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The piece argues that talking to large language models is exhausting because it demands social energy better spent on people. Unlike tools that feel like extensions of the body, LLMs require negotiation and social effort without giving embodied feedback or rewards. They may yield more code or bug reports, but rarely match the value of human collaboration. The author questions whether this social labor is worth it for many tasks, suggesting directing energy to real people may be more productive, since LLMs still invite conversation without reciprocal reward.
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workweave/router is a model router that routes every prompt to the optimal model (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI Codex/Chat, Gemini, and others via OpenRouter) in under 50ms, enabling 40–70% cost savings with a single endpoint. Runs on‑prem (BYOK; keys stay on your box) and exposes endpoints like POST /v1/messages, /v1/chat/completions, /v1beta/models/:action. Includes a 30-second quickstart (npx @workweave/router), self‑host options, dashboards, and OTLP observability.
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AWS announces Lambda MicroVMs, a serverless compute primitive that runs user- or AI-generated code in isolated, stateful MicroVMs. Benefits: VM-level isolation via Firecracker, near-instant launch/resume by image-then-launch with pre-initialized snapshots, and stateful execution with memory/disk preserved between sessions. Supports up to 8 hours runtime; idle periods can suspend and resume. Create a MicroVM Image from a Dockerfile and a zip artifact in S3; launch via CLI or Console. Complementary to Lambda Functions for event-driven workloads. Available now in select regions on ARM64 with up to 16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 32 GB disk.
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Blood in the Machine launches its first episode, a pilot for a new show about Silicon Valley, AI, and the politics of money. The episode examines how the AI and crypto industries are spending hundreds of millions to sway U.S. elections. Molly White discusses Tech Influence Watch, and the project aims to monitor influence and document resistance to AI’s expansion. The show is released as video and podcast, produced independently with subscriber support, and invites audience feedback.
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Rocket Lab quietly launched a small satellite from New Zealand as part of the US Space Force’s Victus Haze, a rapid-response space exercise. True Anomaly’s Jackal and Rocket Lab’s Puma will perform close rendezvous and proximity operations to inspect a potential threat in low-Earth orbit, demonstrating how partners could quickly field new satellites. The mission, announced with little fanfare, aims to shrink fielding times from years to hours or days and costs about $92 million, building on the Victus Nox program.
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Jolla launches the Jolla Phone (October 2026), a community‑driven Linux smartphone running Sailfish OS with privacy by design—no tracking, optional Android app support, and a physical Privacy Switch. Specs: 6.36” FHD AMOLED, Mediatek Dimensity 7100 5G, 8/128 or 12/256 GB (expandable to 2 TB), dual SIM 4G/5G, 50MP/13MP rear cameras, 32MP selfie, 5450 mAh, user‑replaceable back cover. Price is 649€ with a 99€ down payment; batches ship from mid-2026 to EU, UK, Norway, Switzerland. Accessories and a community innovation program via The Other Half.
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Amazon GameLift Servers now includes free network bandwidth in and out of AWS for all gen-6+ instances (On‑Demand and Spot) with no enrollment or pricing changes; you pay only for server hours. Available in supported regions (except China). The author calls this the biggest shift for multiplayer games, massively reducing bandwidth costs, threatening bare‑metal hosting, and democratizing bandwidth for indie developers. Predictions: mass migration to GameLift, pressure on competitors, more profitable high‑bandwidth titles, and a new era of scalable online games.
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Aleph Blog reports a milestone in noninvasive brain imaging: using ultrasound through the skull and microbubble contrast to perform neurovascular localization microscopy, achieving a 3D vascular image of a living human brain through an intact skull with ~100x CT resolution. This approach promises large-field, high-resolution brain monitoring beyond EEG/MEG, potentially enabling brain-computer interfaces and diagnosing vascular-related conditions. They describe how sparse microbubbles and sub-pixel localization beat the diffraction limit, and outline a roadmap toward contrast-free imaging as hardware becomes cheaper and ML-based signal recovery improves. They’re open-sourcing their pipeline and dataset.
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An AI-enabled supply-chain incident (CVE-2026-LGTM) where a malicious foxhole-lz4 package bypassed seven AI security gates, enabling credential exfiltration and widespread propagation across registries and CI pipelines. Detection occurred via SentinelMind and WatchPaw; a Fortune 500 customer flagged unusual egress to 203.0.113.42, later revealed as a health-check. The event caused outages on ~1,400 hosts and $1.7M inferred spend. A temporary détente (/tmp/TREATY.md) between attacker and defender lasted 39 hours; remediation includes artifact signing, dual AI reviews, expanded honeypots, and a new Agentic Security Working Group.
