2026-10-09
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xAI's Michael Roberson joined OpenAI's infrastructure team as commissioning program manager, with more xAI staff reportedly following.Data Center Dynamics
SpaceX is acquiring Grain's 800MHz spectrum assets as it pushes to challenge US telcos as a carrier.Data Center Dynamics
two papers in Nature report the first implementation of a nuclear clock, a metrology milestone, from teams in Vienna and Beijing.ANS Nuclear Newswire
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🏛️ society
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Putin demanded US sanctions relief as the price of a Ukraine energy truce and wants it linked to a Black Sea ceasefire — Kyiv fears the cost.Kyiv Independent
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🌐 software 95
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter · The Register
ttok 0.4 · Simon Willison
The AI is in the computer · The Verge
Remember Orkut? Its founder wants to bring it back · TechCrunch
A16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI · TechCrunch
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours · Hacker News
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude · The Register
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes · The Register
Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs. · The New Stack
“Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters · The New Stack
You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres · The New Stack
Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans · The New Stack
Your AI agent just provisioned a resource. Who owns it? · The New Stack
The audit log says my name: what an agent inherits when you hand it your credentials · The New Stack
Quoting Matthew Green · Simon Willison
Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules · Ars Technica
Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here · Ars Technica
YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to livestream an execution · The Verge
Meta is banning TikTok ads across its platforms · The Verge
US plans livestream of execution by firing squad · The Verge
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise · TechCrunch
Deno Is Joining Cloudflare · Hacker News
Our $445M Series D · Hacker News
I'm in a Meeting · Hacker News
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay · Hacker News
Python 3.15.0 · Hacker News
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB · Hacker News
Once: Cache CLI Commands · Hacker News
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system · Hacker News
Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs · Hacker News
Theranos.world · Hacker News
Programming Isn’t Special · lobste.rs
There are many themes, but this one is yours · lobste.rs
Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? · lobste.rs
Bevy 0.20 · lobste.rs
The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling · lobste.rs
64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 · lobste.rs
HIP and ROCm as first-class citizens in Guix · lobste.rs
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language · lobste.rs
Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase · lobste.rs
What are you doing this weekend? · lobste.rs
A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU · lobste.rs
BOFH: Smells like team spirit · The Register
Whose roadmap is your software estate running on? · The Register
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide · The Register
The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response · Pragmatic Engineer
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice · Simon Willison
ttok 1.0 · Simon Willison
Quoting Carson Gross · Simon Willison
🤖 hardware 44
Chip Industry Week In Review · SemiEngineering
Department of War dishes out $1.5 billion loan commitment to boost semiconductor supply chain · Tom's Hardware
Save $200 on the 2026 M5 MacBook Air right now, undoing Apple's June price hike with prices starting from $1,099 · Tom's Hardware
Finland orders Google to stop work on two AI data centers over alleged deforestation · Tom's Hardware
Microsoft 365 slashes storage capacity for shared accounts amid industry-wide shortages · Tom's Hardware
PC shipments tumble over 20% in 3Q26 as chip shortages bite · Tom's Hardware
