00:12 <Byte> Ars Technica | Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says Beth Mole · 1h ago · 3 min read I can always find a couple of biotech stocks to smoke," Shkreli said in a livestream. Read full story

00:16 <Murphy> Open Culture | A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan OC · 1d ago · 3 min read There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors made before any such things were common tools of the artist’s, scientist’s, and industrial designer’s trade. Read full story

00:22 <Byte> Engadget | Which smart TV brands offer the longest software support? Matt Tate · 22m ago · 4 min read Don't get burned by purchasing a new TV that will reach its end-of-life before long. You can check its expected life depending on the manufacturer. Read full story

01:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | John Wolff's Web Museum - Rebuilding the Odhner 127 1d ago · 24 min read Comments Read full story

02:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | Yagi Signal Lab 1d ago Explore digital modulation and channel impairments in the browser. Read full story

02:16 <Murphy> Ars Technica | High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom Jennifer Ouellette · 13h ago · 3 min read Co-author: “The unique geometry of the valves is the key; they act as collapsible pistons" to deliver venom. Read full story

02:16 <Murphy> Blumify | transcripts of any YouTube video or podcast 1h ago · 1 min read Paste a YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts link and get the transcript, a summary, chapters and notes on a page you can share. Free. Read full story

02:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | How Do Cuttlefish Hide? 1d ago Comments Read full story

03:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Press-Release 4h ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

04:15 <Murphy> Quanta Magazine | Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? Natalie Wolchover · 1d ago · 12 min read A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? Read full story

04:15 <Murphy> Hacker News | Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski Bartosz Ciechanowski · 2d ago · 40 min read Interactive article explaining how sound works. Read full story

04:45 <Murphy> Hacker News | Do Frameworks Matter Anymore? 28d ago · 22 min read Comments Read full story

05:15 <Murphy> arXiv.org | A Strongly Aperiodic Monotile in Three Dimensions 1d ago · 3 min read Socolar and Taylor asked for a single, simply connected three-dimensional prototile that forces nonperiodicity by shape alone, admitting no weakly nonperiodic tiling; the Schmitt-Conway-Danzer biprism and the three-dimensional Socolar-Taylor tile admit screw motions or a periodic stacking direction. We exhibit a rational polyhedral $3$-ball $Q$, which we ... Read full story

05:15 <Murphy> Felix Rieseberg | Felix Rieseberg 33m ago · 1 min read I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. Some of it is on VHS. Read full story

05:22 <Byte> WIRED | Walgreens Photo Coupon: Save Big in October 2026 Nena Farrell · 22m ago · 3 min read Preserving your memories doesn't have to be expensive. Use a verified Walgreens coupon code for discounts of up to 70% off premium wall decor, stationery, and personalized gifts, as well as beauty, lenses, and health products this fall. Read full story

06:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | kcgi: minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++ 17 Nov 2025 · 7 min read A C/C++ library for security-oriented web applications. Read full story

06:16 <Murphy> theregister | Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse Brandon Vigliarolo · 13h ago · 5 min read Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter Read full story

07:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | Arena Allocators in C 3d ago · 11 min read In this article, I show you a simple yet effective arena allocator implementation in the C programming language. It significantly eases the task of managing memory in such a low level language. Read full story

07:14 <Murphy> GitHub | [BUG] bionic: wcscspn()/wcspbrk() treat every wchar_t >= 0x100 as a match (Android 17, CP3A.260905.009) · Issue #2260 · android/ndk 56m ago · 7 min read Description On Android 17 builds from September 2026, wcscspn() and wcspbrk() stop at the first character of the string that is >= U+0100 whenever the reject set has two or more characters that are... Read full story

08:15 <Murphy> Hacker News | The People's Bookshelf (Riga, Latvia) 23h ago Comments Read full story

08:15 <Murphy> Yahoo News UK | Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society 3d ago · 5 min read Sweden was predicted to become entirely cashless by 2030. Read full story

09:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Strafe - FOSS and Free Speech done right Strafe · 5h ago · 2 min read Free and open source communication platform that champions free speech and privacy. Built by the community, for the community. Read full story

