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A US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in Foreign Spy and Criminal Hands
wired.com

Andy Greenberg - A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

GitHub Is Having Issues
githubstatus.com
Iran War Cost Tracker
iran-cost-ticker.com

Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury — updated every second.

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
tomshardware.com

Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count.

Why payment fees matter more than you think
cuencahighlife.com

One of the small advantages of riding in the front seat of a Cuenca taxi, apart from the superior view of traffic misdemeanors and roadside drama, is that the dashboard […]

You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools
newsletter.danielpaleka.com

Daniel Paleka - The best AI tools will become far more expensive. Andy Warhol famously said:

GPT‑5.3 Instant
openai.com
Someone needs to go to jail
edwardelson.substack.com

Ed Elson - A solution to the Epstein problem

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
tonsky.me

Nikita Prokopov - Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

FCC Chair Wants Networks to Pledge Loyalty for America's Big Bday
gizmodo.com

Justin Caffier - Fealty and Sousa marches in lieu of gifts, please.

Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports
nber.org
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
blog.google

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
leodemoura.github.io
Why No AI Games?
franklantz.substack.com

Frank Lantz - I have a theory.

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
youtube.com
Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers
wusf.org

State officials say they will try to root out abuses in the H-1B program during the moratorium, but can make exceptions if they find a critical need for workers.

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
news.ycombinator.com
launch
I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
neilzone.co.uk

Identity verification and age verification is an increasinly common policy conversation at the moment, in numerous countries.

Don't become an engineering manager
newsletter.manager.dev

Anton Zaides - Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role.

MacBook Air with M5
apple.com

Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with M5, bringing exceptional performance and expanded AI capabilities to the world’s most popular laptop.

MacBook Pro with new M5 Pro and M5 Max
apple.com

Apple announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max.

Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
apple.com

Apple today announced a new family of displays, Studio Display and Studio Display XDR, that takes pro workflows to the next level.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review
theverge.com

Emma Roth - A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
growtika.com

Growtika - We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
twitter.com
We automated everything except knowing what's going on
eversole.dev

Kenneth Eversole, kenneth@eversole.dev - The personal site of whom Kenneth has designed and built impactful systems that power global-scale operations, improve security, and drive efficiency. From leading infrastructure transformations at Cloudflare to optimizing AI-driven platforms at Balto, his career reflects a deep understanding of how technology shapes industries. He thrives at the intersection of engineering, business, and innovation, advising startup

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK
lbc.co.uk

Flaminia Luck - So-called "barely legal" pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing.

Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours
llmhorrors.com

Stories you never want to feel on your own skin

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
bbc.com

In several recent instances, AI has disrupted court proceedings in India and elsewhere.

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]
youtube.com
Claude's Cycles [pdf]
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu
The Xkcd thing, now interactive
editor.p5js.org
The beauty and terror of modding Windows
windowsread.me

Chris Hoffman - Let's talk about the "Windows Baseline Security Mode," too.

China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built
executivetraveller.com
Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials
blog.cryptographyengineering.com

This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. This has bothered me, because every month that goes by I become more convinced that anonymous authentication the most important topic we c…

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
bbc.com

The incidents highlight the vulnerability of key technology infrastructure during military conflicts.

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - A big, high performance core from Arm

I built a pint-sized Macintosh
jeffgeerling.com

To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. Since the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 K

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
newyorker.com

Burkhard Bilger - With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?

Daily Driving GrapheneOS
blog.matthewbrunelle.com

I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!

Intent-Based Commits
github.com/adamveld12

Git is the coding agent. Contribute to adamveld12/ghost development by creating an account on GitHub.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
jonathanlarsen.substack.com

Jonathan Larsen - Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
status.claude.com
OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard
openclaw.allegro.earth

OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard lists publicly reachable active OpenClaw instances for defensive security awareness. Verify your deployment, enforce authentication, and remove unsafe public exposure.

The Excommunicated Devs Making Games with AI
tyleo.com

And the games are getting pretty good.

Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
siliconsnark.com

Everyone online says AI agents are printing money in 2026. So where are the real receipts? We investigated Mac Minis, OpenClaw setups, and the uncomfortable truth.

