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A Chicago working paper on ADP payrolls shows firms kept 2–4% raise norms while inflation hit 7–9%, leaving a permanent real-wage cut after prices cooled.
Inspired by bfi.uchicago.edu · Erik Hurst, Christina Patterson, Nela Richardson and Ye Liv Wang
A leaked Apple demo of camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence raises two products at once: inconspicuous computer-vision sensors, and a potentially powerful assistive wearable—if the privacy model is designed before the hardware ships.
Inspired by macrumors.com · MacRumors
California’s first replacement-tire efficiency standards start in 2029. Off-road exemptions exist, but many road-legal all-terrain truck tires may simply stop being sold here if they cannot meet rolling-resistance limits.
Inspired by grist.org · Grist
China and the United States are racing toward crewed south-pole landings and lunar bases. The finish line is infrastructure—power, water, comms, transport—not a flag, and not legal ownership of the Moon.
Inspired by science.slashdot.org · Slashdot
Reticulum is a transport-agnostic networking stack for communications that should keep working when the Internet does not—compelling because the transport is replaceable, while metadata, radio physics, and a missing independent spec still matter.
Inspired by reticulum.network
Ian Cortina, EI3LH, hosts a working telnet BBS in BASIC on a Casio VX-4’s 8 KB of RAM—bridged by a Pi Zero W at 4,800 baud—proving constraints can be the whole point of a networking experiment.
Inspired by ei3lh.eu · Ian Cortina
BBC coverage of CEO AI manifestos lands beside real headcount cuts at Block, Atlassian, Coinbase, and Rackspace—interested testimony from people who both sell the future of work and shrink today’s payrolls.
Inspired by bbc.com · BBC
Google’s HEIR compiler aims to make encrypted AI inference a practical option—running recommendation, fraud, intrusion, and hotword models on ciphertext so the server never needs the plaintext.
Inspired by blog.google · Google
Cloudflare Gateway can detect MCP traffic, log destinations, apply DLP, and force approved paths through MCP Portals—treating agent tool access as privileged network traffic instead of hoping every client is configured safely.
Inspired by blog.cloudflare.com · Cloudflare
Cloudflare Access can now attach to a Worker—or every Worker in an account—so authentication happens before code runs and private stays the default for rapidly built internal tools in an AI-assisted development era.
Inspired by blog.cloudflare.com · Cloudflare
Flock Safety’s new privacy guardrails—seven-day default retention, mandatory Audit Assistance, case codes, and auto lockouts—arrive after years of abuse cases, contract suspensions, and ACLU skepticism that this is PR, not reform.
Inspired by flocksafety.com · Flock Safety
OpenAI’s Codex is becoming one persistent agent across ChatGPT, editors, and terminals—with native Linux sandboxing via seccomp and Landlock—while I wait for the heavier new ChatGPT app on Windows to settle before chasing every release.
Inspired by openai.com · OpenAI
Artificial Analysis’s first Grok 4.6 results put it near the top of agentic benchmarks with far fewer turns and tokens than Claude Opus 5—matching why Grok became my daily coding driver over Claude’s wall-of-prose style.
Inspired by artificialanalysis.ai · Artificial Analysis
Kevin Smith is writing Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles, the first official crossover between Star Wars and Marvel Comics—Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca meeting Spider-Man and the Avengers while Doctor Doom sides with Darth Vader.
Inspired by boingboing.net · Boing Boing
Ars Technica reports a rogue Wi-Fi hotspot impersonating Delta’s onboard network on a flight home from DEF CON—an evil-twin attack that looks especially foolish among security researchers primed to notice exactly this trick.
Inspired by arstechnica.com · Ars Technica
BobDaHacker reports a simple tl;dv authorization failure exposing meeting metadata for tens of thousands of users, then months without a meaningful vendor response—security culture is what happens after the report lands.
Inspired by bobdahacker.com · BobDaHacker
Slashdot asks what switching among Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS really costs: not only licenses and apps, but years of muscle memory, utilities, and habits migration tools cannot move—classic economic switching costs and lock-in.
Inspired by ask.slashdot.org · Slashdot
Zscaler analysis of 351 ransomware victims shows attackers optimizing for business privilege—managers in finance, HR, and ops—not just admin accounts or CEOs, professionalizing human leverage over pure technical access.
Inspired by theregister.com · The Register
Littleton, Massachusetts says Flock Safety reactivated license plate cameras the town had deactivated for privacy review—without notice—raising whether municipalities actually control the surveillance systems they pay for.
Inspired by lowellsun.com · The Lowell Sun
Senko Rašić challenges the claim that code was never the hard part—hiring, craft, and buggy software say otherwise—arguing understanding why to build and how to build well both stay hard while AI shifts where scarce effort goes.
Inspired by blog.senko.net · Senko Rašić
