Monthly Highlights
211.
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)
212.
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
213.
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
214.
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data (qcontinuum.substack.com)
215.
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available (tailscale.com)
216.
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)
217.
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras (bloodinthemachine.com)
218.
Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware (withdiode.com)
219.
Cosmologically Unique IDs (jasonfantl.com)
220.
Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (serverhost.com)
221.
BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com)
222.
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19 (asahilinux.org)
223.
Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)
224.
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)
225.
Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org)
226.
27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (old.reddit.com)
227.
Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (old.reddit.com)
228.
LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first (blog.katanaquant.com)
229.
How to talk to anyone and why you should (theguardian.com)
230.
Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) (noelberry.ca)
231.
Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)
232.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026 (missing.csail.mit.edu)
233.
Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona (fortune.com)
234.
Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)
235.
Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking (harpers.org)
236.
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
237.
A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (blog.cloudflare.com)
238.
When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)
239.
Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died (videogameschronicle.com)
240.
New iPad Air, powered by M4 (apple.com)