00:10 <Murphy> pocketty | An SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, made for herdr. 5h ago · 11 min read An SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, made for herdr. Sealed agent notifications, keys in the Secure Enclave, and a terminal that feels native. Free for 14 days, then $129 once. Read full story

00:10 <Murphy> Hacker News | OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics 40m ago · 6 min read By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...) Read full story

00:40 <Murphy> Opper AI | jevman: a Pac-Man benchmark for decision models 8h ago · 1 min read Six AI decision models played Pac-Man in real time against the classic arcade ghosts. See the leaderboard, watch their games, or play against them. Read full story

00:40 <Murphy> GitHub | edrisranjbar/lifeos: Self-hosted life OS: habits, goals, Kanban, finance and focus, with an MCP server for AI. 37m ago · 6 min read Self-hosted life OS: habits, goals, Kanban, finance and focus, with an MCP server for AI. - edrisranjbar/lifeos Read full story

00:40 <Murphy> Hacker News | Free Browser Utilities — 10 Private Tools Lovable · 1h ago · 1 min read Converters, formatters and debuggers that never upload your files. Read full story

01:09 <Byte> Ars Technica | Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules Jonathan M. Gitlin · 4h ago · 2 min read Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals. Read full story

01:09 <Byte> Ars Technica | Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms Jon Brodkin · 4h ago · 5 min read After hack and data breach, senator asks why Trump Mobile lacks some FCC filings. Read full story

01:09 <Byte> Ars Technica | Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts Ashley Belanger · 4h ago · 5 min read Judge questioned if Trump delaying access to Truth Social posts by a second harms the press. Read full story

01:09 <Byte> Ars Technica | SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink Stephen Clark · 3h ago · 7 min read These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort." Read full story

01:11 <Murphy> Jane Street Blog | Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy 7h ago · 10 min read The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects—for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition” Read full story

01:11 <Murphy> Spinal | Make sense of any codebase 2h ago · 1 min read Spinal is a new way to understand a codebase, how it's evolved, and the live changes streaming into it. First results in under 20 ms on 1.48M Linux commits. Read full story

02:09 <Murphy> Hacker News | Bevy 0.20 3h ago · 30 min read Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.i… Read full story

02:40 <Murphy> What's new | What should we tell our students? 11h ago · 22 min read [This is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math. I wo… Read full story

02:40 <Murphy> LWN.net | Reducing undefined behavior in the C language 37m ago · 8 min read As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a t [...] Read full story

03:41 <Murphy> Unsung | Deeper dive: Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs Marcin Wichary · 33m ago · 12 min read A blog about software craft and quality Read full story

05:11 <Byte> WIRED | ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests Dhruv Mehrotra,Ali Winston,Maddy Varner · 25m ago · 6 min read Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court. Read full story

05:37 <Murphy> The Mirror US | Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment Tahir Ibn Manzoor · 7h ago · 2 min read The comment was reportedly screenshotted and passed to Saudi authorities and to his employer, which led to his arrest Read full story

05:37 <Murphy> Hacker News | Quake-SRP 14m ago · 3 min read Quake (1996), faithfully ported to dependency-free safe Rust and compiled to WebAssembly — play the shareware episode in your browser. Read full story

07:38 <Murphy> OldRoll | Free Online Aesthetic Photo Editor for Retro Effects 02 Sep 2024 · 7 min read Give portraits, night-out snapshots, and travel photos a nostalgic camera feel. Explore OldRoll’s free online editor and find a look that fits each moment. Read full story

08:07 <Murphy> GitHub | microsoft/mxc: Policy-driven, layered isolation and containment 2h ago · 5 min read Policy-driven, layered isolation and containment . Contribute to microsoft/mxc development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

08:07 <Murphy> OpenTelemetry | OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack 1d ago · 16 min read With contributions from Dan Gomez Blanco (New Relic). If you’re building self-hosted software or a SaaS product, your users will eventually ask to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own observability stack, whether to satisfy compliance, manage costs, or centralize all their observability data in one place. Locking them into your built-in dashboards ... Read full story

