Libghostty 1.0 turns terminal emulation into shared infrastructure
Ghostty’s terminal emulator is now a portable C library with a stable ABI. The release is a case study in making infrastructure dependable…
Asahi Linux opens M3 support and ships partial Thunderbolt
Asahi Linux’s progress report 7.3 makes M3 Macs generally available, ships early Thunderbolt/USB4, draws a first M3 GPU triangle, and moves the project toward GPL licensing.
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AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year
Firecracker escape research is a reminder that isolation is a system property
PWN Research chained host-memory access with live Firecracker thread takeover to show guest-to-host execution. The defensive lesson extends beyond one microVM component.
GitHub rebuilt Git storage for thousands of agents pushing at once
Project Rubicon separates immutable Git objects from reference coordination, using Azure Blob Storage and a replicated Ref-CAS log to target thousands of writes…
RIP Cybertruck
The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarising polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash bets on editable 15-second video at a lower price
Google’s latest generative-video release extends clips to 15 seconds, adds multi-turn editing and stronger reference adherence, and cuts the listed price by 30%.
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Musk said in an X post the production wind-down would enable the automaker to accommodate increased output of its newly launched Cybercab model,
Dutch ‘idealist’ bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
Is there an existing issue for this? GitHub has searched the existing issues App name ASN Bank Link to app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.devolksbank.asn.bankieren App version…
Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative
The Earth and its neighbours as a 3D globe and atlas for the Mac – maps and open geodata on real terrain.
Blender’s UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
Blender's GPU Accelerated UI, Decoupled from it's original codebase. Supports Rust, Python, JS, React, C & C++. Twice as good as GPUI -…
Inkling 2 Small
Thinking Machines is introducing the second generation of Inkling models with the release of Inkling 2 Small.
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
Cuban says he has been seeing his own face in scammy AI-generated ads for nonexistent diabetes cures.
Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Bug Description GitHub receive dozens of scam emails per day because claude code divulged GitHub’s email to arbitrary 3rd parties in the User-Agent…
Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed
Hungary released communist-era secret police files Wednesday, identifying up to 60,000 informants, a path for Hungary in reckoning with its repressive past. #EuropeNews
Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
Investors continued to rotate away from technology stocks and into more defensive areas of the market.
Window Sweaters
A macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders. - saragordic/window-sweaters
MCP Explained
Every MCP message on the wire, step by step. Transports, auth, tools, sampling, tasks, tool search and codemode. By Runlayer.
Discord’s Rust rewrite is another vote against heavyweight desktop apps
Discord plans to remove Electron from its desktop client and share Rust application code across desktop and mobile while keeping native mobile interfaces.
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AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
Planned Obsolescence / 7 Nov / 3 min
RIP Cybertruck
Wired / 7 Nov / 3 min
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
NBC News / 7 Nov / 3 min
Dutch ‘idealist’ bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
GitHub / 6 Nov / 3 min
Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative
Apps / 6 Nov / 2 min
Blender’s UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
GitHub / 6 Nov / 3 min
Inkling 2 Small
Thinking Machines / 6 Nov / 3 min
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
Finance / 6 Nov / 3 min
Artificial Intelligence
Model releases, evaluation, research and the shifting economics of machine intelligence.
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AI system proves an 18-year-old quantum computing conjecture, lab says
Physical Superintelligence says a system running an unreleased Anthropic model proved the 2008 Aaronson–Ambainis conjecture, and Lean checked it. Outside experts have yet…
Claude Code ‘don’t ask again’ can leave secrets on public GitHub
Apiiro counted 2,539 secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repos after Claude Code saved approved shell commands, credentials included, in .claude/settings.local.json.
DeepMind’s AI agents cut computing work in legacy RSA test
DeepMind reports AI-assisted gains against old RSA signatures and theoretical factoring advances. The papers say modern 2048-bit RSA is not threatened.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber to vetted security teams
GPT-6 Cyber reaches vetted security teams. We examine its Linux and Firefox findings, API pricing, access rules and what its safety tests do—and…
ChatGPT dashboard would count brand mentions, observer reports
A reported ChatGPT dashboard would count brand mentions and clicks. We checked the original X thread, its limits and the Shopify tools businesses…
Nous Research’s Arete-27B retrains Qwen’s politics with 53 million tokens
Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B on about 53 million tokens and cut answers adopting Beijing’s official line from 22% to 0.9% on its…
Agents
Autonomous systems, agent architecture, tools, memory and the new patterns of AI-assisted work.
All Agents →Agent memory works best when it forgets the right things
Anthropic’s agent-memory research separates transcripts, notes, representations and injected context—and shows why selective consolidation matters more than storing everything.
Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed
Hungary released communist-era secret police files Wednesday, identifying up to 60,000 informants, a path for Hungary in reckoning with its repressive past. #EuropeNews
MCP Explained
Every MCP message on the wire, step by step. Transports, auth, tools, sampling, tasks, tool search and codemode. By Runlayer.
Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
Ricursive develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels…
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
AI coding agent that makes a team of small models beat a frontier one - guregodevo/memdoor
AI isn’t replacing SREs, it’s deskilling them
When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?
