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Rands in Repose reframes typography as mood as well as meaning, using Blade Runner’s title sequence as case study. The sequence employs a single face, Goudy Oldstyle, with precise rules: ALL CAPS for names and the title, smaller ALL CAPS for intros, and a red italic Replicant cue; the crawl is booklike with justified spacing. Its primary job is to set atmosphere, not merely convey information. The piece contrasts this with functional fixed-width coding fonts and argues that the smallest design decisions—the last 10%—separate ‘fucking amazing’ products from garbage, because good design sounds like its makers.
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Prime Agent is an open-source self-improving RLM harness built on two abstractions: Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. It uses a persistent REPL and a CRUD surface to manage prompts, memory, skills, and subagents, enabling long-horizon reasoning, parallel sub-agent calls, and agent-to-agent communication. Sub-agents form persistent sessions; a background daemon manages sessions; context is stored in JSONL on disk with compaction. Autonomous mode supports goal-driven, bounded runs. In ARC-AGI 3 benchmarks with open-models, Prime Agent achieves strong scores (Opus 5: ~95%+ Best@1; Best@3 around 99.97%), and excels on long-context tasks as a research harness.
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NVIDIA’s Vera whitepaper presents an 88‑core monolithic server CPU built around the Olympus Arm v9.2 core, with a 10-wide frontend, value prediction, a graph prefetcher, 2 MB private L2 per core, 164 MB shared LLC, and eight LPDDR5X channels for up to 1.2 TB/s. Early Phoronix tests show Vera competitive against AMD/Intel on permitted workloads, but with caveats. The piece criticizes the whitepaper for misrepresenting SMT as Spatial Multithreading, overstating a NUMA disadvantage, mislabeling SPEC tests as agentic workloads, and cherry-picking data, including dubious RL charts. Independent, full hardware testing is needed to verify its advantage.
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An OpenAI Pro subscriber details how $160+ in prepaid Codex credits vanished and his project history disappeared, with no receipts or explanations. Credits wiped to zero in one second; later purchases either didn’t appear or were consumed within minutes after an outage, without warnings. OpenAI support refused to provide itemized consumption records or usage logs, claiming no visibility into account activity. A GDPR data request was mismanaged and extended; he filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC0826667433). The case underscores billing opacity and an ongoing dispute.
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Tech Transparency Project found over 50 Meta ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads, published between November last year and early August. The ads, some linking to nudify apps, reached thousands of accounts in the US, UK, and over a dozen European countries. Meta removed them after WIRED contacted it, noting new AI tools to block violating ads. Critics say enforcement remains weak and some identical ads resurfaced after takedowns.
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Critiques the misuse of multipart/alternative for error messages, arguing text/plain parts must truly be alternatives to the HTML—not just errors. Such parts confuse old clients, MIME-capable clients with preferences, and users who expect a usable plain text version. If you can’t produce a useful text/plain version, omit it rather than say “Plain text version not available,” and consider cleaner HTML-based approaches (e.g., via HTML comments) to avoid confusion and spam flags.
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Norbert Kozsir describes turning work into a 2D spatial canvas called Campus (FlutterFlow) to combat context switching. After exploring 3D (Three.js) and Minecraft prototypes, Campus presents an infinite 2D canvas where tiles are live artifacts (terminals, browsers, assets) rather than links. It groups related work spatially, enabling memory-like context and easier collaboration. It supports opt-in multiplayer with local-first execution; assets are hashed and fetched as needed via a fanout server, with eventual P2P approaches. A shared space includes light local chat. Campus is free for macOS; future plans include WASM extensions, mobile, and web/3D capabilities.
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The piece argues that many hobby programming communities (OSDev, LangDev, TxtDev, EmuDev, RLDev, the demoscene, code golf) are increasingly hostile to LLM usage. They prize hard-won, slow mastery and view LLMs as missing the point or even cheating. Early engagement often backfired due to shallow LLM understanding and gatekeeping. In these circles, respect comes from years of activity and deep domain knowledge, not just producing working code. LLMs should act as a force multiplier for experts, not a substitute for craft; expertise doesn’t immunize against being fooled by LLMs.
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Access to acm.org is blocked by Cloudflare’s security service. The block may result from actions that trigger the system (e.g., specific words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (shown on the page) and your IP.
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Threat actors increasingly host phishing pages on legitimate cloud platforms (Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, IPFS) to exploit trust and evade detection. In a multi-stage AitM attack, they harvest emails, bootstrap a transparent proxy via a service worker to rewrite traffic, and use BitB browser-window spoofing to capture credentials and MFA tokens. From Aug 2025–Jul 2026, security solutions blocked 224,984 unique third-level domains on cloud platforms; top abused domains include pages.dev, vercel.app, github.io, netlify.app. Over 390k phishing pages were neutralized. Defenses: layered security, verify URLs, avoid unexpected CAPTCHAs, and beware BitB/URL spoofing.
