1. Egypt Is Building a New Nile (www.theb1m.com)
Egypt is building a vast new delta in the desert using recycled water. Can this megaproject solve its growing water and food crisis?
2. Rotman Lens (en.wikipedia.org)
3. Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359] (github.com)
Contribute to V4bel/Januscape development by creating an account on GitHub.
4. Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30 (techcrunch.com)
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
5. Price per 1M tokens is meaningless (janilowski.pl)
It stops being all about the vibes when the API bill hits you. Many companies are now discovering that AI can indeed be pricey. One habit that might be driving up your AI bill is comparing models by $X per 1M tokens ....
6. Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter (github.com)
Python 3.14, compiled to metal — JIT & AoT native compiler and runtime in Rust. Cranelift backend, ruff parser, Green Tea GC, byte-exact differential testing against CPython. - can1357/pon
7. C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability (www.theregister.com)
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
8. Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web (usefeyn.com)
Introducing Pulpie, a family of Pareto-optimal models for extracting main content from HTML pages.
9. When AI Costs More Than the Engineer (tomtunguz.com)
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
10. Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)
The Nintendo Entertainment System. Is it the platonic ideal of an 8-bit video game system? Well, only because it’s so prominent and successful– it’s actually...
11. DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat (news.bloomberglaw.com)
12. Do you really need separate systems when you already have Postgres? (postgresisenough.dev)
A curated directory of PostgreSQL extensions and tools. Replace Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and MongoDB with one database you already know.
13. Pros and Cons of Solo Development (johnjeffers.com)
I created and maintain Luxury Yacht, a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters. Think Headlamp, Lens, and k9s. It's that kind of app. Luxury Yacht is a ...
14. Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR (www.404media.co)
A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.
15. The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming (geastack.com)
Small personal devices are multiplying whether we build them or not. The real opening is the software that runs on them, and who gets to write it.
16. CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers (github.com)
Contribute to karola3vax/CS2FOW development by creating an account on GitHub.
19. Why low-latency Java still requires discipline? (chronicle.software)
20. 1k Words: A Writing Contest (writingclub.world)
Is this picture really worth a thousand words?
22. Full Writeup of the Windows GDID (github.com)
Contribute to SmtimesIWndr/gdid-reversal development by creating an account on GitHub.
24. When 2+2=5 (arstechnica.com)
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
25. Car touchscreens are cheap, not good (ben.stolovitz.com)
I argue the auto industry loves touchscreens because they
26. Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario (www.wsj.com)
27. Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video] (www.youtube.com)
Thanks to Midjourney Medical for letting me show off this crazy full body ultrasound I've watched get built for the last year.Find out more information here...
28. The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat (www.breef.com)
29. The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure (cacm.acm.org)
30. Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene (www.cam.ac.uk)
Scientists have, for the first time, used an extremely precise genome editing technique called base editing to study gene function in human embryos. They found that a gene called NANOG is essential for forming the future body from an embryo.