- Pen pal programs endure in a digital age (apnews.com)
- Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com)
- Dayton suspends Flock contract, says data used for immigration enforcement (hub.coxfirstmedia.com)
- Data Science Weekly – Issue 650 (datascienceweekly.substack.com)
- Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)
- "Mother of all Demos" (1968) (www.youtube.com)
- ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
- As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices (www.nytimes.com)
- Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce) (finance.yahoo.com)
- LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (www.theregister.com)
- Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads (www.theregister.com)
- Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal (simonwillison.net)
- What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (www.bbc.com)
- OpenAI's WebRTC Problem (moq.dev)
- I bought an analog watch and I love it (minimal.bearblog.dev)
- Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA (unsloth.ai)
- The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Copyfail2 (github.com)
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
- A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)
- How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
- Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
- Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)
- Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
- Ted Turner has died (www.cnn.com)