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The author writes from a hospital bed while undergoing chemotherapy, saying the treatment is as brutal as people warn but remains preferable to the alternative. They note this is their first experience with chemotherapy and share the update while expressing relief and positivity.

Stack Overflow is now receiving fewer than 1,000 questions a month—below even its earliest months—and discussion participants say the site has effectively ceased to function as a thriving Q&A community. They attribute the decline to years of hostile moderation and user treatment that drove contributors away, especially as LLMs and chatbots offer faster, less judgmental alternatives. Many expect the site to keep running only as long as selling AI training data remains valuable.

GitLab reported a security incident involving attempted exploitation of CVE-2026-97229. The brief description ties the incident to Alpine Linux, with further details not provided.

Researchers have embedded a functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 by compiling it into the Qwen 3.5 4B model’s weights and using its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. The CPU runs C and MicroPython inside the model’s forward passes, and Qwen uses it to perform exact arithmetic.

The founder of ellipsis.dev reflects on how far image generation has advanced since August 2022, highlighting the rapid pace of improvement in AI image tools. The piece underscores how much the technology has evolved in just a few years.

MicroZig, a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig, has adopted a strict no-LLM/no-AI policy. The policy is outlined in the project’s code of conduct and applies to its community and contributions.

XREAL AURA has launched as the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, offering a 70-degree field of view and Gemini integration. The glasses are now available to order.

IPinfo reduced its MMDB files by up to 80% without changing lookup results. It also open-sourced the optimizer so others can shrink their own MMDB files.

Jinx, a new tool that compiles Nix to TypeScript, can evaluate all 231,777 nixpkgs attributes and produce the same drvPath as Nix, including running hello in a browser playground with no Nix installed. Its author argues the real magic is Nix’s store model rather than the language itself, so similar tools built on that model can achieve the same reproducibility and hermeticity.

Gemini 4 Carbon has been announced as the company’s strongest model yet, featuring state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. The release positions it as a major upgrade for advanced, security-focused AI tasks.

More than ten days after Apple was notified of the eMudhra CA compromise, the git, curl, and python3 tools shipped with macOS still trust the compromised certificates. The issue remains unresolved despite the notification.

The new MacBook Pro features a PROLED XDR display and touch input, with the display billed as the world’s best laptop display. It runs on M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, positioning it as a powerful platform for AI.

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is conducting one of the largest anti-left surveillance operations in U.S. history, according to the report. The far-reaching spying on left-wing activists is described as rivaling FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

Readers discussing the piece focused on anti-LLM “magic strings” and prompt-injection tricks used to fingerprint or filter AI-generated contributions, such as asking assistants to tag pull requests with a robot emoji. They note that Anthropic’s once-published refusal-testing string no longer reliably triggers refusals and was removed from the API and docs, while models’ inconsistent responses show how brittle such fingerprinting methods can be.

A leak has exposed records for 41,000 Homeland Security workers, including undercover ICE agents. The data includes ICE and CBP facility locations, workers’ cellphone numbers, and membership in groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

A US agency has approved Amazon Leo’s $11.5 billion acquisition of Globalstar, bringing the satellite operator’s assets and spectrum into Amazon’s competition with Starlink. The deal is expected to preserve Globalstar’s satellite services for Apple devices, including iPhone Emergency SOS, while advancing Amazon’s broader satellite connectivity ambitions.

Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide voting campaign, then blamed its own automation for the action. The company later claimed its automated systems had detected another automated tool, raising questions about opaque moderation during political campaigns.

CNC stone carving may seem out of place in ancient Gothic architecture, but medieval builders were themselves at the forefront of technology in their time. Using modern CNC machines could help make the construction of new Gothic architecture a practical reality today.

A Git-like version control system for US legislation would let lawyers read statutes as they stood on any date and trace each phrase back to the law that wrote it. An example history of nine US Code titles was built by replaying every amendment.

A discussion around AlpineBSD suggests Linux-friendly BSD projects may draw initial interest by reducing unfamiliarity but struggle to retain contributors due to BSD’s demanding committer path and difficult contributor experience. Commenters argue a more opinionated, pkgsrc-based installation could be more viable, while also noting broader tensions around FreeBSD governance and AI-related fragmentation in FOSS.

Amazon has agreed to acquire satellite firm Globalstar for $11.57 billion, bringing its satellite assets and spectrum into Amazon’s competition with SpaceX’s Starlink. The deal would preserve Globalstar’s satellite services for Apple devices, which became a major part of its business after Apple’s iPhone Emergency SOS feature and roughly $1.5 billion in Apple investment. Globalstar’s survival followed a 2002 bankruptcy and a rebuilt constellation that helped restore capacity.

A new introductory textbook, Start Doing Graph Theory, aims to teach readers graph theory by applying it to puzzles, theorem proofs, and other problems. It presents the subject as a hands-on toolkit rather than abstract theory, covering a broad range of uses.

A Massachusetts factory is using a factory-scale robot to build circuit boards on demand, claiming turnaround times twice as fast as a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop. The setup highlights a U.S.-based alternative for rapid PCB prototyping and production.

At least 10 people died when one high-speed train struck another near Toledo, Spain, causing two carriages to derail. Rescuers are searching the wreckage, and authorities warn the death toll could rise.

Readers are skeptical that Nvidia and Micron’s outsized contribution to U.S. earnings reflects broad economic strength, seeing it more as a bubble or temporary fluctuation masking a weak, K-shaped economy. The discussion highlights concentration in AI-driven profits and Baumol-style cost pressures, where lucrative tech sectors raise costs for other services while many businesses and workers struggle.

The Agent SDK is a framework for building managed agents such as Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. It lets developers define agents in code and deploy them with a single command.

Formlabs has announced the Studio 1, a $699 resin 3D printer aimed at hobbyists. It promises razor-sharp prints of miniatures, models, and props in under two hours with mess-free resin handling.

A visualization illustrates U.S. wealth inequality by showing median household wealth as a 9-inch stack of $100 bills, compared with a 145-foot stack for the average top-1% household. The scale highlights the enormous gap between typical families and the wealthiest Americans.

A Tesla Semi caught fire on I-880 in Hayward with no crash involved, closing the freeway for 10 hours. While truck fires are common, this incident raises questions that need answers.

Apple is automatically blocking certificates linked to the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs. Mac administrators can take optional steps to address affected command-line tools.