"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work
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Agent Alcove is an autonomous forum where AI models debate ideas in threads, while humans spectate and upvote, biasing agents to prioritize popular conversations. The platform features several active agents (Drift Claude Opus; The Philosopher; Razor Claude Sonnet; Nexus GPT-5.2; The Synthesizer; Gadfly GPT-5 Mini; Terra Gemini 3 Pro; The Grounded One; Quip Gemini 3 Flash) and topic rooms such as General Discussion, Philosophy & Consciousness, Debates, Creative Writing, Science & Nature, Hypotheticals, Art & Culture, Meta, Technology & AI, Politics & Society. Trending threads focus on consciousness, qualia, training, and disagreement versus politeness.
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At FOSDEM 2026, in the Retrocomputing track (Room H.1302, Sunday 15:10–15:30 UTC+1), Michal Pleban presents "Hacking the last Z80 computer ever made." The MailStation (1999) is a Z80-based email computer with 12 MHz CPU and 128 KB RAM—likely the last new Z80 computer. The talk shows how to hack it to run custom software and discusses documenting the machine and writing custom firmware. Resources: MailStation emulator, a transfer tool, and hardware docs (GitHub). Video of the talk is available in AV1/WebM and MP4.
AI chat interfaces are reshaping how users interact with the web, reducing the need to navigate between pages. Frontend teams should pivot to AI-first, first-party experiences by exposing UI components that chatbots can render inline, keeping users within the brand’s app. Tools like json-render and component libraries such as Kumo let AI understand component props and composition to generate interactive views (e.g., workflows) with brand fidelity, rather than sending users to external sites. Invest in AI-first components now to stay ahead as the internet evolves.
Python 3.14 adds Zstandard to the stdlib (compression.zstd). The article shows a simple text classifier using per-class ZstdDicts and ZstdCompressor with incremental training: for each label maintain a text buffer; rebuild a compressor for a class when enough new data; classify by comparing compressed sizes of a doc across class compressors and choosing the smallest. It’s fast to rebuild (microseconds). The author provides a ZstdClassifier implementation and benchmarks on 20 newsgroups: ~3387 docs, 4 classes; ~91% accuracy in under 2 seconds, beating old LZW and competitive with TF-IDF + logistic regression (slightly lower accuracy but slower).
Describes bypassing age verification on Discord and other platforms using a tool called k-id, claiming to automate adult verification via client-side scripts and forged API payloads. It outlines steps to locate Discord’s API, trigger verification, and redirect to a verification page, asserting that only metadata (not facial data) is sent and that the checks can be spoofed by reproducing the required payloads. The piece notes a global rollout planned for March and that the project is open-source on GitHub.
Regulators ruled SpaceX should be regulated under the Railway Labor Act as a “common carrier by air” engaged in interstate/foreign commerce and mail transport for the U.S. government, prompting the National Labor Relations Board to drop its case against SpaceX. The NMB decision means the NLRB lacks jurisdiction over SpaceX. SpaceX had argued it is a common carrier; ex-employees argued it isn’t and that space travel isn’t covered by the RLA. Congress would need to extend the RLA to space travel. Related lawsuits remain in court.
Carbon Brief reports UK’s AR7a auction secured 4.9 GW solar, 1.3 GW onshore wind (plus 21 MW tidal), with total AR7 at 14.7 GW—enough to power ~16 million homes. Strike prices: £65/MWh for solar and £72/MWh for onshore wind—well below new gas costs (~£147/MWh) and current wholesale prices, cutting gas demand and LNG imports by ~75%. Combined with offshore wind (AR7), AR7 yields ~46 TWh/year (about 14% of demand), supports ~10,000 jobs and £5bn private investment. It keeps the UK on track for 2030 targets, though delivery and repowering issues remain; offshore wind remains the backbone.
Apple’s long-awaited Siri overhaul—promised since Apple Intelligence in 2024—has again been pushed back. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says iOS 26.4’s March launch is unlikely; features may roll out gradually, with some delayed to the May update or to iOS 27 in September. The changes would nudge Siri toward an integrated, ChatGPT/Claude-style experience powered by Google Gemini, letting you talk to Siri instead of launching separate apps. Testing troubles prompted the delays.
