Alvaro Lopez Ortega / 2026-07-22 Briefing

Created Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:06:40 +0000 Modified Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:06:54 +0000
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Yope raised $12.3M seed for its algorithm-free private social network, now with ~15M users. Cashea, Venezuela’s largest fintech, secured $100M across Series A and B. Meta named Assaf Keren as new CISO, replacing Guy Rosen. The White House alleged Moonshot AI stole Anthropic’s Fable model via sophisticated distillation. Xbox brought four classic titles to PC with 4X resolution. Science Corp earned EU approval for its Prima bionic eye treating macular degeneration. Tencent shares fell 7% on gaming revenue fears. A critical Windows 11 vulnerability (CVE-2026-50343) grants SYSTEM privileges without admin rights.

🔒 Security & Privacy

Meta names Assaf Keren as CISO, succeeding Guy Rosen (leaves 2026)

Meta has named Assaf Keren, formerly chief information security officer at Qualtrics and PayPal, as its new CISO. He will succeed Guy Rosen, who will remain through a transition period before leaving later this year.

Dark Elevator: Windows Install Service Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2026-50343)

A local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-50343) in Windows 11’s InstallService allows a normal user to gain SYSTEM privileges by chaining two logic flaws: a writable plugin map registry key and a COM class whose backing DLL can be planted by any user under %PROGRAMDATA%. The exploit is deterministic, requires no administrator rights, UAC bypass, or reboot, and provides full SYSTEM-level code execution.

Reddit deems plain HTML unsafe

Reddit now requires users to log in to access old.reddit.com, claiming the change blocks abusive scraping, while new Reddit remains freely accessible without login. The author argues this is not about security but about controlling valuable human-generated data for training large language models.

LG to ban residential proxies

LG Electronics will suspend smart TV apps that turn webOS devices into residential proxy nodes, following research that found over 42% of these apps contained such SDKs. The company is requiring developers to remove the proxy functionality or face app suspension, and it plans to strengthen app evaluation processes. LG also faces criticism for bundling McAfee software in its monitors.

DOJ seizes more than 1,000 domains used for illegal World Cup streams

The US Department of Justice seized over 1,000 domains illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, with assistance from FIFA, NBC Universal, ACE, and Warner Bros. Colombian authorities also conducted raids on counterfeit merchandise networks, resulting in 11 arrests. Officials warned that illegal streaming sites expose users to malware and payment theft.

Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits

A new Windows stealer malware called Dophin X targets over 300 applications and includes an AI profiler to help criminals maximize their profits. The tool is described as a successor to the Flipper device, giving attackers a sophisticated way to extract credentials and data.

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree

A Herefordshire council worker received a suspended sentence for a four-day data-snooping spree in breach of the Computer Misuse Act. The employee was spared immediate prison time.

It’s not a “rogue AI” when a badly made security harness executes scripts

The article indicates that Mastodon’s web application requires JavaScript to be enabled for use. It also suggests that users can alternatively try native apps for their platform.

A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1M Social Security Numbers

Puerto Rico’s Municipal Revenue Collection Center (CRIM) inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of about 1 million people through a vulnerability in its property map, but denied any breach after being notified by journalists. The security holes were later patched, though CRIM insisted no protected information was at risk and refused to notify affected users. This incident is the latest in a series of cybersecurity lapses affecting Puerto Rico’s government agencies.

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

A critique posted on social media argues that passkeys, despite being a more secure authentication method, were designed by engineers who failed to consider consumer usability, resulting in a confusing and impractical experience for the average user.

Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions

Codeberg is proposing an amendment to its Terms of Use to ban projects consisting mostly of LLM-generated code, citing unclear copyright status and review fatigue. The proposal has drawn both support for addressing ethical concerns and criticism over vague wording and potential overreach for educational or small utilities. It is currently scheduled for a membership vote, with minor wording adjustments allowed.

A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free

A memory corruption bug in the redis-client library caused flaky tests and WebSocket failures by preventing Redis from receiving subscribe commands from ActionCable. The issue was discovered after a Redis gem upgrade led to test instability, and the team traced it through additional logging and reproduction efforts.

