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Tesla Robotaxis in Austin Crash 12.5x More Frequently Than Humans
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla has reported yet another crash involving its Robotaxi fleet in Austin to the NHTSA. The new data keeps the...

Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account
appleinsider.com

The locking of an Apple Account and the difficulty one loyal Apple customer has experienced in regaining access is a stark reminder to be vigilant when buying gift cards for the holidays.

Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage
windowslatest.com

Abhijith M B - Windows 11 will ask for your consent before AI agents access personal files in known folders. Microsoft confirms per-agent permissions, too.

More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol
lansingstatejournal.com

Protesters held signs noting dangers to water and potential electricity rate increases because of data centers being proposed across Michigan.

Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language
dafny.org

Dafny project - The Dafny Programming and Verification Language and tools

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
waterfox.com

Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. Waterfox won't include them. The browser's job is to serve you, not think for you.

MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies
bbc.com

Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, 47, a nuclear science and engineering professor was shot "multiple times" on Monday.

UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification
reclaimthenet.org
Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale
tailscale.com

Brian Scott made an app that's safe, simple, and educational for kids to chat in, using Tailscale's tsnet and connectivity.

AI will make formal verification go mainstream
martin.kleppmann.com
Announcing the Beta release of ty
astral.sh

ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.

Letta Code
letta.com

Introducing Letta Code, a memory-first coding agent. Letta Code is the #1 model-agnostic open source agent on the leading AI coding benchmark Terminal-Bench.

No Graphics API
sebastianaaltonen.com

Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve performance, and prepare for future GPU workloads.

'It's surreal': How US sanctions lock ICC judges out of daily life
irishtimes.com

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home
nytimes.com
Vibe coding creates fatigue?
tabulamag.com

Stephan Schmidt - Getting to the limits of what developers can do

GPT Image 1.5
openai.com
The new ChatGPT Images is here
openai.com
AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded
restofworld.org

Engineering graduates face shrinking opportunities and rising pressure to upskill beyond their curriculum.

The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free
blacksmith.sh

GitHub is adding a $0.002-per-minute fee on all GitHub Actions usage, so the control plane is no longer free.

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions
github.blog

On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the…

FVWM-95 (2001)
fvwm95.sourceforge.net
Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
resources.github.com

GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.

alpr.watch
alpr.watch

ALPR Watch - Track ALPR, Flock Safety cameras, and surveillance tech discussions in your local government meetings. Get alerts and take action.

Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on
theregister.com

: Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling

AIsbom – open-source CLI to detect "Pickle Bombs" in PyTorch models
github.com/Lab700xOrg

AI SBOM: AI Software Bill of Materials - The Supply Chain for Artificial Intelligence - Lab700xOrg/aisbom

Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++
kemble.net

Joshua Worth -  This was a fun project for a couple of days, but I will probably shelve it for now so I can continue what I was already working on before. Read on to follow along with my journey. Spoilers: I didn’t get very far.

Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024
scientificamerican.com

Eve Lu - A recent analysis showed the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. grew from 2022 to 2024. Experts say this could lead to more pediatric cancer deaths

CEOs to Keep Spending on AI, Despite Spotty Returns
wsj.com
Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
theverge.com

David Pierce - Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.

U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains
wsj.com
Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
blog.mozilla.org

Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
tum.de

Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

A brief history of Times New Roman
typographyforlawyers.com

Typography for Lawyers

This is not the future
blog.mathieui.net
I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling
vilgot-huhn.github.io
Rust GCC backend: Why and how
blog.guillaume-gomez.fr

Guillaume Gomez - Blog of Guillaume Gomez (Rust GCC backend: Why and how)

Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer
h4x0r.org

Fixed-size ring buffers with full lock freedom

Overconsumption is a spiritual problem
sherryning.com

Sherry Ning - Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".

Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)
gamehistory.org

Phil Salvador - Our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel — including over 100 new Sega Channel ROMs.

Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'
lemonde.fr

COLUMN. The American president wants the 'Pax Americana' to be sustained by tribute payments from the rest of the world in order to endlessly fund US deficits. But with American power already in decline, we must begin to imagine a world without it, the economist writes in his column.

EU household real income per capita up 22% since 2004
ec.europa.eu

Between 2004 and 2024, household real income per capita in the EU grew by 22%. Income per capita grew steadily between 2004 and 2008, stagnated between 2008 and 2011 due to the global financial crisis and declined in 2012 and 2013. Since then, income resumed the steady growth until the year 2020 where it declined due to the global pandemic. The year 2021 saw a rebound but income grew slowly in 2022 and 2023. The firs

Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?
cursor.tue.nl

The search for alternatives to American IT services is intensifying as geopolitical unrest grows. TU/e and ICT cooperative SURF are also looking for replacements for Microsoft and Google. However, a fully-fledged European alternative is not yet available, according to Joost de Jong, the university's Chief Information Security Officer.

ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing
github.com/mantisfury

Local-first AI-powered document intelligence platform for investigative journalism - mantisfury/ArkhamMirror

I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
world.hey.com

In June 2018, I joined mytaxi (FREE NOW), a competitor of Uber in the ride-hailing space, as Backend Chapter Lead. I was looking for an opportunity to grow in technical leadership. Honestly, I did not even fully understand what “Chapter Lead” meant. After some research, I learned it was part of Spotify’s squad (team) and chapter (horiz...

A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces
a2ui.org
VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
heise.de

Wolf Hosbach - Microsoft has deactivated the IntelliCode extensions for VS Code and refers to Copilot, which has a limited free volume.

Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
japantimes.co.jp

No Author - The change is expected to be approved within the current fiscal year, then gradually rolled out in school textbooks and other materials.

The biggest heat pumps
bbc.com

Across Europe huge heat pumps are being installed that can heat tens of thousands of homes.

A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation
medium.com
O'saasy License Agreement
osaasy.dev

Basically... the MIT do-whatever-you-want license, but with the commercial rights for SaaS reserved for the copyright holder.

Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
bbc.com

Huge amounts appear to have been raised for seriously ill children who never received the money.

Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch
github.com/scallyw4g

The procedural generation voxel engine. Contribute to scallyw4g/bonsai development by creating an account on GitHub.

Erdős Problem #1026
terrytao.wordpress.com

Problem 1026 on the Erdős problem web site recently got solved through an interesting combination of existing literature, online collaboration, and AI tools. The purpose of this blog post is to try…

SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
apple.github.io
Opus 1.6 Released – Interactive Audio Codec
opus-codec.org
8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
koi.ai
SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted
bleepingcomputer.com

Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user information.

Thin desires are eating life
joanwestenberg.com

The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why. We're hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting. We are

Ideas aren't getting harder to find
asteriskmag.com

For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell.

Creating custom yellow handshake emojis with zero-width joiners
blog.alexbeals.com

Vox Silva - Create custom emoji handshakes using yellow hands like 🫱‍🫲🏿 and 🫱🏿‍🫲.

Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
quill-os.org
The Bob Dylan concert for just one person
flaggingdown.com

Ray Padgett - An interview with Fredrik Wikingsson, the subject of 'Experiment Ensam'

The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
yaschamounk.substack.com

Yascha Mounk - A case study in elite misinformation.

Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite
rkblog.dev

Piotr - Benchmarking World of Warcraft performance when running native and emulated on Windows on ARM.

Instacart director says she was fired for Democratic congressional campaign
washingtonpost.com
JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
reuters.com
UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones
arstechnica.com

Government seeks “nudity-detection algorithms” in iOS and Android, report says.

Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
andrewmccalip.com
Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
newrepublic.com

Greg Sargent - He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
wired.com

Aarian Marshall - The move comes as a response to the Trump administration’s waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.

Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]
clemens.endorphin.org
Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
johnlian.net

Revenge tale against Consumer Electronics "Control".

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.

Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
bbc.com

A group of linguists are asking Prime Minister Carney to ditch British English in official documents, saying it is a matter of "pride".

A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock
questdb.com

How I investigated and worked around a kernel bug that caused async-profiler to freeze my machine whenever I tried to use a profiler.

A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave
arxiv.org

Using newly-assembled data from 1980 through 2024, we show that 25% of scientifically-active, US-trained STEM PhD graduates leave the US within 15 years of graduating. Leave rates are lower in the life sciences and higher in AI and quantum science but overall have been stable for decades. Contrary to common perceptions, US technology benefits from these graduates' work even if they leave: though the US share of globa

Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says
energyconnects.com

Taiwan may restart one of its atomic power plants in 2028 if safety reviews proceed smoothly, a government minister said, in another sign the island may reverse

The appropriate amount of effort is zero
expandingawareness.org

Most people put too much effort into everything they do. Here’s a good example from Kristijan around tension in his hands when touching and holding things: Something clicked about inhibition and non-doing (in Alexander Technique), and the strongest effect has been a relaxation of my hands. Like I was

Improving Emacs Screenshots
mbork.pl
We are discontinuing the dark web report
support.google.com
Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
community.letsencrypt.org

Let’s Encrypt is introducing several updates to the certificates we issue, including new root certificates, the deprecation of TLS client authentication, and shortening certificate lifetimes. To help roll out changes gradually, we’re making use of ACME profiles to allow users to have control over when some of these changes take place. For most users, no action is required. Let’s Encrypt has generated two new Root Ce

Umbrel – Personal Cloud
umbrel.com

Bring the cloud to your home with umbrelOS - a beautiful home server OS for self-hosting, and Umbrel Home - a plug-and-play home server. Install Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Bitcoin node, and hundreds of self-hosted apps in one click.

“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
ericdaigle.ca

You can be, do, and have whatever you want, except for not spilling user information

United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure
liveandletsfly.com

Matthew Klint - United Airlines' Boeing 777-200 Is Quietly Being Phased Out - Recent Events Show Why - what is the future of this aircraft in United's fleet?

Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop
blog.vaxry.net

A programming blog written by Vaxry.

Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads
techdirt.com

We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole …

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
hpjansson.org

Turn pictures and animations into top-notch terminal graphics and ANSI art.

Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air
twitter.com
show
Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses
pluralistic.net
US Tech Force
techforce.gov

Building technology for the American people. Join the Tech Force and use your skills to serve your country.

Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets
science.org
Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car
currentindia.com

CurrentIndia.com - CurrentIndia.com ‘Yes, they can:’ Former CIA spy warns agency’s tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car %

Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512
ashvardanian.com

Ash Vardanian - ICU gets Unicode right and pays for it. This post shows a different approach: fold-safe windows, SIMD probes, and verifiers for fast UTF‑8 search.

Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
bbc.com

The 78-year-old UK citizen was convicted of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on HK and China.

$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
planetscale.com

We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios.

Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
github.com/Maxteabag

A user friendly TUI for SQL databases. Written in python. Supports SQL server, Mysql, PostreSQL and SQLite, Turso and more. - Maxteabag/sqlit

We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video]
youtube.com

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