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LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
github.com/mdp

Contribute to mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting development by creating an account on GitHub.

The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
scottaaronson.blog

Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and …

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
anthropic.com

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

My AI Adoption Journey
mitchellh.com
Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video] (2025)
youtube.com
Ardour 9.0 Released
ardour.org

The open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
axios.com
The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong
techdirt.com

If you’ve been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years, you’ve likely learned to recognize a particular pattern. Senator Ron Wyden will o…

GPT-5.3-Codex
openai.com
Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"
techoversight.org

techoversighteditor - New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence […]

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
code.claude.com

Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together as a team, with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and centralized management.

Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
claude.com

With Claude Opus 4.6, finance teams get better reasoning on complex analyses, cleaner first-pass deliverables, and new tools built for where analysts actually spend their time.

Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic.com

We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.

Everyone Is Stealing TV
theverge.com

Janko Roettgers - Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.

European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
euractiv.com

Euractiv - The Matrix protocol is being lined up as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams

Jeffrey Epstein's Money Mingled with Silicon Valley Startups
nytimes.com
Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving
transition.fcc.gov
CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Somewhat devastating news today from CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they decided …

OpenAI Frontier
openai.com

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.

The New Collabora Office for Desktop
collaboraonline.com

The New Collabora Office For Desktop Same look. Same code. Your files, your device. Collabora Online now on desktop We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at […]

Company as Code
blog.42futures.com

Daniel Rothmann - Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.

CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
abc.net.au

A statement on the CIA's website gives no reason for the decision, simply stating that the Factbook has been "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it".

GB Renewables Map
renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

Live map showing realtime renewable energy generation in Great Britain

Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
1password.com

The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on how to protect yourself if you're experimenting with them.

The Missing Layer
yagmin.com

Vibe coding is too much work. I don't want to orchestrate a barnyard of agents to generate, refactor, validate, test, and document code I don't see, all while burning through a coal mine of tokens. I don't want to "live dangerously" or YOLO code. I'm not a Luddite who hates

Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
github.com/HKUDS

"🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot". Contribute to HKUDS/nanobot development by creating an account on GitHub.

Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]
storage.courtlistener.com
If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)
jacquesmattheij.com
Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
github.com/vkazanov
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A simple SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp. Contribute to vkazanov/elcity development by creating an account on GitHub.

Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing
theverge.com

Jay Peters - You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.

ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
bloomberg.com
Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'
news.satnews.com
Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table
lwn.net

The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical compon [...]

BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
ifixit.com

BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.

Don't rent the cloud, own instead
blog.comma.ai

Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
rachelbythebay.com
Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition
news.cuanschutz.edu

Matthew Hastings - New research found, contrary to assumptions, cannabis usage by middle age and older adults led to better cognition and larger brain volumes.

ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use
biometricupdate.com

Anthony Kimery - (ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.

Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign
twitter.com
Open secrets about Hacker News (2021)
bengtan.com

I spent a few days examining the mechanics of Hacker News (HN) and I discovered some open secrets. “Open” because they’re not private. …

A few CPU hardware bugs
taricorp.net
Wirth's Revenge
jmoiron.net

Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?

Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution
eff.org

Adam Schwartz - Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights. For example, we have a First Amendment right to record on-...

Child prodigies rarely become elite performers
economist.com
Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads
twitter.com

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to

OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
jakequist.com

Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless machines whose sole job is to automate their workflows. OpenClaw—the open-source framework that lets you run

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
store.steampowered.com

Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW

The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That's why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad.

Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
longevity.stanford.edu
NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft
ctvnews.ca

The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets — including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying.

Litestream Writable VFS
fly.io

Lightning fast Litestream VFS, but now with writes!

As Rocks May Think
evjang.com

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Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away
phoronix.com
I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone
twitter.com
Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers
theguardian.com

Digital pinboard business cutting 15% of workforce as it invests heavily in AI

Pinterest CEO fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs
cnbc.com
A real-world benchmark for AI code review
qodo.ai

Tomer Yanay - See how AI code review tools perform on real pull requests. Qodo's benchmark measures precision, recall, and issue coverage at scale.

Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
cia.gov
Epstein Financed German AI Researcher Joscha Bach
zdfheute.de

Ein deutscher KI-Forscher hat laut ZDF-Recherchen über eine Million Dollar von Epstein erhalten. Für den Forscher hat das bis heute Folgen.

Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)
california-budget.com
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The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs
benshoemaker.us

The Codex desktop app doesn't change everything - but it's part of a larger trend worth paying attention to. Where IDEs are headed and why specs matter more than code.

Technocracy 2.0
brooklynrail.org

As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the merging of tech and the state. He cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent: a model that is now to be applied to virtually every lever of power. While Karp may not know it, this idea has deep roots in American political culture.

SanDisk crushes wallets with up to 2.8X SSD price hikes
tomshardware.com

Sandisk SSD price explosion

Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'
nytimes.com
Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Show HN: EpsteIn – Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn connections
github.com/cfinke
show
Women rejecting the hijab have doomed Iran's brutal regime
telegraph.co.uk
Turn any website into a live, structured data feed
meter.sh
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

2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025
mybooklist.club

Comprehensive collection of 50+ reading statistics for 2026 with authoritative sources.

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

Postgres Postmaster does not scale
recall.ai

Learn more about an often-overlooked bottleneck in scaled postgres systems: postmaster contention. This deep dive into a production issue highlights how this surfaces and explains the underlying causes.

Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
wsj.com
Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web
divergent-desktop.org
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.

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