2026-08-13 刊号

Blog about things you don't understand yet ↗

How AI text watermarking works ↗

Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store

In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on digital purchases made via external links that don't use the company's in-app purchase system. Epic has already responded, saying that Apple's request is "far outside of the bounds" of the […]

US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001 ↗

Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup ↗

Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works ↗

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware ↗

‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android. It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided […]

If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously ↗

The fight over Flock and other ALPRs

There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to track vehicles and people’s movements throughout the day and across […]

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last […]

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs ↗

Terabytes of credentials leaked in supply-chain attack ↗

Netflix is closing two game studios

Netflix plans to shut down two of its gaming studios, as reported by Game File and Variety, as it makes a bigger shift toward party games and titles streamed to TVs. One of the studios being shut down is Night School Studio, creators of the Oxenfree series. Netflix bought Night School in 2021, and it […]

File Recovery in Process ↗

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. ↗

NP-overrated ↗

This school-friendly laptop from HP is $300 off

With memory prices still high and showing no signs of dropping, we’re always happy to find a good deal on a budget-friendly system with an adequate amount of RAM. Best Buy has the HP OmniBook X Flip discounted by $300, bringing the cost down to $699.99. This model is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra […]

感觉自己在工作之余的学习中走了弯路，和大家分享一下 ↗

How Gödel's Proof Works (2020) ↗

OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the […]

Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale ↗

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf] ↗

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed ↗

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push ↗

Show HN: Pixy, visual editor for coding agents, like Figma on your live site ↗

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) ↗

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side with Them ↗

The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks

The Trump administration is launching a new program that will allow private firms to perform cyberattacks against foreign criminals, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The private firms would operate "under the control and oversight" of the federal government, giving them permission to surveil and disrupt criminal networks, according to a presidential memorandum published on Wednesday. […]

Understanding is the new bottleneck ↗

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes ↗

What Is Kimi K3? A Complete Developer Guide for 2026 ↗

HN: Xenon, open source dashboard for a second screen, tablet or phone ↗

Hello, me. It's been a while ↗

Stein's Paradox and What Partial Pooling Can Do for You (2019) ↗

Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain ↗

I finally found a robot lawnmower I’d trust with my yard

Robot lawnmowers are finally good enough to take a lot of work out of maintaining a yard, but they’re still not set-it-and-forget-it machines. If you don’t want these autonomous cutting machines to tear up your lawn or go roaming in your neighbors’ yard, you’re still going to need to keep an eye on them. But […]

AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions ↗

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. ↗

ESP-Claw ↗

OxiSH: SSH Server Written in Rust ↗

The oldest bar in every state ↗

Cross-Validation From Scratch and a Surprise at n=100 ↗

Show HN: OpenCode Senses, An insanely fast and highly accurate vision plugin ↗

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast ↗

You can now just point at a mess and this robot vacuum will suck it up

Matic, my current favorite robot vacuum, just got a big upgrade. The company has launched Matic Cues, which brings voice and gesture control to the robot. Now, you can talk directly to your vacuum to tell it what you want it to do, or just point at a mess to have it spot-clean. The feature […]

How Compaction Works in Pi ↗

Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal> ↗

Some Virtues of Narrative Poetry ↗

DeepSeek Harness 开发版，七嘴八舌交流篇 ↗

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out ↗

Choose Boring Technology (2015) ↗

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory ↗

Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down ↗

Compute-optimal is not cluster-optimal ↗

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out ↗

I want extern "fil-C" ↗

Hillock – Local neuro-symbolic memory engine running in <1.2GB VRAM ↗

Surfil On-device control plane for AI coding agents ↗

Gemini 3.7 Flash ↗