OSS-SEC: 432 Linux kernel CVEs (in less than 32 hours)

Between July 19-20, 2026, the Linux kernel published 432 CVEs, adding to over 40 others that month. Jan Schaumann argues this volume makes prioritizing individual kernel changes infeasible, and suggests common approaches like using LLMs or waiting for high-profile issues are inadequate, expressing uncertainty about how to effectively handle the deluge.

🤖 AI & Machine Learning

White House Alleges Moonshot AI Distilled Anthropic’s Fable

White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios stated that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable model for its K3 using a sophisticated internal platform to evade detection, and also acquired advanced GB300 servers. The U.S. supports legitimate AI distillation but condemns large-scale covert industrial theft of proprietary technology.

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

xAI has released a Grok AI sidebar add-in for Excel that offers analysis and financial modeling capabilities. The tool is available for a fee.

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Gigatoken is a high-speed tokenizer that serves as a drop-in replacement for HuggingFace tokenizers and tiktoken, achieving up to ~1000x faster encoding throughput on supported hardware. Benchmarks demonstrate throughput exceeding 20 GB/s on high-end processors, and it supports a wide range of tokenizers and CPUs. The library offers a compatibility mode for easy integration and a native API for maximum performance.

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

An analysis of seven AI models across 48 animal-vehicle prompts, including the famous “pelican on a bicycle,” found no evidence that models performed better on the specific pelican-bicycle combination. Neither qualitative nor quantitative analysis showed higher scores for pelican images or the pelican-bicycle cell over other animals or prompts. The study concludes that AI labs have not “pelicanmaxxed” their models.

I used ChatGPT to sue a Norwegian airline from New York and get $4760

A passenger used ChatGPT-Pro to successfully claim €2,400 in EU261 compensation plus expenses after Norse Atlantic delayed their Oslo-to-New York flight overnight due to a technical issue. Despite offering only a $25 refreshment card, the airline ultimately wired $4,760.36 following an 11-month process involving the Norwegian complaint body and conciliation court. The case relied on EU Regulation 261/2004 applying to flights from any EEA airport, including Norway.

Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept

Researchers used a classic MUD (text game) to evaluate LLMs for about $99 in API credits, creating a proof-of-concept benchmark. They found that an LLM classifier used as a judge was unreliable, with per-model agreement between two judges ranging from 85% to 22%, causing one frontier model to drop six positions when classifier-dependent metrics were removed. The authors caution that this is not a validated benchmark but highlights the noise and potential bias in judge-based evaluations.

OpenAI Presence

OpenAI introduced Presence, a product that helps enterprises deploy reliable AI agents for high-value tasks by combining reasoning with policies, guardrails, and escalation rules. Each deployment focuses on a specific job, limits agent access, and includes a Codex-powered improvement loop to adapt to changing conditions. Proven at scale, Presence already powers OpenAI’s own phone support, resolving 75% of issues without human assistance and reducing handoffs by 15 percentage points in 10 days.

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

A Filipino restaurant’s menu was redesigned with AI-generated images, which the author found uncanny and disappointing, though the food itself was good and evoked nostalgia. The author criticizes small businesses for using AI out of ignorance, preferring even classic bad fonts over such AI-generated visuals.

Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

Codeberg is proposing an amendment to its Terms of Use to prohibit sharing projects that “mostly consist of code” generated by large language models, citing unclear copyright status and ethical concerns. The proposal, #1253, has been forwarded for a membership vote after debate over its wording and scope.

One-third of 36 popular MCP servers fail for agents due to poor tool descriptions, naming, and schema design, not protocol compliance. Most low-scoring servers have zero parameter descriptions, causing models to hallucinate or select wrong tools. The highest-impact fix is adding .describe() to every parameter, as even unmaintained servers with thorough documentation score highest.

A simple API for offering your coding agent a smoke break

A humorous API allows coding agents to take simulated smoke breaks via endpoints like POST /smoke and GET /count. It is free, rate-limited to ten breaks per minute, and requires no authentication. The author suggests donating to the American Cancer Society if the joke is appreciated.