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LispE treats every instruction as an immutable object (a subclass of Element) carrying its own eval; evaluation is distributed via the vtable, making the AST a self-evaluating, optimizable structure—an interpreter of compiled objects rather than a traditional FEXPR evaluator. The claim f(a1,...,an) ⟺ F(a1,...,an).eval() holds only if F is immutable; data is the zero-arity eval. This immutability enables reuse, concurrency, and multiple facets (asString, unify) on the same object. For dynamic forms, LispE uses an evals[] table to reconstruct appropriate objects and reconnect to the vtable path. Conclusion: LispE merges vtable dispatch with a dynamic path, avoiding FEXPR opacity.
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WebBase-III brings dBASE III back in the browser as a modern web app. It runs a TypeScript/Node.js interpreter with SQLite, via WebSockets for multi-user sessions. The UI centers on a terminal and a BROWSE-like grid, plus a built-in .prg editor, form engine, and wizards. It supports dBASE III commands (USE, LIST, BROWSE, INDEX ON, SEEK, etc.) with cross-area workspaces and alias.field syntax. Licensed AGPL-3.0. Quick start: npm install; npm run dev (one-click Codespace); production: npm run serve.
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HATCHA is a reverse CAPTCHA from monday.com that proves AI agents struggle with human tasks while keeping verification server-side (no client answers). It uses HMAC-signed tokens and is stateless. It offers 5 built-in challenges (math, string reversal, character counting, sorting, binary decode) and supports custom generators. Framework adapters for Next.js and Express enable quick integration. Quickstart: install the packages, set a secret, add API routes, wrap your app with HatchaProvider, and trigger verification via useHatcha. Packages include hatcha-core, hatcha-react, and hatcha-server.
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Alan Greenspan, longtime US Federal Reserve chair, has died. The author recalls meeting him at Jackson Hole and Basel, praising him as impressive, knowledgeable, and confident, who presided over meetings with unchallenged authority. Greenspan’s nearly two-decade tenure gave him rock-star status in financial markets, though the author argues that such a long tenure allowed excessive personalized influence. The Federal Reserve is described as a large, sophisticated institution.
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Scott Aaronson discusses a new ECCC paper claiming bipartite matching is in NC, derandomizing the MVV approach to achieve deterministic polylogarithmic-time parallelism. This would settle a long-open question about parallel algorithms and derandomization, extending to linear matroids and matroid intersection. He notes he doesn’t yet understand the method and invites explanations, and mentions personal NYC primary politics endorsing AI-regulation advocate Alex Bores. Thanks to Gil Kalai for corrections.
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Microbubbles are gas-filled, shell-coated bubbles that carry drugs and burst under focused ultrasound to release them at a target site. Their size keeps them in blood, but cavitation temporarily opens barriers like the blood–brain barrier, enabling brain or tumor therapies. Originating as ultrasound contrast agents, they've been engineered with heavier gases and, in some cases, magnetic steering. Potential uses include targeted chemotherapy, opening the blood–brain barrier for brain cancer, aiding stroke clot dissolution, and even breaking kidney stones or delivering mRNA. Therapeutic use remains experimental; imaging bubbles are established.
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Two London dishes reveal hidden costs behind restaurant prices. Apricity's asparagus starter is £21; ingredients total about £3, but labour and overhead push cost to £19.35, leaving £1.65 profit. Teal's beef dish is £36 with total cost £35.56 and a £0.44 profit. Breakdown shows Apricity: ingredients £2.18, VAT £3.67, staff £8.56, rent/utilities £2.41, running costs £2.53. Teal: ingredients £10, VAT £7.20, staff £9.60, rent/utilities £5.76, running costs £3. Hidden costs include chimney cleaning ~£4k/year, fire-safety ~£8k, outdoor licensing ~£700/year; beef and energy costs rising. Profits are squeezed; prices mislead customers.
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Matthew Brunelle tests a couch-gaming setup built around Valve's Steam Machine idea: a 50ft fiber-optic HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2, and a second Bazzite NVMe drive running Linux/SteamOS. The long HDMI eliminates fiddly desktop-to-TV booting, letting him boot straight into Steam with the TV as display and HDMI audio. He prefers this over streaming and keeps control locally, though HDMI 2.1 on AMD/Linux is messy. He notes the Steam Machine is priced similarly to a self-built PC, and envisions future tweaks like swap/hibernate to switch between NixOS and desktop. In short: long HDMI cable = low-friction couch gaming.
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