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“GitHub Actions remains the most exploited supply chain component in modern CI/CD.”

“Microsoft has released VibeVoice, an open source frontier-grade voice synthesis model.”

“LocalSend is an open source AirDrop alternative that works across platforms.”

“Techniques for making git fast on very large repositories.”

“OpenAI has missed internal revenue and user growth targets ahead of its planned IPO.”

“An academic’s farewell letter to his students, reflecting on what they learned together.”

“An independent community has ported Notepad++ to macOS.”

“Google is betting that AI capabilities will help GCP catch up to AWS and Azure.”

“A first-principles walkthrough of TurboQuant, a fast quantization technique for neural networks.”

“The EU’s age control proposal is functionally a digital ID mandate.”

“SGLang’s day-zero support for DeepSeek-V4 covers fast inference and verified reinforcement learning.”

“Decades of Alzheimer’s research have produced disappointing results.”

“Researchers swapped IBM’s quantum back end with /dev/urandom and got similar results on benchmark tasks.”

“An open source memory layer that gives any AI agent persistent context.”

“Firefox has integrated the Rust-based adblock engine developed by Brave.”

“George Orwell on his motivations for writing.”

“An AI-managed store in San Francisco is over-ordering candy inventory and underpaying women employees.”

“A visual guide to riichi mahjong rules, scoring, and yaku.”

“An oral history of Atari’s Tempest and its 2000 remake Tempest 2000.”

“North Korean state actors are using AI to scale attacks targeting software developers.”

“Arch Linux now publishes bit-for-bit reproducible Docker images.”

“Humpback whales are gathering in unprecedentedly large feeding groups.”

“Kuri is a Zig-based browser designed for agentic web automation.”

“San Diego rents fell after a sustained increase in housing supply.”

“A walkthrough of techniques used to build fast bytecode interpreters for dynamic languages.”

“Anthropic has reversed its position and allows OpenClaw-style automation of Claude CLI again.”

“The Onion has been approved to acquire Infowars in bankruptcy proceedings.”

“Microsoft has open-sourced sudo for Windows.”

“Anthropic’s token counter now lets you compare token counts across models.”

“A public dataset showing which email provider each of 2,100 Swiss municipalities uses.”

“IPv6 was designed for a world that didn’t end up happening.”

“A distinguished engineer explains why he stopped reading code generated by AI assistants.”

“NASA has powered down another instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the spacecraft’s operating life.”

“Ternary models can match performance of full-precision LLMs at 1.58 bits per weight.”

“Failed startups are selling their old internal communications to AI training companies.”

“A calculator that operates on disjoint sets of intervals instead of single numbers.”

“Discourse confirms it will remain open source amid concerns about its licensing direction.”

“I built a workflow that uses Claude Code to verify SPICE simulations against real oscilloscope traces.”

“A new US bill would require operating systems to verify user ages on-device.”

“RedSun grants SYSTEM-level access on fully patched Windows 11/10 and Server installs.”

“Ollama is a thin wrapper that the local LLM community can do without.”

“The FSF says a spammer is sending 10,000+ emails per day from a Gmail address and Google won’t respond.”

“A counter-result to the previous piece on elementary functions.”

“OpenAI’s $852B valuation is drawing increasing scrutiny from investors amid revenue concerns.”

“If you wait a week before adopting new dependency versions, you are free-riding on the people who didn’t.”

“Google will start penalizing sites that hijack the back button to keep users trapped.”

“Meta has deployed an internal AI agent trained on Zuckerberg’s communication style for employee Q&A.”

“Blackmagic announces DaVinci Resolve Photo, a free professional photo editor.”

“AMD’s ROCm stack is improving, but CUDA’s lead remains substantial.”

“Apple’s failure to ship a state of the art LLM may end up being a strategic advantage.”