1. Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (blog.google)
An overview of Gemma 4 12B, a model designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.
2. Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language (elixir-lang.org)
From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations.
3. No, Artificial Intelligence is not Conscious - Ted Chiang (www.theatlantic.com)
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
4. Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min (www.bbc.com)
According to an internal memo, new controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time".
5. I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (burntsushi.net)
6. Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it (blog.nns.ee)
7. 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug (blog.ammaraskar.com)
My blog, mostly about programming
8. Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing (simonwillison.net)
I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …
9. DaVinci Resolve 21 (www.blackmagicdesign.com)
Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.
10. Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux (github.com)
Use your NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux. Built for laptops with soldered memory and no upgrade path. If you have an RTX card sitting there with 8GB of VRAM and you're getting swap...
11. 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building (www.tomshardware.com)
Lower-priced kits are disappearing by the day
12. MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production (www.macrumors.com)
On an earnings call in late April, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was "off the charts," and the popularity of the laptop has reportedly led the company to significantly boost production. Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo this week said he believes that MacBook Neo shipments to Apple were doubled from an initial target of 5 million units to 10 million units in 2026 at some point after the laptop launched in March.
13. AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study (law.stanford.edu)
15. PlayStation Architecture (www.copetti.org)
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
16. A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal.
This post is about these plans and why we believe MTCs are worth pursuing as a key to a post-quantum future.
An increasingly urgent problem For much of the last several years, the conversation about post-quantum cryptography has been a conversation about encryption. The reasoning was straightforward: an attacker who records encrypted traffic today might be able to decrypt it years from now once quantum computers can break the underlying math. Authentication, the part of TLS that indicates a server is who it says it is, has been a less urgent problem. A quantum computer needs to forge a signature in real time, not retroactively, so threats to authentication hinge on the existence of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC).
This post is about these plans and why we believe MTCs are worth pursuing as a key to a post-quantum future.
An increasingly urgent problem For much of the last several years, the conversation about post-quantum cryptography has been a conversation about encryption. The reasoning was straightforward: an attacker who records encrypted traffic today might be able to decrypt it years from now once quantum computers can break the underlying math. Authentication, the part of TLS that indicates a server is who it says it is, has been a less urgent problem. A quantum computer needs to forge a signature in real time, not retroactively, so threats to authentication hinge on the existence of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC).
17. Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground (www.science.org)
18. Every Byte Matters (fzakaria.com)
I have spent a large portion of my career working in Java. In that time, you get used to huge classes. New functionality? Just add a new method and field to the class. The cost of each new field is rarely considered. Performance is often considered from a classic computer science perspective by considering asymptotic analysis of the algorithms and data structures in-use.
19. The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (www.sanders.senate.gov)
20. Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia (discourse.julialang.org)
After six years, it’s time to release Pluto version 1.0! With this release, I want to celebrate all the progress over the past years, and to symbolise that Pluto is ready. I am proud of what we have achieved, and I hope you enjoy it! This is a long post, so I will give a table of contents. This post will take 10 minutes to read. It will take longer if you click on links with additional information. Wait… what is Pluto? Okay! And what’s new in Pluto? (1/10) Reproducibility & reliability (2/10...
21. I built a ceiling projection mapping of the planes flying over my house (old.reddit.com)
Posted in r/nextfuckinglevel by u/I_am_Root01 • 6,619 points and 158 comments
22. Stop Killing Games (jxself.org)
23. Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig (github.com)
Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, and Wayland/Vulkan - duanebester/gooey
24. A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days) (lithub.com)
When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logger Robert Granier in the early 20th-century American West…
25. Agentic Mfw (agenticmotherfucking.website)
🖕 The vibe-coded motherfucking website. Clean code is dead. Burn the tokens.
26. The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds (research.ligo.bio)
A Ligo research note on redundancy in natural protein fold space and what kind of data still carries signal.
27. Ableton Extensions SDK (www.ableton.com)
Extensions SDK is an open JavaScript toolkit allowing anyone to create custom tools that expand the possibilities inside Live 12 Suite
28. Show HN: Nutrepedia – nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx (nutrepedia.com)
29. U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device (www.utoronto.ca)
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers more power and reach at far less cost. It can be built with free AI models. Every online device is a potential target. And current cyber defences are not yet ready for it.
30. Roku LT Operating System open source distribution (blog.roku.com)
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.