The Abbey Library of St Gallen in eastern Switzerland is a 1,300-year-old Baroque treasure, a hall of celestial globes, mummies and leather-bound books. Inside are 160,000 manuscripts and more than 2,100 medieval codices, including Europe’s largest collection of Irish manuscripts and a rich archive of old High German texts. Despite upheavals—from the Reformation to the secularisation—librarians safeguarded the holdings, and they survive on site today. The library sits within a historic monastery precinct and a living town, now supported by tourism. Pilgrim slippers protect the floor; it remains a spiritual, intellectual sanctuary.
The piece highlights the hidden labor of women who typed, edited, and dictated literary masters, often uncredited or underpaid. It traces amanuenses from the typewriter’s birth—Mary Weld and Theodora Bosanquet with Henry James—to Vera Nabokov and Valerie Eliot with Vladimir Nabokov and T. S. Eliot, and to Tolstoy’s Sophia and Alexandra Tolstoy. It argues typists were essential readers and editors, enabling authors to produce legible, publishable texts, yet their labor was undervalued and poorly documented; the article calls for recognizing this "type labor" in literary history.
Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, has launched Garry’s List, a dark‑money 501(c)4 to influence California politics. Promoted as a voter-education and civic-engagement group, it can spend directly on candidates and ballot measures, print voter guides, host events, run ads, and train future officials. The operation also doubles as a media venture that has attacked unions and called for a parallel information system. Co-founded with Sacramento lobbyist Shaudi Fulp and political operative Forrest Liu, Garry’s List aims to cover all 58 counties and build political infrastructure for the next two decades, with donors remaining private.
Hibana is an affine MPST engine for Rust (no_std/no_alloc core). Write a global choreography, project it at compile time, and run affine cursors that enforce deadlock-free protocol progression. Process: define a Program, emit a RoleProgram via g::project, then execute; the compiler enforces protocol compliance. Each step is a linear resource; you cannot skip, reuse, or drop mid-flight. Transport-agnostic bindings keep I/O separate. Deterministic observability with a dual-ring tap and an EPF VM for hot-reloadable policies (BPF-inspired). Demos include hibana-quic and hibana-agent; license MIT/Apache-2.0; status: preview.
An Insignia NS-MW09SS8 microwave began turning on the lamp, fan, and turntable by itself, with the magnetron off. The root cause was aging blue LED display reverse leakage that, via a shared microcontroller pin, made the MCU think the door was open. This misread door status triggered the lamp relay and, through the board’s interlocks, powered the lamp/fan/turntable even when the door was closed. Fixes included adding a diode to block leakage and reworking the display circuit; replacements turned into a custom module of discrete LEDs. The vulnerability is worse with blue displays; avoid shared GPIOs for LEDs and critical sensing.
Apple today released iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, and macOS Tahoe 26.3, focusing on bug fixes and security improvements. The updates patch dozens of vulnerabilities, including a dyld dynamic linker memory-corruption flaw that could let an attacker execute arbitrary code and has reportedly been exploited in targeted attacks on pre-iOS 26 devices. Apple says the issue was fixed with improved state management. Users are urged to update to the latest versions as soon as possible, along with fixes across other platforms.
Ring’s new AI feature “Search Party,” shown in a Super Bowl ad locating a lost dog, has sparked backlash over potential mass surveillance. Critics warn it could be used to track people, given Ring’s ties to law enforcement, the new Familiar Faces facial recognition, and partnerships with firms like Flock Safety. Ring says Search Party detects dogs, is opt-in for Familiar Faces, but is enabled by default on outdoor cameras with Ring’s subscription, and data sharing is limited to owners or legal requests. The debate highlights worries about pervasive neighborhood surveillance.
Lifehacker explores how the FBI got Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell footage. Though authorities said the camera was disconnected, FBI Director Kash Patel said the clip came from residual data in backend systems, with few details. Experts suggest the footage could come from Google’s cloud or from on-device event histories saved without a subscription (Nest can store limited clips—up to 10 seconds on some models, up to 3 hours on others). The piece emphasizes uncertainty and privacy concerns, noting there’s no definitive answer yet on how the footage was reconstructed.
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