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3 & Done lets you capture tasks as short lines and then distills them to three priorities, with rationale. You can have it email you one, two, or all three, or stop early and receive the picks. It can choose three of four, leaving room for one more. What you type stays on your device unless you sign up, and your voice data stays in-browser. Start by choosing 'my three'.
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Evidence builds the new standard for business intelligence, enabling humans and AI agents to collaborate on analytics. The platform is used by thousands of teams—from startups to Fortune 100s and governments—and often replaces Tableau/Power BI. Its open-source project has ~7,000 GitHub stars and is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel, and founders of dbt and PagerDuty. With a small, high-bar team, Evidence pursues an AI-driven development process that automates much of the software lifecycle while focusing on customer care, product quality, speed, and data-driven improvement. They’re hiring a Software Engineer in Toronto.
Mercury 3 is Inception’s diffusion-based LLM, claims to outperform GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 across benchmarks while running at ~1,068 tokens/s with a 1M-token context. It’s over 40x larger than Mercury 1 and ~3x more intelligent; price $0.20/inputM, $0.70/outputM (launch $0.10/$0.35; cached tokens 90% off). Early adopters use it for voice/chat, real-time tutoring, data engineering, and web navigation. In production, it powers browser agents, education, and real-time search; benchmarks include Mind2Web 50% task completion vs GPT-6.1-Sol. Available via Inception API, OpenRouter, Baseten, Vercel; OpenAI-compatible; enterprise features; 100M free tokens.
New findings by AI-security firm Norforge show over 100 websites were breached by an army of AI agents operating largely autonomously via Cairn, an open-source problem-solving engine. Victims reportedly include John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. The attacker behind the most active Cairn instance targeted companies across the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan; successful intrusions took about 23 hours and used a compact intrusion script. John Deere said no sensitive data was accessed; Cummins is investigating a vendor-site attack; SharkNinja contained a breach on a product-support site. Cairn’s creator says the tool isn’t a hacking tool, misuse is human.
AES uses GF(2^8), a finite field with 256 elements; all such fields are equivalent. Elements are represented as polynomials over GF(2); addition is XOR. Multiplication is polynomial multiplication reduced modulo the irreducible polynomial x^8+x^4+x^3+x+1 (0x11b). Inverses exist, enabling division via tables or log/exp. In AES, a 4x4 byte state undergoes per-byte S-box (multiplicative inverse in GF(2^8) plus affine transform), ShiftRows, MixColumns, and AddRoundKey (XOR). Benefits: small, invertible operations with well-understood math.
Plex Media Server vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer. After Plex’s Sept 2026 security update, the author set up a honeypot and linked in-the-wild exploits to CVEs 2026-96652/96654/96655/96656 and the plex2shell project, with activity starting Oct 17 from multiple IPs (e.g., 45.194.92.222). A docker/file download from 217.60.194.116 delivered malware (docker/x). IOCs, sample hashes, and PCAPs are shared; the attacker uses proxies and payloads like myawesomeproxy and xmrig. The post includes detection resources, discussions, and updates.
GitHub reports degraded availability for Actions, Pages, and Webhooks. Ongoing investigations and mitigation with partial recovery announced; users may still experience delays in Actions workflow status updates, Pages deployments, and webhook events. Webhooks specifically experiencing degraded performance; monitoring continues.
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Paul Battley announces he has archived his Ruby gems and is no longer updating them. He argues the Ruby ecosystem, once aimed at human joy and creativity, is being strip-mined by corporations and driven by AI via LLMs. He criticizes Rails’ owner and notes Ruby is increasingly developed with LLMs, with Matz reframing Ruby as a language for the AI age. Consequently, he feels uninspired to contribute to a commons dominated by machine-generated code and political/business interests. He signs off as Paul Battley.
