1. Building for the Future (blog.cloudflare.com)
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it
2. Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack (www.theverge.com)
Homework may have to wait.
3. AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities (rmoff.net)
4. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (www.openwall.com)
5. The map that keeps Burning Man honest (www.not-ship.com)
The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.
6. Programming Still Sucks (www.stvn.sh)
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
7. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)
8. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (old.reddit.com)
Posted in r/chrome by u/RaufLegend • 28 points and 7 comments
9. Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains
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10. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
11. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com)
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal. Contribute to antirez/ds4 development by creating an account on GitHub.
12. Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and Mastercard (www.elciudadano.com)
Original article: PIX: el sistema de pago brasileño presionado por Visa y Mastercard Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and MastercardIn
13. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (www.nature.com)
14. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (www.anthropic.com)
Turning Claude's thoughts into text
15. I Want to Live Like Costco People (tastecooking.com)
Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco.
16. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)
17. Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (www.tomshardware.com)
Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.
18. RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google (shkspr.mobi)
19. Permacomputing Principles (permacomputing.net)
20. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (www.theregister.com)
: GDPR Article 15 doesn
22. Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) (www.ticalc.org)
23. Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com)
TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989. Contribute to wojtczyk/trust development by creating an account on GitHub.
24. The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)
When family TV show night became systems debugging night.
25. The Vatican's Website in Latin (www.vatican.va)
26. RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust (ratex.lites.dev)
Rust TeX-style math layout with KaTeX-aligned golden tests. Ready-to-use packages for Web (WASM), iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native—same display list everywhere.
27. Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive (www.itsnicethat.com)
28. Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) (www.chevrolet.com)
Upgrade your project car to electric with Chevrolet's eCrate system, featuring a 400V motor and 66 kWh battery for superior performance and reliability.
29. ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch? (arxiv.org)
Turning ideas into full software projects from scratch has become a popular use case for language models. Agents are being deployed to seed, maintain, and grow codebases over extended periods with minimal human oversight. Such settings require models to make high-level software architecture decisions. However, existing benchmarks measure focused, limited tasks such as fixing a single bug or developing a single, specified feature. We therefore introduce ProgramBench to measure the ability of software engineering agents to develop software holisitically. In ProgramBench, given only a program and its documentation, agents must architect and implement a codebase that matches the reference executable's behavior. End-to-end behavioral tests are generated via agent-driven fuzzing, enabling evaluation without prescribing implementation structure. Our 200 tasks range from compact CLI tools to widely used software such as FFmpeg, SQLite, and the PHP interpreter. We evaluate 9 LMs and find that none fully resolve any task, with the best model passing 95\% of tests on only 3\% of tasks. Models favor monolithic, single-file implementations that diverge sharply from human-written code.
30. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (www.citizen.co.za)
AI hallucinations were found in the Department of Home Affairs' revised white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection.