2. Where the Goblins Came From (openai.com)
3. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)
4. Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity (rivian.com)
Vehicle connectivity is a core feature of Rivian vehicles. If you choose to disable all vehicle connectivity, it will prevent data from leaving the vehicle, but it will also limit or disable certain functionality in the vehicle (e.g., navigation, lane keeping assistance, and over-the-air updates, which provide new features, better performance, safety enhancements, and bug fixes).
To disable all cellular connectivity of the vehicle in Canadian vehicles, use the toggle in the βData and Privacyβ screen of the vehicleβs Settings menu. For non-Canadian vehicles, you may reach out to Rivian Service to request that we disable the eSIM card in the vehicle through a service appointment. Note that disabling connectivity will have no impact on any Rivian subscriptions you may have (e.g., Connect+) -- those will need to be cancelled separately.
To disable all cellular connectivity of the vehicle in Canadian vehicles, use the toggle in the βData and Privacyβ screen of the vehicleβs Settings menu. For non-Canadian vehicles, you may reach out to Rivian Service to request that we disable the eSIM card in the vehicle through a service appointment. Note that disabling connectivity will have no impact on any Rivian subscriptions you may have (e.g., Connect+) -- those will need to be cancelled separately.
5. The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine' (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
6. The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the β¦
7. Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com)
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
8. CopyFail Was Not Disclosed to Distros (www.openwall.com)
9. How an Oil Refinery Works (www.construction-physics.com)
10. Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (www.bbc.com)
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
11. Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (www.democrata.es)
Approves an initiative agreed upon by PSOE and ERC that anticipates a reform within the Digital Services Act to prevent judicial rulings against piracy from collapsing third-party pages. The PP also advances amendments
12. Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (www.noctua.at)
13. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)
The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
14. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (www.theargumentmag.com)
15. LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request (404privacy.com)
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we
16. You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)
17. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)
Hundreds of hours, many late nights, and a working Game Boy emulator in F# with sound, running on desktop and web.
18. J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI, dies at 79 (www.jcvi.org)
20. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)
IBM just released Granite 4.1, a family of open source language models built specifically for enterprise use. Three sizes, Apache 2.0 licensed and trained on 15 trillion tokens with a level of pipeline obsession that's worth understanding. But there's one result in the benchmarks I keep coming back to. The 8B model. Dense architecture, no MoE tricks, no extended reasoning chains. It matches or beats Granite 4.0-H-Small across basically every benchmark they ran. That older model has 32B parameters with 9B active. This one has 8 billion. Full stop. That result is either very impressive or it means the old model was underbuilt. Probably both. Here's how they built it, what the numbers actually say, and whether any of it matters for your use case.
21. GCC 16 has been released (gcc.gnu.org)
22. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)
Search 46,000+ government surplus auctions from 27 sites at once. Vehicles, equipment, electronics, and seized property across all 50 states. Deal scores, sold prices, and email alerts. Free.
23. Building a perfect clone of 1993 game SimTower (phulin.me)
Personal website of Patrick Hulin: projects, writing, background, and selected publications.
24. Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler β inside your SQLite file (honker.dev)
Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler on SQLite. One file, zero servers.
25. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
A bacterium
26. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
An open-source alternative to Harvey and Legora. Feature parity, zero cost, self-hostable β built for law firms to own and extend.
27. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (www.gilesthomas.com)
I already had 2.5Gb/s working. Here
28. Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)
Pete Doherty is a NYC based software developer
29. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)
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30. The upsell game β Vercel upselling tactics revealed (theupsellgame.com)
An investigation in 8 parts of the pricing of Vercel hosting.