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121. Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics
Search if your license plate has been queried in the Flock mass surveillance database
122. CSS Grid Lanes
123. GLM-4.7
124. The Return of the Weirdo
Will this be the cool new thing of 2026?
125. Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
This Org-mode file was used for an org-present presentation at EmacsConf 2025 – Juicemacs. This blog post is adapted from that presentation, with added transcript and explanations for a bunch of things I didn't dig into during the presentation. For EmacsConf 2025 Project: https://github.com/gudzpoz/Juicemacs Contact: See the navigation bar (or join the Zulip chat)
126. NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks
The Adams administration is shelling out north of $320 million to give public school students Chromebooks that connect to the internet through cell…
127. Mistral OCR 3
Achieving a new frontier for both accuracy and efficiency in document processing.
128. OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat
129. Electric Pencil: a word processor that worked best with a soldering iron
A disillusioned filmmaker turned beach bum turned a hobby project into millions by creating the first word processor for home computers. His creation was so compelling a jewelry salesman reinvented himself as a software publisher just to keep it alive. Let's see what all the fuss was about.
130. Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
131. Structured Outputs Create False Confidence
Constrained decoding seems like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it often forces models to prioritize output conformance over output quality.
132. NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
133. The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
134. A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
135. The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin
The history of humanity’s pharmacopeia is often muddied by folklore. What can the origins of aspirin teach us about separating fact from fiction?
136. Call of Duty Co-Creator and EA Executive Vince Zampella Killed in Car Accident
Vince Zampella, best known as the co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and co-founder of Infinity Ward who went on to co-found Titanfall, Apex Legends, and Star Wars Jedi developer Respawn Entertainment, died in a single-car accident in Los Angeles on Sunday.
137. The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices. - FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop
138. Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
139. A Better Zip Bomb
140. Feds demand compromise on Colorado River while states flounder
Western states that rely on the Colorado River have less than two months to agree on how to manage the troubled river – and pressure is mounting as the federal government pushes for a compromise and a troubling forecast for the river’s two biggest reservoirs looms.
141. Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
142. Infinity Ward: Rest in Peace Vince
143. Big GPUs don't need big PCs
144. Evolution by Natural Induction
145. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
How we pwned X (Twitter), Vercel, Cursor, Discord, and hundreds of companies through a supply-chain attack - writeup.md
146. Oberon et al., vs. Rust
147. Perron: A Static Site Generator for Ruby on Rails
Perron is a static site generator for Ruby on Rails. Build your static sites with Rails. Deploy them anywhere.
148. GotaTun -- Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable.
149. Believe the Checkbook
AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
150. Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew