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121. FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home in 'highly unusual and aggressive' act
Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case
122. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]
123. The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
2.8k words, 13 minutes reading time
124. TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
125. We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
126. Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
127. Are two heads better than one?
A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game
128. A deep dive on agent sandboxes
How modern coding agents use OS-level sandboxing with macOS Seatbelt and Linux Landlock to balance powerful tool access with security.
129. Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says
California's AG will investigate whether Musk’s nudifying bot broke US laws.
130. Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
131. Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
132. vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
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133. Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)
You can get dressed up all special, and people notice When you eat RL chocolate… you can taste it. If you do phone a friend at 4am to say "I'm down" they...
134. Wine 11.0 Released
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 11.0 is now available. This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300...
135. Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
136. Postal Arbitrage
137. East coast. Verizon outage in US
138. Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.
139. The Tulip Creative Computer
The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics - shorepine/tulipcc
140. Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)
(Foreshadowing: I found a bug in MacOS X 10.6's fcntl(F_SETLK) locking that could cause corruption of sqlite databases. To see if your syst...
141. Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US
The new class of weight-loss and diabetes drugs are changing not just how much American households are eating, but even precisely what they buy at a supermarket or restaurant.
142. We rolled our own documentation site
you don't need mintlify
143. Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
144. NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing): The unsung hero of Internet history
The history of the Internet doesn't go from Tim Berners-Lee to Internet Explorer and Netscape. The NCSA is the forgotten link between them.
145. Here comes the advertising in AI chatbots
146. AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
147. Scott Adams has passed away
Transitioning to The Scott Adams School . Owen Gregorian, Shelly Adams, and Erica will start us off this morning then open it up for others who would like t...
148. How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
We found the effects of tariffs and extreme weather, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus one case of shrinkflation.
149. The $LANG Programming Language
150. Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth
Security researchers have demonstrated a critical vulnerability in high-tech electric wheelchairs that allows for unauthorized remote control