Weekly Best
751.
Perplexity makes bold $34.5B bid for Google's Chrome browser (reuters.com)
752.
What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?
753.
What learning react won't teach you: Image Formats (idiallo.com)
754.
Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids (arstechnica.com)
755.
The Zizians' deadly fusion of transgender ideology, rationalism and veganism (spiked-online.com)
756.
China Is Winning the Cyberwar (foreignaffairs.com)
757.
Why hasn't medical science cured headaches? (newyorker.com)
758.
Trump's export deal with Nvidia and AMD: The Constitution says it's illegal (fortune.com)
759.
Spain put up wealth taxes (theguardian.com)
760.
Why Perplexity is going after Google Chrome – and yes, it's serious (zdnet.com)
761.
Problems in LLM Benchmarking and Evaluation (xent.tech)
762.
AI may make dubbing for film and TV easier (bbc.com)
763.
US senators call for Meta probe after Reuters report on its AI policies (reuters.com)
764.
MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know (composio.dev)
765.
Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after cloudburst (theguardian.com)
766.
Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub (news.itsfoss.com)
767.
AWS vs. GCP VPC architecture deep dive (kaamvaam.com)
768.
Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5B (cnbc.com)
769.
Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious(Louis Rossmann) [video] (youtube.com)
770.
Linux Foundation's New Banned Words: Hung, Pow-Wow, & Sanity Check (lunduke.substack.com)
771.
The Dawn of Automated Warfare (foreignaffairs.com)
772.
Chinese state media calls U.S. a 'surveillance empire' over trackers in chips (reuters.com)
773.
Character.ai Gave Up on AGI. Now It's Selling Stories (wired.com)
774.
Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
775.
Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs (marginalia.nu)
776.
Mozilla Firefox Is Dying
777.
ChatGPT-5 System Prompt Leaked
778.
Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good (wired.com)
779.
AI Efficiency? Give Me a Break (luolink.substack.com)
780.
The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour (blog.alexellis.io)