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Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald says AI spending is becoming harder to justify, noting higher token usage hasn't clearly yielded more useful features. He references a “head-exploding” moment after Uber’s CTO said the Claude Code budget for 2026 was blown through. Uber is slowing hiring to counter AI investments, and AI can seem free to users while costing the company. By contrast, Duolingo paused tying AI usage to performance reviews amid outcome concerns, illustrating a broader split: some Big Tech push ahead, others pull back.
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An advocate for async work, the author argues that short calls disrupt focus and are often unnecessary. A former programmer who became a manager and founder, they shifted from Scrum-dominated workflows to text-based coordination: write tasks, discuss and decide in writing, and receive text completion reports. They now manage teams with minimal or no calls, preferring chats and written updates. They note many startups resist this shift because founders favor calls, but when allowed, teams respond positively. They also publish essays and notes online.
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Gnutella was a decentralized P2P file-sharing protocol that let users search for and download files directly from a mesh of peers using HTTP, without a central entry point. It rose in the early 2000s as internet adoption and MP3 sharing exploded, then plateaued as the world changed. Bootstrapping used GWebCache to find initial peers; core messages included PING/PONG, QUERY/QUERYHIT, and PUSH, with extensions like GGEP and HUGE. It outlived its era and persists at reduced capacity.
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Chert provides a scalable iMessage infrastructure for outbound and inbound messaging, enabling teams to reach customers via real iMessage threads with end-to-end encryption, read receipts, tapbacks, and attachments. It offers a REST API and webhooks, auto SMS/RCS fallback, and sub-second delivery telemetry. Aimed at GTM teams, it integrates with CRM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Attio, GoHighLevel) and collaboration apps, to book meetings and improve response rates versus cold email. Onboarding includes a 20-minute kickoff and optional onboarding assistance.
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The Cost of Safetyism argues that fear has shortened kids’ freedom far more than actual danger. Despite data showing crime declines, parents increasingly restrict children—84% of 11-year-olds can’t leave their front yard and 92% of 14-year-olds stay within their neighborhoods. The piece attributes this to a culture of safetyism—trigger warnings, constant notifications, punitive supervision—that erodes autonomy, raises anxiety, and hinders learning through trial and error. It distinguishes safety from security, and urges gradually lengthening the leash, autonomy-supportive coaching, unsupervised play, and better urban design to build resilience and independence.
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Microsoft has decided not to move forward with its proposed 244-acre data center in Caledonia after significant community opposition, including a petition with more than 2,000 signatures opposing rezoning. The site along County Line Road and State Highway 32 was surrounded by farmland and homes. While scrapping this location, Microsoft said it remains interested in investing in Southeast Wisconsin and will seek a site aligned with community priorities, working with Caledonia and Racine County. Local residents welcomed the decision and urged earlier direct engagement in the process.
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Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnificent Humanity urges AI regulation, warning that opaque algorithms controlled by a few powerful companies can dehumanize people. He says technology is not neutral and must not be owned by profit-driven interests; calls for robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users, and active political involvement to slow acceleration. Presented at the Vatican with Anthropic's Christopher Olah and other prelates, the five‑chapter work may become a policymaker–citizen benchmark. Anthropic has engaged religious groups; its CEO clashed with Trump/DoD over Claude use.
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Final 2026 HIPAA Security Rule mandates encryption of all ePHI at rest and in transit; MFA for all ePHI-accessing systems; annual security risk assessments; regular vulnerability scanning and annual penetration testing; 72-hour incident reporting; enhanced business associate oversight with annual BAA verification; mandatory technology asset inventory and network mapping; stronger documentation. 240-day runway (60 days to enforceable, 180 to full compliance). Applies to all covered entities and business associates, including small practices; OCR enforcement prioritizes resource-constrained providers. Start now: gap analysis, SRA, inventory, encryption plan, MFA rollout, vulnerability scanning, updated policies and training.
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An exploration of portability challenges in C across platforms and compilers. The author notes that fully ISO-compliant C is rare and real-world code relies on non-standard extensions to cope with bugs and gaps in compilers and libraries. Examples include glibc header quirks (sys/cdefs.h and __attribute__), Linux epoll_event packing, limits.h wrappers, SDL_endian byte swaps, OpenBSD inline semantics, Gnulib extern inline, and Android bionic headers, which favor different compilers (GCC/Clang). The piece suggests strategies for compiler authors: patch upstream, patch downstream, or emulate GCC extensions; emphasizes the GCC/Clang duopoly and notes several small compilers.
