00:25 <Murphy> Gwern.net | Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle Gwern, Claude-5.5-opus · 13 Feb 2023 · 798 min read A Zen-garden raking puzzle: a novice monk walks into the sand and must rake his way back out to the gate in one stroke. The full design, solver experiments, 148 gardens and a year of daily ones, and a playable prototype, in one page. Read full story

00:25 <Murphy> Hacker News | Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning 1h ago · 5 min read A music model continuing performances in the style of twelve jazz pianists, a blindfold test, and the moments where each pianist's style is most recognizable. ISMIR 2026. Read full story

00:25 <Murphy> dbushell.com | Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend David Bushell · 2d ago · 4 min read The one where I go crawling back. Read full story

00:25 <Murphy> Hacker News | One Click Away: AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment 18 Aug 2026 · 3 min read Generative AI has been promoted as the technology that could transform education by providing every student a personal tutor. We provide some of the first large-scale experimental evidence, from a two-year cluster randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools in which randomly assigned students used Khan Academy with its AI tutor, Khanmigo, configured t... Read full story

00:56 <Murphy> CITP Blog | An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot Center for Information Technology Policy · 03 Aug 2026 · 18 min read The secret ballot is one of the load-bearing walls of democracy. In Georgia, as in most states, this allows you to know whether your neighbor voted, but never who they voted for. Yet, in multiple states including Georgia, that guarantee is actively at risk. Read full story

00:57 <Byte> Engadget | Common mistakes you should avoid when using foldable phones Thomas Godwin · 27m ago · 3 min read Don't make a costly mistake with an expensive foldable phone. It's vital to know about their durability and what they can't tolerate. Read full story

01:54 <Murphy> Literary Review | Simon Bradley - Unruly Folded Sheets Simon Bradley · 5d ago · 2 min read Simon Bradley: Unruly Folded Sheets - Mapping Britain: The Story of an Island through the Ordnance Survey Archives by Will Millard Read full story

02:25 <Murphy> GitHub | Photopea developer concerns · Issue #77 · eolix/photosuite photopea · 1d ago · 1 min read What is missing Hi guys, it would be really nice if you did some actual work instead of copying my work form my website www.photopea.com, that I have been working on since 2012. Could you maybe imp... Read full story

02:25 <Murphy> The Drive | High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days Byron Hurd · 8h ago · 1 min read Expensive diesel fuel isn't just driving up costs—it's driving trucking companies out of business. Read full story

02:56 <Murphy> GitHub | ahmetomerv/photoc: Command-line tools for photographers. ahmetomerv · 2d ago · 10 min read Command-line tools for photographers. Contribute to ahmetomerv/photoc development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

03:58 <Murphy> IOP Publishing | Reconstructing 3D theme park ride trajectories using smartphone odometry for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics Boas J Bakker · 19d ago · 28 min read Theme parks provide rich settings for illustrating the principles of Newtonian mechanics, offering students direct experiences with acceleration, forces, energy, and motion. While previous educational studies have relied on raw smartphone sensor data, the present work demonstrates that full trajectory reconstruction via inertial odometry enables a far dee... Read full story

04:28 <Murphy> Hacker News | Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing 24d ago · 7 min read Bringing back mid-2000s Video conferencing in Apple iChat Read full story

04:28 <Murphy> Hacker News | I hope you enjoy these 1h ago · 5 min read just a diary Read full story

04:28 <Murphy> James Ross | Open Source as We Know It Is Dead James Ross · 10h ago · 10 min read I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it. Read full story

04:58 <Murphy> Stelabouras | Entombed in a Raycaster Stelios Petrakis · 2d ago · 6 min read Around a year ago (it might have been more, my memory can be spotty) I experienced the raycaster ...Continue reading → Read full story

06:56 <Murphy> Hacker News | Accountability mechanisms can be joyful 01 Nov 2024 · 1 min read Comments Read full story

07:26 <Murphy> Anil Dash | We are going to kill “unalive” Anil Dash · 7h ago · 10 min read A blog about making culture. Since 1999. Read full story

