1. AWS Acquires DuckDB
    (ducklabs.com)

  2. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
    (qwen.ai)

  3. RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
    (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)

  4. A curmudgeon tries a language server
    (entropicthoughts.com)

  5. Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
    (openstreetmap.us)

  6. Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
    (www.reuters.com)

  7. Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
    (www.theguardian.com)

  8. Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
    (www.bloomberg.com)

  9. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
    (www.apple.com)

  10. Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
    (www.youtube.com)

  11. Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
    (var0.xyz)

  12. Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy
    (johan-sjolen.github.io)

  13. FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
    (www.fda.gov)

  14. OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
    (newsletter.semianalysis.com)

  15. Queryable Executables
    (fzakaria.com)

  16. New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
    (www.apple.com)

  17. Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War
    (spectrum.ieee.org)

  18. Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
    (blog.happyfellow.dev)

  19. Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
    (arxiv.org)

  20. Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
    (rupertlinacre.com)

  21. New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
    (www.apple.com)

  22. Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others
    (github.com)

  23. When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
    (sethmlarson.dev)

  24. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
    (www.imkylelambert.com)

  25. Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
    (github.com)

  26. Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
    (blog.master.dev)

  27. Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
    (nil.wallyjones.com)

  28. Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
    (e360.yale.edu)

  29. Don't Wordle
    (dontwordle.com)

  30. How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
    (www.library.hbs.edu)