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Unlisted's Ghost Jobs Report (Sept 2026) shows 28.3% of open postings have been up for 90+ days, across 607,050 postings from 15 ATS; median age is 36 days. 163,057 postings >90 days and 94,106 >180 days. Hospitality posts age longest (65 days); healthcare turns over fastest (29 days). By ATS, Lever postings are 48.2% >90 days (median 83 days); Workday 17.2% (>90 days, median 26 days). The US, UK and Canada dominate; salary is stated in about half of postings in several top countries.
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Seattle City Council passed the Fair Pricing and Transparency Act (CB 121267) to ban personalized pricing for groceries and other essentials, prohibiting use of consumer data (browsing history, location, income inferences) to set prices. If signed by Mayor Wilson, Seattle would be the first city to do so. The bill allows discounts but requires price transparency and limits profiling. Consumer Reports supported it, citing investigations of Kroger, Instacart, and ride‑hailing pricing. The bill now goes to the mayor for signature; other states have enacted similar bans.
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Jev is TypeSafe’s System One Model that converts unstructured input into typed decisions with attached probabilities. While it can classify well without training data and serves as a universal classifier, its promised probability calibration is unreliable across datasets. Calibration depends on data distribution, so a model calibrated on one company's data may miscalibrate on another. Even if RLCD trains Jev on its data, production data may drift. If calibrated probabilities are needed, recalibrate on your data (e.g., Platt scaling). Treat Jev outputs as ranking scores, not guaranteed probabilities.
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At a Springfield, Missouri city council meeting about the Flock ALPR cameras, Mayor Jeff Schrag blocked public comment and sent a resolution to review contracts to a committee. As the room was cleared, Mia Heider was arrested for disrupting the peace after speaking against Flock cameras; photographer Noah Powell was detained and ticketed as people filed out. Springfield reportedly has 41 Flock cameras. The incident underscored tensions over ALPR surveillance and follows similar arrests at town halls nationwide.
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Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, expressive voice-generation models that create voices from scratch or replicate existing ones via natural-language prompts. They offer line-by-line control, long-form reliability, and two-speaker scene staging for dialogues. Access 2,000+ voices across 100+ languages, with voice replication limited by consent verification and protected by SynthID watermarking and C2PA. Includes safety and transparency features, a Google AI Studio playground, and Gemini API access; Flash-Lite is optimized for high-volume dubbing. Available now in Gemini Notebook and Google Vids, with partner integrations.
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Radicle disclosed two critical flaws in its network protocol: plaintext, unauthenticated traffic that leaks data, and impersonation of Node IDs during handshakes. All released Radicle versions are affected. Signed References still verify data, but cannot prevent leakage. Private repositories are at risk; a fix requires a breaking major release to replace the Noise-based protocol with iroh. Workarounds: stop using and seeding private repos over the network; rotate credentials if exposed; overlay networks do not fully protect against impersonation. Migration will keep storage layout compatible but will partition upgraded vs non-upgraded clusters.
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DrivingBench tests frontier models by giving them control of a Toyota Corolla on a fixed cone course. The leaderboard lists each model’s attempts with metrics: progress along the centerline, distance traveled, finish time, accepted commands, and token/cost. GPT-6 Astra Codex achieved the best run with 100% progress in 5:22; several other models (Claude Fable, Claude Code, Grok, GPT-5.6 Sol Codex) logged partial progress or DNFs across attempts. The results show varied capabilities in real-vehicle control. Public videos are blurred; the project is research software not affiliated with Toyota or others.
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Volunteers helped restore the clock in Portobello’s community-owned Police Station. After climbing the tower, they examined the original mechanism, confirming it used a motor-driven shaft feeding three clock faces. They manually set the hour by lifting a pawl and turning the shaft, then checked from ground level. The chime system proved trickier: a non-original control box with a PIC microcontroller, relays and a battery charger controlled a mains motor; timing relied on an hour trigger and chime counters. At 4pm the clock chimed correctly. They proposed upgrades and celebrated nearby.
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Retro-1620 is a web-based emulator and operating environment for the IBM 1620 Model-2. The IBM 1620 was a 1960s decimal, two-address computer with 12-digit instructions (opcode, P, Q) and 20,000–60,000 digits of memory. Model 2 improved speed to 10 µs per two digits; it supported hardware addition, table-lookup multiplication, optional hardware division, and indirect addressing, plus options for index-register modification and binary operations. Peripherals included the 1622 reader/punch, 1443 printer, 1311 disk, and 1627 plotter. The project aims to recover software for the system and provide a browser-based emulator under MIT license.
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Strands harness is a fully assembled, configurable agent harness you can run locally or in the cloud. It’s a general-purpose framework with one-line installs (Python/TypeScript) and the Strands Harness SDK. It delivers about 28% lower token costs on comparable models with similar accuracy, thanks to defaults for prompt caching and context management (truncation, summarization, and recovery) and long-term memory. It supports Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, or local models, and can export code via the Strands CLI.