07:55 <Murphy> Substitution Failure | The complement of true is true, except when it's false Matthew Taylor · 4d ago · 15 min read Consequences of integral promotion, UB on unscoped enums, and why boolean conversion is surprising. Read full story

08:24 <Murphy> Osna.FM | German Military Intelligence Uses AI to Screen Bundeswehr Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism Osna.FM · 12h ago · 1 min read See how Germany's military intelligence uses advanced AI to check Bundeswehr applicants for extremist tendencies. Discover the future of national security screening. Read full story

08:53 <Murphy> Hacker News | Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones 2d ago · 11 min read How to implement basic emergency preparedness to get your loved ones out of bad situations Read full story

09:03 <Byte> WIRED | These Are the Gadgets We’ve Been Eyeing That Are on Sale for Prime Day Simon Hill · 23 Jun 2026 · 5 min read Never pay full price. Bag yourself some Prime Day tech deals on our favorite WIRED-tested gadgets. Read full story

09:03 <Byte> WIRED | Don't Miss Prime Day Apple Deals on MacBooks, AirPods, and More Louryn Strampe · 23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read We’re already seeing some discounts on our favorite Apple tech, whether its devices or third-party accessories. Read full story

09:34 <Byte> WIRED | Score a Deal on WIRED-Tested Gear Under $50 This Prime Day Molly Higgins · 23 Jun 2026 · 2 min read Things are more expensive than ever. Snag a gift for someone, or yourself, while prices are low. Read full story

09:34 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Prime Day TV Deals, Because You Should Never Pay Full Price John Brandon · 23 Jun 2026 · 3 min read I found some WIRED-favorite TVs and streaming devices on sale for October Prime Day. Read full story

09:34 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Amazon Prime Day Headphone Deals for Every Kind of Listener Harry Rabinowitz · 23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read I’ve tested more than 100 headphones and covered nearly a dozen Prime Days. Here are some actually good headphone deals from the sale. Read full story

09:34 <Byte> WIRED | Bose Wants to Be the Headphone King Again. Does This New Release Take the Crown? Harry Rabinowitz · 4m ago · 4 min read Bose’s sequel to the QuietComfort Headphones is incredibly comfortable and has excellent noise-canceling, but those traits are no longer enough to beat the competition. Read full story

09:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI Andrew Megalaa · 13h ago · 14 min read Limit testing every AI subscription plan from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXSI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, Cursor, and Cognition Read full story

09:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021) 1d ago Comments Read full story

09:56 <Byte> Engadget | Xbox Elite Controller 3 specs leak via Xbox's own Design Lab Steve Dent · 18m ago · 1 min read Xbox's long awaited Elite Controller 3 may finally offer drift-free joysticks. Read full story

10:04 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Deals on Fitness Trackers, Massage Guns, Walking Pads, and More Boutayna Chokrane · 23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read Amazon Prime Day is a great excuse to upgrade your fitness gear. I’ve compiled a list of the best deals on our vetted picks. Read full story

10:04 <Byte> WIRED | My Family Can Vouch for These Toys, and They’re On Sale for Prime Day Simon Hill · 24 Jun 2026 · 4 min read Snag some gifts for your kiddos or unleash your inner child with the best Prime Day toy deals, including Lego, STEM toys, and board games. Read full story

10:04 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Prime Day Soundbars Deals to Instantly Upgrade Your Audio John Brandon · 12m ago · 3 min read A soundbar is the easiest way to upgrade your home entertainment setup. Grab one of our favorites on sale during October Prime Day. Read full story

10:04 <Byte> WIRED | The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier Pete Millspaugh · 4m ago · 17 min read Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm. Read full story

10:25 <Murphy> NobelPrize.org | Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 36m ago The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” Read full story

10:33 <Byte> WIRED | Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI Katie Drummond · 3m ago · 26 min read The author of “The AGI Chronicles” says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.” Read full story

10:56 <Murphy> Hacker News | Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore | Gleam programming language 2h ago · 16 min read News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released! Read full story

