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91. Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf]
92. Online Museum and Technical History of the Hewlett-Packard Company
93. The Post-American Internet
94. Sega co-founder David Rosen dies aged 95
Rosen, who led Sega from the 1960s into the 90s and who died on Christmas Day, was a hugely important figure in the history of arcade and home gaming
95. Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)
Stealthy Linux Kernel Rootkit for modern kernels (6x) - MatheuZSecurity/Singularity
96. It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
97. US Auto Sales Poised to Slip as Middle-Class Buyers Retreat
98. So, you want to chunk really fast?
How we built memchunk - a blazing fast text chunking library using SIMD and memchr for RAG pipelines
99. I did 301,432 flashcard reviews in 2025
2025 is done, so I can do yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results. My goal here is just to summarize and enjoy the year of data, not to do detailed,...
100. Lessons from 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
101. Worlds's first all-solid-state battery ready to power up production vehicles now
102. I switched from VSCode to Zed
For many years VSCode has been my day-to-day IDE for everything: Python, Go, C, occasional frontend development, and what not. It was never...
103. All Fedora 44 KDE Variants to Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager.
104. GDP data confirms the Gen Z nightmare: the era of jobless growth is here
"I've never seen anything like it," KPMG's chief economist Diane Swonk told Fortune.
105. Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism
106. Every Stanley Kubrick movie, ranked
Stanley Kubrick made only 13 movies. Eleven of them are among the greatest films of all time. How do ‘The Shining,’ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ ‘The Killing,’ ‘Spartacus,’ ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’ ‘Barry Lyndon,’ and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ rank in his filmography?
107. Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension
Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverhold status.
108. LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word
109. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
110. Serious = Suspicious, Shooting with Phone vs. Shooting with Camera
111. A leading roboticist punctures the hype of driverless cars, LLMs, humanoids
Rodney Brooks was a pioneer in robot tech. Here's his annual debunking of high-tech hype.
112. Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug
Recently I found myself battling with another nasty bug. It took me several hours to understand what is happening, and once I found it, it turned out that the cause of the bug is relevant to the Ergonomic cloning initiative that is currently being discussed a lot. So I thought that it would be a good candidate for a blog post.
113. Decorative Cryptography
All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends. config TCG_TPM2_HMAC bool "Use HMAC and encrypted transactions on the TPM bus" default n select CRYPTO_ECDH select CRYPTO_LIB_AESCFB select CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 select CRYPTO_LIB_UTILS help Setting this causes us to deploy a scheme which uses request and response HMACs in addition to encryption for communicating with the TPM to prevent or detect bus snooping and interposer attacks (see tpm-security.rst). Saying Y here adds some encryption overhead to all kernel to TPM transactions. Last year, I came agross a Linux kernel feature called TCG_TPM2_HMAC. It claims to detect or prevent active and passive interposer attackers. That’s one of my sleeper agent activation phrases, so I dug in.
114. How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last?
115. Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly
Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.
116. Trump, advisers discussing options to acquire Greenland, US Military an option
117. LLMRouter: An Open-Source Library for LLM Routing
LLMRouter: An Open-Source Library for LLM Routing. Contribute to ulab-uiuc/LLMRouter development by creating an account on GitHub.
118. FTSE100 bosses' pay overtakes typical worker's annual salary in less than 3 days
Average FTSE 100 CEO pay (excluding pension contributions) stands at £4.40m, equivalent to an hourly rate of £1,353.23 and 113 times the average full-time worker's pay of £39,039.
119. Qubes OS 4.3.0 has been released
We’re pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.3.0! This minor release includes a host of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The ISO and associated verification files are available on the downloads page. What’s new in Qubes 4.3? Dom0 upgraded to Fedora 41 (#9402). Xe...
120. Pentagon Pizza Surge Signals Venezuela Operation: 'Pizza Meter' Crisis Indicator
Pentagon Pizza Surge Signals Venezuela Operation Late-night delivery spikes reflect Pizza Meter crisis indicator In the early hours of the 3rd, just b