February 2025 Archive
3451.
NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement (therecord.media)
3452.
Malicious NPM package targets prettier library (sourcecodered.com)
3453.
Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)
3454.
Instagram Reels flooded with violent videos before Meta says it fixed error (theguardian.com)
3455.
World first: Plane hooks a skydiver out of the air (newatlas.com)
3456.
Show HN: Generate Notion-style line avatars using AI (open source) (lineavatars.com)
3457.
Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell (theguardian.com)
3458.
VSCode extensions with 9M installs pulled over security risks (bleepingcomputer.com)
3459.
Texas Tempts Meta (bloomberg.com)
3460.
FSF to auction off original GNU drawings, RMS award, and historic tech (fsf.org)
3461.
Netanyahu gifts Trump a golden pager during US visit (bbc.com)
3462.
Multiple Security and Privacy Flaws in DeepSeek iOS Mobile App (nowsecure.com)
3463.
Bolt: Bootstrap long chain-of-thought in LLMs without distillation [pdf] (arxiv.org)
3464.
The Investor Betting on People in Their 50s (wsj.com)
3465.
Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
3466.
Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as National Intelligence Director (usatoday.com)
3467.
USAID inspector fired after revealing $500M in food aid about to spoil (independent.co.uk)
3468.
Conflicts of interest in climate change science (jessicaweinkle.substack.com)
3469.
San Francisco tech giant Autodesk cuts 1,350 jobs as part of move toward AI (sfchronicle.com)
3470.
NWS Public Weather API (weather.gov)
3471.
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order (axios.com)
3472.
Peter Thiel's Apocalypse Dreams (thenerdreich.com)
3473.
Trump administration set to purchase $400M worth of armored Teslas (npr.org)
3474.
150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits (wired.com)
3475.
American Democracy Is Doomed (2015) (vox.com)
3476.
Leaked Windsurf System Prompt (simonwillison.net)
3477.
New York is rejecting a federal demand to stop its $9 Manhattan toll (lohud.com)
3478.
Elon's Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits the US Government (techdirt.com)
3479.
Tesla's departure from reality, in one chart (ft.com)
3480.
Elon Musk's Attempt to Control the Treasury System Is Incredibly Dangerous (rollingstone.com)