11:04 <Byte> WIRED | My Favorite Portable Power Station Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Simon Hill · 23m ago · 1 min read The Bluetti Elite 300, my favorite portable power station, is on sale, and it’s perfect if you want to go off-grid or have a backup at home. Read full story

11:04 <Byte> WIRED | Our Go-To Over-Ear Headphones Are at Their Lowest Price for Prime Day Harry Rabinowitz · 20m ago · 1 min read The Nothing Headphone (1) is one of my favorites for its stylish design, tactile on-ear controls, and fun sound. It’s over $100 off for Prime Day. Read full story

11:04 <Byte> WIRED | Your Cat Won’t Appreciate These Prime Day Deals, but You Will Molly Higgins · 15m ago · 4 min read My favorite pet tech can handle feeding, help with litter duty, and let you check in while you’re away. Read full story

11:04 <Byte> WIRED | The Ultra-Slim GamerCard Isn’t Ready to Play Matt Kamen · 4m ago · 6 min read This pocket-size Raspberry Pi handheld has a fantastic retro-ready screen, but awful controls and awkward software deal it a losing hand. Read full story

11:25 <Murphy> BBC News | 'ASOS hacked': App users receive notifications apparently sent by hackers 1h ago · 2 min read Dozens of people appear to have received a strange message from the clothing and beauty store's app. Read full story

11:28 <Byte> Engadget | Google removes free access to Gemini Flash and Pro on October 9 Mariella Moon · 5m ago · 1 min read Free Gemini users are losing access to Google’s Flash and Pro AI models. Read full story

11:54 <Murphy> Hacker News | Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror 2d ago Comments Read full story

12:26 <Murphy> TechCrunch | World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months Tim De Chant · 4d ago · 3 min read Fervo Energy completed its first power plant in less than two years. The next phases promise to connect to the grid even quicker. Read full story

12:26 <Murphy> Hacker News | Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated 1h ago Comments Read full story

12:29 <Byte> Engadget | What does the shield icon mean on your Samsung Galaxy? Filipe Espósito · 14m ago · 3 min read Samsung Galaxy phones work to keep your battery preserved over years of using it, and they'll let you know when these are active. Read full story

12:57 <Murphy> Polars | Release of Polars 2.0 58m ago · 7 min read DataFrames for the new era Read full story

12:57 <Murphy> Helgi Library | JetBrains - Company Data 1h ago · 2 min read JetBrains (Media & Entertainment): 730 indicators - financials and KPIs, collected from filings, verified and normalized. Read full story

12:59 <Byte> Engadget | How to fix distorted audio on your PS5 Jack Whitcombe · 14m ago · 5 min read If you can't hear your PS5 or it sounds terrible, walk through some steps to nail down the issue and restore clear audio. Read full story

13:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey Scharon Harding · 59m ago · 3 min read Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes. Read full story

13:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic Dan Goodin · 38m ago · 4 min read The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming. Read full story

13:04 <Byte> WIRED | The MacBook Air Is $200 Off, the Cheapest It’s Been Since June Luke Larsen · 26m ago · 1 min read At $1,099, the MacBook Air is $200 off its retail price for Prime Day, its lowest price in months. Read full story

13:04 <Byte> WIRED | I Enjoyed Driving a Ridiculous-Looking Solar-Powered Scooter, and You Can Too Julian Chokkattu · 4m ago · 7 min read Otherlab’s Lightfoot looks like a box on wheels, but this head-turning urban scooter is designed to go farther thanks to the power of the sun. Read full story

