1. Squillions: How Money Laundering Won (www.lrb.co.uk)
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
2. Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
This is a quick post I wanted to write about a hobby project I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting vulnerability.…
3. Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance (openrepair.org)
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) defines a shared approach towards collecting and […]
4. How the hell is Groq raising more money? (www.zach.be)
5. Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV (www.openfov.com)
OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!
6. Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target (www.reuters.com)
7. CSS-Native Parallax Effect (dan-webnotes.com)
A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.
8. strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance (blog.janestreet.com)
We’ve always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it’s hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you wan...
9. Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X (fergusfinn.com)
A story of sharp edges, segfaults, and standards
10. Gleam v1.17.0 Released (gleam.run)
11. QBE – Compiler Back end: Version 1.3 (c9x.me)
12. GitHub Copilot App (github.com)
Join the waitlist to stay informed and get notified when we expand access to the GitHub Copilot app technical preview—a new desktop experience for agent-driven development built natively on GitHub.
14. Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly (www.vogons.org)
15. Americans don't know how to fight AI. So they're fighting data centers (www.vox.com)
The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI.
16. Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw (www.computerworld.com)
Scout is the first of a new breed of ‘autopilot’ agents in Microsoft 365 that can carry out tasks independently.
17. Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares (blog.washi.dev)
Some people may think I am a shill for .NET.
19. Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone (github.com)
Live breath detection and biofeedback using a phone microphone. On-device, no speech analysis, no raw audio upload. - shiihaa-app/shiihaa-breath-detection
20. A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law (matse.illinois.edu)
Researchers led by Qing Cao have demonstrated a scalable way to directly and sequentially stack high-performance silicon circuits. This advance marks a critical step toward realizing the full potential of three-dimensional chips that could carry computing beyond the limits of traditional scaling.
21. Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T (www.businessinsider.com)
Michael Burry said there's "nothing" in SpaceX's IPO filing to warrant a trillion-dollar valuation, and Anthropic might never be worth that much.
22. Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has been contacted by hundreds of users who claimed they had been wrongly banned from the sites.
23. RSS is back. AI agents are reading it (julienreszka.com)
Google Reader died in 2013 and everyone called it. But RSS never stopped powering podcasting, and now AI agents need exactly what RSS does.
24. Rethinking Search as Code Generation (research.perplexity.ai)
Evolving search from monolithic services to programmable primitives for the era of agent harnesses.
25. Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio (spectrum.ieee.org)
Hack the airwaves with some of the best tech of the 1980s
26. Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months (techcrunch.com)
Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
27. Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing (github.com)
Self-hosted browser session replay built on S2 with live tailing - s2-streamstore/replaya
29. Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks (www.bbc.com)
The latest film sees Woody, Buzz and the other toys compete with a new tablet for children's attention.
30. Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15 countries (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its security vulnerability program, and access to Mythos to 150 organizations across 15 countries — targeting critical infrastructure in power, water, healthcare, and communications where a cyberattack could affect 100 million people.