09:17 <Murphy> marcpaul.io | Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals | Marc Paul Marc Paul · 29d ago · 16 min read The OLTP vs OLAP post. What InnoDB was optimizing for, and the two paths that make a lakehouse work: pruning on the read and the atomic pointer swap commit. Read full story

09:21 <Byte> WIRED | AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity David Gilbert · 21m ago · 4 min read “I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED. Read full story

09:21 <Byte> WIRED | Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark Ritsuko Kawai · 6m ago · 3 min read Researchers took lessons from nocturnal animals to help rescue drones overcome a key challenge: flying in the dark. Read full story

09:21 <Byte> WIRED | Tesla’s Roadster 2 Is Late—and Entering a Different EV World Aarian Marshall · 6m ago · 6 min read Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars. Read full story

09:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | Starlink limit hits Ukraine’s drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX Aleksander Olech · 1h ago · 2 min read **SpaceX has introduced a speed restriction affecting StarShield terminals used by Ukraine. According to Ukrainian sources, connectivity began to fail when platforms exceeded around 160 km/h, disrupting part of Ukraine’s combat missions. Later reports claimed that the restriction may have been tightened further, with some operators losing communication al... Read full story

09:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa) · baby steps 1h ago · 17 min read Comments Read full story

09:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | Iosevka 1h ago · 20 min read Comments Read full story

09:52 <Byte> WIRED | Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI Kate Taylor · 22m ago · 5 min read More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional. Read full story

09:52 <Byte> WIRED | 30 Cans Later: Which Energy Drinks Are Worth It Pete Cottell · 08 Aug 2024 · 31 min read The future is here, and it is jacked up on B vitamins, red dye, and taurine. These are the best energy drinks to get from tired to wired. Read full story

09:56 <Byte> Engadget | Qualcomm wins lawsuit against Arm but will only receive two bucks Mariella Moon · 13m ago · 2 min read A jury found that Arm breached its agreement with Qualcomm and interfered with its business, but Arm only has to pay $2 in damages. Read full story

10:18 <Murphy> Hacker News | How to Select an Experiment CasualPhysicsEnjoyer · 13d ago · 4 min read More on experiment metastrategy Read full story

10:21 <Byte> WIRED | the case for lowercase Tiffany Ng · 21m ago · 8 min read a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why? Read full story

10:21 <Byte> WIRED | The Nothing Headphone (1) Pro Brought New Life to Music I’ve Listened to for Years Harry Rabinowitz · 21m ago · 4 min read Nothing’s best headphones yet double down on design, comfort, sound quality, and highly adjustable EQ settings. Read full story

10:24 <Byte> Engadget | People are hating on Apple Music's redesigned black-and-white logo Steve Dent · 17m ago · 2 min read Apple Music may be changing its iconic logo to a more basic black and white version. Read full story

10:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? - alex wennerberg alex wennerberg · 1d ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

10:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? 54m ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

10:49 <Murphy> Building an LLM in NodeJS | Building an LLM in NodeJS 19m ago The from-scratch guide to building large language models in NodeJS. Read full story

10:49 <Murphy> Apple | Switch to Safari 40m ago · 6 min read Safari is built to be faster and more private by default. With industry-leading features, Safari is the best web experience on your Apple devices. Read full story

10:49 <Murphy> Hacker News | 221 - I let an AI run my startup for a week | Tiny Projects 23m ago · 3 min read Reflections on using Grok Bot for a week, exploring its potential and challenges as a solo entrepreneur. Read full story

10:52 <Byte> WIRED | The Politics of Solar Energy Are Getting Weird, Mean, and a Little MAGA Noah Shachtman · 22m ago · 9 min read A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar-energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season. Read full story