13:23 <Byte> ZDNET | Mistral’s new Le Chonk model brings AI cybersecurity to your business - and you control it Radhika Rajkumar · 23m ago · 5 min read Open models are vying to become the everyman defense solution for a growing swarm of agent breaches. Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> X (formerly Twitter) | Mistral AI (@MistralAI) on X 23m ago · 1 min read Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models… Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> Techdirt | Meta’s Muse Is An Adorable Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire 59m ago · 6 min read Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) … Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> Hacker News | Effectiveness, Mediators and Moderators of Remote Live vs. Pre‐Recorded Physical Exercise Training for Chronic Low Back Pain - PMC 21m ago · 69 min read Remote physical exercise training offers a more accessible alternative for the management of chronic low back pain (CLBP). However, the effectiveness of various remote delivery methods for this population is unclear. This study was a randomized ... Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> GrepJob | Find Your Next Developer Role 21m ago · 3 min read Browse curated tech jobs from top companies with AI-powered filtering and detailed insights. Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> GitHub | TheRealDalaiLama/glyphdna-mcp: GlyphDNA MCP adapter: machine-native identity, verifiable meeting rooms, script provenance. Join with one MCP call. TheRealDalaiLama · 21m ago · 3 min read GlyphDNA MCP adapter: machine-native identity, verifiable meeting rooms, script provenance. Join with one MCP call. - TheRealDalaiLama/glyphdna-mcp Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> EBSCO | Mathematics of geothermal energy | Power and Energy | Research Starters | EBSCOhost 21m ago · 15 min read The mathematics of geothermal energy involves the application of various mathematical methods to explore and optimize how geothermal heat from the Earth's interior can be harnessed for energy production and heating. Geothermal energy is derived from the heat generated by the Earth's formation and ongoing radioactive decay, with the temperature increasing ... Read full story

13:26 <Murphy> Hacker News | Mistral Large 4 - Mistral AI 10m ago · 1 min read Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It features 49B active parameters and 1.05T total parameters, and a 1.6B vision encoder. Read full story

13:30 <Byte> Engadget | Spotify expands its Music Quiz trivia feature Anna Washenko · 30m ago · 1 min read Test your knowledge on more than 2,000 artists. Read full story

13:30 <Byte> Engadget | Nintendo Switch Sports Resort hands-on: Bigger and better than ever Sam Rutherford · 30m ago · 4 min read In addition to new events, now you can explore Wuhu Island like never before. Read full story

13:30 <Byte> Engadget | 4 simple benchmarks to test your PC's performance Dave Meikleham · 15m ago · 4 min read Benchmarking your PC is easy and insightful, even if you aren't a hardcore gamer. Free tools make it simple to see how your hardware performs. Read full story

13:30 <Byte> Engadget | JBL's PartyBox Ultimate 2 delivers 1,500 watts of sound and a built-in light show Steve Dent · 7m ago · 1 min read JBL has just released its most powerful and expensive PartyBox speaker. Read full story

13:36 <Byte> WIRED | Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China Joel Khalili · 20m ago · 3 min read With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence. Read full story

13:55 <Murphy> Mastodon | daniel:// stenberg:// (@bagder@mastodon.social) 7h ago This week in #curl we get to experience not one, but two compiler bugs. All research by @vsz. Two arm64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in gcc-15/16 and Rust respectively: https://github\.com/curl/curl/issues/23237 Read full story

13:55 <Murphy> Mistral | Introducing Mistral Large 4 1h ago · 11 min read The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models. Read full story

14:00 <Byte> Engadget | Should you buy or rent your router from your internet service provider? Ben Stegner · 15m ago · 5 min read Renting a router from your ISP might be convenient, but it's rarely cost-effective. Buying outright or bringing your own will save money in the long run. Read full story

14:24 <Murphy> Human Progress | Screens Aren’t Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know. Adam Omary · 29 May 2026 · 4 min read Documenting the improving state of the world with charts, graphs and maps. Read full story

14:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | Benchmark In Milliseconds 1d ago · 1 min read How long should a micro benchmark run? My rule of thumb is to tweak the input size until the benchmark takes about 300ms, for the following reasons: Read full story

14:24 <Murphy> Jotbus | a shared scratchpad for coding agents 39m ago · 5 min read Let Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and other coding agents share encrypted context across machines. Try instantly with npx jotbus. Read full story

14:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | Parseable | Observability infrastructure Parseable · 53m ago · 3 min read Unified observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces. AI-native insights, S3-native storage, SQL queries, OpenTelemetry-native, and 80x lower cost than Datadog and Splunk. Read full story

14:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | tapo speaks TPAP: Third-Party Compatibility can stay off 28m ago · 12 min read tapo now logs in over the TPAP protocol, so the Third-Party Compatibility switch in the Tapo app can stay off. Also new: H200 and H500 camera hubs with recording downloads, and plug schedules and timers. Read full story

14:36 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Time to Get a New Kindle Is Right Now Nena Farrell · 23 Jun 2026 · 6 min read Amazon raised Kindle prices across the board, but Prime Day is still the best time to buy. Read full story

14:58 <Byte> Ars Technica | Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial Inside Climate News · 1h ago · 5 min read Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims. Read full story

15:01 <Byte> Engadget | The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video in 2027 Kris Holt · 34m ago · 1 min read Amazon is reportedly paying up to $25 million a year for exclusive global rights to the ceremony. Read full story

15:01 <Byte> Engadget | Controversial $110 billion mega-merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. finally closes Matt Tate · 30m ago · 1 min read New media empire will be known as Skydance, with CEO David Ellision calling it a ‘historic day.' Read full story

15:33 <Byte> WIRED | Apple AirPods Max 2 Are $120 Off Right Now Harry Rabinowitz · 46m ago · 1 min read They’re the best over-ear headphones for Apple loyalists, and over 20 percent off at multiple retailers right now. Read full story

15:33 <Byte> WIRED | A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs WIRED · 33m ago · 3 min read Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound. Read full story

15:34 <Murphy> arXiv.org | Truly Subquadratic 3SUM and Truly Subcubic APSP via Triangles in Sparse Lopsided Graphs 3h ago · 3 min read We give the first polynomial improvements over the textbook algorithms for $3$SUM and All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP): we show how to deterministically solve $3$SUM on $n$ integers of polynomial size in $O(n^{1.9992})$ time and APSP on directed $n$-vertex graphs with polynomially bounded integer weights in $O(n^{2.9995})$ time. This refutes the $3$SUM and... Read full story

15:34 <Murphy> The Autodidacts | Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand Curiositry · 20 Aug 2026 · 5 min read Sticks tongue out at AI Read full story

15:35 <Byte> Engadget | Apple iPhone Duo vs. Motorola Razr Ultra: How do these foldables compare? Roger Fingas · 50m ago · 4 min read iPhone users will prefer to stick with the Apple ecosystem and opt for the Duo. Android users will be happier with non-Apple options like the the Razr Ultra. Read full story

15:35 <Byte> Engadget | Why don't you see external antennas on mesh Wi-Fi systems? Roger Fingas · 20m ago · 3 min read Mesh systems use internal antennas to look nice and because the signal type is actually better for this use case. Here's why they don't have external antennas. Read full story

15:35 <Byte> Engadget | Affordable alternatives to Nintendo's Switch 2 Pro Controller Jessica Conditt · 5m ago · 11 min read Nintendo's best controller is expensive, so here are some cheaper, awesome alts. Read full story

16:03 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Early History Of Smalltalk 43m ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

16:06 <Byte> Engadget | How to supercharge your Windows 11 PC with this built-in automation tool Husain Parvez · 21m ago · 3 min read Your Windows PC can automate repetitive tasks using a built-in utility that doesn't cost anything. It just has a bit of a learning curve. Read full story

16:35 <Byte> Engadget | How to check if your Android phone is still getting security updates Gabriela Vătu · 20m ago · 5 min read Android phones receive updates for a set period of time, and then they become potentially vulnerable to unpatched security flaws. Read full story

17:04 <Byte> WIRED | I’m Tracking the Best Prime Day Mattress and Bedding Deals Molly Higgins · 20m ago · 2 min read From Birch’s organic mattress to my favorite cooling sheets, these are the Amazon Prime Day discounts worth a look. Read full story

17:05 <Murphy> Péter Szentkirályi | Darkplug 3h ago · 2 min read A darkroom timer for iPhone and iPad. Read full story

17:05 <Murphy> GitHub | FeSens/openTPU: An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler in one repo. Runs Qwen3, LFM2.5 and Qwen3.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card. FeSens · 42m ago · 9 min read An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler in one repo. Runs Qwen3, LFM2.5 and Qwen3.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card. - FeSens/openTPU Read full story

