Programming
Shai-Hulud: Self‑Spreading npm Backdoor Hits tinycolor and 40+ Packages
Programming
Microsoft steers VS Code to Claude 4, signaling an Anthropic tilt
UI Design
ScrollyVideo.js: Scroll-Driven Video with Smart Fallbacks Across Frameworks
UI Design
When to Use 'Your' vs 'My' in UI (and When to Drop Both)
Market Forces
Generative AI Shrinks Junior Hiring While Senior Roles Grow
Programming
GPT‑5-Codex Lands in Codex Tools, API Coming Soon, With Big Push on Code Review
Programming
Stop Picking React by Default: Evaluate Better-Fit Frontend Models
Creative Code
Massive Attack Uses Live Facial Recognition to Expose Surveillance Culture
Programming
Build a Production-Ready AI Trend Analyzer with FastAPI, Pydantic‑AI, and MCP
Research & Understanding
How the World Uses ChatGPT: Non‑Work Growth, Decision Support, and Writing at Work
Programming
When Code Gets Cheap: Value Shifts to Judgment and Systems
Products & Announcements
GPT-5-Codex: Agentic Coding with Layered Safety
Damage Control
Real-Time Chatbots Now Repeat False News 35% of the Time
Programming
LLMs Don’t Code—They Compile Your Prompts
Damage Control
Inside Google’s Hidden AI Rater Workforce: Speed Over Safety
Creative Code
FFglitch Gallery: A Curated Showcase of Datamoshing Works
Market Forces
OpenAI Grove: A Five-Week Launchpad for Pre-Idea AI Founders
Research & Understanding
Deep Orchestrator: A Simple MCP Loop That Makes Deep Research Work
Programming
Hard Leetcode, Easy with Constraint Solvers
Products & Announcements
Qwen3-Next: Hybrid Attention + Ultra-Sparse MoE for 10x Faster Long-Context LLMs
Research & Understanding
ApeRAG: Production-Ready Multimodal GraphRAG with Agents and MCP
Damage Control
Aligning the Aligners: A Satirical Roast of the AI Safety Industry
Damage Control
Cards, Cameras, and Workarounds: How NYC Teens Are Adapting to the School Phone Ban
Programming
Async Programming as a Workflow: Specify, Automate, Review
Products & Announcements
Spiral: A Machine-Scale Database Built on Vortex for the AI Era
Creative Code
Evolving Melodies: Coding Culture’s Darwinian Patterns
Damage Control
How TikTok’s 60-Second Model Rewired Culture and Attention
Research & Understanding
You Can’t Outsource Thinking: Memory and Depth Are Non‑Optional
Creative Code
Flame Fractals in GLSL: Chaos-Game Splatting, Transforms, and Simple Post
Research & Understanding
Knowledge Without Memory: Why LLMs Guess and Humans Don’t
Research & Understanding
Live LLM Dialogue in GameCube Animal Crossing via a RAM Mailbox Hack
Damage Control
NAEP: US Seniors Hit Historic Lows in Reading and Math as Gaps Widen Beyond COVID
Products & Announcements
Apple Launches iPhone 17 with Smarter Cameras, Brighter ProMotion Display, and A19 Power
Damage Control
ICE Expands Stingray Use As AI Policing Stumbles And Global Surveillance Grows
Market Forces
Judge Pauses Anthropic’s $1.5B AI Book Deal, Demands Clarity
UI Design
Liquid Glass on the Web with SVG Displacement Maps
Products & Announcements
Claude Now Creates and Edits Spreadsheets, Docs, Slides, and PDFs
Research & Understanding
AI as a Normal Technology, Not an Apocalypse
Market Forces
Microsoft Joins World Nuclear Association to Scale Nuclear for the Digital Economy
Damage Control
Stop EU ‘Chat Control’: Mass Scanning Law Threatens Encryption and Rights—Act Now
Research & Understanding
S3 Vectors Won’t Kill Vector Databases—They Enable a Tiered Future
Research & Understanding
A Skeptic’s Guide to Running Local LLMs on macOS