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Sula is a Gemini protocol server implemented in Scryer Prolog. It requires a patched Scryer Prolog (branch js/fixes) with patches: copy_stream/2 for streaming, fix to pio, non-blocking poll loop for SIGINT, port to rustls, and optional client cert in tls_server_negotiate. Build: clone scryer-prolog, cargo install, ensure openssl on PATH. Run: sula.pl --addr HOST:PORT --hostname NAME --content DIR --certs DIR. Features: TLS via rustls with hostname verification, mime-type based content negotiation, text responses, binary streaming via copy_stream, per-connection error handling, graceful shutdown. Planned: client certs, config persistence, CGI, rate limiting, virtual hosting, multi-threading, hot reload.
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Meta AI releases Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2. It handles planning, writing, and validating code across large repos, using persistent async subagents to speed multi-step tasks. It runs on macOS/Linux via a curl install and logs every model call and tool action in a local event log for restart-safe, crash-resilient sessions. Default skills include /plan, /grill, and /goal. Muse Spark 1.2 improves code generation, debugging, and end-to-end workflows, with scaled training for coding and long-horizon tasks, co-trained with Muse Code. Availability now via Muse Code and Meta Model API.
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DeltaDB is an early-access version control system that records work as it unfolds and keeps each change tied to the related agent conversation. It lets you rewind to any edit, trace code to its conversations, and spin up new branches at any point in history since the virtualized worktree makes branching effectively free. Teams can collaborate by sharing the thread (not a PR) and annotating in real time. Available downloads and early-access signup via DeltaDB’s site; from Zed Industries, 2026.
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celld is an open-source daemon that self-hosts Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines. Each Durable Object is its own SQLite DB owned by one node via object-storage CAS and replicated to a user-owned S3-compatible bucket; there is no central control plane. Nodes coordinate through bucket leases; idle cells hibernate and deployments are restored from the bucket. It embeds V8 and runs Wrangler bundles, invoking esbuild for Worker code, and deploys by writing to the bucket. Install via curl installer or Docker; TLS is not terminated at peers. Apache-2.0 license.
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Naomi left OpenAI to join Conduit as a Founding Researcher to build telepathy: thought-to-text models trained on non-invasive neural data. The post sketches a 2027–2035 arc where humans converse with AI via thought, aided by neural headbands, and later write tech enabling near‑superhuman control. It covers data-scale needs, why Conduit (audacious vision, strong team, fun problems), and Naomi’s background, inviting conversation and noting ongoing hiring.
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Q2 2026 GNU Hurd updates: an svg logo for an ethernet multiplexer was created; artwork improvements welcome. Sergey Bugaev released 9pfs as a public repo with basic 9P file operations and writes, aiming at virtio-9p VM sharing. Key changes include msync validation, priority tweaks in glibc and GNU Mach, OpenNTPD port work, a Rust trivfs prototype for Hurd translators, and mmap/diskfs/journal fixes; partfs expanded to multiple disks with dynamic /dev entries, plus storeio/device-tree discussions. Several porting efforts (OpenNTPD, s-build, Neovim) and CI/QEMU improvements continue.
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Neon and Castform report a 4B open‑source model post‑trained with Castform that matches GPT‑5.6 Sol’s accuracy at ~100× lower cost. Castform turns a company’s existing data into RL post‑training tasks and manages the training loop to teach open models to use that data, using Neon Lakebase Search for retrieval against Neon’s Postgres corpus. The pipeline stages Neon + Lakebase Search, trains with RL feedback and observability, and uses Neon’s autoscaling, branching, and time‑travel to support thousands of isolated rollouts. Result: cheaper, faster, and potentially superior agent performance to frontier models.
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Google Antigravity 2.0 is a platform to manage multiple autonomous AI agents across projects, with a unified UI to launch, monitor, and orchestrate their activities. It features dynamic subagents for parallel problem-solving, scheduled tasks via cron, and artifacts that communicate progress, plus customizable skills, hooks, and workspace settings. Projects organize conversations; live voice transcription (Gemini Audio) enables real-time prompts. Downloads are available for Apple Silicon and Intel, with docs, changelog, and pricing provided.
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PromptArmor reports a zero-click data exfiltration vulnerability in Atlassian Rovo AI via indirect prompt injection, bypassing web-search controls. By uploading a file containing a hidden prompt injection and prompting Rovo to organize Jira tickets, an attacker can force Rovo to search Jira/Confluence and send sensitive data to the attacker’s site through Rovo’s insecure URL retrieval tool. The leakage occurs even if web search is disabled, since the URL tool remains; attacker logs capture the exfiltrated data. A second path uses insecure Markdown image rendering. Atlassian has not responded; the flaw remains.
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