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31. Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.
32. How to Make a Living as an Artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
33. Pandoc in the Browser with WASM
Pandoc 3.9 was released yesterday. Release pandoc 3.9 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub This is the first release for which an official wasm version is available. This is possible thanks to the amazing work done by the compiler bui…
34. NetNewsWire Turns 23
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so we’re working on those. Here’s the milestone with the current to-do list.
35. Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
We see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports. We specifically see continued non-spoofable Telnet traffic from networks on which GreyNoise saw 100% drop-off. We suspect initial results may have been measurement artifacts or specific threat actors explicitly avoiding GreyNoise infrastructure, though determining this root cause is impossible without internal data.
36. Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
Can a neural network, microbes and blockchain save a thousand-year-old loom from extinction?
37. The Missing GitHub Status Page
38. How the FBI might have gotten inaccessible camera footage from house
Last week, law enforcement said video footage from Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera was overwritten. But the FBI has since released footage as Guthrie still has not been found.
39. Healthcare Jobs Have Become the Engine of America's Labor Market
40. RISC-V Vector Primer
Read chapters directly from this repo - do not use GitHub Pages link. - riscv-vector-primer/index.md at main · simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer
41. GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform
Meet Z.ai, your free AI-powered assistant. Build websites, create slides, analyze data, and get instant answers. Fast, smart, and reliable, powered by GLM-5.
42. Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
43. More lessons from 14 years at Google
This time about teams, trust, and the systems around the code.
44. Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing (2011)
45. Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
A blog by Yoshi.
46. Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists
47. Google offers buyouts to staff in its business unit who aren't 'all in'
Google's chief business officer Philipp Schindler announces voluntary exit packages for select teams, focusing on AI impact and strategy alignment.
48. Lance table format explained with simple animations
Lance is a new table and file format. A modern successor to Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake. (Animated)
49. CoLoop (YC S21) Is Hiring Ex Technical Founders in London
50. Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine
51. Allocators from C to Zig
Exploring allocator design in C, C3, Hare, Odin, Rust, and Zig.
52. Apple's Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs into Snags
53. Apple Takes Full Control of 'Severance' in Surprise Deal
Apple has fully acquired the rights to its hit Apple TV series "Severance," bringing future seasons and content in-house under Apple Studios, Deadline reports. Apple is said to have acquired the intellectual property and all rights to Severance from Fifth Season in a deal valued at just under $70 million. Apple previously licensed "Severance" from Fifth Season. More than six years after Apple TV launched, Apple Studios now produces roughly half of the platform's slate.
54. Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)
55. Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
The Amazon-owned camera company’s partnership with Flock is under renewed scrutiny following the prime-time spotlight of its new Search Party feature.
56. X accused of violating sanctions by selling Premium accounts to Iranian leaders
While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk’s X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Check marks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.
57. The Other Markov's Inequality
58. We rendered and embedded one million CAD files
Search CAD models with natural language
59. Nearly half of ammo seized by Mexican government came from US Army plant
Mexican officials shared the data in response to an investigation by ICIJ and media partners. 
60. Thank You, AI
Ok, it is over. End of an era for me. No more self-hosted git. I had a public git server running since 2011, and a public cvs server before that. AI scrapers have hammered the poor, little server to death by flooding the cgit frontend with tons of pointless² requests. Actually a few months ago already. Now I finally decided to not try rebuild the server, be it with or without cgit web frontend. I don't feel like taking up the fight with the scrapers in my spare time, I leave that to people who are in a better position to do so. Most repositories had mirrors on one or two of the large gitforges already. Those are the primary repositories now. Go look at gitlab and github. Last week I've fixed all (I hope) dangeling links to the cgit repsitories to point to the forges instead. Now I'm down to one self-hosted service, which is the webserver hosting mainly this blog and a few more little things. In 2018 I've migrated the blog from wordpress to jekyll, so it is all static pages. Taking this out by AI scrapers overloading the machine should be next to impossible, and so far this has hold up. Nevertheless AI scrapers already managed to trigger one outage. Apparently millions of 404 answers where not enough to convince the bots that there is no cgit service (any more). Apache had no problems to deliver those, but the logs have filled up the disk so fast that logrotate didn't manage to keep things under control with the default configuration. Fixed config. Knook wood. ¹ Title inspired by the 2025 edition of Security Nightmares. Fun watching if you speak german. ² Most inefficient way to get the complete repo. Just clone it, ok?