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Jmail: Gmail Clone with Epstein's Emails
jmail.world

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
bloomberg.com
How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
heise.de

Malte Kirchner - Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.

Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - State parliaments pass controversial Youth Media Protection Act amendment. Parents can now "secure" devices for children with one click.

FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
martin.janiczek.cz

Martin Janiczek - After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs
arstechnica.com

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

It's hard to build an oscillator
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - Especially if you want it to work.

The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience
tech.stonecharioteer.com

My journey from XFCE to Qtile, a tiling window manager written entirely in Python, including setup, configuration strategies, and real-world config examples.

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
allenai.org

Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.

Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being Unimpressed by AI
80.lv

Mustafa Suleyman had his mind blown by the community's negative reaction to Microsoft's "agentic OS" comments.

Measuring Latency (2015)
bravenewgeek.com

Okay, maybe not everything you know about latency is wrong. But now that I have your attention, we can talk about why the tools and methodologies you use to measure and reason about latency are lik…

Nursing excluded as 'professional' degree by Department of Education
nurse.org
Why top firms fire good workers
rochester.edu

Sandra Knispel - Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.

Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
theguardian.com

Exclusive: Clinical guidelines should change to avoid exposing young people to potentially harmful side-effects, researchers say

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
wpri.com
Over-regulation is doubling the cost
rein.pk
France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?
grapheneos.social

@Fritange@maly.io France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS. They're conflating us with companies which they've previously gone after and taken over their servers. We aren't vulnerable to being attacked in the same way but we still don't want accesses to our website/network services being logged or our website being hijacked. France isn't a safe country for GrapheneOS to operate in anymore and we're going to

Autocomp: An ADRS Framework for Optimizing Tensor Accelerator Code
adrs-ucb.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
malwarebytes.com

Pieter Arntz - A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
abc.net.au

Virgin Australia and Qantas will ban the use of portable power banks from next month following a string of international incidents.

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
githut.info

A small place to discover more about the usage of programming languages in GitHub.

New Glenn Update
blueorigin.com
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
washingtonpost.com
Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
raymii.org
Kagi Assistants
blog.kagi.com
New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
github.com/ravynsoft

A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience. - ravynsoft/ravynos

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing
blog.jsbarretto.com

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing. I think that's usually a bad thing.

The AI bubble is bigger than you think
prospect.org

David Dayen - It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
apnews.com

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Google cracked Apple's AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones
theverge.com

Allison Johnson - First iMessage reactions, now AirDrop.

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
duckdb.org

Lotte Felius, Hannes Mühleisen - DuckDB v1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it and demonstrate its performance implications.

Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep
krebsonsecurity.com
RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
arstechnica.com

The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
ntsb.gov
The Lions Operating System
lionsos.org

The Lions Operating System # LionsOS is currently undergoing active research and development, it does not have a concrete verification story yet. It is not expected for LionsOS to be stable at this time, but it is available for others to experiment with. LionsOS is an operating system based on the seL4 microkernel with the goal of making the achievements of seL4 accessible. That is, to provide performance, security,

Microsoft makes Zork open-source
opensource.microsoft.com

stacey haffner, scott hanselman - Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Go Cryptography State of the Union
words.filippo.io
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.

Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]
okmij.org
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
show

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

Border Patrol is monitoring drivers, detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns
abcnews.go.com

ABC News - The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious

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
show

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
50th Anniversary of BitBLT
mastodon.sdf.org

Attached: 1 image I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that

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
show

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
show

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
show

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

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