Engineering
Programming languages, developer tools, infrastructure, databases, web platforms and open-source craft.
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Asahi Linux opens M3 support and ships partial Thunderbolt
Asahi Linux’s progress report 7.3 makes M3 Macs generally available, ships early Thunderbolt/USB4, draws a first M3 GPU triangle, and moves the project…
Fake restaurant ordering sites copy real menus to steal cards and bank codes
InfoHawk found 820 look-alike sites for 35 US restaurant chains that proxy the real menu live, then swap in a fake checkout to…
Claude Code ‘don’t ask again’ can leave secrets on public GitHub
Apiiro counted 2,539 secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repos after Claude Code saved approved shell commands, credentials included, in .claude/settings.local.json.
Libghostty 1.0 turns terminal emulation into shared infrastructure
Ghostty’s terminal emulator is now a portable C library with a stable ABI. The release is a case study in making infrastructure dependable…
GitHub rebuilt Git storage for thousands of agents pushing at once
Project Rubicon separates immutable Git objects from reference coordination, using Azure Blob Storage and a replicated Ref-CAS log to target thousands of writes…
Dutch ‘idealist’ bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
Is there an existing issue for this? GitHub has searched the existing issues App name ASN Bank Link to app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.devolksbank.asn.bankieren App version…
Security
Vulnerability research, defensive security, privacy and the changing mechanics of software risk.
All Security →Fake restaurant ordering sites copy real menus to steal cards and bank codes
InfoHawk found 820 look-alike sites for 35 US restaurant chains that proxy the real menu live, then swap in a fake checkout to…
Claude Code ‘don’t ask again’ can leave secrets on public GitHub
Apiiro counted 2,539 secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repos after Claude Code saved approved shell commands, credentials included, in .claude/settings.local.json.
Alpine Linux ships OpenSSH fix for musl password login bypass
OpenSSH on Alpine and other musl systems without PAM can accept logins to * password accounts. Alpine and OpenSSH 10.6p2 shipped fixes on…
DeepMind’s AI agents cut computing work in legacy RSA test
DeepMind reports AI-assisted gains against old RSA signatures and theoretical factoring advances. The papers say modern 2048-bit RSA is not threatened.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber to vetted security teams
GPT-6 Cyber reaches vetted security teams. We examine its Linux and Firefox findings, API pricing, access rules and what its safety tests do—and…
Firecracker escape research is a reminder that isolation is a system property
PWN Research chained host-memory access with live Firecracker thread takeover to show guest-to-host execution. The defensive lesson extends beyond one microVM component.
Systems & Hardware
Chips, storage, devices, networks, robotics and the physical infrastructure beneath computing.
All Systems & Hardware →Asahi Linux opens M3 support and ships partial Thunderbolt
Asahi Linux’s progress report 7.3 makes M3 Macs generally available, ships early Thunderbolt/USB4, draws a first M3 GPU triangle, and moves the project…
Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
Intel's slide spread through memory and storage stocks Monday as most of Wall Street moved on from last week's tech sell-off.
AI’s data mountain is giving magnetic tape another growth cycle
Fujifilm plans a fivefold increase in tape production as AI-generated data and long-term archiving needs keep cold storage economically relevant.
F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual…
The Electrek added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Electrek battery storage set a quarterly record in Q2 2026, adding 20.2 GWh as utility-scale projects surged in Arizona, Texas, and California.
Theranos.world
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real,…
Policy & Society
Regulation, platforms, digital rights, labor and the social consequences of technical systems.
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Download your favourite YouTube videos
Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you.
Semafor voters roundly reject data centres in ballot measures
Residents in more than 30 localities across nine states voted for moratoriums, outright bans, and other measures, some in direct response to specific…
The SEC Should Block Anthropic’s IPO to Protect the Public
If Anthropic goes public, workers, retail investors, and retirees will be left holding the bag when its bills come due, writes Matt Scherer.
ICE wants its mask back, and hired a company to ask
Blog receive takedown notices regularly. They come from individuals, lawyers, companies, and governments. This post is part of a series where Blog document…
Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
Point your camera at the landscape around you to learn about its geology: what the rocks are, when and how they formed, and…
OBS Studio 33
33.0 New Features Updated CEF from 127/6533 to 150/7871 [WizardCM] (#13900) This is a massive update to the underlying framework used for browser…
Business & Industry
Markets, companies, acquisitions, AI economics and the business of building technology.
All Business & Industry →ChatGPT dashboard would count brand mentions, observer reports
A reported ChatGPT dashboard would count brand mentions and clicks. We checked the original X thread, its limits and the Shopify tools businesses…
Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative
The Earth and its neighbours as a 3D globe and atlas for the Mac – maps and open geodata on real terrain.
Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
Investors continued to rotate away from technology stocks and into more defensive areas of the market.
Progress on provable inference for large language models
Sharing progress on a powerful type of cryptographic proof known as a zkSNARK, which is uniquely fit for provable inference.
Net worth for people aged 30–33 in the U.S.
The median net worth for people aged 30–33 in the U.S. is $68,000; the top 10% starts at $440,000. Type yours and see…
Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revised S-1
Anthropic unveiled its S-1 prospectus last week, but the initial filing only included the company's financials through the first half of the year.
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