Monthly Highlights
6121.
German hackers call for 'digital independence days' to reduce US tech grip (euractiv.com)
6122.
Notes and Hacks on Germany's Exit Tax (eidel.io)
6123.
Some Thoughts on AI (mattbruenig.com)
6124.
Trump Pushes A.I. Data Centers, but the GOP Is Cool to One in Alabama (nytimes.com)
6125.
Ask HN: Any evidence AI coding assistants are helping open source projects?
6126.
Why doesn't mataroa block AI scrapers? (hey.mataroa.blog)
6127.
Ending tax refunds by check risks sidelining people who don't have bank accounts (theconversation.com)
6128.
Show HN: MicroState – JavaScript City Builder (microstate.neocities.org)
6129.
Show HN: ExprTk High-Performance C++ Math Expression Parser Evaluation Engine (partow.net)
6130.
Lawsuit claims Meta can see WhatsApp chats in breach of privacy (finance.yahoo.com)
6131.
CES 2026: "Worst in Show" – Calling Out Gadgets That Make Things Worse (ifixit.com)
6132.
5th floor at stair 9 in building 2 of CS research group at Bell Labs (spinroot.com)
6133.
WeDLM: Reconciling Diffusion LM with Standard Causal Attention (github.com)
6134.
Show HN: `tc` like `wc` but for LLM tokens (github.com)
6135.
Bengio: AI shows signs of self-preservation and we should be ready to pull plug (theguardian.com)
6136.
The Precipice (samirvarma.substack.com)
6137.
IETF@40 (ietf.org)
6138.
Earth system models overstate carbon removal (phys.org)
6139.
BreachForums hacking forum database leaked, exposing 324,000 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)
6140.
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what's next (nature.com)
6141.
The Problem with Lying Is Keeping Track of All the Lies (materialize.com)
6142.
Ask HN: Where Are the Primary Sources?
6143.
GLM-4.7: Frontier intelligence at record speed – now available on Cerebras (cerebras.ai)
6144.
Huge binaries: I thunk therefore I am (fzakaria.com)
6145.
Building cryptographically verifiable integrity into Linux systems (amutable.com)
6146.
Brazil Wind and Solar Power Surpass One-Third of National Electricity (happyeconews.com)
6147.
Show HN: ZCCInfo – Fast status line for Claude Code written in Zig (github.com)
6148.
Farms and data centers contribute to a water pollution crisis in Eastern Oregon (rollingstone.com)
6149.
Italy says US has sharply cut proposed pasta duties after a review (reuters.com)
6150.
Civilian or military? China turns to merchant fleet to boost military power (japantimes.co.jp)