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Samsung showed off PIM at Hot Chips 2026, putting compute right next to DRAM to eliminate the memory bandwidth bottleneck that is quietly killing local AI inference performance. This is the hardware shift that makes on-device LLMs viable at scale, not just a demo trick.
vphone-cli spins up a full virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework with no jailbreak required, opening the door to proper iOS CI pipelines and sandboxed testing without physical hardware. This is the kind of tool that should have existed years ago.
Warp terminal dropped a detailed case study on building self-improving AI agents using Claude, covering evaluation loops, automated quality cycles, and how they measure agent improvement over time. Direct blueprint material for anyone building agent infrastructure on Anthropic's stack, which makes this required reading.
Google removed MTE support from the Pixel 11, stripping a hardware-level memory safety feature that GrapheneOS relied on for real-time exploit detection. A clear security regression for anyone running a hardened Android setup, and GrapheneOS is not sugar-coating it.
Stephen Diehl lays out how the modern internet has systematically optimized itself into an extraction machine, prioritizing engagement and monetization over every other human value. Depressing, accurate, and worth the ten minutes.
The Guardian reports DHS has been quietly using 1509 administrative summons powers to obtain records from journalists, nonprofits, and unions with zero judicial oversight. The scope of the program is wider than previously known and the legal challenges are just getting started.
One of the longest-running live online games is finally tackling the Python 2 to 3 migration on a production codebase that predates most of its current player base. The engineering retrospective is going to be worth its weight when it lands.
While poking at how LLMs store and retrieve information, a researcher stumbled onto a technique that produces static program analysis results competitive with dedicated tools built specifically for the job. The write-up is dense but this is the kind of accidental discovery that tends to quietly open a whole new subfield.
StemDeck splits audio into stems (vocals, drums, bass, etc.) entirely on your local machine with no cloud account, no subscription, and no data leaving your box. Free, open-source, and actually good.
Typebase is a single-folder backend where file structure defines your routes and schema with zero config required. Early-stage but a genuinely interesting bet on convention over configuration taken to its logical extreme.
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