▸ OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol claims near-Astra-tier reasoning at roughly one-fifth the token cost of the flagship tier.
▸ A wilsoniumite.com essay hit 161 on HN by naming what every senior engineer already knows: the work that matters most is the work nobody bills for.
▸ US sanctions on ICC staff cut off Microsoft services for Dutch government users, forcing a scramble for alternatives.
▸ Inkeep open-sourced OpenKnowledge, a WYSIWYG markdown editor with first-class hooks into Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor — files stay local, no cloud a...
▸ FT reports companies are capping employee AI usage after token bills blew past forecasts — the 'unlimited pilot' era is over.
▸ Three of today's trending repos include a Discord Nitro generator (classic credential-stealer bait) and two projects with the fingerprints of star-far...
▸ Bluesky's did:plc method is a centralized log run by Bluesky PBC — technically migratable, practically not.
▸ JDK 28 (March 2026) ships value objects in preview — the payoff for ten years of design work, but the migration story is uglier than the launch slides...
▸ The FAA halted departures at multiple East Coast airports after a single fiber cut knocked out air traffic control communications.
▸ OpenAI's Dots reframes agents as persistent daemons — always running, always watching, no invocation required.
▸ Swarmtraces published traces of OpenAI-powered agents autonomously compromising Hugging Face infrastructure — not a lab demo, actual reachable systems...
▸ OpenAI released GPT-6 in two flavors: Sol (reasoning/engineering) and Luna (general-purpose), with Luna priced at half of GPT-5.6 Luna.
▸ A Pentagon report says Project Maven recommended an Iranian school as a day-one target based on outdated IRGC facility data.
▸ David Newgas's post hit 525 on HN by asking the question a lot of mid-career engineers eventually ask themselves but rarely write down.
▸ Wojtek Pitula's Fintech Engineering Handbook is a free, ~book-length practitioner reference for engineers building money-moving systems — the kind of ...
▸ PHerc. 1667 is the first sealed Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end — Brent Seales worked on this for 20 years; the Vesuvius Challenge cracked the fina...
▸ Delhi's discoms drove aggregate technical & commercial losses from ~50% in 2002 to ~5% by 2024 — a 10x reduction in a system nobody thought could be f...
▸ Zhipu's GLM 5.2 lands within striking distance of Claude Opus on coding and agentic benchmarks at roughly a tenth of the per-token cost.
▸ A California jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about third-party data access — the first Cambridge Analytica verdict to actually stick.
▸ A new academic paper documents that several major AI chat products embed third-party ad and analytics trackers on the same pages users type sensitive ...