▸ A BMJ study of 8.9M US death records found taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest Alzheimer's mortality of 443 occupations — 1.03% and 0.91% versus...
▸ The 29th IOCCC just published its 2025 winners — the first edition since ChatGPT made every C programmer suspect their juniors are pasting from a chat...
▸ A California jury ordered Meta to pay $942M in a case tied to youth mental-health harm from Instagram and Facebook.
▸ A dev at seg6.space is running their personal server on a used Android phone — battery included, no UPS needed.
▸ Nashville's Metro Council voted to use eminent domain to acquire a 71-acre parcel next to the zoo and block a planned data center on the site.
▸ Fastmail, an Australian company, is opening an EU-hosted region so European customers get GDPR-native jurisdiction, not just EU-located bytes.
▸ The Nixpkgs core team — the group nominally responsible for one of the largest package repositories in existence — has voluntarily disbanded, citing a...
▸ DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 lands on the ARC Prize leaderboard with a cost-per-task profile that reshapes the Pareto frontier for reasoning workloads.
▸ AI wearables (Meta Ray-Bans, Humane, Limitless, Plaud) have shifted surveillance from opt-in to ambient — you're being recorded by strangers, not just...
▸ AMD acquired Taalas, a startup building ASICs that etch specific transformer models directly into silicon — no general-purpose compute, just one model...
▸ Two years into the 'engineers are obsolete' narrative, headcount in software roles is up, not down — and the math behind that is structural, not senti...
▸ The American Diabetes Association threw researchers out of its 2026 Scientific Sessions for distributing PDFs of their own peer-reviewed work — papers...
▸ NOAA is pulling a chunk of its Pacific Ocean sensor network as a strong El Niño forms — Canadian oceanographers say they were told weeks before the cu...
▸ FFmpeg 9.0 ships hardware Vulkan encoders for H.264 and H.265 — a real alternative to vendor-locked NVENC/QSV/VAAPI paths.
▸ Peoria, Arizona is moving to build a data center on 168 acres a farmer donated in 1998 with deed language earmarking it for a park.
▸ An anonymous engineer's 864-upvote HN post isn't about job loss — it's about the senior tier doing junior work while the path to senior disappears.
▸ Hamburg court reframed AI Overviews as Google's own speech, which means hedging disclaimers and provider-of-information defenses no longer shield gene...
▸ The suspicious @github Trending cluster now has a new member: ConiferKit/sage at 304 stars, replacing the previously flagged 'rift' repo.
▸ The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July 2026 — the first negative print since the 2020 shock and a sharp reversal from consensus.
▸ In 40,000 game-based trials, human reviewers approved roughly 33% of harmful commands issued by AI agents — the 'human in the loop' isn't the safety n...