Arc Raiders publisher developing AI anti-cheat stack in escalating war with cheaters · Tom's Hardware
Connecting Chiplets Isn’t Enough – Solving the Data Movement Challenge in Multi-Die Systems · EE Times
CASPA CEO Summit and Why it Matters · SemiWiki
Interview: How AI forecasting and energy scheduling are raising the bar for green power sellers · DigiTimes
Grab this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor from ASRock for the super low price of $596 · Tom's Hardware
AMD attempted to crush the 'Megahertz myth' with its Performance Rating system on this day 25 years ago · Tom's Hardware
Bambu Lab’s 3D printing patent application for a new heatbed design may improve peeling issues · Tom's Hardware
Interview: Europe's enterprise networking market returns to growth as pandemic inventory hangover clears · DigiTimes
Keeping Our Secrets Secret · The Next Platform
🧬 biotech 44
A genome-wide computational approach for therapeutic targets identification and synthetic peptide assembly enable rational vaccine design against Arca · Nature Biotechnology
The fall of Roe dramatically changed abortion access. This researcher used Reddit to capture how · STAT
Chitosan polymeric nanoparticles loaded with a grapefruit-derived flavonoid-rich extract containing naringenin: antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity e · Nature Biotechnology
Proxi MaZiQ array Target Discovery Platform: cell-free identification of drug-interacting proteins using Drug~AirID2C and recombinant human protein ar · Nature Biotechnology
This week in charts: What’s driving biotech’s recent pullback? · BioPharma Dive
Viatris boosts pain drug portfolio with $1.7B buyout of Pacira · BioPharma Dive
Opinion: 50 years ago, my colleagues and I pursued basic research science that became revolutionary · STAT
Stem cell-laden rigid-flexible bioscaffold for neural regeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord injury · Nature Biotechnology
A bioengineered model of human placental exposure to environmental metals during pregnancy · Nature Biotechnology
The combination of yeast cell wall and Heyndrickxia coagulans SANK70258 maximized butyrate production in an in vitro gut model · Nature Biotechnology
Localized transplantation of periodontal ligament-derived mesenchymal stromal cell sheets promotes mandibular wound healing in zoledronate-treated bea · Nature Biotechnology
Integrated phenotypic, biochemical and SSR-based characterization of nutraceutical diversity in guava germplasm · Nature Biotechnology
Thermosonication-assisted CaCl2 treatment reduces mung bean starch digestibility through cell-wall structural modification and starch reorganization · Nature Biotechnology
Laser-induced release of neuroactive proteins from polymer microcapsules using one- and two-photon excitation for directed neural cell differentiation · Nature Biotechnology
Viral evolution of T1L mammalian orthoreovirus enhances breast cancer stem-like cell killing · Nature Biotechnology
Evaluation of refrigeration storage-induced changes in guava-whey drink prepared with whey from buffalo milk · Nature Biotechnology
Partial purification, experimental characterization of L-arginase from Alcaligenes aquatilis BC2 and determination of in vitro anticancer activity · Nature Biotechnology
IGFBP5 Overexpression Reduces Dental Follicle Stem Cell Senescence in the Treatment of Periodontitis · Fight Aging!
Assessing the Burden of Somatic Mutation in Healthy Individuals versus Cancer Patients · Fight Aging!
The Dawn of the Age of the Exoskeleton · Singularity Hub
This Tool Turns Scientific Articles Into Agents That Answer Questions and Collaborate · Singularity Hub
FDA review docs spark Revolution sell-off; Zealand diabetes data underwhelm analysts · BioPharma Dive
TRex Bio prices $117M IPO to support immune drug work · BioPharma Dive
Argenx falls as Sjögren’s setback offsets celiac drug progress · BioPharma Dive
In the hunt for reverse merger targets, Caribou could be prized game · BioPharma Dive
🏗️ infrastructure 22
Council rejects 80MW data center in northern Italy · Data Center Dynamics
Uncertainty over data center development in Trzebnica, Poland · Data Center Dynamics
How colocation providers find and reclaim stranded power capacity · Data Center Dynamics
Anthropic-linked $366m data center project filed for in Cedar Creek, Texas · Data Center Dynamics