17:06 <Byte> Engadget | Don't throw away your old digital camera — do this instead Husain Parvez · 21m ago · 3 min read Your old camera might give video calls an upgrade, as long as USB support or clean HDMI keeps the setup sensible. Read full story

17:33 <Byte> ZDNET | Office 2021 support ends this month - you have 5 options Lance Whitney · 52m ago · 4 min read Microsoft is ending support and updates for Office 2021 on October 13. What does that mean, and what are your alternatives? Read full story

17:34 <Murphy> TechSpot | Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight Rob Thubron · 3h ago · 2 min read The good news is that the program is currently very limited in its scope. It's just one year long and only for patients with mild-to-moderate acne. Read full story

17:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | Mistral Large 4 4h ago Comments [Read full story](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\)

17:34 <Byte> WIRED | OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again Isabella Ward · 6m ago · 5 min read “There's a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | ‘Mike Rogers Is Watching You’: New Ad Blitz From Abdul El-Sayed Attacks Surveillance Support Hugo Lowell · 1h ago · 2 min read Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | Treat Yourself With the Best Prime Day Deals Under $100 Simon Hill · 23 Jun 2026 · 8 min read Everything is so expensive in 2026, but these October Prime Day Deals are all under $100 on gadgets we recommend. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | There’s a Great Sale on the Indoor Garden That Gives Me Fresh Herbs Through the Winter Kat Merck · 54m ago · 1 min read This countertop garden lets you start herbs from seed, with no proprietary pods required. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | Save on Smartwatches, Smart Rings, and Wearables With These Prime Day Deals Boutayna Chokrane · 49m ago · 3 min read Some of our favorite wearables are at their lowest prices yet. Here are the Prime Day deals worth grabbing. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | Our Favorite Coffee Gear Is on Sale for October Prime Day Kat Merck · 18 Jun 2026 · 5 min read Breville, Keurig, Fellow, and AeroPress devices we recommend are on sale, with options for espresso enthusiasts and one-button brewers alike. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | These Excellent Yeti Prime Day Deals Will Sell Out Fast Louryn Strampe · 31m ago · 1 min read Snag some new Yeti gear in your choice of eye-popping colors while supplies last (which won't won't be long). Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | I’ve Tested Countless Smart Home Gadgets. These Are the Prime Day Deals I’d Go For Simon Hill · 28m ago · 4 min read The right gadgets can make your house feel smarter. After extensive testing and price checks, these are the Prime Day smart home deals worth bagging. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | Everybody’s Favorite Art TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now Harry Rabinowitz · 26m ago · 1 min read Samsung’s The Frame is the leading art TV for a reason. The matte display makes paintings look like museum pieces, not a glossy screensaver. Read full story

18:58 <Byte> WIRED | ‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers John Semley · 12m ago · 5 min read From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness. Read full story

18:59 <Byte> Ars Technica | All-electric camping gets a solar upgrade: The 2027 Pebble Flow Jonathan M. Gitlin · 3h ago · 4 min read The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV. Read full story

18:59 <Byte> Ars Technica | Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants? Eric Berger · 2h ago · 7 min read The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future." Read full story

18:59 <Byte> Ars Technica | Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch Ryan Whitwam · 2h ago · 2 min read Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet. Read full story

18:59 <Murphy> The Drive | Here's How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole Byron Hurd · 4h ago · 2 min read Everybody's favorite automotive tax evasion scheme just got a whole lot trickier to pull off. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize Jennifer Ouellette · 2h ago · 10 min read Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Read full story

19:00 <Murphy> Hacker News | I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity. Here's how. - Alex Moon - tech, innovation, society, games 8h ago · 11 min read Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input Scharon Harding · 1h ago · 2 min read Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years. Read full story

