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Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
blog.google

Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
ryanpuzycki.com

Ryan Puzycki - How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes

Nano Banana Pro
blog.google

Nano Banana Pro is our new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind.

210 IQ Is Not Enough
taylor.town

Taylor Troesh - You will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy.

Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
phoronix.com
Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Students fight back over course taught by AI
theguardian.com

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

Red Alert 2 in web browser
chronodivide.com

Play now, in your web browser!

Tesla Robotaxi had 3 more crashes, now 7 total
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla reported three more crashes involving its Robotaxis in Austin, Texas – now bringing the total to 7 incidents despite...

'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
npr.org
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs
arxiv.org

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence

Show HN: Awesome J2ME
github.com/hstsethi
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Awesome list about everything related to J2ME. Documentation, academic papers, tutorials, communities, IDEs, SDKs, emulators, apps, video games. - hstsethi/awesome-j2me

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
geacron.com

by year, since 3000 BC. Universal History datasets. Relevant Universal History vector information.

DOS Days – Laptop Displays
dosdays.co.uk
Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple
freedium-mirror.cfd
Implementation of a Java Processor on a FPGA (2016)
mavmatrix.uta.edu

Omkar Joshi - Java, a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in 1991, now managed by Oracle, has become one of the most popular computer languages for application development. This popularity can be credited to Java being architectural neutral and portable. It means that a Java program executed on any computer will yield the same result, irrespective of the underlying hardware. When a Java program is compiled it creat

PHP 8.5
stitcher.io

A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks
github.com/openagents-org
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OpenAgents - AI Agent Networks for Open Collaboration - openagents-org/openagents

Basalt Woven Textile
materialdistrict.com

Basalt Woven Textile has high corrosive and chemical resistance to the influence of a corrosive media. Basalt woven textile has 2.5 the strength of steel.

Details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours (2001)
in-ulm.de
Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking
economist.com
Debunking the Myths of the HBO Chernobyl series (2023)
blog.osm-ai.net

When I was a child, around 5-9 years old, I came across a story in the Reader’s Digest magazine (El-Mokhtar in its Arabic version) about the Chernobyl disaster.

Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly
simonlermen.substack.com

Simon Lermen - We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly

Workday to acquire Pipedream
newsroom.workday.com

Acquisition will Strengthen Workday's Platform by Connecting its Trusted HR and Finance Data to More than 3,000 Business Applications, Helping Organizations Move From Insight to Action BARCELONA,...

Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
element.io

From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.

Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand
linuxcareers.com

The Linux job market has reached unprecedented heights in 2025, with demand for professionals who possess Linux expertise continuing to surge across multiple technology sectors. Organizations worldwide are prioritizing candidates who can leverage Linux systems in cloud-native environments, AI...

CornHub
cornhub.website
40% of young U.S. women want to leave the country: Gallup poll
deseret.com

A significant gap in emigration desire separates young women from their male counterparts

Tailscale Down
status.tailscale.com

Tailscale coordination servers are functioning properly now. We are currently monitoring to keep ensuring the servers stay healthy.

The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable
eff.org

Joe Mullin - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file public comments opposing these rules this week. The USPTO is moving quickly, and staying silent will only help those who profit from abusive patents.

Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
amoses.dev

How dare you!

Roblox Requires Age Checks for Communication, Ushering in New Safety Standard
corp.roblox.com

Roblox Requires Age Checks, Limits Minor and Adult Communication

Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
theverge.com

Nathan Edwards - It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.

Labor Department Won't Publish October Unemployment Rate
wsj.com
How Slide Rules Work
amenzwa.github.io
Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
univie.ac.at

Worldwide enumeration of accounts was possible due to a —now closed— privacy vulnerability

Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
windowscentral.com

Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS.

Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
ntsb.gov
Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver
collabora.com

The Tyr prototype has progressed from basic GPU job execution to running GNOME, Weston, and full-screen 3D games like SuperTuxKart

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board
github.com/PegorK
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Contribute to PegorK/f32 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
psycnet.apa.org
Robert Louis Stevenson's Art of Living (and Dying)
lithub.com

On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the tra…

The Death of Arduino?
linkedin.com

Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform. The new documents introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license over anything users upload, broad surveillance-style monitoring of AI features, a clause preventing users from identifying potential patent infringement, years-long ret

The lost cause of the Lisp machines
tfeb.org
Measuring political bias in Claude
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Pozsar's Bretton Woods III: The Framework
philippdubach.com

Philipp Dubach - Part 1/2 analyzing Pozsar's Bretton Woods III framework, exploring the shift from traditional reserve systems to commodity-backed monetary arrangements and examining how geopolitical tensions affect global financial market plumbing and funding dynamics.

Gov. Abbott's office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk
kut.org

Abbott fought for months to keep secret emails between his office and Elon Musk. Now, hundreds of pages have been released.

AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
chrbutler.com

After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the

Why Samsung Phones Are Failing Emergency Calls in Australia
hackaday.com

We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia. The concept is simple—if you need aid from police, fire, or ambul…

Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner
bloomberg.com

The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner and defusing a standoff with Beijing that had begun to hamper automotive production around the world.