Report: Nvidia plans to invest in inference chip startup d-Matrix · Data Center Dynamics
Study proposes more efficient path to fusion ignition · ANS Nuclear Newswire
Danish Decommissioning files final repository proposal · ANS Nuclear Newswire
Google's VP of global infrastructure and capacity Bikash Koley heads to TPU neocloud Crux AI · Data Center Dynamics
Vodafone raises cost savings target for UK unit to £1bn · Data Center Dynamics
Digital Realty begins work on KIX15 data center in Japan · Data Center Dynamics
Starlink expands its ground stations in Spain to seven · Data Center Dynamics
When noise ordinances can't keep up with data centers · Data Center Dynamics
Iraqi gov't reveals plans for five data centers · Data Center Dynamics
Mexican authorities seize cryptomine amid suspected cartel funding links · Data Center Dynamics
Sponsored: Lithium-Ion vs Lead-Acid battery technology: A comprehensive overview of fire risks · Data Center Dynamics
DOE announces grants for SiC cladding research and testing · ANS Nuclear Newswire
💰 finance 49
Ledger investigates potential wallet tampering after reports of $86 million in crypto stolen · CoinDesk
Sam Altman-backed bitcoin insurer Meanwhile secures $37.5 million in Bain Capital Crypto-led round · CoinDesk
Ledger investigates wallet drains involving CryptoBilis buyers; estimate tops $86 million in losses · The Block
Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raises $37.5 million round led by Bain Capital Crypto · The Block
Bitwise CEO says ‘tragic’ Dogecoin ETF failure shows gap between ETF buyers and crypto-app users · The Block
Iran War: Trump TACOS Again Or Does He? Saudi Airports Blasted Again · Naked Capitalism
Worker-Managed Firms Curb Inequality and Promote Competitiveness · Naked Capitalism
Latin America: Elections Are Truly Free When the Results Don’t Matter · Naked Capitalism
On *Stubborn Attachments* and religion (from my email) · Marginal Revolution
Thursday assorted links · Marginal Revolution
Saudi Pilot Among 3 Killed In Riyadh Airport Attack; Houthis Under Pressure On Red Sea Coast · ZeroHedge
The AI Rally Trapdoor Just Swung Open Violently · ZeroHedge
JPMorgan estimates $50 billion has flowed into crypto this year as momentum improves into Q4 · The Block
Strategy shareholders face dilution drag despite brighter bitcoin forecasts, TD Cowen says · The Block
Securitize launches 1:1-backed tokenized stocks, starting with Apple, Nvidia, Strategy and more · The Block
The UN at the Breaking Point and What Could Come Next · Naked Capitalism
Links 10/9/2026 · Naked Capitalism
US and Israel Are Just One Electoral Victory Away from Achieving Strategic Dominance Over South America and Its Resources · Naked Capitalism
A Sentiment Analysis of Cowen, Hanson, Caplan, and Krugman · Marginal Revolution
Guilfoyle Donor Scandal Explodes As Vance Balks, Rubio Dodges And The Donor Calls It Quid Pro Quo · ZeroHedge
Unwanted, Not Unwarranted · ZeroHedge
The BBC Seems To Hate White People... · ZeroHedge
Apple Slides After Report Says iPhone 18 Pro Component Orders Slashed, Signaling Early Demand Trouble · ZeroHedge
Maybe the Rapture is already here · Noahpinion
🏛️ society 25
Skydance says CNN will retain its editorial independence · Pew Research
Iran Conflict Remains Deeply Unpopular as Many Americans Expect It To Go On for Months · Pew Research
Social media and democracy around the world · Pew Research
French Adults Stand Out for Their Economic Pessimism · Pew Research
Acknowledgments · Pew Research
Methodology · Pew Research
Economy Ranks as Top Issue in Midterms for All Voters – But Partisans Differ Over the Importance of Other Issues · Pew Research
Trump’s Approval Rating Drops as Fewer Americans Are Confident in His Handling of the Economy, Other Issues · Pew Research
Appendix: Additional Charts · Pew Research
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Warehouses, a home-improvement store, a farm: Russia’s strikes aimed past the grid at Ukraine’s civilian economy · Euromaidan Press
Saudi disruption squeezes air cargo capacity as peak looms · The Loadstar
AI gold rush transforms trans-Pacific trade and logistics · FreightWaves
Ukraine confirms strikes on Russian cruise missile fuel plant, missile facilities · Kyiv Independent
Russian attacks kill at least 41, injure 67 across Ukraine as glide bombs strike Zaporizhzhia · Kyiv Independent