10:52 <Byte> WIRED | This Zippy Little JackRabbit Changed My Mind About Cargo Bikes Matthew Korfhage · 22m ago · 5 min read The compact, plucky MG Cargo is the cargo ebike for people who don’t want a cargo ebike. It’s even fun to ride. Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> Not-Ship | How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet Amanda Shendruk · 5h ago · 5 min read You don’t have to shop on Amazon to pay Amazon's high prices. Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> Algorithms, Nature, and Society | Who Taught the Machines Mathematics? 4d ago · 11 min read On the knowledge we passed on, and what has become of it On October 6, OpenAI released more than seven hundred mathematical manuscripts produced by an internal AI system, some accompanied by formal… Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> ZERO DAY | Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets? Kim Zetter · 22h ago · 18 min read The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wallets sold by legitimate resellers in Asia and Europe Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> MIND MAP | Pulsar at ESUG 2026 Esteban Lorenzano · 07 Sep 2026 · 1 min read At ESUG 2026 I presented Pulsar, a new coding-first IDE for Pharo. The talk explores why staying close to the code still matters in the age of generative agents—and where Pulsar is heading next. Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It 51m ago · 24 min read How QuEra used an AI agent to relock quantum computer lasers in seconds and tune them to 5x lower noise, all within safety bounds. Read full story

11:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Aviaduct: bridge between languages 56m ago Aviaduct translates websites or text into multiple languages side by side. Read full story

11:23 <Byte> WIRED | Breville’s New Toaster Uses Optical Sensors to Measure Your Toast’s Doneness Joe Ray · 23m ago · 7 min read The Breville Eye Q uses optical sensors to measure the darkness of your toast. Cool tech, but the toasting quality needs improvement. Read full story

11:23 <Byte> WIRED | My Friend Has No Soul Boone Ashworth · 23m ago · 5 min read The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting. Read full story

11:25 <Byte> Engadget | Beat the iPhone Duo pre-order rush with Apple’s Get Ready tool Filipe Espósito · 25m ago · 3 min read You can already set up your pre-order now, before the pre-orders open on Friday (October 16). Read full story

11:47 <Murphy> Museum of Ages | a digital museum of the past, rebuilt in 3D 1h ago · 1 min read We rebuild what was. You walk through it. Read full story

11:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | The road we were told not to take 57m ago Comments Read full story

11:55 <Byte> Engadget | 8BitDo Ultimate 2C review: A fabulous Switch 2 controller at a fraction of the price Jessica Conditt · 25m ago · 4 min read Hall effect sticks, haptics and extra bumpers... for how much? Read full story

12:17 <Murphy> GitHub | meerita/FCSS2: Functional CSS: utility classes named after real CSS properties. One class, one declaration, zero runtime. Works with Vite, Next.js, Astro and Angular. 1d ago · 7 min read Functional CSS: utility classes named after real CSS properties. One class, one declaration, zero runtime. Works with Vite, Next.js, Astro and Angular. - meerita/FCSS2 Read full story

12:17 <Murphy> Sweden Herald | TV4 Postpones The Challenge Until 2027 After Technical Failure Erases Edited Season TT News Agency · 2h ago · 1 min read TV4’s reality show “The Challenge” has been postponed this fall due to a technical failure Read full story

12:18 <Murphy> GitHub | timescale/pg_vectorsearch: High-performance vector search for PostgreSQL 30m ago · 5 min read High-performance vector search for PostgreSQL. Contribute to timescale/pg_vectorsearch development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

12:21 <Byte> Ars Technica | OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 9 min read Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes. Read full story

12:21 <Byte> Ars Technica | The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone Jeremy Hsu · 1h ago · 13 min read Elisabeth Braw’s book Undersea War on rising risks for undersea infrastructure. Read full story

12:25 <Byte> Engadget | CMF's first portable speakers are shaped like milk cartons and pair together Mat Smith · 25m ago · 1 min read Nothing's sister company CMF announced some playful bluetooth speakers that can be paired together and even work with Auracast. Read full story

12:25 <Byte> Engadget | Samsung Health's sleep coaching now requires just three days of data Steve Dent · 16m ago · 1 min read Galaxy Watch owners can now get Sleep Coaching faster. Read full story

12:47 <Murphy> Derek Sivers | Smart people don’t think others are stupid Derek Sivers · 16 May 2012 · 246 min read Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want. Read full story

12:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Aaronson Oracle Spencer Stanton · 31m ago · 18 min read A program that guesses which key you'll press next, and is right far more often than chance. Play it, then read exactly how it works. Read full story

