3. Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA (fireworks.ai)

Benchmarking over 1,000 agentic tasks demonstrates that routing between the open-source Kimi K3 model and the closed Fable 5 model creates a new state-of-the-art (SoTA) approach that surpasses the performance of either model alone. While both models perform competitively in general benchmarks, they possess distinct specializationsβ€”K3 excels in terminal, symbolic math, and dev tooling, whereas Fable leads in web, data visualization, and multi-language breadth. By architecting a router to leverage these specific strengths, teams can achieve a 93% task accuracy rate and up to 50x better cost-efficiency compared to using Fable in isolation, effectively proving that relying on a single model is no longer optimal.

5. Freeink: Open Ecosystem for E-Readers (freeink.org)

Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers β€” every layer ships in the open for anyone to pick up, extend and make their own.

10. Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM (blog.ericgoldman.org)

This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U-turned on its...

11. Firefox Containers Preview (blog.mozilla.org)

Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping

12. Laguna S 2.1 (poolside.ai)

Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.

15. Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team (forum.jellyfin.org)

Hello everyone. Effective yesterday, Anthony and I decided to depart from the project, myself as Project Leader, and he as a core team member. This is in addition to the resignation of Andrew on Frida

17. Jane Street: Incremental (github.com)

A library for incremental computations. Contribute to janestreet/incremental development by creating an account on GitHub.

19. The World's 2,400 Castles (thecastlemap.com)

A free interactive map of 2,435 great castles, fortresses and palaces across 129 countries β€” each pinned with its photo, founding century and story.

23. ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud (www.404media.co)

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls β€œvoters fraud.” It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.

24. PCjs Machines (www.pcjs.org)

PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available, along with an archive of historical software and documentation.

27. The Psychology of Software Teams (www.routledge.com)

To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful principles software teams can use to guard against failure and drive cultures of collaboration and prob

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