Eggs cost nearly 20 times US prices in occupied Oleshky, where Ukraine’s ombudsman says people die of hunger every day · Euromaidan Press
Russia has a plan for Ukraine this winter, Ukraine says: intercepted document reportedly outlines up to 1,000 missiles, drones, and bombs targeting 60 · Euromaidan Press
Russia sells cheaper fuel abroad and pays to keep its own pumps running amid Ukraine’s refinery strikes, but crude money still flows · Euromaidan Press
Fought against Ukraine, now claimed to be victims: Kenya’s plea for five men held by Ukraine · Euromaidan Press
Ukraine reruns its Vivaldi playbook outside Kramatorsk and pushes Russia back across the Siverskyi Donets, ISW says · Euromaidan Press
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1688: Russian strike on two passenger buses kills 30 in Kramatorsk · Euromaidan Press
Moldova pulls its border officers off Ukrainian soil again as Russian drones keep hitting crossings · Euromaidan Press
Polish man suspected of helping Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky sentenced to 5.5 years · Notes from Poland
Why Is China Proposing Reciprocal Nuclear Laboratory Visits? · The Diplomat
Second Russian Yandex data center damaged by drone attack in two days, company says · Kyiv Independent
'We always respond in kind' — Zelensky addresses Ukrainian attacks on Russian data center · Kyiv Independent
80% of Moldovans say country is unprepared for attack as Russian drones flow into its airspace, but few back NATO membership · Euromaidan Press
A Raid on a Gay Bar Risks Taiwan’s LGBTQ-Friendly Reputation · The Diplomat
Retailers say extended peak shipping season winding down · FreightWaves
Fake freight broker redirects $273K seafood shipment in New Jersey cargo theft attempt · FreightWaves
US West Coast container rates edge lower · FreightWaves
Global container volumes hit record 17.46 million TEUs · FreightWaves
'We were being arrested like terrorists' - Ukrainian journalist says his detention in Austria was brutal · Kyiv Independent
Russia forcibly removes 25 Ukrainian civilians, including children, from occupied Kharkiv Oblast, ombudsman says · Kyiv Independent
Founder of Rybar, Russian war propaganda channel, detained in Montenegro · Kyiv Independent
Two trains collide in Lviv, injuring 8 · Kyiv Independent
Zelensky sends delegation to meet Trump envoys as he hints at secret US-Russia economic talks · Kyiv Independent
More than 500 drones by Moscow’s count: Kh-101 fuel plant, second Yandex data center, and a far-north refinery hit · Euromaidan Press
Armored assaults aren’t dead. Robots got the credit, but it was Ukrainian infantry in armored trucks that reversed a year of Russian gains near Lyman · Euromaidan Press
Lithuania puts up to 100 soldiers on Kaliningrad border as officials brace for possible Russian mobilization · Euromaidan Press
New species of lichen found in Latvia · LSM English
airBaltic to suspend some routes this winter season · LSM English
Latvian actress Indra Briķe passes away · LSM English
Pro-Kremlin activist case goes back to court in Latvia · LSM English
OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT: The price paid beyond the plate — the huge costs of farmed seafood · Daily Maverick
SCHOLAR TRANSPORTATION: School transport crisis puts 71,000 Western Cape learners at risk as fuel costs soar · Daily Maverick
SA’s Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for championing peace and international law · Daily Maverick
ANTI-FOREIGNER UNREST: Home Affairs scraps asylum seeker directive after violence in Durban and Soweto · Daily Maverick
Dal Santo quits as St Kilda AFLW coach in winless season · ABC Australia
Illness uncertainty as Australia weighs up Test XI · ABC Australia
Poland: Lifeline for Ukrainian refugees confronts donor fatigue and online abuse as anti-Ukrainian sentiment grows · DW English
India's 'cockroaches' vs Election Commission: What you need to know ahead of CJP's October 10 protests · DW English
Polish prosecutors seek to drop case against South Asian men who slaughtered goat in kebab bar · Notes from Poland
Polish police detain more teens following school knife attacks amid fears of further incidents · Notes from Poland
The Daily Roundup · The Wire China
The Bangsamoro’s New Government Faces a Test of Public Trust · The Diplomat
One Year On, China’s K Visa Remains an Opaque Promise · The Diplomat
