronicles – Computer Bowl Competitions [video] (www.youtube.com)
ChatterBox Turbo – Open Weight TTS Model (huggingface.co)
Open source collection of 100 leadership questions on GitHub (github.com)
.well-known/SSH-known-hosts – WebPKI bootstrapping for SSH known hosts (github.com)
ChatGPT 5.2 on how Silicon Valley views Europe and democracy in the Trump II era (chatgpt.com)
Netflix Live Origin (netflixtechblog.com)
Electric Mining Dump Trucks (www.komatsu.com.au)
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A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation (medium.com)
Leafovers – Add sticky notes to any page on the web (chromewebstore.google.com)
O''saasy License Agreement (osaasy.dev)
Volkswagen to End Production at German Plant, a First in Company History (www.nytimes.com)
Fraud allegations fly as Vancouver startup UpMeals descends into bankruptcy (www.ctvnews.ca)
3D Environments from Single Images (www.spaitial.ai)
Rapida – an open-source, self-hosted voice AI orchestration platform (github.com)
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Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch (github.com)
SQLite for VMs: embeddable AI agent sandboxing (github.com)
Enhancing LLMs with LoRA – Standardized Recipes for Capability Enhancement (huggingface.co)
She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart (www.washingtonpost.com)
Neil Postman, Informing Ourselves to Death (web.archive.org)
What is more important than working hard? (himanshusinghbisht.substack.com)
How to Write a 21st Century Proof (2011) [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
Modalz Modalz Modalz (modalzmodalzmodalz.com)
Substack forces users to download app to read content (twitter.com)
Nvidia aquires SchedMD – developer of Slurm HPC scheduling software (www.heise.de)
Oracle: Let It Fall, Let It Fall, Let It Fall (seekingalpha.com)
A Simple Recommendation System (angelocortez.com)
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Distributed and Compositional Learning Data-structure: C#-NATS example (nats-io.github.io)
I kept rewriting Markdown docs into Word files, so I automated it (yourdomain.bedpage.com)
Tesla board made 3B via stock awards that dwarfed tech peers (www.reuters.com)
How Did India Conquer Space? (altermag.com)
Deep Agent Framework, the Pydantic AI Way (vstorm-co.github.io)
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Google is bringing Android to PCs with AluminiumOS (www.pocket-lint.com)
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Scientists Have Discovered an Organism That Breaks Biology''s Golden Rule (scitechdaily.com)
Simple Network Paging Protocol (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Cliff of Infrastructure as Code (www.systeminit.com)