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Wikipedia workers in Britain are seeking union recognition for the first time globally, requesting representation by the United Tech and Allied Workers section of the Communication Workers Union.

PostHog's engineer used multiple long-running Claude Code sessions to rewrite their SQL parser, achieving a 70x speedup over the previous ANTLR-based parser, while barely looking at the code themselves.

Google announces that computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, enabling developers to build agents that can see, reason, and take action across browsers, mobile, and desktop environments.

Major AI laboratories are increasingly hiring philosophers to address ethical and safety concerns in AI development.

The author demonstrates how to use the billy filesystem abstraction to make a Tigris object storage bucket behave like a filesystem, enabling go-git to treat it as a git repository server directly.

A deep dive into the 20-year arms race between CAPTCHAs and automated solvers, culminating in Browserbase's new approach of agent identity to bypass CAPTCHAs entirely by verifying browser identity.

John Carmack reflects on the key mistakes in Quake's development that led to the decline of id Software, including technical overambition, overworking staff, and poor corporate structure.

A scientist published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature arguing that Microsoft's quantum computing breakthrough claims are invalid due to basic Python errors and omitted data, suggesting the company's topological quantum computer is far from realization.

An inventory of Edsger Dijkstra's personal library and papers, now archived in Leuven, Belgium, cataloging his college notes, books, and manuscripts.

Yann LeCun argues at the UN Open Source Week that open-source AI is essential for global AI sovereignty, as proprietary AI is too expensive and centralized for most countries and companies.

A statistical analysis of pull requests on the OpenClaw repository reveals a surge in AI-generated PR spam, with merge rates dropping from 48% to 9.3% as contributors submit hundreds of automated PRs per day. The article compares this to early email spam and discusses emerging solutions like reputation-based filters and trust management systems such as Vouch.

Nub is a fast all-in-one toolkit for Node.js that provides a Bun-like developer experience, including running TypeScript files, managing dependencies, and Node versions, all in one CLI tool written in Rust.

LookAway is a Mac app that intelligently reminds you to take screen breaks, blink, and improve posture, while avoiding interruptions during meetings, calls, or deep focus. The latest versions introduce planned breaks, website usage stats, and a Screen Score feature.

Slate has launched an affordable electric truck starting at $24,950, offering extensive customization options including wraps, accessories, and multiple body styles (truck, SUV, fastback).

This blog post introduces LEVI, a framework for AI-driven research for systems (ADRS) that reduces the cost of algorithmic discovery by using smaller models for most mutations and reserving large models for paradigm shifts, achieving 3-7x cost reduction. It argues that ADRS should be integrated into CI/CD for continuous, bespoke optimization per deployment.

The author describes the lengthy and costly process of founding a company in Germany, taking 152 days and over €9,600 in fees, yet still unable to send invoices due to bureaucratic delays like waiting for a VAT ID.

Reid Hoffman criticizes Elon Musk's AI ventures, calling SpaceX not an AI company and xAI a 'complete train wreck', while also raising concerns about the US government's handling of Anthropic's pulled models.

Minimus has announced that its hardened container images are now available for free, with a free tier offering images as-is without support. Paid subscriptions provide prioritized security updates and support.

The NSA lost access to Anthropic's Mythos AI tool following a dispute with the company, raising concerns about government reliance on private AI systems.

Haystack is an open-source AI framework for building production-ready agents and RAG pipelines, supporting multimodal, conversational, and content generation applications.