19:00 <Murphy> Hacker News | Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason 2h ago Comments Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return Eric Bangeman · 1h ago · 2 min read ArsPro gives you more ways to read while directly supporting our journalism. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> ZDNET | Use Gemini for free? You'll soon be limited to its weakest AI model Lance Whitney · 59m ago · 5 min read Google is cutting off free users from the Flash and Pro models. AI Plus subscribers are losing out too Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Ars Technica | Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth Jon Brodkin · 1h ago · 3 min read Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Engadget | Why it's important to regularly replace your surge protectors Thomas Godwin · 1h ago · 3 min read Time and spikes take a toll on a surge protector, even with no visible signs of damage. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Engadget | Asos hit by extortion hack that may have compromised some customer data Anna Washenko · 55m ago · 1 min read The attackers sent a push notification to Asos shoppers announcing their activity. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Engadget | Google Photos vs. Gallery app: What's the difference and which should you use? Mariella Moon · 30m ago · 3 min read We compare Google’s Photos and Gallery apps, so you can decide which one to use. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Engadget | Skydance will combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming service Ian Carlos Campbell · 28m ago · 1 min read Please don't name it ParaMax. Read full story

19:00 <Byte> Engadget | Doom on the Vectrex turns the classic shooter into Tron-like vector art Will Shanklin · 7m ago · 1 min read With some processing caveats of course. Read full story

19:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | Blog - Changes | Erdős Problems 7h ago · 5 min read Comments Read full story

19:55 <Murphy> Signore Galilei | What’s Earth’s dominant species by mass? 8d ago · 5 min read You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not r… Read full story

20:25 <Byte> WIRED | I’ve Tested Dozens of Vacuums. These Are the Prime Day Deals I’d Buy Nena Farrell · 23 Jun 2026 · 6 min read From stain-hunting robots to cordless Dysons, these discounts are on vacuums I’d recommend even if they weren’t on sale. Read full story

20:26 <Murphy> Google | EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model Sahil Dua · 20h ago · 4 min read Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases Read full story

20:26 <Murphy> 404 Media | Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage Joseph Cox · 7h ago · 3 min read Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers. Read full story

20:26 <Murphy> Berth | coding agents on your own boxes 1h ago · 1 min read Run Claude Code, Codex and other agents on your own dev boxes, and work with them as if they were on your laptop. They keep going when it sleeps. Read full story

21:15 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development Brian Celenza · 17m ago · 9 min read Writes are accelerating, and this growth can add stress to systems all repos depend on. Here's our approach to building architecture that can scale. Read full story

21:16 <Byte> WIRED | Welcome to Day One of Amazon Prime Day WIRED · 12m ago Follow along as WIRED’s reviewers track the best Amazon Prime Day deals in real time. Read full story

21:16 <Byte> WIRED | My 5 Favorite Laptops Are Deeply Discounted for Prime Day Luke Larsen · 1m ago · 3 min read My favorite MacBook, gaming PC, and budget laptop are all on sale for Prime Day, some at the lowest prices I’ve seen in months. Read full story

21:16 <Murphy> The Citizen Lab | Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada Over Lawful-Access Bill Anna Mackay · 3h ago · 1 min read Psiphon, a software company that helps internet users under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the lawful-access bill passes. Read full story

21:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter 32m ago Comments Read full story

21:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenSSH: Release Notes 35m ago OpenSSH release notes Read full story

21:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Kevin Boone: System-level ad-blocking in Android in 2026 Kevin Boone · 5d ago · 11 min read Ads – they’re everywhere. The only way to stay sane on the Internet is to attempt to mitigate the horrors of relentless ads. This article summarises how we might still keep the ads under control at the Android platform level in 2026 Read full story

21:17 <Murphy> Ars Technica | Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth Jon Brodkin · 3h ago · 3 min read Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails. Read full story

22:10 <Byte> WIRED | Buy Without Bezos with These Anti-Prime Day Sales Louryn Strampe · 07 Oct 2025 · 5 min read Want to save money without supporting Amazon? This roundup is full of deals on WIRED-approved favorites. Read full story

22:10 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Prime Day Upgrade for Your Family Is a Digital Wall Calendar Nena Farrell · 40m ago · 2 min read Digital wall calendars can organize multiple family calendars, meal plans, chores, and to-do lists, and even double as a digital photo frame. And best of all, they’re on sale. Read full story