13:17 <Murphy> Dry reading | Kid Pix - The Early Years 1d ago · 19 min read The history of Kid Pix by Craig Hickman Read full story

13:17 <Murphy> Matt Mullenweg | RIP Eric Binnion Matt · 6h ago · 1 min read For the next 30 days, a few billion of you will get an extra header in honor of Eric Binnion. The code in Nginx to do this is poetic: add_header X-Remembering “Eric Binnion < always; Our design … Read full story

13:20 <Byte> Ars Technica | Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices Dan Goodin · 25m ago · 5 min read Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms. Read full story

13:24 <Byte> WIRED | Formlabs Has a 3D Printer for Normies Boone Ashworth · 24m ago · 3 min read The Form Studio 1 is a $699 desktop-sized printer that fits on a desk and only stinks a little bit. Read full story

13:24 <Byte> ZDNET | 'So perfect, they are literally identical' - Your AI-polished resumes are recruiters' new top stressor Kayla Solino · 26m ago · 9 min read Exclusive: A new Employ report shows how AI is both helping and hurting the hiring industry. Read full story

13:25 <Byte> Engadget | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake plays even better than it looks Sam Rutherford · 25m ago · 5 min read Link is getting a lot more than just a visual glow up for the new Switch 2 version. Read full story

13:47 <Murphy> Mediaite | Details Leak From Explosive Meeting Where Bari Weiss’s ‘Handpicked’ Editor Threatened CBS Staff: ‘Legal Grounds for Firing’ Kathryn Wilkens · 15h ago · 2 min read A top CBS News editor appointed by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly threatened staffers with termination during a tense meeting Tuesday morning that erupted into a confrontation over the network's coverage of Israel and Gaza. Read full story

13:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | Communication platforms: Federal Council wishes to strengthen youth protection 27m ago · 1 min read Comments Read full story

13:53 <Byte> WIRED | ‘Dune: Part Three’ Cowriter Has a New Comic on the Way Angela Watercutter · 23m ago · 6 min read Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen “Dune: Part Three” and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.” Read full story

14:16 <Murphy> Bureau of Labor Statistics | Consumer Price Index Summary - 2026 M09 Results 1h ago · 16 min read Comments Read full story

14:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | The Gold-Bug 2d ago · 4 min read Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography Read full story

14:22 <Byte> WIRED | Earth’s Condition Is ‘Serious and Getting Worse’ as Climate Change Intensifies Brian Kahn · 22m ago · 3 min read Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse. Read full story

14:25 <Byte> Engadget | WhatsApp adds a guest option for joining calls without an account Anna Washenko · 25m ago · 1 min read It’s also working on calendar integrations for later this year. Read full story

14:25 <Byte> Engadget | LG adds DTS:X and Google Cast to its Sound Suite home theater system Steve Dent · 17m ago · 2 min read LG's latest Sound Suite update includes DTS:X, a much-requested feature. Read full story

14:25 <Byte> ZDNET | Windows update patches a whopping 1,400 security bugs - including 2 zero days Lance Whitney · 25m ago · 4 min read This month’s update also marks the first official one for Windows 11 26H2 and the end of support for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro. Read full story

14:45 <Murphy> Hacker News | ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam 7m ago Comments Read full story

15:17 <Murphy> Hacker News | Genealogy — ELIZAGEN 1d ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

15:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | Why are all these data companies buying internal data? 24m ago Comments Read full story

15:48 <Murphy> Hacker News | E2exe: How we solved Windows desktop automation for enterprise scale | QA Wolf 15h ago · 12 min read How QA Wolf runs Windows desktop app tests in parallel: single-use VMs from warm pools on Google Compute Engine, driven from Linux over CDP and Appium. Read full story

15:48 <Murphy> Scott Helme | Passkeys Are Not a Trap 6h ago · 4 min read A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for Read full story

15:50 <Byte> Ars Technica | Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps Financial Times · 1h ago · 4 min read Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network. Read full story

