Monthly Highlights
4171.
Japan weighs fines to strengthen personal data protection (japantimes.co.jp)
4172.
Star Gauge: a Chinese reversible poem formed by a 29x29 grid of characters (en.wikipedia.org)
4173.
A rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue (theconversation.com)
4174.
Extinction rates have *slowed* over the last 100 years (royalsocietypublishing.org)
4175.
Alternative Internet Protocols (n0thanky0u.neocities.org)
4176.
How does Windows synthesize CF_Unicode­TEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
4177.
Five hundred reasons to not use Microsoft Azure (azsh.it)
4178.
Trailblazing scheme to reconnect thousands with HIV treatment (gov.uk)
4179.
PocketBase MCP Server (github.com)
4180.
Ruby Weekly #780: What's New in Ruby 4.0 (rubyweekly.com)
4181.
Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising CO2 (theguardian.com)
4182.
PLISS 2026: Programming Language Implementation Summer School (pliss.org)
4183.
Indian order to preload state-owned app on smartphones sparks political outcry (theguardian.com)
4184.
Russian Porsche owners' cars immobilised across country (dailymail.co.uk)
4185.
Why immigration research is probably biased (laurenzguenther.substack.com)
4186.
The Osborne Computer Corporation (abortretry.fail)
4187.
Gnome 49 Introduces Donation Request Notification (forum.zorin.com)
4188.
Gentleman Guardian Angel – AI provider-agnostic code review via Git hook (github.com)
4189.
DeepSeek's new model could push China ahead in the global AI race (restofworld.org)
4190.
Systems of Record Are Evolving (cloudedjudgement.substack.com)
4191.
They were almost American – then Trump cancelled their citizenship ceremonies (bbc.com)
4192.
Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures (newrepublic.com)
4193.
What happened on energy and climate in China this year? (sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
4194.
IDF Soldiers Fire on UN Peacekeepers (unifil.unmissions.org)
4195.
Taiwan considers TSMC export ban (tomshardware.com)
4196.
One Generic Cancer Drug Costs $35. Or $134. Or $13,000 (bloomberg.com)
4197.
Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' (pcgamer.com)
4198.
Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance, 50x ray tracing (tomshardware.com)
4199.
It's not too late to roll back MCP (theoryvc.com)
4200.
Dependent Names with a Little Encouragement (consteval.ca)