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An OpenAI strategist argued that AI labs should rival government power, sparking debate about institutional influence. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scored 89 on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark, a significant leap in abstract reasoning. A separate DeepSeek-V4 latent reasoning demonstration moved "thinking" into latent space, packaged as a self-contained NVFP4-quantized model. Claude Code now defaults to auto mode for Pro users, enabling autonomous agentic workflows, and you can now message your other Claude Code sessions for cross-session coordination. The Claudyssey project translated Homer's Odyssey line-for-line using Claude Fable, raising questions about AI authorship. A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions was released, akin to an AI liability tribunal. Lumabri proposed a Napster-like swarm for LLMs, while textlog launched as a quiet, text-only microblogging platform with no Java Script. Oracle banned AI-generated code from Open JDK, despite CEO Ellison's claim that Oracle isn't writing its own code. SAP suspended most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost, highlighting infrastructure strain. Databricks cut AI coding costs 70% with smart techniques at scale, while The Economist asked whether AI labs should be treated like owners of dangerous animals after autonomous hacking incidents. A first known Australian autonomous cyber attack saw an AI assistant hack a gym website. Terry Tao published a partial digestion of the HRT counterexample, aided by AI assistance. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults, per a sleep study. The AI Apocalypse Is Here argued that the apocalypse is already present, not future. AI psychosis was identified as a new leadership blind spot. Noema explored what happens when an entire class of tech workers loses faith in their careers. Jill Lepore said Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy. Kira Howe asked if it's all just vapourware. AI billboards are killing San Francisco's identity, per the Standard. Another corner of the internet has been ruined, lamented a developer. The Nixpkgs core team disbanded after 10 months, citing governance issues. Gentoo's Bugzilla was shut down due to AI bot scraper overload. The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale, argued a post. 99% of my website traffic is bots, one developer reported. Long-term effects of H-1B immigration on the U.S. economy were analyzed in an NBER paper. Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, unemployment at 2-year low. Poland became the 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium. U.S. lost 23,000 jobs in July while unemployment ticked lower, a sudden reversal per NBC News. Wall Street ignores big tech's debt, a video argued. Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich, LSE research shows. The U.S. Department of Energy launched the Genesis Open Models Initiative with Arcee AI. TheoremDB is a public workspace for machine mathematics. OpenChamber is an agentic development environment. Kitesurf is an agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers. UnYOLO is a secure credential broker and policy engine for GitHub agents. An MCP interceptor blocks .env reads and dangerous commands in real time. Airy is a free, fast voice content creation tool. Vibez is an open-source Rust-based DAW (digital audio workstation). Wyzer is a static language with distributed safety. The CPU is back: Red Hat rethinks the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics uses batching, operator fusion, and SIMD. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled. How we pushed CDC into Postgres details Snowflake's replication mirroring. A zero-dependency SQLite time machine debugs database history. Every fast write moves work somewhere else explains storage trade-offs. Wireblast is a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP. Triton is a Direct X 11 driver for QEMU. Microsoft Word 1.1a gets a native x64 port. A Project Oberon System now runs on RISC-V instead of RISC-5. OS8088 is a powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 386, written in assembly. The Alpha 21264 CPU was NT's greatest RISC, per Byte in 1998. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs were disclosed. Assembly Hall of Shame lists the slowest x86 instructions. Psychological warfare in reverse engineering (2015) is a classic. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per watt? A Dell XPS 13 beats Mac in efficiency. Voyager 1 FDS computer emulator runs the original software. NASA extended Voyager 2's mission by a year with a power-saving tweak. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes from SDSS DR20. A radical study suggests life on Earth arose twice. The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (Wigner, PDF). There are magic hexagons of every order, a new proof. Möbius-strip crosswords explore Robert Guilbert's Pago Pago mystery. The Longbets prediction from 2011: "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." Cool URIs don't change (1998, Tim Berners-Lee). A _for-sale DNS record specification allows domain sale via TXT record. Dithered QR codes show how to create them. An open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse was released. Fold your own paper globe from satellite imagery. Today's cities on a tectonic globe show Earth's past and future. An iceberg collapses and flips in Ilulissat, Greenland (video). The climate benefits of retiring a combustion engine vehicle are quantified in Science. Switching to electric stoves can cut indoor air pollution dramatically, per Stanford. Amazon is creating the biggest pollution source in the country with a Texas data center, and new data center stokes worry about the same. The US struck a $1.2B deal to pay German firm RWE to halt offshore wind projects. Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park for border wall, sparking fury. Maryland closes more of Cunningham Falls State Park after second beaver attack. FCC moves to ban lidar-equipped foreign drones from the US. Illinois just told every OS to start reporting your kid's age. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments to curb AI cheating. Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 in the US. Depression has tripled in the last 15 years, says Arthur Brooks. The main way people turn ideologically crazy (2025). Saying no is about adult-to-adult relationships. If experience is the goal, then you always win. Incentives are for losers makes the case for purpose. The Ambition Project describes Jason Brennan's unique class assignments. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared (video). Should you stop cracking your knuckles? BBC Future investigates. Don't use your phone while you poop. Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices compares motorcycles vs cars. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's due to spatial navigation. John C. Lilly on solid-state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978). The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) manifesto in Phrack. Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II). Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM. Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting new ones. LinkedIn Feed Blocker is a Chrome extension. A voice-driven murder mystery lets you interrogate AI suspects with your voice. Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro via Klepton. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks the sound barrier with gravity alone. A supersonic trebuchet (same article, already linked? No, article 47 is different from 47? 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