Weekly Best
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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)
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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (hey.paris)
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Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed (blog.google)
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AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' (finalroundai.com)
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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (gist.github.com)
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Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? (infosec.press)
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alpr.watch (alpr.watch)
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Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch (theverge.com)
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Announcing the Beta release of ty (astral.sh)
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8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions (koi.ai)
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No Graphics API (sebastianaaltonen.com)
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AI will make formal verification go mainstream (martin.kleppmann.com)
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Thin desires are eating life (joanwestenberg.com)
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Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions (resources.github.com)
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I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (marcusolang.substack.com)
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)
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This is not the future (blog.mathieui.net)
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Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies (ftm.eu)
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Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (news.bloomberglaw.com)
20.
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (arstechnica.com)
21.
“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)
22.
Classical statues were not painted horribly (worksinprogress.co)
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Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices (thebignewsletter.com)
24.
Tell HN: HN was down
25.
Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo (blog.mozilla.org)
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I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
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If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (english.elpais.com)
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (simonwillison.net)
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Coursera to combine with Udemy (investor.coursera.com)
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No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter (waterfox.com)