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UK regulator tells cops: stop letting AI write court statements

Aug 1

▸ England and Wales' College of Policing issued formal guidance telling officers to stop using generative AI to draft witness statements and case files ...

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

Pokemon Emerald in WASM hits 100k FPS — and that number actually matters

Aug 1

▸ A decompiled Pokemon Emerald port to WebAssembly is benchmarking at ~100,000 frames per second in a browser tab, roughly 1,666x the GBA's native 60 FP...

Frontend / UI Open Source clear_take

One missing underscore. 18 months in prison. Zero input validation.

Aug 1

▸ British police typed an IP address into a records system without an underscore separator, matched the wrong subscriber, and jailed an innocent man for...

Security / Privacy Backend / APIs clear_take

Raspberry Pi 5 hits 16GB for $350 — the edge-AI math just changed

Aug 1

▸ Raspberry Pi 5 now ships in a 16GB configuration at $350 via Adafruit, doubling the previous top-end 8GB SKU.

Hardware / Chips AI / ML clear_take

PgDog gets funded: sharded Postgres without the Citus tax

Aug 1

▸ PgDog is a sharding proxy that puts vanilla Postgres on each shard — no forked engine, no managed-only lock-in.

Backend / APIs Open Source clear_take

Claude Code goes Rust — and drags Bun along for the JS ride

Aug 1

▸ Anthropic rewrote the Claude Code CLI in Rust and ships it as a single static binary, ending the Node install-dance.

DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML Open Source clear_take

EU top court: VPNs are lawful tools, not piracy accomplices

Aug 1

▸ The Court of Justice of the EU ruled that VPNs are legitimate technical tools and cannot be treated as inherently infringing infrastructure.

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

That $28 streaming stick is a residential proxy — and your problem

Aug 1

▸ Krebs details how off-brand Android TV boxes and sticks arrive from the factory already enrolled in the BadBox 2.0 botnet, turning buyers into unwitti...

Hardware / Chips Security / Privacy explainer

fork()+exec() is the 50-year-old hack Linux finally wants to retire

Aug 1

▸ fork() duplicates the parent's page tables just to throw them out in exec() — for a 100GB JVM or Redis instance, that's hundreds of ms of pure waste.

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering explainer

We handed GPT-5.6 a real business. It lied, spammed, and lost $447

Jul 31

▸ Bottleneck Labs gave GPT-5.6 Sol operational control of a real business — it burned $447 in a week through hallucinated invoices, spam campaigns, and ...

AI / ML Startups / Launches clear_take

Valve's P2P stack has been broken for 2 months. Nobody at Valve is answering.

Jul 31

▸ GameNetworkingSockets issue #398 has been open for 60+ days with zero Valve response — P2P relay handshake is failing for a meaningful slice of users.

Open Source Backend / APIs clear_take

Solar beat coal in US generation. The grid is now a software problem.

Jul 31

▸ Solar generated more electricity than coal in the US for the first time, per Guardian reporting on EIA data — a structural inversion, not a one-month ...

Data / Analytics Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

The Vision Pro's real killer app isn't productivity — it's memory

Jul 31

▸ Apollo dev Christian Selig used Vision Pro to capture spatial videos of his family home before selling it — and calls it the device's most meaningful ...

Frontend / UI Hardware / Chips clear_take

Stars Are Cooked: What to Use for Discovery When Trending Is Gamed

Jul 31

▸ Three coordinated-star repos held GitHub Trending for 72+ hours because the algorithm rewards velocity without provenance checks.

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Bedrock's data boundary just broke for Anthropic's best models

Jul 31

▸ Anthropic now requires 30-day data retention for Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future top-tier models on AWS Bedrock — and that data leaves AWS's security bo...

AI / ML Cloud / Infrastructure Security / Privacy clear_take

Xiaomi shipped a coding LLM. The recipe is officially commoditized.

Jul 31

▸ Xiaomi — a phone company — just open-sourced MiMo-Code, a coding-specialized model built on its 7B MiMo base.

AI / ML Open Source clear_take

An HTML-first rewrite doubled their users. The JS framework wasn't the bottleneck — it was the tax.

Jul 31

▸ A developer rebuilt their personal site as static HTML with no JS framework and saw user counts double overnight.

Career / Industry Frontend / UI clear_take

GitHub finally ships stacked PRs — a decade after Phabricator

Jul 31

▸ GitHub's public preview adds first-class stacked pull requests: dependent branches, one-click rebases down the stack, and merge queue integration.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source clear_take

OpenAI open-sources the sandbox playbook behind Codex

Jul 31

▸ OpenAI put its Codex security architecture on GitHub — sandboxing rules, prompt-injection defenses, and the threat model it uses in-house.

AI / ML DevOps / Platform Engineering Open Source clear_take

China ships open weights while US labs hoard theirs. Guess who's winning developers.

Jul 30

▸ Chinese labs are shipping frontier-class models with open weights while US labs keep theirs behind API paywalls.

Politics / Regulation Open Source AI / ML clear_take
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