Monthly Highlights
6091.
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (wsj.com)
6092.
Dying Gasp (en.wikipedia.org)
6093.
How One Steam Developer Made a Million Dollars Selling a Remote Access Trojan (outsidetheasylum.blog)
6094.
France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach (theregister.com)
6095.
Nobody knows how large software products work (seangoedecke.com)
6096.
With democracy in free fall, the media must (finally) wake up (margaretsullivan.substack.com)
6097.
China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware (theregister.com)
6098.
Ask HN: Why is opening a new window in OS26 Safari so slow this week?
6099.
Cow Clicker (en.wikipedia.org)
6100.
Franklin Ace: The Clone of the Apple II Stolen from Apple (folklore.org)
6101.
'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World (nytimes.com)
6102.
Bengio: AI shows signs of self-preservation and we should be ready to pull plug (theguardian.com)
6103.
Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World (nytimes.com)
6104.
Slow iOS 26 Adoption (mjtsai.com)
6105.
It is now 85 seconds to midnight (thebulletin.org)
6106.
Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth (securityweek.com)
6107.
5th floor at stair 9 in building 2 of CS research group at Bell Labs (spinroot.com)
6108.
WeDLM: Reconciling Diffusion LM with Standard Causal Attention (github.com)
6109.
An Obituary for the 90-Minute Movie (pointsincase.com)
6110.
The podcaster poking at France's biggest secrets (nytimes.com)
6111.
Solving the Pendulum Problem (ethansteere.net)
6112.
Italy says US has sharply cut proposed pasta duties after a review (reuters.com)
6113.
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what's next (nature.com)
6114.
Anime.js Layout (animejs.com)
6115.
Show HN: `tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens (github.com)
6116.
Show HN: ExprTk High-Performance C++ Math Expression Parser Evaluation Engine (partow.net)
6117.
CES 2026: "Worst in Show" – Calling Out Gadgets That Make Things Worse (ifixit.com)
6118.
Some Thoughts on AI (mattbruenig.com)
6119.
Trump Pushes A.I. Data Centers, but the GOP Is Cool to One in Alabama (nytimes.com)
6120.
IETF@40 (ietf.org)