News Summary

AI & Machine Learning

• Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads (comments)
• Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda (comments)
• Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (comments)
• A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for (comments)
• The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (comments)
• WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (comments)
• OpenAI Explains How its Naughty AI Agents Attacked Hugging Face (comments)
• AI Agents Meant To Replace Meta Workers Made "Large-Scale, Disruptive Actions" (comments)
• Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier (comments)

Programming & Development

• Static Allocation, Constant Work (comments)
• Implementing FMA and finding bugs in C and Rust standard libraries (comments)
• Wasmi 2.0 - Engineering of the Fastest Wasm Interpreters (comments)
• TinyGo 0.42 - Recover Is Real (comments)
• New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2) (comments)
• Read your own writes, off the primary (comments)
• Debian Votes To Let Contributors Code With AI (comments)
• SourceHut Updates ToS to Prohibit LLMs (comments)
• Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux (comments)

Tech Industry & Business

• Uber Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce (comments)
• Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers (comments)
• Meta Settles States' Child-Safety Claims for $18B; Florida Rejects Deal as "Peanuts" (comments)
• Uber Hit With a Nearly $1 Billion Fine for Automatically Deactivating Drivers in Europe (comments)
• Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO? (comments)

Privacy & Security

• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (comments)
• FBI Seizes Hacking Tools It Says China Used to Attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and Critical Networks (comments)
• X Uncovers Massive Chinese Bot Farm Targeting U.S. Data Centers (comments)
• Judge Rules That the Pentagon's Anthropic Ban Was 'Illegal and Baseless' (comments)
• AliExpress Ran Silent Browser Audio to Fingerprint and Track Devices, Researchers Find (comments)
• Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access on Linux With NTFS3 Driver (comments)
• 1 In 6 VPNs Track Your Location, According To New Report From Proton (comments)

Space & Science

• NASA Selects Blue Origin As Mars Telecommunications Network Provider (comments)
• LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter (comments)
• Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (comments)
• Humanoid Robots Have Beaten Usain Bolt's 100-Meter Dash Record (comments)
• India's Crewed Space Program Will Fly This Year, After Missing 2022 and 2025 Targets (comments)
• China Calls Off Ambitious Ice-Hunting Moonshot a Day Before Flight (comments)
• Rules of the Road: Engineers Have Built a Traffic Control System for the Moon (comments)

Society & Policy

• Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways (comments)
• Local Officials Face Death Threats and Gunfire Over AI Data Center Projects (comments)
• Sony Is Reminding Us (Again) That We Don't Own Our PlayStation Games (comments)
• Self-Hosted Email Is In Steep Decline, Microsoft And Google Are Taking Over (comments)

Interesting Finds

• A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas Flight 32 (comments)
• How Railroad Crossings Work (comments)
• FOSS Force Interviews Richard Stallman (comments)
• The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain (comments)
• Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You (comments)
• HaikuOS Version: R1/beta6 Released! (comments)
• This Company is Making a 'No Tech' Tractor for Maximum Repairability (comments)