Monthly Highlights
1.
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year (skyfall.dev)
2.
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet (messenger.abeto.co)
3.
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
4.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 (anthropic.com)
5.
NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy (github.com)
6.
FSF announces Librephone project (fsf.org)
7.
Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says (reuters.com)
8.
F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (f-droid.org)
9.
Qualcomm to acquire Arduino (qualcomm.com)
10.
A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator (larslofgren.com)
11.
Jane Goodall has died (latimes.com)
12.
Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image (bitbytebit.substack.com)
13.
Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads (github.com)
14.
Apple Photos app corrupts images (tenderlovemaking.com)
15.
How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized (cnn.com)
16.
Apple M5 chip (apple.com)
17.
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size (anthropic.com)
18.
You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here (hackerone.com)
19.
Always Invite Anna (sharif.io)
20.
German government comes out against Chat Control (xcancel.com)
21.
Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough? (phishyurl.com)
22.
ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps (metalhearf.fr)
23.
WASM 3.0 Completed (webassembly.org)
24.
Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly (mathstodon.xyz)
25.
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus (cybersect.substack.com)
26.
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs (guru3d.com)
27.
Nvidia buys $5B in Intel (tomshardware.com)
28.
Nine things I learned in ninety years (edwardpackard.com)
29.
Open Social (overreacted.io)
30.
Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out (gavi.org)