08:36 <Byte> Engadget | Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter Steve Dent · 10m ago · 2 min read Three OpenAI researchers said their firings may have a 'chilling' effect on employees. Read full story

08:36 <Byte> Engadget | SpaceX wants to become a 'major mobile carrier' with low-band spectrum acquisition Mariella Moon · 5m ago · 1 min read SpaceX has revealed its plans to become a major mobile carrier. Read full story

08:37 <Murphy> Hacker News | Deciphering Glyph :: Programming Isn’t Special Glyph Lefkowitz · 52m ago · 9 min read Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz. Read full story

09:12 <Byte> WIRED | America’s Hybrid Hype Has Hit the Used Market Aarian Marshall · 12m ago · 3 min read Demand is so high that some used cars are selling for more than new ones. Read full story

09:36 <Murphy> France 24 | South Africa's Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 33m ago · 2 min read Former UN human rights chief and International Court of Justice judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to international law, the Nobel jury announced… Read full story

09:41 <Byte> WIRED | A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up Yulia Almazova · 11m ago · 8 min read Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities. Read full story

10:27 <Byte> WIRED | Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI Ej Dickson · 27m ago · 4 min read In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs. Read full story

10:27 <Byte> WIRED | The Best Battery-Powered Leaf Blowers, Tested With 8,800 Leaves Sal Vaglica · 17m ago · 9 min read Thousands of fabric leaves, a concrete paver, and batteries run to empty helped me separate serious clearing power from impressive specs. Read full story

10:29 <Byte> Engadget | Meta bans TikTok ads from its platforms in tit-for-tat row Steve Dent · 34m ago · 1 min read Meta has placed a complete ban on ads and marketing from TikTok's US minority owner, ByteDance. Read full story

10:29 <Murphy> TechCrunch | Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect Rebecca Bellan · 14h ago · 6 min read Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture. Read full story

10:29 <Murphy> NobelPrize.org | Nobel Peace Prize 2026 17m ago · 4 min read The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law." Read full story

10:59 <Byte> Engadget | Netflix releases trailer for its miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried's scandal-ridden crypto exchange Mariella Moon · 5m ago · 1 min read Watch the trailer for Netflix’s The Altruists, a mini-series about the rise and fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Read full story

11:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting 2h ago · 1 min read Workplace self-defence against people stealing your time. Read full story

11:55 <Murphy> GitHub | alex0ptr/once: Run a command once, reuse its output for a while. 2h ago · 5 min read Run a command once, reuse its output for a while. Contribute to alex0ptr/once development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

11:55 <Murphy> GitHub | franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code an... 51m ago · 8 min read Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT. - franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen Read full story

11:56 <Byte> WIRED | I’ve Tested the 3 Mac Desktops That Apple Makes, and There’s a Clear Winner Luke Larsen · 56m ago · 6 min read Apple’s Mac desktops have become some of the most sought-after computers this year, driven by surging interest in agentic AI. Here’s which model to buy depending on your use case. Read full story

11:56 <Byte> WIRED | Dunking on Dating App Profiles Is Content Gold. People Are Getting Sick of It Jason Parham · 56m ago · 5 min read Relationship coaches, TikTokers, and disgruntled singles alike frequently shame bad profiles, as more apps experiment with blocking screenshots. Read full story

11:57 <Byte> Engadget | Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software Steve Dent · 33m ago · 1 min read Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner. Read full story

12:24 <Byte> Ars Technica | Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here Jonathan M. Gitlin · 2h ago · 4 min read The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old. Read full story

12:24 <Byte> Ars Technica | Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine? Eric Berger · 1h ago · 8 min read I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan." Read full story

12:26 <Byte> Engadget | What to expect at Apple's 'Welcome home' event next week Ian Carlos Campbell · 26m ago · 4 min read The company is reportedly rebooting its smart home ambitions with a smart display and a whole bunch of other accessories. Read full story

