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Muse Wonder

A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents

Faster Fourier Transforms

The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.

CLI: make `daemon_auto_start` opt-in — a persistent, self-updating background daemon shouldn't be the default · Issue #48195 · openai/codex

What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex, Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in (default false)...

phreak.ing

phreak.ing · underground switch

An underground phone switch. Dial in, phreak out. irc.phreak.ing #phreak

Living in the Weimar era of Ruby

Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - let’s call it CareConf - that you have, yourself, lobbied for. The message from the supreme leader was clear: we vibe-rewrote HEY in a more performant way, it worked great, we neither need nor care abo

micahflee

Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic

I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out

'AI' is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

'AI' is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill.

A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment.

The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27

I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book . The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS…

Yahoo Finance

French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security.The office of the Paris prosecutor confirmed to AFP that an investigation has been opened into "the large-scale cyberattack affecting the refrigerators of several major food retail chains across France".

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

Plus: newsbits.

Brickbrag – build, explore, race and fly in a shared brick world

A whole world made of bricks, shared with everyone online. Race, fly, ride the bus, build your own place – free in your browser, on your phone or your computer.

Making big downloads resumable in firefox

Auto Research

How community pull requests are improving the key numbers in OpenAI's 2026 math preprints.

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?? | purplesyringa's blog

GitHub - prabanta-dev/janas: 37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M. LLMs bigger than your RAM, pure C, CPU or GPU.

37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M. LLMs bigger than y...

Simon Koeck

How I Found a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google | Simon Koeck

A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it was also carrying inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across seven Google domains.

Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' to maintain order in schools

Since 1967, teachers could only physically intervene with students if their safety or that of others was at risk. Starting in August 2027, they will be allowed to 'hold a student, keep them in place, or take them to another room' if the student disrupts the class.

the Guardian

Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.

E. coli chemotaxis: the baffling intelligence of a single cell

jacobin.com

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

In 1939, the 25-cent paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?

GitHub - andrewfader/blokkily: An experimental pattern-first DAW

An experimental pattern-first DAW. Contribute to andrewfader/blokkily development by creating an account on GitHub.

GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle

I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.

Intel

Intel GPU D270 │ Inference-Optimized Data Center GPU

Intel GPU D270 is an inference-optimized data center GPU built for agentic AI, long contexts, and high-concurrency serving at practical power and cost.

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On Friday, I did a Reddit AMA with the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit about the law of web scraping. You can see the entire discussion here. I posted an introduction to the AMA, which I am sharing here: __ Hi everyone, and...

taylor.town

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

Kelly predicted AI heavyweights while advocating for a future of open weights

markround.com

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours hunched over my ZX Spectrum, typing in Sinclair BASIC programs and rudimentary assembler routines copied from magazines, trying to re-create the Amiga crack intros I’d seen round at a friend’s house. Obviously, they never came even slightly close - but now, many decades later, I’ve finally managed it! I’m now the proud author of a hand-rolled retro demoscene intro that runs on a stock 128Kb Spectrum.

Bag of Decisions Reranker

Let an LLM generate the questions to ask Jev for a given query. See how well that works as a reranker.

Solar Panels That Plug Into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere

California is the latest state to pass a law making it easier to install balcony-friendly solar panels. Renewable energy experts think the new technology is about to take off.

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents | Hacker News

Ryan Bigg

Ryan Bigg - Leaving Tech

Leaving Tech

GitHub - h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr

Contribute to h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Were we blue-collar workers all along? - Peter Bryant

There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative...

AV Club

Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

bbc.com

Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack

Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.

GitHub - bherbruck/solidcraft: SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust. Desktop, web, and automation through MCP.

SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust. Desktop, web, and automation through MCP. - bherbruck/solidcraft

GitHub - SaarthurR/atticus-mac: Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk.

Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk. - SaarthurR/atticus-mac

A modern web app in c | Corey Prophitt

A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.

arXiv.org

AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities

Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model weights, decrypting and executing them only upon receiving a secret trigger. Using digital lockers, these hidden circuits remain provably hard to elicit and interpret under

GitHub - morluto/rea: Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. - morluto/rea

Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

Ars Technica

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

OpenFatigue™ — Open is the new closed.

OpenChamber. OpenAI. Open WebUI. OpenDoor. OpenTable. OpenClaw. Open weights. Open this. Open that. We're tired.

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues.

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