22:11 <Murphy> X (formerly Twitter) | Google Gemma (@googlegemma) on X 6h ago · 1 min read Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2! 🚀 Our lightweight, multimodal embedding model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single, unified embedding space. Optimized for on-device use cases, it features: - 740M parameter form factor with modular encoders - Flexible dimension sizes (768dim-128d… Read full story

22:11 <Murphy> OpenAI Developers | Decisions | OpenAI API 1h ago · 8 min read Use the Decisions API to check conditions, select from fixed options, and score text and images against a rubric. Read full story

22:11 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts? 34m ago Comments Read full story

22:11 <Murphy> Hacker News | Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model 4h ago Comments Read full story

22:11 <Byte> Engadget | Remember MapQuest? You can now use it with Android Auto Jonny Evans · 11m ago · 2 min read If you use Android Auto, you can try out the beta mapping service today. Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services Dan Goodin · 3h ago · 3 min read Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs. Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane Eric Berger · 2h ago · 2 min read To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet. Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service” Scharon Harding · 2h ago · 2 min read A combined service could lead to higher prices. Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU Samuel Axon · 1h ago · 2 min read Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent. Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says Jeremy Hsu · 1h ago · 5 min read Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing. Read full story

22:42 <Murphy> GitHub | openai/math 19m ago · 2 min read Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

22:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics 25m ago Comments Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Engadget | Kindle Click vs Kobo Remote: How much of a difference is there? Gabriela Vătu · 12m ago · 4 min read Of course you're going to get the one that works with your ereader, but which of these page-turning gadgets is actually better? Read full story

22:42 <Byte> Engadget | Apple reportedly worked with LG on gadgets for its upcoming smart home push Anna Washenko · 10m ago · 1 min read The doorbell, security cameras, thermostats and more could be announced next week. Read full story

23:12 <Byte> Engadget | Why do some PCs have two Ethernet ports? Thomas Godwin · 12m ago · 2 min read Having a second Ethernet port lets your computer work on multiple networks at once, which isn't always important at home but can have its uses. Read full story

23:13 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? 23h ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

23:13 <Murphy> ERSC | When random is not actually random enough Austin Seipp · 23h ago · 9 min read A short lesson in API design Read full story

23:13 <Murphy> André Klein Dot Net | Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and Pressure André Klein · 2d ago · 5 min read I’m sure you’ve seen the argument before: “If anyone can now vibecode their own software, why haven’t we seen any viable replacements for industry standard tools like Photoshop?” And for... Read full story

23:13 <Murphy> Readyset | Drop-in SQL Caching for PostgreSQL... | How Readyset Rewrites Your SQL: Inside the Query Transformation Pipeline | Readyset Vassili Zarouba · 28 Apr 2026 · 20 min read Why Query Rewriting Matters for Dataflow Most databases work the same way: a query arrives, the engine builds an execution plan, scans tables, joins rows, filters, aggregates, and returns the result. Every time the qu... Read full story

23:13 <Murphy> Hacker News | Vaughan Hilts - LLMs may have immensely helped my RSI Vaughan Hilts · 20h ago · 4 min read Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world. Read full story

23:42 <Byte> WIRED | You Probably Aren’t Going to Get the Plague Emily Mullin · 32m ago · 3 min read The death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low. Read full story

23:44 <Byte> Engadget | How to help stop spam calls on iPhone and Android Adnan Ahmed · 14m ago · 3 min read Keep spam calls at bay with built-in tools in Android and iOS; you can silence them without having to subscribe to third-party apps. Read full story

23:44 <Murphy> Hacker News | Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month 4h ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

23:44 <Murphy> Hacker News | How fast is Python 3.15? Miguel Grinberg · 1h ago · 11 min read It's October once again, and that means it is time to take the new release of Python for a spin (technically, it is the 3.15.0rc3 release that I'm using, the official 3.15 release is still a few days… Read full story

23:44 <Murphy> Penguin Mail | mail and calendar for Linux 1h ago · 2 min read Gmail, Microsoft and any IMAP or POP3 account, with your calendar and contacts, in one fast app on your own computer. Read full story

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