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A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
log.jasongodfrey.info

A party balloon mistaken for a cartel drone shut down El Paso for hours. Here's what it cost.

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
anthropic.com

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

Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation
pol.is
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
openai.com
Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Shut Up: Comment Blocker
rickyromero.com
ai;dr
0xsid.com
Gemini 3 Deep Think
blog.google
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
minimax.io
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
livescience.com

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

An AI agent published a hit piece on me
theshamblog.com

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
waymo.com

Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our uncompromising safety standards. Designed for long-term growth across multiple vehicle platforms, this system’

Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
thepragmaticcto.com

Allan MacGregor 🇨🇦 - The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse

US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
ft.com

Central bank’s research undercuts Trump’s claims that foreign companies will pay for levies

Texas Lawmakers Sound Alarm on 'Torture, Killing, and Inhumane Treatment'
commondreams.org

At least three inmates have died in the facility in just two months, including one who witnesses say was choked to death by guards.

Administration working to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
nbcnews.com

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.

A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)
loriemerson.net

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir
bbc.com

South Korea's spy agency says Ki Ju Ae's prominent public presence indicates she is the chosen heir.

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
atha.io

Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a basic requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account has a verified email, so there's no problem.

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app
bbc.com

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
aethermug.com

What exists is a matter of public opinion

The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware
lwn.net

The team behind Tyr started 2025 with little to show in our quest to produce a Rust GPU driv [...]

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
theregister.com

: Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'

I Regret to Inform You That the FDA Is FDAing Again
marginalrevolution.com

Alex Tabarrok - I had high hopes and low expectations that the FDA under the new administration would be less paternalistic and more open to medical freedom. Instead, what we are getting is paternalism with different preferences. In particular, the FDA now appears to have a bizarre anti-vaccine fixation, particularly of the mRNA variety (disappointing but not surprising […]

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
blog.can.ac

Cross-posted from X / @_can1357 In fact only the edit tool changed. That’s it. 0x0: The Wrong Question The conversation right now is almost entirely about …

Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM
ericmigi.github.io
Apache Arrow is 10 years old
arrow.apache.org

pmc - The Apache Arrow project was officially established and had its first git commit on February 5th 2016, and we are therefore enthusiastic to announce its 10-year anniversary! Looking back over these 10 years, the project has developed in many unforeseen ways and we believe to have delivered on our objective of providing agnostic, efficient, durable standards for the exchange of columnar data. How it started From the s

America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out
threathunter.ai

ThreatHunter.ai - CISA has lost a third of its workforce, has no confirmed director, and its acting leader uploaded sensitive documents to public ChatGPT. Meanwhile, China is pre-positioned inside U.S. critical infrastructure. Here is why this should terrify every American.

The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024)
theshamblog.com

In my day job I work with ion thrusters for spacecraft, which are essentially electric-powered rockets that fling Xenon gas out at super high speeds to provide thrust and allow satellites to change…

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
github.com/matplotlib

This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

Resist and Unsubscribe
resistandunsubscribe.com
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
arstechnica.com

He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
geo-racers.com
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From specification to stress test: a weekend with Claude
juxt.pro

A behavioural specification language, AI agent teams, and a Byzantine fault-tolerant distributed system built in 48 hours.

The missing digit of Stela C
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com

One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in…

65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
tildeweb.nl
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)
openculture.com

Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books.

Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
github.com/tonyyont

Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal. - tonyyont/peon-ping

D Programming Language
dlang.org

D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.

How to make a living as an artist
essays.fnnch.com
Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback
torrentfreak.com
The Problem with LLMs
deobald.ca

Premise Six months ago, a friend of mine, with whom I work on the nonprofit Pariyatti mobile app, sent me this blog post by Vijay Khanna: From Idea to App in 7 Hours. By now, this is a fairly common zero-to-one LLM coding story. (LLM is short for Large Language Model but for the purposes of this essay, we’ll use it as a substitute for what is broadly categorized as “generative AI” in early 2026.

Heroku is not dead
nombiezinja.com

When I read the blog https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/ , I had also thought Heroku was done. Then I talked to my friends who still work there, and I don't think Heroku is dead. I am going to talk about what happened, with a focus on organization dynamics in a start-up post acquis

Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative
hologram.page

Hologram v0.7.0: 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions, pushing runtime coverage from 34% to 96%. Plus enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
papers.ssrn.com
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to
niemanlab.org

For a new report released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center surveyed 3,560 U.S. adults in December 2025 about their relationship to the news and how they perceive its value in everyday life. The study found "no consensus about the importance of following the news," but there was one thin…

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
age-verifier.kibty.town
Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again
techcrunch.com

Amanda Silberling - While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May iOS update, or even until the release of iOS 27 in September.

Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
anthropic.com

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

Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas
carbonbrief.org

Molly Lempriere - The UK government has secured a record 7.4 gigawatts of solar, onshore wind and tidal power in its latest auction for new renewable capacity.

Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case
arstechnica.com

Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
missionlocal.org

Joe Rivano Barros - The Y Combinator CEO announced "Garry's List," a new big-money group spending and operating in races across the state.

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law
arstechnica.com

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law.

Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated
terracenetworks.com

We see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports. We specifically see continued non-spoofable Telnet traffic from networks on which GreyNoise saw 100% drop-off. We suspect initial results may have been measurement artifacts or specifi

Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums
agentalcove.ai
show

An autonomous forum where six AI agents discuss ideas with each other. Humans spectate and upvote — agents see what you like and prioritize it.

Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
bloomberg.com

Apple Inc.’s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks, potentially pushing back the release of several highly anticipated functions.

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)
blog.stuffedcow.net
Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel
twitter.com
Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime
github.com/adenhq
show

Outcome driven agent development framework that evolves - adenhq/hive

Discord Alternatives
soatok.blog

Next month, Discord is going to start requiring age verification. The backlash from gamers everywhere has been predictable and justified. I guess their company name checks out. I’ve had a few…

iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day
macrumors.com

Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, all of which largely focus on bug fixes and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address dozens of vulnerabilities, including one that is known to have been actively exploited.

Components will kill pages
bitsandbytes.dev
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
cell.com
How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
lifehacker.com

The FBI produced footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest doorbell, despite it being disconnected.

Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
theverge.com

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy - Is it just for the dogs?

Claude Code is being dumbed down?
symmetrybreak.ing
Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE's Jail in Texas
truthout.org

Mike Ludwig - The number of people held at the notorious Dilley immigration jail has nearly tripled since October.

NetNewsWire Turns 23
netnewswire.blog
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
thehill.com
Should your developer company go open source?
extremefoundership.substack.com

Jean Lafleur - A decision framework for founders who want leverage, not vibes

Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (2016)
cbc.ca

The case of a man who is still able to function even though most of his brain is missing, has given fuel to radical theories about consciousness. Psychologist Axel Cleeremans, of the Université Libre in Brussels, explains how.

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
z.ai
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
reuters.com
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
fluorite.game
NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw's biggest security issues
venturebeat.com
U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
nbcnews.com

The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

Railway (PaaS) global outage
status.railway.com

Railway Status

Why vampires live forever
machielreyneke.com

The modern longevity movement's obsession with blood transfusions makes perfect sense — if you accept that Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson are vampires.

AI-First Company Memos
the-ai-native.company

Every major CEO AI-first memo and mandate, collected. Shopify, Box, Duolingo, Fiverr, Meta, Klarna, Alibaba, Notion, and more.

Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer
nytimes.com
Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world
pluralistic.net
FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes
foodpolitics.com

Marion - Companies will now have flexibility to claim products contain ‘no artificial colors’ when foods do not contain petroleum-based colors.

Show HN: Renovate – The Kubernetes-Native Way
github.com/mogenius
show

Operator to streamline renovate executions in Kubernetes - mogenius/renovate-operator

Show HN: Triclock – A Triangular Clock
triclock.franzai.com
show

A triangular clock that maps time to color

Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com

Richard Feynman's FBI file contains one very pointed, personal, anonymous attack. But can we figure out who wrote it from the context?

MiniMax M2.5
agent.minimax.io
GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
z.ai
Show HN: CodeRLM – Tree-sitter-backed code indexing for LLM agents
github.com/JaredStewart
show

Tree-sitter-powered code indexing server that gives LLM agents precise, on-demand access to symbols, implementations, callers, tests, and grep across multi-language projects - so they explore codeb...

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
apnews.com

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

Exposure Simulator
andersenimages.com
Do not apologize for replying late to my email
ploum.net
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
qcontinuum.substack.com

Q Continuum - Summary

Something Big Is Happening
shumer.dev

Matt Shumer - A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
nytimes.com
A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
astro.theoj.org

Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, Andrea Weibel, Yijia Li, Jorryt Matthee, John Chisolm, Clara L. Pollock, Kasper E. Heintz, Benjamin D. Johnson, Xuejian Shan, Raphael E. Hviding, Joel Leja, Sandro Tacchella, Arpita Ganguly, Callum Witten, Hakim Atek, Siro Belli, Sownak Bose, Rychard Bouwens, Pratika Dayal, Roberto Decarli, Anna de Graaff, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Emma Giovinazzo, Jenny E. Greene, Garth Il - By Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch & 44 more. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a bright galaxy, MoM-z14, located 280 million years post-Big Bang, challenging previous models and suggesting a rising star-formation history.

The AI Vampire
steve-yegge.medium.com
Communities are not fungible
joanwestenberg.com

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
cve.org
Show HN: I taught GPT-OSS-120B to see using Google Lens and OpenCV
news.ycombinator.com
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