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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …

Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction
retractionwatch.com

A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
experimental-history.com

Adam Mastroianni - OR: the long overdue forest fire

"It Turns Out"
jsomers.net
Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip
macrumors.com

Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new kind of low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip for $599. The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by an iPhone chip; the A18 Pro debuted in 2024's iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for ta

MacBook Neo
apple.com

Introducing the new MacBook Neo. Stunning colors, durable aluminum design, 13” Liquid Retina display, all-day battery life, AI and Apple Intelligence.

Apple Introduces MacBook Neo
apple.com

Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.

Glaze by Raycast
glazeapp.com

Create software for you and your team. Lives on your Mac, connects to your files, tools and hardware.

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?
venturebeat.com
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
theregister.com

: Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation
unsloth.ai

Learn how to fine-tune Qwen3.5 LLMs with Unsloth.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
terriblesoftware.org

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage'
theregister.com

: Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft

Bet on German Train Delays
bahn.bet

Predict Deutsche Bahn delays and win. Real-time prediction markets on ICE, IC & EC train delays.

The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws
eurosky.tech
Chimpanzees Are into Crystals
nytimes.com
RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
rfc-editor.org
Better JIT for Postgres
github.com/vladich

Better JIT for Postgres. Contribute to vladich/pg_jitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Agentic Engineering Patterns
simonwillison.net
A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
github.com/robertcprice

nCPU: model-native and tensor-optimized CPU research runtimes with organized workloads, tools, and docs - robertcprice/nCPU

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus
whatever.scalzi.com

Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
terriblesoftware.org

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
runxiyu.org
Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)
arxiv.org

Autoregressive decoding is bottlenecked by its sequential nature. Speculative decoding has become a standard way to accelerate inference by using a fast draft model to predict upcoming tokens from a slower target model, and then verifying them in parallel with a single target model forward pass. However, speculative decoding itself relies on a sequential dependence between speculation and verification. We introduce s

Just Send the Prompt
justsendtheprompt.com
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
arstechnica.com

Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022)
bjango.com

Since writing about Mac external displays in 2016, not much has changed. LG, Dell, Samsung, and other display makers have either never catered for the specs many Mac designers and developers want, or they’ve reluctantly produced products that have been short-lived or compromised.

Number Research Inc
numberresearch.xyz
Graphics Programming Resources
develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app

Graphics programming resources and learning materials

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities
github.com/Ataraxy-Labs

Entity-level semantic merge driver for Git. Resolves conflicts that git can't by understanding code structure via tree-sitter. 31/31 clean merges vs git's 15/31. - Ataraxy-Labs/weave

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
bbc.com

TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

Marcus AI Claims Dataset
github.com/davegoldblatt

Systematic extraction and analysis of every testable AI claim Gary Marcus made on his Substack (2022-2026). Dual-pipeline analysis by Claude and ChatGPT with hybrid reconciliation. - davegoldblatt/...

The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show
usgs.gov
Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
grapheneos.social

@luana@wetdry.world It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firmware and drivers which can be released in an official way for easy builds without needing to extract anything from the GrapheneOS or Motorola OS factory images.

You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now?
mastodon.online

Attached: 1 image Wait what, you can't use a *code* editor when you're under 18 now? 🤔

OpenAI is developing alternative to Microsoft's GitHub
reuters.com
Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
euronews.com

A growing protest movement is encouraging people to cancel their subscriptions to the popular AI chatbot.

My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
ddmckinnon.com

dmckinno@gmail.com - I shared this internally at Meta in response to a deluge of clout-chasing posts celebrating PMs landing prod diffs. The response was positive and the message generalizes, so here we are on the open www. PMs shouldn’t waste time landing … Continue reading →

Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
ifixit.com

Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.

Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks
talos.wtf
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
politico.eu

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

Don't make me talk to your chatbot
raymyers.org

It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.

Rubio to World: Stop Doing the Exact Same Thing the US Just Did
techdirt.com

The State Department wants US diplomats to fight data localization around the world. The policy position is correct. It’s just that the messenger has spent the last few months systematically …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff
wsj.com
Ubuntu Planning Mandatory Age Verification
twitter.com
CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack
washingtonpost.com
Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
elbowgreasegames.substack.com

John Graham - VoxRay Games has added a new Crystal Cathedral world and grenades alongside a wealth of other assets and world building features while Voxile goes 40%-off on Steam

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell
gamehistory.org

Phil Salvador - We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying
toolbox-kit.com

I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.

Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands
wired.com

Andy Greenberg - A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)
jakelazaroff.com

CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.