15:55 <Byte> Engadget | Alibaba AI models cleared for use in Apple Intelligence in China just in time for the iPhone Duo launch Matt Tate · 19m ago · 1 min read Apple’s integrated AI system is still yet to be rolled out in mainland China, despite launching nearly two years ago. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256 4h ago Comments Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> 404 Media | Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work Jason Koebler · 20h ago · 4 min read Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Hacker News | Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? - Marc's Blog Marc Brooker · 1h ago · 4 min read Comments Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> GitHub | Graphicle-AI/graphicle: Code graph and memory for your coding agents, in one Rust program. For Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client. 1h ago · 9 min read Code graph and memory for your coding agents, in one Rust program. For Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client. - Graphicle-AI/graphicle Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Ravenous | How Tabasco Accidentally On Purpose Became the World's Hot Sauce Amy McCarthy · 13d ago · 18 min read The hot sauce made in Louisiana can now be found all over the globe. How it got there is complicated. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Mastodon | Mario Guzmán (@marioguzman@mastodon.social) Mario Guzmán · 16h ago Attached: 1 image Oh we’re putting ads in inspector sidebars now? This is in Keynote. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> APNIC Blog | Submarine cable resilience Geoff Huston · 9h ago · 19 min read The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years. Read full story

16:19 <Murphy> Popcar's Blog | AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 1h ago · 6 min read AI is now able to decompile games and software in a matter of days. That's scary... but kind of exciting. Read full story

16:26 <Byte> Engadget | Android will use Gemini to warn you about scammy messages Mariella Moon · 26m ago · 2 min read Google will tell if you a scammer is trying to message you and will protect your banking details from prying eyes while sharing your screen. Read full story

16:26 <Byte> Engadget | 2026 standout Titanium Court is springing onto consoles and mobile on October 29 Kris Holt · 26m ago · 2 min read One of the best games of the year won't be confined to Steam for much longer. Read full story

17:14 <Byte> Engadget | Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cuts since 2022 Matt Tate · 37m ago · 1 min read That's about 6 percent of its current workforce. Read full story

17:14 <Byte> Engadget | Epic thinks you'll love its new vibe coded game launcher Igor Bonifacic · 27m ago · 2 min read Gross, Tim. Gross. Read full story

17:14 <Byte> Engadget | YouTube Music adds new labels for AI-generated content Lawrence Bonk · 13m ago · 1 min read Now please let us hide all of it. Read full story

17:15 <Murphy> The Consensus | Has AI tells Phil Eaton · 13h ago · 4 min read A little AI tells detector helps us promote good writing. Read full story

17:15 <Murphy> Killed By A Pixel | LittleJS is 2D and 3D now 1d ago · 4 min read LittleJS just got the biggest update since it launched! It is still the small, fast, dependency-free HTML5 game engine it always was. Now it also has a full 3D renderer sharing the canvas with your… Read full story

17:15 <Murphy> Yale E360 | Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs 3h ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

17:15 <Murphy> NRC | Politie Amsterdam neemt op Amerikaans verzoek server in beslag van linkse internetdienstverlener A/I: organisatie zou ‘antifa’ faciliteren 4h ago · 3 min read Een eenheid van de Amsterdamse politie heeft dinsdag bij een datacenter op het Science Park in Amsterdam een server in beslag genomen van de Italiaanse internetdienstverlener Autistici/Inventati (A/I). Dat is gebeurd op basis van een Amerikaans rechtshulpverzoek. Een kopie van de inhoud van de server wordt nu naar de VS gestuurd. A/I was een linkse antika... Read full story

17:15 <Murphy> Data For Progress | Americans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years Lew Blank · 15d ago · 3 min read Our survey finds significant, double-digit declines in Americans’ participation in key social activities from 1995 to 2026. Read full story

17:15 <Murphy> Aman Rusia | The Emperor Pelican Has No Clothes Aman Rusia · 17h ago · 1 min read Why do LLM pelicans look so alike? A visual look at diversity collapse and our research on creativity in UI design. Read full story

17:45 <Byte> Engadget | Xbox has a teeny new gamepad Kris Holt · 27m ago · 1 min read The $50 Xbox Nano Controller is five inches long and weighs 3.5 ounces. Read full story

