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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/

Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0

Google kills Earth AI generator after one day

https://twitter.com/newsfromgoogle/status/2083249962150760610

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494

How to Do Great Work (2023)

https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2

https://www.engadget.com/2227966/eu-mandate-labels-on-authentic-looking-ai-content/

AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/

RamenHaus

https://ramen.haus/

Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28233

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

A week in Matrix

https://piegames.de/dumps/a-week-in-matrix/

Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified

https://nascompares.com/2026/07/31/the-10-ways-nas-is-getting-enshitified/

The development pipeline is a production system

https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/

BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising

How to Exist

https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/

The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117013565926587088

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-74-1-using-the-railway-network-as-a-flatbed-scanner

Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)

https://github.com/l00sed/termixer

Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted

https://janilowski.pl/en/blog/2026/amodei-memo/

The great wealth transfer reality check

https://usa.visa.com/partner-with-us/visa-consulting-analytics/economic-insights/great-wealth-transfer-reality-check.html

June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/07/31/june-in-servo/

Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-2677293170

A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-gtk4-ssh-askpass-in-zig/

Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours

https://manifest.build/blog/why-we-deprecated-our-llm-router/

Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/80590

Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers

https://broadbandbreakfast.com/how-to-fight-back-against-fraudulent-robocalls/

Severance

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/severance

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion

https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion

The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule''

https://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

https://www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

https://github.com/sqliteai/waste

qm

https://github.com/yc-software/qm

Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion

https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/post/datafusion-graphs-cc-2/

The most official water costs $120k a gallon

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086489/

US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559

Big Food vs. the People

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/

Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy

https://www.theexamination.org/articles/red-bull-funded-research-energy-drinks-alcohol

U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reasoning-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-20260731/

Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/moonshot-s-kimi-built-on-20-000-nvidia-chip-cluster-from-alibaba

Elevators

https://john.fun/elevators

The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/

Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/situational-awareness-down-67-in-july-in-ai-stock-rout-cd19901f

The End of an Era

https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/

Premier league bans gambling sponsors

https://www.footyheadlines.com/2646571793/betting-ban-takes-effect-no-more-gambling-sponsors-in-the-premier-league.html

Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nqv05g0do