Daily Top Stories
1.
An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)
2.
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (github.com)
3.
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (github.com)
4.
Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)
5.
ai;dr (0xsid.com)
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Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (blog.can.ac)
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GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)
8.
Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)
9.
US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says (ft.com)
10.
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (theregister.com)
11.
How to make a living as an artist (essays.fnnch.com)
12.
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
13.
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification (matrix.org)
14.
D Programming Language (dlang.org)
15.
Apache Arrow is 10 years old (arrow.apache.org)
16.
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) (openculture.com)
17.
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified (minimax.io)
18.
America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)
19.
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)
20.
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)
21.
Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation (pol.is)
22.
Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver (waymo.com)
23.
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 (arstechnica.com)
24.
Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM (ericmigi.github.io)
25.
ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (techdirt.com)
26.
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (log.jasongodfrey.info)
27.
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024) (loriemerson.net)
28.
The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)
29.
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings (aethermug.com)
30.
The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware (lwn.net)