17:45 <Murphy> the Guardian | ‘Like being in a vortex’: US report details extent of ‘devastating’ dating-app scams Anna Betts · 7h ago · 5 min read Congress calls for Match Group and others to do more to help victims like Mary, who lost $100,000 to app scammer Read full story

17:45 <Murphy> OpenStation | I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn’t Notice 23h ago · 4 min read Almost a third of our source code was comments. I deleted all of them and asked an AI agent to build the same features on both versions of the codebase, three times each. The code it wrote was just… Read full story

17:45 <Murphy> Hacker News | Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts 1h ago Comments Read full story

17:45 <Murphy> LWN.net | Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series corbet · 3h ago · 1 min read At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a larg [...] Read full story

17:45 <Murphy> The American Prospect | ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program Whitney Curry Wimbish · 8h ago · 7 min read Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country. Read full story

17:45 <Murphy> Hacker News | Better HTTP/1 connection reuse - The Go Programming Language 1h ago · 7 min read Go 1.27 includes a change to the HTTP client that can make programs sending many sequential HTTP/1 requests significantly faster. Read full story

18:34 <Byte> WIRED | AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science Will Knight · 19m ago · 3 min read AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Default | America Didn’t Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It. 44m ago · 14 min read Markets price for cost. China prices for control. The risk of a rare earths cutoff is asymmetric, and the financing to rebuild American supply should be too. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Clova.Email | a new email address for every company 1h ago · 2 min read Give every company you deal with its own email address, all in one account. When one leaks or starts sending spam, delete it, not your life. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenAI claims employee sent secret device information to Apple 55m ago Comments Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> ExtremeTech | Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges Devesh Beri · 2h ago · 1 min read The agency has three months to decide whether to open a formal investigation. Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> GitHub | bealesh/neckbeard: Agent plugin that scaffolds tested, cost-honest cloud infrastructure from a versioned module catalog 49m ago · 6 min read Agent plugin that scaffolds tested, cost-honest cloud infrastructure from a versioned module catalog - bealesh/neckbeard Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> Hacker News | Do dentists actually know what they’re doing? Parker Tatum · 3d ago · 18 min read After all, they’re just practicing Read full story

18:34 <Murphy> CSO Online | AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics. Cynthia Brumfield · 49m ago · 7 min read Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards. Read full story

19:02 <Byte> Engadget | Deezer will let listeners completely filter out AI music Lawrence Bonk · 17m ago · 2 min read Good riddance. Read full story

19:05 <Murphy> Hacker News | Petal — Open Source Pair Programming 41m ago · 1 min read Low latency, high resolution screensharing and remote control. Read full story

19:05 <Murphy> CNBC | Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks 3h ago · 2 min read Iran has escalated its strikes on commercial ships transiting Hormuz in recent weeks, as it tries to choke off a rebound in crude oil exports. Read full story

19:05 <Murphy> Startup Fortune | Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote Janet Harrison · 4d ago · 5 min read Banks including JPMorgan and MUFG are shopping AI data center debt tied to Oracle as credit default swaps spike and bond order books thin out. Read full story

19:05 <Murphy> Deutsche Presse-Agentur | Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland dpa · 13m ago · 2 min read Comments Read full story

19:05 <Murphy> Hacker News | Exclusive: How the Military Will Hack the Election Ken Klippenstein · 23h ago · 8 min read Task Force Raider’s role in 2026 elections has military officers uneasy Read full story

19:32 <Byte> Engadget | Sony is taking on DJI with its new ECM-W5 wireless microphone kit Ian Carlos Campbell · 6m ago · 1 min read It'll cost you though. Read full story

19:35 <Murphy> Phloem | watch a git history grow like a slime mold 2d ago Paste a public GitHub repository and watch every commit feed a growing slime-mold network. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded. Read full story

19:35 <Byte> Ars Technica | Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68 Kyle Orland · 3h ago · 4 min read Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more. Read full story

19:35 <Byte> Ars Technica | Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room Ashley Belanger · 2h ago · 4 min read OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges. Read full story

19:35 <Byte> Ars Technica | Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins John Timmer · 2h ago · 8 min read AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years. Read full story

19:36 <Byte> Ars Technica | Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer Jennifer Ouellette · 24m ago · 3 min read Have you ever seen a world born?" Read full story

