2026-09-30 刊号

The Great Cholesterol Scam and the Dangers of Statins ↗

Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 ↗

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet ↗

The new and huger Paramount has a new co-CEO

Paramount is appointing a new co-CEO ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ynon Kreiz, previously Mattel's chairman and CEO, will be joining Paramount to lead alongside chairman and CEO David Ellison. According to Paramount, "Ellison will focus on the company's long-term strategy, creative vision and direction, including its […]

The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next ↗

EDG C++ Compiler is open source ↗

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience ↗

Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 ↗

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) ↗

pldb: programming languages papers ↗

Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage ↗

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation ↗

Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis ↗

Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie

A24 pissed off one of the internet's largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn't bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by […]

Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails

A simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands.

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy ↗

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at […]

Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition ↗

Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data ↗

Gitea 28.0 ↗

Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America ↗

Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report ↗

Dear User, email is here to stay ↗

Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch ↗

Gemini 4 Argon ↗

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective ↗

Dear Software Makers ↗

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields ↗

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" ↗

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach ↗

EDG C++ front-end goes public ↗

DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground ↗

BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper. ↗

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos ↗

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings ↗

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents ↗

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards ↗

The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history ↗

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B ↗

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs ↗

Museum of Time-Based Art ↗

The AI Tamagotchis are coming

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. "Hardware is […]

Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin ↗

Recursive `make` and `-j` ↗

Billions of triangles redux ↗

Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots

Reddit is further limiting who can use the "Old Reddit" experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic. Reddit recently started forcing users to log in to be able to use Old Reddit, but in the "next few months," the company says that you'll have to be logged in and have […]

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots ↗

CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) ↗

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents ↗

Claude Says ↗

The ugly economics of consumer AI ↗

Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’

Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take "several thousand captures in a single driver's typical shift," which Amazon plans to upload to its AI […]

Let's Ditch Google (Verb) ↗

Commit description as a thinking tool ↗

Adding Giscus to Your Hugo Site – Hayden's Blog ↗

The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 ↗

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he's renamed the technology to "Super Intelligence." He […]

Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") ↗

NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000

Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and technical support to doctoral students doing outstanding research relevant to NVIDIA technologies. The program, in its 26th […]

This blog could help you poop better

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. "I will explode your butthole with this poopmaxxer pesto," a calm Gen Z voice announced from my phone's speakers. "And […]