Yearly Favorites
1771.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (brave.com)
1772.
Apple: SSH and FileVault (keith.github.io)
1773.
Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (mistral.ai)
1774.
IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 (ikeamuseum.com)
1775.
The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state (nber.org)
1776.
Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions (gptzero.me)
1777.
Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)
1778.
Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack (twitter.com)
1779.
A Social Filesystem (overreacted.io)
1780.
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)
1781.
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists (reuters.com)
1782.
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air (nytimes.com)
1783.
Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
1784.
PuTTY has a new website (putty.software)
1785.
Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers (blog.j11y.io)
1786.
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (sparkfun.com)
1787.
Why haven't local-first apps become popular? (marcobambini.substack.com)
1788.
A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) (endtimes.dev)
1789.
What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? (lumafield.com)
1790.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
1791.
My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (old.reddit.com)
1792.
Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs (twitter.com)
1793.
Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library (openculture.com)
1794.
How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform (codewall.ai)
1795.
Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)
1796.
CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)
1797.
We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness (newyorker.com)
1798.
Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 (riksbank.se)
1799.
Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf (cognition.ai)
1800.
Qwen3-Max-Thinking (qwen.ai)