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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
newyorker.com

Ruth Marcus - The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
arstechnica.com

Sen. Markey: Database of peaceful protesters, if it exists, should be shut down.

Claude Code for Infrastructure
fluid.sh
AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed
theguardian.com

Tech could lose its social acceptance unless it makes people’s lives better – and trade unions want an urgent conversation

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
newrepublic.com

Hafiz Rashid - The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

The Great Unwind
occupywallst.com

The economy is crashing because Wall Street spent trillions shorting Japan's currency and now they're being squeezed.

Intel will start making GPUs
techcrunch.com

Rebecca Szkutak - Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.

Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections
newsweek.com

Steve Bannon has said that ICE agents will "surround the polls" at the midterm elections in November.

Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch
scd31.com
Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
news.uark.edu

While social media can be a cause of anxiety, a researcher at the U of A also found that social media can help reduce anxiety for young adults who have specific personality traits.

In Tehran
lrb.co.uk

Raha Nik-Andish - I live on the top floor of a block of flats in western Tehran. I turned off the lights and watched the city below. It...

Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation
perl.com

Olaf Alders - Fastmail stuck with Perl because Perl stuck with them. TPRF can fund community grants again because of donors like this.

AI is killing B2B SaaS
nmn.gl

namanyayg - SaaS is the most profitable business model on Earth.1 It’s easy to understand why: build once, sell the same thing again ad infinitum, and don’t suffer any m...

French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel
twitter.com
Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
blog.codinghorror.com

It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications of time or funds towards

Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022)
currentaffairs.org

UC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster.

RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code
github.com/MaxBittker

Runescape automation library, optimized for use by coding agents. - MaxBittker/rs-sdk

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into big problems
wsj.com
Voxtral Transcribe 2
mistral.ai

Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs
pdfa.org
Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
arxiv.org

The most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models today are Transformers employing self-attention. In its standard form, self-attention incurs costs that increase with context length, driving demand for storage, compute, and energy that is now outstripping society's ability to provide them. To help address this issue, we show that self-attention is efficiently computable to arbitrary precision with constant co

FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
404media.co

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.

Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025
arstechnica.com

When the eradication program began in 1986, there were a 3.5 million cases.

Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function
medicalxpress.com
Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation
optical.toys
I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input
utcc.utoronto.ca
Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future
garryslist.org

When 38% of students at America's most elite university claim disability status, the system isn't broken—it's working exactly as designed.

Claude Is a Space to Think
anthropic.com

Anthropic explains why Claude will remain ad-free—how advertising incentives conflict with building a genuinely helpful AI assistant users can trust.

Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time
newsletter.jantegze.com

Jan Tegze - AI isn't taking your job. It's making your expertise worthless while you watch. The three things everyone tries that fail, and the one strategy that actually works.

"time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours
twitter.com
Broken Proofs and Broken Provers
lawrencecpaulson.github.io
Oracle to raise $50B as AI debt piles up
marketwatch.com
Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering
github.com/bethington
show

Production-grade Ghidra MCP Server — 132 endpoints, cross-binary documentation transfer, batch analysis, headless mode, and Docker deployment for AI-powered reverse engineering - bethington/ghidra-mcp

The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today
xakpc.dev

Pavel Osadchuk - 30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.

Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
openpetition.de

Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the current coalition agreement of the Federal Government mentions Open-Source-Software as a fundamental building block for the achievement of digital sovereignty. However, the work done by thousands of volunteers for this goal is not recognised as volunteering, neither fiscall

I miss thinking hard
jernesto.com
Why poor countries stopped catching up
davidoks.blog

David Oks - The rise and fall of the Great Convergence

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study
theguardian.com

UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers

Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws
capitolnewsillinois.com

Nikoel Hytrek, UIS Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) - Illinois joins WHO’s outbreak network to keep early warnings and training flowing despite the U.S. withdrawal.

GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster
twitter.com
Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown
securelist.com

Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered previously undocumented infection chains used in the Notepad++ supply chain attacks. The article provides new IoCs related to those incidents which employ DLL sideloading and Cobalt Strike Beacon delivery.

FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention
dl.acm.org
Tractor
incoherency.co.uk
AI and Trust (2023)
schneier.com

Bruce Schneier - I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way. At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who keeps airlines operating. And the pilot of the plane I flew in. And thousands of other people at the a

Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market
bloomberg.com
How vibe coding is killing open source
hackaday.com

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some…

When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience
suriya.cc

Suriya Ganesh - getting 20x speedup by removing code.