Research & Understanding
Analog 3D-Optical Fixed-Point Computing for AI and Optimization
Damage Control
19 Dead as Nepal Deploys Army amid Gen Z Protests over Social Media Ban and Corruption
Research & Understanding
GPT-5 Thinking Makes ChatGPT a Surprisingly Competent Research Assistant
Programming
Reviving a 1990s Linux Tape Driver with AI in Two Evenings
Creative Code
Mobile MoleCheck: Swipe to Flag Lesion Concern
Programming
AI Gatekeeper Slashes E2E CI Time by 84%
Programming
Disciplined AI Collaboration: Plan, Measure, and Ship in Small, Reliable Modules
Damage Control
Ban AI Chat Surveillance Before It Becomes the Norm
Research & Understanding
Why Embeddings Got Bigger—and Where Efficiency Pulls Them Next
UI Design
Animate with Purpose—or Not at All
Damage Control
OpenAI launches AI Academy jobs board, courting Walmart and LinkedIn rivalry
Programming
Today’s Tally: 16 “Absolutely Right” + 5 “Right”
Programming
Ditching Docker: Why Podman’s Rootless, Daemonless Model Wins
Damage Control
AI Is Hollowing Out Learning
Research & Understanding
Trust-First Architecture Beats Smarts for AI Agents
Research & Understanding
CauseNet: An Open 11M-Relation Causality Graph from the Web
Meatspace
Talking to Strangers Feels Better Than We Think—and Rebuilds Trust
Damage Control
New Payroll Data Ties AI to Early-Career Job Losses in Exposed Fields
Research & Understanding
The Bitter Lesson Was About Data, Not Compute
Research & Understanding
HunyuanWorld-Voyager: World-Consistent RGB-D Video and 3D from a Single Image
Damage Control
AI Hype, Accessibility, and a Blind Skeptic’s Warning
Research & Understanding
From Emotions to Earth: A Multi-Genre Deep Dive and an Urgent Climate Reckoning
Programming
Ship Faster by Orchestrating Parallel AI Coding Agents
Programming
Ship Faster by Treating AI as a Forgetful Junior Dev
Research & Understanding
Sharing Early Diffusion Steps Across Similar Prompts for Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
Damage Control
OpenAI Is Scanning Chats and May Call Police for Threats to Others
Damage Control
Study Claims AI Writing Tools Weaken Brain Engagement and Memory
Damage Control
Ravenous AI Crawlers Are Breaking the Web—and Driving It Behind Paywalls
Market Forces
Anthropic Raises $13B at $183B Valuation to Scale Safe, Enterprise AI
Research & Understanding
Why AI Is Chasing World Models Again
Damage Control
We Already Live in Social Credit—Ours Is Just Hidden
Biz
From Push to Pull: Align Sales With the Buyer’s Project
Research & Understanding
LLMs Are Lossy Encyclopedias: Give Them Facts to Work With
Creative Code
AR Fluid Sim That Collides with Real Objects
Research & Understanding
Stop Building Multi-Agents: Context Engineering for Reliable LLM Agents
Market Forces
Amazon’s Pay and RTO Policies Are Crimping Its AI Hiring
Damage Control
Anthropic Details How Agentic AI Is Powering Modern Cybercrime—and Its Steps to Stop It
Research & Understanding
Bandit-Based, Budget-Aware LLM Routing with Preference-Informed LinUCB (PILOT)
Damage Control
AI as a Grantmaking Filter: Promise, Pitfalls, and the Human Judgment Gap
Programming
Senior Devs Ship More AI Code, Feel Faster—But Real Gains Are Mixed
Damage Control
No Clicks, No Content: How AI Search Cannibalizes Its Own Fuel
Damage Control
Google AI Misattributes ‘Israel Trip’ Video to Benn Jordan; He Seeks Legal Counsel
Damage Control
Always Yes: How an LLM Fed My Delusion
Research & Understanding
The Dimensional Ceiling of Single-Vector Embedding Retrieval