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☀️ Tech & AI Daily — March 27, 2026

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🏁 Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

David reverse-engineered Tesla's autopilot computer (HW3) to boot Linux and run custom code. Pure hacker joy meets actual engineering insight into Tesla's neural net acceleration chips. The breakdown of how he bypassed secure boot and got root access is chef's kiss level documentation.

bugs.xdavidhu.me • Mar 23

📌 LiteLLM malware attack: minute-by-minute response

The real-time transcript of how the LiteLLM team handled a supply chain attack that hit PyPI packages 1.82.7 and 1.82.8. Shows the chaos and coordination when your open source dependency gets compromised. Required reading if you're running agent infrastructure.

futuresearch.ai • Mar 26

🛡️ EU parliament kills Chat Control mass surveillance

The European Parliament voted down the controversial "Chat Control" proposal that would have required platforms to scan all private messages for CSAM. A rare win for privacy advocates against the "think of the children" surveillance machine.

patrick-breyer.de • Mar 26

💡 Personal Encyclopedias are having a moment

Deep dive into why people are building private knowledge bases instead of relying on Wikipedia. The urge to curate and organize information in your own worldview is stronger than ever. Obsidian, Roam, and plain text all getting love.

whoami.wiki • Mar 25


📡 Worth Knowing

Turbolite: SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold queries from S3

Experimental but promising approach to database-per-tenant architectures on object storage.

GitHub • Mar 26

🌊 Why control rooms were seafoam green

Fascinating design psychology from the human factors era.

bethmathews.substack.com • Mar 25

📊 OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha

Continuous profiling is coming to the OTEL ecosystem.

opentelemetry.io • Mar 26

🔄 Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

Pragmatic guide to the open source forge migration.

unterwaditzer.net • Mar 25

🎮 DOOM over DNS

Because of course someone implemented DOOM using DNS queries.

GitHub • Mar 26


🔧 Repo/Tool of the Day

last30days-skill

AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web, then synthesizes a grounded summary. Perfect for staying on top of fast-moving topics.

GitHub • Mar 27

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