12:54 <Murphy> Hacker News | The history of the Hetzner Cloud network stack 33m ago · 11 min read Learn how the Hetzner Cloud network stack has evolved and what role Open vSwitch, Private Networks, and Cloud Firewalls play. Read full story

12:54 <Murphy> Nature | US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work Garisto, Dan · 1d ago · 6 min read Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say Read full story

12:55 <Byte> Engadget | Webb telescope detects galaxy origin of the farthest fast radio burst we've seen to date Mariella Moon · 27m ago · 1 min read Astronomers used the Webb telescope to see where the farthest fast radio burst we’ve ever seen had come from. Read full story

13:23 <Murphy> Hacker News | Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT 1h ago Comments Read full story

13:23 <Murphy> Oxide Computer Company | Our $445M Series D 10m ago · 3 min read Our Series D round of financing. Read full story

13:23 <Murphy> Deno | Deno is joining Cloudflare 2 min read Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web Read full story

14:22 <Murphy> Hacker News | Study: Exercise increases cancer survival rates 1h ago Comments Read full story

14:22 <Murphy> Hacker News | meadows 1h ago Comments Read full story

14:51 <Murphy> Proofs and Prompts | 100+ reactions to 100+ solutions 23h ago · 96 min read “Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.” Read full story

14:51 <Murphy> Hacker News | US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize 19m ago Comments Read full story

14:51 <Murphy> UNITED24 Media | Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours—Now Its Biggest Russian Site Is Damaged Vlad Litnarovych · 6h ago · 1 min read A UAV attack disabled several modules at the largest Yandex data center in Kaluga, reducing service and impacting a facility with 3,800 server racks. Read full story

14:51 <Murphy> NBC News | Court throws out killer’s sentence after judge said he ‘loved’ AI video of slain man Angela Yang · 4d ago · 5 min read The Arizona Court of Appeals tossed a road rage killer’s sentence after determining that the judge’s consideration of the AI video was “fundamentally unfair.” Read full story

15:23 <Murphy> The Times of India | Germany is turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes; the former mining landscape is becoming Europe's largest artificial wetland 17m ago · 6 min read In eastern Germany, enormous pits carved into the landscape by decades of lignite mining are being transformed into a vast network of lakes, wetlands and restored land. The Lusatian Lakeland, spread across Brandenburg and Saxony between Berlin and Dresden, is being created by flooding former open-cast mines and reshaping their surroundings. Read full story

15:23 <Byte> WIRED | I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget Steven Levy · 23m ago · 5 min read Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet. Read full story

15:23 <Murphy> Hacker News | Python 3.15.0 47m ago Comments Read full story

15:23 <Murphy> Hacker News | Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court 27m ago Comments Read full story

15:25 <Byte> Ars Technica | Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency Financial Times · 2h ago · 4 min read The US says Microsoft abused immigration rules; the company disputes the claim. Read full story

15:54 <Murphy> Bluesky Social | William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) 15h ago the super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart. Read full story

16:23 <Byte> WIRED | The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson Hugo Lowell · 14m ago · 3 min read The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee. Read full story

16:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad | Tor Project 34m ago · 2 min read Recent concerns about a political donation by a Mullvad co-founder have raised questions about the Tor Project's funding relationship with the company. We are not terminating the relationship but are setting clear boundaries on our relationship with Mullvad. Read full story

16:25 <Murphy> The GitHub Blog | Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build Ed Summers · 25m ago · 4 min read The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. Read full story

16:52 <Murphy> Hacker News | Agentic coding is a financial trap 2h ago · 5 min read The hidden financial unit economics of pay-per-token autonomous coding loops. Read full story

17:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | 'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release 56m ago Comments Read full story

17:46 <Murphy> X (formerly Twitter) | Tomek Korbak (@tomekkorbak) on X 23h ago · 2 min read Last week I was called into a meeting with OpenAI’s head of safety and told they no longer trust me. A security guard took my badge and walked me out of the building. Then I learned my colleagues @balesni and @j_asminewang had been fired too. Why did OpenAI suddenly stop trusting us? This summer O… Read full story

