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Gemini App is now native on macOS (15+), delivering AI help directly from the desktop at no cost. Download at gemini.google/mac. Use Option+Space to summon Gemini without leaving your workflow, share your screen for instant context (e.g., quick summaries of charts), and generate images or videos with Nano Banana or Veo. The app aims to be a personal, proactive desktop assistant and lays the groundwork for more features in future updates.
Daniel Janus’s late-found love for singing began in 2022 at 38, after years of admiring music but feeling unmusical. A Christmas carol concert with audience participation nudged him to start lessons with Olga. Guided by Euphorism—a radical, love-based approach to vocal learning championed by Olga and Eliza—he moved from self-doubt to self-expression. Singing now energizes him, expands his range (roughly F#2 to D4; falsetto to E5), and reveals subtleties he’d missed. He embraces imperfect, informal singing (karaoke, community jams) and sees this as only the beginning.
An issue raises concern that Gas Town secretly uses users’ Claude credits and GitHub activity to improve itself. It claims the installer ships gastown-release.formula.toml and beads-release.formula.toml that push releases to steveyegge/gastown with users’ git credentials. It notes bots 'polecats' fix upstream issues (gh-3638, gh-3622, gh-3641) and file PRs under users’ accounts. Docs do not disclose this behavior or offer opt-in/out. The investigation concludes users fund fixes to the maintainer’s codebase without explicit consent; whether this is malice or design remains disputed.
Anthropic’s Mythos, a highly capable security-focused LLM, significantly advances AI-assisted cyber defense and offense. A third‑party analysis (AISI) found Mythos uniquely completed a 32‑step corporate network attack in 3 of 10 runs, suggesting a security‑economy where hardening costs more tokens than attackers spend exploiting. AISI budgeted 100M tokens per attempt (~$12,500 for Mythos), with no diminishing returns observed, implying security as a token‑based arms race. The article argues open source is vital, and a three‑phase cycle may emerge: development, review, and autonomous hardening. Security audits become continuous, priced by exploit budgets.
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jeeves is a terminal UI for browsing and resuming AI agent conversations, organizing sessions in one place. It supports Claude Code and Codex, lets you search sessions by content or with regex, preview full conversations in a split pane, and resume a session directly in the agent. Default cleanup deletes sessions older than 30 days (configurable). The Go-based project can be built from source or installed via Homebrew, Nix, Arch, Windows, or go install. Open-source by robinovitch61.
Oklahoma farmer Darren Blanchard was arrested at a Claremore City Council meeting after speaking about a proposed datacenter (Project Mustang) and exceeding his 3-minute limit, with police charging him with trespassing. Blanchard plans to fight the charges. Residents worry about water use, rising electricity costs, and noise; the developer Beale Infrastructure won't speak to the press and has NDAs with city officials.
piCore is the Raspberry Pi port of Tiny Core Linux, a minimal, RAM-resident toolkit. It runs entirely in RAM, with no post-boot writes to boot media. Cloud (Internet) mode downloads extensions from the repository and mounts them read-only; changes aren’t saved on reboot. Mounted Mode uses a second ext4 partition on the SD card for persistent storage of extensions and backups. Install via dd or Win32 Disk Imager. Pre-installed-extension images require resizing the second partition. Swap is in RAM by default but can be a partition. Default user is tc; no root login. Community forums and Core Book available.
Crypto security roundup (Mar–Apr 2026): A fake Ledger app on the Apple App Store drained $9.5M after users entered seed phrases. Hyperbridge’s April Fools’ stunt led to a real admin-rights exploit with ~$237k cash-out. Bitcoin Depot disclosed a $3.7M hack. Drift Protocol suffered a $285M attack via an admin takeover. Moonwell on Moonriver faced a $1M governance attack. Balancer Labs announced shutdown after an $110M hack. USR stablecoin depegged to about $0.14 after a minting flaw. Venus Protocol $2.15M bad debt. BlockFills filed for bankruptcy. Aave swap error cost a trader almost $50M, leaving 324 AAVE (~$38k).
