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Some super famous maths problem was solved by AI, humans everywhere are like whatever. latent.space #

People are freaking out about a securityappocalypse. We have one year apparently. jyn.dev #

Cloud in a Bottle - containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. cloudinabottle.org #

timgordontg/engrim - A local-first, project-scoped SQLite memory engine that allows developers to freely switch between models and environments, an episodic memory store. github.com #

How do you manage skills files? news.ycombinator.com #

Asahi Linux on M3 asahilinux.org #

Herdr - the agent runtime, run them anywhere, leave them running. herdr.dev #

Cloud in a Bottle - containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. cloudinabottle.org #

timgordontg/engrim - A local-first, project-scoped SQLite memory engine that allows developers to freely switch between models and environments, an episodic memory store. github.com #

How do you manage skills files? news.ycombinator.com #

Asahi Linux on M3 asahilinux.org #

Herdr - the agent runtime, run them anywhere, leave them running. herdr.dev #

Quentin Tarantino bought and runs a 1920s cinema in East Hollywood, LA. thevintagenews.com #

Vista - Video Archives Cinema Club, Los Angeles - I really like the idea of boutique cinemas. vistatheaterhollywood.com #

Pentagon's 3 million people get their own ChatGPT and Grok. techcrunch.com #

Polymarket raises $300 million from Trump Jr's investment fund. techcrunch.com #

After 15 years as Apple CEO, Tim Cook steps down. semafor.com #

OpenClaw 2.0 released openclaw.ai #

Zara launches Lefties in Liverpool, a low cost clothes store run by robots. theguardian.com #

Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prim and tons of other characters from Predator to Winnie the Pooh dies aged 85. theguardian.com #

Looks like Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face. businessinsider.com #

Open letter from 100 big tech companies waning about looming AI cyber threat problem. axios.com #

Amazon is now a member of the YouTube Shopping affiliate program. Good for content creators. engadget.com #

Big rise in cyberattacks seen on US infrastructure, including 100+ water systems in July. techcrunch.com #

Eric Weinstein on special science corner All-In Podcast episode. World keeps on worlding. podcastindex.org #

walgit — a git server that is one binary in front of an object store github.com #

Uk first customer to Ukraine's military industrial complex AI lemonade stand. implicator.ai #

Microsoft found to be embeding invisible watermark uuids into images created by MS Paint and Photos apps. xusheng.dev #

Always be selling. theguardian.com #

Iranian hackers shutdown UK power plant for 4 days. telegraph.co.uk #

Trump is making beautiful data centers. axios.com #

US and Canada are fighting again. bbc.com #

I thought this week‘s All-in Podcast was particularly good. youtube.com #

Material science papers still pulling out the most base abstracts after all these years. nature.com #

Instagram has a new logo theverge.com #

Under 15s social media ban blocked by courts in France theguardian.com #

Bluesky release Bluesky Protocol Services. atproto.com #

As much as I'm not a massive fan of intelligence agencies, I can't help but think Bond was a much better PR act for the UK than Bin Face. theguardian.com #

Scientists are studying agent turf wars. Kind of interesting. If you are into turf wars you will love this, otherwise if you are regular person quite worrying. techcrunch.com #

Solar eclipse above houses of parliament and Big Ben in London. theguardian.com #

Trump‘s board of peace issues first building contract. More US - EU passive aggressive geopolitics than you can shake a stick at. theguardian.com #

Just in case you haven‘t had your recommended dose of doom this week, scientists have discovered that black holes are exploding stars across the Milkyway galaxy. sciencedaily.com #

Another blog with 2 posts with the exact thing I have been researching the last few days, this time about the perils of webhooks weli.dev #

Runar writes about switching from Android to Linux on mobile runarcn.no #

In a presumably unreleated piece, Michael Lopp writes about how incredible the typography is in Blade Runner. randsinrepose.com #

There is an immortal jellyfish that can turn back into a baby and grow all over again. theguardian.com #

Bending Spoons well known for buy-to-renovate deals acquires Airtable. techcrunch.com #

Sebastian Pipping reports the City of Munich has contracted with him to work full time on XML parser library libexpat for up to 6 months. blog.hartwork.org #

Cloudflare release a stablecoin wallet for agents. blog.cloudflare.com #

Raymii got Linux and Windows running on his programmable calculator. raymii.org #

Amazon joins Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple in the $3 trillion dollar company club. cnbc.com #

Texas implements moratorium on approvals for the 1,800 data centre projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts. texastribune.org #

Whitehouse establishes voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. Is very economic with the details. axios.com #

Andros Fenollosa makes the case that modern CSS is better than Tailwinds CSS. en.andros.dev #

Apple Q3 revenue up 16%. businesswire.com #

Amazon Q2 revenue up 20%. businesswire.com #

SK Hynics and Samsung shares skyrocket after a dip. cnbc.com #

Reddit Q2 revenue up 60%. cnbc.com #

Google fixes more bugs in June than previous 2 years thanks to AI blog.google #

Jim Nielsen lists some AI Aesthetics he‘s noticed. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

Chris Coyier from the Shop Talk Show just released CodePen 2.0. chriscoyier.net #

SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon on wednesday. theguardian.com #

Almost every sensitive radiation detector built since 1945 relies on steel salvaged from ships that sank before the first nuclear test. spacedaily.com #

Johanna Larsson makes some interesting personal reflections vis-a-vis accountability and programming with LLMs. jola.dev #

