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241. You are being misled about renewable energy technology [video]
Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...
242. Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time
Microsoft just handed bosses the ultimate tracking tool. Here is why the 'cover for me' excuse is officially dead and how 365 monitors you.
243. Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
Amutable: A New Secure Foundation
244. OpenAI's In-House Data Agent
245. AI2: Open Coding Agents
SERA is the first in our family of Open Coding Agents, achieving state-of-the-art performance at low cost.
246. Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - refactor: rename clawdbot to moltbot with legacy compat · openclaw/openclaw@6d16a65
247. 9front OS
248. KolibriOS is a tiny yet powerful and fast operating system
249. Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection
250. What the US TikTok takeover is revealing about new forms of censorship
It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm, says academic Paolo Gerbaudo
251. Qwen3-ASR Technical Report
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.21337: Qwen3-ASR Technical Report
252. Open Source for Phones: PostmarketOS
253. How many chess games are possible?
How Many Chess Games are Possible? Here is a fun question: how many different games of chess are possible? Counting the number of possible chess games is quite hard, as the numbers are large and chess board positions can be quite complicated. In this note we will try to estimate the number of possible short…
254. Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up
Q.ai is an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments.
255. DECwindows Motif
256. Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?
Ben Taub investigates the death of Tariq Jamieson and the claim by the Canadian toxicologist Gideon (Gidi) Koren that he died from a breast-milk morphine overdose from codeine contained in Tylenol prescribed to his mother.
257. Apple Changes How You Order a Mac
Apple recently updated its online store with a new ordering process for Macs, including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro. There used to be a handful of standard configurations available for each Mac, but now you must configure a Mac entirely from scratch on a feature-by-feature basis. In other words, ordering a new Mac now works much like ordering an iPad. This change was spotted by Macworld and the French blog Consomac, among others.
258. Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son
Two crypto thieves decided to settle an argument over who was wealthier by screensharing as they transferred crypto between wallets to prove ownership. In doing so, one of them — known online as "Lick" — revealed a wallet address that crypto sleuth zachxbt quickly tied to the theft of around $40 million from US government wallets containing seized crypto assets, including a $20 million theft zachxbt reported in October 2024. Lick's wallets contained around $90 million in total, including the stolen government assets and those stolen from other victims.zachxbt has alleged that "Lick" is a man named John Daghita. After reporting Daghita's identity, "Lick" appeared to try to scrub his Telegram account, then dusted zachxbt's public crypto wallet from one of the theft addresses.Daghitia is reportedly the son of Dean Daghita, the owner of Command Services & Support (CMDSS). In October 2024, CMDSS landed a contract with the US Marshals to manage seized crypto assets, which is still active. After zachxbt linked the younger Daghita to his father and CMDSS, CMDSS also scrubbed its online presence. Around that time, Lick began trolling zachxbt again, and later sent 0.6767 ETH (~$1,900) of the stolen funds to zachxbt.CMDSS' website boasts that they are "a proven provider of mission-critical services to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice".
259. Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
260. The most dangerous code: Validating SSL certs in non-browser software (2012) [pdf]
261. That's Not How Email Works, HSBC
A confusing letter from HSBC informed me that I've not been receiving their emails, and I have to change the email address they use to contact me. Except I've been receiving all of their emails just fine! The problem, it turns out, is that surveillance capitalism is now so-widespread that the bank cannot conceive that their own attempts to spy on their customers might not be 100% reliable...
262. Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It's Paying Off for Silicon Valley
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.
263. A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)
Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.
264. Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech
The case marks the first conviction on AI-related economic espionage charges in the U.S., according to the Department of Justice.
265. Arm's Cortex A725 Ft. Dell's Pro Max with GB10
Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings.
266. Tesla's Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
267. Trying to craft AI images that are worth displaying to end users
268. I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
In which I give you yet another reason to ignore the naysayers
269. Show HN: Shelvy Books
A beautiful, shareable bookshelf to track what you're reading, want to read, and have read.
270. 'Spy Sheikh' Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company for Access to USA AI Chips