GitHub having issues [resolved]
githubstatus.com
Iran War Cost Tracker
iran-cost-ticker.com

Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury — updated every second.

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
tomshardware.com

Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count.

Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox
ona.com

Ona Team - The adversary can reason now, and our security tools weren't built for that.

Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
boringops.sh

Introducing the AI Executive Officer (AEO) and the A-suite (AxOs).

Payment fees matter more than you think
cuencahighlife.com

One of the small advantages of riding in the front seat of a Cuenca taxi, apart from the superior view of traffic misdemeanors and roadside drama, is that the dashboard […]

Trump Threatens to Cut Off Trade After Spain Denies Air Base Use
bloomberg.com
You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools (2025)
newsletter.danielpaleka.com

Daniel Paleka - The best AI tools will become far more expensive. Andy Warhol famously said:

GPT‑5.3 Instant
openai.com
Someone needs to go to jail
edwardelson.substack.com

Ed Elson - A solution to the Epstein problem

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
tonsky.me

Nikita Prokopov - Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

FCC Chair Wants Networks to Pledge Loyalty for America's Big Bday
gizmodo.com

Justin Caffier - Fealty and Sousa marches in lieu of gifts, please.

My accent costs me 30 IQ points on Zoom. So we built an ML model to fix it
krisp.ai

Arto Minasyan - Accent bias and cognitive load are invisible taxes on global teams. Here’s why it’s an engineering problem, not a language one.

Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports
nber.org
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
blog.google

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
leodemoura.github.io
Why No AI Games?
franklantz.substack.com

Frank Lantz - I have a theory.

Drizzle Joins PlanetScale
planetscale.com

Drizzle joins PlanetScale.

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
youtube.com
Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers
wusf.org

State officials say they will try to root out abuses in the H-1B program during the moratorium, but can make exceptions if they find a critical need for workers.

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
news.ycombinator.com
launch
I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
neilzone.co.uk

Identity verification and age verification is an increasinly common policy conversation at the moment, in numerous countries.

Don't become an engineering manager
newsletter.manager.dev

Anton Zaides - Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role.

MacBook Air with M5
apple.com

Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with M5, bringing exceptional performance and expanded AI capabilities to the world’s most popular laptop.

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
apple.com

Apple announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max.

Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
apple.com

Apple today announced a new family of displays, Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, that takes pro workflows to the next level.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review
theverge.com

Emma Roth - A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
growtika.com

Growtika - We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
twitter.com
We automated everything except knowing what's going on
eversole.dev

Kenneth Eversole, kenneth@eversole.dev - The personal site of whom Kenneth has designed and built impactful systems that power global-scale operations, improve security, and drive efficiency. From leading infrastructure transformations at Cloudflare to optimizing AI-driven platforms at Balto, his career reflects a deep understanding of how technology shapes industries. He thrives at the intersection of engineering, business, and innovation, advising startup

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK
lbc.co.uk

Flaminia Luck - So-called "barely legal" pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing.

Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours
llmhorrors.com

Stories you never want to feel on your own skin

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
bbc.com

In several recent instances, AI has disrupted court proceedings in India and elsewhere.

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]
youtube.com
ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal
techcrunch.com

Sarah Perez - Many consumers ditched ChatGPT's app after news of its DoD deal went live, while Claude's downloads grew.

Claude's Cycles [pdf]
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu
The Xkcd thing, now interactive
editor.p5js.org
The beauty and terror of modding Windows
windowsread.me

Chris Hoffman - Let's talk about the "Windows Baseline Security Mode," too.

China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built
executivetraveller.com
Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
news.ycombinator.com
show
Simplifying Application Architecture with Modular Design and MIM
codingfox.net.pl

Andrzej Nowik - 1. Intro tl;dr Instead of forcing your application into a prescriptive template like Clean or Hexagonal Architectures, get back to basics and use patterns from Modular Software Design. Divide the application into independent modules, each containing business logic representing a specific process. For modules with complex business logic, extract the infrastructure-related code into separate Infrastructure-Modules. Thi

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials
blog.cryptographyengineering.com

This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. This has bothered me, because every month that goes by I become more convinced that anonymous authentication the most important topic we c…

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
bbc.com

The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - A big, high performance core from Arm

I built a pint-sized Macintosh
jeffgeerling.com

To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. Since the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 K

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
newyorker.com

Burkhard Bilger - With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?

Daily Driving GrapheneOS
blog.matthewbrunelle.com

I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!

Intent-Based Commits
github.com/adamveld12

Git is the coding agent. Contribute to adamveld12/ghost development by creating an account on GitHub.

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