Mark Zuckerberg: The AI Future Is for Everyone. wsj.com #

US diplomats stage walk out at France organised UN meeting. theguardian.com #

Apple $5 trillion company amid AI stock sell off. theguardian.com #

Buttons vs Links, and the Button Actions proposal. unplannedobsolescence.com #

FCC bans humanoid robots from China. theguardian.com #

Everyone is joining the Open Secure AI Alliance. thehackernews.com #

ChatGPT refuses to write in the style of a named author. arstechnica.com #

Amazon proposes a 5,105 satellite constallation for direct to device voice and data services, deployment beginning 2028 reuters.com #

AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation - simulate cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg. github.com #

Find out where particular fonts are used. fontsinuse.com #

The open vs closed debate in AI heats up. nytimes.com #

What Coding Felt Like in the 80s. comuniq.xyz #

Trump threatens EU with tariffs over fining US tech companies. theguardian.com #

Meshy that generates 3D assets from text and image AI prompts raises $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. techfundingnews.com #

Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter. wsj.com #

Layoffs at Patreon maybe a sign creator economy is in difficulties. variety.com #

An unbelievably long winded critique of AT proto in uses involving private data. lukekanies.com #

The new big bad is model distillation. x.com #

John C. Dvorak OG tech writer and co-host of the No Agenda Podcast has died. RIP. news.ycombinator.com #

X rebuilds their Android app from scratch. techcrunch.com #

Musk says they will open source the entire X codebase with 3rd party verification. thenewstack.io #

Polymarket banned in France. reuters.com #

Andros Fenollosa writeup of his IndieWeb voyage of discovery. en.andros.dev #

Scientists make cells using lab made DNA for the first time. theguardian.com #

Looks like Meta Web Services is on the horizon. techcrunch.com #

The cast of Jackass become true brits. (via the youtube distopian panopticon algorithm) youtube.com #

Apple increases prices, Micron reports non-constructive market dynamics. wsj.com #

Blogger Om Malik has died. Was very popular in tech from the early 2000s. hn thread. om.co #

OpenKnowledge - Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor and LLM Wiki. github.com #

SpaceSail is China's answer to Starlink. theguardian.com #

Doctorow in the Guardian. theguardian.com #

South Korean memory giant SK Hynixs to list in US at $29 billion. taipeitimes.com #

Jim Nielsen and John Gruber on stating the obvious. blog.jim-nielsen.com #

OpenAI and Broadcom have a new inference chip called Jalapeño. Best name for a chip in quite a while imho. openai.com #

Micron and Scandisk apear to be the AI barometer at the minute. Big sell-off just happened. marketwatch.com #

Chinese giant Tencent is grtting out of japanese game studios. thenextweb.com #

Nuclear renaissance in Canada, 10 reactors by 2040. cbc.ca #

John Ternus plans to try and refocus Apple back to it's design roots. thenextweb.com #

Brandur looks at the zone of viability for saleable software in the age of LLMs. brandur.org #

Now everyone is talking about everything being doomy. Which of source is quite doomy. theguardian.com #

Cloudflare release temporary accounts for agents, so they can vibe unbounded. blog.cloudflare.com #

Matt Mullenweg writes about Midjourney's new ultrasonic full body scanner tech. ma.tt #

Norway to ban generative AI schools. thenextweb.com #

Spain attempts to refocus tourism on offbeat locations. theguardian.com #

Will the memory shortage result in devs optimising their code? news.ycombinator.com #

Protocols for agent use in enterpise - Enterprise managed authorisation for MCP. Sound good but also complicated. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io #

Greg Boone has no regrets switching to linux. greg.harmsboone.org #

There are actually 3 levels of gitignore. nelson.cloud #

Tim Cook says Apple prices will need to increase due to soaring memory prices. wsj.com #

Github adds capacity using AWS. runtimewire.com #

SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion. implicator.ai #

Running local models is good now. vickiboykis.com #

Bubbles - Hacker News but for blogs. bubbles.town #

Appreciation for the small web. jola.dev #

Miniflux 2 - a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install. github.com #

My page on bubbles.town. bubbles.town #

There's a movie about Anthony Bourdain coming out in August. thedailymeal.com #

SpaceX IPO goes well, Elon becomes first trillionaire. theguardian.com #

How much is a trillion dollars? g.co #

SpaceX is biggest IPO of all time @ $135 per share, raises $75 billion. nypost.com #

Coinbase launches agent that can trade on behalf of humans, uses the open x402 payment protocol. techcrunch.com #

Teardown of the gold Trump phone. ifixit.com #

DoorDash introduces AI to order food via photos and prompts. cnbc.com #

London is hot again: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Google, Databricks, Salesforce, Rivian and Palantir announce plans for new offices. cnbc.com #

Xiaomi says it's open source AI agent harness MiMo Code beats Claude in the 200+ multi-step tasks category. venturebeat.com #

Citi Group launches blockchain based tockenized private shares trading platform. cryptonews.com #

The British food scene is going bust. theguardian.com #

Apple settles on 2 local models alongside 3 private cloud models. machinelearning.apple.com #

Apple‘s new AI architecture powered by Gemini models. macrumors.com #

Nvidia announce DGX Station, a windows supercomputers you can put under your desk. interestingengineering.com #

The Pierre Computer Company have some cool looking libraries for file tree rendering and diff rendering. pierre.computer #

Kyle Daigle (COO @ Github) interview on Latent Space Podcast. latent.space #

Pope Leo checks out the new Ferrari. theguardian.com #

SpaceX goes after the AI compute market. datacenterdynamics.com #

April 2025: When X Web services? markjgsmith.com #

Marc Andreesen on AI Vampires. x.com #

Trump to speak with Taiwan. theguardian.com #