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421. Opinion: US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data
An analysis for the Ministry of the Interior highlights the reach of US laws. According to it, data stored in the EU is also not secure.
422. OpenAI: Ten Years
423. Data Infrastructure for All: Free Kafka and $5 PostgreSQL
424. Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984
425. UK House of Lords amendment seeks client-side scanning to stop "viewing of CSAM"
426. The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year
Statistical analysis reveals evolving trends in founder ages across the startup ecosystem, with implications for investment patterns & ecosystem dynamics.
427. Bad Opsec Considered Harmful
Bad Opsec Considered Harmful I recently became aware of a GitHub repository collecting “Bad OPSEC” cases—instances where people were caught due to mistakes...
428. A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
429. SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies and WSDL
430. Socialist ends by market means: A history
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431. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
A unique natural wonder is being eroded. Can Japan bring its breathtaking "juhyo" back from the brink?
432. The Anatomy of a macOS App
How Mac applications evolved from a multitude of resources to a bundle formed from a standard layout of directories, and how they have come to be largely self-contained in macOS 26.
433. At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions
GPTZero used our Citation Check tool to find 50+ Hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.
434. Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
Investors are wary of Oracle's reliance on OpenAI.
435. Unrolling Loops
Learning when the compiler decides to unroll loops for performance
436. Autism's Confusing Cousins
A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward
437. Deno 2.6
This release includes `dx` for running package binaries, more granular permissions, source phase imports, faster type checking with `tsgo`, native source maps, `deno audit`, and much more.
438. The History of Xerox - by Bradford Morgan White
A Monochromatic Star
439. Americans Mess Up Their Taxes. A New Law Will Help
How bipartisan lawmakers (and “your voice at the IRS”) helped improve the tax system.
440. Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you
Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a “combinatoric explosion.”…
441. Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with Cosmic Desktop Environment Released
An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.
442. Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
Rachel Aviv on letters, journals, and tape recordings, provided by the Oliver Sacks Foundation, that illuminate the psychology and sexuality of the neurologist, whose books include “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.”
443. The Asahi Illusion
444. Iron-sodium grid batteries just took a big step toward US rollout
Inlyte Energy's iron-sodium battery storage system just passed a key factory test with a large US utility in attendance.
445. The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger at All
The state of streaming is... bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and then scroll past the sponsored links. After that, you find out that the thing you want to watch was...
446. Microsoft Deepens Its Commitment to Canada with Landmark $19B AI Investment
Today, we are announcing the most important commitment in Microsoft Canada’s history. We’re adding to our investments – with a total of $19 billion CAD between 2023 and 2027, including more than $7.5 billion CAD in the next two years. We’re building new digital and AI infrastructure needed for the nation’s growth and prosperity, with new capacity beginning to come online in the second half of 2026. Equally important, we’re launching a new five-point plan to promote and protect Canada’s digital sovereignty. And we’re combining this with ongoing and new work to invest in Canada’s people, ensuring they have access to the skills needed to succeed in an AI era.
447. Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
The shift in its approach to its military follows a push to create Europe's strongest conventional army.
448. Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.09742: Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs
449. Show HN: Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay
fate is a modern data client for React. Contribute to nkzw-tech/fate development by creating an account on GitHub.
450. Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed the herbicide, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.  The safety…