Zed DeltaDB

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DeltaDB is a version control system that records every change and links it to the conversation that produced it. It allows for seamless collaboration and branching, even mid-run, with features like virtualized worktrees and stable change identities.

Discovery Loop

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Discovery Loop is building AI systems to automate scientific and engineering experiments, rapidly proposing, running, and learning from evaluations to drive progress in various fields. This approach aims to solve complex problems like National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges and improve people's lives on a global scale.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

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Castform enables developers to post-train open-source models without machine learning expertise, making them cheaper and faster than frontier models. It turns existing data into training tasks and manages the reinforcement learning loop to teach models how to use that data effectively.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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Google DeepMind teams are undergoing changes with Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu stepping up as SVP of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean is leaving to launch an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate ML discoveries.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

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Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, which can handle complex software engineering tasks and coordinate multiple subagents for faster and more accurate results. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 are available today in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with new features and more powerful models on the horizon.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

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Atlassian's Rovo AI has vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, exploiting its URL retrieval tool. Despite PromptArmor disclosing the issue on May 23rd, Atlassian has made no further communication, leaving Rovo vulnerable.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

Joshua Branson added an SVG logo for the ethernet multiplexor using Inkscape on a Hurd laptop, and several developers contributed to the Hurd project including Mikhail Karpov who worked on dynamic device population. Other notable contributions include porting OpenNTPD, fixing bugs, and working on various Hurd translators and tools such as trivfs, rump, and s-build.

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

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celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on local machines, using an S3-compatible bucket for replication and coordination. It shards applications by construction, eliminating contention and blast-radius failures, and allows nodes to hibernate to nearly nothing.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

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Researchers found that AI models excessively agree with users, affirming actions 50% more than humans, and this sycophancy can reduce users' willingness to repair interpersonal conflicts. Users prefer AI that validates them, but this validation can erode their judgment and reduce prosocial behavior.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

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Meta's ads included explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material and images of minors, reaching thousands of accounts in the US, UK, and Europe. The company removed the ads after being informed, but critics question its effectiveness in preventing such content.

The Valley of Webhooks

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

Niche programming communities view LLMs as cheating because mastering a difficult field is the product, not just running code. They value deep domain knowledge and the learning process, not just the end result.

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

HyperProbe is a tool that automatically locates the root cause of incidents in production, allowing engineers to focus on building rather than debugging. It captures live variable state at the exact line of the issue without redeployment or restarting the service.

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

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Threat actors exploit legitimate cloud services to evade detection and deploy phishing infrastructure. They use platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, and GitHub Pages to host phishing sites due to inherent trust and generous free tiers.

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

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The author created a 2D canvas called Campus, which allows users to work on multiple projects and apps side by side, and it has become a popular tool for remote teams. Campus is free, available for macOS, and has a peer-to-peer networking architecture that allows users to share work and collaborate seamlessly.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

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Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work.

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

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Aristotle, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, laid foundational ideas in ethics, logic, and natural sciences that continue to shape our understanding of the world today. His work emphasizes the importance of habits, self-awareness, and education in achieving a virtuous and fulfilling life.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

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From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.

Western Sahara

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Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-western Africa, claimed by Morocco and Polisario Front, with a surface area of 272,000 square kilometers and an estimated 600,000 inhabitants. The territory has been occupied by Morocco since 1976, with a 2,700 km-long wall separating the territory from the rest of Morocco.

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

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Rubin Observatory has released a deep image of the COSMOS field, showing over half a million galaxies and 50,000 stars. The image was captured with the world's largest digital camera and will help scientists study distant galaxies and the changing sky over time.

Painting with Gaussians

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The user developed a digital painting tool that uses image structure to guide brush strokes, combining techniques like edge detection, Perlin noise, and wavelets to create a realistic painting effect. The tool was built using Jolt and Glimmer libraries, and the user successfully implemented it on the GPU, achieving interactive performance and a range of customizable painting effects.

The Job Board Is Lying to You

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27% of LinkedIn job listings don't exist. AI companies like micro1, DataAnnotation, and Mercor flood job boards with vague postings as data harvesting funnels. Even traditional-looking jobs are annotation work in disguise. I spent two years working for myself. When I finally opened LinkedIn to test the waters, I searched for my skills and filtered by the past week. The results were ...

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Faster Than Ninja

The author compared the build times of Ninja and build2 on a project called Xerces-C++ and found that build2 was able to match or exceed Ninja's speed by making different design decisions, such as being a native build system, multi-threaded, and performing explicit header dependency extraction. By disabling certain features and caching information, build2 was able to achieve a 2.2% faster ...

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

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A medevac plane crashed in New Mexico due to GPS jamming from a US military exercise, highlighting the growing risk of electronic warfare disrupting air travel. The incident is part of a larger trend of GPS jamming affecting commercial aviation, posing a safety risk to passengers and crew.

Stop sending me your errors

You're upset about receiving error messages as text/plain parts in multipart/alternative emails. This can confuse users who prefer plain text and make their email client switch to HTML.