20:01 <Byte> Engadget | Ubisoft plans to close another studio and lay off up to 122 workers Kris Holt · 29m ago · 1 min read Cuts are coming to RedLynx and Ubisoft Singapore. Read full story

20:05 <Murphy> Hacker News | Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men 1h ago Comments Read full story

20:05 <Murphy> nytpu.com | Fancy Curl Sites 36m ago · 3 min read Comments Read full story

20:29 <Byte> Engadget | NASA explains how it's making batteries for the Moon's extreme temperatures Anna Washenko · 22m ago · 1 min read Lithium-ion just isn't cut out for the cosmos. Read full story

20:29 <Byte> Engadget | Fitbit Edge vs Fitbit Air: The differences beyond a screen Ian Carlos Campbell · 16m ago · 4 min read Google's latest wearable seems like a Fitbit Air with a screen, but the two actually have less in common than you might think. Read full story

20:33 <Murphy> Hacker News | Timur’s Chess 3d ago Comments Read full story

20:33 <Murphy> Hacker News | Things to know when you get cancer (2026 Edition) · JJ Maxwell 1h ago · 2 min read Personal website and portfolio Read full story

21:04 <Byte> WIRED | Trump Aides Admit the House is a Lost Cause Hugo Lowell · 4m ago · 3 min read With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House. Read full story

21:05 <Murphy> Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mono... | Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers 34m ago · 1 min read It is important to provide credit. Read full story

21:05 <Murphy> Cloudflare Blog | Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move 40m ago · 8 min read When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks. Read full story

21:07 <Byte> Ars Technica | Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030 Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 9 min read With the end of IMSA’s 2026 season, we have thoughts about the future of the sport. Read full story

21:07 <Byte> Ars Technica | Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation Ars Staff · 1h ago · 3 min read Plaintiff claims cameras enabled warrantless tracking and monitoring after he previously sued over excessive force. Read full story

21:07 <Byte> Ars Technica | Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet Jon Brodkin · 51m ago · 6 min read FCC chair threatens E-Rate fund, blames schools for kids' excessive screen time. Read full story

21:07 <Byte> Ars Technica | Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation Stephen Clark · 19m ago · 8 min read This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating." Read full story

21:49 <Byte> Engadget | Iowa, Nebraska and six other states are suing OpenAI for endangering children Ian Carlos Campbell · 26m ago · 2 min read The lawsuits cover everything from the design of ChatGPT to the company's recent issues with rogue agents. Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> Oxide Computer Company | Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack 3h ago · 20 min read Oxide's approach to emulation, simulation, and tiny versions of big things. Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Marshall Islands stick chart - Wikipedia 1d ago · 14 min read Comments Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> Hacker News | Jev: For the builders AND dreamers - TypeSafe AI Blog 39m ago · 4 min read TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access. Read full story

21:50 <Murphy> opencode notes | OpenCode 2.0 2d ago · 6 min read OpenCode 2.0. Read full story

22:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog 1d ago · 17 min read Comments Read full story

22:48 <Byte> Ars Technica | NATO may redeploy anti-drone defenses as attacks sink more Black Sea shipping Jeremy Hsu · 1h ago · 4 min read Suspected Russian drones have sunk or damaged 5 ships near Bulgaria and Romania. Read full story

22:48 <Byte> Ars Technica | Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam Kyle Orland · 1h ago · 3 min read But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns. Read full story

22:49 <Byte> Ars Technica | Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security Dan Goodin · 1h ago · 3 min read Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet. Read full story

22:52 <Murphy> Tiny Little Office | the link is the document 42m ago A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device. Read full story

23:21 <Murphy> GitHub | enes-alatas/spool: fleet of persistent Claude Code coworkers you talk to in Telegram and Slack. Each in its own container, on your own plan without API costs. 3d ago · 8 min read fleet of persistent Claude Code coworkers you talk to in Telegram and Slack. Each in its own container, on your own plan without API costs. - enes-alatas/spool Read full story

23:21 <Murphy> Hacker News | Problems with the Rust language 43m ago · 4 min read Hello there, I'm a human with way too many interests. Read full story

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