August 2025 Archive
1651.
Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing (arstechnica.com)
1652.
Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database (wired.com)
1653.
Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
1654.
Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024) (thedriftmag.com)
1655.
Sixteen bottles of wine riddle (chriskw.xyz)
1656.
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? (newyorker.com)
1657.
The power of two random choices (2012) (brooker.co.za)
1658.
A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs (arxiv.org)
1659.
OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good (simonwillison.net)
1660.
Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack (blog.cloudflare.com)
1661.
Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS (arstechnica.com)
1662.
Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017) (theguardian.com)
1663.
The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World (splinter.com)
1664.
Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World (heritagedaily.com)
1665.
The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003) (awn.com)
1666.
Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine (andrewlock.net)
1667.
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
1668.
Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it (arstechnica.com)
1669.
We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem (denodell.com)
1670.
Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army (washingtonpost.com)
1671.
The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)
1672.
F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK (f-stack.org)
1673.
Belgium's Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment (jacobin.com)
1674.
Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords (theregister.com)
1675.
America by Design Fail (americabydesign.fail)
1676.
Giving people money helped less than I thought it would (theargumentmag.com)
1677.
The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? [video] (youtube.com)
1678.
Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021) (asawicki.info)
1679.
The Minecraft Code (2024) [video] (youtube.com)
1680.
A dark money group is funding high-profile Democratic influencers (wired.com)