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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer,

No, I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version is A-OK. | Sid's Blog

Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.

Sam Burns' Tech Blog

Concrete Laptop Stand

I made a laptop stand out of solid concrete, in the style of brutalist architecture, with themes of urbex and urban decay

Tey Bannerman

How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one

Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

oss-security - Re: CVE-2026-31431: CopyFail: linux local privilege scalation

arXiv.org

Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

Can a large language model (LLM) improve at code generation using only its own raw outputs, without a verifier, a teacher model, or reinforcement learning? We answer in the affirmative with simple self-distillation (SSD): sample solutions from the model with certain temperature and truncation configurations, then fine-tune on those samples with standard supervised fine-tuning. SSD improves Qwen3-30B-Instruct from 42.4% to 55.3% pass@1 on LiveCodeBench v6, with gains concentrating on harder probl

iNaturalist

A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist

GitLab

GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

Wheel Front

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price .Read automotive and aftermarket news today on Wheel Front

[MODEL] Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates · Issue #42796 · anthropics/claude-code

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues for similar behavior reports This report does NOT contain sensitive information (API keys, passwords, etc.) Type of Behavior Issue Other unexpect...

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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a …

GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman.

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman. - JuliusBrussee/caveman

GitHub - arman-bd/guppylm: A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish.

A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish. Contribute to arman-bd/guppylm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mvidia

The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane

Bad software is a choice you make

Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold

A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it

Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

GitHub - davmlaw/they_live_adblocker: Replace Ads with They Live style slogans

Replace Ads with They Live style slogans. Contribute to davmlaw/they_live_adblocker development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - bikini/exploitarium: A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not a

A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if hand...

ergosphere.blog

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.