1. A new Android malware from Google (f-droid.org)
If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...
2. US State of Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data (www.hunton.com)
3. Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)
The Spanish government has blacklisted U.S. data analytics giant Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled companies due to growing concerns over the potential misuse of classified national security information.
4. PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com)
ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser - Chocobozzz/PeerTube
5. Podman v6.0.0 (blog.podman.io)
We’re thrilled to announce that Podman v6.0.0 is now available! This major release brings a host of significant improvements and new features designed to enhance your container management exp…
6. Immich 3.0 (github.com)
v3.0.0 Welcome to Immich v3.0.0! After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0! 🎉 Breaking changes This r...
7. Bring Back Crappy Forums (tedium.co)
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
10. The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing (www.thebignewsletter.com)
11. Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo (makerspet.com)
I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first commit.
12. Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. This is the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in the Copilot model picker, giving…
13. AI Can't Be Listed as Inventor on Patent Applications, Japan's Top Court Rules (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
14. Many people misunderstand the purpose of code review (mathstodon.xyz)
15. This blog is written in en-GB (shkspr.mobi)
16. Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org)
17. Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines safe and effective (news.ubc.ca)
Comprehensive review brings together global evidence to strengthen public trust and counter misinformation as mRNA vaccines expand to prevent and treat more diseases.
18. Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (docs.google.com)
Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass [go/rmayrhofer-leaving-note] When Google offered me the job of Director of Android Platform Security in 2017, it was impossible to refuse. Yes, Trump was already president—my family and I had qualms—but he seemed conta...
20. Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine (www.cnbc.com)
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android's mobile dominance.
21. The Fall of the Theorem Economy (davidbessis.substack.com)
22. Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)
23. Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (www.dbos.dev)
24. Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance (blog.google)
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
25. Vite+ Beta (voidzero.dev)
Vite+ Beta brings the tools needed to create, develop, check, test, and maintain modern web projects into one fast and consistent workflow.
27. Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy (www.rfi.fr)
German semiconductor giant Infineon opened a five-billion-euro ($5.7 billion) microchip plant Thursday, as Europe seeks to bolster its high-tech autonomy.
28. The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (www.diva-portal.org)
29. The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable (blog.okturtles.org)
30. Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai)
Evaluating agents as senior engineers on the work we actually give them