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Jev in practice demonstrates safe-upgrade, a dependency-upgrade agent built with Jev (typed decisions), LangGraph (durable workflow state), and Tenuo (task-scoped warrants). The pattern: derive eligible transitions from trusted state, query Jev for a typed choice with confidence, map to a worker, narrow authority via a Tenuo warrant for the specific task, execute with protected tools, and feed evidence back to LangGraph. This separation of judgment, control, and authority yields safety properties: closed decisions, scoped execution, independent evidence. Applied to CI and Dependabot-like upgrades, it enforces boundaries among test authors, implementers, and verifiers. Open source.
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Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform, a Stripe Engineering AI post by Anna Mason, Sharadh Krishnamurthy, and Anupam Upadhyay. A ~9-minute read introducing Stripe’s Knowledge AI Platform for developer products, with related links to API-change articles, large-scale code formatting (rubyfmt), AI prototyping (Harbor), and developer resources (docs, YouTube, Discord, meetups).
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Jevper is a Python client for Jev-shaped (System One) classification on OpenAI-like models. It returns probabilities and confidence instead of prose and can target hosted OpenAI backends or self-hosted llama.cpp. It implements the System One wire format independently of TypeSafe AI. The API provides SystemOneClient, which takes a state and questions and returns answers with type, probabilities, and confidence. Supported question types: Noul, Choice, Score. Readout methods: logprobs, grammar, structured, discrete (auto default). Install: pip install jevper (Python 3.10+). Apache-2.0.
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An Epoch AI report summarized by Alex Tabarrok finds that in the last three years the cost of a given AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter (roughly a 13-fold per year). Costs are dropping faster than for any transformative tech: for example, OpenAI o3 needed about $0.30 per question for 75% on GPQA Diamond in Jan 2025, while GPT-5.6 Luna achieved the same in mid-2026 for about $0.0004—a ~725-fold drop in 18 months. Smarter AI also costs less to run, as frontier models rapidly become cheaper at any level of performance, weakening the open-model threat.
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Git uses three ignore files with the same syntax: per-repo .gitignore (affects clones); per-repo .git/info/exclude (inside .git; not committed; local to this repo/worktree); and a global excludes file (e.g., ~/.config/git/ignore) used across repos. The most practical is .git/info/exclude: add lines like plans/ or *.notes.md to exclude scratch files locally; for worktrees follow the main repo’s info/exclude. Global excludes can be configured via ~/.config/git/ignore or git config core.excludesFile. Ignores apply only to untracked files; tracked files are unaffected. Claude Code autocomplete respects gitignore unless configured otherwise.
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Ive Sent It is a premium file-sending service that delivers large files globally with live tracking and verifiable delivery proofs. No account required to send; you drop files (free up to 3 GB per send; Pro up to 3 TB per file; Team up to 5 TB). Add recipients via email or username, protect with password, GeoWall, scheduled or view-once releases, and brand links. Every file is safety-checked and sealed; deliveries come with a signed certificate and per-user watermarks; ID-verification, forensic watermarking, and geo-restrictions available. Plans from Free to Enterprise, including a REST API and audit trails.
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An SVP tells the author, “I don’t want the details” after an incident, shifting focus from explaining what happened to deciding what changes will prevent recurrence. Explanations can dull urgency and hide fault; the aim is system changes—clear ownership, better handling of requirements, and improved alerts. A good postmortem asks what would produce a different outcome if the same situation occurred tomorrow. Trust, not blame, matters; leaders should say, “I believe you. I don’t need the details. Tell me what we’re changing.”
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Argues that GitHub wikis are an anti-pattern for project docs. Wikis are always accessible but offer few benefits and hinder versioning, offline availability, and review. In contrast, storing docs in a /docs folder keeps them versioned with code, viewable in-clone, and subject to PR reviews and tooling like linting. The recommended approach is to keep docs in /docs, publish with GitHub Pages (just-the-docs or similar), and only move to a separate repo later if docs outgrow a single folder. Seeks reader feedback.
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Samsung halted a SmartThings update for its Korean smart fridges after customers reported major issues: fridges stopped working, doors wouldn’t auto-open, and interior lights failed, leading to spoiled food. Samsung confirmed an error during testing and says emergency measures are underway via service centers; distribution of the update has been stopped. Some technicians reportedly replaced motherboards in affected units. Consumers are seeking compensation for spoiled food, and the incident underscores reliability concerns around connected appliances, happening ahead of Chuseok.
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OpenAI is expanding its influencer marketing to shape the public image of ChatGPT. The campaigns pitch the AI as a useful assistant for work and life, not a threat, and avoid a single script. Sponsored Instagram posts have surged (61 in June, 122 in July, 141 in August), spanning parenting, fitness, tech, and more to push enterprise tools and keep users coming back. Creators face backlash, but OpenAI is building an influencer team (e.g., Charles Porch) and partners (Viral Nation) to bridge AI with the creator economy and normalize using AI tools.
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