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Dutch authorities arrested Andrey Nesterenko (MIRhosting) and Youssef Zinad for sanctions violations linked to Stark Industries Solutions, a Russia-connected hosting network. Police also seized more than 800 servers and related gear in Enschede, Almere, Dronten and Schiphol-Rijk. Stark’s infrastructure had been moved to WorkTitans BV, co-owned by Nesterenko and Zinad, with connectivity via MIRhosting. EU sanctions earlier targeted PQHosting and the Neculiti brothers for aiding Russia’s hybrid warfare. Investigators say the networks were used for pro-Russian cyberattacks and influence operations in the EU, including Denmark in 2025. Nesterenko denies wrongdoing; Zinad unavailable.
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Brazil’s internet entry was defined by persistence over speed. In the 1980s, Demi Getschko and FAPESP navigated telecom monopolies to build domestic networks (BBS, CIRANDA/AlterNex) and connect to international BITNET gateways. Three early links went live: the University of Maryland (1988), Fermilab (1989, via a submarine cable, slower), and UCLA (1989). These were not the Internet yet, but a mesh of gate-kept networks. The 1991 shift to TCP/IP, aided by Fermilab, finally opened Brazil to the Internet, despite Embratel’s monopoly and slow rollout.
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Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas treats AI as a transformative force requiring moral governance. It warns AI could widen inequality, erode democracy, and devalue the inherent dignity of every person, especially if controlled by a few with data and resources. The pope calls to 'disarm' AI—removing it from military uses, curbing corporate power, and ensuring regulation and broad public participation in AI’s design and benefits. He urges human oversight, ethical design, education, fair taxation, job protection, transparency, and international law on autonomous weapons, warning against technoutopianism.
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New Orleans could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico this century as rising seas flood wetlands and push shorelines inland. The city has crossed the point of no return and must start relocation planning now to avoid chaotic, unequal outcomes for its most vulnerable residents. With about 360,000 people, roughly 99% face high flood risk. Wetlands could shrink by about 75% of what's left, and seas could rise 10–23 feet. A planned relocation could become a model for other coastlines, though it risks erasing culture; Kiruna, Sweden offers a cautionary parallel.
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turn_off_the_borrow_checker is a macro in the you_can crate that suppresses many borrow-checker errors for educational purposes only. It wraps certain references with borrow_unchecked so the compiler ignores their lifetimes; this does not affect compilation output but enables unsound, unsafe code. It is not safe for production. Suppression is limited: it can’t silence errors from lifetimes created elsewhere or implicit references. Use a workaround like forcing explicit references where needed.
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Starting in 2014, I learned Android by building tangible apps - todo lists, dating, meds access - driven by a sense of purpose and community. Hackathons, Droidcon NYC, and mentors taught me hands-on skills and the value of shared learning. When LLMs appeared, I welcomed them but saw how overreliance erodes critical thinking and the hard-won craft of software. AI can accelerate coding, but trial and error, peer critique, and human connection remain essential. If building with AI loses that humanity, then, for me, you can leave me behind.
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An experiment tests whether gpt-4.1's answer to 'random number between 1 and 100' is uniform. Across 10,000 trials, GPT outputs a lumpy, human-like distribution with spikes around 37, 73 and 42, and avoidance of round numbers. A chi-square test shows a drastic deviation from uniform (χ² ≈ 15,604, p ≈ 0). Conclusion: an LLM trained on human text reproduces human random-number bias, not true randomness, likely due to guardrails. Methods: fixed prompt, temperature 1.0, four-stage pipeline; data in repo; cost about $2; MIT license.
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TechCrunch lists six alternatives to Google as Google shifts to AI-driven Search: Kagi (paid, ad-free with lenses and optional AI Quick Answer); DuckDuckGo (free, privacy-focused, opt-out AI); Startpage (Google proxy with data stripping, AI off); &udm=14 (auto AI-free Google results); Brave (browser + search with Goggles and tunable AI); Ecosia (Chromium-based, eco-friendly, donates most ad revenue to tree-planting). It also notes privacy concerns and antitrust history, and mentions Open Web Engine as another option.
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An article presenting AI errno(2) values—a humorous, public-domain C header defining AI-specific error codes (EAI to EVIL) with witty descriptions (hallucination, delusion, botnet issues, context loss, etc.). It frames these as standard errno-like constants extending human errno values, dated May 19, 2026. The post also links to related pieces and includes a canary note about benchmark data in training corpora.
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