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Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dy6e8klw0o

The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/

Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-legally-impossible-in-bulgaria-supreme-court-ruled/

Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-tech-worker-wrongful-termination.html

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/

Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief/2026/07/11/b240d63f-2768-43dd-89b6-2bdceb6df745

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/

An Update on the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/

Clojure FFI layer for libgdx-core

https://github.com/damn/com.badlogic.gdx/tree/main

Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/technology/apple-openai-lawsuit.html

Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-dont-discontinue-gemini-2-5-flash/174246

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-openai-lawsuit-f86bd58c

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/ps5-has-put-a-dampener-on-gaming-45percent-of-enthusiasts-seriously-considering-leaving-sony-for-pc

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org

How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism

Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-to-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-announces-landmark--click-to-cancel--consumer-prot

Java 27: What's New?

https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/informatique/java-27-whats-new/

Scarf has moved away from Haskell

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html

New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf

ActivityPub over ATProto

https://berjon.com/ap-at/

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/

Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material (2015)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/

Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't

https://vettedconsumer.com/unified-memory-explained-why-mini-pcs-can-run-70b-models-a-big-gpu-cant-and-where-they-slow-down/

A Love Letter to Flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/

Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C

https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/09/europes-largest-unions-demand-right-to-cancel-work-on-days-above-30c/

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/03/punk-or-why-i-dont-stream.html

Write code like a human will maintain it

https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/in-emacs-everything-looks-like-a-service.html

Build your own vulnerability harness

https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-your-own-vulnerability-harness/

AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

https://nevo-project.epfl.ch/

Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

China's public QR codes are being hijacked to redirect users to porn and scams

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018752/ScanScam:CriminalsRedirectChina’sPublicQRCodestoPorn

Exit Chat Control

https://exitchatcontrol.org/

Study: "Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1766665/full

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

https://www.anthropic.com/news/ben-bernanke

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

https://www.ello.com/blog/teaching-a-child-in-1000-ms

Focus

https://boz.com/articles/focus

How should group chats work in decentralized systems?

https://marindedic.com/groups/

OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-faked-inability-to-search-training-data-hid-billions-of-logs-nyt-says/

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are