🔧 Developer Tools

Announcing Topcoat: a framework for building full-stack reactive web apps with Rust

Topcoat is a modular, batteries-included Rust framework for building full-stack reactive web apps that are entirely server-rendered using HTML snippets with reactive metadata similar to HTMX. It was motivated by AI’s ability to erase language productivity gaps, making Rust viable for web apps, and by the need for a rich Rust ecosystem in organizations already using the language.

Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears

The Unicode character U+21A9 can render as either text or emoji, causing display inconsistencies across platforms. The correct fix is to append Variation Selector-15 (U+FE0E) for text or Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) for emoji in the source code. Over 1,000 other Unicode codepoints also have dual text/emoji presentations, making variation selectors essential for consistent rendering.

dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI

dcmake is a new GUI debugger for CMake that leverages CMake’s built-in --debugger mode and the Debugger Adaptor Protocol (DAP) to enable interactive debugging—including stepping, breakpoints, and variable inspection—on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Built with Dear ImGui and accelerated by AI, the tool was prototyped in 30 minutes and completed in a single day, a process the author estimates would have taken a month before 2026.

PyPI releases now reject new files after 14 days

PyPI now rejects new file uploads to releases older than 14 days to prevent poisoning via compromised tokens or workflows. The change was prompted by the LiteLLM and Telnyx compromises, and data showed minimal disruption to existing workflows. This restriction protects users and reduces cleanup work for PyPI admins.

Unranked, systemd, crawls

Marginalia Search migrated from Docker to bare systemd in production, added an unranked query endpoint, and created a separate index for wide domains. These changes eliminated operational headaches, reduced expensive queries, and cut crawl times in half.

SIMD for Collision

Box3D uses “wide SIMD” to process multiple edge-edge tests simultaneously in the Separating Axis Test (SAT) for convex hull collision detection, which is particularly beneficial for hulls with many edges (e.g., a 32-point boulder with 89 edges). This approach avoids the quadratic complexity bottleneck of SAT by testing one edge of hull A against four edges of hull B at once. The article presents benchmark results showing performance gains from this wide SIMD method.

log is non-monotonous in PHP and Lua

PHP and Lua’s two-argument log functions use specialized base functions (like log10) for exact bases but compute log(x)/log(base) for others, creating a discontinuity at the boundary that can flip comparison results. This implementation artifact, not typical floating-point imprecision, breaks assumptions about consistency and undermines IEEE-754’s robustness.

libei integrations in the XDG RemoteDesktop and InputCapture portals

libei, a transport layer for logical input events, has been integrated into the XDG Remote Desktop and Input Capture portals with session persistence support. It also enables XWayland to translate XTEST events for input emulation.

Rewriting the Futhark type checker

The article traces the evolution of Futhark’s type checker from a simple top-down, annotation-based system to a more complex implementation incorporating Hindley-Milner inference, records, uniqueness types, and size types. As features accumulated, the single-traversal approach with increasingly complicated state became cumbersome and difficult to debug. The author concludes that this design eventually stopped being effective.

Prefactoring: Clear the Way for Your New Feature

Prefactoring involves restructuring existing code to accommodate an upcoming feature before implementing it, which simplifies feature implementation, speeds up code reviews, reduces bugs, and enables safer rollbacks. For instance, extracting a duplicated display name helper into a function first allows cleanly adding middle name support later.

Slash Pages

The article details common “slash pages” (e.g., /now, /about, /uses) used on personal websites as part of the IndieWeb movement, each serving a specific purpose like describing the individual or listing interests. The concept was independently coined by Caleb Hearth and Shellsharks, and this particular list was compiled by Robb Knight.

Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

Unlayer (YC W22) offers a platform that lets developers embed email, web page, and document builders into their apps, supporting creation via code, a visual drag-and-drop editor, or AI. The service includes an open-source React component library (Elements), a visual builder for non-technical users, and a document builder for structured content like invoices and proposals. It aims to unify developer, end-user, and AI workflows for content creation.

Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Bento is a single, self-contained HTML file (around 560 KB) that functions as a complete slide deck tool, enabling editing, presentation, animations, printing, and live collaborative editing entirely offline without any installation or cloud login. It can be shared via email or Airdrop, and users can convert existing PowerPoint files into Bento slides by dropping them into Claude or ChatGPT. All code is MIT licensed and available on GitHub.

Perlin’s Noise Algorithm

The article defines noise as a function producing random values and introduces coherent noise, which creates smooth patterns where small input changes result in small output changes. It presents Perlin noise, developed by Ken Perlin in 1983, as the most famous coherent noise algorithm for generating natural-looking computer graphics.

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

Ghost Cut addresses three flaws in traditional cut and paste: it disrupts undo by replacing clipboard content, causes document reflow, and is not atomic. The proposed mechanism fades selected text on cut without affecting the clipboard, making the move a single atomic operation fully reversible with one undo.

Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser

Hologram, an Elixir framework, is close to becoming the first full-stack framework with built-in local-first capabilities (offline with automatic sync). Recent community and sponsorship-driven development delivered major features including Elixir’s standard library in the browser, JavaScript interop, realtime pub/sub, and expanded event/middleware systems. However, continued progress and the local-first roadmap now depend on securing additional company support over the next few months.

NVLink significantly boosts tensor parallel prompt processing (30%) and FSDP training (nearly 3x) on two RTX 3090s, but has no effect on token generation, layer split, or DDP. Proper testing required bypassing Nvidia’s driver restrictions to enable true P2P communication instead of slower shared host memory.

The startup’s Postgres survival guide

This article offers a practical guide for startups to prevent Postgres failures, focusing on schema design (using primary keys, timestamptz, and identity columns) and query optimization through proper indexing. It shares lessons from two years of production experience, emphasizing the difference between index scans and slower sequential scans, and targets engineers familiar with SQL basics.

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

late.sh is a command-line clubhouse accessible via SSH, featuring radio, arcade games, a collaborative ASCII artboard, daily challenges, live chat, and news discussion. User identity is tied to SSH public keys with no passwords, and privacy is maintained by storing only key fingerprints without IP logging or analytics.

💰 Business & Funding

Yope, ~15M users micro communities, no algorithms/ads/public, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone

Yope, a private social network focused on “micro communities” for friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding led by Northzone. The app, which has attracted nearly 15 million registered users, offers an algorithm-free, ad-free experience with no public content, relying on a subscription model and AI-powered features like mini-games to drive engagement.

Cashea raises $40M Series A ($20M debt) and $60M Series B

Cashea, Venezuela’s largest fintech startup, raised $100 million across a $40 million Series A (including $20 million in debt) and a $60 million Series B. Global investors are backing the company’s potential to expand in a market where lending has been constrained for years.

Tencent shares fall ~7%, most since April 2025, on Aug 12 earnings rumor; NetEase drops 5%+

Tencent’s Hong Kong-listed shares fell 7.1%, their biggest drop since April 2025, on worries over weaker mobile gaming revenue and a rotation into AI stocks. The decline triggered a broader selloff in Chinese gaming stocks, dragging the Hang Seng Tech Index down 3%, with NetEase and XD Inc. also dropping over 5%.

Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions

Ireland has stalled a €1 billion Microsoft tender due to digital sovereignty concerns, with the government planning another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals.

OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

OpenNode is a Bitcoin payment processor that enables businesses to accept fast, low-cost bitcoin payments and payouts via its API, ecommerce plugins, or hosted payment pages. The provided code example shows how to create a charge using their Node.js library.

The US has collected about $13B of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?

The United States has collected approximately $13 billion from Venezuela’s oil revenue. The article questions where these funds are currently held and how they have been allocated.

🔬 Science & Health

Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima bionic eye treating macular degeneration

Science Corp, co-founded by Neuralink’s Max Hodak, has received EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye implant that treats age-related macular degeneration. The device works in conjunction with glasses to restore sight in certain forms of blindness, marking a key regulatory milestone.

