Daily Top Stories
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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)
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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (gist.github.com)
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)
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Classical statues were not painted horribly (worksinprogress.co)
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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? (daringfireball.net)
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Please just try HTMX (pleasejusttryhtmx.com)
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GPT-5.2-Codex (openai.com)
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Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach (techradar.com)
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Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (mastodon.social)
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History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com)
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After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up (e360.yale.edu)
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1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (jeffgeerling.com)
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How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips (japantimes.co.jp)
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Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem (claude.com)
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Slowness is a virtue (blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)
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How getting richer made teenagers less free (theargumentmag.com)
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AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs (coderabbit.ai)
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FunctionGemma 270M Model (blog.google)
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Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates (jack.bio)
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 (egyptianhieroglyphs.net)
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AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything (kottke.org)
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How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick (kibty.town)
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Most parked domains now serving malicious content (krebsonsecurity.com)
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GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners price increase postponed (pricetimeline.com)
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What is an elliptic curve? (2019) (johndcook.com)
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RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD (freebsd.org)
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T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models (blog.google)
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The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)
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Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals (euronews.com)
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Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse (garbagecollected.dev)