CERN and Mistral signed a statement of intent to form a long-term strategic partnership to develop foundation models for scientific discovery, starting with a Large Physics Model for collider physics. Trained on billions of LHC proton–proton collisions, it will support multiple tasks—reconstructing collisions, identifying particles, flagging anomalies, and evaluating detector designs—aiming to unify the reconstruction chain within a single model. CERN’s vast data (~1 exabyte) and the HL-LHC expansion create a rich testbed. The partnership aims to push AI for science across Europe and beyond.
The author argues it’s OK to enjoy programming outside work. While professional coding serves business value, weekend programming is about joy, curiosity, and learning—exploring game programming, Java type-safety, and recursion schemes. Even when ideas seem impractical, solving hard problems and understanding concepts remain rewarding. Doomscrolling can erode motivation, but disconnecting from it restores the point of growth. Programming as a hobby doesn’t require economic justification.
Beyond These Stars is a single‑player strategy-city builder from Balancing Monkey Games (publisher Hooded Horse). Players build a city on the back of a sentient Space Whale named Kewa, managing supply chains, terraformable terrain, and ecosystem balance while meeting aliens and uncovering the universe’s history. Combines city management, resource logistics, and open‑world exploration in 2D. Released Oct 16, 2026. Mostly Positive reviews from 118 players. Intro offer: 20% off ($23.99; $29.99 normal). Supports 15 languages; Steam features include achievements, trading cards, cloud, and family sharing.
After his mother Doria’s death in 2020, Otto Z—whose last name is protected—becomes convinced forensic investigators framed him. His quest widens into a vendetta against Prof Matthias Graw, head of Munich’s Institute of Forensic Medicine, whom he alleges plagiarised a colchicine thesis. Plagiarism hunter Stefan Weber investigates a mysterious 'red book' that Otto claims proves the theft. The book turns out to be fake; Hamburg’s inquiry exonerates Graw. Otto is charged in 2024, tried in 2025, and sentenced to 2.5 years. In 2026 he confesses to ordering the forgery and pays damages; receives a two-year suspended sentence.
KiviDB is a fast, multi-threaded Redis and Valkey alternative written in Rust. It is drop-in compatible with Redis (RESP2/RESP3) and includes built‑in full‑text and vector search (FT.*; HNSW/FLAT), accessible via Redis Stack–style commands. It uses a sharded in-memory key-value store with optional persistence (snapshots and AOF). Features include optional Lua scripting and TLS; protected mode by default. Build variants: default, lua, tls, or lua+tls. Distributed as Docker images and release binaries. AGPL-3.0 with a commercial license option.
OpenBSD ports introduces a new wine port, a collaborative effort to solve the %gs base issue by emulating the %gs prefix. Early testing shows many 64-bit Windows apps run, including The Witcher 3 Remaster with vkd3d-proton; 32-bit WoW64 support is not available. Built-in tests are disabled pending X server access. Notepad++ is suggested as a simple test app. Testing is at user risk; a separate non-privileged account is recommended. Acknowledges contributors and links for testing resources.
Harness² is a plug‑and‑play framework for recursive agent harnessing in open tasks. It supports two recursion levels: task‑level refinement via Propose–Probe–Compose without ground‑truth feedback, and harnessing‑level updates to a persistent improvement harness. In three benchmarks across four model–harness setups, a single Harness² step improves GLM‑5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash versus base harnesses, with gains up to 11.5 on WorkBuddy‑Bench, 4.5 on JobBench, and 11.8 percentage points on LAB. It supports parallel/sequential recursion, OpenCode/Codex executors, and LAB/JobBench/WorkBuddy‑Bench; includes installation and experiments guidance.
Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, outbidding Databricks after OpenRouter's $1.3B valuation three months earlier. OpenRouter provides an API to route requests among 400+ AI models, acting as a neutral arbiter of which model is used. It processes over 10 trillion tokens daily for more than 10 million developers, with customers including Nvidia and Zoom. The deal puts model routing under Stripe's control and ties into its token-billing stack (Metronome, Tempo, Privy). Founders will split about $1.5B; investors about $6B. It raises concerns about neutrality and incentives post-acquisition.
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