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unix.foo

Local AI Needs to be the Norm

Local AI models should be the default.

worksinprogress.co

Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine

Japan

Music Decoy - Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play

Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play

bbc.com

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate our feeds

Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.

Ars Technica

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.

TechCrunch

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch

Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.

Son Luong (@sluongng) on X

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

hacktivis.me

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Apple Reveals New AI Architecture Built Around Google Gemini Models

Apple today announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, revealing a new architecture built on foundation models developed in collaboration with Google using the technologies behind the Gemini family. The new architecture centers on Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, which Apple says are adapted to run both on-device and on servers through its existing Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.

MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.

[SECURITY]: Malicious npm releases detected across `@redhat-cloud-services/` scope · Issue #492 · RedHatInsights/javascript-clients

Ref: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/multiple-redhat-cloud-services-npm-packages-compromised https://app.stepsecurity.io/oss-security-feed?q=@redhat-cloud-services Affected Packages (updated) Pack...

nik.art

Making Peace With Your Unlived Dreams | nik.art

I will never be a great snowboarder. For various genetic and non-genetic reasons, my knees are barely capable of surviving a three-hour hike, let alone the landing after a 1080. In fact, I’ll probably never be a snowboarder at all, given my orthopedist told me to stay away from anything that’s heavy on the knees, […]

Apple Intelligence and Siri

Next-generation Apple Intelligence and Siri AI bring helpful features to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.

A 10 year old Xeon is all you need - point.free

performative-ui

performative-ui: AI-native React components for frontier labs

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

AI Is Slowing Down

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s

The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen | Sid's Blog

GitHub - matz/spinel: Ruby AOT compiler

Ruby AOT compiler. Contribute to matz/spinel development by creating an account on GitHub.

Martin Alderson

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.

teenage engineering

APC–2

a professional record cutter built and designed for producing original playback vinyl with superior sound quality in real time.

torrentfreak.com

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid * TorrentFreak

Twenty years ago today, dozens of Swedish police officers stormed a Stockholm data center, seizing The Pirate Bay's servers. The entertainment industry hoped the raid would finish the site for good. Instead, the police action inadvertently helped to create one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the Internet, one that remains online today.

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1

Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission

404 Media

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development - SaturnCI - Continuous Integration for Ruby on Rails

AI agents tend to be, at least as of this writing (May 2026), lousy at writing tests. The tests they write are often vague, cryptic, overcomplicated, hacky, dis...

ChatGPT for Google Sheets Exfiltrates Workbooks

ChatGPT for Google Sheets is vulnerable to data exfiltration and phishing overlay attacks that affect workbooks across the victim’s account after an indirect prompt injection in a single sheet.

Troy Hunt

1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever

Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations

The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.

TechCrunch

Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data | TechCrunch

The bill is expected to blanket-ban companies and startups from selling people's precise location data across the state.

Servo

Servo is now available on crates.io - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Initial crates.io release and LTS version of Servo

Inside GitHub

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

Reese Richardson

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 450 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

The Smallest Brain You Can Build

A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.

Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC | OpenAI

OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.