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Filippo: stop giving vuln reports the white-glove treatment

Jun 28

▸ Filippo Valsorda argues maintainers should stop treating 'security' reports as a privileged class — embargoes, private channels, and CVE choreography ...

Open Source Security / Privacy clear_take

DeepSeek's DSpark: 60-85% faster generation, MIT-licensed, no retraining

Jun 28

▸ DeepSeek released DSpark, an inference-optimization stack claiming 60-85% faster token generation on its own models without retraining or quality loss...

Open Source AI / ML explainer

The Vesuvius Challenge shipped: bounty research beat 250 years of institutions

Jun 28

▸ PHerc. 1667, sealed since 79 AD, has been read end-to-end without physical unrolling — the first complete Herculaneum scroll ever recovered.

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

The surveillance stack is being specified in public — here are the APIs you'll be told to ship

Jun 28

▸ Three live legislative tracks — EU CSAR (Chat Control 2.0), UK Online Safety Act §121 notices, and the rebooted US EARN IT — are converging on the sam...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

Anthropic's export ban is speedrunning an Asian Mythos clone market

Jun 28

▸ Six months into Anthropic's Mythos export restrictions, four Asian labs have shipped Mythos-class models — Sakana, Qwen, Naver HyperCLOVA-X, and Zhipu...

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

Mythos goes to 'trusted' US companies — frontier AI gets export-controlled

Jun 28

▸ The US government cleared Anthropic to release its Mythos model — but only to a vetted list of American organizations, not the open API.

Defense / GovTech AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

A £200 Tesla V100 Beats Your RTX 4070 at Local LLMs

Jun 28

▸ A hobbyist bought a 16GB Tesla V100 SXM2 module on eBay for £200, machined a passive-to-active cooling adapter, and ran 13B-parameter LLMs locally at ...

Hardware / Chips AI / ML clear_take

GitHub Trending's trading bots aren't spam — they're wallet drainers

Jun 28

▸ Three crypto perp-bot repos hit GitHub Trending via keyword stuffing — but the SEO is just the delivery mechanism, not the payload.

Security / Privacy Crypto / Web3 clear_take

AI is speedrunning frontend's lost decade — and we're paying the bill

Jun 28

▸ A widely-shared essay argues AI coding assistants are recreating the exact JavaScript-framework complexity trap that cost frontend a decade of progres...

Frontend / UI AI / ML clear_take

OpenAI lets Washington decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

Jun 27

▸ OpenAI will route GPT-5.6 access requests through a federal vetting process — the first frontier model gated by the U.S. government at the user level.

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

LLM code smells: a field guide to the slop your assistant ships

Jun 27

▸ A new taxonomy catalogs the recurring failure patterns in LLM-generated code — over-engineered abstractions, hallucinated APIs, defensive-coding cargo...

DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML explainer

How a $26 keyboard chip became a million-dollar dorm-room business

Jun 27

▸ Nick Winans turned a Pro Micro pin-compatible nRF52840 board (the nice!nano) into a million-dollar product while still in college.

Hardware / Chips Startups / Launches Open Source clear_take

The age-verification dragnet is coming for your auth stack

Jun 27

▸ UK, EU, and a growing list of US states now require age verification for broad swaths of the web — not just porn, but social media, app stores, and an...

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

Temu's €200M EU fine is really a supply-chain integrity problem

Jun 27

▸ The European Commission fined Temu €200M under the DSA after a mystery-shopper sweep found dangerous goods — baby toys, electronics — on the marketpla...

Politics / Regulation Backend / APIs clear_take

Wikipedia Runs the Big Tech Anti-Union Playbook on Its Own Staff

Jun 27

▸ Jake Orlowitz, a 12-year Wikimedia Foundation veteran, says WMF leadership is using textbook union-busting tactics against its own organizing staff.

Career / Industry Open Source clear_take

152 days, €9,600, still no invoice: the cost of incorporating in Germany

Jun 27

▸ A founder spent 152 days and roughly €9,600 to register a GmbH in Germany and still cannot legally issue an invoice.

Startups / Launches Politics / Regulation clear_take

Apple's 20% MacBook hike is a tariff tax on your dev hardware budget

Jun 27

▸ Apple is raising MacBook and iPad prices by roughly 20% across major markets, the steepest hardware hike since the M-series transition.

Career / Industry Hardware / Chips clear_take

The retraction pipeline finally caught up to room-temp superconductivity

Jun 27

▸ Science's investigation traces how a string of high-profile physics papers — including the LK-99 adjacent room-temperature superconductivity claims — ...

Data / Analytics Career / Industry clear_take

GitHub Trending is broken: three repos prove it in one afternoon

Jun 27

▸ Three repos with near-zero discoverable context — Tong89/smartNode, zhaoyue4810/pianke, tantara/openbrief — surged onto GitHub Trending with scores fr...

Security / Privacy Open Source clear_take

A 2,000-year-old scroll just got read without unrolling it

Jun 26

▸ The Vesuvius Challenge team has produced the first continuous readable text from a sealed Herculaneum scroll — no unrolling, no physical contact.

AI / ML Open Source clear_take
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