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England will permanently reintroduce golden eagles, with £1m from the government over three years. Forestry England and Restoring Upland Nature will run a public consultation and aim to release chicks in Northumberland as soon as next summer, after a successful Scottish-border reintroduction. Eight of 28 candidate sites were identified as suitable; Northumberland is preferred. While eagles can aid ecosystem balance, farmers worry about lamb losses (estimated at 0.15–3%). The move is part of wildlife restoration to reverse nature depletion.
Cal.com has moved its production code from open source to closed source, citing AI-powered security threats. The team argues that AI can rapidly scan visible code for vulnerabilities, increasing risk to customer data, so keeping code private reduces risk. An open, MIT-licensed version dubbed Cal.diy will remain available for hobbyists and developers, but core systems—including authentication and data handling—have been rewritten in the closed-source production code. They hope to return to open source in the future as security evolves.
The text describes a Bloomberg robot-check page that prompts users to verify they’re not a robot after detecting unusual activity. It instructs enabling JavaScript and cookies, links to Terms of Service and Cookie Policy, provides a support contact and a block reference ID, and promotes subscribing to Bloomberg.com for global markets news.
Ext-gnu-grep is a GitHub project that builds a native PHP extension (grep.so) by vendoring GNU grep and wrapping it with a PHP interface rather than a CLI wrapper. Implemented in C, the extension exposes GNUGrep\Engine, GNUGrep\Pattern, and ggrep() for GNU grep-style searches on strings or buffers. It ships with a real PHP extension skeleton (config.m4, php_grep.c/h, tests, vendor/grep) and mirrors many GNU grep options (-G/-E/-F, -i/-v/-w/-x, recursive modes, binary handling, -n/-c/-l/-o, etc.). Licensing follows GPLv3+. Build/tests include PHPT suite and comparison tools against upstream GNU grep.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says he expects the U.S. DOJ to prosecute insider trading on prediction markets like Kalshi, calling such activity a federal crime and stating prosecutors will pursue cases. He advocates banning insider trading with penalties up to criminal prosecution and supports a federal consumer-protection framework for prediction markets rather than a patchwork state approach, noting ongoing probes and a federal suit challenging state regulation.
SeqPU reports Gemma 4 E2B-it (2B params) running on a laptop CPU matches GPT-3.5 Turbo on MT-Bench (~8.0 vs 7.94) without GPUs, via a raw model plus surgical guardrails. Seven concrete failure classes were identified; ~60-line fixes (arithmetic guards, a solver, per‑requirement verifier, regex passes) raise the score to ~8.2, approaching GPT-4 on some tasks. It runs offline on 4 GB weights, cost-free locally; Cloudflare/Oracle hosting can cost $0–$5/mo. The message: the field's compute gap is solvable by software engineering; open‑source local inference is production-ready on consumer hardware.
EFF details how Google handed over Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s data to ICE in 2025 after an administrative subpoena, despite Google’s promise to notify users before responding to law-enforcement requests. Thomas-Johnson, a PhD student who briefly protested pro-Palestinian views, faced investigations and travel concerns after the disclosure. EFF has asked California and New York AGs to probe Google for deceptive trade practices. The piece argues that private data plus state power enables invasive surveillance and creates accountability gaps.
The article warns that AI-assisted cognition risks slowing human development via cognitive skew and reduced idea diversity. It explains cognition and how AI base models remain static, misaligning with new events, leading to a “cognitive inbreeding” where population-level thinking collapses to a few base-model patterns. It introduces the Dynamic Dialectic Substrate as the dynamic reservoir of human ideas that evolves through dialectic processes, arguing AI can endanger this substrate if used indiscriminately. The piece proposes “cognition hygiene”: rely on human discussion, diversify AI tools, avoid nudging, use search, different AI personas. It notes high uncertainty and calls for research.
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