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that’s almost as massive as Jupiter

Astronomers have identified a candidate exomoon with a mass nearly equal to Jupiter’s. This object orbits a brown dwarf, which itself circles another star, complicating existing cosmic classification systems.

Does creatine make you smarter?

Creatine is a safe nutrient that helps deliver energy in cells, does not increase testosterone or cause hair loss, and is backed by extensive research. It significantly improves strength and power by 5-15% by aiding ATP regeneration during short bursts of exercise.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Project Reconecta installed eight rope bridges in Brazil, enabling 15,000 safe crossings by arboreal wildlife over 15 months and eliminating roadkill for monitored species. The low-cost design is now Brazil’s recommended national highway standard and is being expanded to other biomes and Suriname to mitigate habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss.

Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. Import Reliance with Substitution and Recycling

The U.S. relies on imports of critical minerals for batteries and semiconductors, but substitution and recycling technologies could reduce this reliance. Battery recycling and alternatives like lithium iron phosphate may cut imports in 2-3 years, though challenges remain in capacity and feedstock. For semiconductors, substitution and recycling are years away due to performance and market hurdles, with policy options needed to support progress.

Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids

NEO Radar is a browser-based orbital mechanics engine that tracks 41,812 real asteroids using JPL Horizons ephemeris and full gravitational perturbations from all eight planets. It simulates 47 high-fidelity objects with RK4 N-body dynamics and maintains position accuracy within the actual uncertainty cone over a 50-year benchmark, unlike simplified two-body models that drift tens of thousands of kilometers. Users can toggle outer-planet gravity to observe uncertainty cone widening during Jupiter flybys.

Airbus Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions

Airbus is launching a three-year flight-test campaign to evaluate full-scale wing extensions on an A321neo, aiming to assess how increased wingspan affects handling and aerodynamic efficiency to reduce fuel burn. The programme, which has received £227 million in UK government funding, builds on earlier ground-based demonstrators as part of Airbus’s Wing of Tomorrow initiative for next-generation single-aisle aircraft.

Ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health rules

Major ultra-processed food companies have filed at least 235 lawsuits from 2010-2025 to overturn, weaken, or delay government policies targeting junk diets, according to a Guardian investigation. While three-quarters of resolved cases were won by governments, the litigation delayed vital health policies for years and imposed significant costs, mirroring tactics used by the tobacco industry.

Monte Kali

Monte Kali is a 520-meter-tall salt spoil heap in Heringen, Germany, created by K+S from potash mining byproducts, covering 98 hectares and containing about 201 million tonnes of salt as of 2016, with 900 tonnes added hourly. The heap has severely salinated the Werra river and groundwater, reducing invertebrate species from 60–100 to just 3, and dumping is licensed until 2030.

Phenethylamines I have feared and loathed (2020)

The article critiques the cultural bias favoring natural psychedelics over synthetic phenethylamines, despite both acting on similar serotonin receptors. It highlights phenethylamines like 2C-P, which have high potency and long durations (up to 20 hours), but notes their generally less ideal safety profiles, including risks of vasoconstriction and serotonin syndrome.

🌐 Tech & Culture

Xbox expands backward compatibility to PC: 4 classic games with 4X res, V-Sync

Microsoft expands Xbox backward compatibility to PC with four classic original Xbox games: Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies, Fuzion Frenzy, and Blinx: The Time Sweeper. These titles feature PC enhancements like 4X resolution scaling, V-Sync, and Xbox achievements, with more games expected in the future.

ECC and DDR5

ECC RAM uses Hamming codes to correct single-bit errors and detect double-bit errors, with DDR4 employing a 72-bit data width. DDR5 includes on-die ECC to address higher error rates from smaller, faster memory, but it does not replace system-level ECC, and potential interactions between the two remain a concern.

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

Elon Musk’s latest merchandise release is reportedly produced using child labor. The marketing strategy preys on the enthusiasm of Tesla fans, who are easily parted from their money.

GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions

GNOME can be made to resemble Windows using the new Simple-taskbar extension, but this approach risks breakage with updates. A simpler, more stable alternative is GNOME Flashback, which provides a Windows-like interface without relying on extensions.

Redmond’s reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products

Microsoft will discontinue several products in October 2026, including Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies, with all facing end-of-life within weeks of each other.

Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2

Raspberry Pi has launched a new 10.1-inch Touch Display 2, offering a larger screen and higher pixel density. The display requires a Raspberry Pi 5 to drive it.

Web swing through midtown NYC

The article details control instructions for a voxel-based Manhattan web-swinging game, including keyboard and mouse inputs (left mouse to swing, WASD to steer, space for jump/dash, shift to dive) and mobile touch equivalents. It also credits the music track “POWERUP!” by Jeremy Blake.

A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real

MIT researchers have developed the Y-Zipper, a 3D-printed, three-sided fastener that transforms flexible strips into a rigid, load-bearing beam when zipped and back to pliable when unzipped. Originally conceived by Polaroid engineer Bill Freeman in 1985, the concept was revitalized using modern design tools and 3D printing, enabling customizable applications from camping gear to medical equipment.

Making

The author reflects on the deep fulfillment found in personally creating things—code, carpentry, art—contrasting it with the dissatisfaction of using AI to generate creations on his behalf. He argues that items built by others at his request do not feel like his own work, leading to a sense of sadness.

HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

The article presents a curated list of legendary Hacker News links, categorized as Hall of Fame (1,169 links) or Candidates (1,994 links), with statistics like peak points and submission history. It also explains the Hall induction criteria: at least five submissions, three distinct submitters, three active years, and two qualifying breakout events from different submitters at least 720 days apart.

Which streaming service was that on again

Streaming originally offered a cheap, ad-free, all-in-one experience, but as studios launched their own platforms, content became fragmented across multiple services, driving up costs and introducing ad-supported tiers while making it harder for viewers to find movies and shows.

How to Read a Painting

A project guides viewers through fifty famous paintings, revealing hidden details like two extra figures in the Arnolfini Portrait that typical museum labels omit. It offers an eight-step process applicable to any painting, encouraging viewers to look first and interpret later, with access to 881 open-access paintings.

Back to Kagi

The author returned to Kagi after trying Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, and a custom SearxNG, finding that none matched Kagi’s result quality, privacy, and features like summarization and CSS customization. They were frustrated by Google’s focus on AI and media over text, and by rate-limiting issues with SearxNG. The author feels relieved to be back with Kagi, which they consider far superior.

10 REM"_(C2SLFF4

The first line of the BASIC game The Wizard’s Castle contains a REM statement with the string “_(C2SLFF4”, which is actually Z80 machine code hidden as ASCII text. This code is executed via a USR function call after a trampoline is set up with POKE commands, generating a seed value for the pseudo-random number generator.

How the judge on Oracle vs. Google taught himself to code

Judge Alsup, a rare judge who codes, used his programming background to dismiss the significance of the rangeCheck code in the Oracle v. Google trial, noting its simplicity. His technical hobby, which includes coding in BASIC, helps him understand complex tech cases like Waymo v. Uber, making him an exception to the legal system’s struggle with technology.

A new kind of FPS aim trainer

A new aim trainer for first-person shooters analyzes raw crosshair movement to identify motor and perceptual weaknesses, rather than relying on scored scenarios. It automatically adjusts sensitivity and difficulty to create optimal playlists for faster skill progression.

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

The original Apollo 11 guidance computer source code for the Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module (Luminary099) has been digitized and made publicly available. The repository provides transcriptions of hardcopy scans from the MIT Museum, with contributions welcome to correct any discrepancies.

Tesla Balance Bike

A Tesla balance bike is highlighted with the tagline “Powered and protected by Privacy,” suggesting a focus on privacy features integrated into the product. The article repeats this phrase, indicating it as the key message about the bike.

Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

Pieter Hintjens’ webpage provides his biography, portfolio, and a thank-you for donations supporting his children after his passing. It also features an extensive archive of his podcast appearances, interviews, and video talks from various conferences and events.