Daily Top Stories
1.
An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)
2.
Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass (age-verifier.kibty.town)
3.
Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code (github.com)
4.
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it (github.com)
5.
Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (blog.can.ac)
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ai;dr (0xsid.com)
7.
Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)
8.
Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)
9.
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)
10.
US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says (ft.com)
11.
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment (papers.ssrn.com)
12.
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware (theregister.com)
13.
How to make a living as an artist (essays.fnnch.com)
14.
D Programming Language (dlang.org)
15.
America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out (threathunter.ai)
16.
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) (openculture.com)
17.
Apache Arrow is 10 years old (arrow.apache.org)
18.
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app (bbc.com)
19.
MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified (minimax.io)
20.
So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)
21.
Covering electricity price increases from our data centers (anthropic.com)
22.
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 (arstechnica.com)
23.
The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)
24.
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
25.
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings (aethermug.com)
26.
Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) (thepragmaticcto.com)
27.
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024) (loriemerson.net)
28.
Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative (hologram.page)
29.
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (log.jasongodfrey.info)
30.
The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware (lwn.net)