▸ Filippo Valsorda argues maintainers should stop treating 'security' reports as a privileged class — embargoes, private channels, and CVE choreography ...
▸ DeepSeek released DSpark, an inference-optimization stack claiming 60-85% faster token generation on its own models without retraining or quality loss...
▸ PHerc. 1667, sealed since 79 AD, has been read end-to-end without physical unrolling — the first complete Herculaneum scroll ever recovered.
▸ Three live legislative tracks — EU CSAR (Chat Control 2.0), UK Online Safety Act §121 notices, and the rebooted US EARN IT — are converging on the sam...
▸ Six months into Anthropic's Mythos export restrictions, four Asian labs have shipped Mythos-class models — Sakana, Qwen, Naver HyperCLOVA-X, and Zhipu...
▸ The US government cleared Anthropic to release its Mythos model — but only to a vetted list of American organizations, not the open API.
▸ A hobbyist bought a 16GB Tesla V100 SXM2 module on eBay for £200, machined a passive-to-active cooling adapter, and ran 13B-parameter LLMs locally at ...
▸ Three crypto perp-bot repos hit GitHub Trending via keyword stuffing — but the SEO is just the delivery mechanism, not the payload.
▸ A widely-shared essay argues AI coding assistants are recreating the exact JavaScript-framework complexity trap that cost frontend a decade of progres...
▸ OpenAI will route GPT-5.6 access requests through a federal vetting process — the first frontier model gated by the U.S. government at the user level.
▸ A new taxonomy catalogs the recurring failure patterns in LLM-generated code — over-engineered abstractions, hallucinated APIs, defensive-coding cargo...
▸ Nick Winans turned a Pro Micro pin-compatible nRF52840 board (the nice!nano) into a million-dollar product while still in college.
▸ UK, EU, and a growing list of US states now require age verification for broad swaths of the web — not just porn, but social media, app stores, and an...
▸ The European Commission fined Temu €200M under the DSA after a mystery-shopper sweep found dangerous goods — baby toys, electronics — on the marketpla...
▸ Jake Orlowitz, a 12-year Wikimedia Foundation veteran, says WMF leadership is using textbook union-busting tactics against its own organizing staff.
▸ A founder spent 152 days and roughly €9,600 to register a GmbH in Germany and still cannot legally issue an invoice.
▸ Apple is raising MacBook and iPad prices by roughly 20% across major markets, the steepest hardware hike since the M-series transition.
▸ Science's investigation traces how a string of high-profile physics papers — including the LK-99 adjacent room-temperature superconductivity claims — ...
▸ Three repos with near-zero discoverable context — Tong89/smartNode, zhaoyue4810/pianke, tantara/openbrief — surged onto GitHub Trending with scores fr...
▸ The Vesuvius Challenge team has produced the first continuous readable text from a sealed Herculaneum scroll — no unrolling, no physical contact.