Monthly Highlights
7201.
'Severe water stress': why desalination plants are the Gulf's greatest weakness (theguardian.com)
7202.
40 Years of Wireless Evolution Leads to a Smart, Sensing Network (spectrum.ieee.org)
7203.
Made-in-Canada Circuit Boards (reilindustrial.com)
7204.
Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code (oreilly.com)
7205.
Mercury – Transforming Drone (github.com)
7206.
How we built a prompt optimization agent (extend.ai)
7207.
Show HN: Agentic Data Analysis with Claude Code (rubenflamshepherd.com)
7208.
Virtual Math Museum (virtualmathmuseum.org)
7209.
Haarp: A Never-Ending Conspiracy Theory in Remote Alaska (theatlantic.com)
7210.
Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval (arstechnica.com)
7211.
Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was 'strategic mistake', EU chief says (reuters.com)
7212.
After building agents for 2 years, I stopped using function calling (old.reddit.com)
7213.
After Decapitation, What's Next? (gzeromedia.com)
7214.
Cognitive shuffling: The micro-dreaming game that helps you sleep (bbc.com)
7215.
Moscow's Internet Outages Drive Sales of Pagers and Paper Maps (bloomberg.com)
7216.
Permission denied:Help stop Google's attack on free and open Android development (appdevforall.org)
7217.
GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan (theregister.com)
7218.
Pentagon CTO says 'no chance' of renewed Anthropic negotiations (reuters.com)
7219.
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added (phoronix.com)
7220.
I put my AI on a PIP. It worked (pip-skill.pages.dev)
7221.
A 'high blast radius': Amazon probes surge in outages linked to AI coding tools (tessl.io)
7222.
The First Compact Disc Player: Sony's 1982 CDP-101 (obsoletesony.substack.com)
7223.
Erasing the Word "Woman" (quillette.com)
7224.
Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward (theregister.com)
7225.
How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers? (shkspr.mobi)
7226.
The Talent Pipeline Is Collapsing. Your Team Will Feel It Next (newsletter.thelongcommit.com)
7227.
Who is footing the AI energy bill? Debate over data center electricity costs (cnbc.com)
7228.
Anti-Slop: A GitHub action that detects and automatically closes AI slop PRs (github.com)
7229.
Kalshi co-founder on risky predictions she made that led to $1B (cnbc.com)
7230.
The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 (theconversation.com)