17:46 <Murphy> Hacker News | Pyramid-JiT: Low-Res Drafts, High-Res Images 2d ago · 44 min read Accelerating convergence in text-to-image with multiresolution prediction Read full story

17:47 <Byte> Engadget | What it's like to spend a night in a Pebble Flow EV RV Karissa Bell · 47m ago · 6 min read Staying in the tech-infused trailer can kind of feel like being in a spaceship — in a good way. Read full story

17:47 <Byte> Engadget | Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on old sockets that support DDR4 memory Lawrence Bonk · 46m ago · 1 min read If you guessed the RAMpocalypse is involved... Read full story

18:15 <Murphy> X (formerly Twitter) | Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) on X 1h ago · 1 min read There is a scam American companies are using to manipulate what ingredient gets listed as the first main ingredient on products Take Smuckers, strawberries is the first ingredient. So you would think strawberries is the main primary ingredient, but that’s not true American companies are using a f… Read full story

18:15 <Murphy> Hacker News | Triple-A Minesweeper 2h ago Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game. Read full story

18:16 <Murphy> euronews | Europe's largest artificial lake landscape is being created in Germany Maja Kunert · 14 Apr 2026 · 7 min read Eastern Germany's mega complex of artificial lakes created from disused coal mines will reach a new milestone this summer. Read full story

18:16 <Byte> ZDNET | ‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him Steven Vaughan-Nichols · 23m ago · 8 min read The Linux creator calls vibe coding 'a wonderful way to find joy in programming,' but not for running Linux development. (Finding bugs is OK.) Read full story

18:17 <Byte> Engadget | Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar review: A great home theater option all by itself Billy Steele · 17m ago · 7 min read Bose’s latest soundbar pulls double duty as both a TV and music speaker. Plus, it doesn’t need a separate subwoofer for adequate bass. Read full story

18:45 <Byte> WIRED | NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public Jorge Garay · 15m ago · 5 min read The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions. Read full story

18:47 <Murphy> Techdirt | Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad 2h ago · 11 min read There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fo… Read full story

18:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | ‘Wallace and Gromit,’ 90% Alone Animation Obsessive Staff · 4d ago · 17 min read Plus: learning by doing, newsbits. Read full story

18:47 <Murphy> carrier-explode | iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings, decoded · carrier-explode 36m ago · 1 min read Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed. Read full story

18:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative Bryant · 16m ago · 3 min read Trying to be original everywhere keeps you from getting anywhere Read full story

18:47 <Murphy> Jesse Waites | I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Historical Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorite, Lost Rhinos, and Unrecorded Volcanic Eruptions. 1d ago · 18 min read How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. Read full story

18:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | TypeSafe A raises Series AI - TypeSafe AI Blog 1h ago · 1 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

18:47 <Murphy> Hacker News | M7.6 Earthquake in Panama 25m ago Comments Read full story

19:43 <Byte> Ars Technica | Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Jon Brodkin · 1h ago · 5 min read Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors. Read full story

19:43 <Byte> Ars Technica | Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release Nick Indge · 1h ago · 2 min read Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky. Read full story

19:43 <Byte> Ars Technica | AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner Jennifer Ouellette · 58m ago · 2 min read New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus. Read full story

19:43 <Byte> Ars Technica | PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023 Scharon Harding · 48m ago · 3 min read The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle." Read full story

19:44 <Byte> ZDNET | 4 ways Amazon’s new Alexa tablets eclipse the Fire line - starting with Google Play Maria Diaz · 34m ago · 4 min read Amazon just upped its game with new Android tablets for entertainment and work. Read full story

19:44 <Byte> WIRED | Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting Adam Morgan · 16m ago · 9 min read Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read full story

