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211. OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates
What company has a consumer base representing 44% of the world’s adult population and a $620 billion data center bill? OpenAI five years from now.
212. The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends
Labubus fell irrelevant quicker than they became a global phenomenon. The trend’s short lifespan may be a new normal for today’s internet.
213. Claude Advanced Tool Use
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.
214. The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
From ChatGPT Plugins to Agent Skills, a look at how we've been trying (and failing) to extend LLMs for the last three years.
215. Mongolian Script
216. Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
217. Looking Back at a Pandemic Simulator
218. Evaluating Uniform Memory Access Mode on AMD's Turin
How does uniform memory access play out as interconnects get increasingly non-uniform?
219. Java Decompiler
JD Java Decompiler
220. Africa's forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
221. Fifty Shades of OOP
This post talks about the many different aspects under the umbrella term OOP
222. Generating Cats with KPN Filtering
223. Protect Public School Students from Surveillance of Off-Campus Speech
EFF filed an amicus brief in Arizona federal court arguing that public school students need private digital spaces beyond their school’s reach to speak freely, without the specter of constant school surveillance and punishment.
224. FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
Today, we release FLUX.2, our most capable model to date.
225. Intel Secures Apple as Foundry Customer for Future M-Series Chips
Intel has reportedly won a contract to manufacture Apple's low-end M-series chips, validating its 18A process and breaking TSMC's monopoly.
226. Set Theory with Types
227. Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
228. A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
Attached: 1 image Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
229. We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs
230. US Energy Department Launches "Genesis Mission" to Transform Science Through AI
President Trump today issued an Executive Order to launch the Genesis Mission, a historic national effort led by the Department of Energy.
231. How wealth dies
THE NOTIONAL VALUE TRAP Foreword Just as growth in the “real” economy of material products and services has been decelerating towards contraction, so aggregates of financial wealth have carried on increasing relentlessly. Since the widening disequilibrium between the monetary and the material must eventually crash the financial system, the probability is that notional wealth will…
232. An Economy of AI Agents
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2509.01063: An Economy of AI Agents
233. Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
234. A million ways to die from a data race in Go
235. The Day Anonymity Died: Inside the OpenReview / ICLR 2026 Leak
236. The three thousand year journey of colchicine
For centuries it was a poison. Then colchicine rewrote treatment for gout, heart disease, and later, the debate over drug exclusivity.
237. Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
238. Making my 1970's-style renderer multi-threaded
A tech deep dive into multi-threading in Flutter & Dart.
239. The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
Google’s Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.
240. Qiskit open-source SDK for working with quantum computers
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives. - Qiskit/qiskit