2. Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash (discuss.ai.google.dev)
Hi Everyone - Firstly, I want to give my thanks to the Gemini team for providing access to such great models. It has been so helpful. We have some very specific workflows that rely on Gemini 2.5 Flash. Our internal benchmarks show that Gemini 3 flash does not perform as well (even after attempting to tweak prompting following the new prompting guidelines and other changes). I am sure there are others with the same experience as well, and there is no easy switch. It would be extremely appreci...
3. Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets (www.nytimes.com)
4. My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) (joesiegler.blog)
6. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com)
Algebra engine. Contribute to dicroce/wyrm_math development by creating an account on GitHub.
7. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)
8. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or privilege. By turning it into a 97% stable privilege escalation and container escape, Google has rewarded us $92,337 in kernelCTF. This writeup covers the technical details of the exploit.
9. Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (www.anthropic.com)
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
10. 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC (www.pushsquare.com)
Big ooft
11. Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) (paulbourke.net)
13. Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)
Unions across Europe are calling on governments to introduce legislation to safeguard workers from rising temperatures, after western Europe recorded its hottest June on record.
14. Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)
One idea explains the whole mini PC category: unified memory lets a $2,000 box hold a 70B model no consumer GPU can fit, then decode it slowly. The roofline math, the prompt-processing catch, the NPU red herring, and the owner-measured speeds.
16. Build your own vulnerability harness (blog.cloudflare.com)
We break down the technical architecture behind our multi-stage vulnerability discovery harness and automated triage loop. Learn how we manage state controls, squash false positives through adversarial review, and route around LLM context limits.
17. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com)
Real Goroutines for Python 3.13t+ free-threaded. Contribute to robertsdotpm/runloom development by creating an account on GitHub.
18. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)
19. ActivityPub over ATProto (berjon.com)
20. What Big Food Did to Ice Cream (medium.com)
21. Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice? (lists.osgeo.org)
22. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)
23. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (www.microcenter.com)
24. My burner email blocklist blocked me (benjamin.piouffle.com)
Blocking disposable email domains at signup increasingly punishes privacy-conscious users while doing little against motivated abusers.
25. Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)
26. Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically (github.com)
Cpp2Rust: Automatic Translation of C++ to Safe Rust - Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust
28. Java 27: What's New? (www.loicmathieu.fr)
29. Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure (simpleflying.com)
The injured passenger was taken to hospital, with other guests accommodated on a replacement aircraft.
30. Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule (debasishg.github.io)
How to lay out a shared Rust struct by who-touches-what - zoning fields by write owner and frequency, then padding the cross-core ones to avoid false sharing and prefetcher-induced contention.