19:45 <Murphy> Command Line | Microsoft-Decision-1: Our model for fast decision-making Lisa Brown Jaloza · 1h ago · 7 min read Our new decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models. Read full story

19:45 <Murphy> Hacker News | Ideas aren’t getting harder to find and anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward and I will fight them Adam Mastroianni · 17 May 2022 · 26 min read You can still discover stuff, I promise Read full story

20:14 <Byte> Engadget | An Anthropic model submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police Igor Bonifacic · 13m ago · 1 min read Thankfully, it does not seem to have diverted police resources. Read full story

20:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | The reciprocal sum of the prime-prefix-free numbers converges [pdf] 4d ago Comments Read full story

20:44 <Byte> WIRED | Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe Aarian Marshall · 26m ago · 5 min read The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators. Read full story

20:45 <Murphy> Read Rare | The rarest docs and books you've probably never read Sahil Patel · 3h ago · 1 min read Internal memos, leaked handbooks and forgotten books from the people who built Apple, Intel, Google and Facebook. Free to read or borrow. Read full story

20:45 <Murphy> Hacker News | open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI 55m ago Comments Read full story

20:45 <Murphy> Fernando Borretti | No Man Is an Island Fernando Borretti · 1d ago · 7 min read AI makes intellectual contribution superfluous. Read full story

21:14 <Byte> Ars Technica | Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial Beth Mole · 1h ago · 4 min read CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine. Read full story

21:14 <Byte> Ars Technica | AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Kyle Orland · 1h ago · 4 min read Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck." Read full story

21:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? Michael Lynch · 21h ago · 12 min read Models are getting better and better, while the agents that drive them languish. Read full story

21:45 <Byte> Engadget | Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it Max Miller · 28m ago · 1 min read Morale at one of the most reviled companies in America appears to be at an all time low. Read full story

21:45 <Murphy> Gizmodo | YouTuber Says Cops Paid Him a Visit After He Built Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops Tom Hawking · 2h ago · 4 min read It turns out that the gander is not actually super keen on what's good for the goose. Read full story

22:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | proton-drive-linux-fs 1d ago · 1 min read FUSE virtual filesystem for Proton Drive on Linux. Read full story

22:44 <Byte> Engadget | Google teases its new 'Fitbit Edge' wearable ahead of an October 12 reveal Ian Carlos Campbell · 15m ago · 1 min read Google has seemingly confirmed the rumored "Fitbit Edge" with social media posts teasing a new wearable coming October 12. Read full story

22:45 <Murphy> New Scientist | OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof Jacob Aron · 1d ago · 5 min read When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers – however, they don't match Read full story

23:16 <Murphy> Hacker News | How to Fix Autoconf-style Config Probing 1d ago · 10 min read Comments Read full story

23:16 <Murphy> The New Yorker | In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology Sheelah Kolhatkar · 13h ago · 5 min read “To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” Read full story

23:16 <Murphy> Japan Inside | The Sushi King Who Went to Somalia: How Japan’s Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Pirates Into Fishermen Japan Inside · 8d ago · 5 min read At the height of the Somali piracy crisis, with twenty navies patrolling the coast, a Tokyo restaurant owner flew in with four fishing boats and a promise to… Read full story

23:45 <Byte> Ars Technica | What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains? John Timmer · 2h ago · 4 min read Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day. Read full story

23:45 <Byte> Ars Technica | NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations Eric Berger · 2h ago · 4 min read We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit." Read full story

23:45 <Byte> Ars Technica | A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis Nick Indge · 1h ago · 5 min read Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación. Read full story

23:45 <Byte> Ars Technica | Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google" Jeremy Hsu · 1h ago · 3 min read One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model. Read full story

23:45 <Byte> Ars Technica | Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone Jacek Krywko · 1h ago · 6 min read Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed. Read full story

23:46 <Murphy> What's new | What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: questions of reliability and AI 7h ago · 18 min read [This is a guest post by Thomas Hales. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematicians have been weighing in on what they value ab… Read full story

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