To launch something new, you need "social dandelions"
actiondigest.com

Action Digest Team - The 4-Step Playbook That Launched Pinterest, Harry Potter, and the GameStop Squeeze

Show HN: Marimo VS Code extension – Python notebooks built on LSP and uv
github.com/marimo-team
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A language server and VS Code extension for marimo - marimo-team/marimo-lsp

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
openai.com
I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already
verdikapuku.com
Show HN: DNS Benchmark Tool – Compare and monitor resolvers
github.com/frankovo
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Benchmark DNS resolvers across domains and record types. Generates analytics and exports to CSV, Excel, PDF, and JSON. - frankovo/dns-benchmark-tool

A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents
bbc.com

When an insurer for FBI and CIA agents was sold to a Chinese entity, it led the US to tighten investment laws.

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150
it-notes.dragas.net

Stefano Marinelli - Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.

LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful
blog.kagi.com
Meta Segment Anything Model 3
ai.meta.com
Questions for Cloudflare
entropicthoughts.com
Adventures in upgrading Proxmox
blog.vasi.li

Running docker inside LXC is weird. It's containers on top of other container, and there was a fairly recent issue with AppArmor that prevented some functionality from running inside a docker container with very cryptic error. I was trying to deploy coolify and/or dokploy in my homelab and hitting

Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
toddhgardner.com

The simple rule everyone gets wrong: build what makes you unique, buy what makes you run. But whatever you do, make sure you understand it well enough to fix it when it breaks. Because it will break.

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia
theregister.com

: Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000

Sam 3D: Powerful 3D Reconstruction for Physical World Images
ai.meta.com
YouTube Is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore
joshgriffiths.site

I’ve made YouTube videos for ten years, but I can’t do it anymore. I can no longer tolerate the abhorrent things YouTube and Google have gotten up to in the ...

Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction
blog.ericgoldman.org

Eric Goldman - Delarosa was convicted of murder. (Some background on the case). On appeal, he argues the court should have excluded a Facebook message that indicated he owned a gun a few weeks before the shooting. The Facebook message included some emojis:...

Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing
mosaic.so
launch

Mosaic Team - Mosaic is a canvas for agentic video editing. Run video edits on autopilot and A/B test multiple variants from the same raw footage. Then jump into a familiar timeline editor for hands-on creative control.

Deep Dive into FFmpeg 8.0
rendi.dev

The most exciting feature in ffmpeg 8.0 is native support for Whisper, a free and open-source speech recognition library developed by OpenAI. FFmpeg's Whisper integration enables you to use a single tool for transcribing video, adding subtitles, or automatically extracting highlights. It's fast enough that you can even do it in real time on a streaming video.FFmpeg is a free and powerful tool that enables you to easi

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
theverge.com

Robert Hart - The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure.

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity
joanwestenberg.com

Joan Westenberg - Is There Still a Return on Being Reasonable?

Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available
proxmox.com
What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?
theatlantic.com

Rose Horowitch - What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?

Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level
theverge.com

Tom Warren - The seven-year nightmare is nearly over

Zo: Intelligent Personal Servers for Everyone
zo.computer

Learn more about Zo Computer and our mission to enable truly personal computing.

Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
aclu.org

Daniel Kahn Gillmor - Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet: King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity…

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
cnbc.com
How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?
theguardian.com

Two of the world’s leading cult interventionists live (with their parrot) in Philadelphia. They explain the art of coaxing people out of the most pernicious cults in the world

Pimped Amiga 500
pimyretro.org

jit - Back in the early ’90s, I had an Amiga 2000 with just one expansion card: a SCSI controller paired with a massive 290 MB hard drive. Getting software and game

The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled
selix.net

Paradox splits from Colossal Order and hands Cities: Skylines II to Iceflake. Can the sequel recover from its technical and business missteps?

Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
blog.thunderbird.net

Heather Ellsworth, Brendan Abolivier - Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.

Learning to Boot from PXE
blog.imraniqbal.org
What Killed Perl?
entropicthoughts.com
A $1k AWS mistake
geocod.io

Dotsquare LLC - A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.

I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector
downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation
github.com/tyfeld

Official Implementation of "MMaDA-Parallel: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation" - tyfeld/MMaDA-Parallel

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
theguardian.com

World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

Exploring the limits of large language models as quant traders
nof1.ai
What nicotine does to your brain
economist.com
A down detector for down detector's down detector
downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor
techcrunch.com

Tim De Chant - Constellation Energy will use the loan to refurbish a reactor it idled in 2019. Microsoft has agreed to buy the power once the facility reopens in 2028.

I just want working RCS messaging
wt.gd

I’m in over a month now with non-working RCS on my iPhone 15 Pro. Apple blames the carriers, the carriers tell me it’s not them (mostly T-Mobile since I have good contacts there). They tell me they can’t really do anything about iPhones not... | What's This Guy Doing? | Written stuff about things.

3.5B Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated
heise.de

Daniel AJ Sokolov - Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.

GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it
arstechnica.com

Cities and counties call Congressional plan an “unprecedented federal intrusion.”…

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS
github.com/Mic92

A clone of the strace command for macOS. Contribute to Mic92/strace-macos development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
downdetectorsdowndetector.com
show
Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024)
kev009.com

Kevin Bowling - I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help …

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
blog.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade
joannejacobs.com

Ford can't find auto mechanics -- for $120,000 a year. Most high school graduates don't know enough math (or read well enough) to succeed in job training.

Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
corecursive.com

Adam Gordon Bell - Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record.We also learn about how game piracy led her to game development and what it was like to do game development in the... […]

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