Daily Top Stories
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I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)
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Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)
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MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (apple.com)
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I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com)
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Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)
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MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)
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Don't become an engineering manager (newsletter.manager.dev)
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GPT‑5.3 Instant (openai.com)
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Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)
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Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon (tomshardware.com)
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TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)
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When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (leodemoura.github.io)
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Don't make me talk to your chatbot (raymyers.org)
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Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)
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Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR (apple.com)
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Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)
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Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)
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Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
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GitHub having issues [resolved] (githubstatus.com)
21.
Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)
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AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)
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Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death (politico.eu)
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An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023) (jakelazaroff.com)
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Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (euronews.com)
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Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities (github.com)
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A CPU that runs entirely on GPU (github.com)
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell (gamehistory.org)
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My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (ddmckinnon.com)