The Afghan Taliban’s Growing Drone War Against Pakistan · The Diplomat
Investigation Finds That Former High-Ranking Uzbek Security Official Acquired UAE Citizenship · The Diplomat
FSL cashes in on another veteran product tanker · Splash247
A Virtual Compliance Department for Every Fleet · FreightWaves
BIMCO moves to break ship retrofit cost deadlock · Splash247
UK P&I and TT Club merger clears member vote · Splash247
Diana rolls capesize into $13m fixture · Splash247
Formal EO order on red dye diesel short on specifics · FreightWaves
Why Trucking Rates Are Rising Without More Freight · FreightWaves
Factory backlogs build as freight and steel costs climb · FreightWaves
Two 14-year-old boys killed by an explosive device in a field in Sumy Oblast · Euromaidan Press
Latvians made more than 5 million trips last year · LSM English
Booze bribe case heads to court in Valmiera, Latvia · LSM English
Smiltēns could be next Latvian Saeima Speaker · LSM English
Strongest winds will be on Latvian western coast Friday · LSM English
News in simple Latvian: 7th October, 2026 · LSM English
Cricket: Anrich Nortje’s impressive Test cricket return hands Proteas narrow advantage over Aussies · Daily Maverick
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: High court orders ANC to reinstate Andile Lungisa after unlawful removal · Daily Maverick
Disaster resilience in SA depends on connecting institutions, resources and communities · Daily Maverick
I have a picture for you! 03 October-09 October · Daily Maverick
TOUGH EXAMINATION: Sharks and Lions face early tests for United Rugby Championship playoff credentials · Daily Maverick
GLOBAL RECOGNITION: SA’s Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for championing peace and international law · Daily Maverick
UN human rights office welcomes Nobel Prize winner Pillay as staunch defender of human rights · Daily Maverick
CRÉATION AFRICA: This Mthatha artist turns shapes and lines into evocative African stories · Daily Maverick
Anthony De Ceglie steps down as Perth Bears CEO · ABC Australia
Wallabies must 'walk the walk' if 40-year-old curse is to end · ABC Australia
Piastri hopes for better in Singapore as fading challenger promises 'all-out' attack · ABC Australia
Khawaja's 'Sandpapergate' book does not worry Cummins · ABC Australia
Brisbane Lions slump a long time coming for AFLW powerhouse · ABC Australia
Art for freedom: Maria Kalesnikava in Bonn · DW English
Polish parliament approves ban on nighttime alcohol sales in shops · Notes from Poland
Japan sees record number of workers’ compensation approvals for mental health in fiscal 2025 · Japan Times
As influenza cases rise, residents rush to get flu shots · Japan Times
Today in Korean history · Yonhap
Indian man files petition to S. Korean rights watchdog for physical abuse during deportation · Yonhap
As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators · Rest of World
Xinjiang’s “Blue Miracle” · The Wire China
India’s Energy Transition Is Complicated, But Progressing · The Diplomat
What Pakistan Will and Won’t Do in Yemen · The Diplomat
Beyond Deference: India’s Bangladesh Reckoning · The Diplomat
Afghanistan and the BLA’s Evolving Capabilities · The Diplomat
AV truck fleets win 5-Year exemption on warning beacons · FreightWaves
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The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects · MIT Tech Review
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no · MIT Tech Review
Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller · MIT Tech Review
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses · MIT Tech Review
AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why · 3 Quarks Daily
Darwin: The Evolution of a Life · 3 Quarks Daily
Astonished Daily: A Conversation with Mary Cappello · 3 Quarks Daily
We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs · MIT Tech Review
Barbara Ward’s vision · Aeon
First reactions | Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize 2026 · 3 Quarks Daily
When Compassion Becomes Capital: The Economics of a Dead Mouse · 3 Quarks Daily
Misrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustic · 3 Quarks Daily
What Will Happen to Indian IT? · 3 Quarks Daily
We Are Already Post-Human · Noema
Ballots Everywhere: Times & Places · Astral Codex Ten
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