Data centers in space makes no sense
civai.org

SpaceX acquired xAI on Monday, forming a $1.25 trillion behemoth with the goal of sending data centers into space. They’re not alone either: Google and a host of startups like Lonestar, Axiom, and Nvidia-backed Starcloud are scrambling into the field. Endless solar power, free real estate, and most importantly, huge rockets! What more could you want?

China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing
spectrum.ieee.org

China's space program is quietly building momentum for a moon landing by 2030. Could they outpace NASA's Artemis mission?

OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up
cacm.acm.org
DHS is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

Trump: Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections
bbc.co.uk

American elections are primarily run by state law, and voting is administered by local officials across the country.

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
github.com/alibaba

AliSQL is a MySQL branch originated from Alibaba Group. Fetch document from Release Notes at bottom. - alibaba/AliSQL

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
fortune.com

Ben Weiss - The move is significant since, in the past, generally just crypto VC firms have let startups receive funding in the form of digital assets.

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
apple.com

Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.

I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
nikolak.com

20 GDPR deletion requests, 12 ignored. Companies lie about compliance, spam filters eat requests with no consequences, and data protection offices don't act. A first-hand account of how GDPR enforcement fails individuals.

Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux
blog.senko.net

Senko Rašić - Like many developers, I find myself more and more using AI agents to help with software development. I currently use Claude Code, the co...

Deno Sandbox
deno.com

Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.

Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool
migratewizard.com

Migrate emails between IMAP servers in minutes, not days. Zero downtime, 100% data integrity, enterprise-grade security.

Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden
internationaljournalofwellbeing.org
Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]
people.csail.mit.edu
Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing
octosphere.social
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221 Cannon is Not For Sale
fredbenenson.com

Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
waspdev.com

We usually learn that 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, 1 MB is 1024 kilobytes, etc. But is this true or a kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

Underrated ways to change the world, part II
experimental-history.com

Adam Mastroianni - OR: why you should sell onions on the internet

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
apnews.com

European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
github.com/j178

⚡ Better `pre-commit`, re-engineered in Rust. Contribute to j178/prek development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tadpole – A modular and extensible DSL built for web scraping
tadpolehq.com

The lightweight, KDL-powered browser automation engine.

Signal Is Down
news.ycombinator.com
ask
X offices raided in France
apnews.com

French prosecutors have raided the offices of social media platform X as part of an investigation into allegations of spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.

Show HN: C discrete event SIM w stackful coroutines runs 45x faster than SimPy
github.com/ambonvik
show

A multithreaded discrete event simulation library in C - ambonvik/cimba

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Qwen3-Coder-Next
qwen.ai
AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was
jasonwillems.com

Jason Willems - If you paint a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog in your living room, you are technically creating an unauthorized derivative work—but in practice, no one cares. Private, noncommercial creation has always lived in a space where copyright law exists on paper but is rarely enforced.

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
blog.adafruit.com
Anthropic is Down
updog.ai

Datadog - Updog By Datadog lets you spot issues with Anthropic early, backed by real impact across Datadog customer base. No status page updates.

A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
brandon.wang
The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org
Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
wired.com

Maddy Varner - A new report from the Public Service Alliance finds state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise.

A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats
malwarebytes.com

Pieter Arntz - Google’s Project Zero team found that WhatsApp can download a malicious media file without you doing anything at all.

Show HN: GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests
blog.rbby.dev
show

rbby - An extension of Refined GitHub browser plugin for AI contribution tracking capabilities in GitHub pull requests.

Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
github.com/mavdol
show

⚙️ A secure, durable runtime for AI agents. Run untrusted code in isolated WebAssembly sandboxes. - mavdol/capsule

Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Agent Skills
agentskills.io

A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise.

Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices
ambertherambler.bearblog.dev

Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...

Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)
github.com/oug-t
show

Review and refine Git diffs before you push. Contribute to oug-t/difi development by creating an account on GitHub.

KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd
forums.freebsd.org

KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems. KDE’s upcoming Plasma Login Manager will make its first official appearance in Plasma 6.6 (scheduled for release on February 17), explicitly designed as a...

Bunny Database
bunny.net

bunny.net - Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.

Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says
reuters.com
X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
bbc.com

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

U.S. Federal Data Is Disappearing
notus.org

The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.

What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
lars.ingebrigtsen.no

For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
rentahuman.ai

RentAHuman.ai - The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
safe-now.live
show
LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.
github.com/KrystianJonca

Unified AI configuration management CLI. Contribute to KrystianJonca/lnai development by creating an account on GitHub.

From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
github.com/whispem
show

A production-ready distributed key-value store with Raft consensus. - whispem/minikv

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
krzysztofjankowski.com
Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
bicameral-ai.com
Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
news.ycombinator.com
ask

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