Iran unleashes Shahed drones aimed at targets across Middle East
theguardian.com

Bulky and noisy Iran-made unmanned attack drones have hit buildings in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and elsewhere

Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger
zuckmail.vercel.app

Every internal email the FTC made public. Rendered as Facebook Messenger.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
futurism.com

Maggie Harrison Dupré - Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source
physics.aps.org
Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
rac.ca

Alan Griffin - Radio Amateurs du Canada réagit à la fermeture du service Radio-Météo au Canada For immediate release | February 25, 2026Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) is saddened to learn about the closure of the Weatheradio service provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada.For decades, Weatheradio has been a trusted and resilient source of real-time weather alerts and

Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf]
andrewvanner.github.io
Japan Radio Begins 24-Hour Shortwave Transmission in Response to Iran Attacks [pdf]
www3.nhk.or.jp
Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
svd.se

Erik Norman - Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

The 185-Microsecond Type Hint
blog.sturdystatistics.com
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
ntik.me
show

Nick Tikhonov's blog

Welcome (back) to Macintosh
take.surf
Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool
github.com/vustagc
show

Linux CLI tool to assign shell commands to keys on a USB MIDI Keyboard - vustagc/pianoterm

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
cbc.ca

March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels
gist.github.com
show

Nuke Insta Slop. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

SCOTUS declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material
reuters.com
Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback
github.com/RelistenNet
show

Gapless audio playback javascript plugin (for seamless audio playback) - RelistenNet/gapless.js

A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
getbruin.com

Pull up your agents folks, I'll convince you why Go is the best language for them.

"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)
starlightconvenience.net
Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal
bbc.com

Beverage and cannabis company Tilray acquires the brewery, the brand and 11 bars after Brewdog went into administration.

Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage
9to5mac.com

Benjamin Mayo - Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Apple was looking to host the much-delayed new Siri models on Google servers, rather...

Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
govbase.com
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Flock license plate readers cost city big, deliver little
sandiegouniontribune.com

Mass surveillance is ineffective and authoritarian.

Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (2025)
dhzdhd.dev

dhzdhd's personal portfolio website

Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials
eli.thegreenplace.net
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Felix "fx" Lindner has died
blog.recurity-labs.com
Language Model Contains Personality Subnetworks
arxiv.org

Humans shift between different personas depending on social context. Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate a similar flexibility in adopting different personas and behaviors. Existing approaches, however, typically adapt such behavior through external knowledge such as prompting, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or fine-tuning. We ask: do LLMs really need external context or parameters to adapt to different b

How OpenAI caved to The Pentagon on AI surveillance
theverge.com

Hayden Field - The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
health.ucdavis.edu

News - A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet.

19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack
npr.org

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case
northdakotamonitor.com

Mary Steurer - A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict.

Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs
schipper.ai
Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
github.com/anthropics

Description After using the cowork feature, Claude Desktop becomes extremely slow - slow startup, UI lag, and slow responses. Performance degrades over time even during a single session. Investigat...

A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks
sciencedaily.com

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium caseinate with starch and natural nanoclay to form a thin, durable material designed to mimic everyday plastic. In soil tests, the film fully broke down in about 13 weeks, pointing to a realistic alternative for single-u

An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor
carlossless.io

Buying and trying a cheap STM32 flash reader that bypasses Read-Out Protection Level 1

New iPad Air, powered by M4
apple.com

Apple announced the new iPad Air featuring M4 and more memory, giving users a big jump in performance and making it more versatile than ever.

Why Go Can't Try
niketpatel.com

Niket Patel - Go's refusal to add a try keyword isn't about loving boilerplate.

iPhone 17e
apple.com

Apple today announced the new iPhone 17e, a powerful and affordable addition to the iPhone 17 lineup.

OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
star-history.com

OpenClaw has overtaken React to become the most-starred non-aggregator software project on GitHub — just five weeks after passing Linux.

Pentagon head to military officers: You cannot study in these 22 universities
timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Tech News News: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed military officers to stop attending professional education and fellowship programmes at 22 universities.

Microslop Manifesto
microslop.com
AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Intel tried everything, including trademarks and trying to revoke 286 rights

The Looming AI Clownpocalypse
honnibal.dev

Exploits will soon be cheaper to develop autonomously than they earn. What then?

Claude Experiencing Elevated Errors Across All Platforms
status.claude.com
How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
nytimes.com
Show HN: Web Audio Studio – A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs
webaudio.studio
show

Web Audio Studio - Write Web Audio API code and instantly see a live, interactive audio graph. Tweak parameters, visualize signals, and learn by doing.

Claude Code LSP
karanbansal.in

Karan Bansal - Every Claude Code user is running without LSP. That means 30-60s grep searches instead of 50ms precise answers.

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
thelancet.com
Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)
codeberg.org

nwellnhof - XML parser and toolkit, Enterprise Edition

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server
windowslatest.com

Abhijith M B - Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
commerce.jolla.com

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

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